New Releases by Robin Williams

Robin Williams, author of GIRL. returns to tell their story of the things that almost broke them in this raw and vulnerable collection. The Edge of Hope brings you through a journey of hurt, pain, betrayal, grief, and anger to the guaranteed destination of healing, self-love, forgiveness, confidence, and reflection all through a mix of modern and experimental poetry, prose, and affirmations.

Queer poet Robin Williams takes a step in a new direction with a pocket book to help guide you on your journey of self-love through positive poetry, affirmations, and poetic thoughts. wild honey brings you the healing you deserve, shows you the best type of love is held within yourself, and aims to remind you, always, that you are enough. The perfect collection for fans of Rupi Kaur, Shelby Leigh, and Amanda Lovelace.

Golden hour hues and dawn-drenched blues filter between the lines of poems that chronicle the various sunrises and sunsets that have weathered Robin Williams'' experiences. In the Mid-Hours is a stunning recount of occurrences that are both unique to its author and something we all experience-the moments endured in the hours and minutes and seconds that encompass a life. This is a glimpse down the ever-winding roads that can never be fully predicted, filled with hurt, healing, and everything in between.

Forest Floor takes you on a walk through a mind that has been shadowed by depression, fear, self-harm, and other mental illnesses in the form of poetry.

This commonplace book is to record lines from your Shakespeare readings that you find personally insightful, delightful, wise, or witty, thoughts to ponder on, to memorize, to share. www.iReadShakespeare.org

Industry analysts are in the business of shaping the technological and economic future. They attempt to ''predict'' what will become the next big thing; to spot new emerging trends and paradigms; to decide which hi-tech products will win out over others and to figure out which technology vendors can deliver on their promises. In just a few short years, they have developed a surprising degree of authority over technological innovation. Yet we know very little, if anything about them. This book seeks to explain how this was achieved and on what this authority rests. Who are the experts who increasingly command the attention of vendor and user communities? What is the nature of this new form of technical and business knowledge? How Industry Analysts Shape the Digital Future offers the first book length study into this rarely scrutinized form of business expertise. Contributions to this volume show how, from a small group of mainly North American players which arose in the 1970s, Gartner Inc. has emerged as clear leader of a $6 billion industry that involves several hundred firms worldwide. Through interviews and observation of Gartner Inc. and other industry analyst firms, the book explores how these firms create their predictions, market classifications and rankings, as well as with how these outputs are assessed and consumed. The book asks why many social scientists have ignored the proliferation of these new forms of management and technical expertise. In some cases scholars have ''deflated'' this kind of business acumen, portraying it as arbitrary knowledge whose methods and content do not deserve enquiry. The valuable exception here has been the path-breaking work on the ''performativity'' of economic, financial or accounting knowledge. Drawing upon recent performativity arguments, the book argues the case for a Sociology of Business Knowledge.

Create your life vision by strengthening your thoughts, learn to see life through brighter eyes with a new perception and a positive mindset. Clear the fog from your mind, make determined decisions, and create an action plan to a lifestyle you love. Make peace with your past and allow yourself to color your future. Find the inspiration you need to accomplish your goals and the motivation to reach your dreams.Everything is possible when you Press Life''s ReSet Button and learn to begin again.

There’s a growing trend in digital marketing teams to measure and improve. Optimisation is the key to growing online business across paid and organic traffic - but this only works if new websites are designed to take the best of the current user behaviour, and build upon it. For that, web designers need to know what data they should be looking for at the start of each client project. They should ask their clients to furnish them with accurate data to help them deliver the best web design for that client’s audience. This eBook will show you how!

This guide provides a simple, step-by-step process to better design. Techniques promise immediate results that forever change a reader''s design eye. It contains dozens of examples.

In this three-hour course, you?ll learn how to effectively use contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity (C.R.A.P.) to create professional-looking brochures, ads, business cards, and more. Robin explains these core design concepts in the context of real-world design projects that anyone from non-designers to budding professionals can use to gain a solid understanding of what makes great graphic design.

Clean technology does not just aim to dilute or detoxify industrial waste. It aims to eliminate it by re-engineering the entire production cycle. As industry is constrained by regulations on the one hand and consumer pressure on the other, energy-efficient, resource-efficient and pollution-free production becomes imperative. It will be the next stage of industrial development. Using extensive empirical analysis of a range of different industrial sectors, this book shows how cleaner technology can be implemented, above all by the companies themselves. It looks at regulatory initiatives and focuses on how firms themselves can introduce the new technologies, systems and polices required.

For nearly 20 years, designers and non-designers alike have been introduced to the fundamental principles of great design by author Robin Williams. Through her straightforward and light-hearted style, Robin has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to make their designs look professional using four surprisingly simple principles. Now in its fourth edition, The Non-Designer''s Design Book offers even more practical design advice, including a new chapter on the fundamentals of typography, more quizzes and exercises to train your Designer Eye, updated projects for you to try, and new visual and typographic examples to inspire your creativity. Whether you''re a Mac user or a Windows user, a type novice, or an aspiring graphic designer, you will find the instruction and inspiration to approach any design project with confidence. THIS ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DESIGN WILL TEACH YOU The four principles of design that underlie every design project How to design with color How to design with type How to combine typefaces for maximum effect How to see and think like a professional designer Specific tips on designing newsletters, brochures, flyers, and other projects.

We consider naming and categorization practices within the information technology (IT) arena. In particular, with how certain terminologies are able to colonise wide areas of activity and endure for relatively long periods of time, despite the diversity and incremental evolution of individual technical instances. This raises the question as to who decides whether or not a particular vendor technology is part of a product category. Who decides the boundaries around a technology nomenclature? Existing Information Systems scholarship has tended to present terminologies as shaped by wide communities of players but this does not capture how particular kinds of knowledge institutions have emerged in recent year to police the confines of technological fields. The paper follows the work of one such group of experts - the industry analyst firm Gartner Inc. - and discusses their current and past role in the evolution of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. We show how they make regular (but not always successful) ''naming interventions'' within the IT domain and how they attempt to regulate the boundaries that they and others have created through episodes of ''categorisation work.'' These experts not only attempt to exercise control over a terminology but also the interpretation of that name. Our arguments are informed by ethnographic observations carried out on the eve of the contemporary CRM boom and interviews conducted more recently as part of an ongoing investigation into industry analysts. The paper bridges a number of disparate bodies of literature from Information Systems, Economic Sociology, the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, and Science and Technology Studies.

Dorian Price overcame all the things stacked against her, poverty,neglect and the constant crime that plagues the inner city, to graduate high school with honors. While attending Duquesne University she meets the man of her dreams, Jaymir Williams. No one said love was easy, so after one drama filled moment to the next, Jaymir decides to end the relationship. It didn''t take long for Jaymir to realize his mistake, but he''s too late, Dorian has moved on. Jaymir is determined to have his way at all cost. Dorian is determined not to be had. Love always comes at a price.

In the bestselling tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Lecture, a dying father''s deeply moving legacy for his sons is winning hearts and minds around the world. At just 38 and at the height of his military career, highly decorated US soldier Lieutenant Colonel Mark Weber was diagnosed with deadly Stage IV gastro-intestinal cancer. Given just four months to live, he began to write a letter to his three young sons so that as they grew up without him they would have the lessons that living - and dying - had taught him about courage and fear, pride and humility, and so much more. Over time that letter became the extraordinary Tell My Sons. Wise, courageous and devoid of sugar-coating, it is a gift that''s already reaching far beyond his sons. As Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays With Morrie, says: Mark Weber''s story has touched me in such a profound ''way. It''s real, brave, gritty, honest, inspiring and a gift to us all. Every page exudes courage, honesty, and an indomitable spirit.''

Annotation Many designers and photographers own the entire suite of Adobe creative products, but they manage to learn only one or two of the applications really well. This volume includes many individual exercises designed specifically to teach the tools and features in Illustrator that designers (as opposed to illustrators) need to use.

Many designers and photographers own the entire suite of Adobe’s creative products, but they manage to learn only one or two of the applications really well. If Adobe InDesign CS5.5 is the one app in the suite that makes you feel like you’re entering a foreign country where you don’t speak the language, Robin Williams provides the perfect travel guide and translator in this new edition to the best-selling Non-Designer’s series. This fun, straight-forward, four-color book includes many individual exercises designed specifically to teach InDesign CS5.5 to beginners in such a way that you can jump in at any point to learn a specific tool or technique. Along the way, Robin offers design tips for making your work communicate appropriately and beautifully. Whether you need to create your own marketing materials for a small business or organization, or you want your student or business papers to be perceived as more professional, or you want to become more proficient with the design tools you already use, this book is the fastest and most efficient path to mastering basic tasks InDesign. In this non-designer’s guide to InDesign CS5.5, you’ll learn: How to create basic design projects, such as flyers, business cards, letterhead, ads, brochures, CD covers, and much more How to add images to your pages and crop, rotate, resize, and add effects to those images How to use InDesign’s typographic tools to make your work look professional How to use style sheets so every job is easier to create and work with How to use tabs and indents with confidence and predictability How to create nice-looking tables to effectively organize data And, of course, the basics of working in InDesign with layers, panels, tools, etc.

Adopting a back-to-the-basics approach, this bestselling little Mac classic has been revised and overhauled to introduce users to OS X Lion. In the gentle, friendly, funny style that generations of computer users have come to know and love, author Robin Williams shows readers how to dive in and start working with the Mac and OS X Lion. This full-color little book walks readers through all of the key new features including Multi-Touch Gestures, Launchpad, Mission Control, the App Store, Mail, and much more. Using straightforward, jargon-free explanations delivered in logical, easy-to-follow sections, Robin is a new user''s personal guide, coaching and encouraging readers as they learn their way around the magic of the Mac and OS X Lion.

The latest update of Robin Williams bestselling guide will have you working miracles in no time with Mac OS X Lion. With this book, you can learn in your own way, whether it''s working through the lessons from start to finish, jumping straight to step-by-step exercises about new features, or looking up just what you need to know at that moment. There are hundreds of exciting tools and hidden gems in your Mac. And with the gentle, yet expert, hand of Robin Williams guiding you along the way, you will learn to take full advantage of all that OS X Lion has to offer. If you are new to Mac OS X, you''ll learn to use your Mac with help from a world-renowned teacher. From there, you can move on to customize it to suit the way you work. And if you''ve been using Mac OS X already, you''ll learn to use all of the new features in OS X Lion including Multi-Touch Gestures, Launchpad, Mission Control, the App Store, Mail, and much more.

Provides information on creating an effective digital presentation, covering such topics as animation, plot, contrast, software, and handouts.

This study addresses the knowledge, skills, and attributes of success school principals from the perspective of 310 practicing principals from a large metropolitan area in the Gulf Coast region of Southeast Texas. Although the duties and responsibilities of the principal have escalated and intensified in complexity over the years, the expectations of the principal are twofold, to provide instructional leadership, in addition to, managing the day to day functions of the school. Time, social factors, and economic trends have served as catalysts for determining what knowledge, skills, and attributes are necessary for successful school leadership. With the current accountability system created by the No Child Left Behind legislation (2002), principals must be astute in determining educational goals, fiscal constraints, personnel issues, curriculum development, and functional use of time and space. They are required to provide leadership in revamping the school and district. Barth (1990) reported there is a shortage of knowledge concerning the skills that are essential to be a successful school leader; especially since there have been changes in the expectations of the role of principal. This paper empirically explores the results of over 300 surveyed principals'' perceptions of the knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for successful principals in the 21st century. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) will be used for all data analyses. Descriptive statistics will be reported for all variables. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) will be used to determine if there are statistically significant differences on the survey items by principal and school demographics. The findings for the current study will be useful for future and practicing administrators, in addition to, institutions who provide principal''s certification.

We address the seemingly implausible project of moving the technical support of complex organisational technologies online. We say ''implausible'' because from the point of view of micro-sociological analysis, and the influential work of Julian Orr, there appears a consensus that the diagnosis and resolution of technical failures is an intrinsically local affair: technical problems are theorised as context specific, requiring specialists to have knowledge of and close interactions with local settings. However, more recently, there has been a push amongst technology producers for the development of online forms of support so that failures and problem-settings can be handled remotely. Today, and particularly in the area of organisational software, many failures are repaired at a distance. How is this possible given the consensus amongst sociologists? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a major software producer we show how technical support has been recast and inserted in a new geographical and temporal regime. This has implications for how sociologists of technology conceptualise the nature of technical failure as well as the situation in which repair occurs. We shift understandings of technical problems from a focus on rootedness to ''disentanglement'' and ''exporting'' (how problems are lifted out of local contexts and passed around globally distributed offices in search of requisite specialist expertise). From the point of view of the producer, this is seemingly an effective means to resolve failures, but it is also one with negative consequences. Thus, we describe how the support process is further modified and regulated in an attempt to rid it of unwanted features. Finally, we show how globalised online support reconfigures relationships between various actors. Our conclusions are that whilst the circumstances underpinning localist views of technical support are not abolished by virtualisation they are substantially reshaped by it. We suggest that different analytical approaches are needed that address tensions between local practices and technological restructuring, and their contradictory outcomes.

This paper considers the constant propagation of new terminologies within the information technology domain. Whilst scholars have noted and developed concepts to explain this proliferation, we look in the opposite direction to consider their corollary, noting how very few designations actually manage to sustain themselves as technological fields. In the paper we consider the development of the technological field known as Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Key in the development and shaping of this and other technologies are the ''new knowledge institutions of information technology'' and in particular the specialist forms of consultants known as ''industry analysts''. Experts like these continuously attempt to draw and police the boundaries surrounding emerging fields: they do this through numerous ''naming interventions'' and ''categorization work''; which we conceptualize as their ''knowledge frames''. This paper enquires into the nature and form of these frames and asks: What''s at stake in these experts'' framing of new information technologies? In order to unpack this question we draw widely on ideas from Information Systems Research, Economic Sociology, the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, and Science and Technology Studies. The paper is based on a longitudinal study of the CRM field and includes: ethnographic fieldwork carried out on the eve of the contemporary CRM boom; and interviews conducted as part of an ongoing investigation into industry analysts.

Over the course of the last several years, the DIY market has exploded spawning magazines, books, movies and fueling the growth of the online, handmade marketplace. In Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Designs, best-selling author Robin Williams and Carmen Sheldon take designers away from their computers and show them, step-by-step, how to use traditional artist''s tools to create handmade elements for their digital artwork. The authors provide a wealth of new ideas to jump-start creativity and get graphic designers thinking in new ways. Each how-to is illustrated with tons of photos to show how to use paints, inks, textures, modeling pastes, and more to create handmade materials that can then be scanned in and used to create one-of-a-kind print projects or web sites. Examples of finished projects and Web sites are featured throughout the book to provide both instruction and inspiration for designers to use in their own projects.

In this book–now in full color for the first time–Robin returns to one of her favorite things: teaching new computer users how to use and enjoy the Macintosh! Sit down at your Mac and let Robin introduce you to its basic features. Follow Robin’s step-by-step directions, and you’ll soon feel comfortable, confident, and able to do just about anything you want to do on your Mac. From using the mouse to surfing the web, from menu commands to keyboard shortcuts, you’ll acquire exciting new computer skills–and you’ll have fun in the process.

This is the first book that addresses the genesis and career of the modern day enterprise system in a comprehensive and robust manner. It does so through setting out a new approach for the study of packaged solutions and presents novel empirical studies based on in-depth ethnographic and longitudinal research conducted within supplier organisations