Tabla de Contenidos: “…'Made in China' : rules and regulations versus codes of conduct in the toy sector / Alice Kwan and Stephen Frost. The contradictions in codes : the Sri Lankan experience / Kelly Dent. …”

“…The present research work studies the cases in which the image is commercially used in items such as toys, backpacks, watches, caps and the corporate identity of some commercial establishments. …”

“…As 3D printers become more and more common and affordable, hobbyists, teachers, parents, and students stall out once they've printed some toys and a few household items. To get beyond this, most people benefit from a “starter set” of objects as a beginning point in their explorations, partially just to see what is possible. …”

“…Right now, you can print practically any 3D object you can imagine–from toys to gadgets to replacement parts, and beyond! …”

“…In Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists , you'll learn how to successfully build moving mechanisms through non-technical explanations, examples, and do-it-yourself projects--from kinetic art installations to creative toys to energy-harvesting devices. Photographs, illustrations, screen shots, and images of 3D models are included for each project. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 7: Autodesk® Maya® Shading and Texturing -- Maya Shading -- Shader Types -- Shader Attributes -- Shading and Texturing the Toy Plane -- Textures and Surfaces -- Textures and UVs for the Red Wagon -- Photo-Real Mapping: The Decorative Box -- Toon Shading -- For Further Study -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Introduction to Animation -- Keyframe Animation: Bouncing a Ball -- Throwing an Axe -- Replacing an Object -- Animating Flying Text -- Animating the Catapult -- Summary -- Chapter 9: More Animation! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1; 2 Mapping utopia 21; The ideological function of utopia 22; The utopian function of ideology 26; On the limits of utopia and ideology 29; Toying with limits 35; 3 Beyond the discursive space of utopia 51; The strange object of differentiation 54; The limitations of normal integration 60; Behind the time of differentiation 63; 4 Back toward totality 73; On truth, totality, and singularity 77; On truth, totality, and multiplicity 82; On truth, totality, and spatial movement 87; The seductions of knowing 92…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Chapter 10: 'Made in China': rules and regulations versus codes of conduct in the toy sector; Chapter 11: The contradictions in codes: the Sri Lankan experience…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 14 The Other FloydChapter 15 Monster in the Bell Tower; Chapter 16 Digital Dinosaurs; Chapter 17 Playing with Toys; Chapter 18 Monster's Brawl; Chapter 19 Elephant in the Room; Chapter 20 Inside Man; Chapter 21 Life After Disney; PART 2 TIPS, TECHNIQUES, AND ANIMATED OBSERVATIONS; Chapter 22 Attending Your Own Film School; Chapter 23 The Vance Advantage; Chapter 24 A Mistaken Notion; Chapter 25 Stay Hungry; Chapter 26 Sacked; Chapter 27 The Crazy Young Kids; Chapter 28 Perfect Combination; Chapter 29 Endless Development; Chapter 30 Nothing to Lose; Chapter 31 The Wow Factor…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; 2/The Arduino Way; Prototyping; Tinkering; Patching; Circuit Bending; Keyboard Hacks; We Love Junk!; Hacking Toys; Collaboration; 3/The Arduino Platform; The Arduino Hardware; The Software (IDE); Installing Arduino on Your Computer; Installing Drivers: Macintosh; Installing Drivers: Windows; Port Identification: Macintosh; Port Identification: Windows; 4/Really Getting Started with Arduino; Anatomy of an Interactive Device; Sensors and Actuators; Blinking an LED…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Rational versus emotional -- Analogue culture - analogue opportunity -- Endnotes -- 3: Bringing the old and the new together -- The convergence of the digital and the analogue -- Laptops and lederhosen -- The importance of translation in the continuation of the analogue story -- Endnotes -- 4: Digilogue -- Providing value to digital minds and connecting with analogue hearts -- The digilogue mix -- The Digilogue Strategy Map -- Digital examples -- Analogue examples -- Endnotes -- Taking stock -- PART II: The battle heats up -- 5: Digital grapevine -- Big Brother, big data -- Death of demographics, and marketing as a science -- The precursor to the digital grapevine - Wagga Wagga -- Endnotes -- 6: Analogue escapism -- Reconnecting by disconnecting: Burning Man -- We learn the analogue through the digital -- Enabling reconnection by disconnection -- Endnotes -- Taking stock -- 7: Digital diffusion of ideas -- Diffusing ideas in a digitally disrupted era -- We're all in media now -- Endnotes -- Taking stock -- 8: Analogue location drives digital innovation -- The importance of local connections -- Analogue trust, analogue connections -- Business is still local -- Wrapping up the fight -- Endnotes -- PART III: Hanging up the gloves and meeting in the middle -- 9: Standing the test of time -- The business life cycle -- Kodak's missed moment -- Georg Sörman -- Waves of change -- Toy Story reinvented: LEGO -- Endnotes -- Taking stock…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Warren Buffet and the Dalai Lama IOU Company specific risk Luxuries and necessities Five destroyed brands Chapter 3 The leap of faith Risk and return Safety and danger Hero and villain - Jerome Kerviel Buys and sells The sad case of Millwall Holdings Part Two Welcome to the jungle Chapter 4 Damn clients The trading floor Proprietary trading How an investment bank makes money It s raining middlemen Bernie Madoff Primary and secondary market Chapter 5 An equitable solution Shares and bonds contrasted Income, profit and loss Earnings per share Dividend yield Market capitalisation P/E ratio Growth stocks and value stocks The Google growth story Front, back and middle Chapter 6 Promises, promises What goes up must come down The time value of money Inflation, opportunity cost, borrower risk Discounting Insider trading Bonfire of the Vanities and Wall Street Control Chapter 7 Very interesting, Mr Bond Maturity and principals Bonds and shares compared Ratings measure risk, usually What you need to know about rating agencies Safety and Control From triple A to single, solitary D Chapter 8 Chinese walls come tumbling down Deal toys George Soros Income and profit Front running Private equity Every Mistake Imaginable Sting stung EBIT doh! …”

“…When computer technology was first introduced in schools, there was a prevailing belief that information and communication technologies were ‘boys’ toys’; boys were assumed to have more positive attitudes toward using computer technologies. …”

“…Using any one part of Java has meant incorporating the entirety of the runtime environment, an approach ill-suited to the increasing number of IoT devices such as fitness monitors, kitchen appliances, toys and games, and so forth. This book shows a new way, to make Java scale from the smallest of footprints in the smallest of devices through desktop PCs and on up to server platforms. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-Online in the 80's -- Early entrepreneurs -- Timesharing and PSNs -- Compu-Serve and Comp-U-Card -- Wasted resources and personal computers -- The prefect business opportunity -- Design and beta-testing the first online service -- Hacker toys or consumer service? -- The Source.-The uncertain entrepreneur -- From liquor to consulting -- Recycling hardware and ideas -- Telephones and computers -- A wireless Internet -- Videotext, cable TV, and computers -- The off-the-shelf computer network -- Tariffs and information providers -- Backers -- Opening Day: 'This is the beginning of the Information Age!' …”

“…The exclusive focus on content is reflected in what is tested and taught, and even in the toys that we offer our children at home. Employers want to hire excellent communicators, critical thinkers, and innovators - in short, they want brilliant people. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The anatomy of an editor -- Split, Join, and Detach -- Some useful layout presets -- Setting up your preferences -- An introduction to the Preferences window -- Customizing the default navigation style -- Improving Blender with add-ons -- A brief introduction to the projects -- The Robot toy -- The Alien character -- The Haunted House -- The Rat Cowboy -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Robot Toy - Modeling of an Object -- Let's start the modeling of our robot toy -- Preparing the workflow by adding an image reference -- Adding the head primitive -- The Edit Mode versus the Object Mode -- Using the basic modeling tools -- Modeling the head -- Modeling the antenna -- An introduction to the Subdivision Surface modifier -- Improving the head shape -- Modeling the thunderbolts -- Modeling the eyes -- The modeling of the chest -- The modeling of the neck -- Modeling the torso -- The modeling of the buttons -- Modeling the fork -- Modeling protections for the fork -- The modeling of the main wheel -- The modeling of the arm -- Using Blender Internal to render our Robot -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Alien Character - Base Mesh Creation and Sculpting -- Understanding the sculpting process -- An introduction to sculpting -- Choosing sculpting over poly modeling -- Using a pen tablet -- The sculpt mode -- Optimizing the viewport -- Anatomy of a brush -- Dyntopo versus the Multires modifier -- First touch with the Multires modifier -- First touch with Dyntopo…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Animation Followed; Sub-Period 1: The Beginning, 1989-1998 ; Mike Judge; Nickelodeon's Double Humour; A Matter of Style; The Extremist; Sub-Period 2: 1999-2009; Authors' Work; Animated Channels; Limited Disney; Renaissance in Disney Features; The Mantle of Walt; Working on Dreams; Pixar: Character Animation in the Digital Era; Before Pixar; From Toy Story to Disney; The Pixar Touch; Computer Animation; What It Looked Like…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A psychoanalytic approach to the work of the guardian ad litem Anna Kerr; Getting better makes it worse: obstacles to improvement in children with emotional and behavioural difficulties Sue Kegerreis; groups Judith Trowell; White City Toy Library: a therapeutic group for mothers and under-5s Marion Bower; The Monroe Young Family Centre Judith Trowell; Bringing about change in parent child relationships Maggie Mills and Christine Puckering; Educational intervention for young children who have experienced fragmented care Eva Holmes; A community group for abused children Michael Morice…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Section I: Contexts -- The Origins of Electronic Literature: An Overview / Giovanna di Rosario, Nohelia Meza, and Kerri Grimaldi -- Third-Generation Electronic Literature / Leonardo Flores -- Toys and Toons: From Hispanic Literary Traditions to a Global E-Lit Landscape / Élika Ortega and Alex Saum-Pascual -- Community, Institution, Database: Tracing the Development of an International Field through ELO, ELMCIP, and CELL / Davin Heckman -- The E-Poetry Festivals: Celebration, Art, and Imagination in Community / Loss Pequeño Glazier -- Cyberfeminist Literary Space: Performing the Electronic Manifesto / Carolyn Guertin -- Bodies in E-Lit / Astrid Ensslin, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, Christine Wilks, Megan Perram, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro and K. …”