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Worldchanging : a user's guide for the 21st century / by Steffen, Alex.(CARDINAL)287114;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 538-546) and index.STUFF: Questioning consumption -- Consuming responsibly -- Understanding trade -- Creating healthy homes -- Doing the right thing can be delicious -- Buying better food everywhere -- Eating better meat and fish -- Preserving barnyard biodiversity -- Cars and fuel -- Bright green consumerism -- Designing a sustainable world -- Picking green materials -- Craft it yourself -- Engineer it yourself -- Art meets technology -- Biomimicry -- Nanotechnology -- Neobiological industry -- Knowing what's green -- Producer responsibility -- Collaborative design -- Open source -- Design for development -- Bright green computers -- SHELTERS: Green remodeling -- Building a green home -- Living well in a compact space -- Developing green housing -- Furniture and home decor -- Lighting -- Energy -- Using energy efficiently -- Green power -- Going off the grid -- Smart grids -- Water -- Conserving water -- Thinking differently about water -- Landscaping -- EcoHouse Brazil -- Refugees -- Reinventing the refugee camp -- Transforming disaster relief -- Open-source humanitarian design -- Land mines -- Rethinking refugee reconstruction -- CITIES: The bright green city -- Vancouver -- Portland -- Retrofitting the suburbs -- Big green buildings and skyscrapers -- Healing polluted land -- Greening infrastructure -- Place-making -- Urban transportation -- Product-service systems -- Chinese cities of the future -- Lagos -- Megacity innovations -- The hidden vitality of slums -- Leapfrogging -- ICT4D -- Brazil's Telecentros -- Leapfrogging infrastructure -- COMMUNITY: Holistic problem solving -- Education and literacy -- Educating girls and empowering women -- Public health -- South-south science -- Copyfight -- Urban community development -- Community capital -- Microfinance -- Social entrepreneurship -- Giving well -- The barefoot college -- Travel and tourism -- Global culture -- BUSINESS: Your money -- Creating business value from sustainability -- Green marketing -- Brands -- Thriving in a bright green economy -- Seeing the big picture -- Start-up 101 -- POLITICS: Movement building -- Networking politics -- Amplifying your voice -- Connecting with others -- Tools for talking -- Demanding transparency -- Demanding human rights -- Watching the watchers -- Protest -- Direct action -- Nonviolent revolution -- Ending violence -- PLANET: Placing yourself -- Citizen science -- Restoration ecology -- Ecosystem services -- Biodiversity: how much nature is enough? Sustainable forestry -- Creating rural sustainability in the global south -- Future of the small town -- Local greenhouse forecast -- Climate foresight -- A personal action plan -- Mapping -- Charting the deep oceans -- Polar regions -- The solar system: greens in space -- Imagining the future.
Subjects: Environmentalism.; Green movement.; Sustainable development.;
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QuickBooks online for dummies / by Marmel, Elaine J.,author.(CARDINAL)372821;
Introduction -- Part 1: Getting started with QBO and QBOA -- Introducing QBO and QBOA -- Embracing the QBO/QBOA format -- Part 2: Managing the books for the end user -- Creating a client company in QBO -- Managing list information -- Dealing with the outflow of money -- Managing the inflow of money -- Working in registers -- Handling bank and credit card transactions -- Paying employees -- How's the business doing? -- Part 3: Managing the books for the accountant -- Setting up shop in QBOA -- Adding companies to the QBOA client list -- Exploring a client's company from QBOA -- Working in a client's company -- Using accountant tools -- Part 4: The part of tens -- Almost ten things about the Chrome browser interface -- Ten ways to use Chrome effectively -- Appendix A: QBO, QuickBooks desktop, and data conversion."Accounting's a breeze with QuickBook Online! Part of running a small business is handling accounting chores. For most business owners, it's not their favorite part. Well, with QuickBooks Online and this step-by-step guide, accounting can be practically painless! You'll discover how to build a budget, process payroll, create invoices and credit memos, manage inventory, generate financial reports, and much more--from any device. And since everything lives in the cloud, backups are automatics and you can share data with your accountant quickly and easily. Ready to get started?"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: QuickBooks.; Small business; Small business;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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CompTIA A+ CertMike : prepare, practice, pass the test! get certified! by Chapple, Mike,1975-author.(CARDINAL)848342;
"In CompTIA A+ CertMike: Prepare. Practice. Pass the Test! Get Certified! Core 1 Exam 220-1201, Second Edition, experienced IT expert and tech educator Mike Chapple delivers a focused, no-nonsense guide for anyone preparing for the CompTIA A+ Core 1 exam. This book skips the fluff and helps you validate you have the knowledge and skills to install, configure, and maintain computer equipment, mobile devices, and software for end users. You'll also demonstrate your competency in networking basics and essential cybersecurity methods and properly and safely diagnose, resolve, and document common hardware and software issues"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Computer networks; Telecommunications engineers;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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CompTIA A+ CertMike : prepare, practice, pass the test! get certified! by Chapple, Mike,1975-author.(CARDINAL)848342;
"In CompTIA® A+® CertMike: Prepare. Practice. Pass the Test! Get Certified! Core 2 Exam 220-1202, Second Edition, experienced IT expert and tech educator Mike Chapple delivers a focused, no-nonsense guide for anyone preparing for the CompTIA A+ Core 2 exam. This book skips the fluff and helps you validate you have the knowledge and skills to install, configure, and maintain computer equipment, mobile devices, and software for end users. You'll also demonstrate your competency in networking basics and essential cybersecurity methods, and properly and safely diagnose, resolve, and document common hardware and software issues"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Computer networks; Telecommunications engineers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Computing taste : algorithms and the makers of music recommendation / by Seaver, Nick,1985-author.(CARDINAL)867480;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-196) and index.Prologue. Open Plan -- Introduction. Technology with Humanity -- Too Much Music -- Captivating Algorithms -- What Are Listeners Like? -- Hearing and Counting -- Space Is the Place -- Parks and Recommendation -- Epilogue. What Are We Really Doing Here?"For the people who make them, music recommender systems hold a utopian promise: they can broaden listeners' horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs offered by companies like Spotify, Apple Music, and their kin. But for critics, recommender systems have come to epitomize the potential harms of algorithms: they seem to reduce expressive culture to numbers, they normalize ever-broadening data collection, and they profile their users for commercial ends, tearing the social fabric into isolated patches of atomized individuals. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, anthropologist Nick Seaver offers an account of how the makers of music recommendation navigate these tensions: how product managers understand their relationship with the users they want to help and to capture, how engineers imagine the abstract geography of the "world of music" as a space they control and care for, how scientists conceive of listening itself as a kind of data processing. The book rehumanizes the algorithmic systems that shape our world, foregrounding the ideas animating the people who build and maintain them. Seaver braids together the thinking of programmers and anthropologists, opening up the cultural world of computation in a vividly theorized book that ranges widely from cosmology to calculation, metaphor to myth, and captivation to care"--
Subjects: Music; Recommender systems (Information filtering); Music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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QuickBooks 2012 : the official guide : for QuickBooks Pro users / by Capachietti, Leslie.(CARDINAL)498326;
Getting started -- Using QuickBooks for the first time -- The chart of accounts -- Entering your customers -- Entering your vendors -- Creating items -- Setting up inventory -- Creating other lists you need -- Entering your starting balances -- Invoicing customers -- Receiving and tracking customer payments -- Managing vendor bills -- Paying vendors -- Working with bank and credit card accounts -- Reconciling bank accounts -- Using online banking services -- Tracking time and mileage -- Running payroll -- Payroll reports and liability payments -- Journal entries -- Accountant's copy -- Creating reports and analyzing your QuickBooks information -- Customizing reports -- Budgets and planning tools -- Year-end procedures -- Printing, e-mailing, and managing documents in QuickBooks -- Managing users and permissions -- Managing your QuickBooks files -- Customizing QuickBooks -- Appendixes.Explains how to use QuickBooks to set-up and manage bookkeeping systems, track invoices, pay bills, manage payroll, generate reports, and determine job costs.
Subjects: QuickBooks.; Small business; Small business;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sculpting in ZBrush made simple : explore powerful modeling and character creation techniques used for VFX, games, and 3D printing / by Kutschera, Lukas,author.;
Part 1. The Adventure Begins : Sculpting in ZBrush: Chapter 1. Getting Started with ZBrush ; Technical requirements ; Loading models, navigation, and creating your first sculpture ; Exploring and customizing the ZBrush UI ; Understanding ZBrush file types ; Summary ; Further reading -- Chapter 2 Sculpting a Demon Bust with DynaMesh: Technical requirements, Concept sculpting with DynaMesh ; Sculpting a demon bust ; Exploring character art and design principles ; Summary -- Chapter 3. Exploring the Gizmo, PolyGroups, and Masking: Technical requirements ; Managing your 3D model ; Using the Gizmo to move objects ; Understanding PolyGroups ; Using the Selection and Masking tools ; Summary -- Chapter 4. Exploring Brushes and Alphas: Technical requirements ; Learning about brushes ; Learning about Alphas ; Creating our own Alpha for the demon bust ; Summary -- Chapter 5. Creating an Optimized Mesh Using ZRemesher and ZProject: Technical requirements ; Creating new topology with ZRemesher ; Adding subdivision levels and transferring detail using ZProject ; Adding detail to the demon bust ; Summary -- Chapter 6. Texturing Your Sculpture with Materials, Polypaint, and UVs: Technical requirements ; Exploring ZBrush's Materials ; Adding color to your model with Polypaint ; Creating UVs and exporting textures ; Summary. Chapter 7. Lighting and Rendering Your Model: Technical requirements ; Managing lights in ZBrush ; Rendering in ZBrush ; Creating turntable videos ; Summary.Part 2. Creating Characters from Scratch : A Comprehensive Guide: Chapter 8. Sculpting Human Anatomy: Technical requirements ; Preparing anatomy references ; Blocking out the anatomy ; Refining the anatomy ; Finalizing the sculpture's anatomy ; Summary -- Chapter 9. Creating Costumes, Armor, and Accessories with Classic Modeling Techniques: Technical requirements ; Creating simple costume pieces using the ZModeler brush and primitive shapes ; Creating complex costume pieces using DynaMesh, IMM brushes, and kitbashing ; Adding detail to the costume pieces ; Summary -- Chapter 10. Preparing and Exporting Our Model for 3D Printing: Technical requirements ; Creating watertight models and troubleshooting errors ; Merging and cutting your model ; Adding keys, scaling, and exporting your model ; Summary -- Part 3. Sculpting a Female Head : Tips and Techniques: Chapter 11. Sculpting a Female Head: Technical requirements ; Blocking out the head ; Refining the head ; Reviewing tips for sculpting likeness ; Avoiding beginner sculpting mistakes ; Summary -- Chapter 12. Adding Skin Detail, Sculpting Hair, and Using FiberMesh: Technical requirements ; Applying skin detail using NoiseMaker, brushes, and Alphas ; Sculpting hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes with brushes ; Sculpting hair with FiberMesh ; Summary -- Chapter 13. Building a Portfolio and Leveraging Social Media: Picking your subjects ; Presenting your artwork ; Sharing your art on social media ; Summary -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy.Embark on a creative journey with ZBrush, the leading software for creating characters, creatures, and props in films, games, and 3D printing. This guide will take you through its powerful yet user-friendly workflows, allowing you to explore its dynamic organic sculpting, painting, and hard-surface modeling tools. The first part of this book is dedicated to helping you become familiar with ZBrush’s user interface and learning the very basics, from sculpting brushes and painting the model with Polypaint to setting up lights and rendering images. You’ll also create a demon bust with the help of ZBrush’s concept sculpting tool, DynaMesh. In the second part, you’ll get to grips with the creation of a humanoid character that is optimized for 3D printing. Focusing on anatomy, poly-modeling, and preparing the model for 3D printing, you’ll acquire the skills essential for sculptors. The final part delves into portrait sculpting, where you’ll learn everything from basic facial anatomy to hair creation with FiberMesh. By the end of this book, you'll have developed the expertise necessary to succeed in the ever-evolving world of 3D character modeling, complemented by portfolio and social media tips for showcasing your standout work"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: ZBrush.; Computer graphics; Computer art;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Enshittification : why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it / by Doctorow, Cory,author.(CARDINAL)663116;
We're living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It's frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying. Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution. When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say 'things are getting worse.' He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better). The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users--and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die. Doctorow's argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror. Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and--most important--how they can be undone.
Subjects: Informational works.; Instructional and educational works.; Electronic data processing; Electronic data processing; Information technology; Information technology; Online manipulation.; Human-computer interaction.; Computers and civilization.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 10
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Red dead redemption II [video game]. by Rockstar Games (Firm),publisher.; Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC.;
Data disc -- Play disc."Developed by the creators of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2 is an epic tale of life in America's unforgiving heartland. The game's vast and atmospheric world also provides the foundation for a brand new online multiplayer experience. America, 1899. The end of the Wild West era has begun. After a robbery goes badly wrong in the western town of Blackwater, Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang are forced to flee. With federal agents and the best bounty hunters in the nation massing on their heels, the gang has to rob, steal and fight their way across the rugged heartland of America in order to survive. As deepening internal fissures threaten to tear the gang apart, Arthur must make a choice between his own ideals and loyalty to the gang that raised him."--Provided by Metacritic.comESRB rating: M, Mature 17+ (blood and gore, intense violence, nudity, sexual content, strong language, use of drugs and alcohol); "In-game purchases; Users interact"--ContainerSystem requirements: PlayStation 4 game system; HDD 105 GB minimum hard drive; all regions; Dolby digital; Online play optional; Dualshock 4; PS4 Pro Enhanced. Blu-ray disc.
Subjects: Video games.; Crime; Outlaws; Zombies;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Linux for Makers : understanding the operating system that runs Raspberry Pi and other maker SBCs / by Newcomb, Aaron,author.;
[Webliography].Linux is a powerful open-source operating system that has been around for many years and is widely used for running servers and websites. But most students and Makers encounter it for the first time when they are working on projects with their Raspberry Pi or similar single-board computers (SBCs) such as BeagleBone Black or Intel Galileo. Linux for Makers is the first book that explains the Linux operating system specifically for Makers, as opposed to programmers and administrators. By gaining a deeper understanding of Linux, Makers can add another useful tool to their kit that will help them build their projects more easily. Written with the Maker in mind, this book will focus mostly on Rasbian running on the Raspberry Pi as it is the most prolific in the ecosystem today. However most of the topics covered will apply broadly to other Linux distributions and will be called out when they may differ. Many times users cut and paste from a website tutorial into the Linux command line without understanding what they are actually doing only to be frustrated when they want to modify or tweak something to suit their needs. Also, many Makers shy away from using the Raspberry Pi or similar board because they feel Linux is too foreign and they think using a command line will be more difficult than using a GUI. This book aims to overcome those fears and provide a foundation for further learning and exploration. To that end, this book will focus on the basic principles that a Maker would need to know as opposed to other resources that go into detail that is not particularly relevant to building projects.
Subjects: Linux.; Operating systems (Computers); Computer science.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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