From Geronimo! to gesundheit to haminahamina to holymackerel, and from abracadabra to zoinks, Mark Dunn and Sergio Aragonés show you interjections like you've never seen them before.Often thought of as unnecessary verbal fringe or simply linguistic decoration, interjections (ahem, howdy, mammamia, pshaw, tally-ho, whoop-de-do) may well be the most overlooked part of speech in the English language. ZOUNDS! A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections focuses the spotlight on this most deserving (and sometimes most demented) grammatical group. A light-hearted look at more than 500 interjections, ZOUNDS! explores the origins of these essential words and highlights the contributions of these previously unheralded parts of speech.Perfect for both word lovers and the casual reader, ZOUNDS! brings together the linguistic talents of Mark Dunn, author of the award-winning novel Ella Minnow Pea, and the graphic hilarity of Sergio Aragonés, the legendary cartoonist and contributor to Mad Magazine, for a delightful romp through grammar, culture, and the English language.Famous interjections include:"Eureka!"-Archimedes "Badabing-badaboom"-Tony Soprano"Stuff and nonsense!"-Alice, Alice in Wonderland"Bah! Humbug!"-Scrooge"Fiddle-dee-dee !"-Scarlett O'Hara"Leapin' lizards!"-Little Orphan Annie"Nanoo, nanoo"-Mork, from "Mork & Mindy""Dyn-O-Mite!"-Jimmie Walker, "Good Times""Bully!"-President Theodore Roosevelt
About this product: "This book gives every sales professional, in any market, a step-by-step process to make more sales, faster and easier than ever before. Worth its weight in gold!" —Brian Tracy, President, Brian Tracy International, and Author of Advanced Selling Strategies
Does the sheer thought of selling make you nervous and uncomfortable?
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Now you can quickly and easily learn the techniques used by top retail sales people. They are deceptively simple, yet extremely effective. What’s more, they can be used by sales professionals in any business to improve their results. Stop, Ask & Listen: Proven Sales Techniques to Turn Browsers Into Buyers will show you:
The 11 most common mistakes sales people make and how to avoid them.
How to create a connection with your potential customer quickly and easily.
The 33 questions that will gain your prospect’s trust.
How to deliver an engaging and captivating sales presentation.
A four-step process to overcome virtually any objection.
Lots of examples, sample scripts, and action plans you can use to apply the concepts in the book, no matter what you sell.
Whether you are new to selling, an experienced veteran, or a sales manager training, supervising, and coaching a team, you will learn valuable strategies that will help you increase your sales and earn more money.
Your web site is a business—design it like one. Billions of dollars in spending decisions are influenced by web sites. So why aren't businesses laser-focused on designing their sites to maximize their Return on Investment (ROI)?
Web design can do more than make a site look good—it can be a powerful strategic weapon that enhances financial returns and creates competitive advantage.
It's time to make web sites accountable. It's time to make design decisions based on metrics and business goals. It's time for Web Design for ROI.
In this book you'll learn:
Why so many organizations think about web design the wrong way
How small design changes can have a big impact on your bottom line
Simple tips to increase web sales/leads by 10% – 50% (or more)
Concrete design guidelines for:
Landing pages
Home pages
Category pages
Detail pages
Forms
Checkout processes
Packed with helpful examples from a wide variety of sites!
No special equipment or software needed beyond a Web browser
Teaches principles of good programming practice
Lots of fun!
Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser is a book about general principles of good programming practice for complete novices. If you're a teen or someone who is just starting to get curious about what makes a computer work, or an office worker who has been using computer applications for years and would like to spend some time looking deeper into what makes them tick, then this book is for you.
Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser teaches the basics of programming using JavaScript. JavaScript, a modern programming language, can be written using any text editor and displayed in almost any web browser, regardless of the operating system. In the process, author Harold Davis discusses modern computer programming principles and explains concepts such as object-oriented programming in an easy-to-understand manner.
About this product: With the introduction of Adobe AIR, Flex developers have more capability than ever before. Now you can build dynamic applications that combine the rich experience of a traditional desktop application with the power of the Internet. Leveraging your existing knowledge of Adobe Flex and Flash, Breaking out of the Web Browser with Adobe AIR will help you build well-architected desktop applications. Flex and Flash experts Jeff Tapper and Michael Labriola will teach you techniques to create truly custom interfaces by leading you through exercises with a real world time-tracking application. The book’s abundance of examples will help you become adept at interacting with the end user’s underlying operating system and teach you the most important concepts for using AIR.
About this product: Would you like to go visit websites in one or two Kindle clicks? Do you want to get to Google search more easily and search CUIL, too? Now you can! Get rid of Amazon's default bookmarks and forget those funny browser launching menus. Just click this HOMEPAGE document and there they all are -- the REAL places to get news, sports, stock info and quotes, travelers weather, free eBooks and audio books, your Email, and latest blogs about Kindling. Even shopping deals of the day.
Click what you want; it opens immediately and you're reading. This handy item turns Kindle surfing from awkward to slick! It lets Kindle be more like your PDA. It will sit at the top of your title-sorted homepage so it's always there for you. You can even download free ebooks and check or buy Amazon's latest store items from it.
Special - ELECTION COVERAGE political sites are included! Track your candidate's breaking news. Follow either Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin!. Read what your favorite analysts are saying.
Sure, you could go bookmark a bunch of sites, but these links aren't the ordinary ones you know. All are tested to work well on your Kindle. Everything is labeled, organized and arranged in flip menus for quickest use. You get them all for the price of one latte.
Extra special - INCLUDES TIPS ON BROWSER SETUP and what to do if it freezes up.
And More! Buy this then check back once in a while for updated versions. Ask for additions and we may add them. You'll get any and all added links without extra charge just by deleting your Kindle copy and re-downloading the latest version from Amazon.
You're going to love this, so get it now, you deserve it. Buy the latte, too.
Q: Can I add my own links to these menus? A: No, it's a book document, so I have to do that in future editions. Enter a review and suggest additions. You do still get to create your own bookmarks though - once any site is open you click the roller and also get to them, and there's lots of room because you don't need to keep any of the default ones any more. But once you see how it's done you may want try your own version of menus
About this product: "Kudos (Greek), encomiums (Latin), and accolades (French) to the authors for their enlightening and amusing lexicon, a testament that English is the most cheerfully democratic and hospitable language ever cobbled together."–Richard Lederer, author of The Miracle of Language
From angst to zydeco, the ultimate guide to foreign terms and phrases
This handy, practical, and browsable A-to-Z reference tells you all you need to know to understand, pronounce, and appreciate the nearly 2,000 foreign words and phrases commonly used by speakers and writers of English. The Browser's Dictionary covers a wide variety of subject areas and includes loan-words from more than sixty languages around the world, such as:
Latin (desideratum) • the romance languages (rapprochement, macho, imbroglio) • German (gestalt) • Russian (gulag) • Hebrew (shibboleth) • Yiddish (shtick) • Persian (tambura) • Hindi (purdah) • Arabic (loofah) • Hawaiian (kanaka) • Creole French (zydeco) • and Japanese (netsuke)
In addition, each entry provides:
A guide to pronunciation using easy-to-understand transcriptions from ordinary English
Comprehensive literal and idiomatic definitions
The word’s source language, as well as its literal meaning
The Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases is sure to become a favorite reference for anyone with an interest in words and language.
About this product: Obsessed with the origins of things, Charles Panati has dug up enough beginnings and firsts for any barroom sage, or academician, to fend off the most troublesome trivia queries. Ranging from the beginnings of galaxies, the emergence of bacteria, and from bony fish to soap, loaded dice, ethnic slurs, hypnosis, comic strips and much more, The Browser's Book of Beginnings is a fascinating read--sampled randomly or digested whole. Illustrated with more than 100 drawings, diagrams, and archival photographs, and including comprehensive bibliographies and an index, The Browser's Book of Beginnings is a most readable and concise quick-reference book.
About this product: This is the third book in the "DATA Browser" series of critical texts that explore issues at the intersection of culture and technology. The site of curatorial production has been expanded to include the space of the Internet and the focus of curatorial attention has been extended from the object to dynamic network systems. As a result, curatorial work has become more widely distributed between multiple agents, including technological networks and software. This upgraded "operating system" of art presents new possibilities for online curating - even to the extreme of a self-organising system that curates itself. The curator is part of this entire system but not central to it. This book explores the role of the curator in the face of these changes.
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