“…Learn how to • Use the Windows Start screen, tiles, and touch interface • Connect with everyone you care about through Windows 8.1’s included apps (Skype, Mail, and SkyDrive) • Speed web browsing with new Internet Explorer 11 tools and tips • Enjoy your favorite music and media • Edit and protect your favorite photos and videos • Get free apps and games at the Windows Store • Share what you want to share--and nothing else--on your home network • Plan your trips, dining, and travel with great new and improved apps • Fix problems and keep your computer running fast…”

“…Inside the Book • Master the Windows 8 user experience • Perform instant searches to find what you need • Manage files and information with the Desktop and Windows apps • Browse the Web, search for information, and get instant updates • Use Windows apps to get news, finance, sports, travel, and weather • Use Windows apps to work with mail, instant messages, contacts, photos, music, and videos • Protect your device from Internet or network intruders • Share files and media on a HomeGroup or network • Set multiple users and parent controls • Customize, fine-tune, and administer Windows 8 Bonus Online Content Register your book at queondemand.com to gain access to: • Workshops and related files • Keyboard shortcuts Visit the author site: perspection.com…”

“…"Intermedial Studies provides a concise, hands-on introduction to the analysis of a broad array of texts from a variety of media - including literature, film, music, performance, news, and videogames, addressing fiction and non-fiction, mass media and social media. …”

“…This wide-ranging collection from a diverse group of academic and non-academic authors engages with the broad field of development through twelve chapters that deal with music, theatre, fiction, photography, festivals, computer games, the arts, blogging, and other media. …”

“…Analyzing novels, poetry, memoirs, comics, films, photography, music, social media, data, graffiti, letters, reports, eco-design, video games, archival remnants, and ethnography, the individual chapters counter dominant representations of refugees as voiceless victims. …”

“…This collection is an invitation to (re)discover the many facets of ancient collective pleasures: circus games, Greek banquets, children's games, preparations for meals, wine, music, gifts, etc. Anxious to make the complexity of ancient history accessible to as many people as possible, the Revue des Études Anciennes proposes to promote and disseminate scientific knowledge in original ways so that as many people as possible can grasp it. …”

“…Aspects of love that are expressed in popular music--such as "love is a drug," "sexual healing," and "love potion number nine"--trace deep roots to Old French romance of the high Middle Ages. …”

“…These four composers brought to the magnificent world of their contemporaries--Verlaine, Gautier, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Leconte de Lisle, and others--the delicacy, sensitivity, and voluptuousness that characterize French music from 1865 to 1914. Song by song, this comprehensive study addresses each composer's complete works for solo, voice, and piano. …”

“…With infectious enthusiasm, Rob DeSalle illuminates not only how we see, hear, smell, touch, taste, maintain balance, feel pain, and rely on other less familiar senses, but also how these senses shape our perception of the world aesthetically, artistically, and musically. DeSalle first examines the question of how perception and consciousness are formed in the brain, setting human senses in an evolutionary context. …”

“…La abuela de esta moderna Caperucita ha sido cantante de music-hall y se ha casado varias veces. El lobo es mister woolf, un pastelero multimillonario que vive cerca de Central Park en un rascacielos en forma de tarta. …”

“…Useful comparisons are also made with other media industries which have undergone rapid change, such as music and newspapers. This book is an ideal companion for anyone wishing to understand the transition of the book, writing and publishing in recent years and will be particularly relevant to students studying publishing, media and communications"--…”

“…Subjects examined include the impact of the theory of modernization, anti-Americanism, the deployment of public diplomacy in the region, the activities of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Rockefeller Foundation, and the influence of these efforts on sporting, artistic, and musical events. This volume will be value to students and scholars alike interested in Latin American history and history of the Americas"--…”