Susan Powers

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

Embracing the Uncertainties of Life

Walking on Air

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Maria Giudice

Christopher Ireland

Kat Holmes

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World

Today's radically complex problems require people to lead with design. Changemakers is an essential playbook for designers and nondesigners who want to drive change at work, at home, and in their communities. Groundbreaking designers Maria Giudiceand Christopher Ireland --armed with insights from some of today's top minds in business, tech, and social justice --offera pragmatic, people-centered approach to change.

Changemakers

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Lynn Grabhorn

The Astonishing Power of Feelings

Before there was Rhonda Byrne's The Secret there was Lynn Grabhorn's self-help smash hit: Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting. Upbeat, humorous, and iconoclastic, Lynn Grabhorn introduced readers to the power of the Law of Attraction in 2000. The hardcover edition was an immediate hit and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. This is a no-nonsense bare-knuckled self-help book that draws on the riches of the New Thought movement and popular psychology. This expanded edition includes a special commissioned 16-page study guide, making it ideal for both individual and group study. Through the original text and the new material, this book conveys Lynn Grabhorn's message of self-empowerment and hope. Life can be wonderful and that wonderfulness is easily achieved. In short, you have the power to change your life. So do it!

Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting, Expanded Study Edition

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Cliff Kuang

Robert Fabricant

How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

AMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2019 PICK

FORTUNE WRITERS AND EDITORS' RECOMMENDED BOOKS OF 2019 PICK

"User Friendly is a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting."
--EDWARD TENNER, The New York Times Book Review

In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women's rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this book unpacks the ways in which the world has been--and continues to be--remade according to the principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design.

In this essential text, Kuang and Fabricant map the hidden rules of the designed world and shed light on how those rules have caused our world to change--an underappreciated but essential history that's pieced together for the first time. Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, User Friendly provides a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable. In User Friendly, Kuang and Fabricant tell the whole story for the first time--and you'll never interact with technology the same way again.

User Friendly

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Handbook of Human-Centered Design Methods

This is your essential resource for innovation. It’s a collection of methods for practicing Human-Centered Design—the discipline of developing solutions in the service of people. The thirty-six methods in this handbook are organized by way of three key design skills: Looking, Understanding and Making. We invite you to develop these skills in earnest and work with others to bring new and lasting value to the world.

Innovating for People

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Is your team thriving in a world of relentless and rapid change?

From the New York Times bestselling author of SmartTribes and Rules for Renegades comes a potent set of neuroscience-based tools to empower your team in uncertain times.

Whether it's diminished sales, increased competition, or corporate restructuring, change is a natural part of doing business in today's high-speed, information-overload, instant-response environment. But inherent in human nature is resistance to change--a basic emotional response that is well-documented by neuroscience. In this groundbreaking guide, top leadership consultant and employee engagement expert Christine Comaford shows you how to bring your tribe together to tackle any challenge head-on. Using her simple, proven strategies, you'll be able to:

* Meet the demands of changing markets, customers, and competitors

* Adapt to new management, restructuring, and other corporate shakeups

* Spark innovation and teamwork in the workplace--and keep it burning

* Empower your people to embrace change as a new opportunity for growth

Filled with case studies and all-too-familiar examples, this book will enable you to release resistance to change, build more emotionally agile teams, and mobilize the entire organization quickly and efficiently toward a clear and common goal. By training and empowering your team members to shift their emotional states--and see the positive potential of change--you can lead your tribe through any challenge and ensure success for years to come. 










Power Your Tribe: Create Resilient Teams in Turbulent Times

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8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change

Discover eight powerful mindset shifts that enable leaders and those they lead to adapt and thrive in a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty. Being adaptable and flexible have always been hallmarks of effective leadership, but recent events have seriously stress tested this idea. How do you find calm in the midst of all this chaos? You need a new mindset, one that treats constant change and uncertainty as a feature, not a bug. Flux helps you develop eight flux superpowers that take conventional ideas and turn them on their heads. They'll enable you to see change in new ways, develop new responses, and ultimately reshape your relationship to change. The eight flux superpowers are: 1. Run slower 2. See what's invisible 3. Get lost 4. Start with trust 5. Know your enough 6. Create your portfolio career 7. Be all the more human (and serve other humans) 8. Let go of the future The world is in constant flux, but we can learn to navigate change gracefully and confidently. Whether you're sizing up your career or reassessing your values, designing a product or building an organization, trying to inspire your colleagues or simply show up more fully in the world, activating your flux superpowers will keep you grounded even when the ground is constantly shifting beneath you. This book will include a discussion guide.

Flux

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From one of Inc. magazine's "Coolest College Startups"--the revolutionary three-step method that will transform every presentation into an experience for the audience

Rid the world of bad presentations with:

Engaging Content + Memorable and Simple Design + Powerful Delivery

Together, these create an unforgettable experience for the audience, The Big Fish Experience.

Big Fish Presentations spends every day making the incomprehensible compelling; the mundane interesting; and the complex simple. Whether it's a presentation about an idea, a product, a service, a business, or a cause, at its heart, it's a story. The Big Fish Experience will help you tell yours. Learn how to:

CAPTIVATE
with the power of story, enticing visuals, and infectious enthusiasm

INSPIRE
with the perfect pitch, a strong message, and a call to action

ENGAGE
with supreme skill and confidence--and achieve your purpose every time

In this practical, step-by-step guide, you'll find proven techniques and expert tips on new presentation tools; innovative ways to deliver your ideas; case studies of presentations, which you can emulate immediately; and ways to recover if things go wrong.

Big Fish Presentations works with clients nationwide--from startups to Fortune 100 companies--to turn presentations into experiences by providing copywriting, presentation design, presentation training, and video production, using the latest, most innovative strategies.

The Big Fish Experience: Create Memorable Presentations That Reel in Your Audience

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WE DESIGN TO ELICIT RESPONSES from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action of some kind. Designing without understanding what makes people act the way they do is like exploring a new city without a map: results will be haphazard, confusing, and inefficient. This book combines real science and research with practical examples to deliver a guide every designer needs. With this book you'll design more intuitive and engaging apps, software, websites and products that match the way people think, decide and behave.

 

INCREASE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR PRODUCTS.

Apply psychology and behavioral science to your designs.

Here are some of the questions this book will answer:

* What grabs and holds attention.

* What makes memories stick?

* What is more important, peripheral or central vision?

* Can you predict the types of errors people will make?

* What is the limit to someone's social circle?

* What line length for text is best?

* Are some fonts better than others?

These are just a few of the questions that the book answers in its deep-dive exploration of what makes people tick.

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People

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Bridging the Two Cultures

Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. Kandel illustrates how reductionism--the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller, more tractable components--has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths. He draws on his Nobel Prize-winning work revealing the neurobiological underpinnings of learning and memory in sea slugs to shed light on the complex workings of the mental processes of higher animals.

In Reductionism in Art and Brain Science, Kandel shows how this radically reductionist approach, applied to the most complex puzzle of our time--the brain--has been employed by modern artists who distill their subjective world into color, form, and light. Kandel demonstrates through bottom-up sensory and top-down cognitive functions how science can explore the complexities of human perception and help us to perceive, appreciate, and understand great works of art. At the heart of the book is an elegant elucidation of the contribution of reductionism to the evolution of modern art and its role in a monumental shift in artistic perspective. Reductionism steered the transition from figurative art to the first explorations of abstract art reflected in the works of Turner, Monet, Kandinsky, Schoenberg, and Mondrian. Kandel explains how, in the postwar era, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Louis, Turrell, and Flavin used a reductionist approach to arrive at their abstract expressionism and how Katz, Warhol, Close, and Sandback built upon the advances of the New York School to reimagine figurative and minimal art. Featuring captivating drawings of the brain alongside full-color reproductions of modern art masterpieces, this book draws out the common concerns of science and art and how they illuminate each other.

Reductionism in Art and Brain Science

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How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

An engineering professor who started out doing poorly in mathematical and technical subjects in school offers tools, tips and techniques to learning the creative and analytical thought processes that will lead to achievement in math and science. Original.

A Mind for Numbers

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How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding – reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream. But what if, both up and down the social ladder, meritocracy is a sham? Today, meritocracy has become exactly what it was conceived to resist: a mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Upward mobility has become a fantasy, and the embattled middle classes are now more likely to sink into the working poor than to rise into the professional elite. At the same time, meritocracy now ensnares even those who manage to claw their way to the top, requiring rich adults to work with crushing intensity, exploiting their expensive educations in order to extract a return. All this is not the result of deviations or retreats from meritocracy but rather stems directly from meritocracy’s successes. This is the radical argument that Daniel Markovits prosecutes with rare force. Markovits is well placed to expose the sham of meritocracy. Having spent his life at elite universities, he knows from the inside the corrosive system we are trapped within. Markovits also knows that, if we understand that meritocratic inequality produces near-universal harm, we can cure it. When The Meritocracy Trap reveals the inner workings of the meritocratic machine, it also illuminates the first steps outward, towards a new world that might once again afford dignity and prosperity to the American people.

The Meritocracy Trap

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Sketching Working Experience: The Workbook provides information about the step-by-step process of the different sketching techniques. It offers methods called design thinking, as a way to think as a user, and sketching, a way to think as a designer. User-experience designers are designers who sketch based on their actions, interactions, and experiences. The book discusses the differences between the normal ways to sketch and sketching used by user-experience designers. It also describes some motivation on why a person should sketch and introduces the sketchbook. The book reviews the different sketching methods and the modules that contain a particular sketching method. It also explains how the sketching methods are used. Readers who are interested in learning, understanding, practicing, and teaching experience design, information design, interface design, and information architecture will find this book relevant.

Sketching User Experiences: the Workbook

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A Step-By-Step Guide to Building a Meaningful Future

"Life, just like a design problem, is full of constraints--time, money, age, location, and circumstances. You cannot have everything, and if you want more out of it, you have to be creative about how to make what you need and what you want co-exist. This requires design thinking. Design the Life You Love uses a simple but proven creative thinking and design process to give ordinary people new tools to think about life differently, and also includes fascinating examples from the world of art and design that relate to each step of the process, plus guided creative exercises."--

Karina Oh

@ohkarinaoh

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