A classic reference book on user interface design and graphic design for web sites, updated to reflect a rapidly changing marketConsistently praised as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, Web Style Guide has sold many thousands of copies and has been published around the world. This new revised edition confirms Web Style Guide as the go-to authority in a rapidly changing market. As web designers move from building sites from sc...

The teaching and learning of music around the world have evolved in diverse ways as social, industrial, and cultural developments have influenced the ways humans understand, organize, and collectivize music education. Revolutions in Music Education: Historical and Social Explorations chronicles major changes in music education that continue to shape practices in the twenty-first century. The contributors investigate the organizational, pedagogical, and strategic approaches to teaching musi...

Consistently praised in earlier editions as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, Web Style Guide, now in its Third Edition, continues its tradition of emphasis on fundamentals. Focusing on the needs of web site designers in corporations, government, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions, the book explains established design principles and how they apply in web design projects in which information design, interface design, and efficient search and na...

When Dr. Patrick C. Horton was wounded on the battlefield during Operation Iraqi Freedom, his life was endangered in more ways than one. The brush with death woke him up to what takes many people a lifetime to discover: We are lucky to be here, and it is our sacred opportunity to figure out what we want to achieve. With candor and insight, Dr. Horton outlines how living with leadership, character, passion, and determination helped him leave behind the foibles of his youth to achieve execut...

Let your imagination run wild with this collection of short stories. Featuring fantastic characters, worlds, and different moments in time, these tales will keep you on the edge of your seat. Whether you're reading by the fireplace on a cold winter night or out under the stars, these stories are sure to capture your heart. So, curl up with choose your favorite story and get lost in an enchanted world.Here are a few stories you’ll love from this book:The War of The Ghosts - ...

In 2003, Methodists celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of their founder, John Wesley. Today, there are more than 300 Methodist denominations in 140 nations. Covering the activities of this group that plays an important role in the ecumenical movement through its many social and charitable activities in world affairs, this book offers more than 400 entries that describe important events, doctrines, and the church founders, leaders, and other prominent figures who have made notabl...

Mythology: Powerful Stories to Unleash Your ImaginationLet your imagination run wild with this collection of short stories. Featuring fantastic characters, worlds, and different moments in time, these tales will keep you on the edge of your seat. Whether you're reading by the fireplace on a cold winter night or out under the stars, these stories are sure to capture your heart. So, curl up with choose your favorite story and get lost in an enchanted world.Here are a few stor...

A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases.”The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Their essays, which range in style from the personal and lyric...

Edited by William Trudell and Lorene Shyba, More Tough Crimes is the third book in the Durvile True Cases series. Like other books in the series More Tough Crimes provides a unique window into the world of criminal justice. These stories are ‘tough crimes’ because of the emotional demands put on the judges and lawyers involved. Many cases in the book are recent, but some from the past were so disturbing that even decades later, they resonate in the public consciousness.

Design and Shielding of Radiotherapy Treatment Facilities provides readers with a single point of reference for all aspects of shielding design and radiation protection advice to the construction and modification of radiotherapy facilities. The book assembles a faculty of national and international experts on all modalities including megavoltage and kilovoltage photons, brachytherapy and high-energy particles, and on conventional and Monte Carlo shielding calculations. Their conse...