Online Books

The advances being made in Internet technology has made this powerful broadcast medium perhaps the most popular and exciting educational tool in existence today. Consider the millions of Websites that contain vast amounts of information that is just waiting to be accessed and put to use. Dr. Jane Lasarenko offers her readers important insight into how the Internet can be harnessed to educate school children today!

The contents of this book targets students from Kindergarten through the 12th grade, providing a variety of tips and suggestions for adapting assignments to these different grade level children. Areas covered include English, social studies, math, science, communication, and writing skills. Information about a generous number of Websites is provided to assist readers to obtain and develop their own school lessons from the wealth of materials that are available online.

Lasarenko discusses a number of interesting and challenging topics including the use of virtual online classrooms, maintaining close contact with teachers, keeping in touch with other students, collaborating on classroom projects online, the productive use of computer and communications technology, networking in the educational process, and allowing shy students to express themselves under the cloak of pseudonyms!

This book is ideal for public school classrooms, churches, day care services, and those parents who have chosen to educate their children at home. It will open up the world of the Internet as a dynamic and powerful educational tool in the child development process. Adults and children alike will benefit from the wealth of information available to them. Highly recommended for every child educator!

I have to admit it, I bought this game 8 years ago because the packaging looked so nice. I started playing it immediately and I discovered that this is the best adventure game I ever played. It's funny, absorbing, and beautiful. There are lots and lots of great puzzles inside it, and you always feel great achievement when you solve something (since it is always hard to solve something). I'm amazed how Sierra does not re-release this gem (let alone not mentioning it at all), even though, in my opinion, it's way better than other adventure games Sierra is praising right now, such as King's Quest, Leisure Suite Larry, etc...

From detailed reviews of the top one hundred web sites devoted to World War II facts and history to five-star content ratings, and tips on how to locate the use the best information, World War II On The Web is a specific title which may hold a relatively short shelf life as an internet reference, but which soundly imparts the basics on how to search out and analyze a web-based history site for maximum results. Highly recommended!

I have just finished reading this book and I believe it is an excellent resource for single Christians who want to begin the on-line dating process. Particularly helpful is her coverage of the spiritual aspect of seeking such relationships. I have read several works on on-line dating and this is one that I would definitely recommend to any person, particularly another Christian, who contemplates embarking on this adventure.

Writing on the Internet: Finding Your Voice Online is an asset to any library. It is designed to be useful to the novice as well as the professional Internet user. The book is set up to be used as a teaching manual for the Internet classroom. Each informative section is followed with ideas for practical use entitled "Finding Your Voice." Halio goes the extra mile and tries to anticipate the problems that might be encountered and offers cures for each.

As a reference Writing on the Internet offers a guide to e-mail, listservs, and news groups. For those who are looking for information sources and opportunities for publishing, Halio takes the book a step further. It is equipped as a guide for Internet research and publishing web sites, home pages, and portfolios. Halio has also chosen to include appendixes for MLA formatting for documentation, using on-line chats, pine e-mail, and HTML commands. Writing on the Internet offers a table of contents and index for easy use. Overall, this user's guide for the Internet is a great how-to edition to any home or professional library.

This is an excellent introductory source for the beginner's form "The Thirteen Golden Postures" in the Wu style of T'ai Chi Ch'uan from one of the few qualified masters in the United States. Being a very small book, it will not provide the philosophical depth that some are looking for. Master Lee's website is a good resource for more information, as are the websites for his branch schools, which teach Wu Style T'ai Chi, Chang Style Pa Kua, and My Jhong Law Horn Style Kung Fu.

If you want your grammar and writing lessons sane, sober, serious, skip this book because the jokes, plays on words and plain old fun will drive you crazy.

But if you need light, useful advice about writing in cyberspace, or quick reminders about using numbers correctly, office etiquette, or brush-ups on grammar and writing, and have a laugh in the process, this book is for you. I highly recommend it.

O'Conner's books (Woe Is I, Words Fail Me, and now, You Send Me) remind me of an editor I work with who is a pun a minute. She can't stop herself and every conversation with her takes such twists and turns that the less articulate are left several sentences behind. If I didn't know that editor, I'd think that O'Conner and Kellerman had to have spent hours creating her more painful plays on words for some of their chapter and section titles:
Grammar a la Modem
Lurk Before You Leap
Go Configure
Clone Rangers
Myth Information
A Click and a Promise
Help for the Whomless

And on and on and on. I suspect it just spills out of them, fed by their obvious exuberance for their work.

But all of these little plays are wrapped around very helpful bits of logical suggestions and advice delivered in a conversational style. While ostensibly meant to deal with the horrific onslaught of wretched writing that shows up in
our e-mail, much of the book's advice can be applied to other writing. The team also reminds us of the need for accuracy in numbers and other facts, pointing out the difficulties so many people have with noticing what should be obvious exaggerations or faulty understanding of numbers.

O'Conner and her husband-coauthor divide this book into three sections:

The Virtual Mensch, which examines protocol issues--when to use e-mail, the need for subject lines, choice of e-mail names, keeping the reader in mind and more.

Alpha Mail, which focuses more closely on better writing (with such advice as divide long sentences into shorter ones, break the message into paragraphs); eliminating cliches, which includes a list of cliches followed by an authors' comment, e.g., acid test (Give it an F), diamond in the rough (cubic zirconium),
draw a blank (so fill it in), easier said than done (Then say it); the need for the writer to re-read an e-mail before sending it, and other topics.
Words of Passage, which takes the authors right back to their real issue,
language. Among other topics, they take us through easy lessons on it/its/it's/
and who/whom, subject-verb agreement and punctuation.

This book is a handy addition to the bookshelf of any editor or writer interested in how the language is or should be used.

Looking for work is serious business that affects not only the lives of job seekers, but also the lives of many others around them. Need some hope and encouragement? Read on!

Your 24/7 Online Job Search Guide by Lamont Wood offers most job seekers the opportunity to learn about the options available to them online. The book covers the major job finding Websites and many lesser-known ones that target specific industries. Additional instruction includes use of the Web, e-mail, newsgroups, search engines, how to compose and post resumes and cover letters, online manners, interviewing tips, and information about many very helpful online resources for job seekers to take advantage of.

Without a doubt, Monster.com has established themselves as the largest and most popular online marketplace for job seekers and employers to find each other. I still recall peering through a Chicago transit train window several years ago and viewing a blimp hovering over Wrigley Field with "Monster.com" in orange lettering. What an impact the sight made. Lamont Wood devotes an entire chapter and other commentary to this outstanding service. His instruction is concise, accurate, readable, and easily understandable. Anyone not familiar with Monster.com will be able to find their way around the service with very little trouble. Readers will learn how to compose and post their own resumes, search for jobs, and obtain job training and other related services.

Not to be left out are other services that make their own contributions to the job finding landscape as well - including CareerBuilder.com, Dice.com, HeadHunter.net, HotJobs.com, JobsOnline.com, and Vault.com. Other Websites featured are listed by category in areas such as academia, banking, college students and recent graduates, consulting, engineering, finance, freelancing, general, information technology, internships, law, medical, sales and marketing, science, and temping. Readers will learn about the wealth of articles, tips, and instruction these Websites have to offer them.

While the Internet has opened up many real opportunities to match prospective employees with employers, it has also opened up opportunities for identity theft - and plenty takes place. Lamont Wood unravels some of the elaborate schemes operated by unscrupulous people who obtain personal information for the purposes of defrauding merchants, banks, and their targeted victims - their strategies are shocking and their work can quickly ruin anyone's credit rating. Wood offers sound advice concerning the posting of personal information online. You can be sure - other people online are looking for some to use!

Another concern for job seekers are the countless get-rich-quick scams that lure victims with claims that they can make a lot of quick money from the convenience of their homes. Scams such as multi-level marketing, medical billing, bulk e-mail, envelope stuffing, and craft/assembly work are quickly and soundly debunked.

Lamont Wood has written one of the best online job search books available today. His wit, charm, and background makes an excellent contribution to any job finding campaign. The book is packed with essential information about online services, preparing online resumes, online networking, online resources, and various technologies that can be used to find employment. It's must reading for personal, classroom, and workshop use!

Absolutely loved this book. Very informative. A must have.

I loved this book. It is well outlined and well written. And it is very topical in today's business marketing world where small businesses can use YouTube to enhance their online marketing efforts significantly. The book has 16 chapters divided into the following five parts:

I. Marketing your business online with YouTube (1-3)
II. Producing Your YouTube Videos (4-8)
III. Managing Your YouTube Videos (9-11)
IV. Working with YouTube Video Blogs (12-13)
V. Promotion and Monetization (14-16)

And each Part is concluded with a "Profile" which applied what had been discussed in the chapters preceding it. I found these profiles very helpful and informative. Not too long ago I read and reviewed "Show Me: Marketing with Video on the Internet" (ISBN: 1884230016). I had high hopes for that book and wanted it to be like the instant book being reviewed. Unfortunately it fell short of my expectations. However, after reading "YouTube for Business" this other book might be a good companion read?

Internet marketing today seems to be about putting together successful ways to generate traffic to your company or nonprofit Web site. You can do this by performing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. You can do this by creating lots of content pages in your Web site. You can do this by writing articles and posting them on free article-posting sites online. Each article will have a by-line directing traffic back to your site. You can generate traffic by creating one (or more than one) blog which will direct traffic back to your site. And after reading this book you can generate traffic by creating simple videos you post on YouTube that will direct viewers back to your Web site.

The really neat thing about YouTube traffic generation is that it not only generates traffic, but it allows you to get your face and voice in front of people as though you were standing there talking with them. You can become three-dimensional rather than just two.

My favorite part of the book was Part II where the author goes into some depth into how to produce videos for posting on YouTube. And it is these same videos you will want to paste into your main Web site and your blog posts. I highly recommend this book for just about any small business owner who wants to make a name for themselves better and quicker. 5 stars!

PS. Take a look at the Search Inside material offered by Amazon so you can examine the Table of Contents of this book and more fully understand what this book has to offer.