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Author Rebecca Tapley
Whether your second, virtual life has just begun, or you’ve been “in-world" for a long time, a successful and rewarding experience depends on your mastery of design. Everything from your avatar to your home, your clothes to your behavior says something about who you....
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Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery
Author Garr Reynolds
FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix o....
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I, Avatar: The Culture and Consequences of Having a Second Life
Author Mark Stephen Meadows
What is an avatar? Why are there nearly a billion of them, and who is using them? Do avatars impact our real lives, or are they just video game conceits? Is an avatar an inspired rendering of its creator’s inner self, or is it just one among millions of anonymous ve....
Release Date 2007/12 -
Digital Foundations: Intro to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite
Author Michael Mandiberg , Xtine Burrough
Fuses design fundamentals and software training into one cohesive book!The only book to teach Bauhaus design principles alongside basic digital tools of Adobe's Creative Suite, including the recently released Adobe CS4Addresses the growing trend of compressing desi....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Speaking in Styles: Fundamentals of CSS
Author Jason Cranford Teague
Speaking in Styles aims to help Web designers learn the "language" that will be used to take their vision from the static comp to the live Internet. Many designers think that CSS is code, and that it's too hard to learn. Jason takes an approach to CSS that breaks i....
Release Date 2009/06 -
Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications
Author Claudia McCue
Contrary to popular belief, print is not dead! With all the interest in online publishing here in the 21st century, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that information is still widely disseminated through the good old medium of print. The advent of desktop publishi....
Release Date 2009/06 -
Visual Poetry: A Creative Guide for Making Engaging Digital Photographs
Author Chris Orwig
A great photograph has the potential to transcend verbal and written language. But how do you create these photographs? It’s not the how that’s important, but the who and the what. Who you are as a person has a direct impact on what you capture as a photographer. ....
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Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations
Author Garr Reynolds
In his internationally acclaimed, best-selling book Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, presentation master Garr Reynolds gave readers the framework for planning, putting together, and delivering successful presentations. Now, he take....
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The Non-Designer’s Presentation Book: principles for effective presentation design
Author Robin Williams
These days, it's not just corporate marketing directors tasked with giving computer-based presentations—anyone forced to stand in front of a crowd and talk for more than three minutes had better know how to put together a slide presentation. You're not a professio....
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The Film Editing Room Handbook: How to Tame the Chaos of the Editing Room, Fourth Edition
Author Norman Hollyn
The assistant film editor has many more responsibilities than simply helping to edit the picture. He or she must work with all the numerous members of the filmmaking team, juggle the demands of copious amounts of footage from various sources, keep notes during the s....
Release Date 2009/12 -
The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides
Author Garr Reynolds
In his first two best-selling books Presentation Zen and Presentation Zen Design, Garr Reynolds gave readers the necessary tools for planning and designing successful presentations. Establishing the framework for beautifully designed and well-prepared presentations,....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Classroom in a Book
Author Adobe Creative Team
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Creative Suite 5 choose Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 8 project-based lessons show readers step-by-step ....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Author Chris Turner
A new volume in the successful Unlocking the Law series on this fascinating and dynamic area of law, containing the essential recent developments, including the Equality Act 2010. Each chapter opens with aims and objectives and contains activities such as quick quiz....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Jonathan Solity , Phillip Feldman , Shirley Bull
How to manage a class is probably the major worry of all teachers in training and young teachers new to the job. This book shows how psychological principles, strategies and tools can be applied to improve classroom practice.
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Author Alan Norrie , Tony Lawson , Andrew Collier , Roy Bhaskar , Margaret Archer
Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. ....
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Author David Shepherd , Charles Platter , Paul Allen Miller , Peter I. Barta
It has seemed at times that there is no neutral territory between those who see Bakhtin as the practitioner of a kind of neo-Marxist, or at least materialist, deconstruction and those who look at the same texts and see a defender of traditional, liberal humani....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Transformative Learning through Creative Life Writing
Author Celia Hunt
Arising from a research project conducted over two years, Transformative Learning through Creative Life Writing examines the effects of fictional autobiography on adult learners’ sense of self. Starting from a teaching and learning perspective, Hunt draws together i....
Release Date 2013/06 -
The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies
Author Annette Pritchard , Nigel Morgan , Irena Ateljevic
In today’s increasingly complex tourism environment, decision-making requires a rounded, well-informed view of the whole. Critical distance should be encouraged, consultation and intellectual rigour should be the norm amongst managers and there needs to be a radical....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Understanding Intercultural Communication
Author Adrian Holliday
In this book, Adrian Holliday provides a practical framework to help students analyse intercultural communication. Underpinned by a new grammar of culture developed by Holliday, this book will incorporate examples and activities to enable students and professionals ....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Peacebuilding, Memory and Reconciliation
Author Genevieve Parent , Bruno Charbonneau
This book aims to bridge the gap between what are generally referred to as ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches to peacebuilding.After the experience of a physical and psychological trauma, the period of individual healing and recovery is intertwined with political....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals, 14th Edition
Author Jennifer H. Meadows , August E. Grant
A classic now in its 14th edition, Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals is the single best resource for students and professionals looking to brush up on how these technologies have developed, grown, and converged, as well as what’s in store for the futu....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Author Stephen B. Crofts Wiley , Jeremy Packer
Communication has often been understood as a realm of immaterial, insubstantial phenomena—images, messages, thoughts, languages, cultures, and ideologies—mediating our embodied experience of the concrete world. Communication Matters challenges this view, assembling ....
Release Date 2013/06 -
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 -
Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures, 2nd Edition
Author John Purcell
Produce professional level dialogue tracks with industry-proven techniques and insights from an Emmy Award winning sound editor. Gain innovative solutions to common dialogue editing challenges such as room tone balancing, noise removal, perspective control, finding ....
Release Date 2013/07 -
Management Accounting in Public Service Decision Making
Radical changes to public service delivery have swept across many regions of the world. Management accounting methods are vital to support operational and strategic decision making in public services internationally. This book provides a comprehensive and “leading-edge” guide to the topic.Written by.... -
HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS, VOL 4A
Author David Card , Orley Ashenfelter
What new tools and models are enriching labor economics?"Developments in Research Methods and their Application" (volume 4A) summarizes recent advances in the ways economists study wages, employment, and labor markets. Mixing conceptual models and empirical work, c....
Release Date 2010/10 -
HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS, VOL 4B
Author David Card , Orley Ashenfelter
What factors affect the ways individuals participate in labor markets? "New Developments and Research on Labor Markets" (volume 4B) proposes answers to this and other questions on important topics of public policy. Leading labor economists demonstrate how better da....
Release Date 2010/10 -
Author Narayanan Srinivasan
Meditation, Volume 244, the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on The effect of meditation on attentional processes, State-trait influences of Vipassana ....
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The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
Author Jon Gordon
The Energy Bus, an international best seller by Jon Gordon, takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment - at work and at home.....
Release Date 2007/01 -
Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, Second Edition
Author Eric Giguère , Noah Suojanen , John Mongan
The pressure is on during the interview process but with the right preparation, you can walk away with your dream job. This classic book uncovers what interviews are really like at America's top software and computer companies and provides you with the tools to suc....
Release Date 2007/04