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|  | Touch Typing Made Simple by Lillian S. Marks
Description not available.Demonstrates how to operate an electric typewriter or word processor, and provides lessons designed to develop ones speed and accuracy AUTHOR: Lillian S. Marks
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business 
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 | How Do You Spell Haagen-Dazs? by Carl Hausmann
Description not available.Presents alphabetically arranged entries of abbreviations, acronyms, company names, product names, place names, sports teams, colleges and universities, associations, and news organizations. AUTHOR: Carl Hausmann
PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business
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 | Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists by Luigi Zingales, Raghuram Rajan
In this latest call for open markets, Rajan and Zingales walk a narrow path between two much-debated schools of economic thought: isolationism and globalization. SAVING CAPITALISM FROM THE CAPITALISTS weighs the impact of political pressures against the reality of market economics, offering its own approach to combating anti-market sentiment, through renewed focus on the international in order to allay unfair trade practices from powerhouses. AUTHOR: Luigi Zingales, Raghuram Rajan
PUBLISHER: Crown Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Business
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 | Fail Safe Investing by Harry Browne
Do you worry that you're not paying enough attention to your investments? Do you feel out when you hear about the clever things other investors seems to be doing? Relax. You don't have to become an investment genius to protect your savings. Distilling the wisdom of this 30 years' experience into lessons that can be applied in 30 minutes, Harry Browne shows you what you need to know to make your savings and investment markets do. There are no secret trading systems here, no jargon to learn. Instead, Harry Browne teaches you in simple terms to, among other things: Build your wealth on your career; Make your own decisions; Build a bulletproof portfolio for protection; Take advantage of tax-reduction plans; Enjoy yourself with a budget for pleasure. AUTHOR: Harry Browne
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business
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 | Irons in the Fire by John A. McPhee, Nelson Runger
Essays by McPhee on such diverse issues as cattle-branding in Nevada, tire dumps, a blind writer with a talking computer, and an auction of exotic cars. AUTHOR: John A. McPhee, Nelson Runger
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Business
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 | Rules of Thumb for Business Writers by Diana R. Wienbroer, Elaine Hughes, Jay Silverman
In the business world, limply written, badly organized documents can subtly but steadily downgrade your career. You?ve got to write clearly, concisely, and energetically--without meandering, repeating yourself, or sabotaging your ideas with poorly constructed sentences, stilted language, and embarrassing grammatical errors. Get the help you need--now--with RULES OF THUMB FOR BUSINESS WRITERS. Written by the author team of the best-selling RULES OF THUMB: A GUIDE FOR WRITERS, this new guide is designed especially to meet the real writing demands of daily business. Whether you?re composing a letter, preparing an outline for your next big report, or simply wondering whether or not that comma makes sense, RULES OF THUMB FOR BUSINESS WRITERS explains how to do it right. It?s packed with concise explanations of the most frequent problems in writing, bulleted lists of easy-to-read guidelines, and hundreds of practical guidelines that instantly illustrate each concept. Quickly and easily, you?ll learn how to find your focus, break up your thoughts effectively, format your documents for optimal readability, begin with an attention-grabbing bang, adopt a straightforward, conversational tone, and improve your style. And you?ll learn how to write succinctly, accurately, and persuasively, whether in formal business correspondence, more casual e-mail messages, memos, agendas, instructions manuals, reports, newsletters and press releases, proposals, or resumes. PLUS, you?ll learn to effortlessly adhere to the rules of punctuation, grammar, and usage, understanding when to capitalize, choosing the correct pronoun, avoiding fragments and run-on sentences, properly placing apostrophes, and more. There?s even helpful advice on tackling special topics, such as conducting research on the Web efficiently, using footnotes accurately, developing templates to simplify future tasks, planning and executing a long-term project, and editing the work of others. A valuable appendix of ready-to-us AUTHOR: Diana R. Wienbroer, Elaine Hughes, Jay Silverman
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business
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