Here's everything PC users with CD-ROMs need to incorporate sophisticated clip art into desktop-created projects. Clip Art Crazy offers tips for finding, choosing and using clip art, along with a vast array of projects that can be recreated with word-processing, desktop publishing or presentation software programs. The CD-ROM includes almost 500 reproducible samples culled from the archives of leading clip-art design firms.
What makes these mazes so hot? First, they're all in color, so they look fantastic. Second, they give youngsters a real brain workout and build logic and perceptual skills. Third (and this is what really matters to kids), they're lots and lots of fun. Drive the car on the one route that visits every spot on the maze exactly once. Do a little house hunting with the termites; they're searching for a home to eat and need to find the way. Look--the trail of tangy tomato topping is tracing its way to the plate of tasty taters. See if you can hurry and ketchup. Every one is an irresistible challenge.
Talk Less, Say More is a revolutionary guide to 21st century communication skills to help you be more influential and make things happen in our distracted, attention-deficit world. It's loaded with specific tips and takeaways to ensure that you're fully heard, clearly understood, and trigger positive responses in any business or social situation. It's the first book to deliver a proven method to master the core leadership skill of influence. Talk Less, Say More lays out a powerful 3-step method called Connect, Convey, Convince (R) and guides you in how to use these habits to be more influential. This succinct book solves your modern communication issues in today's demanding, distracted world at a time when interaction skills are plummeting. Communication is the single greatest challenge in business today. It takes just 3 habits to conquer it. Talk Less, Say More will help you achieve more with less. Less wordiness. Less tune-out. Less frustration. You'll gain more time. More positive outcomes. More rewarding relationships.
With keen insight into teenage life, Ellen Wittlinger delivers a story of adolescence that is fierce and funny -- and ultimately transforming -- even as it explores the pain of growing up. Since his parents' divorce, John's mother hasn't touched him, her new fiancé wants them to move away, and his father would rather be anywhere than at Friday night dinner with his son. It's no wonder John writes articles like "Interview with the Stepfather" and "Memoirs from Hell." The only release he finds is in homemade zines like the amazing Escape Velocity by Marisol, a self-proclaimed "Puerto Rican Cuban Yankee Lesbian." Haning around the Boston Tower Records for the new issue of Escape Velocity, John meets Marisol and a hard love is born. While at first their friendship is based on zines, dysfuntional families, and dreams of escape, soon both John and Marisol begin to shed their protective shells. Unfortunately, John mistakes this growing intimacy for love, and a disastrous date to his junior prom leaves that friendship in ruins. Desperately hoping to fix things, John convinces Marisol to come with him to a zine conference on Cape Cod. On the sandy beaches by the Bluefish Wharf Inn, John realizes just how hard love can be.
The essentials of communication for professionals, educators, students, and entrepreneurs, from organizing your thoughts to inspiring your audience. Do you give presentations at meetings? Do you ever have to explain a complicated subject to audiences unfamiliar with your field? Do you make pitches for ideas or products? Do you want to interest a lecture hall of restless students in subjects that you find fascinating? Then you need this book. Make It Clear explains how to communicate—how to speak and write to get your ideas across. Written by an MIT professor who taught his students these techniques for more than forty years, the book starts with the basics—finding your voice, organizing your ideas, making sure what you say is remembered, and receiving critiques (“do not ask for brutal honesty”)—and goes on to cover such specifics as preparing slides, writing and rewriting, and even choosing a type family. The book explains why you should start with an empowerment promise and conclude by noting you delivered on that promise. It describes how a well-crafted, explicitly identified slogan, symbol, salient idea, surprise, and story combine to make you and your work memorable. The book lays out the VSN-C (Vision, Steps, News–Contributions) framework as an organizing structure and then describes how to create organize your ideas with a “broken–glass” outline, how to write to be understood, how to inspire, how to defeat writer's block—and much more. Learning how to speak and write well will empower you and make you smarter. Effective communication can be life-changing—making use of just one principle in this book can get you the job, make the sale, convince your boss, inspire a student, or even start a revolution.
A vital source of ideas for illustrators and designers, this book offers both the inspiration and the means to achieve stunning original work. It features beautiful full-colour illustrations with source notes from and interviews with graphic design professionals.
Steve Dannon is a nice guy. He has an ideal life with his girlfriend and a commercial TV production company that earns him six figures. Acting on his nice guy personality, he agrees to hire and train Tracy, an acquaintance who is a bartender and actress working in his local pub to represent Steve Dannon Productions. Allison senses that Tracy's main interest in life is money. She warns Steve to watch her closely but he's willing to give Tracy the benefit of the doubt. Due to the changing technologies in the commercial production business, Steve is obliged to join forces with a digital production facility. He is not aware of their financial problems, and they conspire with Tracy to usurp his clients and buy him out. Seeing an opportunity to double her income Tracy agrees to the deal. After Steve's devastating breakup with Allison, he starts doing the bar scene. He meets a young Asian singer, Miako, and falls in love again. With his business gone and still hurting from his last romance, he is reluctant to get involved. He starts to rebuild his business and with Miako's love and support, anything is possible.
