Heroes come in all shapes, sizes, and species!

Growing up in Cambodia, Malen knew that dangers from a long-ago war lay hidden underground. Buried explosives forced her and many others to live, farm, and play in fear. As she got older, Malen learned how to use a metal detector to find and safely dispose of these landmines.

Five thousand miles away, in Tanzania, Magawa was also learning how to find landmines. But he didn't need a metal detector--he had his nose. Magawa was a rat, and his smelling superpower and light weight helped him safely sniff out dangerous explosives.

After completing his training, Magawa joined Malen in Cambodia, and together they cleared more than a hundred landmines from fields all across the country. A fascinating true story with a hopeful ending and rich back matter from Scott Riley, author of The Floating Field, with Sambat Meas, a Cambodian deminer, and Cambodian American illustrator Huy Voun Lee.

On the island of Koh Panyee, in a village built on stilts, there is no open space. How will a group of Thai boys play soccer?

After watching the World Cup on television, a group of Thai boys is inspired to form their own team. But on the island of Koh Panyee, in a village built on stilts, there is no open space. The boys can play only twice a month on a sandbar when the tide is low enough. Everything changes when the teens join together to build their very own floating soccer field.

This inspiring true story by debut author Scott Riley is gorgeously illustrated by Nguyen Quang and Kim Lien. Perfect for fans of stories about sports, beating seemingly impossible odds, and places and cultures not often shown in picture books.

A compelling book for football [soccer] fans and readers seeking examples of ingenuity.--starred, Publishers Weekly

Prasit Hemmin y sus amigos estaban obsesionados con el fútbol. Pero en su hogar, la pequeña isla de Koh Panyee en Tailandia, no había suficiente espacio para que jugaran a menos que la marea estuviera baja. Entonces, Prasit y sus amigos construyeron su propio campo de fútbol flotante, diferente a cualquier otra superficie de juego del mundo.

Prasit Hemmin was obsessed with soccer--and his friends were too. But the teen boys could play only twice a month when the tide was low enough for a sandbar to serve as a field. That's because their home, the small island of Koh Panyee, Thailand, didn't have enough open space for them to play on. Unless . . .

Inspired by the 1986 World Cup, Prasit and his friends built their own floating soccer field, unlike any other playing surface in the world. Their field's quirks prompted some unusual rules--anyone who kicked the ball out of bounds had to jump into the ocean to retrieve it--but they also helped the players develop exceptional footwork.

Follow the inspiring true story of Prasit and his friends as they create the field of their dreams in this celebration of ingenuity, determination, and most of all, love of the game. Now in Spanish!

Learn to create seamless designs backed by a responsible understanding of the human mind. This new edition is fully updated and reworked to employ a realistic, challenging, and practical approach to interface design, presenting state of the art scientific studies in behavioral sciences, interface design and the psychology of design. All with modern, up-to-date examples and screenshots. The practical portion of this edition has been completely reworked, giving you the chance to follow along with a real, proven design process that has produced several successful products imbued with the principles of mindful, responsible design.

You'll examine how human behavior can be used to integrate your product design into lifestyle, rather than interrupt it, and make decisions for the good of those that are using your product. You will also learn about the neurological aspects and limitations of human vision and perception; about our attachment to harmony and dissonance; and about our brain's propensity towards pattern recognition and how we perceive the world around us. In the second half of the book, you'll follow along with the key phases of a design project, implementing what you have learned in an end-to-end, practical setting.

Design is a responsibility, but not enough designers understand the human mind or the process of thought. Mindful Design, Second Edition introduces the areas of brain science that matter to designers, and passionately explains how those areas affect each human's day-to-day experiences with products and interfaces, providing a battle-tested toolkit to help you make responsible design decisions.

What You'll Learn

• Review how attention and distraction work and the cost of attentional switching
  
• Use Gestalt principles to communicate visual grouping
  
• Ensure your underlying models make sense to your audience
  
• Use time, progression, and transition to create a composition
  
• Carefully examine controlling behavior through reductionist and behaviorist motivation concepts
  
• Apply the theoretical knowledge to practical, mindful interface design
  

Who This Book Is For

The primary audience for this book is professional designers who wish to learn more about the human mind and how to apply that to their work. The book is also useful for design-focused product owners and startup founders who wish to apply ethical thinking to a team, or when bootstrapping their products. The secondary audience is design students who are either studying a 'traditional' visual design course, or a UX/interaction design course who have a desire to learn how they might be able to apply mindful design to their early careers. Finally, a tertiary audience for this book would be tutors involved in teaching design, or peripheral, courses who may wish to incorporate its teachings into their lectures, workshops or seminars.

This book is for every person who believes they can start their own business -- or improve the company they work for:

You can do it regardless of your age, level of education, or whether your resources are ample or modest.

Just keep it simple, admit your own weaknesses, be willing to work long hours, never quit, and learn something from everyone you meet.

And remember ... karma will get you if you don't make good ethics part of everything you do.

This book is for every person who believes they can start their own business -- or improve the company they work for:

You can do it regardless of your age, level of education, or whether your resources are ample or modest.

Just keep it simple, admit your own weaknesses, be willing to work long hours, never quit, and learn something from everyone you meet.

And remember ... karma will get you if you don't make good ethics part of everything you do.