Brad Frost

Each year more than 17 million Americans suffer from a depressive illness, yet few suffer in solitude. How You Can Survive When They're Depressed explores depression from the perspective of those who are closest to the sufferers of this prevalent disorder--spouses, parents, children, and lovers--and gives the successful coping strategies of many pe...

La vida media del ser humano es ridículamente breve: si llegas a los 80 años, habrás vivido unas 4000 semanas. Si tienes 40, solo te quedan 2000. Sin embargo, estamos obsesionados con interminables listas de tareas pendientes, buzones saturados de correos sin leer y la sensación de que nunca llegamos a todo. La mayoría de los consejos sobre gestión de tiempo fomentan la idea de que un día podremos «hacerlo todo» y convertirnos en los dueños de nuestro tiempo, totalmente optimizados y emocionalmente invencibles. Nada hay más falso que eso. Basándose en las ideas de filósofos, psicólogos y maestros espirituales antiguos y contemporáneos, Oliver Burkeman ofrece una guía entretenida y práctica para construir una vida con sentido, unos objetivos alcanzables y una apuesta por todo aquello que realmente vale la pena.

Discover your natural talents and passions with inspirational and practical guidance from the bestselling author of The Element. This long-awaited companion helps readers answer important questions about self-improvement, creativity, and personal transformation. With concern growing over the economy, education, and the environment, Finding Your Element comes at a critical time when connecting to our personal talents has never been more important. Regardless of your age or occupation, if you're searching for your Element, this book is for you.

From one of the world's leading thinkers and speakers on creativity and self-fulfillment, a breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at their highest levels. "The Element" draws on the stories of a wide range of people, from ex-Beatle Paul McCartney to Matt Groening, creator of "The Simpsons"; from Meg Ryan to Gillian Lynne, who choreographed the Broadway productions of "Cats" and "The Phantom of the Opera"; and from writer Arianna Huffington to renowned physicist Richard Feynman and others, including business leaders and athletes. It explores the components of this new The diversity of intelligence, the power of imagination and creativity, and the importance of commitment to our own capabilities. With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the element and those that stifle that possibility. He shows that age and occupation are no barrier, and that once we have found our path we can help others to do so as well. "The Element" shows the vital need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about human resources and imagination. It is also an essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the twenty-first century.

Learn how to art-direct compelling and effective experiences across devices and platforms with this eBook. Based on the author's twenty years of experience and interviews with expert art directors and designers, discover why art direction matters and how to apply techniques that will make your web designs more effective at communicating, persuading, and selling. Explore the work of some of the most influential art directors and learn how to apply their thinking to web design, including principles of design, directing grids, type, pictures, and more. Whether you're an experienced designer or just starting out, Art Direction for the Web will help take your web designs to the next level.

This book delves into the world of form design, tackling the problem of poorly designed forms on the web. Through step-by-step guides and real-world examples, readers will learn how to design simple, robust, and intuitive forms that offer a smooth user experience, as well as a close-to-exhaustive list of components delivered as a design system to use in their own projects. The book covers a range of form types, including registration, checkout, flight booking, login, inbox, search, filter, and upload forms. It examines crucial patterns, such as validation, and explores the use of ARIA to deliver custom form components that are progressively enhanced, responsive, accessible, and interoperable on any device.