More than a year after the protests in Syria began, the country is teetering on the abyss. An all out civil war will leave hundreds of thousands dead, guarantee that the successor regime will be nasty, brutish, and short, and may ignite a regional conflagration, Syria - A Decade of Lost Chances deftly weighs the altematives.

Author Carsten Wieland is a German journalist and scholar with long experience in Syria who currently serves in the German diplomatic corps.

Three new books on the Design Code Process(R), an idea-generating system invented by Fred Griffin that enables visual design professionals to produce fresh concepts and outstanding designs on deadline.

Learning First in Black & White
Explores basic design concepts and addresses the question, "Where do ideas come from?"

Tossing Around Ideas
introduces the essentials of color theory.

Putting it all Together - Exercises
reviews and develops the concepts introduced in the first two books.