Beginning Microsoft Word 2010 is a visually stimulating introductory guide that teaches the complete Word newbie (as well as slightly experienced yet equally baffled users) what they need to know to write that thesis or proposal tonight. From the absolute basics like installing the software and creating documents to more advanced features like adding images and working with themes, this book is your one-stop source for using Word 2010 effectively.

V-Ray - a powerful visualization tool that supports Depth of Field (DOF), Motion Blur (effect of "smearing" in the motion), Displacement (displacement map, with increasing detail of three-dimensional objects). In addition, V-ray has its own light source, a system of sun-sky for realistic lighting with natural light, and the physical camera parameters, similar to a real photo and video cameras. System Vray Proxy allows rendering of extremely large volumes of similar objects, consisting of total tens of billions of polygons. Built-in shaders provide the user with ample opportunity to simulate virtually any material. V-Ray SDK allows you to program their own shaders as well as to adapt the system for solving specific problems. Ability to calculate the individual picture elements in the form of channels, such as depth, diffuse color, alpha, reflection, refraction, shadows, and others, provides greater flexibility in post-processing packages compositing and editing.

About the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply.