THE DESIGN COLLECTION REVEALED CREATIVE CLOUD provides comprehensive step-by-step instruction & in-depth explanation for three of today's most widely used design & layout programs Adobe (R) In Design (R) Creative Cloud Adobe (R) Photoshop (R) Creative Cloud & Adobe (R) Illustrator (R) Creative Cloud Your students will gain practical experience with the software as they work through end-of-chapter learning projects & step-by-step tutorials An integration chapter demonstrates how to move from one application to the other Full-color illustrations & a user-friendly design combine to create a robust learning experience that reveals how to master the latest features of Adobe's popular design suite ...

A fully updated & expanded edition of Don Norman&s classic & influential work which pioneered the application of cognitive science to design Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we try to figure out the shower control in a hotel or attempt to navigate an unfamiliar television set or stove When The Design of Everyday Things was published in 1988 cognitive scientist Don Norman provocatively proposed that the fault lies not in ourselves but in design that ignores the needs & psychology of people Fully revised to keep the timeless principles of psychology up to date with ever-changing new technologies The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful appeal for good design & a reminder of how -- & why -- some products satisfy while others only disappoint ...

The battle for Hoth begins! The first Force Pack for Star Wars The Card Game is inspired by the early scenes from The Empire Strikes Back The Desolation of Hoth brings you iconic new creatures droids snowspeeders & characters like Wedge Antilles & Darth Vader As Rebel forces & their allies establish their defenses & the Empire scours the galaxy for signs of their hidden base the frozen wastelands of Hoth set the stage for the game’s future battles The Hoth Cycle focuses on developing a strong sense of location Light side players gain powerful advantages when they control Hoth objectives Introduces iconic new characters creatures droids & snowspeeders Ages 14 2 players ...

Ten-year-old twins Kirsty & David Murray love their crofting life in the north of Scotland They collect shellfish milk the cows & help their father grow oats & vegetables Then one day the Countess's men come & burn their house saying they must leave The family travel across Scotland to Glasgow City life is dirty & overcrowded & work in the mills is hard & dangerous The chance comes to join a ship sailing for Hudson Bay in Canada & once again they start a long perilous journey Will they survive the treacherous Atlantic crossing & what will they find in the strange new land? Kathleen Fidler had a gift for bringing characters from history to life for today's children The Desperate Journey is her best-known story a true Scottish classic whose thrilling plot will keep children gripped from start to end ...

For the first time since the end of the Cold War the world is steadily becoming less democratic The true culprits are dictators & counterfeit democrats But argues Klaas the West is also an accomplice inadvertently assaulting pro-democracy forces abroad as governments in Washington London & Brussels chase pyrrhic short-term economic & security victories Friendly fire from Western democracies against democracy abroad is too high a price to pay for a myopic foreign policy that is ultimately making the world less prosperous stable & democratic The Despot's Accomplice draws on years of extensive interviews on the frontlines of the global struggle for democracy from a poetry-reading politician-kidnapping general in Madagascar to Islamist torture victims in Tunisia Belarusian opposition activists tailed by the KGB West African rebels & tea-sipping members of the Thai junta Cumulatively their stories weave together a tale of a broken system at the root of democracy's global retreat ...

A decimated Shiite shrine in Iraq The smoking World Trade Center site The scorched cityscape of 1945 Dresden Among the most indelible scars left by war is the destroyed landscapes & such architectural devastation damages far more than mere buildings Robert Bevan argues herethat shattered buildings are not merely collateral damage but rather calculated acts of cultural annihilation From Hitler's Kristallnacht to the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in the Iraq War Bevan deftly sifts through military campaigns & their tactics throughout history & analyzes the cultural impact & catastrophic consequences of architectural destruction For Bevan these actions are nothing less than cultural genocide Ultimately Bevan forcefully argues for the prosecution of nations that purposely flout established international treaties against destroyed architecture A passionate & thought-provoking cri de coeur The Destruction of Memory raises questions about the costs of war that run deeper than blood & money The idea of a global inheritance seems to have fallen by the wayside & lessons that should have long ago been learned are still being recklessly disregarded This is what makes Bevan's book relevant even urgent much of the destruction of which it speaks is still under way --Financial Times Magazine The message of Robert Bevan's devastating book is that war is about killing cultures identities & memories as much as it is about killing people & occupying territory--Sunday Times As Bevan's fascinating melancholy book shows symbolic buildings have long been targeted in & out of war as a particular kind of mnemonic violence against those to whom they are special--The Guardian ...

There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell She was known far & wide as Detective Dog Nell Peter's dog Nell has an amazing sense of smell Whether it's finding a lost shoe or discovering who did a poo on the new gravel path her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work But Nell has other talents too Every Monday she goes to school with Peter & listens to children read So who better to have on hand when they arrive one morning to discover that the school's books have all disappeared! Who could have taken them? & why? There's only one dog for the job & Detective Dog Nell is ready to sniff out the culprit! Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson & stunningly illustrated by the multi-talented illustrator & printmaker Sara Ogilvie Detective Dog is a fast-paced celebration of books reading libraries & the relationship between a little boy & his rather special dog ...

There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell She was known far & wide as Detective Dog Nell Peter's dog Nell has an amazing sense of smell Whether it's finding a lost shoe or discovering who did a poo on the new gravel path her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work But Nell has other talents too Every Monday she goes to school with Peter & listens to children read So who better to have on hand when they arrive one morning to discover that the school's books have all disappeared! Who could have taken them? & why? There's only one dog for the job & Detective Dog Nell is ready to sniff out the culprit! Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson & stunningly illustrated by the multi-talented illustrator & printmaker Sara Ogilvie The Detective Dog is a fast-paced celebration of books reading libraries & the relationship between a little boy & his rather special dog ...

There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell She was known far & wide as Detective Dog Nell Peter's dog Nell has an amazing sense of smell Whether it's finding a lost shoe or discovering who did a poo on the new gravel path her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work But Nell has other talents too Every Monday she goes to school with Peter & listens to children read So who better to have on hand when they arrive one morning to discover that the school's books have all disappeared! Who could have taken them? & why? There's only one dog for the job & Detective Dog Nell is ready to sniff out the culprit! Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson & stunningly illustrated by the multi-talented illustrator & printmaker Sara Ogilvie The Detective Dog is a fast-paced celebration of books reading libraries & the relationship between a little boy & his rather special dog ...

There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell She was known far & wide as Detective Dog Nell Peter's dog Nell has an amazing sense of smell Whether it's finding a lost shoe or discovering who did a poo on the new gravel path her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work But Nell has other talents too Every Monday she goes to school with Peter & listens to children read So who better to have on hand when they arrive one morning to discover that the school's books have all disappeared! Who could have taken them? & why? There's only one dog for the job & Detective Dog Nell is ready to sniff out the culprit! Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson & stunningly illustrated by the multi-talented illustrator & printmaker Sara Ogilvie The Detective Dog is a fast-paced celebration of books reading libraries & the relationship between a little boy & his rather special dog The Detective Dog Book & CD Pack comes with an audio CD read by actress & singer Floella Benjamin perfect for reading along ...