Pharrell Williams is one of the biggest names on today’s top 40 charts. He’s won eleven Grammys (and immeasurable attention for his Grammys fashion choices), been nominated for an Oscar, and is about to begin writing a series of children’s books. He’s worked behind the scenes as a producer on hits like Kelis’s “Milkshake,” Britney Spears’s “Slave 4 You,” and has collaborated with every major hip hop artist in the business. Pharrell’s music is inescapable, but his story—his life and influences—has been largely left unreported. In this first major biography of Williams, Paul Lester draws on interviews with Williams and his family and friends to show fans the man behind the music.

Digital Tools for Qualitative Research shows how the research process in its entirety can be supported by technology tools in ways that can save time and add robustness and depth to qualitative work. It addresses the use of a variety of tools (many of which may already be familiar to you) to support every phase of the research process, providing practical case studies taken from real world research.

The text shows you how to select and use technology tools to:

- engage in reflexivity

- collaborate with other researchers and stakeholders

- manage your project

- do your literature review

- generate and manage your data

- transcribe and analyse textual, audio and visual data

- and represent and share your findings.

The book also considers important ethical issues surrounding the use of various technologies in each chapter. On the companion website, you'll find lots of additional resources including video tutorials and activities.

Whether you're a novice or expert social researcher, this book will inspire you to think creatively about how to approach your research project and get the most out of the huge range of tools available to you.

In every field of mass communications—advertising, entertainment studies, journalism, public relations, radio-television-film, tourism, and visual reporting—professionals understand the importance of storytelling. Regardless of whether the finished product is a commercial, an in-depth investigative piece, a public service campaign, an independent documentary, a travelogue, or a collection of photographs, effective storytelling requires a combination of creativity, empathy, and expertise. Through the innovative technologies and techniques described in this textbook, students will learn how to turn passive readers and viewers into engaged and regular users.

The sixteen chapters each include a brief introduction, assignments, simple-to-follow step-by-step exercises, and sources for additional information in which users will learn to produce apps, informational graphics, quick response codes, quizzes, simulations, smartphone and table icons, social media campaigns, three-dimensional pictures, and video. Students will work with the following programs: Blogger, Dreamweaver, Excel, Facebook, GeoCommons, Google Maps, Illustrator, Imgur, iMovie, Infogram, iShowU, JavaScript, JustGive, Kaywa, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, Onvert, Photoshop, Pixel Resort, QuickTime, Reddit, Second Life, SurveyMonkey, TheAppBuilder, Twitter, Vizualize, Wikipedia, Word, WordPress, and YouTube.

When digital innovations are added to traditional print and screen presentations, a media user is not only allowed to interact with the information but can also physically engage with the story displayed. Giving students the tools they need to transform their storytelling in this manner is the ultimate goal of this textbook.

In every field of mass communications—advertising, entertainment studies, journalism, public relations, radio-television-film, tourism, and visual reporting—professionals understand the importance of storytelling. Regardless of whether the finished product is a commercial, an in-depth investigative piece, a public service campaign, an independent documentary, a travelogue, or a collection of photographs, effective storytelling requires a combination of creativity, empathy, and expertise. Through the innovative technologies and techniques described in this textbook, students will learn how to turn passive readers and viewers into engaged and regular users.

The sixteen chapters each include a brief introduction, assignments, simple-to-follow step-by-step exercises, and sources for additional information in which users will learn to produce apps, informational graphics, quick response codes, quizzes, simulations, smartphone and table icons, social media campaigns, three-dimensional pictures, and video. Students will work with the following programs: Blogger, Dreamweaver, Excel, Facebook, GeoCommons, Google Maps, Illustrator, Imgur, iMovie, Infogram, iShowU, JavaScript, JustGive, Kaywa, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, Onvert, Photoshop, Pixel Resort, QuickTime, Reddit, Second Life, SurveyMonkey, TheAppBuilder, Twitter, Vizualize, Wikipedia, Word, WordPress, and YouTube.

When digital innovations are added to traditional print and screen presentations, a media user is not only allowed to interact with the information but can also physically engage with the story displayed. Giving students the tools they need to transform their storytelling in this manner is the ultimate goal of this textbook.

This book is more than the typical web design manual. Visual Communication on the Web integrates practice with theory, providing technical how-to alongside the theoretical, aesthetic, and historical framework you'll need to create thoughtful, functional, and beautifully designed web pages. While interactive exercises in the book explore the technical side of design, concise introductions relate history, design principles, and visual communication theories to the practice of designing for the web. Videos and links embedded in the accompanying Interactive eTextbook will give you additional hands-on web design experience.

By working your way through this text from start to finish, you will learn how to think visually about communicating online and also how to think analytically about assembling code to display your message. Over the course of 14 chapters, a series of exercises helps you create and revise one dynamic web page while learning new coding and tools. Predictable mistakes are purposely included, so you'll learn how to 'fix' the project while working on it-a crucial skill for anyone working with code. By the end of this course-in-a-book, you will have created a web page with a centered container div, a Lightbox image gallery, and an external style sheet using HTML, CSS, and copy-pasted and modified code.

The Interactive eTextbook provides concise videos of burrough detailing some of the more complex step-by-step instructions and original chapter introductions by Lester. Users of the eTextbook may also engage in a traditional assessment exercise to test their knowledge of new material. For those who aren't reading electronically, many of these resources are freely available on the blog, viscommontheweb.wordpress.com.

With easy-to-follow instruction and lucid theoretical introductions, Visual Communication on the Web makes an excellent companion to xtine burrough's Digital Foundations and Net Works as well as Paul Martin Lester's Visual Communication: Images with Messages.

Sweeney, a former battalion commander who directs a leader development program at West Point, et al. offer a handbook for those in the Armed Forces, emergency services, and first responders that contains 20 chapters on the psychological, social, and organizational factors that influence leadership in critical situations, and how and why leadership is different in dangerous contexts and how to prepare for, recover, lead, and leverage organizational systems to facilitate resilience in them. Scholars and members of the military, law enforcement, and fire and rescue services from the US and Europe address theory, research, and practical experience on building courage, managing stress, mitigating post-traumatic stress disorder, promoting ethical awareness and reasoning, and finding meaning; addressing trust, morale, influence, decision making, crisis leadership, and cross-cultural leadership; and developing a culture to operate under extreme conditions, recruiting and selection, and cultivating leaders. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Visual communication is just as important as verbal communication, if not more so. VISUAL COMMUNICATION: IMAGES WITH MESSAGES, 5E, shows you how visual perception is used in all forms of communication, whether it's graphic design, photography, television, video, or interactive media. Packed with study and review tools, this communications textbook will not only clearly explain the theories you need to know, but also help you prepare for tests and succeed in class.

Questa è l'elettrizzante biografia che esplora la rapida scalata di Stefani Germanotta alla fama mondiale nei panni della scandalosa Lady Gaga. Un trionfo ottenuto a colpi di oltraggiosi look, contagiosi successi pop e un provocante utilizzo della sessualità che l'ha trasformata in un'icona gay. Gaga è un fenomeno che si è fatto da sé: una Madonna dei giorni nostri. Da perfetta fan di Freddie Mercury e David Bowie, Lady Gaga ha fatto sua l'essenza del glam anni Ottanta e l'ha reinventata per l'era digitale. Acclamata da pubblico e critica, è passata dai sotterranei dei club di Manhattan al successo planetario in soli due anni. Questa è la sua storia.

Ricoeur was one of the most original philosophers of the late twentieth century, but he was also a remarkable interpreter of Husserl's work. In these nine essays Ricoeur concentrates on Husserl's philosophy of consciousness rather than his work in logic, the result being an explanation of his own work along with that of Husserl. Starting with an introduction to the phenomenological movement, Ricoeur works through the major themes and schools, including descriptive and transcendental phenomenology, and explains the development of reflection and major concepts of material nature, animate nature and spirit in Idea I and Idea II. Ricoeur then analyzes the 'cogito' meditation and Husserl's treatment of synthesis as the fundamental form of consciousness in Cartesian Meditations I-V, then analyzes Husserl's sense of history and his relation to the work of Kant, closing with treatments of existential phenomenology as well as methods and tasks of a phenomenology of the will. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)