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Graphic Design Learn It Do It

Graphic Design Learn It Do It

Graphic Design: Learn It Do It is an introduction to the fundamentals of graphic design and the Adobe Creative Cloud applications used to put these concepts into practice. This book is intended for production-oriented audiences those interested in the what why and how of graphic design. The what is effective graphic design a visual solution created using the design principles that stands out in a crowded marketplace. This discussion includes color theory typography and page layout. Focus on the why of design begins with the reasons why we communicate. Attention is paid to the purpose of the visual solution and to its audiences. The conversation highlights output options (print vs. onscreen) and their related file properties. The how of design addresses the stages of production and use of Adobe Photoshop CC Illustrator CC and InDesign CC to translate an idea into a visual solution. Following an overview of each application and its uses step-by-step exercises are provided to foster familiarity with each application’s workspace and its tools. These exercises provide opportunities to implement the design principles and to produce examples of work for a design portfolio. Key Features: Content based on over a decade’s worth of experience teaching graphic design Contemporary examples and online references Guided exercises for working in the Adobe Creative Cloud applications Photoshop CC Illustrator CC and InDesign CC Accompanying exercise files and supporting materials available for download from the book’s companion website Discussion questions and activities included at the end of chapters to expand the presented topics | Graphic Design Learn It Do It

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How Do Families Cope With Chronic Illness?

How Do Families Cope With Chronic Illness?

Because chronic disorder is becoming an ordinary feature of family life and development understanding its impact has become critical. This volume and the conference proceedings it reports represents a major effort to examine the family's response to chronic physical or psychopathological illness in one or more of its members. Recent data are revising our notions of chronic illness. Evidence is mounting that chronic psychiatric disorders reflect in part abnormalities of brain structure and function. In this sense they are in part medical disorders. On the other hand a number of traditionally labeled medical disorders produce a broad range of psychological symptoms and are exquisitely sensitive to psychosocial influences. Families undergo a complex process of adaptation during which their response to stress and their fundamental beliefs about learning and parenting change. These beliefs endure and are difficult to alter. By examining the processes in a wide range of chronic conditions this volume helps to identify the common underlying processes of adaptation. The first three chapters concern the families' responses to disorders that are distinctly medical; the next three focus on families' responses to grey zone disorders or anomalies that appear early in life minor physical anomalies and communication handicaps; and one chapter focuses exclusively on schizophrenia. The last chapter reflects an effort to develop a model based on the experience of researchers with both psychiatric and medical illness. | How Do Families Cope With Chronic Illness?

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The Childhood Obesity Epidemic Why Are Our Children Obese—And What Can We Do About It?

The Childhood Obesity Epidemic Why Are Our Children Obese—And What Can We Do About It?

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Child obesity is a serious condition that affects children around the world in growing numbers. With obesity comes an increased risk of other chronic diseases as well making it even more important to understand and treat this condition from a variety of angles. This current volume seeks to understand the phenomenon of child obesity and presents a range of viewpoints on its prevalence causes and treatments. The different sections contained within explore the following topics: • The worldwide prevalence of childhood obesity and its growing effect on children• The causes of childhood obesity and the complex interactions of genetic environmental social and medical factors that contribute to its development• Proposed treatments some intervention-based and others that aim to change how food is marketed and sold to youthThis reference volume offers a comprehensive and thorough guide to a field that is rapidly expanding and points to new directions in research and public policy. Edited by a doctor with extensive experience as a researcher writer and medical practitioner The Childhood Obesity Epidemic is an authoritative and easy-to-use reference that provides resources for researchers in the field students and anyone who wishes to gain an overview to this important field of study. | The Childhood Obesity Epidemic Why Are Our Children Obese—And What Can We Do About It?

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Do I See Us Like You See Us? Consensus Agreement and the Context of Leadership Relationships A Special Issue of the European Journal of Wo

How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action

How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action

Theories of explanation in the social sciences vacillate between holism and individualism. Wettersten contends that this has been a consequence of theories of rationality which assume that rationality requires coherent theories to be shown to be true. Rejecting these traditional assumptions about rationality Wettersten claims that the traditional explanations of rationality have placed unrealistic demands on both individuals and institutions. Analysing the theories of Weber and Popper Wettersten shows that Popper made considerable progress in the theory of rationality but ultimately stayed too close to the ideas of Hayek he explains how this dilemma leads to difficulties in economics anthropology sociology ethics and political theory and constructs an alternative theory that rationality is critical problem-solving in institutional contexts. Wettersten contends that 'the critical consideration of theories followed by their improvement' dispenses with the need for justification and sees rationality as a social phenomena with an institutional basis. The main social advantages this view offers is that the degree of rationality individuals achieve may be increased by institutional reform without moralizing and that we can explain how institutions steer events insofar as we understand how they determine the problems which individuals seek to solve. It is argued that the central moral advantage of this view is that rationality is shown to be Spinozistic in the sense that it is natural and furthers morality and peace of mind. | How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action

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Mixing with Impact Learning to Make Musical Choices

A First Course in Logic

The Routledge Companion to the Practice of Christian Theology

Naturally Occurring Benzodiazepines Endozepines and their Receptors Implications for Benzodiazepine Therapy and Withdrawal

Naturally Occurring Benzodiazepines Endozepines and their Receptors Implications for Benzodiazepine Therapy and Withdrawal

Understanding and addressing the current opioid crisis requires knowledge of endogenous opioids (endorphins and enkephalins) but there is now evidence for a benzodiazepine crisis. Are there endogenous benzodiazepine-like substances—and what do they do? How do they affect antianxiety drugs and their adverse effects? Do they explain enigmatic prolonged benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome? This book raises important questions about the clinical consequences of ignoring the existence of or understanding the potential influence of endogenous benzodiazepines on the therapeutic effect of benzodiazepines their adverse effects and the problems of withdrawal from them and other benzodiazepine receptor agonists. FEATURES Discusses endogenous benzodiazepine-like substances—what do they do and do they affect antianxiety drugs and their adverse effects? Presents information on enigmatic prolonged benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome Describes the compounds acting at the BDZ binding sites both exogenous (classical BDZ drugs and BDZ from food and plants) and endogenous (endozepines) Assesses the putative interactions in physiology pathology and pharmacology of the compounds acting at the BDZ binding sites Dr. Raffa is Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and Professor Emeritus at Temple University School of Pharmacy. He has co-authored or edited several books on pharmacology and thermodynamics is a co-editor of two journals is a past president of the Mid-Atlantic Pharmacology Society and is the recipient of research and teaching awards. Dr. Amantea is Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacy Health and Nutritional Sciences of the University of Calabria (Italy) where she is the leader of the Stroke Research Unit at the Section of Preclinical and Translational Pharmacology operating in the frame of the Italian Stroke Organization (ISO) Basic Science. She is a member of the Editorial Board and the Guest Editor of the 2016 Neuroscience section of Current Opinion in Pharmacology (Elsevier) and the founder and the editor of the CRC Press Frontiers in Neurotherapeutics series. | Naturally Occurring Benzodiazepines Endozepines and their Receptors Implications for Benzodiazepine Therapy and Withdrawal

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The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook From Theory to Practice

The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook From Theory to Practice

As an increasing number of individuals go to work in the nonprofit sector nonprofit managers need support on how best to build their human resource management capacity. They need to know what systems to examine what questions to ask and how to ensure they are managing people in a legal manner and as effectively as possible given their particular resource constraints. Important questions include: Do we have a clear philosophy one that aligns with our nonprofit mission and values and allows us to treat our employees as the professionals they are? How do we select develop and retain the best people who will produce high value high performance work and how do we do so with limited resources? How do we effectively manage our mix of volunteers and paid staff? What do we need to consider to ensure diverse people work together in a harmonious fashion? With all-new chapters written by the top scholars in the field of nonprofit HRM these are but a few of the many questions that are addressed in this timely volume. These scholars delve into their particular areas of expertise offering a comprehensive look at theories and trends; legal and ethical issues; how to build HRM from recruitment management labor relations to training and appraisal; as well as topics in diversity technology and paid versus volunteer workforce management. This essential handbook offers all core topic coverage as well as countless insider insights additional resource lists and tool sets for practical application. With chapters grounded in existing research but also connecting research to practice for those in the field The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook will be required reading for a generation of scholars students and practitioners of nonprofit human resource management. | The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook From Theory to Practice

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Mathematics and Statistics for the Quantitative Sciences

Mathematics and Statistics for the Quantitative Sciences

Mathematics and Statistics for the Quantitative Sciences was born from a radical reimagining of first-year mathematics. While calculus is often seen as the foundational mathematics required for any scientist this often leads to mathematics being seen as some ultimately useless hoop that needs to be jumped through in order to do what someone really wants to do. This sentiment is everywhere at every level of education. It even shows up in how people stereotype mathematics courses. What this book aims to do therefore is serve as a foundational text in everyday mathematics in a way that is both engaging and practically useful. The book seeks to teach the mathematics needed to start to answer fundamental questions like ‘why’ or ‘how’. Why do we only need to take census data once every few years? How do we determine the optimal dosing of a new pharmaceutical without killing people in the process? Or more generally what does it even mean to be average? Or what does it mean for two things to actually be different? These questions require a different way of thinking — a quantitative intuition that goes beyond rote memorization and equips readers to meet the quantitative challenges inherent in any applied discipline. Features Draws from a diverse range of fields to make the applications as inclusive as possible Would be ideal as a foundational mathematical and statistical textbook for any applied quantitative science course

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The Craft of Political Research

The Craft of Political Research

The Craft of Political Research is a non-technical introduction to research design and analysis in political science emphasizing the choices we make when we design a research project and analyze its results. The book’s approach centers on asking an interesting research question and then designing inquiry into the question so as to eliminate as many alternative explanations as possible. How do we develop theory and what constitutes a good research question? How do we develop measures and gather evidence to answer a question? How do we analyze our findings? Students will be introduced to such topics as multidimensional concepts levels of measurement validity reliability random and non-random measurement error sampling case selection causality experimental and quasi-experimental design statistical inference and regression and correlation analysis. Throughout the emphasis is on understanding the back story of analysis — why do we measure in a particular way why do we choose one design as against another why do we conduct our analysis as we do. Emphasizing the internal logic of research methods and the collaborative nature of the research process the greatest strength of the book is its clarity and the large range of political science examples it provides. It works at a conceptual level seeking an understanding of the principles that underlie techniques and the reasons that we choose them. New to this edition: Updated and international examples from the US UK Latin America and China amongst others and international organizations such as the World Bank and the United Nations. New section Reading Political Science reviews sources of published political research with some broad principles for how to find good sources and advises students on what to look for in reading a research report New section Gathering Accurate Information reviews published sources of data such as UNESCO and offers advice about how to use such sources. It advises students on how to gather data in personal interviews and it acquaints them with publicly available data sets for secondary analysis. Online material featuring revised learning objectives for each chapter and a new section offering projects and questions for each chapter.

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Introduction to Facility Management

Mapping Foreign Correspondence in Europe

The Risk of Regional Governance Cultural Theory and Interlocal Cooperation

Understanding and Teaching the Indirect Object in Spanish

Handbook of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Formulations Volume Three Liquid Products

Communication Public Opinion and Globalization in Urban China

Communication Public Opinion and Globalization in Urban China

As China is increasingly integrated into the processes of economic political social and cultural globalization important questions arise about how Chinese people perceive and evaluate such processes. At the same time international communication scholars have long been interested in how local national and transnational media communications shape people’s attitudes and values. Combining these two concerns this book examines a range of questions pertinent to public opinion toward globalization in urban China: To what degree are the urban residents in China exposed to the influences from the outside world? How many transnational social connections does a typical urban Chinese citizen have? How often do they consume foreign media? To what extent are they aware of the notion of globalization and what do they think about it? Do they believe that globalization is beneficial to China to the city where they live and to them personally? How do people’s social connections and communication activities shape their views toward globalization and the outside world? This book tackles these and other questions systematically by analyzing a four-city comparative survey of urban Chinese residents demonstrating the complexities of public opinion in China. Media consumption does relate though by no means straightforwardly to people’s attitudes and beliefs and this book provides much needed information and insights about Chinese public opinion on globalization. It also develops fresh conceptual and empirical insights on issues such as public opinion toward US-China relations Chinese people’s nationalistic sentiments and approaches to analyze attitudes toward globalization. | Communication Public Opinion and Globalization in Urban China

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Conspiracy Theories The Philosophical Debate

Esports and the Media Challenges and Expectations in a Multi-Screen Society

Safety Health and Environmental Auditing A Practical Guide Second Edition

Risk-Based Thinking Managing the Uncertainty of Human Error in Operations

Handbook of Industrial Engineering Equations Formulas and Calculations

Handbook of Industrial Engineering Equations Formulas and Calculations

The first handbook to focus exclusively on industrial engineering calculations with a correlation to applications Handbook of Industrial Engineering Equations Formulas and Calculations contains a general collection of the mathematical equations often used in the practice of industrial engineering. Many books cover individual areas of engineering and some cover all areas but none covers industrial engineering specifically nor do they highlight topics such as project management materials and systems engineering from an integrated viewpoint. Written by acclaimed researchers and authors this concise reference marries theory and practice making it a versatile and flexible resource. Succinctly formatted for functionality the book presents:Basic Math CalculationsEngineering Math CalculationsProduction Engineering CalculationsEngineering Economics CalculationsErgonomics CalculationsFacility Layout CalculationsProduction Sequencing and Scheduling CalculationsSystems Engineering CalculationsData Engineering CalculationsProject Engineering CalculationsSimulation and Statistical EquationsIt has been said that engineers make things while industrial engineers make things better. To make something better requires an understanding of its basic characteristics and the underlying equations and calculations that facilitate that understanding. To do this however you don’t have to be computational experts; you just have to know where to get the computational resources that are needed. This book elucidates the underlying equations that facilitate the understanding required to improve design processes continuously improving the answer to the age-old question: What is the best way to do a job?

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