Most Popular Books by Alex Harris

New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures — Hispanic and Anglo — meet. They''re also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s, Romero is the neighbor who befriends them and becomes their teacher. With the tools of simple labor — shovel and axe, irony and humor — he shows them how to survive, even flourish, in their isolated village. A remarkable look at modern life in the mountains, River of Traps also magically evokes the now-vanished world in which Romero tended flocks on frontier ranges and absorbed the values of a society untouched by cash or Anglo America. His memories and wisdom, shared without sentimentality, permeate this absorbing story of three men and the place that forever shaped their lives.

You want to do hard things. But you don’t know where to start. You are changing the world around you. But you are tired and burned out. You feel called to do the extraordinary for God. But you feel stuck in the ordinary. Do Hard Things inspired thousands of young people around the world to make the most of the teen years. Now Alex and Brett Harris are back and ready to tackle the questions that Do Hard Things inspired: How do I get started? What do I do when I get discouraged? What’s the best way to inspire others? Filled with stories and insights from Alex, Brett, and other real-life rebelutionaries, Start Here is a powerful and practical guide to doing hard things, right where you are. Are you ready to take the next step and blast past mediocrity for the glory of God? START HERE.

In this book, I''ll be sharing with you some of the most effective e-commerce tips I''ve learned over the years. These tips will teach you how you can improve your web store to make more money over the next holiday season, drive more traffic, and strengthen sales and leads to maximize your return on investment (ROI). I''ve done my best to cover everything you need, to help you get more revenue, opt-ins and profit from your e-commerce website. Get actionable advice for your ecommerce store, for example: Making More Money this Holiday Season Getting More Website Traffic SEO Tips Promotional Email Campaigns Analytics Setup and Review Creating Landing Pages Improving Conversion Rates Generating More Opt-In Leads Increasing Retention Anyone selling products or services online can benefit from this book. You will learn exactly how to make your website more successful and increase the amount of money you make from your website or e-commerce store. This also includes clear, actionable steps for you to increase retention and create loyal customers that will come back to spend more money. Plus, you can get examples of each case study listed in the book. The book starts off with general advice about driving traffic to your website. Then, it details how to better understand your target customer. This is where we start to understand exactly to whom you should be marketing and why. Creating personas and your customer avatar will help you determine how and where you should be marketing your products. Next, I dive into specific areas of an e-commerce website. Each section has specific tips to maximize the effectiveness. I recommend trying as many of the tips as possible. Not all the advice will work exactly as I have outlined it. You need to test and experiment to determine the right approach for you. Finally, you will read specific suggestions on how to make more money from your e-commerce website. This money will come not only from new customers but also from repeat customers. This strategy is to help improve retention, resulting in a larger lifetime value. That includes suggestions for when your customers receive their products at their home or office. Apply the tactics listed in this book to any self-hosted shopping carts or hosted ecommerce solution. The most popular hosted ecommerce software includes Shopify, BigCommerce, Volusion, NetSuite, Magento and Wordpress.

ECPA BESTSELLER • Discover a movement of Christian young people who are rebelling against the low expectations of their culture by choosing to “do hard things” for the glory of God. Foreword by Chuck Norris • “One of the most life-changing, family-changing, church-changing, and culture-changing books of this generation.”—Randy Alcorn, bestselling author of Heaven Combating the idea of adolescence as a vacation from responsibility, Alex and Brett Harris weave together biblical insights, history, and modern examples to redefine the teen years as the launching pad of life and map a clear trajectory for long-term fulfillment and eternal impact. Written by teens for teens, Do Hard Things is packed with humorous personal anecdotes, practical examples, and stories of real-life rebelutionaries in action. This rallying cry from the heart of revolution already in progress challenges you to lay claim to a brighter future, starting today. Now featuring a conversation guide, 100 real-life examples of hard things tackled by other young people, and stories of young men and women who have taken the book’s charge to heart, Do Hard Things will inspire a new generation of rebelutionaries.

Is your eCommerce business stagnant? Do you want to get to the next level and get there quickly? Would you like to be able to triple your leads in under six months? Are you unsure of what your next steps should be to boost sales? The truth of the matter is that it doesn''t matter how much traffic you drive to your site if you can''t convert it to sales. In this book, you will learn the five-step Marketing Optimization System to scale and grow your bottom line. This proven method is used to increase the percentage of visitors to your site that convert into customers. You will learn to gather intelligence through qualitative insight and quantitative data, and then execute successful split testing to increase sales and leads. Triple Your Website Sales & Leads in Under Six Months Small Business Big Money Online will give you direct, actionable advice and techniques that you can simply apply to your own process, developing your own system along the way.

Discover the incredible combat machines that have graced the skies, land, and sea of the world''s most famous conflicts. A fascinating account of the history and development of dozens of legendary military vehicles -- from the German Tiger tanks of the Second World War and the nuclear-powered submarine to the high-tech fighter jets of today and the military technology of the future -- Visual History of Combat Machines details the facts and figures of these incredible machines. Featuring complete breakdowns of the technology that makes these tanks, choppers, and battleships the best of the best, this guide spans the last 100 years of warfare and how it''s evolved. Filled with informative and fascinating articles written by leading historians, scholars, and other military history experts, as well as high-quality photography and illustrations, this action-packed book is a must-have for any history buff!

Published in association with a traveling exhibition opening at the International Center of Photography in 1993. Harris is known for his black and white photos documenting the people and culture of northern New Mexico. To accompany this collection of color photos, he supplies an essay telling of his feelings for the area and the people and discussing his transition to color work. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Rocks and hard places first-hand narrative of the authors attempts to reach the Seven Summits -- the highest point on each of the seven continents.

For thirty years Alex Harris has lived part of each year in northern New Mexico, responding to the vernacular life of the Hispanic villages both as a photographer and writer, but also as a neighbor and friend. Like the novelist, John Berger, Harris draws his primary inspiration and unique vision from his immersion into the lives and experiences of the people he documents. This extraordinary retrospective publication brings together for the first time Harris'' black-and-white and color photographs of northern New Mexico and his surprising, cinematic color images from the city of Havana, Cuba. Harris photographs these two manifestations of the Spanish diaspora with a curious American edge. In New Mexico, television sets frame both saints and soap operas; dancing, naked hippies are set in sharp relief against the traditions of Hispanic village life. In Havana, centuries-old baroque architecture and evidence of more recent communist culture take on new meanings when photographed from the perspective of the backseats of 1950''s vintage American cars. In many of these images, people are altogether absent, yet richly evoked through the objects they have made and touched, worshiped and used over the years.

From this historic collaboration between a beloved naturalist and a great American photographer emerges a South we’ve never encountered before. Entranced by Edward O. Wilson’s mesmerizing evocation of his Southern childhood in The Naturalist and Anthill, Alex Harris approached the scientist about collaborating on a book about Wilson’s native world of Mobile, Alabama. Perceiving that Mobile was a city small enough to be captured through a lens yet old enough to have experienced a full epic cycle of tragedy and rebirth, the photographer and the naturalist joined forces to capture the rhythms of this storied Alabama Gulf region through a swirling tango of lyrical words and breathtaking images. With Wilson tracing his family’s history from the Civil War through the Depression—when mule-driven wagons still clogged the roads—to Mobile’s racial and environmental struggles to its cultural triumphs today, and with Harris stunningly capturing the mood of a radically transformed city that has adapted to the twenty-first century, the book becomes a universal story, one that tells us where we all come from and why we are here.

Combatiendo la idea de la adolescencia como unas vacaciones de la responsabilidad, los autores entretejen ideas bblicas, historia y ejemplos modernos, a fin de redefinir los aos de la adolescencia como la plataforma de lanzamiento de la vida.

"When the Light Fades" invites readers on an evocative journey through the shadows of existence, exploring themes of loss, longing, and the fragile beauty of fleeting moments. Each poem delicately weaves together vivid imagery and raw emotion, capturing the essence of human experience in the face of uncertainty. With lyrical grace, the collection reflects on the inevitability of change and the comfort found in vulnerability, guiding us through the intricacies of memory and the quiet resilience that emerges in the darkest times. As the light dims, new perspectives are illuminated, revealing a profound understanding of hope and renewal. This poignant anthology serves as a powerful reminder that, even when the world seems draped in darkness, there are glimmers of light waiting to be discovered, inviting readers to embrace the complexities of their own journeys.

Surprising photographic essays on the contemporary American South accompany eleven short stories from such noted authors as Bobbie Ann Mason, Richard Bausch, Robert Olen Butler, and Mary Ward Brown.

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Le " Deep South " ? C''est cette Amérique profonde du sud-est des Etats-Unis, gorgée de mythologies attachantes, littéraires ou musicales, au capital culturel unique. Avec ses villes rêvant encore de leur héritage flamboyant, telle La Nouvelle-Orléans, capitale de la Louisiane, souvent meurtrie par des catastrophes économiques ou naturelles. Avec cet esprit sudiste si particulier, qu''infusent encore le regret poignant d''un passé désormais évanescent ou le gothique morbide cher à l''écrivain Ambrose Bierce. Et la photographie dans tout cela ? Le Sud profond lui doit ses plus belles images. En voici trois exemples inoubliables, entre les mises en scène surréalistes, exacerbées, de Clarence John Laughlin, celles, inquiétantes et subtiles, de Ralph Eugene Meatyard, et la volonté documentaire lyrique d''Alex Harris. Les Suds profonds de l''Amérique incarnent le débordement romanesque d''un pays toujours réticent et frileux face aux pulsions de son inconscient.

Achieve and the U.S. Education Delivery Institute have developed a practical Common Core Implementation Workbook for all states in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). This workbook uses a proven performance management methodology known as "delivery" to lay out clear action steps for states and districts. It provides relevant information, case stories of good practice, key questions and hands-on exercises for leadership teams to complete together. Regardless of one''s timeline, the workbook offers state and district leaders the means to plan for the CCSS and then drive successful implementation. The workbook begins with a diagnostic assessment to help readers determine where their Common Core State Standards (CCSS) implementation effort is going well and areas of challenge that merit additional attention. After the diagnostic, the next sections of the workbook focus on how the state agency and school districts can organize for implementation. The workbook then offers a set of implementation actions that consist of the actual work of the CCSS transition. Chapters 5 and 6 help readers answer the critical questions for two key actions: how to align curricular and instructional materials and how to train educators on the CCSS. The workbook ends with Chapter 11, which answers the final question--how to monitor progress and sustain momentum, a topic that obviously applies across all the implementation actions. Individual chapters contain endnotes. ["Implementing Common Core State Standards and Assessments: A Workbook for State and District Leaders" was written with the assistance of Marie O''Hara and Lauren Kurczewski. This paper was developed with the U.S. Education Delivery Institute.].