Books of Knowledge

Everything you need to know to start playing the guitar! With both tablature and standard music notation, photos and diagrams, teach yourself the differences between the various types of guitars and the sounds they create. In addition to learning advanced tablature techniques, such as bending, hammer-ons and pull-offs, you’ll teach yourself to va[Read More]

You can use Teach Yourself Chinese Complete Course to learn at your own pace or as a supplement to your classwork. This complete course utilizes the very latest learning methods in an enjoyable and user-friendly format. The new edition also features: Engaging visual materials such as menus, photographs, signs, and tickets Two CD recordings al[Read More]

Complete language confidence without stepping into a classroom With Teach Yourself Italian Complete Course, you can learn the language from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace. This fully revised and updated course introduces you to practical themes, such as making travel arrangements, meeting someone new, shopping, and other ev[Read More]

A clear, easy-to-understand tutorial for developers who want to write software for today's hottest market: iPhone, iTouch, and App Store!   The start-to-finish, hands-on introduction to iPhone programming for every developer, regardless of experience Introduces the iPhone development environment and teaches every essential Objective-C concept wit[Read More]

Complete language confidence without stepping into a classroom With Teach Yourself German Complete Course, you can learn the language from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace. This fully revised and updated course introduces you to practical themes, such as making travel arrangements, meeting someone new, shopping, and other eve[Read More]

Complete language confidence without stepping into a classroom With Teach Yourself Spanish Complete Course, you can learn the language from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace. This fully revised and updated course introduces you to practical themes, such as making travel arrangements, meeting someone new, shopping, and other ev[Read More]

Do you learn faster by seeing and doing than by wading through tedious instructions? Then pick up some yarn and a hook and get crocheting! Teach Yourself VISUALLY Crocheting shows you the basics—photo by photo and stitch by stitch. You begin with the basic tools and stitches and progress through variations, more complex stitches like Tunisian cro[Read More]

You Can Teach Yourself Piano Chords combines regular music notation with visual illustrations to give a clear picture of how to voice basic piano chords. The first part of the book introduces the student to basic triads and dominant seventh chords in all the inversions. After mastering this concept, material such as Maj7th, min7th, diminished, augm[Read More]

Product DescriptionThis is the Photoshop Elements guide made just for visual learners. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Photoshop Elements tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, showing you how to import images from a digital camera, create a catalog or smart alb[Read More]

There are lots of stylish knitting patterns out there, but sometimes you want to do your own thing. Maybe you've found a yarn that would make a beautiful hat, and all you need are basic directions for shaping. Or maybe you've had your eye on a cute sweater in a store window and know that you can make a better version yourself—if you could only fi[Read More]

The ultimate guide to the new Photoshop Elements 8 for visual learners Photoshop Elements is the best-selling consumer digital image-editing software on the market and this book is a must-have for visual learners who are eager to get up and running with all the new and improved features of Photoshop Elements 8. Veteran author Mike Woo[Read More]