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.

――――長銷20年超經典設計書，Amazon「藝術設計類」風雲暢銷榜―――― 建構設計邏輯 × 培養設計思維 × 學習設計觀察 × 精進設計技巧 將概念變成設計，將構圖變成訊息 掌握4大法則，人人都可鍛鍊自己的設計基本功！ ★平面設計師 廖韡 精選設計範例，演繹4大法則設計美學★ 「好設計」練功寶典――「The Non-Designer''s Book」總印量逾80萬冊！ 嶄新的設計圖解 × 全面的設計思考 × 好用的設計實作 4大法則讓你成為人人稱羨的設計高手！ 平面設計是一種溝通工具，想讓報告、履歷、傳單、商品看起來更具吸引力、更有效傳達訊息，其實只需要一點點技巧。 二十年來，平面設計界暢銷作家羅蘋透過淺白、輕鬆的文字，歸納整理出超簡單的設計原則，提供實用的設計建議，讓作品呈現專業的樣貌。 羅蘋積數十年功力的經典設計力作，收錄大量視覺圖例與文字編排範例，激發創意，讓原本不知哪裡不對勁的版面改頭換面。此外，書中完整討論字體設計和應用的法則，輔以許多小測驗和練習，精煉你的設計眼光。 本書是寫給所有需要編排版面的人，沒有任何相關背景、從未接受正式訓練也能簡單上手，在你陷入設計泥沼時拉你一把！ 適用於任何設計案的4大基本原則、獨家傳授的平面設計祕技、新穎的字型和豐富圖片實例，讓你的設計從此大不同！ ▌這本平面設計經典入門書可以學到哪些技巧？ ◎如何運用4大法則做出優質的設計？ ◎如何為你的設計選對字型？ ◎如何為你的設計配色最吸睛？ ◎如何用標點符號和配圖為你的設計加分？ ◎如何設定字級大小、行距寬窄最專業？ ▌本書的設計解說可以幫你做什麼？ ◎學習簡潔編排有效溝通，展現視覺的力量 ◎掌握色彩的原理和應用，提升美感 ◎字體搭配更多元，一次弄懂字型的基本知識和運用方法 ◎了解設計過程中遇到的問題，讓設計變得更有趣 ◎打破框架自由發想，練就設計之眼 ▌本書有哪些特色？ ◎簡單易懂的設計概念，清楚對照的實例說明 ◎設計案例比較解析，避免容易犯的錯誤 ◎解讀設計師的構圖和版面編排訣竅，培養好設計鑑賞力 ◎內附隨堂小測驗，輕鬆檢視學習成果 ◎收錄「中文字體的設計原則」，更好讀、隨時用 ▌本書提供哪些設計需求的解答？ ◎想學平面設計卻不知如何入門？ ◎想跟設計師合作卻不知如何溝通？ ◎渴望設計出人人稱羨的專業企畫書？ ◎希望做出讓面試者印象深刻的履歷？ ◎希望自己的作品看起來不會顯得業餘？

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.

デザイナーでない人のための、デザインの定番基本書。待望の第４版！ デザインの「４つの基本原則」。これを知るだけで、あなたのデザインはずっとぐっと、良くなります。プロではなくても、読みやすいデザイン、伝わるプレゼン資料、わかりやすいレイアウトを作りたい。そんなあなたのための、デザインの基本書です。 ●本書の対象読者 仕事で、学習で、「デザイン」や「レイアウト」をしなければならない場面は、多々あります。本書は、プロではないし、デザインの学習に割ける時間はあまりないものの、自分の作るページや制作物を見栄え良くする方法を知りたい、という人のための本です。 ●本書の特徴 1.デザインの「4つの基本原則」がわかる 近接、整列、反復、コントラスト……デザインの4つの基本原則として知られるこれらを最初に提示したのは本書です。良い例、悪い例を挙げて、具体的に原則を解説していきます。 2.作例を多数解説 基本原則を適用して、名刺、チラシ、パンフレット、広告などをデザインする際のテクニックを解説しています。考え方だけでなく、どのように原則を使っていけば良いかが、よくわかるでしょう。 3.活字を用いたデザインを解説 文字および活字は、デザインにおいて大きな役割を担っています。コミュニケーションを強化するための、タイポグラフィの基本からアレンジまで、解説します。 4.日本語版での追加項目 日本語版での追加項目として、日本語を使ったデザインでの「4つの基本原則」の適用方法を、名刺、フライヤー、ウェブなどの作例を用いて解説しています。 『この本がデザイン学校の4年間の代わりになる、と言うつもりはありません。また、この小さな本を読めば、自動的に優れたデザイナーになれる、と言うつもりもありません。しかし、あなたがページを見る目は確実に変わるでしょう。この本の基本原則に従えば、あなたの作品が、もっとプロらしく、組織化され、一体化され、おもしろくなることを保証します。』（著者「まえがき」より） 第1版発売から18年ずっと売れ続けているロングセラー、待望の【第4版】の登場です。

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.

『ノンデザイナーズ・デザインブック』の著者が教える資料作成の極意！ 本書は、良いプレゼンテーションのために役立つ原則を知ることができる本です。そもそも良いプレゼンテーションとはどのようにあるべきかから始まり、まずはプレゼンテーションのコンテンツを最適化するための4つの原則について紹介します。続いて、スライドのデザインを良くするための4つの原則も紹介します。最後に、ここまで紹介してきた原則には含まれない、プレゼンテーションをさらに良くするヒントが集められています。 本書で説明されている内容はまさに「原則」で、実行に移しやすい具体的なアドバイスでありながら、汎用的でさまざまなプレゼンテーションに使えるものです。社内における報告から、規模の大きな講演を行う方まで、広い範囲のプレゼンテーションに適用できる内容です。最近では、プレゼンテーションに対する期待値が全般的に上がっています。対外的に多くの聴衆に対して行うプレゼンテーションはもちろんのこと、社内における小規模なプレゼンテーションであっても、本書をお読みいただくことで、飛躍的に質を向上させ、内容の整理された、見やすく聞きやすいプレゼンテーションを行うことは、必ずあなたの役に立つことでしょう。 また、著者の既刊である『ノンデザイナーズ・デザインブック』をお読みいただいた方にとっては、『ノンデザイナーズ・デザインブック』で学んだことをベースに、さらにプレゼンテーションならではの役立つヒントを手に入れることができます。ぜひお手にとってご覧ください。

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.

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.''

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 new addition to the popular Non-Designer’s series from best-selling authors Robin Williams and John Tollett includes many individual exercises designed specifically to teach the tools and features in Illustrator CS5.5 that designers (as opposed to illustrators) need to use. Along the way, the book offers many design tips for non-designers. Individual exercises ensure that a reader can jump in at any point and learn a specific tool or technique. In this non-designer’s guide to Illustrator techniques, you’ll learn: How vector images, as in Illustrator, are different from raster images, as in Photoshop, and when to choose which one How to use Illustrator CS5.5’s tools to create and work with lines, shapes, anchor points and control handles, color, etc. How to draw your own shapes and trace others How to enter text and control the design of it How to take advantage of the symbol libraries, clipping masks, variable-width strokes, and much more When and why to rasterize elements of your vector image

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.

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 new addition to the popular Non-Designer’s books from best-selling authors Robin Williams and John Tollett uses a series of individual exercises to teach image-editing tasks in Adobe Photoshop CS5.5 specifically to designers, who need to enhance their photos for use in brochures, advertising, Flickr, Facebook, websites, and so on. In this fun, full-color, straight-forward guide to Photoshop CS5.5, you’ll learn: Basic photo editing, such as how to smooth out wrinkles, remove blemishes, lose a little weight, clean up dust and scratches, brighten and sharpen the image, delete people, remove or add space in the middle of a photo, and more How to further manipulate and enhance images with filters and effects How to draw and paint with customized brushes, and how to colorize a black-and-white image All about layers and how to take advantage of them How and when to use paths, layer masks, and clipping masks to increase your editing capabilities How to merge several photos into one panorama, use the Puppet Warp feature, remove lens distortion, and much more Whether you need to improve or edit your photos for your graphic design work or to upload to your Flickr or Facebook account, this book is the easiest path to mastering basic tasks in Photoshop.

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.

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.

These days, it''s not just corporate marketing directors tasked with giving computer-based presentations—anyone forced to stand in front of a crowd and talk for more than three minutes had better know how to put together a slide presentation. You''re not a professional designer, but you want your slides to look professional. What do you do? Enter Robin Williams, the beloved, best-selling non-designer''s designer (with over 850,000 copies of The Non-Designer''s Design Book in print!) who has taught an entire generation the basics of design and typography. In The Non-Designer''s Presentation Book, Robin expands upon the design principles introduced in her award-winning Non-Designer''s series. She explains four fundamental principles of good design as applied to digital presentations, and adds four more principles specific to clear communication with slides. Whether you work with a Mac or PC, PowerPoint or Keynote, let Robin guide you, in her signature, light-hearted style, through the entire process of creating a presentation—from using the right software to organizing your ideas to designing effective, beautiful slides that won''t put your audience to sleep. In this essential guide to presentation design, you''ll learn: What makes a good presentation or a bad one How to plan, organize, and outline your presentation Four principles of designing effective presentations Four principles for designing beautiful slides that communicate clearly An exhaustive list of timeless presentation rules...that you should totally ignore

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.

Taking an empirical approach, this book presents a sociological study of the development, use, and evolution of standardized computer systems and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software packages.

Combines two best-selling design classics by celebrated author Robin Williams to cover the fundamentals that govern good design and type.

Edición puesta al dia y ampliada de un texto de referencia fundamnetal para el estilo y el diseño del jardín. Incluye: bocetos tridimensionales, planos y dibujos, gran variedad de elementos del jardín de diferentes materiales y estilos. Todo ello bellamente ilustrado exponiendo las diferentes opciones de diseño.