Wing Tang Wong

author: Nataly Kogan asin: 0971939209 binding: Paperback list price: $6.95 USD amazon price: $6.95

No doubt you've been bombarded with "expert" advice from your parents, professors, and countless advisors. It's time you got advice you can really use - from fellow students who've been where you're headed! All Students Helping Students guides are written and edited by top students and recent grads from colleges and universities across the U.S. You'll find no condescending advice here - just stuff to help you succeed in tackling you academic, social, and professional challenges!  read more »

asin: 0313277958 binding: Hardcover list price: $119.95 USD amazon price: $119.95 USD

Brunton's memoir opens a window on life and times in Meiji Japan from 1868 to 1876, a crucial period in that country's transformation from a medieval backwater into an efficient modern society. Schoolmaster to an Empire, the premier volume in Greenwood's newly initiated Asian Studies Series, provides a rare first-hand account of a nineteenth century English engineer and his key role in the epic-making technical developments of the time.  read more »

author: Craufurd D. Goodwin asin: 0472109022 binding: Hardcover list price: $60.00 USD amazon price: $60.00 USD

Roger Fry, a core member of the Bloomsbury Group, was involved with all aspects of the art market as artist, critic, curator, historian, journalist, advisor to collectors, and gallery operator. He is especially remembered as the person who introduced postimpressionist art to Britain.  read more »

author: Albert O. Hirschman asin: 1890951048 binding: Hardcover list price: $32.95 USD amazon price: $24.50 USD

"Crossing Boundaries is not only characteristic of the physical moves I have undertaken (or had to undertake) in the course of my life: it is also distinctive of the interdisciplinary travels I have engaged in ever since I started to write." --Albert O. Hirschman, from Crossing Boundaries  read more »

asin: 1602350507 binding: Paperback list price: $32.00 USD amazon price: $32.00 USD

Combining formal quantitative research with narrative-based scholarship, THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION represents multiple voices from faculty balancing between the demands of teaching, writing, and administering writing programs in professional, ethical ways-often under circumstances that can be defined, at best, as difficult. In these pages, junior faculty tell their stories of triumph and trauma, while more firmly established composition scholars reflect upon the changing and challenging profession we all share.  read more »

Translated and edited by T. B. Bottomore.

author: John Muir asin: 1559636416 binding: Paperback list price: $20.00 USD amazon price: $20.00 USD

"àa rich and fitting tribute." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "With previously unpublished journal entries and letters, this volume captures the original mountain man's final trek." -OUTSIDE  read more »

author: Thomas T. Barker asin: 0205195768 binding: Paperback list price: $70.00 USD amazon price: $70.00

More and more technology-based organizations are moving towards having an in-house employee write their user documentation. This book provides readers with a step-by-step strategy to writing and describing technical procedures. Designed to support professionals working on a project, this book includes complete programs for readers to work on and a full set of project tracking forms as well as a broad range of examples, including Windows-style pages and screens and award-winning examples from Technical Communication competitions.  read more »