Books with author J.D. Caldwell

Transform your ideas into powerful visuals--to connect with your audience, define your brand, and take your project to the next level.This highly practical design book takes you through the building blocks of design--type, photography, illustration, color--and shows you how to combine these tools to create visuals that inform, influence, and enthral.Grasp the key principles through in-depth how-to articles, hands-on workshops, and inspirational galleries of great design. Find out how to create a brand plan, discover how a typeface sets the mood, and learn how to organize different elements of a layout to boost the impact and meaning of your message.Then apply your skills to do it yourself, with ten step-by-step projects to help you create your own stunning designs--including business stationery, invitations, sales brochure, website, online newsletter and e-shop. There's also plenty of practical advice on publishing online, dealing with printers, commissioning professionals, finding free design tools, and much more.If you're ready to use powerful design to take your pet project or burgeoning business to the next level, Graphic Design for Everyone is your one-stop resource to help you become an effective, inspirational visual communicator.

GONNA BE SUCCESSFUL: The Interactive Student Success Guide is a resource intended to empower students to take ownership of their success. The book offers practical help for students that wrestle with the question: "Can I be successful?" It also profiles highly successful individuals from the past and present that overcame obstacles to achieve massive success. GONNA BE SUCCESSFUL: THE INTERACTIVE STUDENT SUCCESS GUIDE contains a built in workbook, a personal planner, and an exciting 30-Day Challenge. These interactive features will help students apply the information learned in a timely manner. This book is a great tool for individuals, small groups, youth focused organizations, and schools.

Book 2 now available at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0180UFM72Finding your way in the world is hard. It’s harder still when no one has left their home for the last 200 years. Lyn must navigate the trials of life outside the great forest she calls home and return with knowledge of the world beyond the wood, because if she fails it may be the end of her people. She is the last of a group who call themselves the World-Walkers, one of the only remnants of an ancient people carrying on a culture that is all but forgotten. She has been chosen as the last vestige of hope, but can she acclimate to the uncertainties and tumultuous nature of an unsheltered life? Can she come to terms with herself to understand her place in a hostile world where nothing is familiar and save what remains of her people?The Elder’s Path is a story that all experience in their lives; a story of learning, of growing, of coming to know the world and how you relate to it. Youthful truths lead to experienced wisdom, but the adventure between is always worth the telling. Join Lyn on the Elder’s Path as she seeks, struggles, and changes the very world around her.

Access to high-quality computer science instruction has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. Thanks to this movement, more students start middle school with some foundational knowledge of computer science and coding. This new set of creative skills empowers students to express themselves in powerful ways, but students still need opportunities and support to develop and hone those skills. This book helps classroom teachers in several core content areas develop activities and projects to encourage computational thinking and coding skills, and to build bridges between those skills and practice. For math, science, English language arts and social studies teachers, the resources in this book provide guidance to start integrating coding into their classes to complement and strengthen existing instruction.

Volume Three of the CRESCENT CITY Trilogy.2005. The greatest natural disaster in American history is fast approaching New Orleans. Friend, family, stranger, and foe alike will meet their fates as a killer named Katrina tries to drown the Gulf Coast. Who will live and who will not? The survivors must pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. Can the kindness of strangers make up for the bureaucratic bumbling of government officials?Will those left in the Crescent City ever find normalcy again?(AUTHOR’S NOTE: RUIN AND RENEWAL is Volume Three of the CRESCENT CITY series. The story resumes immediately after the end of Volume Two, ELYSIAN DREAMS. The author strongly suggests that story be read before this one.)

In a world where people who understand electricity are mocked as "Quantums," Lilly and Tristan are trying to find out as much as they can about computers, robots, and their missing parents. Raised by their grandmother with her own secret knowledge of technology, Lilly is certain that their parents somehow survived the purge of computer experts. Tristan thinks she's dreaming. The cousins aren't sure who they can trust, since even at school, there are those who want to rid the world of the last remaining traces of technology. But when they find their school under attack by forces led by the same man who made their parents disappear, Tristan knows he has to do all he can to help Lilly with her quest.

Adam Alfaro daydreams about magic, myths, and becoming famous for discovering the lost city of Atlantis. The only problem? He has to spend spring break in Africa while his mom works. To make it worse, everyone expects him to be friends with the annoying Clancy Pitt while he’s there. It’s dislike at first sight...until he realizes she might know a few secrets about Atlantis.Then he meets Nef, a spirited sea kelpie who needs help rescuing naiads kidnapped and left to die in an ancient mine. Suddenly the strange creatures Adam dreamed of become all too real. And they’re after him. Can Adam, Clancy, and Nef fight their way through the maze of tunnels in the mine and reach the naiads before it's too late?

Aisi Turay is losing it. Literally.A couple of months ago, she could see ghosts and help them move on, or vanquish demons in her way with a few choice insults. Now? Not so much, and she’s pretty sure she knows which undead freak is behind it. Malus is back. He’s stronger than the last time she faced him, wielding power she never imagined a demon could have. Aisi realizes that he’s just a henchman for something much worse…something that wants everyone she loves gone. As her least favorite demon brings the worst he’s got and then some, Aisi wages a battle for her life and access to her full powers. The stakes are high and she might lose everything...including her soul.

Adam Alfaro daydreams about magic, myths, and becoming famous for discovering the lost city of Atlantis. The only problem? He has to spend spring break in Africa while his mom works. To make it worse, everyone expects him to be friends with the annoying Clancy Pitt while he’s there. It’s dislike at first sight...until he realizes she might know a few secrets about Atlantis. Then he meets Nef, a spirited sea kelpie who needs help rescuing naiads kidnapped and left to die in an ancient mine. Suddenly the strange creatures Adam dreamed of become all too real. And they’re after him. Can Adam, Clancy, and Nef fight their way through the maze of tunnels in the mine and reach the naiads before it's too late?