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Writing Better Lyrics, 2nd Edition
Author Pat Pattison
The Must-Have Guide for SongwritersWriting Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this revised and updated 2nd Edition provides effective tools for everything from generating ideas, to understanding the form and function of a son....
Release Date 2009/12 -
Author Michael Weiss
The popularity of the TED talk has raised the bar for public speaking and presentations. Audiences expect to be educated, inspired and engaged whether they are sitting in a conference room or an auditorium. Yet too often presenters lack the skills to take comm....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, 5th Edition
Author Sharon Jordan-Evans , Beverly Kaye
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Since employees who walk out the door cost their companies up to 200 percent of their annual salaries to replace, retention is one of the most important issues facing businesses today. And with so many surveys reporting that employe....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Basic Cost Benefit Analysis for Assessing Local Public Projects, Second Edition
Author Maryann O. Keating , Barry P. Keating
The cost benefit technique is so often referenced in government policy that a correct understanding is necessary for officials entrusted with public decisions. This book presents essential elements for understanding, interpreting, and conducting cost benefit analys....
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Computational Thinking - A beginner's guide to problem-solving and programming
Author Karl Beecher
Computational thinking (CT) is a timeless, transferable skill that enables you to think more clearly and logically, as well as a way to solve specific problems. With this book you'll learn to apply computational thinking in the context of software development to g....
Release Date 2017/08 -
Author Jannica Heinstrom
From Fear to Flow explores how personality traits may influence attitude, behaviour and reaction to information. Consideration is made for individual differences in information behaviour and reasons behind individual search differences. The book reviews personality ....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author Luis J. Echarte Fernández
Since I was diagnosed with cancer in 2003, I have spent a lot of time working on writing this book, a personal account of my life and the lessons I have learned along the way. After plenty of crying, laughing and feeling melancholic, I have come to the realization t....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Firefox and Thunderbird: Beyond Browsing and Email
Author Peter D. Hipson
There's a new browser in town: Firefox is quickly becoming a leading alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you are new to Firefox and want to see what all the buzz is about, Firefox and Thunderbird: Beyond Browsing and Email is the guide that you need. By ....
Release Date 2005/10 -
Quotient Space Based Problem Solving
Author Bo Zhang , Ling Zhang
Quotient Space Based Problem Solving provides an in-depth treatment of hierarchical problem solving, computational complexity, and the principles and applications of multi-granular computing, including inference, information fusing, planning, and heuristic search. E....
Release Date 2014/01 -
PR 2.0 in a Web 2.0 World: What Is Public Relations 2.0?
Author Deidre Breakenridge , Brian Solis
This Element is an excerpt from Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR (ISBN: 9780137150694) by Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge. Available in print and digital formats.Discover the new public relati....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Don’t Make Them Think!: Creating the Best Flow for the Elements of any Great Presentation
Author Jerry Weissman
This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats.Guide your audiences inexorably towards action, by organizing your presenta....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Writing E-mails That Have a Clear Purpose
Author Claire Meirowitz , Natalie Canavor
Thie Element is an excerpt from The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing (ISBN: 9780137153152) by Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitz. Available in print and digital formats.Make sure every email has a purpose--and your message is instantly clear to everyo....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Truth About Making All Your Employees Feel Like Your Only Employee, The
Author William S. Kane
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Thriving in Change (9780132354622) by William S. Kane. Available in print and digital formats.How to treat every member of your team like they matter — and mean it!To build bridges with your team, you must appreciate a....
Release Date 2010/09 -
Get a Life: Integrate Your Career with Your Life Priorities
Author Paula Caligiuri
This Element is an excerpt from Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work For You (9780137058495) by Paula Caligiuri, Ph.D. Available in print and digital formats.Build a great career on your terms, consistent with your career-related values ....
Release Date 2010/09 -
Solving the World’s Water Problems
Author Samyuktha Varma , Colin Chartres
This Element is an excerpt from Out of Water: From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World’s Water Problems (9780131367265) by Colin Chartres and Samyuktha Varma. Available in print and digital formats.The “Blue Revolution”: how to overcome the emerging glo....
Release Date 2010/09 -
The Truth About Employment Scams
Author Steve Weisman
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Avoiding Scams (9780132333856) by Steve Weisman. Available in print and digital formats.Don’t let employment scammers and fake work-at-home schemes con you out of your hard-earned money!Like many cons, this one appeals....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Author David Airey
Unlike other dry business books, this refreshing, straightforward guide from Logo Design Love author and international designer David Airey answers the questions all designers have when first starting out on their own. In fact, the book was inspired by the many ques....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Taking Flight!: Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships...Your Life
Author Daniel Silvert , Merrick Rosenberg
Use DISC to discover profound hidden patterns of human behavioral style, gain deeper self-awareness, maximize your personal strengths, and influence others more powerfully than ever before! Taking Flight illuminates the proven DISC four-style model of human behavio....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Making Sustainability Stick: The Blueprint for Successful Implementation
Author Kevin Wilhelm
This book provides the blueprint for implementation, breaking down barriers, and the steps required to integrate sustainability successfully into any business. It is laid out in easily digestible chapters, with action steps backed up from interviews with sustainabi....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Author Jeremy Sutton
Painter IX Creativity is a comprehensive creative guide to Corel's Painter IX Software. It explains the basics of setting up, understanding, customizing, and applying Painter to create original works, paintings, generating painterly animations, manipulating and tra....
Release Date 2013/07 -
Author Corinne Sweet
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy has already helped millions of people overcome their issues and move their life forward now it can really help you too. In this busy, demanding and often stressful modern world, its a struggle to find time to even think about what yo....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Designing Critical Literacy Education through Critical Discourse Analysis
Author Melissa Mosley Wetzel , Rebecca Rogers
Uniquely bringing together discourse analysis, critical literacy, and teacher research, this book invites teacher educators, literacy researchers, and discourse analysts to consider how discourse analysis can be used to foster critical literacy education. It is both....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Modern Cryptanalysis: Techniques for Advanced Code Breaking
Author Christopher Swenson
As an instructor at the University of Tulsa, Christopher Swenson could find no relevant text for teaching modern cryptanalysis-so he wrote his own. This is the first book that brings the study of cryptanalysis into the 21st century. Swenson provides a foundation in ....
Release Date 2008/03 -
Landing Page Optimization For Dummies®
Author Michael Harwood , Martin Harwood
Turn landing pages into profits with the right toolsSuccessful landing pages don't happen by accident, they follow a carefully crafted formula. If you want to convert visitors to your site into sales, it's crucial to understand how to design, monitor, and maintai....
Release Date 2009/10 -
Trade Like an O'Neil Disciple: How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market
Author Dr. Chris Kacher , Gil Morales
How two former traders of William J. O'Neil + Company made mad money using O'Neil's trading strategies, and how you can, tooFrom the successes and failures of two William O'Neil insiders, Trade Like an O'Neil Disciple: How We Made Over 18,000% in the Stock Mark....
Release Date 2010/08 -
The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems
Author Joe Vitale
Awaken to what's possible in your life with a complete mind, body, and spiritual transformation-based on a highly successful course!The Awakening Course is Joe Vitale's most recent breakthrough program explaining the four stages of awakening. This thought-provokin....
Release Date 2010/12 -
How to Succeed in 12 Months: Creating a Life You Love
Author Serena Star-Leonard
Step into the more fabulous version of your lifeThink about where you are in life right at this moment. How does it compare with your dreams? You may have let go of a few life goals over the years, as "real life" took over and made grand gestures seem like impractic....
Release Date 2014/07 -
Stop Talking, Start Doing Action Book
Author Shaa Wasmund
A motivational kick in the pants to get the most out of your lifeHave you got an itch? To start your own business, go to the North Pole, retrain, lose weight, get promoted, learn to play the ukulele? Or do you just have a nagging sense that there must be more to li....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Advances in Non-volatile Memory and Storage Technology
Author Yoshio Nishi
New solutions are needed for future scaling down of nonvolatile memory. Advances in Non-volatile Memory and Storage Technology provides an overview of developing technologies and explores their strengths and weaknesses. After an overview of the current market, part ....
Release Date 2014/06