Written For The One-Term, Undergraduate Course, An Introduction To Zoology: Investigating The Animal World Provides Students With An Accessible And... Engaging Look At The Fundamentals Of Zoology. This Student-Friendly Text Is Driven By The Underlying Concepts Of Zoology Rather Than The Memorization Of Terminology From The Field. The Authors Take Care To Write In A Style Students Can Relate To As To Not Overwhelm Them With Encyclopedic Passages. They Go On To Include Connects Sections At The End Of Each Chapter Which Discuss How The Animals In The Chapter Connect To Students From And Economic, Ecologic, Medical, And Cultural Perspective, To Emphasize How The Animal World And The Human Realm Are Intimately Intertwined.

Featuring completely original material from a new team of Maya know-it-alls, this second edition of an award-winning book is sure to inform and inspire... even the most seasoned Maya user. In this distinctive Maya Press title, a cadre of professionals led by two acclaimed Maya pros, reveal the precious secrets they’ve learned using Maya on high-profile CG projects such as The Matrix, Shrek 2, and X-Men.In nine unique and compelling chapters, you’ll get detailed and sophisticated instruction on how to:Enhance fluidity and realism by generating complex motion with Maya ClothApply non-photorealistic rendering styles that mimic the look of comic books and impressionist paintingsEmulate real-world camera motion, from dolly-and-pan movement to varying levels of camera shakeProduce natural lighting effects using global illumination and image based lightingEnsure smooth and accurate transfer of character data from modeling to rigging to animation to lightingControl IK chains, deformers, and surfaces with Maya Hair's dynamic curvesUse dynamics effectively to create flexible objects and add secondary effects to enhance your animationUse Maya’s built-in noise function to produce powerful effects similar to those used in “The Matrix” trilogyCreate a human face from a conceptual sketch using subdivision surfaces

Like its best-selling predecessor, the second edition of The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide combines theory with "hands on" practice,... providing engaging exercises that make history more accessible to majors and nonmajors alike, helping students learn to think historically while at the same time strengthening their critical-thinking and communication skills. This dynamic workbook has been thoughtfully redesigned, employing a new organization that progresses from a discussion of the nature of history to confronting historical accounts to actually "doing" history. A final section discusses historiography and history's relationship to other academic disciplines. With more systematic attention to writing skills throughout, this new edition also offers a series of "Writing Capsules" focused on techniques of organization and forming coherent paragraphs. The second edition of The Methods and Skills of History also features two entirely new chapters, "History on Film" and "Oral History and Statistics." In addition, chapter-opening vignettes add a note of human drama to the otherwise abstract elements of the discipline. Finally, advice on using libraries and source selection has been updated with the latest in computer cataloging and retrieval techniques in mind, a discussion of performing research on the Internet is tempered by considerations of the authenticity of sources as well as a listing of relevant Web site addresses.