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“I would ask you a favour,” said the German captain, as we sat in the cabin of a U-boat which had just been added to the long line of bedraggled captives which stretched themselves for a mile or more in Harwich Harbour, in November, 1918.

I made no reply; I had just granted him a favour by allowing him to leave the upper deck of the submarine, in order that he might await the motor launch in some sort of privacy; why should he ask for more?

Undeterred by my silence, he continued: “I have a great friend, Lieutenant-zu-See Von Schenk, who brought U.122 over last week; he has lost a diary, quite private, he left it in error; can he have it?”

I deliberated, felt a certain pity, then remembered the Belgian Prince and other things, and so, looking the German in the face, I said:

“I can do nothing.”

“Please.”

I shook my head, then, to my astonishment, the German placed his head in his hands and wept, his massive frame (for he was a very big man) shook in irregular spasms; it was a most extraordinary spectacle.

It seemed to me absurd that a man who had suffered, without visible emotion, the monstrous humiliation of handing over his command intact, should break down over a trivial incident concerning a diary, and not even his own diary, and yet there was this man crying openly before me.

It rather impressed me, and I felt a curious shyness at being present, as if I had stumbled accidentally into some private recess of his mind. I closed the cabin door, for I heard the voices of my crew approaching.

He wept for some time, perhaps ten minutes, and I wished very much to know of what he was thinking, but I couldn’t imagine how it would be possible to find out.

I think that my behaviour in connection with his friend’s diary added the last necessary drop of water to the floods of emotion which he had striven, and striven successfully, to hold in check during the agony of handing over the boat, and now the dam had crumbled and broken away.

It struck me that, down in the brilliantly-lit, stuffy little cabin, the result of the war was epitomized. On the table were some instruments I had forbidden him to remove, but which my first lieutenant had discovered in the engineer officer’s bag.

On the settee lay a cheap, imitation leather suit-case, containing his spare clothes and a few books. At the table sat Germany in defeat, weeping, but not the tears of repentance, rather the tears of bitter regret for humiliations undergone and ambitions unrealized.

We did not speak again, for I heard the launch come alongside, and, as she bumped against the U-boat, the noise echoed through the hull into the cabin, and aroused him from his sorrows. He wiped his eyes, and, with an attempt at his former hardiness, he followed me on deck and boarded the motor launch.

Next day I visited U.122, and these papers are presented to the public, with such additional remarks as seemed desirable; for some curious reason the author seems to have omitted nearly all dates. This may have been due to the fear that the book, if captured, would be of great value to the British Intelligence Department if the entries were dated. The papers are in the form of two volumes in black leather binding, with a long letter inside the cover of the second volume.

Internal evidence has permitted me to add the dates as regards the years. My thanks are due to K. for assistance in translation.

ETIENNE.

Illustrated.

Contents

Preface, By W. Y. EVANS-WENTZ
1. My Parents and Early Life
2. Mother’s Death and the Amulet
3. The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda)
4. My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalaya
5. A “Perfume Saint” Performs his Wonders
6. The Tiger Swami
7. The Levitating Saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri)
8. India’s Great Scientist and Inventor, Jagadis Chandra Bose
9. The Blissful Devotee and his Cosmic Romance (Master Mahasaya)
10. I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar
11. Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban
12. Years in my Master’s Hermitage
13. The Sleepless Saint (Ram Gopal Muzumdar)
14. An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness
15. The Cauliflower Robbery
16. Outwitting the Stars
17. Sasi and the Three Sapphires
18. A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker (Afzal Khan)
19. My Guru Appears Simultaneously in Calcutta and Serampore
20. We Do Not Visit Kashmir
21. We Visit Kashmir
22. The Heart of a Stone Image
23. My University Degree
24. I Become a Monk of the Swami Order
25. Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
26. The Science of Kriya Yoga
27. Founding of a Yoga School at Ranchi
28. Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered
29. Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools
30. The Law of Miracles
31. An Interview with the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri)
32. Rama is Raised from the Dead
33. Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India
34. Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
35. The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya
36. Babaji’s Interest in the West
37. I Go to America
38. Luther Burbank — An American Saint
39. Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria
40. I Return to India
41. An Idyl in South India
42. Last Days with my Guru
43. The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
44. With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha
45. The Bengali “Joy-Permeated Mother” (Ananda Moyi Ma)
46. The Woman Yogi who Never Eats (Giri Bala)
47. I Return to the West
48. At Encinitas in California

In the years just after World War II, motorcycles were the third largest source of foreign exchange for the United Kingdom, lagging behind only automobiles and Scotch whiskey. And yet, the British motorcycle industry was essentially dead by 1975. This is the first comprehensive examination of the demise of what was once not only the largest motorcycle industry in the world, but something that virtually defined a nation for decades. With a critical look at business and trade practices, fresh information about the businessmen who built these companies and then ran them into the ground, as well as the engineers and designers who were brilliant and badly flawed, emerges alongside the full romance, beauty, and excitement of the machines and the top racers who rode them. Combining archival material and new interviews with industry insiders and living legends, this objective investigation will fascinate enthusiasts and is a cautionary tale for the currently declining American automotive industry.

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Sex with aliens has never been hotter or more confusing. We are back in the household where love, alien DNA and tentacles are everywhere. The nightmarish mixture of jealousy, violence and naughty behavior reach a fever pitch. The level of erotica and oddity explode in this story!

In this intimate biography, the author reveals the romance, scandal, and betrayal that drove one of the 20th century’s most celebrated literary figures. Drawing from over 5,000 unpublished documents, this book provides the most complete and knowing portrait of this famed author to date.

Richard Hack has been an investigative writer for over 20 years and has written 14 books, including biographies of Ted Turner, Michael Jackson, and J. Edgar Hoover. In 2001, he wrote the critically acclaimed national bestseller, Hughes: The Private Diaries, Letters and Memos.

Three classic books by Helen Keller with an active table of contents.

The Song of the Stone Wall
The Story of My Life
The World I Live In

Written in AD 731, Bede’s work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain’s geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. Leo Sherley-Price’s translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern English, of a unique historical document. This edition now includes Bede’s Letter to Egbert concerning pastoral care in early Anglo-Saxon England, at the heart of which lay Bede’s denunciation of the false monasteries; and The Death of Bede, an admirable eye-witness account by Cuthbert, monk and later Abbot of Jarrow, both translated by D. H. Farmer.

These maxims, of the French Duc, remain one of the best books of its kind, and have been translated into many languages, and frequently into English.
The present edition by John Heard, noted translator of Ronsard, von Hofmannsthal, Clemenceau, and others, was originally published by Houghton Miflfin, and long since out-of-print. It is issued complete and unabridged including the Sketch of the Author written by himself.

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

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First published 1918, My Antonia is Cather’s fourth novel and considered her finest work. The story is told by Jim Burden who recounts his life and memories surrounding Antonia, a childhood friend. The novel is divided into five parts, some of which incorporate short stories Cather had written about her own life growing up in Nebraska.

“5 Lips!…I haven’t been this strongly affected by a book in quite a long while. I can’t imagine any reader not sweltering, sighing, sobbing, and throbbing through The Professor’s Secret Passion. M. L. Rhodes has long been known as a writer of steamy erotica, but in this book, she has definitely surpassed herself. Reader: if you’re looking for a late-night bedtime treat, pick up on The Professor’s Secret Passion.”–Two Lips Reviews

“5 Angels!…A brilliant and moving novella…Nathan and Aidan are two strong men in their everyday lives, but when it comes to their love for one another, they are unsure, even hesitant. They both feel things very deeply, be it love, hurt, determination, despair or happiness. Sex is described in magnificent, graphic detail-including in a public office, where there is a risk of exposure. The Professor’s Secret Passion is not my first M.L. Rhodes story, and it certainly won’t be my last!”–Elizabeth, Fallen Angels Reviews

“4 Stars! Rated ‘O’ for ‘Orgasmic’!… I LOVED The Professor’s Secret Passion! Ms. Rhodes wrote an interesting and extremely sexually exciting book!”–Marcy Arbitman, Just Erotic Romance Reviews

“4 Stars! Rated ‘O’ for ‘Orgasmic’!…I’ve long been a fan of M. L. Rhodes’s work. This romance was definitely up to her usual standards. Nate was very realistic and convincing as the youthful, hopeful doctoral student. Aidan was perfect as the reluctant professor, more concerned with the adverse impact that a relationship might have on his student than with his own happiness. The sex scenes were super yummy…a wonderfully sexy, romantic story that I would recommend to any lover of m/m romances.”–Sakura Kai, Just Erotic Romance Reviews

Professor Aidan Sheridan has secretly fantasized about his grad student, Nathan Turner, for two long years. And now Nathan is hinting he’d like to move beyond their professional association to something on a deeper, more intimate level. Although Aidan longs to claim the sexy, younger man as a lover, he doesn’t dare admit that he too, burns for more. Not if he intends to protect Nate from a bitter event in his own past that still haunts him.

When Nate suspects Aidan is hiding his real feelings, he takes matters into his own hands. The long-pent-up passion between them explodes into a night of erotic and emotional intensity neither man can forget. But in the light of day, will Nate’s love be enough to heal Aidan, or will the professor’s fears tear them apart?

Genres: Gay / Contemporary / Teachers & Students / Exhibitionism / Public Places

“5 Lips!…I haven’t been this strongly affected by a book in quite a long while. I can’t imagine any reader not sweltering, sighing, sobbing, and throbbing through The Professor’s Secret Passion. M. L. Rhodes has long been known as a writer of steamy erotica, but in this book, she has definitely surpassed herself. Reader: if you’re looking for a late-night bedtime treat, pick up on The Professor’s Secret Passion.”–Two Lips Reviews

“5 Angels!…A brilliant and moving novella…Nathan and Aidan are two strong men in their everyday lives, but when it comes to their love for one another, they are unsure, even hesitant. They both feel things very deeply, be it love, hurt, determination, despair or happiness. Sex is described in magnificent, graphic detail-including in a public office, where there is a risk of exposure. The Professor’s Secret Passion is not my first M.L. Rhodes story, and it certainly won’t be my last!”–Elizabeth, Fallen Angels Reviews

“4 Stars! Rated ‘O’ for ‘Orgasmic’!… I LOVED The Professor’s Secret Passion! Ms. Rhodes wrote an interesting and extremely sexually exciting book!”–Marcy Arbitman, Just Erotic Romance Reviews

“4 Stars! Rated ‘O’ for ‘Orgasmic’!…I’ve long been a fan of M. L. Rhodes’s work. This romance was definitely up to her usual standards. Nate was very realistic and convincing as the youthful, hopeful doctoral student. Aidan was perfect as the reluctant professor, more concerned with the adverse impact that a relationship might have on his student than with his own happiness. The sex scenes were super yummy…a wonderfully sexy, romantic story that I would recommend to any lover of m/m romances.”–Sakura Kai, Just Erotic Romance Reviews

Professor Aidan Sheridan has secretly fantasized about his grad student, Nathan Turner, for two long years. And now Nathan is hinting he’d like to move beyond their professional association to something on a deeper, more intimate level. Although Aidan longs to claim the sexy, younger man as a lover, he doesn’t dare admit that he too, burns for more. Not if he intends to protect Nate from a bitter event in his own past that still haunts him.

When Nate suspects Aidan is hiding his real feelings, he takes matters into his own hands. The long-pent-up passion between them explodes into a night of erotic and emotional intensity neither man can forget. But in the light of day, will Nate’s love be enough to heal Aidan, or will the professor’s fears tear them apart?

Genres: Gay / Contemporary / Teachers & Students / Exhibitionism / Public Places

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The little town of Ginger swirled with rumors. Bad ones. And unfortunately, almost all of them were true. Rebecca and Theresa Sims had made a mess of their lives. They were beyond hope until one day an unexpected friendship turned their lives around.

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Thousands of pages and dozens of books/stories make up this large Kindle collection with active table of contents.

Authors Include:
John W. Campbell
Tom Godwin
Andre Alice Norton

Works include:
The Black Star Passes
Invaders from the Infinite
Islands of Space
The Last Evolution
The Ultimate Weapon

And Devious the Line of Duty
Cry from a Far Planet
The Nothing Equation
Space Prison

All Cats Are Gray
The Defiant Agents
The Gifts of Asti
Key Out of Time
Plague Ship
Ralestone Luck
Rebel Spurs
Ride Proud, Rebel!
Star Born
Star Hunter
Storm Over Warlock
The Time Traders
Voodoo Planet

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Max Lucado’s first book that journeys from the birth of Christ to His resurrection.

Drawing from his classic writing on Jesus combined with new reflections and breathtaking art, Max Lucado again opens our eyes-and hearts-to the life and work of the Savior in a way that will change lives forever.  “Jesus was, at once, common and not; alternately normal and heroic. One minute blending in with the domino players in the park, the next commanding the hell out of madmen, disease out of the dying, and death out of the dead.”  Who was this man who spoke as easily with kids and fishermen as widows and waves? It is the question that has echoed down through the centuries to us today, and here is a visually stunning book that answers aspects of that question.

This stress reduction meditation has been specifically designed for Kindle users. It allows you to use the text to speech features of your kindle, so that you can be guided into a deep state of relaxation. Instructions are provided within the text, so that the user can set the text to speech features for maximum, meditative benefit. This stress reduction meditation, has been written by a certified hypnotist. So that you can experience the exact same session as you would, if you were in the practitioners office. A great amount of care and creativity have been put into the writing and designing of this product, so that users may obtain optimum benefits. Now you can use your Kindle reading device as your own personal hypnotist and meditation guide.

( If you enjoy this product, be on the lookout for other titles in this series coming soon. )

Many Christian books address spiritual growth, but few have as much potential for impact as this book by Thomas (Sacred Marriage and Sacred Pathways), a veteran writer and speaker in evangelical Christian circles as well as a teacher of spiritual formation at Western Seminary. Thomas is able to communicate many deep insights from the heritage of classical Christian faith in a cultural and spiritual idiom that will resonate well with evangelicals. Rather than discussing the traditional spiritual disciplines (e.g., fasting, prayer or Bible study), Thomas focuses on the spiritual disciplines that are initiated by God rather than by believers: selflessness, waiting, endurance, persecution, social mercy, forgiveness, mourning, contentment, sacrifice, and rewards and punishments. Each chapter explores a discipline with memorable illustrations, Scriptural foundations, insights from classical Christian writers and references to current life situations and struggles. Thomas’s discussion of mourning as a spiritual discipline is particularly insightful: “Mourning invites us to a deeper life,” he explains. “It takes us beyond the surface to give us a glimpse of the world as God sees it.” Despite the difficult nature of many of the topics, the book offers an overarching sense of a deep joy and meaning that can be obtained by seeking God through life’s darkest times. Thomas provides an unusually compassionate discussion of many painful circumstances, offering a fresh perspective of wisdom and hope.

Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

“Thomas provides an unusually compassionate discussion of many painful circumstances, offering a fresh perspective of wisdom and hope.” — Publisher’s Weekly, January 14, 2002

A modern-day Shakespeare in Love

Dearest Juliet,

Rather than kill myself, I have decided to pour my grief into a letter this night. Would only that you had done the same upon finding your lover dead with lips still warm and touched with poison.

As it is, you are not only fictional, but extinguished. I only hope your spirit paid no heed to these cruel tricks of paper fate, so that you might yet provide the comfort I seek.

I spill ink instead of blood because, although my true love lives, her love for me has died. I do not wish to compound my tragedy with desperate measures that would stir only contempt within her breast. As the target of my rejection has rejected me, any harm I do myself, I do only to myself. It is a lesson well learned before the act is done.

LIA CATTANEO never thought she’d be living back home in Verona, Italy, at 28. But here she is, hiding from the world and her philandering husband in her father Salvatore’s apartment for yet another day as she works up the courage to take an intensive cooking class she’s had her eye on. Lia admires her father’s sweet nature, but believes she’ll never find love again. The old widower watches his daughter strangle her shoulder-length raven ringlets with an elastic band as if daring the world to find her beauty. Yet he knows it will prove impossible to hide. Lia might briefly disguise her sharp mind with a sharper tongue, or even mar her radiant face with a scowl, but her loveliness is irrepressible. Even though it will mean losing her again, Salvatore can’t wait for the day happiness will find her and coax her joyous life force back into bloom.

NICK MOORE, a literature grad student at Southern Oregon University, home of the well-regarded Ashland Shakespeare Festival, meanwhile has written the above letter as a seminar assignment. Every year, the professor sends the best letter to Juliet’s Club in Verona, where volunteer scribes reply to letters addressed to Shakespeare’s Juliet. Nick has recently ended a long-term relationship, and he drew on this pain to craft his note.

Soon, Nick receives a reply so moving that it inspires him to meet the real woman behind it during Verona’s annual Juliet festival, setting in motion a series of events that leads to a dramatic, romantic and suitably Shakespearean climax on the festival’s closing day…

In addition to FINDING JULIET, author Frank Sennett has published seven books this decade, including two novels for Gale/Five Star and five nonfiction titles. The editor-in-chief of Time Out Chicago, Frank has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana.

Starred Review. Four peerless actors render an array of sharply defined black and white characters in the nascent years of the civil rights movement. They each handle a variety of Southern accents with aplomb and draw out the daily humiliation and pain the maids are subject to, as well as their abiding affection for their white charges. The actors handle the narration and dialogue so well that no character is ever stereotyped, the humor is always delightful, and the listener is led through the multilayered stories of maids and mistresses. The novel is a superb intertwining of personal and political history in Jackson, Miss., in the early 1960s, but this reading gives it a deeper and fuller power. A Putnam hardcover (Reviews, Dec. 1). (Feb.)
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From The Washington Post’s Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Sybil Steinberg

Southern whites’ guilt for not expressing gratitude to the black maids who raised them threatens to become a familiar refrain. But don’t tell Kathryn Stockett because her first novel is a nuanced variation on the theme that strikes every note with authenticity. In a page-turner that brings new resonance to the moral issues involved, she spins a story of social awakening as seen from both sides of the American racial divide.

Newly graduated from Ole Miss with a degree in English but neither an engagement ring nor a steady boyfriend, Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan returns to her parents’ cotton farm in Jackson. Although it’s 1962, during the early years of the civil rights movement, she is largely unaware of the tensions gathering around her town.

Skeeter is in some ways an outsider. Her friends, bridge partners and fellow members of the Junior League are married. Most subscribe to the racist attitudes of the era, mistreating and despising the black maids whom they count on to raise their children. Skeeter is not racist, but she is naive and unwittingly patronizing. When her best friend makes a political issue of not allowing the “help” to use the toilets in their employers’ houses, she decides to write a book in which the community’s maids — their names disguised — talk about their experiences.

Fear of discovery and retribution at first keep the maids from complying, but a stalwart woman named Aibileen, who has raised and nurtured 17 white children, and her friend Minny, who keeps losing jobs because she talks back when insulted and abused, sign on with Skeeter’s risky project, and eventually 10 others follow.

Aibileen and Minny share the narration with Skeeter, and one of Stockett’s accomplishments is reproducing African American vernacular and racy humor without resorting to stilted dialogue. She unsparingly delineates the conditions of black servitude a century after the Civil War.

The murders of Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. are seen through African American eyes, but go largely unobserved by the white community. Meanwhile, a room “full of cake-eating, Tab-drinking, cigarette-smoking women” pretentiously plan a fundraiser for the “Poor Starving Children of Africa.” In general, Stockett doesn’t sledgehammer her ironies, though she skirts caricature with a “white trash” woman who has married into an old Jackson family. Yet even this character is portrayed with the compassion and humor that keep the novel levitating above its serious theme.

Copyright 2009, The Washington Post. All Rights Reserved.

Described as “TARZAN meets Stephen King’s IT”, each character has a story to tell about why they have succumbed to the Carnival Of Souls. This Caravan Of The Damned travels between this world and the next, between reality and dreams!
Wild’s Carnival of Souls has been a major indie hit worldwide.

ISSUE ONE SYNOPSIS:
The story begins with a trip to a carnival,then quickly turns, taking you spinning on a wild ride into the jungle of the mind! Young Jazan is the sole survivor of a plane crash. When he wakes upon the shoreline, he begins to see the colorful characters from the carnival. Fasten your seat belt and pull the safety bar down. Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen … to Jazan Wild’s Carnival Of Souls!

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Two erotic titles, Owning Arabella and Red Bottom Ranch.

Allure Books combines two of their bestselling titles into one ebook for an amazing price. Allure Gold offers the full length erotic title, Owning Arabella, by Shirl Anders AND the full length erotic title, Red Bottom Ranch, by Candy Dance.

Owning Arabella is Allure’s number one bestselling title. The ownership of Arabella is gambled away by her horrible step papa in a game of cards. The winner is the savagely scarred Lord Darth Peregrine. A dark lord who knows that no woman could desire his scarred visage. Except perhaps a woman that he owns. One who fate decrees that he possess entirely and his own shadowed urgings cannot deny him. This story is filled with carnal and Gothic Regency undertones, as Peregrine keeps Arabella captive to his sexual desires. He is the lord and she is naked to his control. In the end Lord Peregrine saves Arabella’s young brother. Sexually Explicit.

Red Bottom Ranch, If you LOVE bare bottom spanking this story is for you! Ex marine, Beckett McCade and erotic fiction writer, Evangeline Pennyflower are in for a bare bottom dispute over ownership of the Bar S Maverick Ranch. Beckett’s been injured and his military career is finished. His luck is all bad with doctors saying they don’t know if he can ever make love again. The only thing he has is a ranch that his uncle left him.
He is surprised to find his inherited ranch is occupied by a cute busty blonde with big sapphire blue eyes, saying that she bought the ranch. Beckett has no choice but to move in and stake his claim quickly, while Evie is worried over losing the ranch, which she bought to hide on. To hide from a crazed fan of her erotic fiction who is stalking her!
Beckett’s only hope is to take Evie over his knee and paddle her bottom until she gives him his ranch back. Sexually Graphic Encounters.

Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century-s most acclaimed popular author.The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Gandalf-s lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan.Unfinished Tales also contains the only story about the long ages of Numenor before its downfall, and all that is known about such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri and the legend of Amroth. The tales were collated and edited by JRR Tolkien-s son and literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, who provides a short commentary on each story, helping the reader to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father-s writings.

The most comprehensive and authoritative review of B-School fundamentals-from  top accounting and finance professors  

For years, the Portable MBA series has tracked the core curricula of leading business schools to teach you the fundamentals you need to know about business-without the extreme costs of earning an MBA degree. The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting covers all the core methods and techniques you would learn in business school, using real-life examples to deliver clear, practical guidance on finance and accounting. The new edition also includes free downloadable spreadsheets and web resources.

If you-re in charge of making decisions at your own or someone else-s business, you need the best information and insight on modern finance and accounting practice. This reliable, information-packed resource shows you how to understand the numbers, plan and forecast for the future, and make key strategic decisions. Plus, this new edition covers the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley, applying ethical accounting standards, and offers career advice.

    – Completely updated with new examples, new topics, and full coverage of topical issues in finance and accounting-fifty percent new material
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Whether you-re thinking of starting your own business or you already have and just need to brush up on finance and accounting basics, this is the only guide you need.

Nationally renowned experts offer essential and practical advice for all businesses ranging from small startups to large corporations. Provides clear concise guidance on how to do a breakeven analysis; prepare a budget; implement a business plan; decide whether to incorporate your business; evaluate an acquisition target and much more. Enables readers to pick up the basics in finance and accounting without incurring the considerable time and expense of a formal MBA program.

If you’re seeking MCDST certification, here’s the book you need to prepare for Exam 70-271, Supporting Users and Troubleshooting a Microsoft XP Operating System, and Exam 70-272, Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System. This revised and updated Deluxe Edition features over 200 pages of new content-including the very latest updates to the exams as well as case studies-and provides complete instruction to meet the exacting requirements of each exam. Prepare for your certification and career with this two-in-one, value-packed guide.

Inside you’ll find:

• Practical information on how to analyze problems and provide support to end users
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Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including:

Exam 70-271

• Installing a Windows Desktop Operating System
• Managing and Troubleshooting Access to Resources
• Configuring and Troubleshooting Hardware Devices and Drivers
• Configuring and Troubleshooting the Desktop and User Environments
• Troubleshooting Network Protocols and Services

Exam 70-272

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• Resolving Issues Related to Application Customization
• Configuring and Troubleshooting Connectivity for Applications
• Configuring Application Security

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If you’re seeking MCDST certification, here’s the book you need to prepare for Exam 70-271, Supporting Users and Troubleshooting a Microsoft® XP® Operating System, and Exam 70-272, Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on a Microsoft® Windows® XP Operating System. This revised and updated Deluxe Edition features over 200 pages of new content—including the very latest updates to the exams as well as case studies—and provides complete instruction to meet the exacting requirements of each exam. Prepare for your certification and career with this two-in-one, value-packed guide.

Inside you’ll find:

• Practical information on how to analyze problems and provide support to end users
• Hundreds of challenging review questions
• Bonus CD loaded with exam prep software, four bonus exams, Sybex test engine, and 300 electronic flashcards

Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including

Exam 70-271

• Installing a Windows Desktop Operating System
• Managing and Troubleshooting Access to Resources
• Configuring and Troubleshooting Hardware Devices and Drivers
• Configuring and Troubleshooting the Desktop and User Environments
• Troubleshooting Network Protocols and Services

Exam 70-272

• Configuring and Troubleshooting Applications
• Resolving Issues Related to Usability
• Resolving Issues Related to Application Customization
• Configuring and Troubleshooting Connectivity for Applications
• Configuring Application Security

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“Gene Perret is the world’s top authority on comedy writing…thinking…and presentation.” — Phyllis Diller

“My career all started because of this book and my willingness to do every bit of the step-by-step work that Gene Perret has so marvelously laid out in it.” — Joe Medeiros, head writer of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Three-time Emmy-award winner Gene Perret’s Comedy Writing Step by Step has been the manual for humor writers for 24 years. With this, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the selling of one’s work.