Wing Tang Wong

This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on July 1, 1996. The length of the article is 733 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: Washington Supreme Court justices, the legal community and television viewers have reacted positively to an experiment to provide gavel-to-gavel TV coverage of an entire court term.  read more »

author: Lianna Farber asin: 0801444128 binding: Hardcover list price: $39.95 USD amazon price: $39.95 USD

Economics, in our modern sense of the term, was not a discipline in the Middle Ages, although the history of economic thought is often written as though it were. Lianna Farber restores the core economic concept of trade to its medieval contexts, showing that it contains three component parts: value, consent, and community. Medieval writing about trade not only relies on these elements, it presents them as unproblematic. By addressing texts in which each element of trade is discussed directly, Farber demonstrates that this straightforward picture is falsely reassuring.  read more »

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With an emphasis on key individuals and key movements, this book is the first attempt to provide a collection of critical essays on the history of technical communication designed to help guide future research. This collection consists of the classic; essays in the field that have made a major contribution to the development of the field, and the new; essays that contribute to our historical understanding of a specific element or period of technical communication.  read more »

No question has more intrigued the minds of scholars of economic thought throughout history than that of the nature and meaning of time. The articles in this insightful collection attempt to provide satisfactory answers to fundamental issues on the use of time in economic theory. These volumes bring together the most important contributions on the subject, ranging from issues about the allocation of time, theory of choice, preference reversal and time in equilibrium to the issues of irreversibility, complex systems and the role of time.  read more »

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Extreme Résumé Makeover focuses on the written communication involved in finding a job, including résumés, cover letters, and thank you notes. “Before and after” examples of real résumés are incorporated providing concrete visual examples to use as models for the final product. Each resume example indicates the errors in the initial attempt and suggested improvements. There are also sections on electronic formatting and electronic résumés, as well as lists of key words for various careers.

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The author presents the lessons learned from his experiences in three decades of infrastructure plan preparation and review. His text can serve as a tutorial for project engineers and project managers who are faced with guiding a staff along a learning curve in the shortest possible time. The chapter on plan review collects situations encountered, based on the reviews of hundreds of sets of contract documents, in an attempt to help avoid anomalies that could result in unintentional contradictions or costly field changes.

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Microsoft Word has been around for a long time, but until now there was not a book like this one. Why?  read more »

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In recent years the tremendous growth of the service sector—including international trade in services—has outstripped that of manufacturing in many industrialized nations. As the importance of services has grown, economists have begun to focus on policy issues raised by them and have tried to understand what, if any, differences there are between production and delivery of goods and services.  read more »