Cool Tools

Cool Tools
Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher: KK
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Appropriate technology
ISBN: 9781940689005

A selection of the best tools available for individuals and small groups. Tools include hand tools, maps, how-to books, vehicles, software, specialized devices, gizmos, websites -- and anything useful.

Tools to Cool

Tools to Cool
Author: Stephanie Scott
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1039131727

Can you find something you might do to wiggle your worries away? What about something that smells like chocolate and feels warm to touch, or a place where you can go to feel safe? Can you find something you may dream upon, shooting across the dark sky? See if you can find over 20 hidden coping tools and strategies in this ultimate seek and find book with a social-emotional learning twist! Chill. You’ve got this! Tools to Cool creates opportunity for readers to enrich their reading and learning experience by exploring coping skills they may use while at school, home or even out in the community. This book will inspire readers to communicate their feelings, learn new coping tools, and overcome challenges in a fun-filled way while building their emotional intelligence. The adventures within are best for ages 5-10.

Sin and Syntax

Sin and Syntax
Author: Constance Hale
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-08-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 038534693X

A fully revised and updated edition with writing prompts and challenges in every chapter Today’s writers need more spunk than Strunk: whether it's the Great American e-mail, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Copy veteran Constance Hale is on a mission to make creative communication, both the lyrical and the unlawful, an option for everyone. With its crisp, witty tone, Sin and Syntax covers grammar’s ground rules while revealing countless unconventional syntax secrets (such as how to use—Gasp!—interjections or when to pepper your prose with slang) that make for sinfully good writing. Discover how to: *Distinguish between words that are “pearls” and words that are “potatoes” * Avoid “couch potato thinking” and “commitment phobia” when choosing verbs * Use literary devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, and metaphor (and understand what you're doing) Everyone needs to know how to write stylish prose—students, professionals, and seasoned writers alike. Whether you’re writing to sell, shock, or just sing, Sin and Syntax—now celebrating 20 years in print—is the guide you need to improve your command of the English language.

Flourish

Flourish
Author: Christi Friesen
Publisher: Don't Eat Any Bugs
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-02-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780980231458

This book contains leaf, plant, and flower-themed projects as well as hints, inspirations and design explorations, leading you step-by-step towards new creative destinations. It's about adding extra flourishes to your polymer clay and mixed media creations. You'll dabble with crystals, powders, paints, wire, beads, molds, and other art media to make your polymer clay art more interesting.--From back cover.

Cool Infographics

Cool Infographics
Author: Randy Krum
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1118837150

Make information memorable with creative visual design techniques Research shows that visual information is more quickly and easily understood, and much more likely to be remembered. This innovative book presents the design process and the best software tools for creating infographics that communicate. Including a special section on how to construct the increasingly popular infographic resume, the book offers graphic designers, marketers, and business professionals vital information on the most effective ways to present data. Explains why infographics and data visualizations work Shares the tools and techniques for creating great infographics Covers online infographics used for marketing, including social media and search engine optimization (SEO) Shows how to market your skills with a visual, infographic resume Explores the many internal business uses of infographics, including board meeting presentations, annual reports, consumer research statistics, marketing strategies, business plans, and visual explanations of products and services to your customers With Cool Infographics, you'll learn to create infographics to successfully reach your target audience and tell clear stories with your data.

Cool Flowers

Cool Flowers
Author: Lisa Mason Ziegler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780989268813

Presents simple techniques for an early spring garden of color profiling 30 hardy annual flowers.

Learning to Feel Good and Stay Cool

Learning to Feel Good and Stay Cool
Author: Judith M. Glasser
Publisher: Magination Press
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781433813436

Explains the causes of different feelings and offers practical advice and activities for regulating emotions, staying out of the "upset zone," and problem solving to counter negative emotions.

Little Book of Cool Tools for Hot Topics

Little Book of Cool Tools for Hot Topics
Author: Ron Kraybill
Publisher: Good Books
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781561485437

Some subjects seem too hot for a group to discuss sanely. Not necessarily. The Little Book of "Cool Tools for Hot Topics" -- Group Tools to Facilitate Meetings When Things Are Hot shows how to help people hear each other when they feel like shouting; how to focus on the issues at stake rather than having a war of personalities; how to employ actual practices for better understanding (interviews, small-group discussions, role-reversal presentations); and how to move a group toward making a decision that all can honestly support. Lead author Ron Kraybill is a professor of Conflict Studies in the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. During the years of the South African political transition, he trained local, regional, and national leadership in negotiation and mediation skills and served as a training advisor to the National Peace Accord. Cool Tools is rich in anecdotes and practical how-to for any group faced with tension-filled decision-making.

Four Favorite Tools

Four Favorite Tools
Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2019-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781940689029

(Color Edition). Creative people tend to accrue a nifty set of tools. Great tools enable efficiency and further creativity, and sometimes inspire whole new ways of working. For the past five years, we have interviewed notable creators in a 25-minute podcast for Cool Tools, asking them to rave about four of their favorite tools. These tools range from classic handtools, to state-of-the-art laser cutters, to perfect pencils. Each pick is a surprise and a lesson. The 150 best past responses from the Cool Tools podcast are presented in this book. The result is 300 pages of concentrated goodness and tool fandom.

Trellises, Planters & Raised Beds

Trellises, Planters & Raised Beds
Author: Editors of Cool Springs Press
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1610587405

A step-by-step guide that gives any gardener all the information needed to make garden furnishings that are both simple and beautiful. This book includes 50 complete plans for trellises, raised beds, planters, window boxes, and just about any imaginable project you can make to train and display plants in your garden and around your home. Featured projects are created using a host of easily found materials, including wood, metal, hypertufa, upcycled barrels, clay pots, sticks, latticework, copper tubing, re-rod, wire, landscape timbers, retaining wall block, and natural stone. Each plan includes photographs, a scaled plan drawing, cutting and shopping lists, and thorough step-by-step instructions.