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Create Better Compositions by Design

The path to better painting begins with Mastering Composition. This effective guide blends clear, visual instruction with 5 step-by-step demonstrations to show you how to plan and paint your best work yet.

Composition is the key, and here you'll learn to design paintings with new skill and confidence. It all begins with the armature or structure of the picture plane. Every great painting has one, and you'll see through several famous examples exactly how the Old Masters used armatures to create movement, narrative, harmony and fluidity. Based on these examples, you'll practice what you've learned following a series of hands-on demonstrations.

Once you understand the basic principles of design, you'll be amazed at how quickly and effectively your compositions come together. Soon you will be painting more boldly and confidently than ever before with less reworking and overworking.

Whether you're a beginner looking for basic instruction or a more advanced painter troubleshooting a specific problem, the proven methods in this book will work for you. Ideal for all mediums, Mastering Composition gives you the knowledge you need to create powerful paintings out of every subject..
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"The one and only reason to go lean is to make more money", says Bill Carreira Lean Manufacturing That Works is the first book to bring all the principles of lean manufacturing to where they're needed most: the shop floor and the people supervising daily operations Engagingly written and easy to put to work, the book features essential tools that can help streamline operations in any manufacturing environment.Section 1 presents a thorough overview of lean, with discussions of: cost and cash flow; velocity and lead time; what waste is and how it affects both profit and customer satisfaction; how to quantify opportunities to become more profitable; and how to use lean manufacturing to both complement and implement business strategy.Section 2 gives step-by-step, dollar-by-dollar guidance on creating a lean process at virtually any manufacturing company, from laying out processes to transitioning and training employees. There is also valuable insight on establishing metrics and ensuring continuous improvement. Gaining specific, practical knowledge with every page, the reader will move effortlessly through the book and return to the shop floor with a workable plan for cutting waste and boosting profits..
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A field-tested guide to increasing sales by selling the way the customer wants to buy

"As any salesperson knows, if you handle a prospect's objections to buying, you often close the sale. Of course, it's not that easy, thanks to hidden objections and other obstacles. Harry Washburn and Kim Wallace ease the job here by offering new insights into objections prospects tend to raise, as well as how to address them." -Mark Henricks, American Way

Based on twenty-five years of research and practice, and featuring dozens of case examples, Why People Don't Buy Things offers a systematic approach to understanding customers' motivations and tailoring the entire sales strategy to fit the customer's buying profile.

"Why People Don't Buy Things picks up where positioning leaves off. Washburn and Wallace take the mystery out of the selling process and offer an innovative method for converting skeptical consumers into loyal customers." -John C. Ferries, former President-International, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles.
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Combining lean manufacturing with Six Sigma quality assurance creates a one-two punch that can transform results in any manufacturing environment. Lean Six Sigma That Works is filled with detailed, practical processes that let readers leave the conference room, and get right to work. Clear and simple, it's an ideal guide for both seasoned professionals and those implementing their first lean sigma project. The book offers a step-by-step improvement strategy, plus an understanding of:

* cost, cash flow, materials velocity, lead time, balance, waste, and non-value-added processes * value stream mapping and the DMAIC process for solving problems and improving quality profitability * how every form of waste impacts customer satisfaction and the bottom line * and much more.

A strong and sensible combination of the "why" and the "how," Lean Six Sigma That Works offers a clear path to high quality, customer loyalty, and indisputable results..
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What is the single, most important event of the school year that affects school improvement? How do you measure school improvement? How can simple tools--already at your fingertips--work more effectively to improve student achievement in reading, math, and more?

The Results Fieldbook answers these questions and describes in abundant, practical detail how five school systems overcame obstacles and achieved exceptional results for all their students. These schools focused on the proven core concepts that Mike Schmoker described in both editions of his first ASCD book, Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement. Supplementing the five case studies, brief vignettes written by practitioners show how core practices--teamwork, the use of achievement data, and planning for measurable goals--made an immediate and profound difference in student learning at their respective schools.

A close look at these school systems reveals the simplicity of school improvement efforts built around the still-overlooked and most potent force in improvement--collective, organized teacher intelligence. This book contains easily adapted processes and refinements that result from such teacher collaboration and all but guarantee measurable improvement. Tables, figures, and appendixes illustrate effective data-collection processes; and at the conclusion, a three-part synthesis of the best of these systems provides practical steps toward implementing this radically more effective approach to school improvement, starting with preservice education..
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Things can get pretty crazy in marital relationships. As one reviewer has said, “What wife hasn’t felt like strangling her husband at least once during their marriage?” With her lighthearted personality and humor, author Merrilee Boyack shares twenty-five years’ worth of marital perspective in this practical guide to improve any marriage. As an estate-planning attorney, Merrilee has dealt with many struggling couples going through divorce. (Seven-year marriages seem to have the greatest challenges.) She offers practical tips for women who want to better understand men (particularly their husbands) and build happier marriages. She invites women to dump the guilt, be open enough to learn about areas they’d like to improve, and then take the steps to make those changes. Readers will also find a wealth of fun and practical advice in chapters like “The Five ‘Don’ts’ and Five ‘Do’s’ of Wifehood,” “But How Do I Change My Husband?” and “No, Really, How Can I Change Him?”.
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At last, here's a book that walks parents step-by-step through the process of improving challenging child behavior. It's short, to the point, and in journal format: just what harried parents need to learn Tina Feigal's Present Moment Parenting. The Pocket Coach for Parents provides readers with a new set of techniques that creates a whole new set of results. Order includes CD: 60 Minutes with Parent Coach Tina Feigal.

What's brand new in parenting intense kids?
1. You can turn child behavior around. No more regretting the past or fearing the future.
2. You can have a huge effect on your child's bodily response when you learn these techniques.
3. You don't need to punish bad behavior.
4. Your child's self-esteem soars when you learn to trust her.
5. You'll feel so much better as a parent. You can stop judging yourself and feeling guilty about techniques that don't work..
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A complete 9-step program to reduce salt, increase potassium, and dramatically lower the risk of salt-induced diseases.

Some 50 million Americans suffer from high blood pressure, the leading cause of heart attacks and stroke. Our high salt diet is a major contributor to not only high blood pressure, but also a host of other life-threatening diseases, including osteoporosis and asthma.

The simple program outlined in this book can help anyone reverse the ravages of salt addiction. The Sodium Solution offers convincing evidence that lowering salt intake and increasing potassium may be the key nutritional step one can take to protect health and reverse disease. .
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