Vivid Publishing: 231 books
Agile Business System Design
Using Information Technology to create business value
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
The book explains how business analysts and information technology professionals can work together to create innovative business solutions using the agile approaches now emerging in practice. It explains the methods used by such cross disciplinary teams to create business value based on the use of information...
Design Thinking for Business
A Handbook for Design Thinking in Wicked Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
The book provides ways to introduce design thinking into enterprises. It provides guidelines to engage stakeholders by showing how spontaneous discussions can lead to creativity and ideas for innovation, and providing guidelines on the tools and visualizations needed to describe and build on these ideas,...
A Balance of Self
A New Approach to Self Understanding, Lasting Happiness, and Self-Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
A new approach to self understanding,lasting happiness, and self-truth. A balanced life is something we all yearn for, but it can only be honestly achieved through a balance of self. This important book gently and sensitively guides us towards our inner self and shows us step by step how we can rescue,...
No Boundaries: Zimbabweans Abroad
Exploring Strategies and Solutions for Life in Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Are you an immigrant of Zimbabwe, struggling to adjust to life in a different country? Now you can learn how to survive and thrive in a different country! Migrating to a new country can be not only exciting, but it can be scary. Many times what starts out as positive can have a negative impact on a person's...
What is Acupuncture?
A Simple Explanation of an Eastern Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) is based on the principle that we are part of nature - it exists both around us and within our body. We reach optimal health when we live in harmony with the environment and when we achieve that balance within ourselves. TCM treats everybody as an individual....
by L. E. Pembroke
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
‘Children of the Anzacs’ evokes poignant memories of times past for all who lived during the turbulent era of WW2 - Sydney was a microcosm of the Australian nation and of the Western World. Children of WW1 servicemen from the UK, USA, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand lived unsophisticated...
Blank Page Poetry
Blank Canvas
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
Have you ever felt alone? Have you ever felt uninspired? Have you wanted to create something out of nothing? Well that is what I have done with this book. Transformed blank pages into poetry.
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Mike Browne Detective Escape to Hamburg
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Doctor Richard Mason, a renowned scientist, has made a revolutionary discovery, but before he can complete his work news of his discovery sweeps the world. An assassination in London has all the earmarks of a professional killer and a large pharmaceutical company based in Hamburg becomes the focus of an investigation by Detective Mike Browne.
by Ava Pashley
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Vicki Carlisle, a young woman with ambitions that stretch far beyond the confines of her father’s prosperous ranch in the high country of southern Wyoming, writes the adventures of her suffragette-like character Evangeline and has them published in Quest & Quill. When Evangeline tackles two age-old...
by Twelve Poets of the Peter Cowan Writers’ Centre, Andrew Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Sunlight of Ordinary Days is a poetry anthology like no other. It is a record of the creative explorations of twelve accomplished poets under the tutelage of eight esteemed poets, teachers and advocates of literature in Western Australia. In this short anthology, a range of styles, voices and subject...
Wombat’s Musical Adventure
Tales from the Bush
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Wombat is looking for a musical instrument to play. But his real problem is finding one that is not too big and not too long. Not too difficult and not too tall. And not too heavy and not too loud. With the help of Bundy the dog Wombat begins to look at some musical instruments. But will he find one that is just the right size and shape for a little Wombat to play?
by Matthew Keegan
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Sean Doherty, a conscripted Australian soldier, is sick of the messy Vietnam War and yearns to go home. Home, however, has changed. His country has no sympathy and those closest to him are not what they seem. It is here he realises a soldier may leave the war but the war will never leave him. The...
Higher Intelligence
How to Create a Functional Artificial Brain
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
This book is about a new technology that surpasses the capabilities of computer technology. It examines how the human brain functions, not as a control centre, but as a learning, interacting machine that evolves intelligence as it learns. Humans are not born with complete knowledge. A baby makes random...
Claim your Wildness
And Let Nature Nurture Your Health and Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Claim Your Wildness is essential reading for everyone interested in the contribution nature can make to their physical, mental and social well-being. It will be especially welcomed by parents, teachers and others concerned about children’s declining exposure to the natural world. The book has great...