A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design. Featuring five sections, each covering a core aspect of graphic design: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout. Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a great one.

From the Women's Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. 'Makes storytelling seem as easy as birdsong’ TELEGRAPH 'Writing of clarity and brilliance' GUARDIAN In 'A Private Experience', a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. In ...

* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality...' * With the same disarming force,...

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar's sweet but disastrously overweight.

Confused by business statistics? Problem solved. Schaum's Outline of Business Statistics helps you understand basic concepts and offers extra practice on topics you'll encounter in your introductory- and intermediate-level courses. With this book, you'll understand and master the basic methods of statistical description, statistical inference, decision analysis, and process control.

You will also learn about frequency distributions, histograms and frequency polygons, frequency curves, samplin...

As in previous editions of this popular text on cross-cultural management, students will find here an invaluable guide to key management theories, linked to practical examples from all round the world. The book's key distinctive feature remains its truly international profile, with current examples from the US, Europe, Asia and new perspectives in this edition from other regions. Discussion of cross-cultural models is updated by including the 'crossvergence' framework developed during the 199...

Fossils provide a powerful tool for the study of the nearly 4-billion-year history of life, and its role in the evolution of Earth systems. They also provide important data for evolutionary studies, and contribute to our understanding of the extinction of organisms and the origins of modern biodiversity.

Fossils At A Glance is written for students taking an introductory level course in paleontology. Short chapters introduce the main topics in the modern study of fossils. The most important fo...

Learn the business thinking behind financial modeling and execute what you know effectively using Microsoft Excel. Many believe that sales and profitability projections shown in financial models are the keys to success in attracting investors. The truth is that investors will come up with their own projections.

The investor wants to understand the assumptions, structure, and relationships within the modeling of a startup. If the investor is satiated, the entrepreneur has successfully demonstr...

In 1997 verscheen Ernst van de Weterings boek Rembrandt. The Painter at Work, inmiddels een classic. Na verschillende herdrukken verschijnt nu bij Amsterdam University Press een herziene uitgave. In een uitvoerig voorwoord, dat tevens als samenvatting fungeert, worden de recente ontwikkelingen rond de in het boek behandelde onderwerpen uiteengezet.

Een onderzoek naar de overgang van jagen en verzamelen naar landbouw, het zogenoemde neolithisatieproces.

Het begrip van het neolithisatieproces is in de laatste decennia in Nederland aanzienlijk toegenomen. Een samenhangend overzicht van het archeobotanisch onderzoek naar de overgang van jagen en verzamelen naar landbouw, ontbrak tot nu toe.

Dit proefschrift heeft tot doel een beter begrip van het neolithisatieproces in de Nederlandse 'wetlands' te bieden. De auteur doet dit door middel van d...