Subjects:  1. Computer Books And Software    2. Computer Books: General    3. Computers    4. Computers - General Information    5. Higher    6. Keyboarding    7. Secretarial Aids & Training - Typing    8. Computers / Keyboarding   

Reviews (19)

A real Godsend
This manual has everything you will ever need in terms of the written English language. It will answer any punctuation,comprehension, or letter writing question you will ever have, and much much more. I bought the book just to put on a shelf for later reference. In the first two weeks I have already used it four times. This book is a keeper for life.

Teaches Shorthand Like It Says NOT Stenotype Machine .. DOH!
I don't understand the person's complaint that it doesn't teach how to use a stenotype machine for a court reporter. It is for teaching shorthand which is still a valuable skill when you need it. Very few companies have stenotype machines or court reporters on staff and yet there are millions of meetings every day.

gregg shorthand manual simplified
I was really suprise on how fast I got it. It was in good condition. Thank you ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. General    4. Gregg    5. Human Resources & Personnel Management    6. Reference    7. Secretarial Aids & Training - Shorthand    8. Shorthand    9. Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management    10. Shorthand & speedwriting   

Reviews (2)

Very colorful and contains many helpful sidebars
Finally, a text that deals with the fear of public speaking by dedicating a whole chapter to it. It doesn't come naturally, or at least easily for most people, unless of course, you're in the business. The Osborns give a whole chapter to the "First Speech." Although I feel this team was a little short on speech preparation techiniques as far as conducting interviews, what was offered was good enough to set up a solid base of testimonies for informative speeches. And although they did well in the in in-depth lesson outlining, the Osborns could've devoted more space to the Power Point presentation. This is increasingly necessary to win over audiences. A good Power Point presentation is the epitome of competent public speaking.
Public Speaking
I used the text book for a "public speaking" course at CaliforniaState University Hayward campus.Read more

Subjects:  1. Communication    2. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    3. Public Speaking   

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Subjects:  1. Abridged Audio - Misc. Nonfiction    2. Business Communication - Meetings & Presentations    3. Language    4. Language Arts & Disciplines    5. Public Speaking    6. Unabridged Audio - Misc.Nonfiction    7. Vocabulary   

Reviews (6)

This book is great for LA's learning the ropes.
I really love this book.I've been a Legal Assistant for only 2 years and I find that this book gives a clear understanding as to the how and why legal documents are prepared. Especially when preparing documents with 3rd party defendents/plaintiffs and also headings for Infant Compromise cases. I've added it to my Legal Reference Library and sit's on my desk with my CPLR.I'm currently in school working on my associates degree in Paralegal Studies and at the ripe "young" age of 48...I think I've found my niche.

What a Great Helpful Book
This book is so wonderful and helpful.I just started working in a law firm doing litigation and I knew nothing.This was a total foreign language to me.The book is laid out so easy to read and is so interesting it keeps your attention.I highly recommend this book to everybody.Even just to keep as a reference book.It is very helpful.I hope one day they make a Strictly New York book.

reply to: Not completely satisfied but a good reference
... the reason it wouldn't show specific court documents is because each state has VERY different rules for how documents must be presented.Your local legal secretaries association should have a more explicit reference guide showing exactly how pleadings, etc. should look for your state.I think you're missing the point of the book if you're expecting that kind of information. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Handbooks, manuals, etc    3. Legal Secretaryship    4. Legal secretaries    5. Paralegals & Paralegalism    6. Reference    7. Secretarial Aids & Training    8. United States    9. Business & Economics / Secretarial Aids & Training    10. Law    11. Secretarial & office skills   

Reviews (1)

Excellent overview
This second edition of Shortliffe's textbook is an excellent overview of the field. Although I used it as a course text, it is extremely readable. The chapters are not overly technical, as befits an introductory text, but by no means is this a "Dummmies" book either. Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Medical Technology    2. Communication In Medicine    3. Computer Applications    4. General    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Medical informatics    8. Research    9. Applications of Computing    10. Biomedial Informatics    11. Business mathematics & systems    12. Epidemiology & medical statistics    13. Health Informatics    14. Medical / Administration    15. Medical Computing    16. Medical equipment & techniques   

Reviews (2)

Set up your books so performance can be measured
This is not an easy-read book. It is much like a cookbook - there are all kinds of recipes (formulas) identified and explained. A must-read for anyone who wants to start, run, and grow a business.
An excellent business resource
Business Ratios and Formulas, A Comprehensive Guide, is the most thorough reference book of its type.Steven Bragg provides a complete explanation of each business ratio and formula and follows each with a scenario example of their applications.Also provided is a discussion of how the resultant calculation can be misleading or should be used in conjunction with other ratios.I have not seen this feature in any other book of its kind.Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business Mathematics    5. Business/Economics    6. Entrepreneurship    7. Budgeting & financial management    8. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management    9. Business mathematics & systems    10. Finance & Accounting   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Office Management    5. Office practice    6. Secretarial Aids & Training    7. Vocational guidance    8. Business & Economics / Secretarial Aids & Training    9. Office & workplace   

Reviews (1)

Professional Speaking
An excellent source for professors and people interested in Professional Speaking. It was the textbook for my professional speaking class and I found it an excellent source of reference in addition to excellent examples that helped me prepare my speech. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Communication    2. Handbooks, manuals, etc    3. Language    4. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    5. Public Speaking    6. Public speaking / elocution   

Reviews (3)

A Good Help
The typing program includes simple but progressive lessons that can be accomplished at your own pace giving you freedom to try and try again.It was easy to load to our computer and find our way around the program.The games included were a nice break from the plain lessons but kids used to video games might be disappointed with the graphics.The music included with the practice lessons is relaxing and not monotonous.My husband uses it and my teenager both hoping toincrease their speed and accuracy (and for a little down time in front of the computer screen).Overall a helpful product.

This book fetches results
My typing speed and accuracy have improved tremendously since I've read this book. On 3 minutes passage typing, my accuaracy jumped from 88% to 100% and my speed perked up from 20WPM to 360WPM.

By far the easiest typing course
I'm not usually one to write reviews, but I'm so impressed with this course I think it's a shame no-one has reviewed it yet. In fact, we've hardly used the book as the CD ROM does it all for you.
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Reviews (6)

Excellent for beginners
I have been wanting to teach myself to sing for several years, since I can't afford voice lessons, and have tried several books on the subject. This one is by far the best. I first tried books by William Vennard and Richard Miller and found that they were meant for advanced students, not beginners. There are other books for beginners, but they aren't usually meant for classical singing, more for pop (and I find that the authors don't really seem to have much of an understanding of the human voice). I don't know how he does it, but Brown manages to make normally difficult concepts easy to understand. Part of that is because of the CD that comes with it. It helps give a better understanding of what he's trying to explain. I would highly recommend this book for anyone trying to learn how to sing classically.

The plain truth about singing.
This book is glorious.
A Great Read
Wow, I really like this book! As a voice teacher and vocal coach of popular music, students frequently come to me with damaged voices in need of repair. Reading Mr. Brown's stories, I knew I found an author who shared my dedication to healthy singing. Orin L. Brown's warm and direct writing style conveys his true passion for healthy vocal use and his desire to share his great knowledge with both vocalists and teachers. This book is filled with descriptive stories that tell the tales of Mr. Brown's experiences with, discoveries of and solutions for ailing vocal students. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Care and hygiene    2. General    3. Instruction & Study - Voice    4. Instruction and study    5. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    6. Music    7. Singing    8. Speech    9. Voice    10. Voice Culture    11. Language Arts & Disciplines / Speech    12. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    13. Public speaking / elocution    14. Vocal music   

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Great Experience
This book arrived on a timely manner and in real good condition. It was exactly what they said it would be in their description. Wouldn't mind doing business with them again in the future!

This is MY professor you guys are talkin' about!!!!
These reviews just blow me away and impress me so much since I have Stu as a professor this semeseter (winter 2004) at Eastern Michigan University. Stewart Tubbs offers a solid body of research.
Stewart L. Tubbs is arguably the center of the Organizational ManagementUniverse.His keen insight into how small groups interact is a completecompendium of the essence of how small groups behave in the workenvironment.To Human Resource Managers, this is a foundational referencemanual.This text contains the facts behind each of our common experiencesas members of the business community. This text confirms our good hunchesand refutes our bad habits.This text will show you who in yourorganization is in need of some direction and who is on the ball with thelatest techniques of inspiring the best in your people.I highly recommendthis book as a college textbook and as a resource for good, meaningful,solid business practice.Well done Dr. Tubbs! ... Read more

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Current issues and enduring questions
The book is just what I needed for class. Also I find it to be very helpful in writing papers ... Read more

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Reviews (15)

Not a useful reference, pocket or otherwise
This book has a major deficiency as a reference: you can't easily find a specific topic. The book has no index and the table of contents is too high-level to help you find a particular topic (for example, "vi Commands" as a table of contents entry isn't really going to help you locate a particular command).
Vi - your answers
Great Vi book for Unix Beginners. It gives great examples to use the command being inquired.

Commandline editor guide
This is a handy little book to have around if you use the "vi" text editor and haven't mastered all the commands. Or if you use a different text editor regularly, but find yourself in a place that has only vi. I have about 5 of the O'Reilly Pocket reference books and find them handy reminders for languages, etc. This book is not intended to "teach" a person how to use vi. It is what it says, a "reference" to jog your memory or possibly find how to cut and paste text or one of the numerous functions systems folks wind up doing at times. I do prefer a different editor but vi is ubiquitous. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: Operating Systems    2. Computers    3. Computers - Operating Systems    4. Microcomputer Text Processing Software    5. Operating Systems - UNIX    6. Programming Languages - General    7. Text editors (Computer program    8. Text editors (Computer programs)    9. UNIX (Computer file)    10. Unix (Operating System)    11. Word Processing - General    12. Computer Programming    13. Computer Software Packages    14. Computers / Operating Systems    15. Computers / Operating Systems / UNIX    16. Computers/Programming Languages - General    17. Computers/Word Processing - General    18. Reference works   

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great savings
I appreciate be able to buy textbooks at a very reduced rate.thanks

Excellent Service
I recevied my book in a timely manner in the exact condition that was told to me. It was the correct edition and was exactly what I needed. I definitley give this seller a very good review, and thank him or her for the great textbook at the great price!

An Awesome Tool for Students in Public Speaking!
Stephen E. Lucas' book was not only helpful in preparing me to deliver speeches of the utmost college level of thinking, but it also had great tools with the interactive cd's with videos of sample speeches and tips on how to make public speaking work for you.
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Subjects:  1. Language    2. Language Arts & Disciplines    3. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    4. Public Speaking    5. Communication studies    6. Language Arts & Disciplines / Public Speaking   

Reviews (47)

Not a bad little book, but a good deal of filler.
Rick Ostrov, Power Reading: The Fastest, Easiest, Most Effective Course on Speedreading and Comprehension Ever Developed (3/e) (The Education Press, 2002)
perfect description
your description of this item was accurate-arrived sooner than expected and in perfect condition

Power reading
Great book to read and study.I recommend it to anyone that is thinking of improving your reading speed.Great book every read. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Education    2. Education / Study Skills    3. Education / Teaching    4. General    5. Language Arts & Disciplines / Reading Skills    6. Reading comprehension    7. Speed Reading    8. Language Arts & Disciplines    9. Reading And Reading Improvement    10. Reading Skills    11. Shorthand & speedwriting    12. Study Skills   

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An Excellent And Thorough Text
The previous reviewer who has mentioned that this particular text is rather demeaning perhaps needs to re-examine his statement. He laments about the text being too simplistic and emphasizing too much on the basic values of communication. However this type of erroneous approach is the reason why these reviewers fail to communicate their ideas clearly- it is obvious that they themselves need to learn the art of communication better.
Accompanying Website
I had to buy this book for a class I am taking.The accompanying CD-ROM and website are extremely helpful and make reviewing the information in the book more interesting.The crossword puzzles of the important terms are a fun twist on studying.The glossaries that can be printed out from the website to accompany the chapters make studying for a test a breeze.

Dictating Sleep, Volumes and Volumes of It
Perhaps this book is considered, by some people, to be a college-level volume, but the simplification of the subject is of the most demeaning of sorts. It begins by teaching you the most basic of ideas, the communication process (entailing the meanings of words like context, participants, messages, channels, noise, feedback, and so on), drudges through some page-filler slush about why we should communicate, and finally, in chapter twelve, gets to a little something on public speaking - what I thought the book, considering its useage, was designed for. Read more

Subjects:  1. Communication    2. General    3. Language    4. Language Arts & Disciplines    5. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    6. Public Speaking    7. Speech    8. Theater - General    9. Language Arts & Disciplines / Speech   

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Covers points, but neither in a clear or concise manner.
If you're looking for a clear, easy to understand work, this is not for you. It seems the author fluctuates between writing for a population that is well versed in statistical understanding, to one that is just learning concepts and terms. The reader ends up being tossed around with too much information at times, and at other times too little information. There are many, many better works on these topics. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Marketing - Industrial    5. Statistics    6. Business & Economics / Statistics    7. Business mathematics & systems    8. Management decision making   

Subjects:  1. Communication    2. Language    3. Language Arts & Disciplines    4. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    5. Public Speaking    6. Telecommunications    7. Communication Studies    8. Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication    9. Language teaching & learning material & coursework   

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Incredible Companion!
This book is the best self-training material ever... the simplicity of the instructions and the order of lessons give a sense of smooth progression!

Mastering Computer Typing
This book is written to give beginner and expert guidance in typing.It is well written.

Computer Students Learn Quickly from Book
I am teaching a group of adults computer keyboarding for the workplace.This is by far the best book for the task.The excercises are practical.The spiral bound book makes an excellent desktop companion. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business Data Processing    2. Business/Economics    3. Electronic data processing    4. Keyboarding    5. Keyboarding (Electronics)    6. Personal & Practical Guides    7. Reference    8. Reference - Beginner Guides    9. Word Processing - General    10. Reference / Personal & Practical Guides    11. Typing