September 8, 2016

Princeton Insider: Online Education

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It is now easier than ever to learn a new skill through e-learning tools, such as online programming and education. These courses have the ability to improve your lifestyle, health, wellness, and overall quality of life. Sign up today and perhaps you will be fluent in French by this time next year!

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My Pearson Store – Total Fitness & Wellness, The MasteringHealth Edition with eText

Provide your students with interactive tools to succeed in fitness and wellness

Total Fitness and Wellness gives readers a solid foundation in fitness and wellness, while providing them with the tools they need to make healthy behavioral changes and lifestyle choices. The vibrant design makes the book more approachable through modern chapter-opening photos, graphs, and detailed exercise photos.

The Seventh Edition provides a clear learning path, labs that can be completed and submitted online, and a thoroughly revised guide to creating a comprehensive fitness and wellness plan, ensuring readers have the print and online tools they need to succeed. To take advantage of the power of Mastering, every chapter of the text includes numbered Learning Outcomes and a new study plan that ties directly into MasteringHealth activities.

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PeachPit – Design Fundamentals: Notes on Type

Design Fundamentals: Notes on Type looks like a design student’s sketchbook with handwritten notes and full-color, hand-drawn illustrations. But it’s more than that. This gorgeously illustrated “notebook” is a full-blown typography course in disguise. Young designers are lured in by the lush graphics and quirky layout only to discover by the end of the book that they’ve learned all of the key concepts taught in a foundational course on type. They’ll learn about the history of letterforms, the anatomy and physiology of type, the basics of measurements and spacing, how to recognize and choose type for design projects, and more.

Fun and fast-paced, this creative notebook isn’t required reading, it’s desired reading; and it’s the third in a series of Design Fundamentals books that students will want to keep and enjoy long after they’ve mastered these basic building blocks of design.

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PeachPit – Taming your Photo Library with Adobe Lightroom

Today, photo professionals and amateurs alike can quickly amass thousands of photographs. The challenge for photographers at every level is how to keep track of all those photographs. Where do you store them? How do you organize them? How do you find a particular photo when you need it?

Adobe Lightroom is the leading solution for photographers’ photo management needs, but its organizational powers come with a learning curve. In this practical and thorough guide, author Rob Sylvan covers everything photographers need to know about photo organization and management using Lightroom.

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PeachPit – Adobe Acrobat DC Classroom in a Book

Adobe Acrobat DC Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for students to learn how to reliably create, edit, and sign PDF documents and forms with Adobe Acrobat DC. Each of the 13 lessons in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on their growing knowledge of the program, while end-of-chapter review questions reinforce each lesson. This cross-platform (Mac and Windows) book shows students how to collaborate effectively through electronic reviews, easily share their work across multiple platforms and devices (including via the new Adobe Document Cloud service), and speed up their production and business task workflow with Acrobat DC.

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My Pearson Store – Professing the New Rhetorics: A Sourcebook

This sourcebook is a collection of key texts in twentieth-century rhetoric. The first section –Overview and Theory–offers a historical introduction to the revival of rhetoric in the twentieth century. The second section–Commentary and Application–presents current approaches to rhetoric, illustrating the inclusiveness and breadth of the discipline.

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My Pearson Store – Editing for Writers

Based on interviews with actual workplace writers and editors, this unique text/workbook teaches editing approaches and skills that writers can apply to their own or others’ documents. Outlines a process to identify and solve problems and helps readers develop the ability to explain their editing decisions. Features 136 different kinds of exercises. Contains special chapters on editing on-line documentation, graphics, document design, and on international and intercultural issues, as well as 16 different checklists that can be applied to developmental editing, copyediting, and proofreading. For anyone interested in editing or copyediting; professional, technical, science, business, or nursing writing; or nonfiction writing.

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udemy – The Complete Java 8 Developer Course

This course assumes no previous experience and takes you from the absolute beginner concepts like showing you the tools you need to download and install, writing you very first Java program, and then goes into more detail as we explore the entire Java feature set.

All the essential Java keywords, operators, statements, and expressions are explained in great detail, together with complete chapters on object-oriented programming and the Java API.

You learn to develop powerful Java applications using one of the most powerful Integrated Development Environments on the market, IntelliJ IDEA!

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udemy – Practice and Perfect your French – Intermediate Level (HD)

Each section covers a specific use of the past in French and allows you to easily develop the four basic linguistic abilities: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Master each tense individually in context and learn how to use them together in this French immersive course.

  • Course 100% in French with French subtitles
  • Coherent and comprehensive teaching method Based on Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
  • Designed for students from A2 to B2 levels (lower-intermediate to advanced level)
  • Clear explanations with experienced native teacher
  • 48 lectures and dozens of quizzes to practice with real life examples
  • Validate your knowledge with quizzes
  • All videos available in HD

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informIT – Upgrading and Repairing PCs 22nd Edition

Learn from the undisputed PC hardware champion, Scott Mueller! This two-hour, studio-quality how-to video is playable on your DVD player or computer! In this video, Scott Mueller delivers a complete seminar on PC troubleshooting, teaching you how to identify and resolve an array of common and not-so-common PC problems.