PMP Certification preparation guide.

Author(s): George Woolard
Publisher: LTP
Year: 1999
ISBN: 1899396012
Language: English
File type: PDF
Pages: 104
Size : 4.50 MB

This is a book which uses jokes to highlight grammatical patterns. Humorous learning materials have a number of advantages. Firstly, they increase motivation by being potentially amusing. Secondly, they are memorable and can help the learner to remember grammar. Lastly, they lead to spontaneous practice and consolidation of grammar through the learner's natural desire to share jokes with others.

It is intended for intermediate students although the material will be of use to pre- and the post-intermediate student. It consists of 82 woorksheets to be used to provide supplementary grammar practice. The woorksheets are organised grammatically, consisting of a series of jokes which have a single grammar focus. Each worksheet ends with a task which is designed to help the learner personalise the grammar focus item of the woorksheet. This generally involves learners in producing information about themselves, their attitude and opinions.

Author(s): Stuart Robbins
Publisher: Wiley
Year: 2006
ISBN: 0471790109
Language: English
Pages: 382
File type: PDF
Size : 6.5 MB


This book is an experiment in discourse. It uses the medium of the story to engage the issues and ideas of business. Unlike other such experiments, such as "The Goal", this book is profoundly intellectual in the very best sense of the term. And it needs to be, for it is tackling a deep idea, the notion that our computer systems replicate our social relationships and that managing either can be improved by learning from the other.

The notion that computer and social systems are ecologically intertwined is at first startling, but within seconds it becomes commonplace. Of course they are intertwined—how could they not be? But then why have we not made more of this in the past? Well, that is what bright ideas are all about: they show us things we are pretty sure we already knew but have never brought properly into focus.

Too many among us believe that technology and technology decision making is “someone else’s job.” Who can forget the CEO involved in a white collar fraud case who responded to the question, “You had a computer on your desk didn’t you?” with “Yes, but it was just for show.” Prison isn’t bad enough for this kind of mindset. We should extract his critical organs and donate them to more deserving people higher on the evolutionary food chain. Fortunately, this kind of thinking will soon migrate from being passively stupid to being prosecutably malfeasant.

Author(s): Mark L.Chambers
Publisher: Wiley
Year: Aug 2006
ISBN: 047004859X
Language: English
Pages: 386
File type: PDF
Size : 6.2 MB


Each chapter in this book has been written as a reference on a specific hardware or software topic. Due to the hard work of my editors, you can begin reading anywhere you like because each chapter is self-contained. However, I recommend that you read from front to back, because the linear order of the book makes a great deal of sense.

I wrote this book for myself — and for every other Apple laptop owner who desires to become a laptop techno-wizard. In these pages, you’ll find a guide to both your laptop’s hardware and Mac OS X Tiger, the latest version of Apple’s superb operating system. After I cover the basics that every laptop owner should know, you find out how to accomplish all sorts of cutting-edge audio, visual, and Internet projects. (Oh, and if you already have another of my books, you know that I don’t skimp on the power user tips and tricks that’ll save you time, effort, and money.)

Like my dozen-or-so other For Dummies titles, I respect and use the same English language you learned in school, avoiding jargon, ridiculous computer acronyms, and confusing techno-babble whenever possible. (Plus, I try to bring out the humor that’s hidden inside every computer. Finding out how to use your Mac should be fun, and not a chore!)

This book has been written using the latest MacBook Pro computer, so owners of older Mac laptops that aren’t running Intel processors may not be able to follow along with everything I cover. However, if you’ve upgraded an older G4 laptop with Mac OS X Tiger and the iLife ’06 application suite, you should be able to use most of the book with no problem!