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Book Designing Your Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Burnett
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2016-09-20
  • ISBN : 110187533X
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Designing Your Life written by Bill Burnett and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.

Book Design Justice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sasha Costanza-Chock
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2020-03-03
  • ISBN : 0262043459
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Design Justice written by Sasha Costanza-Chock and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? “Design justice” is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims expilcitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities. It has emerged from a growing community of designers in various fields who work closely with social movements and community-based organizations around the world. This book explores the theory and practice of design justice, demonstrates how universalist design principles and practices erase certain groups of people—specifically, those who are intersectionally disadvantaged or multiply burdened under the matrix of domination (white supremacist heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and settler colonialism)—and invites readers to “build a better world, a world where many worlds fit; linked worlds of collective liberation and ecological sustainability.” Along the way, the book documents a multitude of real-world community-led design practices, each grounded in a particular social movement. Design Justice goes beyond recent calls for design for good, user-centered design, and employment diversity in the technology and design professions; it connects design to larger struggles for collective liberation and ecological survival.

Book Deadly Design

Download or read book Deadly Design written by Debra Dockter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emotional power of If I Stay meets the survival story of Maze Runner Genetically engineered identical twins Kyle and Connor McAdams were born two years apart. Their parents figured it was safer that way, to increase their odds of survival. Connor was born first, paving an impossibly perfect path for Kyle to follow. He was the best at everything—valedictorian, star quarterback etc. Kyle never thought he’d be able to live up, so he didn’t even try. But when Connor, 18, suddenly drops dead of a heart attack, and Kyle learns of other genetically modified kids who’ve also died on their eighteenth birthdays, he’s suddenly motivated—to save his own life. Like Connor and all the rest, Kyle was conceived at the Genesis Innovations Laboratory, where the mysterious Dr. Mueller conducted experiments on them. The clock’s ticking as Kyle searches for answers: who was Dr. Mueller really, and what did he do to cause their hearts to stop at eighteen? He must unravel the clues quickly, before, he too, becomes another perfect, blue-eyed corpse.

Book Rush Too Far

    Book Details:
  • Author : Abbi Glines
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-05-06
  • ISBN : 147112231X
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Rush Too Far written by Abbi Glines and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to fall hard for Rush… Fallen Too Farintroduced us to Rush Finlay, the gorgeous charming son of a famous rock star, and Blaire Wynn, the girl from Alabama who rode into Rosemary Beach, Florida, in a pick-up truck with a gun under the seat looking for her estranged father. United under one roof by the surprising marriage of their parents, Rush and Blaire couldn't hate each other more. But it only took a summer to for everything to change… Fallen Too Far was Blaire's story. Now it's time for Rush to share his side, and for readers to fall all over again!

Book Fallen Too Far

    Book Details:
  • Author : Abbi Glines
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-03-07
  • ISBN : 1471118606
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Fallen Too Far written by Abbi Glines and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Blaire Wynn's mother passed away, Blaire's life changed in an instant. Having cared for her sick mother for the last three years, suddenly Blaire has to leave the small farmhouse in Alabama they shared, to move in with her father and his new wife in their sprawling beach house along the Florida gulf coast. But what she isn't prepared for is the lifestyle change that comes with the move, and she knows she'll never fit into the new world of luxury and extravagance that suddenly surrounds her. Even worse, her father has run off to Paris for the summer with his wife, leaving her stranded with Rush, her new stepbrother, who's irritating, arrogant and… seriously sexy. Rush is as spoiled as he is gorgeous; his famous father's guilt money, his mother's desperation to win his love, and his charm are the three reasons he has never been told no. Blaire knows he is anything but good for her, but somehow she can't fight the attraction she's feeling, especially when she starts to think the attraction might be mutual… Rush is jaded and has secrets Blaire knows she may never uncover but even knowing all of that Blaire just may have fallen too far.

Book Don t Mess with Me Because I m Designer

Download or read book Don t Mess with Me Because I m Designer written by Appreciation Gift Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 110-page journal features: 110 wide-ruled lined pages 6" x 9" size - big enough for your writing and small enough to take with you smooth 55# white-color paper, perfect for ink, gel pens, pencils or colored pencils a cover page where you can enter your name and other information a matte-finish cover for an elegant, professional look and feel This journal can be used for writing poetry, jotting down your brilliant ideas, recording your accomplishments, and more. Use it as a diary or gratitude journal, a travel journal or to record your food intake or progress toward your fitness goals. The simple lined pages allow you to use it however you wish. Journals to Write In offers a wide variety of journals, so keep one by your bedside as a dream journal, one in your car to record mileage and expenses, one by your computer for login names and passwords, and one in your purse or backpack to jot down random thoughts and inspirations throughout the day. Paper journals never need to be charged and no batteries are required! You only need your thoughts and dreams and something to write with. These journals also make wonderful gifts, so put a smile on someone's face today!

Book Designing Dreams

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kirsten Osbourne
  • Publisher : Unlimited Dreams Publishing
  • Release : 2021-12-15
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book Designing Dreams written by Kirsten Osbourne and published by Unlimited Dreams Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda Romriell is finally starting to feel like herself again after a major heartbreak when she gets the news of her parents’ death. Once again, she is reeling and wondering what else can go wrong. After she and her sisters move into their family’s lake house, she is ready to start fresh, but she knows to guard her heart and never let anyone else in. She watches as her eldest sister marries and the next one starts dating…but she expects to grow old alone. Her career as an interior designer keeps her going and hoping and wishing and dreaming. Until finally her life starts to level out again, and she can feel at peace. Come and visit the Romriell sisters at Bear Lake and see how their beautiful B&B becomes the heart of their family.

Book This Is Me

Download or read book This Is Me written by Mrs Hinch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-order this extraordinarily candid memoir and discover the real Sophie Hinchliffe, the woman behind the Mrs Hinch phenomenon. *** FEATURING A BONUS PAPERBACK CHAPTER ABOUT THE BIRTH OF LENNIE *** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER 2020 'Gut-wrenchingly honest' The Mail on Sunday 'I love that woman so much, she is just so great' Rylan Clark-Neal, BBC Radio 2 _____________ I sometimes can't believe just how much has happened in the last couple of life-changing years. It's been a total whirlwind of a journey, and I'm so grateful to all my followers for their amazing love and support along the way. From my very first toy kitchen which was my pride and joy right through to the my very first Instagram posts stories of my cleaning routine, I'm going to take you back to the start of how it all began. But there is so much more to my story than just cleaning tips; there have been the highest of highs, but also heart-breaking devastating lows. So let's do this! Put your Hinch Lists to one side, get comfy and join me on the sofa with a cuppa. Welcome to my world. This is me: Soph - the wife, the mother and the person behind Mrs Hinch. _____________ 'The sensation' Sun 'We're mad about Mrs Hinch' Vogue 'My new cleaning goddess' Daily Telegraph 'Doing for household chores what Marie Kondo did for tidying' Daily Mirror 'Mrs Hinch offers a reassuring structure for the day, a vision of domestic order' Guardian

Book Advanced Safety Management Focusing on Z10 and Serious Injury Prevention

Download or read book Advanced Safety Management Focusing on Z10 and Serious Injury Prevention written by Fred A. Manuele and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to improve the effectiveness of safety and health management systems by adopting ANSI Z10 provisions and avoid serious workplace injuries. This reference addresses specific provisions, including risk assessment methods and prioritization; applying a prescribed hierarchy of controls; implementing safety design reviews; and more. It also explains how to integrate best practices for the prevention of serious injuries in your workplace. See how implementing the ANSI Z10 standard can enhance your company’s productivity, cost efficiency, and quality.

Book Be Extraordinary

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yvette M. Jones
  • Publisher : WestBow Press
  • Release : 2019-05-13
  • ISBN : 1973658666
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Be Extraordinary written by Yvette M. Jones and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be Extraordinary! is a devotional for those who want more than normal Christianity of following tradition; it is for those who desire to turn up the temperature in their walk with the Lord Jesus Christ. Being lukewarm or cold is not an option for those who seek to live an extraordinary life that changes the lives of those around them. It is for anyone is tired of being stuck in a comfort zones filled with religious rituals and playing church.

Book Black Bazaar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alain Mabanckou
  • Publisher : Profile Books
  • Release : 2012-07-05
  • ISBN : 1847656579
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book Black Bazaar written by Alain Mabanckou and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a vertically challenged drummer known as The Mongrel. She's taken their daughter with her. Meanwhile, a racist neighbour spies on him something wicked, accusing him of 'digging a hole in the Dole'. And his drinking buddies at Jips, the Afro-Cuban bar in Les Halles, pour scorn on Black Bazaar, the journal he keeps to log his sorrows. There are days when only the Arab in the corner shop has a kind word; while at night his dreams are stalked by the cannibal pygmies of Gabon. Then again, Buttologist wears no ordinary uppers. He has style, bags of it (suitcases of crocodile and anaconda Westons, to be precise). He's a dandy from the Bacongo district of Brazzaville - AKA a sapeur or member of the Society of Ambience-makers and People of Elegance. But is flaunting sartorial chic against tough times enough for Buttologist to cut it in the City of Light?

Book Design for Living

    Book Details:
  • Author : Noël Coward
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2023-05-04
  • ISBN : 135035368X
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Design for Living written by Noël Coward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Its fusion of passion and mischief remains striking and there is something undeniably heady about its celebration of a kind of sexual liberation that looks a lot like flippancy" - Evening Standard From 1930s bohemian Paris to the dizzying heights of Manhattan society, a tempestuous love triangle unravels between a vivacious interior designer, Gilda, playwright Leo and artist Otto - three people unashamedly and passionately in love with each other. But can such a lavish love affair survive the real world? Exploring themes of bisexuality, celebrity, success and self-obsession, Design for Living is a stylish and scandalous comedy, that is often revered as Coward's most controversial and risqué work. This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Coward's death and features a new introduction by Oliver Soden.

Book Advanced Safety Management

Download or read book Advanced Safety Management written by Fred A. Manuele and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishes sound safety management principles and focuses on the revised Z10.0 safety standard, the new 45001 safety standard, and serious injury prevention Filled with updated chapters and information throughout, this book covers the provisions of ANSI/ASSP Z10.0-2019, the American standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems. It expands in detail on the principles for advanced safety management, the content of the revised Z10.0 standard, and the newly adopted international standard, ISO 45001. It also emphasizes the need to reduce the occurrence of serious injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. Advanced Safety Management: Focusing on Z10.0, 45001 and Serious Injury Prevention, Third Edition expands on the material in previous editions and includes several new chapters emphasizing culture, systems design, and incident investigations. Beginning with an overview of ANSI/ASSP Z10.0-2019 and ANSI/ASSP/ISO 45001-2018, it goes on to offer chapters on: Essentials for the Practice of Safety; Human Error Avoidance; Hazards Analyses and Risk Assessments; Three- and Four-Dimensional Risk Scoring Systems; Safety Design Reviews; The Procurement Process; Audit Requirements; The Management Oversight and Risk Tree (MORT); and more. Expands in detail on the principles for advanced safety management, the content of the revised ANSI/ASSP Z10.0. standard and the newly adopted international standard, ISO 45001 New chapters cover the Significance of An Organization's Culture; Fundamental Concepts; and Systems/Macro Thinking Places emphasis on the more prominent risk-based approach in the practice of safety Provides methods to align safety, operational, and financial goals, along with quality and environmental standards Explains the concepts of risk reduction, waste reduction, environmental impact deduction, and Prevention through Design (PtD) Advanced Safety Management is an important book for safety professionals, industrial hygienist, plant managers, OSHA and EPA advocates, students majoring in safety or industrial hygiene, and union leaders.

Book Designing Highly Useable Software

Download or read book Designing Highly Useable Software written by Jeffrey M. Cogswell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn What Usability Really Is, Why to Strive for It, and How to Achieve It "Highly useable" software is easy to use. It does what you expect it to. And it does it well. It's not easy to build but as this book demonstrates, it's well worth the effort. Highly useable software is highly successful software—and everyone wins. Inside, an accomplished programmer who has made usability his business systematically explores the world of programming, showing you how every aspect of the work is implicated in the usability of the final product. This is not just an "issues" book, however, but systematic, real-world instructions for developing applications that are better in every way. As you'll learn, there's no such thing as "intuitive" software. Instead, there are just the factors that make it highly useable: simplicity, consistency, the recognition of accepted conventions, and the foregrounding of the user's perspective. With these principles under your belt, you'll quickly discover dozens of ways to make your applications more useable: Making windows and dialog boxes easy to comprehend and use Designing software that is time- and resource-efficient Making your software easy to navigate Reducing the complexity of reports and other presentations of data Understanding how the wrong programming decisions can limit usability Ensuring smooth starts and stops Capitalizing on the usability advantages of object-oriented programming Understanding how usability affects your product's financial success Using the testing process to improve usability Promoting usability in training, installation, and online help Making management decisions that will benefit software usability Some chapters are written primarily for programmers, one primarily for managers. Most are for everyone, and all are filled with illuminating, usually amusing examples drawn from both inside and outside the technical world. A helpful appendix provides information on standards, usability groups, and sources for more information.

Book Death by Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paula Darnell
  • Publisher : Cozy Cat Press
  • Release : 2019-06-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book Death by Design written by Paula Darnell and published by Cozy Cat Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIY Diva Laurel McMillan rejoices when her student Jennifer's peacock pillow wins a design contest; that is, until Jennifer's husband Matt is smothered with the very same pillow. When the police confiscate her prize-winning pillow, Jennifer freaks out, and Laurel fears that Jennifer may be more upset about losing the pillow than about Matt's death. But the police arrest disgraced nurse Edna Elkins, not Jennifer. Begging Laurel to find the real killer, Edna insists she's innocent, but Laurel's not so sure, and when Laurel encounters Jennifer while walking her lovable Labrador retriever, Bear, she's left with more questions than answers. Should the crafty DIY Diva play DIY Detective or does Edna really belong in jail? Includes recipes and pillow project instructions. This is the second book in the DIY Diva Mystery series.

Book Integrating Building Performance with Design

Download or read book Integrating Building Performance with Design written by Elizabeth J. Grant and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating Building Performance with Design shows you the importance of designing for building performance early in your architectural design process. The book offers you simple tools and exercises, along with examples of built professional work and successful student projects illustrated by more than 100 full color images to help you with your work. Topics include site, solar orientation, thermal comfort, building enclosure, daylighting, passive heating and cooling, active heating and cooling, indoor air quality, stormwater, and rainwater harvesting.

Book The Reunion

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. K. Steel
  • Publisher : A. K. Steel
  • Release : 2023-02-08
  • ISBN : 1923281224
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book The Reunion written by A. K. Steel and published by A. K. Steel . This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have one job at my ten-year reunion. To tell rockstar, Heath Riley, he has a son. I didn’t keep that secret from him by choice, but the truth is going to kill him just the same. In so many ways, I’m living my best life, running a fashion house I created and being a single mom to two beautiful children. I have everything I need, but that doesn’t mean I’m not lonely as hell. And sometimes, late at night, I still think of him. The one who got away. Heath has always been sexy as hell, even before he was frontman for LA’s biggest rock band. When we broke up, it was so he could follow his dreams. At least that's what I thought. And when we reconnect at our high school reunion, he wants to make up for lost time and be a family. It sounds too good to be true. But I have major trust issues I’m not sure I can get past, and he has more going on than he is willing to share. Can we work out how to fall in love all over again and really be a family? Or will secrets surface, putting an end to our dreams before they have a chance to come true?