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Product Description: This completely updated fourth edition of the popular BEGINNING GAME PROGRAMMING will introduce you to the fascinating world of game programming for Windows using Visual Studio 2013 and DirectX. The book requires only a basic understanding of the C++ language and provides a solid introduction to DirectX programming...read more

Product Description: iPods and MP3 players have changed the way we listen to music: it’s all about songs rather than albums, and making your own compilations. This is the first music guide that gets it: a book of 500 playlists, each of them packed with great music to rip or download...read more

Product Description: Discover how to achieve the stunning imagery and dazzling effects that wow audiences in animated and live action motion pictures. "The RenderMan Shading Language Guide" shows you how to master this powerful rendering program, used by filmmakers in conjunction with 2D and 3D painting, modeling, and animation software to transport audiences to faraway lands and awe them with fantastic creatures...read more

'This book examines the potential of games and simulations in online learning, and how the future could look as developers learn to use the emerging capabilities of the Semantic Web. It explores how the Semantic Web will impact education and how games and simulations can evolve to become robust teaching resources'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Ultimate 3D Game Engine Design and Architecture teaches how to design and create a video game engine that can be used to create gaming applications on the PC. Written for beginning programmers, beginning game developers, and those aspiring to get into the fi eld, the book covers the various systems and processes that go into a complete game engine, with an emphasis on architecture issues...read more

Product Description: C++ Game Programming All in One covers programming from a game developer?s viewpoint. It shows readers how they can leverage the skills they already possess as a developer and turn them into useful skills for games. It helps readers develop the skills they need to create a framework that can be used in a professional game title...read more

Product Description: Game Programming All in One, 3rd Edition provides a fun learning experience on how to program 2D-based games with C using the cross-platform, open-source Allegro game library. Artwork will be provided by real-world animators. Several high-quality sample games will be featured and developed...read more

This is the first book about the Internet that has gathered and organized all of the myriads of jokes and fables that have circled the globe over phone lines. Over fifteen years in the making the author has compiled and edited little facts and big ideas that poke fun at everything and everyone. All professions and all peoples are included. Here are a bundle of laughs and tears, interesting facts and irreverent and informative stories. Read it at home or at a party. Bring it to your place of work to relieve the stress or brighten the monotony. Enjoy it as you would a meal; little bites or all at once. Memorize the facts to impress your friends and be prepared with a timely joke or story. It is all here in one wonderfully entertaining book.

A leading expert on gambling shares the secrets of how to win at casino gambling, offering key strategies for a variety of both onsite and online games. Original.

Product Description: BradyGames' Secret Codes 2005, Volume 2 includes the following:   Secret Codes 2005, Volume 2 is the newest collection of the most sought after codes and cheats for the hottest games released for the next generation systems...read more

An illustrated collection of humorous anecdotes from homosexual men and women describes the moment when they first realized that they were gay, in a volume that features the editor's fashion and celebrity photography and includes contributions by such figures as B.D. Wong, Arthur Laurents, and Stephen Fry. Original.

Presents information on game basics, characters, missions, weapons, vehicles, and strategy.

Essays by some of the nation's most popular writers celebrate American rebels, including Edward Abbey, Benjamin Mays, Father Mychal Judge, Bill Hicks, and Dr. James McCune Smith, with contributions from Pete Hamill, Stanley Crouch, Charles Bowden, Mickey Knox, and Matt Hentoff, among others. Original.