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Learn tangible action steps for building a positive workplace culture. Toxic workplaces cost organizations money in the form of lost productivity, poor employee health, and, in extreme cases, lawsuits. HR consultant Catherine Mattice Zundel explains how companies that invest in a positive workplace can see an amazing return on their investment. If you have a negative workplace, you can turn it around by creating a vision for change?and a positive...

Add Adobe Dimension to your graphic design tool kit. Learn core skills?and how to apply them in the real world?as you step through a sample project. Graphic design adds color and interest to everything from billboards to textbooks. In order for graphic designers to apply their creativity to such a broad array of projects, they must master a range of tools and skills. In this installment of the Introduction to Graphic Design series, instructor Tony...

Environmental aide Charlie Quibler is frustrated in his attempts to prove to the government that global warming has reached cataclysmic levels, a situation that is complicated when a promising technology is exploited for private interests.

Get started with CodeIgniter, a lightweight PHP MVC framework. Learn how to build real-time, data-driven web applications with CodeIgniter 3. Speed up your development with CodeIgniter, a fast and powerful PHP web application framework. Starting with the what and the why, instructor Bernard Pineda introduces key CodeIgniter concepts, such as the Model-View-Controller pattern and working with a database. Then learn how to set up your development environment...

Learn how to use Amazon SageMaker to analyze data sets and train and deploy predictive machine learning models. SageMaker is Amazon?s solution for developers who want to deploy predictive machine learning models into a production environment. Programming is done in Python and the results can easily be integrated into cloud-based applications. These lessons review the entire Amazon SageMaker workflow: analysis, build, and final deployment. Instructor...

Demonstrate your advanced knowledge of Outlook 2016 by becoming a Microsoft Office Specialist. This course helps you get ready for exam 77-731. Demonstrate your mastery of Outlook 2016 by becoming a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS). In this course, certified MOS Master instructor Megan Hoffman helps you get ready for exam 77-731 by diving into the four main areas of the Outlook 2016 MOS exam: managing the Outlook environment for productivity, managing...

What can parents do to help their youngest children in their task of self-formation? How does the Montessori method of hands-on learning and self-discovery relate to the youngest infants? This authoritative and accessible book answers these and many other questions. Based on Dr. Maria Montessori's instructions for raising infants, its comprehensive exploration of the first three years incorporates the furnishings and tools she created for the care...

Learn how to use the VRayLight in V-Ray Next for 3ds Max to light and render any scene. V-Ray Next for 3ds Max offers smart lighting tools that intelligently analyze scenes and optimize ray calculations. In this course, instructor Brian Bradley shows how to use the V-Ray Next VRayLight?also called the plane or rectangle light?in its various operating modes: Plane, Dome, Sphere, Mesh, and Disc. The course starts with a refresher on light behavior...

Discover how to use Docker?a popular software containerization platform?to streamline your .NET development workflow. Docker?a popular software containerization platform?can streamline the development process by speeding up the setup and configuration of environments. If you're a .NET developer who wants to employ containers in your application environment, this course can help by demonstrating how to leverage Docker in your workflow. Instructor...

A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis. A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global...