Writing for the wired world: The communicator's guide to effective online content

Writing for the wired world: The communicator's guide to effective online content
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Writing for the wired world: The communicator's guide to effective online content
Shel Holtz
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Writing for the Wired World: The Communicator's Guide to Online Content
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Writing for the Wired World: The Communicator's Guide to Online Content
Shel Holtz
Manufacturer: International Assoc. of Business Communicators
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ASIN: 1888015144

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Writing well for print isn't enough - you need to attract and engage readers online, too. Based on the popular IABC workshop series of the same name, "Writing for the Wired World" is the ultimate guide to effective online communication. This 218-page manual shows how to:

- Create material that grabs and holds the readers attention - Use graphics, hyperlinks and multimedia to enhance your writing - and not distract from it - Accommodate scanning and word searches - Counteract computer fatigue - Incorporate feedback and interactivity into a written document - Use hyperlinks to enhance your writing

Whether you are building Web sites, organizing an e-mail campaign, representing your organization in discussion groups, or developing online newsletters or e-zines, "Writing for the Wired World" will provide you with the insights you need to understand how the online world can be used for effective communication. You'll also learn about:

- Site design as an element of the writing process - Essential elements for every web document - The physiological effects of reading light - Integrating your web site with other media - Techniques for improving site navigation

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This is a separate solutions manual for the text exercises that are found in the textbook, Applications of Monte Carlo Methods to Finance and Insurance. ISBN:1-56698-433-5

Biological Control of Salvinia Molesta in Sri Lanka: An Assessment of Costs and Benefits (Aciar Technical Reports)
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Biological Control of Salvinia Molesta in Sri Lanka: An Assessment of Costs and Benefits (Aciar Technical Reports)
J. A. Doeleman
Manufacturer: Hyperion Books
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Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe is designed for complete concept development and supported with riveting narrative to clarify understanding. Challenging with engaging hangs-on labs, this complete program provides results that you and your students will appreciate.

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Great information in this text book.......2007-09-04

I'm looking forward to using this book this semester. It's loaded with great information.

Earth Science: Geology, the Environment and the Universe Student Works Plus Cd-rom (FL Edition)

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Earth Science: Geology, the Environment and the Universe Student Works Plus Cd-rom (FL Edition)
Glencoe Science
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Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe, Exploring Environmental Problems, Student Edition

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Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe, Exploring Environmental Problems, Student Edition
McGraw-Hill
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Unflinching reports of London's poor from a prolific and influential English writer

London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of articles, later published in four volumes, written for the Morning Chronicle in 1849 and 1850 when journalist Henry Mayhew was at the height of his career. Mayhew aimed simply to report the realities of the poor from a compassionate and practical outlook. This penetrating selection shows how well he succeeded: the underprivileged of London become extraordinarily and often shockingly alive.

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Indispensable: Portraits of Victorian Working Class People.......2004-09-15

This review refers to the Penguin Classics edition of Henry Mayhew's 'London Labour and the London Poor' which is an abridged version of the original four volume version published in 1851-52.

Though Henry Mayhew wrote several novels, his name is primarily remembered as the author/complier of this journalistic work 'London Labour and the London Poor.' The present selection gives the best part of the original four volume book, which captures exactly what the title says -- London labour and the poverty-stricken people living there.

The selction includes some figures or statistics about the working class people, such as the estimated amount of money these workers gain every day (and meagre one), but the most interesting part is the first-hand records about the ways of life of various lines of works in London, directly taken from the people engaged in these works.

The jobs (and some of them hardly deserve the name 'jobs') recorded here are, to name a few, street-sellers such as fried fish, watercresses, matches, baked potatoes, etc.; street-buyers such as old clothes or 'dust'; street-performers like 'conjurors,' musicians, or fire-eaters (with his own descriptions about how to eat fire), but the most fascinating is the records about boys (and some girls) who run away from parents, and lives in the street of London, who literally lives by begging or stealing.

Many interesting facts are recorded by Mayhew (or his assistants), directly from the persons the book deals with, and the original words spoken by there labourers are preserved as much as possible. To read, or to listen to them is one of the greatest merits of the book, for the languages of the interviewees retain the peculiar speeches you find in many Dickensian characters, and in fact you will realize that Dickens didn't exaggerate when he created Sam Weller.

And the London you see here is the London Charles Dickens knew. What did Jo in 'Bleak House' was sweeping in the street? Who gave that permission? What is the nature of 'the dust' you hear in 'Our Mutual Friend'? What was the regulations of the 'workhouse'? All these thing are answered in this vividly realized collections of the Victorian working class portraits.

This book is still a valuable source for anyone who is interested in Victorian period, and will be. Buy one now.

Look up "humour" in the Britannica. This is it........1999-08-17

Henry Mayhew, having created this delightful encyclopoedia of humanity, has probably been ripped off more frequently than any writer since Shakespeare. His characters are so animated they have jumped full-fleshed from the pages of his books into the works of many another humorist or novelist, and we all owe more to him than we can know.

While the living conditions suffered by the poor were truly deplorable, Mayhew might have enjoyed the company of street people more than that of his peers. He put so much life into his characters we can see them, hear them, smell them. I only wonder what the street people thought about Mr. Mayhew, the journalist who bought them beers,inveigled invitations to tea, listened tirelessly to their stories. Mayhew is neither sentimental nor brutal, but rather a true and tolerant humourist, and I believe that, for all the misery depicted, his work was undertaken with great, and contagious, joy.

A must-read for those interested in Victorian England.......1999-07-10

Henry Mayhew, founder of Punch magazine, wrote this four-volume sociological classic during the 1850's. If you are at all interested in the Victorian era, in British history, in London, or in urban history in general, this is a must-read. The Penguin version is abridged and is a distillation of the "best" of the multiple-volume set. This distillation is itself over 500 pages, so imagine the impact of the entire set! The utter destitution of the London poor is set out in such vivid detail than one cannot help being shocked at the conditions human beings were forced to live in in the greatest city of its time. The only fault I find with this book is Mayhew's occasional lapses into preaching. Otherwise a fine book

London Labour and the London Poor: THe Classical Study of the Culture of Poverty and the Criminal Classes in the 19th Century, Volume III: The London Street-Folk (Concluded) (London Labour and the London Poor, Volume 3)

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London Labour and the London Poor: THe Classical Study of the Culture of Poverty and the Criminal Classes in the 19th Century, Volume III: The London Street-Folk (Concluded) (London Labour and the London Poor, Volume 3)

Manufacturer: Dover Publications, Inc.
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Charles Booth's London: A portrait of the poor at the turn of the century, drawn from his Life and labour of the people in London, (Pelican classics)

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Charles Booth's London: A portrait of the poor at the turn of the century, drawn from his Life and labour of the people in London, (Pelican classics)
Charles Booth
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Selections from London labour and the London poor (The World's classics)

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Selections from London labour and the London poor (The World's classics)
Henry Mayhew
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Charles Booth's London, a Portrait of the Poor at the Turn of the Century, from his Life and Labour of the People of London

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Charles Booth's London, a Portrait of the Poor at the Turn of the Century, from his Life and Labour of the People of London
Albert & Richard Elman, Editors Fried
Manufacturer: NY: Pantheon Books (1968)
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Charles Booth's London: A Portrait of the Poor at the Turn of the Century, Drawn from His "Life and Labour of the People in London"

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Charles Booth's London: A Portrait of the Poor at the Turn of the Century, Drawn from His "Life and Labour of the People in London"
Albert and Richard M. Elman (Edited by) Fried
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Charles Booth's London: a portrait of the poor at the turn of the century,: Drawn from 'Life and labour of the people in London';

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Charles Booth's London: a portrait of the poor at the turn of the century,: Drawn from 'Life and labour of the people in London';
Charles Booth
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The Essential Mayhew: Representing and Communicating the Poor

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The Essential Mayhew: Representing and Communicating the Poor

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HENRY MAYHEW - Selections from London Labour and the London Poor

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HENRY MAYHEW - Selections from London Labour and the London Poor

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London Labour And The London Poor
Henry Mayhew
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000N6KTJ8

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States

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Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States
Malcolm C. Peck
Manufacturer: Scarecrow Press, Inc.
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In 1990-91, the Persian/Arab Gulf came dramatically to American and world attention with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, and the seven months of tension and violence that followed. So begins Malcom C. Peck's introduction to the "Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States," a volume that explores the history of five small states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, while clearly focusing on recent and current developments. The information provided on the political, economic, social, cultural, and religious aspects of the Gulf Arab States is intended to be useful for academic and other researchers, and in a form that is convenient for diplomats and business people, as well as individuals who are merely curious to know more about an interesting and important part of the world. For those wishing to do further research on the area, an extensive bibliography is provided.

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Rapid progress during the last twenty years has created a host of new technologies for studying electrical storms, including lightning mapping systems, new radars, satellite sensors, and new ways of measuring electric field and particle charge. This book explains how these advances have revolutionized our understanding. The books provides substantial background material, making it accessible to a broad scientific audience.

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Part of the Problem.......2004-04-04

The book, THE ELECTRICAL NATURE of STORMS, appears oblivious to interpretation of simple evidence that the earth is negatively charged. (It would be most unlikely for the sun to leave us with a perfect balance, with thermionic emission, solar wind, etc.) Such comprehension would then suggest how electrons leach their way down from the ionosphere as part of negatively charged ions to produce the prevailing lightning to ground that remains uncontested. These ions cluster up during the condensation of moisture and continue to intensify in density as raindrops combine because of their confinement to raindrop surface areas. This sometimes raises high voltages sufficient for thunderbolt production, using energy tapped from convectional forces of storms. Note that new ion production is definitely not required for lightning to be formed. How can experts so presume to explain a technology without mastering the bottom line? Not to kill the messenger: The authors did not create the admittedly flawed technology, and may have been simply reporting it.

With respect to the book: It is suggested here that little more need be spent speculating how storms might proceed to manufacture ionic material (Ch 3, Ch 4): The violent winds have all they can do to spawn sufficient high voltage from existing raw materials before the game is all over. The fact that the vertical mileage embraced by a thunderstorm covers broad temperature ranges does not necessarily establish temperature as a major player in lightning formation (Ch 3). The capacitance between solid/liquid earth and the ionosphere has nothing to do with sustained dc current in the global electrical circuit (Ch 1). Positively charged clouds are no mystery to the casual electronics technician (Ch 3): A good thunderbolt or so from a negatively charged cloud can easily produce a good one by flywheel effect aka inductive kick. An electron in air, being pulled or pushed by other charges, will travel: Conductance be damned (Ch 1).

Contemplate the Faraday cage, in its static state, and in its dynamic formative state. Overcome the subconscious kink that readily supposes repulsive force would alienate all free electrons from each other forever. Earth nets them into an array at the edge of space where they nab molecules that ballast them for descent back into our atmosphere. Scattered ions of moisture are gathered together during rain formation absorbing wind energy that accounts for the consequential increased potentials of static electricity.

The bottom line: The fair weather current; upward negative current flow of some 2 picoamps per square meter is that simple evidence of negative earth charge as mentioned above. All agree that prevailing thunderbolts bring electrons to ground (they strike earth all of the time). Naturally, these electrons go back up to complete the circuit. Tell your weatherman that this does not require a positive sky. Electrons always travel toward the cathode (negative terminal) inside a power supply! Those electrons are already almost home within the radius of the ionosphere as they emerge. Electrons above push back at them, but not as hard as the greater sky below/behind (ignore the solid earth for now). The electrons above push less against our fair weather electron than all those behind it. For that reason, a positive ionosphere would call an electron down to the center (keep ignoring solid earth) where attractions would balance out. Hence, we have a dynamic Faraday cage. Our electron needn't shun the journey, none of those already up there did.

Here is a tip of the hat to the profound tome under discussion for all its fine detail, but connecting the dots just didn?t get me to where they were going. Methinks they chopped the chicken feathers too fine to ever get them put back together again. Where it is here affirmed that the endothermic kernel of lightning formation is compression of like charges, THE ELECTRICAL NATURE of STORMS professes separation of opposite charges for such conversion. What do they do for an encore? The separation concept leads to dispersal (and early termination) of charged particles without a shot at concatenation, whereas the necessary convergence of energy and reiterations of the process are conspicuous advantages of the compression theory. Nevertheless, there is strong reason to believe that our taxes support pursuit of false doctrine conveyed in this book. The writer hereby makes an appeal for thinking people to enlighten our government on this matter. The National Science Foundation apparently faults my theory on the basis of its noncompliance with doctrine from THE ELECTRICAL NATURE of STORMS. Another thing, I hate the pathetic perennial disclaimer that scientists cannot agree on what causes lightning. Show your kids the truth I bring you here. It took me 72 years to stumble upon it!

Meteorologists believe that some awful big voltage must be required to make lightning, and little raindrops can't get that charged up. They (the shy weathermen) won't come out to argue, but if you see one of those guys, explain to him that when a raindrop explodes (hits the Rayleigh limit), its skinful of charged particles present opposing squirts of plasma that short out neighboring raindrops of similar charge, and a lightning stroke is born. Successive resulting strokes can work their way in any direction to zig zag a complete thunderbolt path. The initial stroke might be near the ground or half way up the final current path.

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Electrical Storms (Extreme Weather)
Liza N. Burby
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The Electrical Nature of Storms
Donald R. MacGorman
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Disparities in the Forms of River Meanders & Oxbow Lakes: A Case Study
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Disparities in the Forms of River Meanders & Oxbow Lakes: A Case Study
J. G. Weihaupt , and John G. Weihaupt
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