Author: Bill Jelen File Type: pdf It is easy to create a bad looking chart in Excel. This book teaches you how to unlock the beautiful formatting options available to make incredible looking charts. The first section will talk about how to decide which chart type to use. Subsequent chapters will walk through each chart type, how to create them, how to utilize them, and special options available for each chart. The book discusses themes, colors, creating metallic charts, shadows, transparency, etc. The book also handles anything graphical in Excel. It will show the new In-Cell Data Bar charts available in Excel 2007. A section will talk about creating business flowcharts with IGX Graphics and how to display product pictures in Excel, and a section on VBA will cover creating 100s of charts using the macro language. More than a how-to and reference, this book also provides the why-tos and when-tos, with serious consideration given to layout best practices and design possibilities-a very well-rounded resource. -Kathy Villella, CEO, PowerFrameworks.com Implementing 1-Click Charting Incorporating Drag & Drop and Dynamic Charts Creating Amazing Effects Using Charting Templates and Macros Mastering Glow, Shadow, Sparklines, Dashboards, and More Eliminating Chart Junk Structuring Spreadsheets with Business Diagrams, SmartArt Graphics, and Pivot Charts Develop your Charting expertise instantly with proven techniques After 15 years with no updates to the Excel charting engine, Microsoft has provided a complete rewrite of the chart rendering engine in Excel 2007. However, no amount of soft glow or glass bevel effects will help you communicate your point if you use the wrong chart type. This book helps you choose the right charting type and shows you how to make it look great. This book shows you how to coax Excel to create many charts you might not have believed were possible. Youll learn techniques that allow you to ditch the Microsoft defaults and actually create charts that communicate your point. Youll learn why the Excel stock charts are so restrictive and how you can easily turn any line chart into a stock chart-without any limitations. Youll also learn how to add invisible series to make columns float in midair. Learn how to create charts right in Excel cells using the new Excel 2007 data bars-or even the decades-old REPT function! In no time, this book will have you creating charts that wow your audience and effectively communicate your message. Master effective visual display of data Choose the right chart type to convey your message Learn time-saving workarounds Create charts that most people think you cant create with Excel Understand what a Radar chart is and when you might use it Summarize a million rows of data in a single pivot table chart Present data graphically without charts Employ SmartArt graphics to show process or relationship charts Utilize VBA to create charts Put your data on a map Export your charts to the web or PowerPoint Detect chart liesABOUT THE AUTHOR Bill Jelen is MrExcel! He is principal behind the leading Excel website, MrExcel.com. He honed his Excel wizardry during his 12-year tenure as a financial analyst for a fastgrowing public computer firm. Armed with only a spreadsheet, he learned how to turn thousands of rows of transactional data into meaningful summaries in record time. He is an accomplished author of books on Excel and is a regular guest on The Lab on TechTV Canada. You can find Bill at your local accounting group chapter meeting entertaining audiences with his humorous and informative Power Excel seminar. His website hosts more than 12 million page views annually. Introduction 1 Introducing Charts in Excel 2007 2 Customizing Charts 3 Creating Charts That Show Trends 4 Creating Charts That Show Differences 5 Creating Charts That Show Relationships 6 Creating Stock Analysis Charts 7 Advanced Chart Techniques 8 Creating and Using Pivot Charts 9 Presenting Data Visually Without Charts 10 Presenting Your Excel Data on a Map Using Microsoft MapPoint 11 Using SmartArt Graphics and Shapes 12 Exporting Your Charts for Use Outside of Excel 13 Using Excel VBA to Create Charts 14 Knowing When Someone Is Lying to You with a Chart Appendix A Charting References Index
Author: Fredric Jameson
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After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misrepresented, vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through internal contradiction and conflict, transformed two centuries of Western philosophy. To Hegel, who dominated nineteenth-century thought, it was a metaphysical system. In the works of Marx, the dialectic became a tool for materialist historical analysis, a theoretical maneuver that his critics derided and his descendants on the Left have wrestled with ever since. Jameson brings a theoretical scrutiny to bear on the questions that have arisen in the history of this philosophical tradition, contextualizing the debate with essays on commodification and globalization, and with reference to the work of Rousseau, Fichte, Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, and Lacan. Through rigorous, erudite examination, Valences of the Dialectic charts a movement toward the innovation of a spatial dialectic, culminating in a remarkable meditation on globalization, through a study of Paul Ricoeur. Jameson presents a new synthesis of thought that revitalizes dialectical thinking for the twenty-first century.
Author: Graham Jones
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This collection presents, for the first time in English, all of Lyotards major essays on film, an introductory essay by the leading French scholar on Lyotards film-philosophy, an overview of Lyotards practical film projects written by his collaborators, and a selection of critical essays by philosophers and film theorists. **About the Author Graham Jones is Lecturer in Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Media and Communications at Monash University, Australia. Ashley Woodward is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee and is a founding member of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Gilbert Simondon Being and Technology (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Nihilism in Postmodernity Lyotard, Baudrillard, Vattimo (The Davies Group, 2009).
Author: Robert Goldwater
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This now classic study maps the profound effect of primitive art on modern, as well as the primitivizing strain in modern art itself. Robert Goldwater describes how and why works by primitive artists attracted modern painters and sculptors, and he delineates the differences between what is truly primitive or archaic and what intentionally embodies such elements. His analysis distinguishes the romanticism of Gauguin an emotional primitivism exemplified by the Brucke and Blaue Reiter groups in Germany the intellectual primitivism of Picasso and Modigliani and a primitivism of the subconscious in Miro, Klee, and Dali. Two of Goldwaters related essaysJudgments of Primitive Art, 19051965 and Art History and Anthropologyhave been added for this new paperback edition. **Review This book is admirably thorough. Professor Goldwaters approach to the problems involved remains consistently historical, analytical and descriptive...The investigation...is of lively interest and real importance. (Edward Alden Jewell New York Times Book Review) Goldwaters study, first published in 1938, has become a classic in the field of art history. His descriptions of how and why modern painters and sculptors were attracted to primitive art are essential to understanding artists from Paul Gauguin to Paul Klee. (Bloomsbury Review) A valuable contribution to contemporary art criticism. (Art in America) Goldwaters book...has remained the definitive account of the artistic impact of primitive art on the art of modern Europe. (Hilton Kramer New York Times) A profound critical analysis...After [his] impressive, objective study, Dr. Goldwater is in a position to define primitivism and indicate its underlying assumptions. (Parnassus)
Author: Oxana Timofeeva
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Oxana Timofeevas The History of Animals A Philosophy is an original and ambitious treatment of the animal question. While philosophers have always made distinctions between human beings and animals, Timofeeva imagines a world free of such walls and borders. Timofeeva shows the way towards the full acceptance of our animality an acceptance which does not mean the return to our animal roots, or anything similar. The freedom generated by this acceptance operates through negativity is an effect of the rejection of the very core of metaphysical philosophy and Christian culture, traditionally opposed to our animal nature and seemingly detached from it.With a foreword by Slavoj Zizek, this book is accessible, jargon-free and ideal for students and all those interested in re-imagining how we engage with animals and the environment.
Author: Kandice Chuh
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In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls illiberal humanism instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the humanities in their received form. Recognizing that the liberal humanities contribute to the reproduction of the subjugation that accompanies liberalisms definition of the human, Chuh argues that instead of defending the humanities, as has been widely called for in recent years, we should radically remake them. Chuh proposes that the work of artists and writers like Lan Samantha Chang, Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Allan deSouza, Monique Truong, and othersbringsto bear ways of being and knowing that delegitimize liberal humanism in favor of more robust, capacious, and worldly senses of the human and the humanities. Chuh presents the aesthetics of illiberal humanism as vital to the creation of sensibilities and worlds capable of making life and lives flourish.Review The Difference Aesthetics Makes reconsiders the centrality of aesthetics to the humanitiesand elaborates an aesthetics of illiberal humanism that emerges from relations of difference, not identityfrom dissensus, not consensus. This timely and significant book will be of crucial importance for readers in English, American studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, art history, and beyond. (Lisa Lowe, author of The Intimacies of Four Continents ) Reading various texts to demonstrate how minority literature presents itself as the productive other to dominant articulations of the aesthetic, Kandice Chuh makes significant interventions in inquiries around the relationship between politics and aesthetics, the humanities as a site of critical alternatives, and the role that minority discourse plays in those inquiries. An exciting and ambitious book. (Roderick A. Ferguson, author of One-Dimensional Queer) About the Author Kandice Chuh is Professor of English and American Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of Imagine Otherwise On Asian Americanist Critique , and coeditor of Orientations Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora , both also published by Duke University Press.
Author: Robert Alexander
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This book examines the politics of the French Revolutionary tradition during the Bourbon Restoration and early July Monarchy. Robert Alexander argues that political change was achieved by legal grassroots organization and persuasion - rather than by the revolutionary tradition of conspiracy and armed insurrection. Moreover, political struggle was not confined to the elite, as common material values linked the electorate to those deprived of the power to vote. Battle between advocates of national and royal sovereignty constituted the principal dynamic of the period, and fostered significant developments in party formation previously unrecognized by historians. To substantiate his claims, the author analyses relations among the Liberal Opposition, ultraroyalists and the state, concluding that although Liberals triumphed in the 1830 Revolution, thereafter they contributed to the destabilization that produced an immobile Orleanist regime. Nevertheless, they had pioneered a model for change which could successfully adapt pursuit of reform to longing for civil order. **Review This carefully nuanced, scrupulously researched study is written for advanced scholars of modern France. History ...an excellent book that is as informative as it is thought-provoking. The Journal of Modern History Helena Rosenblatt, Hunter College and teh Graduate Center, CUNY Book Description This book examines the politics of the French Revolutionary tradition during the Bourbon Restoration and early July Monarchy in the early nineteenth century. The author argues that political struggle was not just confined to the elite, and that the Restoration Liberal Opposition developed a reform tradition based on legal organisation and persuasion, which would prove far more effective in achieving progressive change than the revolutionary tradition of conspiracy and insurrection. To support his claims, the author analyses relations among the Liberal Opposition, ultra-royalists and the state.
Author: Alain Badiou
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Logics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badious masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and complex theory of the worlds in which truths and subjects make their mark - what he calls a materialist dialectic. Drawing on his most ambitious philosophical predecessors - Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Deleuze Badiou ends this important later work with an impassioned call to live for an Idea. **Review This time its true this really IS the book we have been waiting for. Since the publication of his magisterial Being and Event, we have been impatient to see what could not be foreseen the way worlds look, according to Badiou. Logics of Worlds delivers a powerful theory of the uncanny appearance of truths a rigorous polemic against the tedious nominalist-historicist materialism of our day and a phenomenology every bit as impressive as Badious justly celebrated ontology. - Professor Joan Copjec, University at Buffalo, USA ... [provides] a comprehensive understanding of the French authors philosophical views... Responding to the problems raised in postmodern French thought, Alain Badious book offers an original rational scenario of interpreting them in a new key. (, ) About the Author Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. Alberto Toscano is a lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badious Theoretical Writings (London Continuum, 2004).