Brian Miller

This is a different kind of web design book. Above the Fold is not about timely design or technology trends; instead, this book is about the timeless fundamentals of effective communication within the context of web design. It is intended to help you, the reader, understand the considerations that web designers make when developing successful websites. Above the Fold is divided into three sections: Design & Typography Planning & Usability Business Value Each section represents a phase in the continuous cycle of web design. It's the balance among design, usability, and return on investment that makes a website truly great. Topics covered in Above the Fold include: What makes web design unique The history of web design Anatomy of a web page White space and grid use in web design The elements of web design: color, texture, imagery, scale, depth, animation, and variability Web typography, including web-safe type, images of type, and font replacement and embedding Web project planning Information architecture, including site maps, wireframes, and user flow diagrams The elements of usability: navigation, breadcrumbs, links, search, submission forms, and error messaging Search engine optimization Online marketing, including banner ads, viral and social marketing, on-site marketing, and email marketing Web statistics and analysis

Understanding the Principles of Successful Web Site Design

Above the Fold

"Practical, powerful, and a delight to read. A book like Brian's can change everything for someone who cares."-Seth Godin, Author, This is Marketing"As a magician and entertainer, Brian shares his best tricks of the trade on how to connect. A fun, quick, and worthwhile read." -Shama Hyder, Founder & CEO of Zen MediaWhat will you do with your three opportunities today? Three opportunities to connect with anyone you meet. Three opportunities to change the path of your life. Three opportunities to make a difference to someone else. Three New People is a manifesto on the beauty and power of human connection in a world where loneliness has reached epidemic levels. We're rushed, frazzled, distracted, and frankly, scared to talk to strangers. But what if it didn't have to be that way? What if we could easily connect with anyone we meet - on the airplane, at the coffee shop, waiting in line, in the elevator - and take the chance of making a new connection: one that might last for seconds, or for a lifetime? As a child with social anxiety, Brian Miller used magic in order to make friends. Now, as a globetrotting professional magician turned motivational speaker, he presents his secrets for connecting with the people you meet on a daily basis.Using engaging stories about a magician's life paired with easy-to-follow techniques for breaking out of our normal patterns, this book shows us how to get past small talk, make others feel understood, use active listening, and learn something new about everyone we meet. Brian's life changed because a kind stranger said, "I like your hat." How will your life change today?

Make the Most of Your Daily Interactions and Stop Missing Amazing Opportunities

Three New People

Mike Lapham

Exposes and demolishes the myth of the self-made businessman and presents profiles of businesspeople who acknowledge the help they received from public investments and other support.

And the Truth about how Government Helps Individuals and Businesses Succeed

The Self-made Myth

What if you woke up in the middle of an Indian jungle wearing only your boxer shorts, to find that you had complete amnesia? This is exactly what happens to Paul, the free spirited traveler and student of yoga. While on retreat from their hectic New York City lifestyles, Paul and his friend head into the jungles of India to escape the touristy streets and hike to a nearby waterfall. Deep in the jungle they stop for a swim. Afterward, Paul goes running off alone, finally hopping up on a felled tree to see how far he had gone. Suddenly he slips, smacking his head on a rock below lying unconscious in thick brush, rendering him invisible to any search attempts. The next morning he wakes up with a massive headache and complete amnesia. He is discovered by a couple of small tan monkeys, and realizes that although he doesn't remember who he is or where he belongs in the world, he has the uncanny ability to speak to animals. Mystical monkeys, magical Babas, a hilarious-egotistical tiger, a beautiful butterfly and lone wolf, are just a few of the many allies that help guide him through this magnificent and dangerous world toward Shambhala-a place where he is told that all of his questions can be answered, including that of the immense suffering he encounters at every turn. Great wisdom brings him deep into his heart and high up into the cold mountains, where alone he risks certain death, to find answers at a place he is not even sure exists.

Shambhala

“Powerful, compelling, and well researched . . . demolishes what may be the most destructive myth in America.” —David Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy The Self-Made Myth exposes the false claim that business success is the result of heroic individual effort with little or no outside help. Brian Miller and Mike Lapham not only bust the myth; they present profiles of business leaders who recognize the public investments and supports that made their success possible—including Warren Buffett, Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry’s, New Belgium Brewing CEO Kim Jordan, and others. The book also thoroughly demolishes the claims of supposedly self-made individuals such as Donald Trump and Ross Perot. How we view the creation of wealth and individual success is critical because it shapes our choices on taxes, regulation, public investments in schools and infrastructure, CEO pay, and more. It takes a village to raise a business—and it’s time to recognize that fact.

And the Truth about How Government Helps Individuals and Businesses Succeed

The Self-Made Myth

Michael Phillips

Richard Reading

Amy Masching

Rob Edward

This illustrated collection offers fascinating insight on restoring the wolf population to the Southern Rockies. Detailed reports by wildlife biologists, geographers, legal and policy experts, and conservationists provide a comprehensive look at not only the ecological imperatives, but also the history, legal framework, and public attitudes affecting the future of wolves.

Wolves in the Southern Rockies

Awakening Spirits

When Bob and Kate Hunt decide to move to the Vendee in western France, they trigger a chain of events that will lead them to the gruesome discovery of a dead body. Bob becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation, and the strain of the investigation takes its toll on their marriage. Bleu Murder is the amusing and intriguing story of how the couple solve the mystery and rescue their relationship. Along the way, they encounter an Anglophobic gendarme, a gun-toting farmers daughter, and more French wine than any reasonable professor of English can handle. Bleu Murder is a thrilling, puzzling, and entertaining story that will delight Francophiles and lovers of murder mystery stories in equal measure.

Bleu Murder

Ben Conners

Climbing and Skiing Colorado’s Mountains is a select guidebook to 50 of the most classic, aesthetic, and iconic backcountry ski descents in the state of Colorado. The book provides accurate information to backcountry skiers and snowboarders, including overviews, maps, photos, and route descriptions for each of the selected 50 descents, while at the same time spurring the reader on to investigate peaks and areas outside of those featured in the book. Unlike other guidebooks, Climbing and Skiing Colorado's Mountains focus on peaks of all elevations located in all ranges throughout the state, including many 13ers and 14ers but also some smaller, more accessible peaks, representing a comprehensive mix of some of the best backcountry skiing Colorado has to offer.

Over 50 Select Ski Descents

Climbing and Skiing Colorado's Mountains

Adam Paulson

Kevin Wool

Definitive in every way, Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Book includes the history of the event, how to throw the perfect party, what to wear, and how to judge the all-important ugly Christmas sweater contest. But most important, Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Book is packed with more than 100 hilarious, full-color photos of outrageously ugly Christmas sweaters, including Scarf Face, Wreath Witherspoon, and Ryan Treecrest. It’s a must-have for the millions who plan to throw or attend an ugly Christmas sweater party, and a sidesplitting look at the funniest, craziest, most unbelievable holiday sweaters you can imagine—authorized by Team Ugly, the recognized experts on ugly Christmas sweater parties. Praise for Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Book: “Part party primer, part not-so-tongue-in-cheek appraisal of holiday sweater fashion, this title delivers on both aspects.” —Library Journal

The Definitive Guide to Getting Your Ugly On

Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Book

Kristy Miller

Digital Techniques for Professional Results This premiere guide from some of the hottest talent in the industry covers digital coloring from start to finish—taking your art from black-and-white to full, awesome color! Features step-by-step tutorials that lead you through the entire coloring process, from scanning, flatting and rendering to color holds, special effects and color separations. Comes with a CD-ROM containing all the art files you need for the lessons in the book, plus Adobe Photoshop tools and scripts to streamline key processes so you can focus on being creative. Packed with tips that will save you time and yield dynamic results. Focuses on Adobe Photoshop (with keyboard commands for both Macintosh and Windows), and most of the techniques can be used with just about any image editing software. Includes the detailed scoop on the business, marketing and financial aspects of becoming a professional colorist. This is the definitive book on coloring for amateurs and professionals alike—from comic book fans and Photoshop whizzes who want to color for the fun of it, to colorists looking to perfect their skills, to graphic arts professionals in search of something new to offer their clients.

Digital Techniques For Professional Results

Hi-Fi Color For Comics

Earth Against the Ropes is an adventurous, imaginative novel that reveals the tales of a murderer and a mentally retarded man that God has chosen to save the world. The story takes the reader to death and back with an unforgettable, spiritual heart attack of comedy, drama, and mystery, and then follows up with a transplant of morals and guidance. Armageddon is near, but God has decided Heas not yet ready to retire from teaching. Through the afterlife, dreams, and deja vu, He shows two unexpected heroes how to salvage His beloved classroom known as earth. They are known as PepA(c) and Donny, and are very different from one another. Although they donat have much in common, their essential destinies are the same and they were designed to work together without knowing it.

Earth Against the Ropes

General Surgical Lists and Reminders is a book that has become popular amongst medical students and surgical registrars revising for their exams in General Surgery. It is a compilation of lists as used in everyday practice around the surgical wards, and the relevance of these to common topics in oral exams will be apparent. By reading through the Lists any gaps in knowledge base can be redressed by turning to several useful textbooks that are cited.

General Surgical Lists and Reminders

Elias Raven

Sandra R. Neeley

Aleisha Maree

Gabriella Messina

M. R. Wallace

B. S. M. Stoneking

Roux Cantrell

Jennifer Lassalle Edwards

Sophie Lynn

Everyone loves a good bedtime story...Even better would be twenty-six diverse bedtime stories, in eighteen different genres, written by twenty very different, fantastic, Award-winning and Five-star authors. These stories truly bring something for everyone, from the terrifying to the romantic. Prepare to be intrigued and excited, tantalized and titillated. Be ready to laugh, cry, or be too frightened to turn off the lights. This collection can be read cover to cover, or you can skip around and see where fate may take you. Just a crack of the spine can land you in a quaint cottage in the snowy mountains, on a space ship at the outer rim of the solar system, in the stands rooting for your new favorite baseball team, or even jumping and dancing to music at an out of this world rock concert. The possibilities are endless.The only thing that these stories have in common is the fact that they are short, quick, and complete. This is what you've been missing as you snuggle into bed to wind down after a long, hard day.So dim the lights, curl up with your pillows, relax......and savor these Words to Dream By.Sophie Lynn Productions and AP Publishing has teamed up to bring this incredible collection of stories from authors M.R. Wallace. BSM Stoneking, Roux Cantrell, Jennifer Lassalle Edwards, Gabriella Messina, Aleisha Maree, Elias Raven, Brian Miller, Sandra R. Neeley, E.F. Rose, Leah Negron, Brittany Crowley, Sharon Johnson, Jessika Klide, Jade Royal, Karen Raines, Teresa Treadway Gabelman, & Theresa Hossong, newcomers Sophie Lynn & C.H. Bailey, and newly-minted author/musician Scottie Somerville.

An Adult Bedtime Stories Collection

Words to Dream By

"All managers want to hold their employees accountable for results, but few know how. Moving beyond the far-from-ideal annual performance review -- which only evaluates what has already occurred, and not what the manager wants to achieve -- Keeping Employees Accountable for Resultscontains checklists, how-tos, and other tools to manage performance on an ongoing basis. The book gives busy managers quick, step-by-step advice on: * Setting expectations * Monitoring progress * Giving feedback * Following through Light on theory and heavy on practical application, Keeping Employees Accountable for Results gives time-pressed managers the proven, practical information they need to help their people accomplish more."

Quick Tips for Busy Managers

Keeping Employees Accountable for Results

This revised and updated edition of Hi-Fi Color for Comics allows you to unleash your creativity with the latest Adobe Photoshop techniques and coloring secrets from the masters at Hi-Fi. Learn digital coloring from start to finish--taking your art from black-and-white to stunning full color!In the pages of Hi-Fi Color for Comics you will learn: * Importing Art: Scanning & importing art & combining multiple scans into one image * Color Flatting: Breaking down images into flat color * Light & Shadow: Defining light sources to create mood and focus * Color Selection: Choosing colors for clarity and visual storytelling * Color Rendering: Painting with light the Hi-Fi way * Advanced Brush Techniques: Master brushes & learn how to make your own custom brushes * Color Holds: Add depth and dimension by changing black line-art to color * Special Effects: Fire effects, flares, sparkles, glows, muzzle blasts, & more. * Color Separation: Create CMYK color files with trapping for professional commercial printing & publishingEach chapter features Step-by-step tutorials while full-color illustrations guide you through each concept, ensuring your success. * Features step-by-step tutorials that lead you through the entire coloring process, from scanning, flatting and rendering to color holds, special effects and color separations. * Comes with access to download all the art files you need for the lessons in the book, plus Adobe Photoshop tools and scripts to streamline key processes so you can focus on being creative. * Packed with tips that will save you time and yield dynamic results. * Focuses on Adobe Photoshop CS2 and newer including Photoshop Creative Cloud (with keyboard commands for both Macintosh and Windows).This is the definitive book on coloring for amateurs and professionals alike--from comic book fans and Photoshop whizzes who want to color for the fun of it, to colorists looking to perfect their skills, to graphic arts professionals in search of something new to offer their clients.

Hi-Fi Color for Comics

The Book in the Dresser DrawerBrian Lee MillerThe Midwesterner boy had a blessed upbringing hunting, fishing, working, and playing in rural and urban settings. As a presumed misfit he struggled with color blindness, speech disorders, and life's decisions. Portrayed is a teenager who had an encounter with Muhammad Ali, and as a young man lived homeless in his truck while purchasing his first house at eighteen years-old. The blue collar worker crashed a racecar, confronted three near-death situations, and eluded being paralyzed in a fluke accident. Later in life, he competed on a college football team and received an elementary school teaching degree. The wannabe adventurer encountered a WWII German soldier, dwelled among the descendants of the Apache Chief, Geronimo, and slept through a tornado.After ending a twenty-four year marriage, he suffered through depression and suicidal thoughts. The chronicle closes with happiness rediscovered through Jesus, forgiveness, fireflies, marathons, grandchildren, and daydreams of future adventures.

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