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Code It! Create It!: Ideas & Inspiration for Coding (Girls Who Code)

Come up with the perfect coding-powered project in this informative, interactive journal published in partnership with the nonprofit organization Girls Who Code!

Think being creative has nothing to do with computer coding? Think again! Coding is all about creativity.

The video games you play, the photo-sharing apps you love, the animated movies you watch—they’re all made with code. And the coolest part? YOU can make anything with code, too! The possibilities for coding projects are limitless, so use these pages to get inspired, jot down ideas, doodle, play coding games, and more. Let your imagination run wild—you just might come up with the most awesome coding project ever.

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Photograph Like a Thief: Using Imitation and Inspiration to Create Great Images

No photographer works in a vacuum. Photographers, like all artists, stand on the shoulders of those who came before them, and they are informed and influenced by those working around them. If you are striving to find your own style, one of the most powerful exercises you can practice is to find influence and inspiration in the work of those around you, and then emulate that work in an effort to define, shape, and grow your own photographic voice. By collecting, imitating, and eventually reshaping and combining the work of those around you, your unique voice can be found and the quality of your work can soar.

In Photograph Like a Thief, photographer, author, and retoucher Glyn Dewis embraces the idea of “stealing” and recreating others’ work in order to improve as an artist. By stepping inside others’ images, you can learn to reverse engineer their creation, then build an image that simultaneously pays homage to that work and is also an original creation itself.

Glyn begins by covering the process of “stealing ideas” and finding inspiration. He shares the gear he uses as well as his retouching and post-processing workflow. In a chapter on how to reverse engineer a photograph, Glyn discusses how to read an image by looking at the catch lights, shadow and highlight positions, and the hardness or softness of the shadows. This is a crucial skill to acquire if you want to recreate a specific look.

Glyn then works through a series of images―inspired by movies, books, history, and a few legendary photographers―from the initial concept and influence to the final result. For each image, he reverse engineers the shot to describe how it was created, then works through the gear he used, the lighting for the image, and the post-processing of the image in Photoshop―from the RAW out-of-camera shot to the finished piece. While Glyn’s work primarily focuses on portraiture, he finds inspiration and influence from a wide variety of work.

By working alongside Glyn (he makes all the files available for download), you too can learn to find inspiration all around you, discover how others’ work can influence you, improve your photographic and post-processing skill set, and begin your own journey to defining your unique style.

Who knows? Soon, others may be stealing from you.

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The Unfu*kwithable Life: 7 Codes to Embrace Connection and Vulnerability to Create a Life of Inspiration and Freedom

The Unfu*kwithable Life encompasses seven codes, each containing punchy lessons to reveal the power of vulnerability to enhance your existence. It gives you the tools to live a remarkable life, with fierce determination, inner peace, and strength while streamlining comprehensive concepts into simple actions steps and heart-warming wisdom. As you connect with yourself, you will be empowered mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Using the paradox of crude wit and compassion, this book forces you to become uncomfortably honest with yourself, then gently guides you to a place where you can shatter the limits you’ve been clinging to for comfort. It’s designed to teach the greatest lessons of self mastery and spiritual philosophy, through humour and straight shooting advice. It will trigger a force deep inside of you, that’s here for a spectacular reason. We are living in an age of addiction to short-term, instant stimulation and gratification, which is quite literally at our fingertips. This accessibility makes it difficult to change the shit that we don’t like about our lives because the stimulation acts as a numbing agent. It distracts us from the discomfort created by being inauthentic. It numbs the uneasiness enough for us to ignore the fact that we do not really know ourselves anymore, and as a result, we do not know what we really crave at a deeper level. Alas, we settle for much less than our soul desires. An unfu*kwithable life isn’t about being ‘tough’ so that no one can fuck with you. It’s about being connected to life and ourselves in a way that we are able to allow each and every moment seep deeply into our cells, our minds, our emotions, and our soul. It’s about surrender, vulnerability, grace, and courage. It’s about accepting our human conditions with unconditional love and stepping up to the task of spiritual expression by standing in our power. An unfu*kwithable life is one of emotional, mental, and, most of all, spiritual freedom.

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Habits: 50 Best Habits To Create A Successful Life And Break Bad Habits Permanently! (The Power Of Habits, Habits For Success, Bad Habits, Motivation)

The Secrets To Changing Your Bad Habits Will Be Revealed!
A Short Read With Easy To Apply Practical Tips & Powerful Knowledge That Will Help You In No Time

Your bad habits hinder you on creating a wonderful life. It keeps you from accomplishing your goals. They may even endanger your health, whether physically, emotionally or mentally. Not to mention that waste most of your time and energy instead of making the most of it. Let’s face it. It runs our lives. Most of what we do is truly based on the habit we have developed at some points of our life. But the question here is, why we keep on doing them although we already know they are wrong? Is there anything we can do to break them?

If that is the case, you are reading the perfect book! This is not a book to remind you of your mistakes or fill your mind with empty motivational quotes

This book will include step-by-step instructions and the how to’s along the way.

Here Is A Preview Of What Inside The Book:

Build a positive and successful life and be able to overcome these bad habits forever not just on yourselves, but also with your career. Achieve a better mind-setting strategy, which will keep you calm and attentive all the time.Develop a better personality Free yourself forever from these bad habits and start anew on good ones! And many moreTake Action Today and change your life and be the better version of yourself by building empowering habits! Click the “Buy now with 1-Click” to the right and get this short guide immediately.

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Let It Be Easy: 12 Actions to Create an Extraordinary Life (The Self-Empowerment Trilogy) (Volume 3)

Whether it’s heaven or hell, you create your life. If you are always struggling with your finances, relationships, health and career, life is hell. Once you learn how to let everything flow and materialize with ease, life can be heaven. By and large, most people find life to be a struggle. The reason for this is that they were never taught that life can be easy, and they were never taught how to bring about the ease, comfort, safety and peace that makes life a rich, rewarding and joyous experience. After reading this book, you will be able to finally take control of your life in a way that will bring you everything you’ve ever wanted. You will also be able to identify and eliminate what you don’t want. This promise may seem preposterous, but be assured, many people are doing it right now. The keys to this knowledge are available to anyone willing to look beyond the traditional realms of education and explore these simple, profound reminders to take action. This book suggests twelve actions you can take that will immediately enrich your life and produce an environment in which harmony and fulfillment can thrive. They are simple ideas that can create dramatic results. When you take these actions, you will find a remarkable difference in the quality of your life. They can transform your day-to-day experience of living. They will contribute to your sense of well-being, they will improve your relationships with others, and will assist you in becoming more alive, successful and prosperous.

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Essential Healing For Your Spirit And Soul: 20 Spiritual Practitioners Share Wisdom and Inspiration to Create Life-Changing Transformation and Healing

Ten years ago I walked away from a job I loved. My passion for my work was crushed after I realized that the management did not share the same morals and business ethics that I believed in. I was completely devastated – it felt like a divorce. I couldn’t understand how this could happen to me because I truly believed I would work for this company forever. Now what? Years later I am so grateful for that experience because it sent me down a path to discovering and creating a spiritual practice. In order to heal myself, I devoured every book I could find on intuitive guidance, life coaching, soul purpose and spiritual healing. It totally changed my life. I started my own business publishing a magazine, left unhealthy relationships, and finally felt like I had found my purpose again. Then, the most profound insight came from a meeting with the director of an energy medicine school. She said to me, in a whisper, “You see, at this school we believe that we are all spirits having a human experience.” There was a part of me in which that statement resonated so clearly and profoundly, I knew it to be true to the very core of my being. This further inspired my journey into spirituality, mysticism, metaphysics and the understanding that we are so much more powerful than we realize. We are spirit having a human experience and we do, indeed, have the power to change our reality through thought. Because of this incredible journey, I was guided to create this book. A collaboration of 20 spiritual healers from all areas of spirituality and healing practices provide wisdom and insight for those of you seeking what’s next; those of you struggling to find purpose, balance or spirituality in your life; and those of you who may be called to the healing profession.

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365+1 Best Love Quotes : Quotes and Journal Blank Book Volume 6: For Inspired Relationships Passage and Create Your Love Quotes From Your Heart. (365+1 Love Quotes)

A collection of UNIQUE and MEANINGFUL love quotes. Within this book you will find the best philosophical thoughts collected through years from best philosophical authors and books. From anxiety to modernism this book presents you the most read philosophical authors, summarized all together on love quotes. This book is perfect for free time reading, travel reading and also could be a smart and lovely gift for love present. Each quote can be reflected upon for self fulfillment and also shared with those closest to you. A book to keep close to you throughout your entire life journey. With blank note for create your quotes from your hearts. This is a special gift send to your special person. ENJOY!!