DesignSense For Presentations

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Unmatched Design Sense for Non-Designers

Delivers excellent presentation design guidelines

Great interactive learning for document design

DesignSense For Presentations
Margo Halverson
Manufacturer: Proximity Learning
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: CD-ROM

General | Graphic Arts | Graphic Design | Design & Decorative Arts | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0967873606

Book Description

DesignSense For Presentations is a computer-based training program on CD-ROM that trains PowerPoint users to think like graphic designers. It was developed for businesspeople who must create presentations, yet have no graphic design background. DesignSense is easy to use, is presented in a lively and engaging format, and provides the knowledge and skills to make better looking presentations.

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Unmatched Design Sense for Non-Designers.......2003-12-04

DesignSense is unmatched for it's quality of presentation of graphics for non-graphics types. Though I know a great deal about graphics, I find it very helpful and am planning to use it as a training tool at my job. Our newsletters have looked amateurish way too long. This tool will help you and those in your company design better publications and graphics!

Delivers excellent presentation design guidelines.......2000-07-07

I've been from the school of "use-what's there' when creating PowerPoint presentations. As long as I don't put too much text on a slide, include some clipart and charts, it's 'good enough'. As a consequence, I've never been satisfied with the results.

DesignSense is the first step-by-step material I've come across that explains the underlying principles simply, and clearly illustrates how to use them. You don't need to work through all of the materials before starting to see benefits. I was able to apply early guidelines to my presentations immediately. In some cases, the results were nothing short of stunning.

The progression of the material makes sense, moving from layout (relatively easy to conceptualize) to uses of type (a little more subtle), color and visual effects (the most knotty issue).

I've worked through the material thoroughly once. Now, the best way I've found to work with the program is to keep it open while I'm in PowerPoint, and use it as a reference. There's a very useful critique section I run through when I think I'm finished.

The package justified its purchase price on the value of any one of a number of guidelines:

- Use of small vs. large caps

- Use of techniques other than bold and underline for emphasis

- Reducing the size of text can ADD emphasis

- Limiting the number of type faces

- Details on punctuation

- Discussion of color palette and its use

If you do a lot of presentations, DesignSense is strongly recommended. It's like having Fowler's English Usage handy - except that it applies to design.

Great interactive learning for document design.......2000-04-07

One problem in written communication is that many creative possibilities are available on computers. You'd think that was the good news, but it's not. In the age of typewriters, upper case and underlining were our only design capabilities. We took our typewritten drafts to a trained graphic designer, and all was well.

Today's writers have countless typefaces available, and some people use too many in a document; they add boldface, italics, and outline effects; they employ ten different font sizes in one document, or reverse out their type, or add borders galore. The result can be ugly, unreadable documents.

It's especially hard with PowerPoint® (PP) presentations; the templates are predictable and encourage poor design. However, 90% of the electronic slides made in this country are created in PP. Some critics suggest throwing the program away; others advocate plug-in programs to make PP work better.

DesignSense for Presentations, a CD-ROM instructional program, presents another alternative: It suggests that users can learn basic design principles to improve PP productions, Web-based documents, and all their paper texts. Design principles are normally time-consuming and hard to teach in traditional classes. There are good textbooks, but they're not interactive or dynamic.

Design Sense shows different design options dynamically. The learner can experiment with reverse type (type color and ground) or view text in "tight," "regular," and "loose" options. There's an especially good section on typeface. With this 12-hour course, it's possible to work through each lesson in about a half an hour, which easily fits the time constraints of most corporate learners.

There are four sections of lessons: 1. Slide Layout 2. Type 3. Color 4. Visuals

An integration section follows: 1. Critique 2. Gallery 3. Templates (before and after) 4. Makeover 5. Examples 6. Glossary

DesignSense subscribes to a minimalist school of design, proposing that the simplest possible design is the very best. Every graphic component should be tested against the question: "Do we really need this component?"

The program runs on CD-ROM and is not installed on a user's system. It's very simple to run and has no complicated manuals. The registration form asks you to "Please fill out the following information, or tape your business card here." Such a simple, useful idea mirrors the entire program, which is simple and useful.

Book Description

Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Ganesha. El destructor de los obstaculos (Coleccion India Eterna)

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Ganesha. El destructor de los obstaculos (Coleccion India Eterna)
Enrique Rojas
Manufacturer: Editorial Yug
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Product Description

Un precioso tesoro de arte, devolcion y busqueda trascendental se encierra en el culto a Ganesha, senor de la inteligencia, la pureza, el sacrificio y el trabajo dedicado, virtudes, entre muchas mas, que lo convierten en el destructor de los obstaculos, la deidad a quien se invoca antes que a nadie al emprender cualquier empresa de cualquier ambito de la vida humana.

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Angel with a bushy beard
Dudley Gardiner
Manufacturer: St. Andrew Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Waste of Time
WASTE OF TIME!
Esoteric Historey Comes Alive
Excellent writing!
This book was the worst book I have ever read.

Angels in a Harsh World
Don Bradley
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

Haley Olsten's birth was foretold by a beautiful woman looking down from the sky, counseling her father to take good care of this precious child and prepare her for her mission. And so Franklin Olsten did his best. When, at age twenty-two, in l932, Haley announced her intention to travel to India, he hid his fears and let her go into the adventure of her own life. Haley's open heart absorbs the ancient wisdom of India eagerly, and her beauty and goodness attract everyone to her. But her innocence of real evil puts her in terrible danger. Affection for her traveling companion, Ann, makes Haley unable to see that envy has poisoned Ann's feelings for her and made her an enemy. Confidence in the goodness of the world makes Haley unwisely brave in going alone to the palace of Maharaja Damor Saling. And here begins Haley's real learning: first, of the existence of true evil, and then, of her own predestined role in fighting for good. Don Bradley believes that all of us are called upon to play a part in the constant, invisible struggle between the forces of good and evil. In Angels in a Harsh World, Haley's courage in finding the best and highest self within her defeats an apparently indomitable evil power. She is one of the "angels." Are you? Is your life a story like this? Why not?

Customer Reviews:

Waste of Time.......2000-08-03

2/25/2000 Worst Book I Have Read In A Very Long Time!!

I do not know what people are thinking when they give this book a positive review. I could hardly force myself to finish it and I wouldn't have if it wasn't this months book group selection. What terrible writing! Did this guy have an editor? If you like metaphysical fiction stick with Richard Bach or Mary Summer Rain or any number of authors who know how to write. I cannot express more strongly how much I hated this book. Very, very disappointing, but again it's Don Bradley writing this stuff. Bradley--why did you quickly depart Colorado?

WASTE OF TIME!.......2000-04-12

Bradley spins a tale that can't possibly be true. Read on DC to London flight. Time would have been better spent sleeping. Don't waste your time--watch X Files!

Esoteric Historey Comes Alive.......2000-01-23

The author has again succeeded in writing an epic novel that is at once both an exciting adventure story on a grand scale, as well as an unusually insightful teaching of high spiritual truths.

The story is set in the early part of the 1900s and is simply engrossing. While reading, I found within the pages of this hard-to-put-down book many simple yet profound lessons on practical living, along with the examples of how others have dealt with their spiritual path.

Esoteric history comes alive with vivid detail in this epic story, spanning countries and continents, and including secret teachers in India and magical espionage in Nazi Germany.

In today's market of new-age authors clamoring for recognition, Bradley's books clearly stand above the many. I believe this book will become one of those long sought-after classics of metaphysical literature that are so rare, even in today's climate of increasing spiritual thought.

Excellent writing!.......1999-10-05

Having just finished this latest offering from Mr. Bradley, I am moved to say here and now that he is a wunderkind of sorts. Insight and penmanship abound profusely across his pages.

This book was the worst book I have ever read........1999-09-22

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interesting chain of events

Angels in India
Renee Riendeau
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0738806714

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interesting chain of events.......2000-08-17

In this tale of the author's search for a "healing" conference, Riendeau finds healing in unexpected ways through people she encounters on the journey. The details are vivid and real. I once lived on the subcontinent and could relate to some of her culture shock. Riendeau is certainly braver than I. There were many times during her trip where I would have said, "okay, enough is enough, I'm going home now." But she hung in there, and retells the story in this interesting book.

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The Great Mutiny from the Memsahibs' Perspective

Angels of Albion
Jane Robinson
Manufacturer: Penguin UK
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0670846708

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The Great Mutiny from the Memsahibs' Perspective.......2003-07-03

Robinson provides a unique analysis of the Great Mutiny from the perspective of the British women involved. Robinson conveys, in a manner that strictly military writers do not, the scope of the Mutiny and its "domestic" impact.

Only another woman could have written this book. Robinson combines sympathy with a certain level of judgment of the actions and opinions of some of the participants in a straightforward way. She is unencumbered by the Victorian deference to women and current fear of radical feminism.

The selection of photographs-- current and historical-- and old wood cuts that accompany the text reflect great care and excellent judgment.

In all, an important addition to the field of Mutiny scholarship related in a very human way.

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Carnage by Angels

Manufacturer: Samarpushp Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000C0KWE2

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Self-published novel by a former Indian police officer about corruption in the Indian Police Service. Published in Mumbai (Bombay) India.

Conquista y colonizacion de Puerto Rico segun el Cronista de Indias: Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes

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Conquista y colonizacion de Puerto Rico segun el Cronista de Indias: Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes
De Oviedo y Valdes , and Fernandez Gonzalo
Manufacturer: Editorial Nuevo Mundo
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Perfect Paperback
ASIN: 0977494020

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El área antillana fue la primera región del Nuevo Mundo que sufrió el choque cultural que produjo el descubrimiento y colonización de América. Ante los umbrales de un nuevo milenio y frente al Quinto Centenario de la colonización de Puerto Rico que se cumple el 12 de agosto de 2008, se hace imperante cobrar conciencia sobre el proceso que dio paso a la nacionalidad Puertorriqueña. En ese día se inició el camino histórico que forjó al pueblo puertorriqueño. Esta es la idea de la presente recopilación titulada: Conquista y colonización de Puerto Rico según el Cronista de Indias: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés. El propósito de esta recopilación es hacer accesible para los estudiosos del tema, los escritos sobre Puerto Rico que se encuentran en la Historia general y natural de las Indias del cronista Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478-1557). Además presenta una interpretación antropológica de esta obra. A diferencia de la Historia Geográfica, Civil y Natural de la isla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico (1788) de fray Íñigo Abad y Lasierra que ha circulado ampliamente en Puerto Rico, la Historia de Fernández de Oviedo es casi desconocida en su totalidad, a pesar de la valiosa información que contiene. En la Conquista y colonización de la Isla de Puerto Rico se menciona los sucesos ocurridos durante los primeros años de la conquista de Puerto Rico por Juan Ponce de León. El resto del texto se ilustra con grabados y dibujos de la propia Historia de Fernández de Oviedo y de otras fuentes como Theodore de Bry. El texto consta de 120 páginas. Las notas del editor aparecen enumeradas al final de cada capítulo. Ángel Rodríguez Álvarez, Ph.D. Editor, Puerto Rico, 2007

India's Mythology in the Novel El Alhajadito (The Bejewelled Boy) by Miguel Angel Asturias (Hispanic Literature, V. 80)

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India's Mythology in the Novel El Alhajadito (The Bejewelled Boy) by Miguel Angel Asturias (Hispanic Literature, V. 80)
Richard J. Callan
Manufacturer: Edwin Mellen Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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"THE LONGEST JOURNEY", "HOWARDS END", "MAURICE", "WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD", "PASSAGE TO INDIA" AND "A ROOM WITH A VIEW" BY E. M. FORSTER [6 VOLUME SET__ BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB EDITION, 1995]

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"THE LONGEST JOURNEY", "HOWARDS END", "MAURICE", "WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD", "PASSAGE TO INDIA" AND "A ROOM WITH A VIEW" BY E. M. FORSTER [6 VOLUME SET__ BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB EDITION, 1995]
E. M. FORSTER
Manufacturer: BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH, NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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