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A Comprehensive Training Guide to Facebook Ads: Discover what Facebook ads can do for your business by Nkosinathi Kinqa is an easy-to-use introduction to the world of Facebook advertising and remarketing. Written with a relative beginner in mind, this well-written guidebook is logically structured into 4 sections that cover Facebook advertising from the complete basics to more advanced stages, tips, and strategies to get the most out of this huge and influential social site. Along the way there are detailed walkthroughs of the ads manager, a helpful series of case studies so you can see Facebook advertising in action, a chapter with links to premium resources to help analyze and automate your ads, and a checklist of dos and don’ts.
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Streamlined information all in one place—A Comprehensive Training Guide to Facebook Ads will save you countless hours. If you’re interested in doing Facebook ads, this book is a must-have. The training is truly comprehensive and took me from beginner to confident in just 20 chapters. Nkosinathi Kinqa begins with the basics of how to start a Facebook business page and walks you through every step of the process—how to find ads manager, how to create ads, how to target and remarket ads, and the different kinds of objectives for your ads. The book showcases the endless possibilities of Facebook’s platform, whether you want more website traffic, lead generation, more page likes, all of those at once, or even more. With a friendly and straightforward style similar to “how-to” tutorials on YouTube, this guidebook leaves readers with the tools they need to pursue Facebook marketing plans in future.

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Fashions, Fads and Fantasies: Three Decades of Outrageous Dressing by Clara Jackson is a compilation of the late painter and fashion designer Lorraine Geiger’s sketches of real-life people sporting real-life clothing trends she witnessed during the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s. The sketches were taken primarily in trendy culture hubs during the retro era, especially NYC, London, and Paris, but are of truly typical young people on the street in all their beautiful, hilarious creativity. Accompanied by introductions that put these decades of fashion into perspective, the illustrations ring with an amazing immediacy and honesty that’s surprisingly wistful and nostalgic about the hysterical—and timeless-- search for a personal look, as much a part of young people today as it was then.
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There is only one expression that come to mind when describing Fads, Fashions and Fantasies, and that is treasure chest. Having access to detailed information on costume is precious when documenting or attempting to recreate any era, and a resource that brings immediate personality to bygone styles is matchless. This book continually wowed me as I raced from page to page, learning not just what was worn, but who wore what and why. Lorraine Geiger’s deft, dry humor, laced in pungent little notes and section headings, brought the world of these sketches to life, as well as the fascinating people who wore them. Fashion students, authors researching a book, historians seeking a little tidbit to bring a particular year into clarity, and just about anyone who’s simply curious should grab this book off the shelf, clutch it tightly, and take it home for hours of perusal of Three Decades of Outrageous Dressing. 

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Heaven’s Angels by Carrie Magalski is a beautiful book about different hierarchies of angels and their purpose, filled with religious art from renowned artist Dona Gelsinger’s Heaven’s Little Angels collection. The layout reads like a light devotional or poetry book, with a brief paragraph or two about a type of angel along with a thought-provoking illustration to bring the point home. St. Uriel, the narrator, is viewed as the fourth archangel. The statements on angels, especially their ranks and specific purposes, are backed up by the Bible and the teachings of Thomas Aquinas, but at only about 60 pages the book is light reading, a blissful, elegant showcase of Dona Gelsinger’s fantastic art, in a devotional format that makes everyone feel right at home with angels.
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The  phrase “wow factor” jumps to mind when describing Heaven’s Angels. The quality of the art is superb, each painting capturing the mystical, otherworldly quality of angels in peaceful glowing detail, like Thomas Kinkade but with a spiritual tone. Carrie Magalski’s accompanying writing snaps the book’s theme into focus with quiet certainty. Seraphim, Cherubim, guardian angels, the Principalities and Powers, the Virtues, and all the rest of the heavenly hosts come before the reader in a graceful pageant that raises faith and confidence in the Creator. I’d recommend this as a gift for someone in the hospital, or anyone who’s recently gone through a grief experience, because the message of God’s care and provision for humans and the rest of his creation through his angels is so comforting. Heaven’s Angels puts the Inspiration in inspirational literature.