Spirituality & Social Action is written for people who identify themselves as spiritual but not religious, turned off by organized religion, yet having an innate sense of a higher power. We live in fraught and challenging times, and the key to a better future is through faith in a loving, just, and merciful God. The book explores the teachings and activism of Jesus in the context of today's needs for social justice and reconciliation.

Everything rides on your exit plan.Selling your business is one of the most exciting-and difficult-things you will ever do. Exiting well can give you a life of freedom or put the business in a great position to scale to heights you might not otherwise achieve, but a bad exit can be disastrous. You might leave millions of dollars on the table or set yourself and your company up for failure.Jonathan Sherrill and Andy Harris know better than m...

A new edition of a bestseller covers the latest advances in web development!HTML5 and CSS3 are essential tools for creating dynamic websites and boast updates and enhanced features that can make your websites even more effective and unique. This friendly, all-in-one guide covers everything you need to know about each of these technologies and their latest versions so that you can use them together. Building on the bestselling formats of the first two editions, this...

Everything rides on your exit plan.Selling your business is one of the most exciting—and difficult—things you will ever do. Exiting well can give you a life of freedom or put the business in a great position to scale to heights you might not otherwise achieve, but a bad exit can be disastrous. You might leave millions of dollars on the table or set yourself and your company up for failure.Jonathan Sherrill and Andy Harris know better than most what is at stake when selling ...

HTML in 30 Pages is a brief e-booklet, designed to get you into HTML as fast as possible, as easily as possible. There is no bull in this Micro-Manual by popular online teacher U.Q. Magnusson. From the very first page you will learn about the basic concepts of HTML, including formatting, arrangements, links, and CSS. Simple yet comprehensive examples follow as you zip through, and each is explained in pithy detail. This manual culminates in the construction of a website that is every bit t...

A fast-paced guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React.jsKey FeaturesBook DescriptionBuilding web applications with maintainable and performant user interfaces is a challenge that many have faced for more than a decade, but no one has risen to this challenge quite like React.js. Today React.js is used by Facebook, Instagram, Khan Academy, and Imperial College London, to name a few. Many new users recognize the benefi...

Information architecture (IA) is far more challenging—and necessary—than ever. With the glut of information available today, anything your organization wants to share should be easy to find, navigate, and understand. But the experience you provide has to be familiar and coherent across multiple interaction channels, from the Web to smartphones, smartwatches, and beyond.To guide you through this broad ecosystem, this popular guide—now in its fourth edition—provides essential concept...

Learn to create powerful and unique websites with HTML5 and CSS3HTML5 and CSS3 have ushered in an entirely new era in web development and web design. This easy-to-understand full-color guide presents the elements of design and development as equal; therefore, both designers and developers will benefit from learning how to leverage the power behind HTML5 and CSS3. The two-page spreads and helpful insight show you how to use HTML5 and CSS3 in conjunction in order to ...

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Get the job done and learn as you go. This book is filled with practical, hands-on recipes to help you write SASS quickly and more efficiently.This book is great for those new to using CSS pre-processors such as SASS, and who are looking to get a good grounding in how to use SASS. It's assumed you will have some experience in using HTML and CSS already; it is likely you will be ...

In today's Web 2.0 world, JavaScript and Dynamic HTML are at the center of the hot new approach to designing highly interactive pages on the client side. With this environment in mind, the new edition of this book offers bite-sized solutions to very specific scripting problems that web developers commonly face. Each recipe includes a focused piece of code that you can insert right into your application.Why is JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook so popular? After reading thousands ...

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. A concise guide full of step-by-step recipes to teach you how to create CasperJS tests for your web development projects. This book will be extremely useful for web developers who are new to testing or who want to move from another testing solution to CasperJS. It is assumed that you are familiar with web development and have a good knowledge of JavaScript.

Layout designers rejoice: CSS finally has an update that will make your lives easier. Flexible box layout, often called Flexbox, frees you from the challenges of creating layouts with floats and padding? and lets you specify containers and their contents instead. The new model means you can specify the directions in which material flows, how content wraps, and the ways components can expand to fill a space. Whether you've been creating large sites or small, fixed sites or responsive sites,...