About this product: Finally, a finance dictionary compiled with the individual investor in mind. Wall Street Lingo does more than define the terms your stockbroker, the Wall Street Journal and CNBC pitch at you it explains them in a way that traditional dictionaries can t. Where other dictionaries start at A and end at Z, Wall Street Lingo is organized in chapters, by subject. It begins where you begin with a topic that has piqued your curiosity and ends only when your curiosity has been satisfied. Have you ever wondered about the difference between CPI and PPI? In other dictionaries, you ll find the definitions 200 pages apart. Wall Street Lingo brings them together in the chapter Economics for Investors. EBITDA. Gross Profit. Net Profit. Shareholders Equity. You could waste precious time searching for explanations to help you analyze a company s financial condition. Or you can open Wall Street Lingo to the chapter Decoding Financial Statements. If you think technical analysis is only for the pros, flip to the chapter Technically Speaking for dozens of plain English translation to stock chart terms like Bollinger bands, MACD, Elliott wave theory and Bearish Divergence. It might change your mind. Whether you re an experienced investor or are exploring the market for the first time, you ll appreciate the easy-reading style and unique structure of this innovative investment tool. - Over 1,000 terms individual investors need to know and understand for profitable investing - Definitions organized by topic - Fully indexed and cross-referenced - Exhaustive list of commonly used acronyms - Helpful resources, complete with websites Wall Street Lingo is an essential reference that translates the jargon used on Wall Street into direct, easy to understand, Main Street language and organizes it the way you use it.
About this product: "The cowboy was not a highly educated man as a rule," says Ramon F. Adams in his introduction to Cowboy Lingo, "but he never lacked for expression." After years of keeping his own notes on the "terse, crisp, clear-cut language of the range," Adams decided that it would be "selfish" not to pass them along. Thus was born Cowboy Lingo, which was first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1936 and appears now after being long out of print. Adams's book is arranged thematically--with chapters on ropes, cattle, brands, the trail, outlaws, and the like--telling as much about the life of the cowboy (or cow-puncher or buckaroo or ranahan or saddle-slicker or waddie) as about his language. As might be expected from a pioneer of the western range, the cowboy "respected neither the dictionary nor usage," says Adams, "but employed his words in the manner that best suited him." And perhaps no other group has come up with a better collection of insults. A bad tracker "couldn't find a calf with a bell on in a corral"; a worthless person's "family tree was a scrub"; and an ignorant person "couldn't drive nails in a snow bank." Great fodder for word mavens, writers of Western fiction, and Wild West enthusiasts alike. --Jane Steinberg
About this product: This book reprints the original story that was used in the creation of Batman by Bill Finger and Bob Kane.
Lingo is a great story were each mob boss gets stymied by the Shadow until the mob turns on him and removes him (permanently) and sets up a new boss. Eventually, a boss named Lingo takes over. This is where the story gets good.
The second story in the book is the original story Bill Finger used when he and Bob Kane were creating Batman. The first Batman stories had him carrying two colt 45s and being a socialite friend of the chief of police. Change the names to Lamont Cranston, The Shadow and Commisioner Weston instead of Bruce Wayne, Batman and Commisioner Gordon and you have the exact same story! (With the exception of a nephew turning into a niece, that is.)
The historical articles in this book tell the story of the first Batman comics, as well as an interesting article from Jerry Robinson, who joined Bob Kane and Bill Finger to create the most memorable villain of all time, the Joker!
This thicker-than-normal book is a great read as well as a fount of historical information from the early days of superheroes. Get it. You'll love it!
About this product: Finally there is a games book for Director developers! Up until now, Lingo programmers have had to figure it out themselves while Java and C programmers have had dozens of games books to choose from. With Advanced Lingo for Games, the new book by Gary Rosenzweig, Lingo programmers can learn from an expert game developer who has created hundreds of games with Macromedia Director. The book contains more than 20 complete games including the source code. You can read about how each of these games was made, and use the source code to create your own games.
Lose your linguistic inhibitions. Speak German in plain English. This book includes phrases like: 'I would like to see the manager', 'You mean I have to pay for the froth on the beer as well?', and 'Do you work out, gorgeous, or is that your natural build?'
About this product: We received this book as a gift and it quickly replaced "Goodnight Moon" in our bedtime routine. I love the fact that it is a Christian-based story (mentions praying and reading Bible stories before bed, and how God watches over us), but my son's absolute favorite part is the song at the end of the book, sung to the "Jesus loves me" tune. He will not go to bed without singing it! This is a great book for any toddler and would make a great shower gift.
About this product: Readers dicover new and creative uses of Lingo that may never have discovered on their own, including World Wide Web accesses. This is the first bok that explores the high-end power of Macromedia Director's Lingo programming language. It contains tutorial exercises and detailed examples that will improve the serious multimedia developers use of this powerful language.
About this product: Once again, O'Reilly scores big with a comprehensive treatment of a programming language that doesn't spend much time teaching the fundamentals. Lingo in a Nutshell sets a benchmark for Lingo documentation that no other book or online resource meets.
Lingo in a Nutshell has to do with behind-the-scenes aspects of Lingo, including file management, data structures, loops, conditionals, and event handlers. Simply put, this book treats Lingo as a programming language, rather than merely as a piece of Macromedia Director. The coverage you'll find in Lingo in a Nutshell backs up the more obviously practical material found in this book's companion volume, Director in a Nutshell. This book also features an excellent chapter called "How Lingo Thinks," which explains how the various pieces of a Lingo-controlled presentation fit together.
Like most Nutshell books, Lingo in a Nutshell includes a very good language reference in addition to its tutorial and explanatory materials. Listing Lingo's enumerated values, keywords, and commands in full--including some otherwise undocumented ones--this reference makes it easy to locate the information you need as you write programs. The only minor drawback of this book is that it doesn't cover the changes made to Lingo in the newly released Director 7. --David Wall
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