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Outlining Goes Electronic:
 | author: Jonathan Price asin: 1567503799 binding: Paperback list price: $34.95 USD amazon price: $34.95 USD |
This book examines a writing activity that has recently fallen into disrepute. Outlining has a bad reputation among students, even though many teachers and textbooks still recommend the process. In part, the author argues, the medium is to blame. Paper and ink make the revision difficult. But if one uses an electronic outliner, the activity can be very helpful in developing a thoughtful and effective document, particularly one that spans many pages and deals with a complicated subject. read more »
The Plain English Approach to Business Writing
 | author: Edward P. Bailey Jr. Larry Bailey asin: 0195115651 binding: Paperback list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $10.85 USD |
In offices across America, the Masters of Gobbledygook are hard at work. They're bombarding in-boxes with those long, confusing memos that colleagues don't have the patience to read--and bosses don't have the time to rewrite. They use words like "commence" or "prior to" instead of"begin" or "before." They bury their main point somewhere in the last paragraph--and take two pages to get there. Everybody knows one of them; in fact, you may even be one of them. But now there's help for anyone who's ever fallen prey to businessese, academese, legalese, or any other "ese" when read more »
Deregulation and Interdependence in the Asia-Pacific Region (National Bureau of Economic Research-East Asia Seminar on
 | asin: 0226386740 binding: Hardcover list price: $95.00 USD amazon price: $95.00 USD |
Recently, real and artificial barriers to international transactions have fallen sharply, causing a rise in the overall volume of international trade. East Asia has been particularly affected by the economic stresses and gains derived from deregulation. Deregulation and Interdependence in the Asia-Pacific Region explores the broadly similar experiences of certain economies in the region—China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea—in dealing with the potentially volatile process of deregulation, and examines the East Asian response to a rapidly transforming economic environment.
Fishing for the Moon and Other Zen Stories: A Pop-Up
 | author: Lulu Hansen asin: 0789308169 binding: Hardcover list price: $22.50 USD amazon price: $17.55 USD |
Fishing for the Moon Long ago, several monkeys lived in a quiet wood. While playing one day, they discovered a well and saw in its depths a reflection of the moon. They immediately reported the wondrous sight to their king: "Something terrible has happened! read more »
