Get the book that set the standard for all other MS-DOS books——now celebrating its 20th anniversary! Running MS-DOS is the best selling guide to the operating system that changed personal computing history. Featuring Van Wolverton’s down-to-earth style and eloquent applications, this one-step reference makes MS-DOS accessible for anyone looking to optimize PC performance. Whether you work in tech support or simply want to keep your classic PC in top form, Van shows you how to master MS-DOS with unparalleled clarity and expertise!

Discover how to put MS-DOS functions and commands to work!
- Tweak your system so it runs more efficiently
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Plus, check out the comprehensive MS-DOS Command Reference in the appendix——great for answers and examples on the spot!

By: Christine Church
Publisher: Howell Book House; Revised edition (February 11, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN: 0-7645-7741-7
Format: PDF

Indoor cats are not deprived…… in fact, keeping your cat indoors can add ten or more years to his life. Here’s how to add quality to those years. Along with the scoop on litter boxes, creating a cat-safe home, and achieving a truce between cat and couch, this updated edition supplies the latest on nutrition for indoor cats, new vaccines and medicines, coping with feline emotions, and other essentials that make life more rewarding for you and your cat. Help an outdoor kitty become a happy house cat Discover innovative new cat-care products and scores of online resources Learn about new treatments and medications for common illnesses Take the trauma out of travel (yes, you CAN train a cat to walk on a leash) Find out how to provide basic nursing care and first aid.

Indoor cats are not deprived…… in fact, keeping your cat indoors can add ten or more years to his life. Here’s how to add quality to those years. Along with the scoop on litter boxes, creating a cat-safe home, and achieving a truce between cat and couch, this updated edition supplies the latest on nutrition for indoor cats, new vaccines and medicines, coping with feline emotions, and other essentials that make life more rewarding for you and your cat. Help an outdoor kitty become a happy house cat Discover innovative new cat-care products and scores of online resources Learn about new treatments and medications for common illnesses Take the trauma out of travel (yes, you CAN train a cat to walk on a leash) Find out how to provide basic nursing care and first aid.”This revised edition incorporates the tried and true with the newest advances in cat-care products and veterinary care.” (I Love Cats Magazine, May/June 2005)

By: Brad McRae, David Brooks
Publisher: Career Press (April 2004)
ISBN: 1564147444
Language: English
Paperback: 288 pages

Many speakers make presentations that are poorly designed, poorly delivered, and poorly received. There are those few, however, that are so masterful they move an audience to see the world differently and inspire them to achieve more than they ever thought possible.
The Seven Strategies of Master Presenters will help anyone develop the presentation strategies and skills exemplified by the Master Presenters interviewed in this book, whether for a one-on-one presentation, a sales call, a talk to a small group, or a speech to an audience of a thousand or more.

The Seven Strategies covered:

Strategy 1: Know Thy Audience
Strategy 2: Prepare Outstanding Content
Strategy 3: Use Superior Organization
Strategy 4: Develop Dynamic Delivery
Strategy 5: Make It Memorable, Actionable, and Transferable
Strategy 6: Manage Yourself, Difficult Participants, and Difficult Situations
Strategy 7: Total Quality Improvement

By: Harriet Braiker
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (August 12, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN: 0071402780
Format: PDF

A self-empowering plan for anyone who wants to stop being manipulated by others
In Who’s Pulling Your Strings?, Dr. Harriet B. Braiker,New York Times bestselling author of The Disease to Please, explains how depression, low self-esteem, chronic anger, and feelings of helplessness are often the result of being caught in relationships with manipulative people-including family members, friends, coworkers, and associates. More importantly, she arms readers with the knowledge and tools they need to understand and identify manipulative personalities and to free themselves from the bondage of relationships with them.

A self-empowering plan for anyone who wants to stop being manipulated by othersIn Who’s Pulling Your Strings?, Dr. Harriet B. Braiker,New York Times bestselling author of The Disease to Please, explains how depression, low self-esteem, chronic anger, and feelings of helplessness are often the result of being caught in relationships with manipulative people-including family members, friends, coworkers, and associates. More importantly, she arms readers with the knowledge and tools they need to understand and identify manipulative personalities and to free themselves from the bondage of relationships with them.Working from sound psychological theory and research, yet writing in a warm, accessible style, Braiker exposes the most common methods manipulative people use to control others-and makes clear that it takes at least two people to enable such a relationship to function. With the help of valuable self-assessment quizzes, action plans, and how-to exercises she empowers readers to:

- Recognize the signs of a manipulative relationship
- Spot manipulators and their typical modus operandi
- Assess their own vulnerability to manipulation
- Identify the 7 main “Head Games” manipulators play

By: Brian Luke Seaward
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (October 25, 2004)
ISBN: 0471679992
Language: English
Paperback: 256 pages

From Publishers Weekly:

Seaward (Stressed Is Desserts Spelled Backward) offers a book to help the reader “overcome personal adversity” and bring “peace to the heart and soul.” The book’s four parts in turn discuss the nature and reality of stress; the relationship between stress and spirituality; practical strategies for finding equilibrium and letting go of stress; and some success stories. Throughout, Seaward intersperses brief meditation and journaling exercises. Yet the book feels hollow. While Seaward touches on some profound Taoist principles—as one might expect, given the book’s title—he fails to investigate these teachings in any depth. Instead, he uses them as a broad, a priori template for an “ageless wisdom” held by generic “wisdom keepers.” He then cites examples of this wisdom from a wide range of other sources and traditions, including Native American spirituality, Joseph Campbell’s writings, and DNA research. This lack of focus is exacerbated by the text’s habit of substituting unsatisfying anecdotes for a probing exploration of a given point. The result is a superficial amalgam of sweeping generalizations, inspirational clichéeés (”even the darkest night has bright stars!”), sentimental stories of triumph over adversity and quotes from the likes of Mother Teresa, Einstein and Lance Armstrong. Some of Seaward’s spirituality-based ideas for navigating stress may have dimension and weight, but his treatment leaves them feeling trivial.

By: Greg Palast
Publisher: Pluto Press (February 15, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN: 0745318460

Muckraking has a long, storied tradition, and Palast is evidently proud to be part of it. In this polemical indictment of globalization and political corruption, Palast (a reporter with the BBC and London’s Observer) updates the muckraking tradition with some 21st-century targets: the IMF, World Bank and WTO, plus oil treaties, energy concerns and corporate evildoers of all creeds. Some of Palast’s reports are downright shocking (if familiar). He shows, for example, how the WTO prevents cheap AIDS drugs from reaching victims in Africa and how World Bank loan policies have crippled the economies of Tanzania and other developing countries. On the home front, he details Exxon’s horrific safety record before the Valdez disaster and reveals the price-gouging by Texas power companies during the California energy crisis. In Britain, Palast exposes the “cash for access” policies of the Blair administration, and blasts the legal system for shielding Pfizer Pharmaceuticals from lawsuits by victims who had defective Pfizer valves installed in their hearts. These are all good, important stories. Most of them, however, have been published before. This book is essentially a collection of Palast’s newspaper articles, hastily stitched together with some commentary and exposition. As such, it lacks cohesiveness and the depth his subjects deserve. In addition, Palast’s bombastic style and one-sided perspective do much to undermine his own credibility. How seriously should readers take a journalist who labels former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers an “alien” and dismisses Wal-Mart shareholders as “Wal-Martians”? There is much of value here, but readers who want a full-bodied, serious analysis of how globalization is affecting developing countries or how corporate giants pay for political favors should look elsewhere.

In this lively, eye-opening, and hands-on book, all you need is a computer and the desire to learn how to program with Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. Featuring a full working edition of the software, this fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete programming project—a desktop weather-reporting application—from start to finish. You’ll get an introduction to the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment and learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual Basic Express to work right away—creating, compiling, testing, and delivering your first ready-to-use program. You’ll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning resources.

Praise for Philip Kotler’s “Marketing Insights From A to Z”:

“There’s only one name in marketing: Phil Kotler. His latest may be his best–a summa that captures the best of his insights, as original today as when he first took pen in hand, forty years ago.” –Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence and The Circle of Innovation

“If you are going to buy one book by Philip Kotler, buy this one. In this accessible, current, and personality-filled read, you will get the most complete picture possible of what marketing today is all about.” –Sergio Zyman, author of The End of Advertising as We Know It

“This classic and highly respected thinker has brought together the most important ideas from old and new marketing under one cover–the Alpha and Omega of marketing books. Should be on the bookshelf of everybody practicing business today.” –Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, PhD, Peppers and Rogers Group, coauthors of the bestselling The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer at a Time

“What Peter Drucker is to management, Philip Kotler is to marketing. Kotler’s ideas are endlessly interesting, relevant, and ahead of the times.” –Al Ries, Ries & Ries, author of The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR

“This book could also be called Marketing Insight: From Genesis to Revelations because it is a bible of marketing truths–and it’s in plain English. The most important and enduring principles of marketing are presented with parables and such vivid examples that there are no excuses for anyone not to understand marketing.” –Roger Blackwell, Professor of Marketing, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, author of Customers Rule!

Starting with $10,000 in 1956 and today worth some $8.5 billion, with significant holdings in Coca-Cola, Capital Cities/ ABC and the Washington Post Company, Omaha, Nebr.-based Buffet is a major player on Wall Street. Financial consultant Hagstrom, who did not interview his subject but obtained permission to quote from his Berkshire Hathaway annual reports, here outlines Buffet’s iconoclastic tenets for investing. Unlike many entrepreneurs who take over companies to sell them off in bits, Buffet buys and holds. He rejects the “efficient market theory”; he doesn’t worry about the stock market; and he buys a business, not a stock. He manages with a small staff, no computers and a “hands off” strategy. Learning his secrets here, now the rest of us can do a Buffet? Illustrations. Fortune Book Club dual main selection.Praise for The Warren Buffett Way first edition:

“Nobody has described what Buffett practices better than Hagstrom.” -Time

“Simply the most important new stock book… If you think you know all about Warren Buffett, you have a lot to learn from this book.” -Forbes

“It’s first rate. Buffett gets a lot of attention for what he preaches, but nobody has described what he practices better than Hagstrom. Here is the lowdown on every major stock he ever bought and why he bought it. Fascinating.” -Fortune

“Almost anybody curious about the relationship between the behavior of economics, the performance of firms, and the ups and downs of the stock market will find something of interest here.” -The Economist

“The Warren Buffett Way is accessible to average readers because Mr. Hagstrom reduces the billionaire’s techniques to some easily understandable tenets… the book demonstrates the rewards that can come down the road.” -The Dallas Morning News

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