Brian Miller
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F+W Media
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2011
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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
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If you're a woodworker looking to take your skills and your next project to a higher level of craftsmanship, you might want to consider coloring your wood with chemicals and dyes instead of stains. Unlike stains that can trap light and obscure grain patterns, chemicals and dyes, when handled properly, are one of the best methods for enhancing a wood's color or accentuating the grain pattern. A classic technique that's been practiced for centuries,...
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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 Results contains 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...
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Most managers, supervisors, and team leaders realize the importance of team-building, but just can't seem to find the time in their busy schedules. More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers provides the solution! The book contains 50 all-new exercises that can be conducted in 15 minutes or less, and which require no special facilities, big expense, or previous training experience. Each activity is presented in just a few short pages with...
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Filled with clear, concise guidance and quick, easily implemented techniques, Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers provides supervisors, managers, and team leaders the fun, proven activities they need to get idea-packed brainstorming sessions started, and keep them going. Author Brian Miller helps you explore the most effective brainstorming method for your team and generate the best results using straightforward, focused activities that...
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A year after the Stonewall riots in New York, the Gay Liberation Front of Washington, D.C., held its first meeting on June 30, 1970.
GLF-DC's activities included protests, publications and communal living experiments.
Although the group faded quickly, in part because of disorganization and divisiveness about goals, activities and actions, its attendees established openly gay community organizations, including some long-lasting institutions in Washington-Capital...
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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...
8) Three new people: Make the most of your daily interactions and stop missing amazing opportunities
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All The Things Publishing
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2018
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English
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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...
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The Civil War acted like a battering ram on human beings, shattering both flesh and psyche of thousands of soldiers. Despite popular perception that doctors recklessly erred on the side of amputation, surgeons labored mightily to adjust to the medical quagmire of war. And as Brian Craig Miller shows in Empty Sleeves, the hospital emerged as the first arena where southerners faced the stark reality of what amputation would mean for men and women and...
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Brian Miller's Kayaking with Lambs is about the idyllic farm life of your imagination--fresh fruits and vegetables, livestock large and small, endless gatherings of kith and kin around a table of homegrown food and handmade drink. It is also about pain, blood, deaths, mud, storms, droughts, and failures.
The author, who owns a small East Tennessee farm, lives an "antiquated life," that is, a life often out of sync with modernity and closely in sync...
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Private Silas W. Haven, a native New Englander transplanted to Iowa, enlisted in 1862 to fight in a war that he believed was God's punishment for the sin of slavery. Only through the war's purifying bloodshed, thought Haven, could the nation be redeemed and the Union saved. Marching off to war with the 27th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Haven left behind his wife Jane and their three young children. Over the course of four years, he wrote her nearly two...
12) Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes
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Eliminate the need for time or resources on formal training and get your teams up and running themselves--with only minutes of prep.
Between workplace personnel being more culturally diverse than ever before, a generation of employees being raised attached to technology while avoiding human interaction, and an increasing culture of competitiveness that is constantly raising tensions between cubicles, it has become absolutely essential for managers...
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WILL THERE BE A RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH?
IS THERE ENOUGH EVIDENCE IN THE BIBLE TO KNOW BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT WHICH PERSPECTIVE ON THE TIMING OF THE RAPTURE IS THE RIGHT ONE?
The answer to both questions is a resounding yes! Contained within the Word of God is a storehouse of buried treasure that has gone virtually undiscovered concerning the last days of the church. These treasures about the Rapture and the end times include:
• cryptic typologies...
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"Author Brian D. Miller is a sought-after expert in developing product and digital branding strategies for emerging startups and Fortune 500 organizations. In Principles of Web Design, he will teach the reader the tricks of the trade and everything one should know about web design through easy, step-by-step guides and with full-color illustrations."--Amazon.com
15) Bonecrack
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A New York Times–bestselling mystery author is "at the top of his form" in this suspense novel about a horse racing family threatened with murder.
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
In the middle of the night, two masked men break into Neil Griffon's home and abduct him. He quickly discovers that unless he agrees to their unreasonable demands, they will...
16) Apollo 18
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
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[2011]
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English
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Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where two American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.