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Chapters: Shannon Elizabeth, Mimi Rogers, Vanessa Rousso, Wendeen H. Eolis, Annie Duke, Jennifer Tilly, Victoria Coren, Jennifer Harman, Annette Obrestad, Kara Scott, Vanessa Selbst, Almira Skripchenko, Marsha Waggoner, Liv Boeree, Shirley Rosario, Barbara Enright, Isabelle Mercier, Kathy Liebert, Liz Lieu, Beth Shak, Linda Johnson, Clonie Gowen, Tiffany Williamson, Cyndy Violette, Mimi Tran, Tiffany Michelle, Jennifer Leigh, Brandi Hawbaker, Nani Dollison, Lucy Rokach, Evelyn Ng, Maria Stern, J. J. Liu, Kristy Gazes, Susie Isaacs, Katja Thater, Svetlana Gromenkova, Erica Schoenberg, Xuyen Pham, Erin Ness, Dee Luong, Monica Reeves, Karina Jett, Sally Boyer, Melissa Hayden, Ruth Godfrey, Colette Doherty, Alma Mcclelland, Lisa Hamilton, Starla Brodie, Jackie Mcdaniels, Catherine Brown, Mary Jones Meyer, Hung Doan, Deby Callihan, Marie Gabert, Terry King, Barbara Freer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 187. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vanessa Ashley Rousso (born February 5, 1983) is a French American law student at the University of Miami and a professional poker player. She is also known by her Pokerstars online screen name Lady Maverick. Born in White Plains, New York, Rousso has dual citizenships with the United States and France. Rousso is a member of Team PokerStars, and a spokesperson for GoDaddy.com. She has earned money as a professional poker player since 2005. A photo of her appeared in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Rousso was her 2001 high school class valedictorian and graduated from Duke University in December 2003. She is the wife of Chad Brown. As of 2010, Rousso had finished in the money in numerous live poker events and had earned over $2,500,000 in career earnings. She had placed in the money a cumulative total of eleven times in the 2005, 2006, 2...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4863572 ... Read more

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Chapters: Shannon Elizabeth, Steve Martin, Bob Wills, Texas Guinan, Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ann Richards, Ted Nugent, Ladainian Tomlinson, David Koresh, C. Wright Mills, Joe Barton, Hank Thompson, Robert L. Howard, Pete Sessions, Lance Berkman, Grant Teaff, William J. Haynes, Ii, Doris Miller, Priscilla Owen, Russell B. Cummings, Scott Podsednik, Bill Rogers, Tom Wilson, Robert Griffin, Leon Jaworski, Kim Mulkey, Peri Gilpin, Kip Averitt, George H. Gay, Jr., Carolyn Hester, Roy Hargrove, Jim Kendrick, Sandra Brown, Quan Cosby, James Brown, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Felix Huston Robertson, Whitt L. Moreland, Derrick Johnson, Van Taylor, Hi-Five, Dominic Rhodes, Jim Dunnam, Andy Hawkins, Arthur Rhodes, Sherrill Headrick, Sybil Leonard Armes, Dave Eichelberger, Dusty Boggess, Eddie Hasha, Larry Northern, Kwame Cavil, Anne Gwynne, Scott Brister, Edgar E. Witt, Bill Payne, Mercy Dee Walton, William R. Poage, Travis Banton, Al Jackson, Hughes Rudd, Fisher Tull, Brad Walker, Beasley Reece, Paul Dickson, Jim O'brien, John F. Baugh, L. D. Meyer, Percy Lee Gassaway, Lamarcus Mcdonald, Jimmy Dorrell, Tom Mccormick, Virginia Dupuy, Jerrell Freeman, Terrance Thomas, Paul Johns, Frieda A. Murray, Rodrigo Barnes, Charles Louis Kincannon, Jack Sisco, John Richards, Curt Gentry, Dwight Johnson, Alfred Anderson, Walter Abercrombie, Tommy Abbott, Mike Mitchell, Billy G. Mills. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 418. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross (September 27, 1838 January 3, 1898) was the 19th Governor of Texas (USA), a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and a president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now called Texas A ... Read more

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The book presents a much needed approach to quality technical communication and a working plan for achieving quality. The examples are excellent and are easy to use and adapt. The editorial advice is simple and clear enough for tech writers who did not major in English or journalism. It is most worthy of a text in university programs, but it is more valuable to experienced writers, editors and managers concerned with raising the quality of their publications. The main difference between this and other books is that in each of the first nine chapters, one quality characteristic is presented that you can apply to your writing project to make technical information easy to use, easy to understand and easy to find. There are checklists at the end of each chapter for review and a Quality checklist in the appendix covering all of the characteristics. The book shows original text and revision text so that you can actually browse the book and see the differences applied. This is another excellent feature that should catch a purchaser's eye. ... Read more

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The right way to create Technical Documents.
THis book is excellent if you are someone who creates Technical Documents for a living.It is straight to the point, without the trendy psycho-babel that a lot of new books try to persuade you to use.Let's face it you cannot trick people into learning highly technical subjects.This book shows you how to take complex subjects and put them in an orderly fashion so that learning occurs as it should.

As someone who has been developing technical documents for many years I found this book to the type of "bible" that you can use for years to come. If you buy only one book this should be it.

best hands-on reference for writing product documentation
This is an essential book if you find yourself writing product documentation and do not have the luxury of an editorial staff or company style guide to tell you right from wrong.It's simple and easy to read, and just tells you what you need to know, nothing more or less.You can go through the whole thing cover to cover in about 12 hours, and then you'll have a pretty good sense of how you should be structuring information.I find the examples useful (if somewhat contrived), and I agree with the book's advice in almost all cases.(I'm a professional tech writer, and I *did* have the luxury of an editor for several years! Regrettably, no more.)

Whether the book "enshrines mediocre technical writing," as someone mentioned, is debatable.The goal of product documentation is simple:Answer the user's question as fast as possible, and get the user productive as fast as possible. There's certainly a place for creativity, but one can't lose sight of the goals, and I think the book's merit is that it focuses persistently on those goals: How do you, the writer, best serve the user's interests?

It's also important to have a guide like this because if you work in a small company, other folks are going to have strong ideas about how the documentation should look.They will want to constantly be inserting feel-good "marketing" messages into the documentation, reminding customers of how wise they were for buying the product.They will have strong opinions about what "concepts" should be stressed over and over.As a writer, you represent the user's interests, and you have to be able to stand up and say "that doesn't work to the user's advantage, and we shouldn't do it like that."If you have a reference to back you up on these points, you'll be much more comfortable taking a strong stand in favor of Usability.And, in the end, that is exactly what any documentation specialist should be standing for.(Yes, I did end on a preposition.)

Excellent text
I purchased this text because I am trying to redirect my career.I have a lot of marketing and public relations in my background, but technical writing is a new area.I found the text easy to read, very informative, and exceptionally helpful.The only reason I gave it four instead of five stars is that it is weighted for web writers.Writing for the web is not a function of the job I am interviewing for, so that information, while interesting, was not particularly helpful for me.

Enshrines mechanics of mediocre technical writing
This book is a mixed bag at best, advocating practices that help keep today's technical writing mired in mediocrity.For example: always use the 2nd person; and for heaven's sake don't try to explain anything to people, just tell them what to do! Much of this reads like tips for helping non-writers get by as technical writers, and for making technical writing into a kind of non-writing.

For devotees of the Jackson Pollock school of tech writing (throw lots of vetted statements at the page till they stick) or of the everything-is-a-numbered-list technique, there's probably much that's heartening in this glossy example of bad desktop publishing.(Jeesh, who decreed that tech writers can't learn typography and basic functional layout, or maybe hire someone that does?)

This book is probably ok for anyone writing product assembly manuals, or documenting GUI interfaces (press this, select that... yup second person actually works pretty well there).But for software? Or for anyone struggling to articulate complex ideas or just write a reasonably compact and self-contained conceptual overview (MIA from most tech writing today), there isn't much help here. Maybe it's time we technical writers focused more on good writing per se, on the things that good technical writing shares with effective prose (clarity, precision, range of useful styles, fiction (point of view) or even poetry (compression, effective use of embedded metaphor).

So, yeah, it turns out there're so many other rich directions and ideas for tech writers to pursue.For starters, there're the old standbys: Strunk and White or Wm Zinsser's Writing Well.And any of the wonderful books on prose style by Richard Lanham or perhaps Mark Turner's Clear and Simple as the Truth (which, suprisingly enough, addresses technical writing directly, albeit briefly, offering a number of classical examples).Also just about any of Edward Tufte's books, and by the way, did you catch his 2004 interview in Technical Communications Quarterly? Posted (free) on ET's website.I think it even mentions a time when he consulted with IBM about their tech writing and tried to get them to stop using the second person, and, well...

Best Book I've Found on the Subject!
I've been developing retail software professionally for over 15 years and have been waiting for a book like this one. When I finally discovered the book, I was a little skeptic -- that is until I received the book.

If you are writing help, or any other technical documentation, this *is* the book for you. Coverage of the subject is just right. It's not too overloaded and it's not to light on the subject either.

The only thing missing that I wish they had was recommended templates for different types of documentation. If this book had a CD with samples, it would be worth 2 or 3 times the amount I paid for it.

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Barbara "Elizabeth" Linington (March 11, 1921 - April 05, 1988) was a prolific American novelist whose pen name was Dell Shannon. She was awarded runner-up scrolls for best mystery novel from the Mystery Writers of America for her 1961 tome, Nightmare, and her 1962 entry in her Luis Mendoza series, Knave of Hearts. Regarded as the "Queen of the Procedurals," she was one of the first women to write police procedurals--a male-dominated genre of police-story writing.Includes:* With a Vengeance (1966, Nelson Doubleday)* Destiny of Death (1984, William Morrow)* Deuces Wild (1975, William Morrow)* Murder by the Tale (1987, William Morrow)* With Intent to Kill (1972, William Morrow)* Streets of Death (1976, William Morrow)* Chaos of Crime (1985, William Morrow)* No Holiday for Crime (1973, William Morrow)* Murder Most Strange (1981, William Morrow) ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on September 1, 1999. The length of the article is 615 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.

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Title: Ageing and Social Policy in Australia.(Review) (book review)
Author: Elizabeth Shannon
Publication: Journal of Australian Studies (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1999
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Page: 228

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I was brought to this path and abandoned.There were others barely seeing; barely seen.The mantle was jaded with lichen covered signs of life.I stumbled over holes along the way.The path dispersed as though there were no light.I gained new insight into nature's forms.I dragged myself along the barren cliffs accepting the divinity abiding there.I reached out to the cragged trees that emerged as I descended. I pulled myself up on their limbs.I was filled with the light of love.I was not alone.I straggled behind in the bamboo.I could build a nest.But I was driven on.Unprepared.I met the night where the wild plays the shadows of the brighter day.I had to depart the walls of thorns with a gouge deep within.By chance, I heard a call.I wandered alone searching contact.I had no knowledge, but to prepare a new path.I encountered petrified footprints of those who had come before.The paths were decades, even older, of climbing.When I saw a field growing wild and free I stopped searching.It was then I saw a cordillera of foundation.I was driven, centred.I could see settlements along its ridges. I will do it for my light of love. One step at a time.We need many paths to the main road.In my mind were two realities:The thinker and the consumer. The thinker leads me to the consumer as a means and a way.The consumer depends on the thinker to expression the need.I have two minds: The means need. ... Read more

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A poem of place, fantasy and the Other World, Manaquest is a chapbook of poems that unfolds a mythological world with hints of the Big Bad Wolf, The Book of Genesis and the stuff of dreams Jung would love to pick apart. Three sisters in the Utah desert look to the stars to speak to Manaquest, the wolf in the sky who watches over them. ... Read more

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