Uno de los extremos del Imperio, Londinium está viviendo una etapa de esplendor. Posee ya un foro y un anfiteatro, el comercio está cobrando un gran empuje, la expectativas económicas son inmejorables..., un escenario idóneo para que florezca el crimen organizado.
Y aun así, el investigador privado Marco Didio Falco ni se imagina que sus vacaciones a la capital britana se convertirán en una auténtica pesadilla. No tarda en tropezarse con el primer cadáver, y un asesinato le llevará a otro en una trama llena de enigmas e ironías del destino.
Además de verse las caras a todo tipo de delincuentes (asesinos a sueldo, proxenetas, estafadores...), deberá enfrentarse a una turbulenta etapa de su pasado sentimental de la que creía no haber dejado pistas.
Lindsey Davis, en sus obras más recientes tiene una tendencia a poner en paralelo situaciones de la Roma de Vespasiano con acontecimientos de nuestro días y en esta novela también podremos apreciarlo.

Emphasizing effective prevention strategies, Obesity: Dietary and Developmental Influences identifies those dietary factors most significant to weight gain. It provides a synopsis of the latest research on obesity, investigating all major lines of evidence, and clarifies common misconceptions, while helping to prioritize those targets for behavior change that are likely to have a favorable impact on obesity. With evidence-based recommendations, Obesity: Dietary and Developmental Influences presents valuable information for nutritionists, public health professionals, health care providers, community organizations, researchers, and policy makers.
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En esta nueva entrega, Falco va a Grecia, adonde ha ido en viaje de estudios el cuñado de Marco, Aulo. Lo que empieza siendo un viaje de familia para controlar un poco al joven, acabará, como siempre le ocurre a Falco, complicándose. Esta vez se ve envuelto en una serie de enigmáticos asesinatos de mujeres que las compañias que organizan viajes se han cuidado mucho de no difundir. Esta vez la novela de Lindsey Davis hace un guiño a nuestro tiempo, con el tema de los viajes organizados y la catadura moral de las agencias de viajes, todo ello, en una perfecta ambientación histórica y con la ironía y el desenfado que ya es habitual.

You bought your Centrino laptop computer because of its ease-of-use and portability. But are you using your laptop to its maximum potential? Anywhere Computing with Laptops: Making Mobile Easier will show you what to expect when buying and configuring your laptop and how to use built-in features such as digital cameras and Internet telephones. When you're on the road, there are hotspots that will allow you to connect to multiple national networks for access to data and the Internet. This book will show you how to find these hotspots, as well as how to install and configure a wireless network for your home or office. Use your laptop the way it was intended — from anywhere!

Adobe's consumer-level Photoshop Elements 3 already offers a slew of unique features at a fraction of the cost of its full-featured digital imaging big brother. Get this book/CD combo, and you'll add even more. Although Photoshop Elements offers only limited capability for designing Layer styles, any style designed in the full version of Photoshop can be applied in Elements 3 to add instant special effects to photos, type, or graphics. Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 One-Click Wow! shows you how to apply those styles with just the click of a mouse, and the companion CD provides more than 300 custom styles from which to choose. Throughout, author Jack Davis provides simple step-by-step instructions for applying layer styles and outstanding full-color examples of how they'll look in your personal, business, and professional-level design and photography projects. If you want great results instantly, you'll want One-Click Wow!--completely updated to take advantage of all the features new to Elements 3: an improved Review Mode, better red-eye reduction, edge effects, and more.

Wouldn't it be great if you could have two of the world’s most sought-after Photoshop teachers sitting next to you at your computer as you navigate through the infinite possibilities of your digital photographic darkroom? How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography, second edition, is the next best thing. It’s the brainchild of two Photoshop powerhouses---Jack Davis and Ben Willmore, both world-renowned authors and educators, who have developed an effective way to help you reach your full creative potential.

Jack and Ben guide you step-by-step through real-world projects, with an emphasis on uncompromising quality, last-minute flexibility, and go-home-at-night speed! You'll receive tips and techniques on everything from streamlining your workflow to solarizing without chemicals to balancing out skin tones. Whether it’s optimizing the color and tone of your image, retouching cosmetic undesirables, reconstructing priceless heirlooms, or creating sepia color treatments, you'll be given the tools at every stage of the creative process in order to learn How to Wow!

The book begins with the essentials of workflow (including color management, the new Adobe Bridge, and Camera Raw 3), and then moves on to adjusting and optimizing and retouching and repairing. Next comes the fun stuff, with projects focusing on enhancing and exaggerating aspects of your photos for maximum impact, followed by projects on color and black-and-white treatments and artistic effects and overlays. Finally, there is a chapter devoted to combining your images and creating custom photo collages using instant Wow Tools Presets, available on the CD-ROM accompanying the book.

OpenGL is a powerful software interface used to produce high-quality, computer-generated images and interactive applications using 2D and 3D objects, bitmaps, and color images.

The OpenGL® Programming Guide, Fifth Edition, provides definitive and comprehensive information on OpenGL and the OpenGL Utility Library. The previous edition covered OpenGL through Version 1.4. This fifth edition of the best-selling "red book" describes the latest features of OpenGL Versions 1.5 and 2.0, including the introduction of the OpenGL Shading Language.

You will find clear explanations of OpenGL functionality and many basic computer graphics techniques, such as building and rendering 3D models; interactively viewing objects from different perspective points; and using shading, lighting, and texturing effects for greater realism. In addition, this book provides in-depth coverage of advanced techniques, including texture mapping, antialiasing, fog and atmospheric effects, NURBS, image processing, and more. The text also explores other key topics such as enhancing performance, OpenGL extensions, and cross-platform techniques.

This fifth edition has been extensively updated to include the newest features of OpenGL Versions 1.5 and 2.0, including:

• Storage of vertex arrays in buffer objects for faster rendering
• Occlusion queries for course-grain visibility testing
• Non-power-of-two dimensioned texture maps
• Point sprites
• Separate stencil operations for RGB and alpha
• Rendering to multiple color buffers using GLSL

Most importantly, this edition discusses the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) and explains the mechanics of using this new language to create complex graphics effects and boost the computational power of OpenGL.