Authors:Melissa Rannels, Melissa Alvarado, Hope Meng,
Publisher: Taunton Press
Keywords: fabulous, fashionista, diy, dirty, subversive, amp, sew
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1561588091
ISBN-13: 9781561588091

Sew Subversive is about making fashion your own, whether it’s embellishing or customizing off-the-rack clothing or transforming clothes that have lost that loving feeling. The three twenty-something co-owners of Stitch Lounge, an urban sewing studio in San Francisco, teach you, in plain, fun language, how to do it, whether you’re hand sewing, machine sewing, or, in a few cases, simply wielding a pair of scissors. The first three chapters lay the ground work: Hand Sewing Basics, You and Your Machine, and Gearing Up, which includes Fabric 101, how to set up a sewing space, and a run-

Authors:Jeremy Hope, Tony Hope,
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: issues, information, management, key, third, wave, competing
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0875848079
ISBN-13: 9780875848075

This lucid view of business cuts through the management fads, media hype, and information clutter to the ten issues that managers must face in the new millennium. Jeremy and Tony Hope review the core concerns of management--from strategy and customer development to shareholder value, measurement, and control--to identify the most important challenges facing third wave organizations. Surveying and synthesizing both classic and cutting-edge management ideas, Competing in the Third Wave presents comprehensive guidelines and an integrated agenda for going head-to-head with today

Author: Wei-Meng Lee
Publisher: Wrox
Keywords: programmer, programming, gadgets, vista, windows, professional
Number of Pages: 379
Published: 2007-12-05
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 047017661X
ISBN-13: 9780470176610

As an easy-to-use application that provides information at a glance, a gadget allows users to quickly and easily obtain weather information, RSS news feeds, and much more. In Windows Vista, there are two types of gadgetsSidebar and SideShow gadgets and Microsoft MVP author Wei-Meng Lee covers both. You’ll begin by walking through the development of a simple gadget, and then each successive chapter breaks down the specific APIs that are relevant to enhancing a gadget so that you can clearly learn how a gadget is built.

Author: Meng Yue
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: empires, edges, shanghai
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-06-14
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0816644128
ISBN-13: 9780816644124

Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the overlapping cultural edges of a failing Chinese royal order and the encroachment of Western imperialists converged. Simultaneously appropriating and resisting imposing forces, Shanghai opened itself to unruly

Author: Wei-Meng Lee
Publisher: Apre
Keywords: projects, networking, net, practical
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2007-01-29
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1590597907
ISBN-13: 9781590597903

Practical .NET 2.0 Networking Projects demonstrates some of the key networking technologies that are being made easily accessible through .NET Framework 2.0. It discusses communication between wired machines and between networks and mobile devices. The book teaches you about the technologies by walking you through sample projects in a straightforward and direct way. The book begins by discussing background theory so youll get comfortable with the layout of the .NET Framework and Compact Framework from a networking perspective. Then youll use the APIs within these frameworks to build a variety

Authors:Wei-Meng Lee, Lee Wei-Meng,
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: introduction, guide, hands, quick, running, windows
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0596804040
ISBN-13: 9780596804046

This compact book offers the quickest path for Windows users to get started with Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. You get the essential information you need to upgrade or install the system and configure it to fit your activities, along with a tour of Windows 7’s features and built-in applications. Microsoft has learned from the mistakes of Windows Vista, and Windows 7 shows it-this new OS is much faster and more stable. With Windows 7: Up and Running, you’ll learn what’s new and what’s changed from XP and Vista, and get advice on ways to use this system

Author: Wei-Meng Lee
Publisher: Rational Press
Keywords: rational, guides, blogger, google, guide
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0972688870
ISBN-13: 9780972688871

Learn how to build your own blog using Google’s free Blogger service. This book covers the basic and the not-so-basic concepts and technologies that you need to know in order to thrive in the blogging world. With this book, you will learn how to use Blogger’s Post Editor and Dashboard to create sophisticated postings that include images and hyperlinks, and how to change the look and feel of your blog using templates. Other topics include making money using Google’s AdSense and Amazon.com’s Associates program, using photo blogging services, adding a site counter so that you can trac