Adobe Photoshop 2020 for Photographers Adobe Photoshop 2020 for Photographers by acclaimed digital imaging professional Martin Evening has been revamped to include detailed instruction for all of the updates to Photoshop on Adobe’s Creative Cloud including significant new features such as Cloud document saving the new Content-Area Fill and the Texture slider and Depth Range Mask for Camera Raw. This guide covers all the tools and techniques photographers and professional image editors need to know when using Photoshop from workflow guidance to core skills to advanced techniques for professional results. Using clear succinct instruction and real world examples this guide is the essential reference for Photoshop users. The accompanying website has been updated with new sample images tutorial videos and bonus chapters. | Adobe Photoshop 2020 for Photographers GBP 59.99 1
Managing Information Technology Outsourcing For decades outsourcing has been a major international phenomenon in business. The areas of Technology Information Technology and Management represent a unique case for outsourcing both in terms of benefits and potential interorganisational problems. This fully updated text has been brought up to date with this new landscape including discussion of Robotic Process Automation Internet of Things cloud computing low code and DevOps and agile. With a range of new global case studies in manufacturing logistics chemical industry and cloud services this textbook offers a strong grounding in real-world industrial experience that effectively combines theory with practice. Uniquely this book focuses on both sides of the outsourcing relationship providing a balanced exploration of the ways in which these partnerships can be managed successfully. Accessible and cutting-edge the third edition of Managing Information Technology Outsourcing provides an in-depth practical perspective on this important and far-reaching challenge in information technology management. It is an ideal text for students academics and practitioners alike. GBP 46.99 1
Internet Finance in China Introduction and Practical Approaches This book is about internet finance a concept coined by the authors in 2012. Internet finance deals specifically with the impacts of internet based technologies such as mobile payments social networks search engines cloud computation and big data on the financial sector. Major types of internet finance include third-party payments and mobile payments internet currency P2P lending crowdfunding and the use of big data in financial activities. Internet finance is highly popular and heavily discussed in China. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang made the healthy development of internet finance a policy priority in 2014 state-of-union address. This book as a detailed report on internet finance in China will help readers understand the status quo and development of China’s financial system. | Internet Finance in China Introduction and Practical Approaches GBP 44.99 1
Digital Media Foundations An Introduction for Artists and Designers This book is a creative and practical introduction to the field of digital media for future designers artists and media professionals. It addresses the evolution of the field its connections with traditional media up-to-date developments and possibilities for future directions. Logically organized and thoughtfully illustrated it provides a welcoming guide to this emerging discipline. Describing each medium in detail chapters trace their history evolution and potential applications. The book also explains important relevant technologies—such as digitizing tablets cloud storage and 3-D printers—as well as new and emerging media like augmented and virtual reality. With a focus on concepts and creative possibilities the text’s software-neutral exercises provide hands-on experiences with each of the media. The book also examines legal ethical and technical issues in digital media explores career possibilities and features profiles of pioneers and digital media professionals. Digital Media Foundations is an ideal resource for students new professionals and instructors involved in fields of graphic and visual arts design and the history of art and design. | Digital Media Foundations An Introduction for Artists and Designers GBP 48.99 1
The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre The studies in which history of art and theatre are considered together are few and none to date investigate the evolution of the representation of clouds from the early Renaissance to the Baroque period. This book reconsiders the origin of Italian Renaissance and Baroque cloud compositions while including the theatrical tradition as one of their most important sources. By examining visual sources such as paintings frescos and stage designs together with letters guild-ledgers descriptions of performances and relevant treatises a new methodology to approach the development of this early modern visuality is offered. The result is an historical reconstruction where multiple factors are seen as facets of a single process which led to the development of Italy’s visual culture. The book also offers new insights into Leonardo da Vinci’s theatrical works Raphael’s Disputa Vasari’s Lives and Pietro da Cortona’s fresco paintings. The Spectacle of Clouds 1439-1650 examines the different ways Heaven has been conceived imagined and represented from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century crossing over into the fields of history religion and philosophy. | The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre GBP 44.99 1
Entrepreneurship Innovation and Technology A Guide to Core Models and Tools The combination of entrepreneurship innovation and technology has become the source of disruptive business models that transform industries and markets. The integrative understanding of these three drivers of today’s economy is fundamental to business. Entrepreneurship Innovation and Technology aims to connect core models and tools that are already created by well-known authors and scholars in order to deliver a unique guide for building successful business models through the adoption of new technologies and the use of effective innovation methods. The book goes through the entrepreneurial lifecycle describing and applying core innovation models and tools such as the business model canvas lean startup design thinking customer development and open innovation while taking into consideration disruptive technologies such as mobile internet cloud computing internet of things and blockchain. Finally the book describes and analyzes how successful cases have been applying those models and technologies. With the mix of an academic and practitioner team this book aims to go against the grain by its positioning of entrepreneurship in the modern technology economy. This book will prove to be a vital text for any student specialist or practitioner looking to succeed in the field. | Entrepreneurship Innovation and Technology A Guide to Core Models and Tools GBP 49.99 1
Entrepreneurship Innovation and Technology A Guide to Core Models and Tools The combination of entrepreneurship innovation and technology has become the source of disruptive business models that transform industries and markets. The integrative understanding of these three drivers of today’s economy is fundamental to business. Entrepreneurship Innovation and Technology aims to connect core models and tools that are already created by well-known authors and scholars in order to deliver a unique guide for building successful business models through the adoption of new technologies and the use of effective innovation methods. The book goes through the entrepreneurial lifecycle describing and applying core innovation models and tools such as the business model canvas lean startup design thinking customer development and open innovation taking into consideration disruptive technologies such as mobile internet cloud computing internet of things and blockchain. Finally the book describes and analyses how successful cases have been applying those models and technologies. With the mix of an academic and practitioner team this book aims to go against the grain by its positioning of entrepreneurship in the modern technology economy. This book will prove to be a vital text for any student specialist or practitioner looking to succeed in the field. | Entrepreneurship Innovation and Technology A Guide to Core Models and Tools GBP 44.99 1
Strategic Operations Management Strategic Operations Management 4th Edition shows how vital it is to have world-class operations management in any organisation. In the past where organisations tended to be more hierarchical than today the words strategy and operations were almost mutually exclusive. In today's highly competitive environment though strategic operations capabilities must be in place for organisations to provide goods and services that meet and exceed customer requirements. Key issues such as cost speed quality flexibility and constant innovation are all part of strategic operations. However achieving such capabilities does not come by chance - instead a range of factors need to be put in place. This new edition pays equal attention to manufacturing and service sectors. It includes numerous references to and discusses major changes taking place in the business world including 3-D printing; virtual organisations; Cloud – Big Data and the Internet of Things; Servitization global markets ongoing innovation and managing within complex supply networks. Cases are included from a range of settings across the globe. Students taking MBA MSc and MBM classes on operations management advanced operations management and strategic operations management will find this textbook fulfills all their requirements whilst advanced undergraduate classes in these areas will also find the book an essential read. GBP 56.99 1
Air Cargo Management Air Freight and the Global Supply Chain This is the third edition of a popular introductory guide to the function and future of the air cargo supply chain an industry which responded with remarkable efficiency when faced with the challenges and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book reviews the role and strategy of air cargo and its contribution to world trade and international economies. This industry which accounts for more than 35% of the world’s trade in value will be even more vital in the coming years. Building on the success of previous editions Air Cargo Management now puts the emphasis on basic functionality economics and historical precedents but most of all it focuses on how traditional legacy methods are being replaced by the adoption of technologies and cloud-based applications – new methods which are changing and streamlining the entire industry. The book reviews the supply chain process and the technology applications as well as the effects of the pandemic and the fundamental lack of cargo capacity hitherto supplied by passenger aircraft. It also explores the increased use of freighter aircraft and the need for faster and more efficient processing particularly on the ground and in road transport. The third edition features new content on: Security and crime including pharmaceutical counterfeiting and fraud The role of airports and road feeder services Typical air cargo products including the heavy-lift sector Regulations and treaties Aircraft in use historically and currently New technologies The book is illustrated with statistical evidence examples and photographs and is enriched with comments from industry leaders and experienced professionals. The style and breadth of content are designed to be easily readable and should be of practical interest to anyone either currently working in the logistics supply chain or transport industries or contemplating a career in this sector. | Air Cargo Management Air Freight and the Global Supply Chain GBP 44.99 1