Don't let WordPress intimidate you. WordPress 24-Hour Trainer is a unique lesson-based book that walks you through the essential parts of WordPress. Each lesson is streamlined to teach a specific aspect of WordPress, helping you to focus on just what you need in order to get the task accomplished. If you learn better visually, this book provides you with a video to accompany each lesson.

Learn & Master Drums is more than just a cursory course to teach the elementary skills of playing drums. If your goal and dream is to master all facets of the drums to become an expert drummer, then this course is for you. You'll have everything you need - expert teaching, hundreds of practice exercises, benchmarks for improving, and numerous popular songs to play along and improvise over - to bring your dream to reality.

WordPress is among the most popular blog software on the Internet, and with good reason: It is powerful, approachable, and free. In this Learn by Video course (created in partnership with our friends at Peachpit Press), web designer and trainer Joe Chellman teaches you what you need to know to use WordPress to create your own blog, from installing and configuring the software to adding and managing content. You’ll also learn how to customize your blog by choosing a “theme” (a visual design) and adding plugins, as well as how to maintain your site by backing it up and updating the software when necessary. After completing this course, you’ll be empowered to create an awesome website for yourself and nearly anyone else!

Light and exposure are at the very heart of photography. And yet, exposure is one of the topics many photographers struggle with most. In this Learn by Video workshop published in partnership with Peachpit Press, Tim Grey takes you out into the field to help you master essential photographic exposure concepts and techniques. The set includes Austrian mountains, woods, and rivers, along with downtown scenes and interiors. Along the way, you?ll learn how to avoid common challenges and use the available light for best effect. You?ll also learn more advanced techniques including capturing long exposures, utilizing exposure bracketing, and more. Back in the studio, Tim teaches you how to apply these concepts during post-processing to ensure the very best results in your final image, as well as how to apply creative exposure effects in-software, such as creating a high-key effect. If you’ve ever wanted to truly master light and exposure, grab your camera get ready for an exceptional photography workshop.

Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk jump-starts the world's hottest skateboard company with businessman/skateboarder Per Welinder, who recently sold his share of the company back to Hawk to focus on his thriving clothing line.
Freestyle motocross star Carey Hart discovers that backflips in the boardroom don't fly, but sharp entrepreneurship turns his tattoo venture into a multimedia enterprise.

Plot: Haffaz Alladeen is the bizarre dictator of the oil-rich African nation of Waadeya. Alladeen is as egotistical and ruthless as dictators come, executing anyone who disagrees with him using his signature “head chop” signal. Alladeen is summoned by the UN to address their concerns about his nuclear program.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is an all-in-one solution to your photographic needs, offering image management capabilities, high-end image processing power, and several photo sharing options. Lightroom 4 does even more than its predecessors, with exciting features like a new process version, the new Book and Map modules, and many improvements to the Develop module. In this Learn by Video course, produced in partnership with our friends at Peachpit Press, Mikkel Aaland teaches you how to import, manage, organize, optimize, and share your images with Lightroom 4, making the most of this powerful software at every step along the way.

Learn the fundamentals of soldering—and pick up an essential skill for building electronic gadgets. You’ll discover how to preheat and tin your iron, make a good solder joint, desolder cleanly (when things don't quite go right), and how to use helping hands to hold components in place.