New Releases by Nick Morgan

JavaScript快速入門與樂趣兼備 《JavaScript程式設計的樂趣》是一本節奏明快又充滿樂趣的程式設計入門指南，帶你用 JavaScript輕鬆踏進程式設計的世界。翻開本書，立刻開始撰寫程式、解決問題，並在短時間內完成可運作的網頁應用與遊戲。 你將從學習變數、陣列、物件、函式、條件判斷、迴圈、類別等基本的程式設計概念開始；在生動的範例和實作練習的幫助下，這些基礎知識將幫助你結合JavaScript、HTML與CSS，建立可以立即執行的互動式網頁應用程式。 接著，你將運用新習得的技能完成三個專案： 🎮 一個有虛擬對手的乒乓球模擬遊戲 🎵 一個能產生電子音樂的應用程式 📊 一個能從API取得資料並進行視覺化的平台 在這個過程中，你將學到如何： ．透過操作文件物件模型（DOM）來即時更新網頁內容。 ．觸發函式來回應按鍵和滑鼠點擊等事件。 ．使用JavaScript和HTML的Canvas元素產生圖形和動畫。 ．利用D3.js程式庫和可縮放向量圖形（SVG）進行資料視覺化。 ．運用Tone.js和Web Audio API製作電子音樂。 如果你正想一探程式設計，《JavaScript程式設計的樂趣》就是你的魔法工具，帶你快速進入這個奇妙世界，輕鬆寫出真正的程式。別再等了，現在就出發吧！ #碁峯資訊 GOTOP

A fast-paced, thorough programming introduction that will have you writing your own software and web applications in no time. Like Python Crash Course, this hands-on guide is a must-have for anyone who wants to learn how to code from the ground up—this time using the popular JavaScript programming language. Learn JavaScript—Fast! JavaScript Crash Course is a fun-filled, fast-paced introduction to programming with JavaScript. Dive right in and you’ll be writing code, solving problems, and building working web applications and games in no time. You’ll start by learning fundamental programming concepts, such as variables, arrays, objects, functions, conditionals, loops, classes, and more. Aided by engaging examples and hands-on exercises, you’ll build on this foundation and combine JavaScript with HTML and CSS to create interactive web applications that you can run right away. Then you’ll put your new skills into play with three substantial projects: a Pong-style game with a virtual opponent, an app that generates electronic music, and a platform for visualizing data fetched from an API. Along the way, you’ll learn how to: • Update web pages in real time by manipulating the Document Object Model • Trigger functions in response to events like key presses and mouse clicks • Generate graphics and animations with JavaScript and HTML’s Canvas element • Visualize data with the D3.js library and scalable vector graphics (SVG) • Make electronic music with Tone.js and the Web Audio API If you’ve been thinking about digging into programming, JavaScript Crash Course will get you writing real programs fast. Why wait any longer? Jump on your magic carpet and ride!

Demystify the world of whisky. Whisky experts Nick Morgan and The Whisky Exchange open the lid on the whisky industry, revealing what makes one of the world's simplest spirits just so popular. Everything You Need to Know About Whisky will answer all of your burning questions; from what makes the perfect scotch and how to drink it like a pro to an exploration of distilleries around the world and their fascinating (often scandalous) histories. This indispensable guide is filled with insider tips on finding your new favourite bottle and brewing up the very best whisky based cocktails - essential reading for all whisky fans, novices and experts alike.

Learn how to migrate your SAP data to Azure simply and successfully. Key Features Learn why Azure is suitable for business-critical systems Understand how to migrate your SAP infrastructure to Azure Use Lift & shift migration, Lift & migrate, Lift & migrate to HANA, or Lift & transform to S/4HANA Book DescriptionCloud technologies have now reached a level where even the most critical business systems can run on them. For most organizations SAP is the key business system. If SAP is unavailable for any reason then potentially your business stops. Because of this, it is understandable that you will be concerned whether such a critical system can run in the public cloud. However, the days when you truly ran your IT system on-premises have long since gone. Most organizations have been getting rid of their own data centers and increasingly moving to co-location facilities. In this context the public cloud is nothing more than an additional virtual data center connected to your existing network. There are typically two main reasons why you may consider migrating SAP to Azure: You need to replace the infrastructure that is currently running SAP, or you want to migrate SAP to a new database. Depending on your goal SAP offers different migration paths. You can decide either to migrate the current workload to Azure as-is, or to combine it with changing the database and execute both activities as a single step. SAP on Azure Implementation Guide covers the main migration options to lead you through migrating your SAP data to Azure simply and successfully.What you will learn Successfully migrate your SAP infrastructure to Azure Understand the security benefits of Azure See how Azure can scale to meet the most demanding of business needs Ensure your SAP infrastructure maintains high availability Increase business agility through cloud capabilities Leverage cloud-native capabilities to enhance SAP Who this book is for SAP on Azure Implementation Guide is designed to benefit existing SAP architects looking to migrate their SAP infrastructure to Azure. Whether you are an architect implementing the migration or an IT decision maker evaluating the benefits of migration, this book is for you.

Forgotten stories. Ones which were written but never published. Find out for the 28th time why the Author claims to have a sense of humor.

A schimba modul în care simţi este o parte importantă din a schimba modul în care gândești. Cercetările arată că apelul la emoţiile umane te poate ajuta să îi convingi pe ceilalţi și să îţi construiești autoritatea ca lider. Cartea de faţă scoate în evidenţă aceste studii și îţi arată cum să acţionezi în direcţia respectivă, prezentând atât cadre cuprinzătoare pentru dezvoltarea influenţei, cât și tactici simple, punctuale, pe care le poţi folosi pentru a-i convinge pe alţii zilnic.

A Washington Post Bestseller Your manual for remote and virtual work. Communicating virtually is cool, useful, and now even more ubiquitous and necessary than ever. But we're often reminded that the quality of human connection we experience in many forms of virtual communication is awful. We've all felt disconnected in a video conference, frustrated that we're not getting through on the phone, upset when our email is badly misinterpreted, or anxious that we're being misunderstood. How can we fix this? In this powerful, practical book, communication expert Nick Morgan outlines five big problems with communication in the virtual world--lack of feedback, lack of empathy, lack of control, lack of emotion, and lack of connection and commitment--and shows how to overcome them as we shift to working remotely more and more. Morgan argues that while virtual communication will never be as rich or intuitive as a face-to-face meeting, recent research suggests that we need to learn is to consciously deliver a whole set of cues, both verbal and nonverbal, that we used to deliver unconsciously in the pre-virtual era. He guides us through this important process, providing rules for virtual feedback, an empathy assessment and virtual temperature check, tips for creating trust in a virtual context, and advice for specific digital channels such as email and text, the conference call, Skype, and more. Whether you're an entrepreneur, an independent professional, or a manager in an organization that has more than one office or customers who aren't nearby, Can You Hear Me? is your essential communications manual for twenty-first-century work.

Changing hearts is an important part of changing minds. Research shows that appealing to human emotion can help you make your case and build your authority as a leader. This book highlights that research and shows you how to act on it, presenting both comprehensive frameworks for developing influence and small, simple tactics you can use to convince others every day. This volume includes the work of: Nick Morgan Robert Cialdini Linda A. Hill Nancy Duarte This collection of articles includes "Understand the Four Components of Influence," by Nick Morgan; "Harnessing the Science of Persuasion," by Robert Cialdini; "Three Things Managers Should Be Doing Every Day," by Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback; "Learning Charisma," by John Antonakis, Marika Fenley, and Sue Liechti; "To Win People Over, Speak to Their Wants and Needs," by Nancy Duarte; "Storytelling That Moves People," an interview with Robert McKee by Bronwyn Fryer; "The Surprising Persuasiveness of a Sticky Note," by Kevin Hogan; and "When to Sell with Facts and Figures, and When to Appeal to Emotions," by Michael D. Harris. How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

عن التواصل كيف يستطيع أفضل القادة التواصل بوضوح وإقناع...؟! إذا لم تكن قد قرأت أي شيء عن كيفية التواصل المؤثر الواضح، عليك قراءة هذه المقالات العشر، لقد بحثنا عبر مئات المقالات في أرشيف مجلة هارفارد للأعمال واختبرنا أكثر المقالات المهمة لمساعدتك على التعبير عن أفكارك بوضوح وقوة مهما كان الوضع. في هذه المقالات، ستجد خبراء مثل: ديبوراتانين وجاي كونغر ونك مورغان ليقدموا لكالنصيحة التي تحتاج إليها من أجل: • طرح أفكارك النيِّرة بنجاح. • التواصل مع جمهورك. • تثبيت المصداقية. • تحفيز الآخرين على تنفيذ رؤيتك. • التكيف مع أساليب اتخاذ القرار عند أصحابالمصلحة وتأطير الأهداف حول المصالح المشتركة. • بناء الإجماع وكسب التأييد. العبيكان 2017

JavaScript is the programming language of the Internet, the secret sauce that makes the Web awesome, your favorite sites interactive, and online games fun! JavaScript for Kids is a lighthearted introduction that teaches programming essentials through patient, step-by-step examples paired with funny illustrations. You’ll begin with the basics, like working with strings, arrays, and loops, and then move on to more advanced topics, like building interactivity with jQuery and drawing graphics with Canvas. Along the way, you’ll write games such as Find the Buried Treasure, Hangman, and Snake. You’ll also learn how to: –Create functions to organize and reuse your code –Write and modify HTML to create dynamic web pages –Use the DOM and jQuery to make your web pages react to user input –Use the Canvas element to draw and animate graphics –Program real user-controlled games with collision detection and score keeping With visual examples like bouncing balls, animated bees, and racing cars, you can really see what you’re programming. Each chapter builds on the last, and programming challenges at the end of each chapter will stretch your brain and inspire your own amazing programs. Make something cool with JavaScript today! Ages 10+ (and their parents!)

Our brains are constantly transmitting and receiving signals of which we are unaware. Morgan highlights recent research that shows how humans are programmed to respond to the nonverbal cues of others. He introduces seven "power cues" which are essential for any leaders in business or the public sector.

The best leaders know how to communicate clearly and persuasively. How do you stack up?If you read nothing else on communicating effectively, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you express your ideas with clarity and impact--no matter what the situation. Leading experts such as Deborah Tannen, Jay Conger, and Nick Morgan provide the insights and advice you need to: Pitch your brilliant idea--successfully Connect with your audience Establish credibility Inspire others to carry out your vision Adapt to stakeholders' decision-making style Frame goals around common interests Build consensus and win support

Nick Morgan shows how anyone can be an effective speaker by presenting an image of authenticity and respect for their audience, whether in a group presentation or a one-on-one conversation. He presents a four-step process, perfected in his teaching at Harvard, that enables the reader to use their own personal speaking style while becoming a more persuasive and charismatic communicator and leader. The basis of this process is the fact that when words and body language are in conflict, body language wins every time. This isn't easy to overcome, because normally body language is immediate, while the words lag slightly behind, and even a momentary conflict is perceptible to the audience. The key to success is to train your body language to unconsciously align with your message. The four steps: Form the attitude and intent to be open, and then let your body naturally express that intent. This feeling of openness will naturally affect the content of what you are saying, and it's that natural evolution that is at the heart of the process. Become connected to your audience. This creates a mutual energy, and you will naturally begin to think in terms of what the audience wants and needs in shaping your content. Ask yourself, what's my underlying emotion? Why does this matter to me? Becoming passionate about what you have to say naturally makes your audience care about it too. Really listen to the audience. Understanding their needs and reactions will enable you to direct your communication in mutually beneficial ways.

Do you remember the topic of the last speech you heard? If not, you're not alone. In fact, studies show that audiences remember only 10% to 30% of speech or presentation content. Given those bleak statistics, why do we give speeches at all? We give them, says communications expert Nick Morgan, because they remain the most powerful way of connecting with audiences since ancient Greek times. But as we've evolved to a more conversational mode of public speaking, thanks to television, we have forgotten much of what the Greeks taught us about the nonverbal aspects of speech-giving: the physical connection with audiences that can create an almost palpable emotional bond. Morgan says this "kinesthetic connection" comes from truly listening to your audience—not just with your brain but with your body. In this book, he draws from more than 20 years as a speech coach and consultant, combining the best of ancient Greek oratory with modern communications research to offer a new, audience-centered approach to public speaking. Through entertaining and insightful examples, Morgan illustrates a 3 part process—focusing on content development, rehearsal, and delivery—that will enable readers of all experience levels to give more effective, passion-filled speeches that move audiences to action.