About this product: This clear, concise, and inexpensive pocket guide offers a quick and easy reference for anyone needing extra help with grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and either traditional or online research. The Writer's FAQ is built around the typical questions writers have -- helping them find the information they're looking for even if they don't know the terminology. Dozens of hint boxes offer useful advice, strategies for understanding rules, and suggestions for avoiding common error. An extensive section on online research helps writers make better use of search engines, evaluate the quality of online sources, and document the sources they use. A separate multilingual speaker's section offers in-depth coverage of specific grammar issues faced by non-native speakers. For everyone who wishes to become a more effective writer.
About this product: Another spectacular book in the highly respected Andrea Press series that started with Mig's Armor Modelling book and now includes other volumes on figure painting and cars and trains.
The level of detail here is unprecedented and offers a wealth of information for even the most seasoned modeler.Packed full of full color step-by-step pictures.Expensive? Can't deny it-worth it? Absolutely!
How do you turn your Kindle on? What's Whispernet? Can I buy a Kindle book for a friend? Can I use my Kindle on a cruise? All of these questions--more than 200 in all--are answered in The Amazon Kindle FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). According to one reviewer, "This book contains a ton of information, written in a pleasant and user friendly style." The questions started as a thread on the Amazon Kindle discussion forum. In this book they have been pulled together, answers expanded and clarified, and organized into twelve chapters. Navigation links to move from chapter to chapter quickly and easily have been included. All answers have been carefully researched and tested. Whether you are a new Kindle owner or an "old pro," this book is sure to contain more than a few nuggets of useful information designed to enhance your Kindle reading experience. If you are contemplating buying a Kindle, but still have questions, this guide may just be the resource you need to help you make up your mind.
Chapter Listing: Chapter One: Kindle Basics, From A to Z; Chapter Two: Wondering About Whispernet?; Chapter Three: The Reading Experience with E-Ink; Chapter Four: On The Road Again... Traveling With Your Kindle; Chapter Five: When My Kindle Goes to Sleep... Screensavers; Chapter Six: It-s Alive! The Battery and Charging Your Kindle; Chapter Seven: Spreading the Love... Multiple Kindles; Chapter Eight: I Need a Really Good Book to Read: Acquiring Content and Converting Files; Chapter Nine: Making Kindle Life Easy: Hidden Features and Shortcuts; Chapter Ten: eBooks in General; Chapter Eleven: Troubleshooting, Getting Help, and the Kindle Community; and Chapter Twelve: Let-s Wrap It Up: Miscellaneous Questions and a Little Bit of Humor.
The authors are all experienced Kindle owners and enthusiastic users and are excited to share their collective knowledge with others through this book. This mobipocket eBook, which is about the Kindle, is not readable on the Kindle.
About this product: Brings you the most efficient solutions to more than 400 of the practical programming challenges you face every day in C++ FAQ. Paper. DLC: C++ (Computer programming language).
About this product: Learning to read should be easy and effortless, but in schools today it often is not. Why is this so? In his characteristically readable and provocative style, Frank Smith examines these and other questions, and provides answers. The author of over 20 books on reading, writing, thinking, and learning, Frank Smith is an acknowledged world leader in clarifying critical issues for teachers. In his latest book, he addresses questions that he is frequently asked at workshops and conferences about learning, prediction, phonics, stories, meaning, writing, and the brain, including:
* What's the connection between reading and writing? * Are some kinds of reading preferable to others? * Which is better for reading, books or computers? * Is reading aloud different from silent reading? * Why are stories so important? * How would you teach punctuation? * Is it important for young children to learn the letters of the alphabet?
About this product: C Programming FAQs contains more than 400 frequently asked questions about C, accompanied by definitive answers. Although this resource contains lots of useful information, it is more of a grab bag of questions and answers than a comprehensive reference.
About this product: When you have a Lightroom question, where do you look? Do you trawl through thousands of web pages looking for the information you need? Perhaps post on a forum and wait for hours for anyone to reply? Maybe try to figure out the Help files? From now on, you look right here!
This is the reference book that should have shipped with Lightroom. Adobe Lightroom 2 - The Missing FAQ is a 436 page compilation of the most frequently asked questions, presented in question and answer format so that you can easily find the answers you're looking for. Whether you're a new user who likes to dive straight into new software and figure it out as you go along, a more experienced user wanting to learn how to get the best out of Lightroom, or you've just got a burning question you'd like answered, this book is for you. These are real-world answers to real questions asked by real Lightroom users. It not only covers how to do things, but also why they work the way they do.
Lightroom may have a mind of its own... but now you can learn how it thinks.
The story behind the book... and a FREE bonus! Adobe Lightroom 2 - The Missing FAQ was originally intended to be a searchable eBook, however once the book was released to the public, a demand arose for a paperback version too. Whilst some books have a PDF supplement, this book is the other way round - the colour PDF eBook is designed to be the primary book, and this black & white paperback is the supplement. Anyone purchasing the paperback version is invited to contact the author via her website to download the main PDF version worth £14.95 (approx. $26.95 US*) absolutely FREE.
This exhaustive volume, the first of two, seeks to provide answers for the curious and critical about anarchist theory, history, and practice. More a reference volume than a primer, the FAQ eschews curt answers and engages with questions in a thorough, matter-of-fact style. Educational and fascinating, An Anarchist FAQ will be referenced again and again.
Iain McKay is former editor of Black Flag magazine and is a frequent contributor to Anarcho-Syndicalist Review. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.