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These are handy and thorough guides with knowledgeable text and hundreds of full color photographs and illustrations.These are handy and thorough guides with knowledgeable text and hundreds of full color photographs and illustrations.... More

An expert on the use of words in business demonstrates the effect of word power through his own experiences and those of leading brands such as Guinness, Ben & Jerry's, and Starbucks.The one thing that all brands desire is customer affection. They want to be loved. And when they are not loved, what ... More

Every woman's dream. To stand tall amidst a mob. To be noticed for style and class. To be a cut above the best of the rest.To be Ms. Demeanour. No mean dream or fantasy. Be gracious, by choice. Sitagita's book on Social Graces takes you for a stroll along Etiquette Avenue. To emerge wiser and richer... More

This book is intended to serve as a short handbook to MARC cataloguers and as a learning resource to the student. The book represents a subset of MARC 21 fields delineating scope, content designations, interpretations and examples related to cataloguing of language materials- mainly books and serial... More

The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk's celebrated first novel, is the tale of a young Italian scholar. Captured by pirates and put up for auction at the Istanbul slave market, and bought by a Turkish savant eager to learn about scientific and intellectual advances in the West. But as they bond over each ot... More

The most comprehensive Perl book on the market - with more than 1,000 examples and three bonus chapters on the CD-ROM - this new edition of the best-selling Perl Black Book cover Perl 5.6 from the basic syntax to the most advanced Internet programming. Three new chapters have been added to this seco... More

At last, an easy to use, comprehensive dictionary of quotations that contains entries from the Bible, Shakespeare, and rock'n'roll. Inside you'll find exciting new quotations from contemporary figures including Gloria Steinem and Adrienne Rich on feminism, Faye Wattleton and Dr. Ruth Westheimer on s... More

If you've ever wondered exactly what a Zapf is, or if Baskerville has anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, "Type" is the answer to these questions and more. This is the story of the passions, and obsessions of the creator of type; of the influences of wars, persecution, and political upheaval, and t... More

The 13th collection of "Dilbert" cartoons offers yet another glimpse into the zany office life of Dilbert and crew, a humorous world filled with incompetent management, incomprehensible project acronyms, ISO 9000 certification, and one percent raises."For the armies of American office workers, "Dilb... More