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Very Funny - Now Change Me Back Again
 | author: Peter Biddlecombe asin: 0349109699 binding: Paperback list price: $14.99 USD amazon price: $9.89 USD |
This is the fifth in a series of dispatches from all over the world in which Peter Biddlecombe recounts his battles to survive the black magic voodoo of 5-star international travel. Former European footballers of the year open their own high street bank, alcohol-free lager is invented to give the good people of Oslo an excuse to enjoy themselves, and the formation dancing team of the Ukranian mafia can register 6.7 on the Richter scale.
Grammar for Success (Verbal Advantage)
 | asin: B000FI30UY binding: Audio CD |
Mastery of Grammar and Usage is essential to the creation of written material you can take pride in!
Grammar For Success will guide you through the challenges and intricacies of usage, spelling and punctuation. You wont be loaded down with abstract theories. Grammar will be explained only as it applies to usage...to language in action, to ideas and strategies that you can use everyday of your writing life. read more »
Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions
 | author: Charles Kostelnick Michael Hassett asin: 0809325020 binding: Hardcover list price: $50.00 USD amazon price: $40.00 USD |
From charts, texts, and graphs to illustrations, icons, and screens, we live in an information age saturated with visual language. Yet the underlying principles that provide structure for visual language have long eluded scholars of rhetoric, design, and engineering. To function as a language that reliably conveys meaning, visual language must embody codes that normalize its practices among both the designers who employ it and the readers who interpret it. read more »
E-Mail Etiquette: Do's, Don'ts and Disaster Tales from People Magazine's Internet Manners Expert
 | author: Samantha Miller asin: 044667804X binding: Paperback list price: $12.95 USD amazon price: $12.95 |
The etiquette rulebook was born 4,200 years ago, when Ptah Hotep prescribed proper behavior to ancient Egyptians. Netiquette, however, is a relatively new field. In E-Mail Etiquette, Samantha Miller sheds light on the dos and don'ts of attachments, mass mailings, personal and business e-correspondence, e-mail hoaxes, viruses, spam, and e-mail privacy. "E-mail should be the most polite form of communication ever invented," says Miller, the Internet manners expert for People magazine. Then why is so much of it so irksome? read more »
Bollinger on Bollinger Bands
 | author: John A. Bollinger asin: 0071373683 binding: Hardcover list price: $49.95 USD amazon price: $32.97 USD |
technical analysis tool invented by John Bollinger in the 1980s. Having evolved from the concept of trading bands, Bollinger Bands can be used to measure the highness or lowness of the price relative to previous trades.
Bollinger Bands consist of:
* a middle band being a N-period simple moving average
* an upper band at K times a N-period standard deviation above the middle band
* a lower band at K times a N-period standard deviation below the middle band
Typical values for N and K are 20 and 2, respectively. read more »
Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Names, Greetings, Insults, Sayings
 | author: Angela McDonald asin: 0520252357 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $11.96 USD |
The Egyptian hieroglyphic script is one of the most beautiful, fascinating, and expressive writing systems ever invented. In Ancient Egypt, only an elite few could read and write hieroglyphs, but now you too can recognize and write a selection of names, titles, descriptions, sayings, greetings--even insults! read more »
