Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Second Edition

 By Steve Krug, Publisher: New Riders Press
Pages: 216, Date: 2005-08-28
ISBN-10 : 0321344758
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Description:
Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike.

Don't be surprised if it completely changes the way you think about Web design.
Three New Chapters!
* Usability as common courtesy -- Why people really leave Web sites
* Web Accessibility, CSS, and you -- Making sites usable and accessible
* Help! My boss wants me to ______. -- Surviving executive design whims
"I thought usability was the enemy of design until I read the first edition of this book. Don't Make Me Think! showed me how to put myself in the position of the person who uses my site. After reading it over a couple of hours and putting its ideas to work for the past five years, I can say it has done more to improve my abilities as a Web designer than any other book.

In this second edition, Steve Krug adds essential ammunition for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing. If you design, write, program, own, or manage Web sites, you must read this book." -- Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with Web Standards

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StrengthsFinder 2.0 : Strengths-Based Leadership

By Tom Rath, Barry Conchie
Publisher: Gallup Press, Pages: 216,
Date: 2009-01-06, ISBN-10 : 1595620257
RAR PDF 6.5MB

Rath and Conchie have provided us with a helpful tool for fine-tuning our own leadership capacity.

Using statistical factor analysis of data in Gallup's database, the authors detail how balanced leadership teams have strengths within four Leadership Domains: Strategic Thinking, Relationship Building, Influencing, and Executing.

The authors relate that while individuals are rarely balanced, teams always should be. Leadership Teams operating in these four domains work both to serve the four primary needs of their constituencies and to execute their primary organizational responsibilities.

Using a recent Gallup review of data from 10,000 followers, the authors also report that followers report surprising agreement on four of their primary needs: trust, compassion, stability, and hope.

Leaders who use the code that comes with the book to take the online Strengthsfinder assessment (www.strengthsfinder.com) to determine their Top 5 Strengths are provided with a customized Strengths-Based Leadership report that help them understand their Top 5 Strengths and a Strengths-Based Leadership Guide that provides detailed advice on how to use each of their Top 5 Strengths to meet the four primary needs.

Leaders who read this book will have a deepened appreciation of both their own leadership abilities and of the degree to which they lead best when they work in team.

The four Leadership Domains and the four primary needs of followers provide leaders with a rich paradigm for considering new approaches in attacking organizational priorities.

Highly recommended.

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Cambridge Preparation for the TOEFL Test (Book & CD-ROM)

By Jolene Gear, Robert Gear
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages: 616, Publication Date : 2006-09-11

Description: The Cambridge Preparation for the TOEFL® Test, Fourth Edition, helps students master the language skills they need to succeed on the new TOEFL® iBT test and communicate effectively in an academic setting.

Cambridge Preparation for the TOEFL® Test, Fourth Edition, helps students master the language skills they need to succeed on the TOEFL® iBT Test and communicate effectively in an academic setting.

Using an integrated skills approach that mirrors the structure of the TOEFL® iBT, this fully revised text is ideal for classroom use and self-study.

The book contains hundreds of skill-building exercises covering all of the question types in the exam and four practice tests.

A supporting skills section is provided to improve grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and study skills. The CD-ROM includes the tests from the book plus three additional practice tests in an electronic format that simulates the online TOEFL® iBT test.

The audio program, available on Audio CDs or Audio Cassettes, contains conversations, lectures, and all listening material for all listening exercises and test questions.

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Kaplan PDF For TOEFL Paper-and-Pencil

Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Pages: 560, ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0743241371
PDF, Size 13 Mb

Kaplan's TOEFL® Exam Workbook with 3 Audio CDs, 3d Edition provides a complete review of all the material on both the computer-based and paper-based TOEFL® exam, plus targeted practice for all sections of the test.

This review, plus Kaplan's powerful test-taking strategies, makes TOEFL® Exam Workbook a highly effective tool to help you score higher on the TOEFL® exam and make yourself more competitive for admission to an American university.

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