Best Selling Books by Robin Williams

A reference guide to the PageMaker desktop publishing program covers text spacing and wrapping, tabs, style sheets, templates, graphics, color, file importing, tables, printing, and special techniques

Presents tall tales about one of America''s favorite heroes, Pecos Bill.

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.

For those who want to tame Mac OS X Tiger, but who want to do so in the comfort of their own home, this Apple-certified guide makes it possible. Now readers can use the same curriculum that Apple features at its own stores and training centers, but at their own pace and in front of their own computer.

Demonstrates the operating system''s updated interface, covering Mac fundamentals; new features such as Time Machine, Spaces, and Spotlight; networking capabilities; system configuration and customization; and Internet capabilities, all in a series of lessons and real-world projects.

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.

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

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.

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.

Copiously illustrated with screen dumps, tables, and charts, this guide to the latest Macintosh edition of the page layout program discusses everything from basic commands to advanced features. Original. (Intermediate).

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.

The book that set a new standard for readability and user-friendliness is back in a revised and updated edition. The Little Mac Book is precisely the empathetic, entertaining, and highly informative guide new Macintosh users need. Even those completely new to computers will be making good use of the technology in minutes.

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.

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.

Learn how to get the most out of Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard with legendary teacher and a uthor Robin Williams. The Peachpit Learning Ser ies brings you the best-selling authors you know and love, on the topics that are near and dear to you, in a format that allows you to learn just what you need to know, and at your own pace. 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 Macintosh. 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 Leopard 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 the new features in Leopard, like Spaces, Quick Look, and Time Machine, and explore all the enhancements to favorites like Mail and iChat.

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.

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.

The latest update of Robin Williams''s bestselling guide will have you working miracles in no time with Snow Leopard, the fastest and most reliable version of the Mac OS X ever. 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 Macintosh. 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 Snow Leopard 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 Snow Leopard.

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.

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.

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.