The Dungeons and Dragons special edition of ImagineFX comes with a 2011 fantasy and sci-fi art calendar, plus it's free DVD full of tutorial goodies. Within we look at the history of D&D and how it helped to define fantasy art for many, in a 10-page feature filled with some of the greatest D&D art.

"The Digital Matte Painting Handbook is the best book of its kind. Mattingly has created an insightful and inspiring resource for anyone wanting to get into digital matte painting."
--Dylan Cole, matte artist, concept artist

You ll learn how to construct experiments that identify opportunities for optimization, interpret the results, and take effective action. You ll also find powerful insights into microbenchmarking including how to avoid common mistakes that can mislead you into writing poorly performing software. Then, building on this foundation, you ll walk through optimizing the Java HotSpot VM, standard and multitiered applications; Web applications, and more.

Don't just learn-do!
The lessons within the book are each accompanied by an instructional demonstration on the DVD-over 4 hours of video tutorials!

The eagerly anticipated second edition, completely updated for WordPress 3.1
As an open source content management system, WordPress allows users to easily build feature-rich web sites with no programming experience. This unique book-and-video package is a friendly, self-paced beginners guide to the latest release of WordPress. Lessons are focused on practical, everyday tasks that users will need to create and maintain their sites: entering new content, creating new pages, managing menus, making content search-engine friendly. Plus you'll find lots of tips based on years of experience teaching people to use WordPress.

Maximize the power of the iLife suite
The iLife suite, pre-loaded on every new Mac, includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iWeb. This straight-to-the-point guide shares key features, tips, and techniques to help you make the best use of each of these tremendously popular applications. Learn to make movies and DVDs; organize, edit and share your digital photos; create Web sites, blogs, and podcasts; and compose original music with the latest version of iLife.

The magazine for Book Lovers, more than 250 new books reviewed and rated in every issue covering Romance, Erotica, Mystery, Paranormal, Inspirational, Urban Fantasy, African American, Science Fiction Fantasy, Chick Literature, Young Adult, and Mainstream Fiction.

MATLAB for Engineers, 3e, is ideal for Freshman or Introductory courses in Engineering and Computer Science.
With a hands-on approach and focus on problem solving, this introduction to the powerful MATLAB computing language is designed for students with only a basic college algebra background. Numerous examples are drawn from a range of engineering disciplines, demonstrating MATLAB’s applications to a broad variety of problems.

Zoom into the next generation of mobile pad technology with Xoom
The buzz on Motorola's new Xoom tablet is that it's made of some pretty powerful hardware and boasts a larger screen, higher resolution, and a more powerful, dual-core CPU than other tablets on the market. On top of that, it runs on Android 3.0—the latest operating system designed specifically for tablets. Get thoroughly up to speed on the unique Motorola Xoom and take advantage of all the amazing things it can do with Motorola Xoom For Dummies.

Full-color guide to the exciting HTC Droid ThunderBolt!
Now that you've got your high-powered new HTC ThunderBolt smartphone, you've got to figure out how to use it! If you're more than a little intimidated by the technology and somewhat put off by the formal documentation, this book can help. Written in the fun but clear and thorough For Dummies style, this book answers all your questions about Verizon's first 4G LTE Android device and helps you get the very most out of it.

Explore your world from a new perspective!
Zoom In, Zoom Out is a groundbreaking visual reference book promising an amazing new experience with each turn of the page. Throughout the book the viewpoint changes, shifting our perspective through a run of spreads, zooming in, zooming out, as well as going sideways, forward, and backward. Through this inventive visual technique, readers are kept constantly engaged, and invited to consider the connections between different aspects of their world.

Vocess Magazine is Tampa Bay s first fashion focused publication. Vocess was developed in 2007 by entrepreneur s Xavier Orellana and Dona Crowley. Shortly after, they launched the first print copy of Vocess and continue to develop and create this unique book through digital and print media. The pages of Vocess are filled with comprehensive coverage on fashion, beauty and interviews, as well as up and coming talent, photographer visions, stylists, music, and powerful articles.

Vocess Magazine is a high quality, full color, glossy publication targeting the most fashion savvy people. Vocess was designed to reach 100% of its target audience by focusing on every facet of the industry. Vocess is able to match the print quality of most national publications at an affordable cost and sets a new standard in our publishing niche.