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The Autistic Spectrum


Lorna Wing - 1996
    About one-third also have varying degrees of learning difficulty. All of them have impairment of social interaction, communication and imagination - to them the world appears a bewildering and sometimes frightening place. This guide explains how people with autism experience the world and why they need an organized, structured environment. Ways of improving communication, developing abilities and enlarging social interaction are described, and advice is given on coping with stresses within the family.

Declutter And Simplify - 33 Proven Ways To Declutter And Simplify Your Life


Andy C.E. Brown - 2015
     With the right dedication and desire it is possible to transform your life and home. There are proven ways you can learn to live an uncluttered lifestyle, embrace minimalism and cherish a happier and less stressful life. START TODAY : Become The Organised, Productive And Happier Person You Always Dreamt Of ... In "Declutter And Simplify" you'll learn how to lead a simpler lifestyle and benefit from a clear and relaxed mindset . No longer will you feel the urge to buy and hoard more material possessions. It's time to finally stop comparing yourself with others. Instead, you'll benefit from a clutter-free home, have better mental clarity and a lot less anxiety and depression in your life. DOWNLOAD : Declutter And Simplify - 33 Proven Ways To Declutter And Simplify Your Life Declutter And Simplify contains a series of 33 proven ways to declutter your home and simplify your life. Each one can help improve the lives of you and your loved ones. Inside this book you'll how how to: Take Control Of Your Possessions And Remove The Ones Draining Your Energy Declutter Your Home Using Proven Minimalist Steps To A More Organised Home Stop Feeling Overwhelmed By Simplifying Your Life, Belongings And Things! Organise Your Stuff And Get Your Life Back Focus On Tips, Hacks, Techniques and Strategies For A More Relaxing Lifestyle Lead A Stress Free Life By Creating More Space At Home Develop Long Lasting Daily Habits To Clear Your Mind And Manage Your Time "Take Action" So As You Spend Less Time Cleaning Enjoy The Benefits Of A Clutter Free Life You no longer have to struggle with continually battling to stay on top of a house bursting at the seams. You can overcome your inability to organise your home and life and immediately start to feel empowered . What Others Are Saying A great book - covers absolutely everything from your Facebook friend list to the garden shed. Nice & easy to read too. And Andy recognises we are all human so it makes you want to make the effort - Jenny Would You Like To Know More? Download now and start to incorporate each one of these 33 proven ways to declutter and simplify your daily life and home. You’ll be amazed at how much better you and your family will feel. Your fears about decluttering will disappear and you will achieve a peaceful Zen like experience. And Finally A Free Bonus! As a way of saying thanks for your purchase, I’m offering a free copy of my best selling book Stop Procrastinating : 25 Simple Habits To Increase Your Productivity, Get The Work Done And Finally See Results. You can grab your copy within the first few pages of this book. You’ll learn proven ways you can overcome laziness, improve your inner drive and unlock your full potential.

The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7


Benjamin MelanconRoy Scholten - 2010
    Written by a panel of expert authors, the book covers every aspect of Drupal, from planning a successful project all the way up to making a living from designing Drupal sites and to contributing to the Drupal community yourself. With this book you will:Follow practical approaches to solving many online communication needs with Drupal with real examples. Learn how to keep learning about Drupal: administration, development, theming, design, and architecture. Go beyond the code to engage with the Drupal community as a contributing member and to do Drupal sustainably as a business.The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 was written by the following team of expert Drupal authors:Benjamin Melançon, Jacine Luisi, Károly Négyesi, Greg Anderson, Bojhan Somers, Stéphane Corlosquet, Stefan Freudenberg, Michelle Lauer, Ed Carlevale, Florian Lorétan, Dani Nordin, Ryan Szrama, Susan Stewart, Jake Strawn, Brian Travis, Dan Hakimzadeh, Amye Scavarda, Albert Albala, Allie Micka, Robert Douglass, Robin Monks, Roy Scholten, Peter Wolanin, Kay VanValkenburgh, Greg Stout, Kasey Qynn Dolin, Mike Gifford, Claudina Sarahe, Sam Boyer, and Forest Mars, with contributions from George Cassie, Mike Ryan, Nathaniel Catchpole, and Dmitri Gaskin.For more information, check out the Drupaleasy podcast #63, in which author Benjamin Melançon discusses The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 in great detail:http: //drupaleasy.com/podcast/2011/08/drupal...

HTML5 for Masterminds: How to take advantage of HTML5 to create amazing websites and revolutionary applications


Juan Diego Gauchat
    

The Heart of Hospitality: Great Hotel and Restaurant Leaders Share Their Secrets


Micah Solomon - 2016
    Help has arrived with a compulsively-readable new standard, The Heart of Hospitality: Great Hotel and Restaurant Leaders Share Their Secrets by Micah Solomon, with a foreword by The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company’s president and COO Herve Humler.This up-to-the-minute resource delivers the closely guarded customer experience secrets and on-trend customer service insights of today’s top hoteliers, restaurateurs, and masters of hospitality management including:Four Seasons Chairman Isadore Sharp: How to build an unsinkable company cultureUnion Square Hospitality Group CEO Danny Meyer: His secrets of hiring, onboarding, training, and moreTom Colicchio (Craft Restaurants, Top Chef): How to create a customer-centric customer experience in a chef-centric restaurantVirgin Hotels CEO Raul Leal: How Virgin Hotels created its innovative, future-friendly hospitality approachRitz-Carlton President and COO Herve Humler: How to engage today’s new breed of luxury travelers Double-five-star chef and hotelier Patrick O’Connell (The Inn at Little Washington) shares the secrets of creating hospitality connectionsDesigner David Rockwell on the secrets of building millennial-friendly restaurants and hotel spaces (W, Nobu, Andaz) that resonate with today’s travelersRestaurateur Traci Des Jardins on building a “narcissism-free” hospitality cultureLegendary chef Eric Ripert’s principles of creating a great guest experiences, simultaneously within a single dining room.The Heart of Hospitality is a hospitality management resource like no other, put together by leading customer service expert Micah Solomon. Filled with exclusive, first-hand stories and wisdom from the top professionals in the industry, The Heart of Hospitality is an essential hospitality industry resource.As Ritz-Carlton President and COO Herve Humler says in his foreword to the book, “If you want to create and sustain a level of service so memorable that it becomes an unbeatable competitive advantage, you’ll find the secrets here.”

Finding SImplicity: How to define success, conquer fear and learn to let go in a complex stressful world


Cary David Richards - 2015
    More Happiness Find out why Simplicity is the key to a happy, more joyous existence. The world we live in is getting more complex and stressful every day. Cary David Richards believes that at some point you just need to stop and decide what the things are that are most important to you, focus in on those things and flush the rest of it. Or at least keep it at arm’s length. Mindlessly accumulating “stuff” and competing with your neighbors to see who has the nicest car, greenest lawn or biggest boat in the driveway is not only a merry-go-round of stress and complexity it is also a competition that you can never truly win. In his new book about the virtues of simplifying your life Cary David invites you begin thinking outside the box. Perhaps the old model of a big house, 2 cars in the driveway, 2.5 kids and a mortgage that would choke a horse isn’t what truly speaks to you. If it is that’s okay to but there are lots of other pathways to success. What does success mean to you? Have you really thought about it? Or are you chasing a dream that was strongly suggested to you by your family and or a society that has, for all intents and purposes spun slightly out of control. Discover how to find the simplicity that will bring you the joy and serenity you seek. Learn to live in the moment, reduce the clutter around you, face your fears and embrace change. Does your job empower you? Does it allow you to spend your time and energy focusing on things that are really important to you? Other than a paycheck, why are you there? Did you know there are other ways of structuring (and simplifying) income streams that can allow you to pursue your dreams and passions while not being tied to a desk? Stress, complexity and overwhelm are not the conditions we were designed live under. “Finding Simplicity” will show you a different way. Let Cary David Richards help you find a new path. Identify the things you make your heart sing. Spend your precious time and energy in places and with people that matter to you and simply be in the moment. A joyous new paradigm is waiting so Scroll up to the top and get your copy now!

Training Guide: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3


Glenn Johnson - 2013
    Build hands-on expertise through a series of lessons, exercises, and suggested practices—and help maximize your performance on the job.Provides in-depth, hands-on training you take at your own pace Focuses on job-role-specific expertise for using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 to begin building modern web and Windows 8 apps Features pragmatic lessons, exercises, and practices Creates a foundation of skills which, along with on-the-job experience, can be measured by Microsoft Certification exams such as 70-480 Coverage includes: creating HTML5 documents; implementing styles with CSS3; JavaScript in depth; using Microsoft developer tools; AJAX; multimedia support; drawing with Canvas and SVG; drag and drop functionality; location-aware apps; web storage; offline apps; writing your first simple Windows 8 apps; and other key topics

American Hair Metal


Steven Blush - 2006
    We’ve always said it takes a real man to wear makeup.”—Bret Michaels, Poison (1988)There was a time—not so long ago—when pomp and spandex dominated MTV and pop radio playlists. American Hair Metal visually celebrates this orgy of flamboyance, androgyny, and animal magnetism, of big-haired alpha males and the beautiful women who surrounded them.Hundreds of striking photographs are surrounded by hedonistic ephemera from bands like Poison, Cinderella, Mötley Crüe, Skid Row, and Stryper, and wild interview quotes from major players such as David Lee Roth, Jon Bon Jovi, Sebastian Bach, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, Bret Michaels, Don Dokken, and a good number of unsung heroes.Interest in hair metal is currently exploding—witness the barrage of VH1 specials, arena-level revival tours, and reissue compilations that are even today best-selling CDs.

Digital Adaptation


Paul Boag - 2014
    That's why we created Digital Adaptation, a new practical book on how to help senior management understand the Web and adapt the business, culture, teams and workflows accordingly. No fluff, no theory — just techniques and strategies that worked in practice, and showed results. The book will help traditional businesses and organizations to overcome their legacy, and help you plant the seeds of change with very little power. If you do want to finally see changes happening, this is the book to grab. Written by Paul Boag. Designed by Veerle Pieters. 176 pages. YOU'LL LEARN TO: • Tackle bureaucracy and overcome legacy culture, • Develop a flexible and effective digital strategy, • Use responsibility matrix to minimize delays and costs, • Adopt a digital culture and become digital by default, • Apply techniques from mid-sized and large organizations, • Avoid toxic working practices and improve internal processes, • Organize teams and boost their efficiency, • Embrace social media and use them effectively, • Understand the value of a digital team and invest in them, • Break down the walls and nourish collaboration, ownership and innovation.

Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design


Dan Cederholm - 2009
    That's the theme running through Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, by bestselling author Dan Cederholm, with a chapter contributed by renowned Web designer and developer Ethan Marcotte. This book explores CSS3 that works in today's browsers, and you'll be convinced that now's the time to start experimenting with it.Whether you're a Web designer, project manager, or a graphic designer wanting to learn more about the fluidity that's required when designing for the Web, you'll discover the tools to create the most flexible, reliable, and bulletproof Web designs. And you'll finally be able to persuade your clients to adopt innovative and effective techniques that make everyone's life easier while improving the end user's experience. This book's seven chapters deconstruct various aspects of a case-study Web site for the Tugboat Coffee Company, focusing on aspects that make it bulletproof and demonstrate progressive enrichment techniques over more traditional labor-intensive methods.Subjects covered in this book include: building for unanticipated future use progressively enriching designs using CSS3 properties using RGBA color for transparency with an alpha channel modular float management crafting flexible frameworks fluid layouts using grid-based design principles craftsmanship details on typography, jQuery, and shifting backgrounds

Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide


Charles Wyke-Smith - 2005
    Stylin with CSS teaches you everything you need to know start using CSS in your web development work, from the basics of markup of your content and styling text, through to creating multi-column page layouts without the use of tables. Learn how to create interface components, such as drop-down menus, navigation links, and animated graphical buttons, using only CSS no JavaScript required. Discover how to design code that will work on the latest standard-compliant browsers, while working around the quirks of the older browsers. With a mastery of CSS, your web design capabilities will move to a new level, and everything you need to know to get your started and build your skills is right here in this book. You ll be stylin in no time!"

Grails in Action


Glen Smith - 2009
    Developers are instantly productive, picking up all the benefits of the Ruby-based Rails framework without giving up any of the power of Java.Grails in Action is a comprehensive look at Grails for Java developers. It covers the nuts and bolts of the core Grails components and is jam-packed with tutorials, techniques, and insights from the trenches.The book starts with an overview of Grails and how it can help you get your web dev mojo back. Then it walks readers through a Twitter-style social networking app-built in Grails, of course-where they implement high-interest features like mashups, AJAX/JSON, animation effects, full text search, rounded corners, and lots of visual goodness. The book also covers using Grails with existing Java technology, like Spring, Hibernate, and EJBs.Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

Sexy Web Design


Elliott Jay Stocks - 2008
    You'll be guided through the entire process of creating a gorgeous, usable web site by applying the timeless principles of user-centered design.Even if you're short on design skills, with this book you'll be creating your own stunning web sites in no time at all.Throughout, the focus is on simple and practical techniques that anyone can use - you don't need to have gone to art school or have artistic flair to create stunning designs using the methods outlined in this book.The book's full-color layout and large format (8" x 10") make Sexy Web Design a pleasure to read.Master key web interface design principles Design amazing web interfaces from scratch Create beautiful, yet functional, web sites Unleash your artistic talents And much more Who should read this book? Whether you're completely new to web design, a seasoned pro looking for inspiration, or a developer wanting to improve your sites' aesthetics, there's something for everyone here.How? Because instead of trying to cover every possible area of creating a web site, we've focused purely on the design stage; that is, everything that happens before a single line of code is written.However, great design is more than just aesthetics. Long before we open our graphics program of choice, we'll be conducting research, dealing with clients, responding to briefs, sketching out sitemaps, planning information architecture, moving from doodles to diagrams, exploring different ways of interactivity, and building upon design traditions.But ultimately, you'll be finding out how to create web sites that look drop-dead gorgeous.

The Inspirational Leader: Inspire Your Team To Believe In The Impossible


Gifford Thomas - 2019
    Harvard Business School gathered data from assessments of more than 50,000 leaders, and the ability to inspire stood out as one of the most critical competencies. Inspiration creates the highest levels of engagement, it is what separates the best leaders from everyone else, and it is what employees want most in their leaders. The Inspirational Leader, Inspire Your Team To Believe In The Impossible was written to help all leaders successfully navigate all the disruptions in today fiercely competitive world we need a new generation of leaders who care deeply for the well-being of their team and who understand that their people are the heart of their leadership. Whether you are the leader of a large, medium or small organization; a Teacher, a V.P., CEO, Father, Mother, Police Officer, or Hustler; this book was written to help you inspire your team to believe in the impossible. Each chapter in this book will push you to become the leader you were destined to be; a leader of influence, a leader of value, a leader of vision and most importantly, an inspirational leader.

MTIV Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer


Hillman Curtis - 2002
    Divided into three parts, this book offers a methodology for artistic and professional work and also offers technical advice for translating this to the web.