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Beautiful Evidence
Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press
, 2006
A worthwhile read, if you have time to take it all in...
Beautiful Evidence The book goes to great lengths to explain the power and impact of visual imagery on the human mind. This type of psychological information can be valuable for many people in many different fields of expertise. The amount that it covers can be a ...
The Secret
Rhonda Byrne
Atria Books/Beyond Words
, 2006
A real Treasure
This is a great product. You can give it as a gift, keep it to be past on to your children and so forth. It is a very inspiring item. I can account for many of the things in there. A must buy.
Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
Stephen Few
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
, 2006
BUY THIS
this book is worth every penny. i use it all the time as a reference and it's a good read.
Envisioning Information
Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press
, 1990
An unveiling of visual design
I admit. I do not have natural tendencies for developing web sites, color maps, charts, schedules, power points, diagrams or GUIs. Anything as such comes out in complete discord until I came across Edward Tufte's name in a seminar brochure. Edward Tufte scrutinizes ...
College Algebra with Modeling and Visualization (3rd Edition) (Rockswold Series)
Gary K. Rockswold
Addison Wesley
, 2005
Watch Out! Illegal to Buy/Sell Instructor Edition
Watch Out! The Instructor Edition has black diagonal Notice across front, lower corner of book cover--which states it is illegal to Buy/Sell that edition!! The copyright info and Notice are also prominent inside book. Very definitely should NOT be posted to Amazon ...
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
Dan Roam
Portfolio Hardcover
, 2008
Drawing is better
The premise of the book is that any problem, idea, or presentation can be solved using pictures - hand drawn pictures. Roam argues that everyone is visual, even those who say they aren't. He gives a few frameworks to work from as you prepare to draw out maps, charts, ...
Guided Meditations: For Calmness, Awareness, and Love
Bodhipaksa
Wildmind Meditation
, 2002
Finally Guided by someone who actually practices.
As a former Buddhist monk (Im a white guy however, so let any images of Kwai Chang Caine go) and a teacher of DBT, ACT and MBSR to clinicians. I Have found that as one meditates more and more and enters into the silence of the mind, one understands the value of ...
Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life (Gawain, ...
Shakti Gawain
New World Library, Nataraj
, 2002
Life Changing in a Profound & Positive Way
You will certainly gain something significant from this book if you have an open mind. It has truly and profoundly changed my life in incredibly positive ways, and with instant results. I am definitely going to share ideas from this book with the class I teach on ...
Indexed
Jessica Hagy
Studio
, 2008
Clever
Fabulous little book - funny, topical, wickedly subversive in spots. Wish I was this clever!
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press
, 1997
another great book by Tufte on graphs
In this third book by Tufte on graphics, he provides great examples through history where good pictures conveyed important information to decision makers and bad graphics left uncetainty and indecision. A great success story is the identification of the source of the ...
Creative Visualization Meditations (Gawain, Shakti)
New World Library, Nataraj
, 2002
Enlightening
The power we have over ourselves usng creative visualization is infinite. This was easy, relaxing and perfect for people who want to tap into themselves. One of the best purchases ive made.
Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making
Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press
, 1997
Superb analytical writing
Tufte is a master of laying out the problem, revealing misguided analysis used in the two studies that he dissects and then shows how to better interpret the data. I found myself slowing down my usual reading speed to half and doubling my concentration to follow him, ...
Life Visioning: A Four-stage Evolutionary Journey to Live As Divine Love
Michael Bernard Beckwith
Sounds True
, 2008
Michael Beckwith a Gift of Life
This man is so enlightened and able to transmit his beauty to others. To get the most out of this CD you need to be willing to let go; Michael will guide you to enter into a new dimension in your being. Remember, we are all going to the same place; we are all looking ...
Visualizing Data
Ben Fry
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
, 2008
Great book, bad title
I'm short of superlatives for this book or more generally for the work of Ben Fry. In my line of work, how people think of graphs is very much influenced by what is possible to do in Excel without changing the default settings too much. Enter Processing, a data ...
Five Good Minutes: 100 Morning Practices To Help You Stay Calm & Focused All Day Long
Jeffrey, M.D. Brantley
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Wendy-O Matik
New Harbinger Publications
, 2005
Take five mnutes to get this book!
Can five minutes make a difference in your life? The answer is a resounding YES, according to authors Jeffrey Brantley and Wendy Millstone in FIVE GOOD MINUTES IN THE MORNING (see also Section 2)--a most informative book that is filled with suggestions on what ...
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