Build rich media applications for the iOS and Android platforms with this primer to Flash mobile development. You get all of the essentials-from setting up your development environment to publishing your apps to the Google Market Place/Apple iTunes App Store.Develop elementary applications without coding; then realize the power of ActionScript 3 to add rich complexity to your applications. Step-by-step instruction is combined with practical tutorial lessons to deliver a working und...

Today's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live. The capitalist order requires the maintenance of an artificial scarcity in goods that have the potential for near infinite and almost free replication. The sharing of informational goods through distributed global networks – digital libraries, file–sharing, live–streaming, free software, free–access publishing, the free–sharing of scientific knowledge, and open-source pharmac...

The perfect book for any student taking a research methods course for the first time!The new edition of David and Sutton′s text provides those new to social research with a comprehensive introduction to the theory, logic and practical methods of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. Covering all aspects of research design, data collection, data analysis and writing up, Social Research: An Introduction is the essential companion for all undergraduate and postgraduate...

Do digital networks make a difference to the scope, scale and severity of social harm? Considering four distinct digital affordances for crime (access, concealment, evasion and incitement) this book asks whether they are simply new packaging for old problems, with no greater effect on society overall – or is cyberculture significantly escalating illegality?Matthew David gives fresh insights into online harms and behaviours in the fields of hate, obscenity, corruptions of citizenshi...

Have the music and movie industries lost the battle to criminalize downloading?This penetrating and informative book provides readers with the perfect systematic critical guide to the file-sharing phenomenon. Combining inter-disciplinary resources from sociology, history, media and communication studies and cultural studies, David unpacks the economics, psychology and philosophy of file-sharing.The book carefully situates the reader in a field of relevant approaches includi...

Formally, ownership of ideas is legally impossible, and can never be globally secured. Yet, in very real and significant ways these limits have been undone. In principle, ideas cannot be owned, yet, undoing the distinction between ideas and tangible manifestations, the distinction which underpins the principle, allows the principle to hold even whilst its meaning is hollowed out.Post-Cold War global network capitalism is premised upon regulatory structures designed to enfo...

From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly innocuous garments we find hats laced with mercury, frocks laden with arsenic and literally 'drop-dead gorgeous' gowns.Fabulously gory and gruesome, Fashion Victims takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the lethal his...

Darkness has fallen across all of Azdia. Soon, all of life will stop glowing with light. The tress have lost their life. Even the mighty feldroes have ceased to roam freely. Most of the lumens, the shape-shifting caretakers of Azdia, have been destroyed or enslaved. The only hope for the creatures of Azdia are the awaited chosen ones sent from another world called Earth.The problem is Del Ryder has decided she never wants to go back. She feels like it’s all her fault that ...

Del Ryder and her best friend, Sam, need help if they are going to face off against the forces of darkness. Their best hope lies with Eleanor, who, in a different age, brought hope and light to the land of Azdia. When Eleanor is captured, Del defies the odds and sets off on a rescue mission which takes them to the brink of disaster. Will Del be able to free Eleanor before the mysterious Heir of Mordlum corrupts not only the entire realm, but also Del’s best friends?This is book 2 i...

Del Ryder leads the Company of Light on a quest across the sea to the most ancient parts of Azdia, hoping their mission will bring them closer to discovering how to defeat the darkness. The Heir of Mordlum, bent on finding the powerful Crystal Seeds, has assembled an army larger than anyone's imagining. Can Del and her friends trust Mr. Thicket enough to stand against such a vast and terrible fighting force?Find out in Book 3 of the Del Ryder Series: Del Ryder and the Emerald S...

This book is a philosophical experiment in thinking, feeling, and willing beyond the transcendental threshold of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy. It draws inspiration from the organic process philosophies of F. W. J. Schelling and A. N. Whitehead to articulate a descendental aesthetic ontology showing the way across the epistemological chasm that Kant's critiques hewed between knowledge and reality. This descendental inversion of Kantian transcendentalism aims to bridge the ch...

There be no callin' 'dibs' in piratin'. Booty be divided among the crew, from the lowest deckswabber to the highest masthand. So says the Pirate Code." —Calico Jack Rackham, king of the pirates* Enjoy a witty mock-official handbook for potential pirates and plunderers.Matthew David Brozik and Jacob Sager Weinstein continue to spoof those uber-utilitarian survival and how-to guides by offering this pithy pirating primer for budding buccaneers. This treasure trove of Pirate C...