What if .. — The Invisible Plague

What if .. when you spoke … noone could hear you?

You are standing in a room full of people screaming at the top of your lungs and people just walk through you?

The Invisible Plague tells the story of mental illness and it’s history in society. We have evolved in our understanding, but these people get dismissed and often describe their existance as ‘invisible’ to the world.

In our world of the ‘normal’ people here ‘mental illness’ and everything after that is ignored or glossed over as ’symptomatic’. We stay connected to our labels as a society and are strangling the life out of our own people.

That is the story of the textbook ..

but most are to afraid to listen - including those who study the illness.

Web Development & Design Foundations with Xhtml

Terry Felke-Morris’s book on Web Design with Html is a great book to have if you’re a beginning web designer. Technically it is a textbook for a college level class, but it has been so helpful I figured I would recommend it here.
The book starts with the normal history of web design and Html coding and then proceeds to go over very basic Xhtml coding. It covers the elementary topics of text formatting, list types, color, etc. It then moves into working with frame and iframe with great hands on examples that help you to understand exactly what you’re doing.
The middle sections give you a solid background in CSS design and format. Column design as well as the box model of design is covered in the CSS section. I actually found this section so helpful that I ended up doing the largest part of my site in CSS as opposed to tables and frames.
Later chapters in the book cover Java scripting. It really gives just a basic overview of java scripting and some basic designs to help you become familiar with working with premade scripts as well as creating very basic java scripts. The final chapters cover Ecommerce and Web Promotion. The back of the book has a lot of helpful reference tables that act as a quick guide to a lot of basic and advanced Xhtml coding.
While the book reads in most cases like a typical textbook, the thing that really stands out for me in this book is the hands on examples in the chapters. There are excellent examples of working code that help you learn Xhtml in a practical environment. If you’re someone that wants to learn Xhtml and most manuals are too technical for you, this book will be a great resource.

Find Cheap College Books Used and New

College is a huge expense than most parents know they have to start saving for as soon as that baby is born. As the years go by college is getting even more expensive and that doesn’t even include the price of the textbooks.

Some college textbooks can cost hundreds of dollars and you only need them for a semester or two so your best bet is to find some good used ones. And even those can be on the pricey side. It is better to save a few bucks here and there though and so here is a list of online websites that provide used and cheap textbooks.

These are just a few of the pages that my sister looked at when shopping for her books. If you do a simple search for textbooks or used textbooks you can find hundreds of websites offering cheap and used or new textbooks.