Today, Linux is included with nearly every embedded platform. Embedded developers can take a more modern route and spend more time tuning Linux and taking advantage of open source code to build more robust, feature-rich applications. While Gene Sally does not neglect porting Linux to new hardware, modern embedded hardware is more sophisticated than ever: most systems include the capabilities found on desktop systems. This book is written from the perspective of a user employing technologies and techniques typically reserved for desktop systems.

Dieses Lehr- und Übgungsbuch betont die Darstellung der physikalischen Grundlagen und setzt diese mit der Alltagserfahrung in Beziehung. Durchgerechnete Beispiele und Aufgaben zur selbständigen Lösung bieten dem Lernenden eine gute Lernerfolgskontrolle.

The objective of this book is to provide a brief, but thorough account of the basic principles of good pump design. The author begins with a review of basic hydraulic relations. This section also includes a chapter on analytical methods and computer aided design, which is becoming increasingly common. This is followed by a description of two simple pump designs, the centrifugal pump and the axial flow pump. Next, support devices, such as shafts, bearings, seals and drives are discussed.

Spectacular photos begin with your Sony Alpha and this book. With its Alpha A300 and A350 cameras, Sony has blurred the distinction between introductory and advanced dSLRs. With the expert advice in this book, you’ll learn to use every menu and control perfectly and gain insight into setting up and capturing shots that will amaze you. Reach beyond the automatic settings and take control of exposure, shutter speed, white balance, and every creative element that makes photography an art.

Digital SLRs can be both exciting and intimidating. Focus on the fun with this portable guide! Clear explanations show you how to use every setting on your Sony DSLR-A200 and make the most of the 10.2 megapixel CCD image sensor, Super SteadyShot image stabilization, dynamic range optimization, and other top-of-the-line features. Refresh your knowledge of photography basics like composition, shutter speed, aperture, and lighting; explore creative suggestions and advice for photographing kids, concerts, wildlife, even online auction items; and learn the best ways to download, view, and print your photos.

Can you picture yourself crocheting? Crocheting is a fun activity that is easy to learn and requires only a ball of yarn and a crochet hook to practice. Kids! Picture Yourself Crocheting shows how you can quickly create a variety of useful crochet projects ranging from decorative items, such as lace doilies, to more functional items, such as scarves, sweaters, or blankets. You’ll learn all about different types of yarn, how to choose a crochet hook, and the other supplies you’ll need for your crocheting toolkit.

Picture yourself dazzling your friends with your new and improved pool skills as you master the cue ball’s movements and hone your aiming and shooting techniques. "Picture Yourself Shooting Pool: Step-by-Step Instruction for Successful Pocket Billiards" provides practical and accessible pool theory and instruction to beginners and casual players. Filled with full-color images and step-by-step instruction on each new skill and strategy, the book also features an accompanying DVD that walks you through each step of the tactics presented and also includes bonus tricks and special pool shots. Beginning with the basics, you’ll learn how to select your equipment, including the proper cue stick for you.

“Logic Pro 8 Power!” provides a complete introduction and reference for Logic Pro in a volume less than a third the size of the Logic Pro 8 manual. It doesn’t attempt to cover everything, but it makes sure to cover the things that you are likely to run into while using Logic to make music, through simple, thorough, and complete explanations. The book also explores why Logic works the way it does, so you’ll not only learn the mechanics of how to do something, but you’ll really understand what you are doing so when you’re ready to explore on your own, you’ll be fully prepared and successful. After learning how to set up Logic, you’ll learn about the Transport and Arrange, how to record and edit audio and MIDI, how to mix down your song, and finally how to save your song and organize your files. The final chapters provide guidance on the more advanced features of Logic that you’ll need as you create more complex compositions and build a more involved project studio.

"90 Days to Success as a Project Manager" will help first-time project managers hit the ground running with any project during the critical first 90 days on the job. The book introduces readers to, and is organized around, the five keys to successful project management: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing the project. It covers all nine knowledge areas of project management: integration management, scope management, time management, cost management, quality management, human resource management, communication management, risk management, and procurement management. All this information could be very overwhelming for a beginner.

With ever-increasing competition among organizations for donor dollars, developing fundraising skills is a must for survival and success in todayÂ’s nonprofit environment. 90 Days to Success in Fundraising will help first-time fundraisers hit the ground running during the critical first 90 days on the job (or the first 90 days of a new fundraising campaign). The book introduces readers to the keys of successful fundraising by identifying and opening gift and grant revenue streams, yielding better results from campaigns, and increasing donor participation. The book teaches new fundraisers how to approach and deal with their role by sharing the experiences, techniques, and thought processes of a highly successful fundraising professional.

Digidesign’s Official Pro Tools 101 Courseware takes a comprehensive approach to learning the fundamentals of Pro Tools|HD®, Pro Tools LE®, or Pro Tools M-Powered™ systems. Now updated for Pro Tools 8 software, this new edition from the definitive authority on Pro Tools covers everything you need to know to complete a Pro Tools project. Learn to build sessions that include multitrack recordings of live instruments, MIDI sequences, software synthesizers, and virtual instruments. Through hands-on tutorials, develop essential techniques for recording, editing, and mixing. The included DVD-ROM offers tutorial files and videos, additional documentation, and Pro Tools sessions to accompany the projects in the text.

Both studies of political power and Europeanization studies have tended to neglect central banks. As the age of the euro reaches its 10th anniversary, it is timely to reflect on what it means for central banks, which have been at the forefront of the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union in the European Union. Central banks have been caught up in a major historic political project. What does it mean for them? What does the age of the euro tell us about the power of central banks, their Europeanization and whether they are coming to resemble each other more closely?

This is the first full-length study of five U.S. banking panics of the Great Depression. Professor Wicker reconstructs a close historical narrative of each of the disturbances, investigating their origins, magnitude and effects, and he reappraises the role of Federal Reserve officials in the panics. His findings challenge many of the commonly-held assumptions about the events of 1930 and 1931, and will be of wide interest to students of the Great Depression, monetary and financial historians, financial and macroeconomists.

Marvelous mythical creatures live, breathe, and move in your imagination; now make them real with origami! This magical tactile kit is filled with 50 sheets of 6 x 6 multi-patterned origami paper, a completed dragon, and the 80-page, full-color Mythical Creature Origami book. Using easy-to-follow origami techniques, you can make your own beautifully detailed, intricately-folded flying fox, fabled sphinx, spectacular dragon with wings extended, or a wild duck placidly floating along. From a centaur to a hydra, these imaginative designs are perfect decorations for your home and for gifts.

The authors examine the conditions under which democratic events, including elections, cabinet formations, and government dissolutions, affect asset markets. Where these events have less predictable outcomes, market returns are depressed and volatility increases. In contrast, where market actors can forecast the result, returns do not exhibit any unusual behavior.