See a year’s worth of award-winning work from the One Show Interactive—the top competition for new media—and use the two accompanying DVDs to connect directly to the best examples of interactive media. In a large, beautiful format, with 560 spectacular illustrations, this is the most complete collection ever of visually arresting websites, mini sites, banners, and digital advertising.

One Show Interactive Vol. V: Advertising's Best Interactive and New Media

Arts & Photography

The One Club

Graphic Design

AVA Publishing

The sixth volume of the famed One Show Interactive Annual solidifies its status as the most complete collection of the industry’s freshest work in new media and integrated media—and it comes with a DVD too. The handsome full-color book presents all the 2003 champions from this highly competitive show, and the spectacular array of cutting-edge, visually arresting websites, minisites, banners, and digital ads will inspire and inform. Commentary from the creative teams about strategy, structure, and design accompanies the gold, silver, and bronze winning creations. The categories include e-commerce, corporate image, direct marketing, self promotion, and more.

The One Show Interactive Vol. VI (with DVD): Advertising's Best Interactive & New Media

Business & Money

The Startup Company Bible For Entrepreneurs

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

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The Startup Company Bible: For Entrepreneurs: The Complete Guide For Building Successful Companies And Raising Venture Capital

Finance

For more than two decades, numerous experts have predicted a major depression in America. Many of these forecasts were written in the early 90s as an aftershock of the 87 Crash. While most ignored these warnings, cautious investors withdrew from the capital markets. But the expected turmoil never appeared, at least not for over a decade. In the mid-90s, the Internet was released. Soon, hundreds of companies sought to harness this new technology. By 1999, the Internet stock bubble had swollen beyond belief, and everyone wanted a piece of the action. And we all remember what happened at the start of the new millennium. While this correction revealed the most recent illusions embedded within the economy, it s only a prelude of what to expect in the coming years. Today, economics control the investment cycle rather than hype generated by Wall Street. Accordingly, Washington can only hide the realities of America s decline for so long before the truth is revealed. Currently, we are in the middle stages of a secular bear market that began in 2001. Upon examination of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1900, it is clear that the stock market must correct downward in order to compensate for the spectacular appreciation of the 90s; a period fueled by excess consumption. Today we see that competitive forces from abroad are much more influential than in the past. In the mid-1990s, President Clinton signed off on NAFTA and the World Trade Organization, promising free trade would deliver better jobs and higher wages for all. But for the majority of Americans, the opposite has occurred. America entered the free trade paradigm as a losing participant from the start since all other nations place the burden of healthcare and pension costs with the government. While it still remains as the centerpiece for the global economy, America now relies on record debt to maintain its status as the world s strongest consumer marketplace. This has created the illusion of impressive productivity, while serving to mask declining living standards for the majority. As corporate America continues to achieve record profitability, these gains have come at the expense of its core citizens; the middle class. As a result of these trends, the United States is now more dependent upon foreign nations than anytime in its history. Declining oil reserves and a foreign-funded credit bubble have positioned its fate in the hands of the world. And its vulnerable role in the New Economy threatens to erode its empire status. Already, the effects of America s decline have registered. Declining competitiveness and reliance on foreign debt can be seen by noting the weakness of the dollar. As foreign nations lose interest in financing Washington s deficits, interest rates will soar. Soon, America will face the economic burden of 76 million aging boomers. Beginning in 2011, expenditures for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will start to grow rapidly. During this same period it is likely that peak oil will have been reached; this alone promises to cause worldwide devastation. In summary, I have presented what I feel to be a strong case for America s declining economic position and weakened competitive landscape by addressing the major issues at hand the trade imbalance and federal debt, free trade, healthcare, Social Security, pensions, the real estate bubble, the war in Iraq, tensions in the Middle East, the global oil shortage, and the effect baby boomers will have as they enter what they expect to be their Golden Years. See why Stathis has been censored by the media. They don t want you to know the truth.

America's Financial Apocalypse: How to Profit from the Next Great Depression (Condensed Edition)

Stathis

Economics

Over the past two decades, corporations have reaped financial rewards from America s bubble economy at the expense of working-class Americans. This has led to a long period of economic inequality. Now that the previous illusiveness of the bubble economy has been exposed, millions of Americans are jobless and without hope. Many are victims of unfair trade policies and a suppressed minimum wage. Others are victims of years of neglect by Washington, as well as the boundless greed and criminal mischief from Wall Street. 
 America s long period of declining living standards can no longer be masked by the inexpensive labor of illegal aliens, two-income households, and record debt. As it stands today, America is in the midst of the most devastating financial crisis since the Great Depression. 
 Despite what you may read and hear from the media, the banking crisis is not America s number one problem. It is but a short-term issue that will be remedied. Healthcare is absolutely the single biggest problem facing America. You don t need to look far in order to see the effects of America s healthcare crisis. The high cost of healthcare is destroying the finances of both consumers and employers alike, while compromising the health of millions. While employers struggle to remain globally competitive, healthcare costs continue to grow at three times the inflation rate and twice the rate of economic growth. This has forced companies to drop coverage, shift more out-of-pocket expenses to employees, freeze pensions, or outsource work to contractors both domestically and overseas. 
 Washington should be ashamed and humiliated. In no other nation can an illness send you into bankruptcy. America s profit-driven healthcare system is the most costly, yet least accessible and most inefficient in the world. Despite spending significantly less on healthcare, most developed nations have achieved longer life expectancies, lower infant mortality rates and higher levels of consumer satisfaction with their healthcare system. It is now time for the United States of America to design a healthcare system for the people rather than the profiteers. 
 But there is a solution that does not depend upon a universal or free market approach. To be clear, I am not necessarily advocating a system of universal healthcare. I am advocating a certain minimal level of very basic care that can be held in balance with a free market healthcare system. Moral issues aside, it just makes economic sense when you consider that many chronic illnesses and deadly diseases can be abated at a low cost if basic medical goods and services are provided. Otherwise, small ailments for those without medical insurance often progress into life-threatening emergencies, which are paid for by taxpayers. The problem is that America has neither a basic level of care nor a real free market healthcare system. In this book, I provide solutions for these deficiencies. 
 Regardless of the future direction of healthcare, it is clear that telemedicine will be an integral part of America s healthcare solution. Moreover, telemedicine will facilitate cost-effective access to medical services, improve clinical outcomes, deliver more resources for both providers and consumers, and slash costs. 
 Without immediate and radical change, America s poorly designed healthcare system will add further to the nation s economic decline. If, in fact, the current free market healthcare system cannot be modified to provide more coverage at a lower cost per capita, universal healthcare may become the only feasible alternative. Thus, it is in the best interest of providers to restructure the system if their aim is to minimize further government control.

America's Healthcare Solution: An Investment in Your Future

Mike Stathis

Health, Fitness & Dieting

In order to become a great investor you need to develop consistency. The only way to do well consistently in the stock market is to create a viable system. Whether you're a trader or an investor, you'll need to develop a system that works for you. Your system won't be some trading software that promises to transform a moron into a millionaire. And it won't be delivered to you by some investment guru. Your system will be one you create. It will be a system based upon how you're best able to analyze information and respond to change. It will be centered on your investment objectives, experience and financial resources. Your system will take many years to develop. In the process, you'll make many mistakes, so you must proceed slowly and conservatively. Once you develop some consistent success, you'll become more confident. But you must also recognize when to fine-tune your system because everything changes. In order to develop your system, you'll need to spend your time wisely, educating yourself and listening only to those who know what's really going on; not the guys who have been predicting Dow 30,000 or doom for twenty years. These guys are plastered all over television and the print media. They take extreme positions in order to market their services. But extremists never make money. This book was meant to be an educational resource. It wasn't meant to provide you with entertainment. If you want to read entertaining investment books with all of the rah-rah, the feel good messages, and "it's so easy" themes, there are thousands you can chose from. But this is not one of them. In this book I've covered what I feel to be the most important topics rather than focusing on a few because I wanted to provide you with a broad perspective. This is the foundation of my own investment methodology.

The Wall Street Investment Bible Volume 1

Stathis, Mike

Investing

Fashion Sewing: Advanced Techniques guides the reader through a range of intermediate and advanced skills, such as tailoring, sewing with knits, inserting linings and facings and how to sew a wide range of design variations for collars, pockets and sleeves. The detailed step-by-step instructions are easy to follow, with clear accompanying illustrations. 
This comprehensive guide is an ideal accompaniment to the first book in the series, Fashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques, but it will also enable those with a little sewing experience to master their fashion sewing skills and create beautiful, professional-looking garments.

Fashion Sewing: Advanced Techniques (Required Reading Range)

Amaden-Crawford, Connie

Basics Fashion Design 13: Sewing Techniques is intended for new undergraduates embarking on a fashion course with no prior experience of clothing and for those that want to develop a more creative process to their current work. It provides basic information and suitable activities for less experienced students and encourages practices and challenges to those who wish to develop more individual approaches to sewing and construction.Chapter one provides an overview of the reasons why consumers choose certain types of clothing and the social and psychological factors associated with those choices. Initially, this is designed to help the student closely examine contemporary fashion clothing to recognise and evaluate essential details and components.The approach used throughout the book encourages the student to practice different sewing techniques, reflect on the learning process and apply them (using industrial and domestic equipment). Each chapter is supported by an activity that prepares the reader for the next challenge; each time building upon their experience and linking the relationship between seams, components and garments. The case studies and interviews provide an insight into industry standard practice.There is also a discussion of the essential links between design, pattern cutting, fabric selection and sewing techniques and provides the student with more complex construction challenges based around the fit and finish of a garment. The final chapter explores the use of new technology and traditional sewing methods and the advantages these present to today's designer.Throughout the book, Jenny Prendergast encourages the reader to consider how the various techniques can be used in creative applications through unconventional sampling - inviting them to develop ideas from photographs and sketches and then use them as part of the design process.

Sewing Techniques (Basics Fashion Design)

Prendergast, Jennifer

A noted international designer and typographer encourages screen-based designers to establish an efficient hierarchyof information with clear layouts, proving how good design can generate visual logic. A well thought out grid system for the screens thereby allows the screen designer to create order, so that the users can easily orient themselves and find information. Includes successful examples of on-screen grids from leading international companies such as Adidas, Lufthansa, and Jaguar

Grids for the Internet & Other Digital Media

Veruschka Götz

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