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Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous
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Home Theater Design: Planning and Decorating Media-Savvy Interiors
New in Paperback!Technical tips for how to achieve a "movie theater" experience in your own home.Home Theater Design is the comprehensive guide to planning all types of entertainment spaces in the home. Author Krissy Rushing reveals how to choose and place acoustic and audio/visual systems to the best advantage; how to plan a home theater or music room; and how to display, store, and care for all types of media formats. This book looks at the aesthetics, too with a "whole interior" approach to home entertaining. The book offers information on a variety of design considerations - furnishings, comfort, setting up entertainment spaces, hosting get-togethers, accommodating guests - while factoring in style, functionality, new technology, acoustic planning, soundproofing, lighting, and environmental and personal health considerations. .
Price: $12.25
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Generation NeXt Parenting: A Savvy Parent's Guide to Getting it Right
Get Real, Become Focused, Begin Thriving!You’re a generation of parents aspiring to excellence in every way, but you’re also just plain tired. You don’t need another parenting book promising perfection or another formula guaranteeing great kids; you need practical advice that shows how to deal with your and your children’s hearts. If you’re worn out from trying to do too much while giving your child every opportunity under the sun, if you’re striving to excel in every way but suffering from a lack of focus, this book is your solution. It will help you understand how your specific tendencies are common to your generation as a whole. You’ll embrace the positive qualities that enable you to parent for God’s glory. Lay a firm foundation and thrive as you raise up the next generation! Wanna Do It Right Without the Expert Advice?Looking for practical, doable tips and guidance for raising today’s kids? Want to help them love God and be all that they can be (even if they don’t join the Army)? If 70s and 80s bands (Run DMC), fashion (hot pink anything), and technology (music on cassette) bring back vivid youthful memories, Generation NeXt Parenting is the resource for you. Like secrets exchanged at recess with a trusted friend, this book offers helpful hints for raising your children during this exact time in history. Extensive research, input from hundreds of Gen X moms and dads, and a variety of Scripture references will help you navigate even the toughest parenting dilemmas. “Chock-full of useful quotes from experts and everyday parents, this is a grace-infused handbook for Gen Xers navigating the parenting journey.” Mary E. DeMuth Author of Building the Christian Family You Never Had “As a young father, I not only relate to Tricia’s message, but I’m very encouraged that there is a fantastic parenting resource for our generation.” Jordan Rubin Founder of Garden of Life and author of The Great Physician’s RX for Health and Wellness PULL OUT QUOTE/STARBURST This book is designed like a magazine (not because you miss reading Seventeen, but because no parent has time to read a book cover to cover) and includes: Quotes from fellow Gen X parents Stats Quizzes Sidebars Song lyrics Study questions Story Behind the Book“As a Gen Xer who graduated from high school in 1989, the way I parent is different from the generations who’ve gone before me. I want to do it all—find God’s purpose for my life, impact my community, support my spouse, and provide my children every opportunity available to them. My generation is serious about parenting—just look at all we expect from our children and ourselves! This book offers solutions to our unique questions and confirms that we can ‘parent right’—even if it looks nothing like the way our own parents did it. More importantly, this book focuses on seeking God’s Word and wisdom for answers to growing a new generation of God seekers.” — Tricia Goyer.
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Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
Web services are leading to the use of more packaged software either as an internal service or an external service available over the Internet. These services, which will be connected together to create the information technology systems of the future, will require less custom software in our organizations and more creativity in the connections between the services. This book begins with a high-level example of how an average person in an organization might interact with a service-oriented architecture. As the book progresses, more technical detail is added in a "peeling of the onion" approach. The leadership opportunities within these developing service-oriented architectures are also explained. At the end of the book there is a compendium or "pocket library" for software technology related to service-oriented architectures. · Only web services book to cover both data management and software engineering perspectives, excellent resource for ALL members of IT teams · Jargon free, highly illustrated, with introduction that anyone can read that then leads into increasing technical detail · Provides a set of leadership principles and suggested application for using this technology..
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The Tech-Savvy Booktalker: A Guide for 21st-Century Educators
Want to add some pizzazz to your booktalks and motivate young readers? Here are simple but powerful ideas and instructions for integrating technology into your presentations, and using booktalks to launch learning across the curriculum. You'll discover how to use your existing technology to make enhanced booktalks to use with students-video, audio, and text; how to integrate the booktalks into the curriculum to meet standards; and how to extend the excitement with online book discussions. Lesson plans and a wealth of examples, strategies, and resource links make implementation a breeze. Grades 6-12..
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Table Talk: The Savvy Girl's Alternative to Networking
Let’s face it. Women and men are different So why should we all have to network in the same way? And hey, while we're at it, why should we have to "network" at all? Between family and work responsibilities, the idea of pressing flesh at some not-very-festive "cocktail party" is right up there in appeal with root canal work. But what if we could find a way to make career boosting connections that was actually -- don't laugh -- fun? Enter "table talk" – a whole new way to network for time-pressed, professional women. Say goodbye to traditional networking, hello to people and activities you actually like, and you're suddenly at the table. So hurry -- we’ve saved you a banquette by the window … and the view's fantastic!.
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Flash MX Savvy (With CD-ROM)
"A superb resource that budding Flash designers should not be without This [Flash MX Savvy] is one of the best Flash MX tutorials yet produced 5/5 stars" --3D World Magazine Savvy: practical know-how Flash MX is so powerful and versatile that even experienced web designers require additional help to move up to the next level. Focusing on program features as well as results, Flash MX Savvy anticipates your goals and uses professional examples to show you the best ways to attain them. You can either work your way through the book or zero in on any topic or group of tasks, from content creation to media integration to interactivity and ActionScript. Hands On tutorials allow you to apply different techniques to projects that will yield useful, real-world results. Web designers, animators, artists, and developers will discover what's new in Flash MX, learn the whys, not just the hows, and find a helpful ActionScript reference. Coverage includes: Content Creation: painting and drawing, text manipulation, reusable content. ActionScript: understanding ActionScript as a language, Movie Clip management and parameter control, plus a reference section with essential ActionScript terms. Interactivity: interface elements and controllers, new Flash components. Audio Integration: synchronization, compression schemes, scripting of audio interactivity. Media Integration: with audio applications, with Director, with CD-ROM content, with 3D animation. Check out the author's website at www.vonflashenstein.com/index.html.
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The Media-Savvy Student: Teaching Media Literacy Skills, Grades 2-6
Designed to help elementary school teachers develop their students' media literacy skills—the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information in a variety of formats—this book offers a series of 20 thematic units that show how to integrate media literacy into their existing curricula. Each unit's lesson or activity includes a statement of the rationale behind it, specific objectives, content goals, materials, procedures, grade-appropriate adaptations, and assessment tools, which are usually student handouts. The Media-Savvy Student is developed around student-centered teaching, inquiry-based education, problem solving in cooperative learning, and alternatives to standardized testing.
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Savvy Senior Singles
Who likes being called a Senior Citizen? Not many. Even though the reaility of age may demand the description, there is a more accurate way to speak of many older people who find themselves alone. Author Samantha Landy prefers the phrase Savvy Senior Singles for those who are mature but still very much young at heart - and living without a partner. Her practical insights give you the nudge needed to live a successfully fulfilling second-half of life. This optimistic but practical view of life addresses issues that affect your emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial health. You will enjoy this spiritual travelogue of sojourns over hill and dale filled with faith and great expectations. .
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