Authors:Marcia Press, Barry Press,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: bible, repair, upgrade
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2004-05-07
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0764557319
ISBN-13: 9780764557316

* Updated and revised with eighty percent new material, this book is 100 percent of what readers need to upgrade, fix, or troubleshoot PCs * Sixty-five percent of U.S. households own a PC; this book caters to the do-it-yourselfers in these households, both novices and tech hobbyists alike, who are looking for an approachable reference * A one-stop reference for topics such as video, CD, and DVD; multimedia; storage; communications (network and Internet); peripherals; and integrating with laptops and handhelds * Concludes with a step-by-step tutorial on building an "extreme" machine that can ha

Authors:Barry Press, Marcia Press,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: home, extremetech, projects, hacking, house, hardware, geek
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-05-06
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0764579568
ISBN-13: 9780764579561

Authors:Professor Marcia J. Citron, Marcia J. Citron,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: screen, opera
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-05
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0300081588
ISBN-13: 9780300081589

What happens to opera when it’s presented on the screen? How does an opera change when it becomes a movie, a television presentation, or a video? This book is the first to explore opera and its treatment on the screen from a musicologist’s perspective. Marcia Citron provides a fascinating history of the nearly 100-year-old genre, examines landmark works of opera on screen from a variety of viewpoints, and shows how different electronic media shape the conception of this art form. The book begins with a comprehensive survey of the origins and development of screen opera. Citron then

Authors:Editors of Phaidon Press, Phaidon Press Inc.,
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Keywords: architecture, travel, world, contemporary, atlas, phaidon
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-03
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0714844500
ISBN-13: 9780714844503

The Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, Travel Edition presents all of the best works of architecture completed in the last five years in an ultra-convenient mini-format, perfect for the holiday or business traveller. Each of the 1,052 projects from the comprehensive edition are included with a single image per building and a short text to help the traveller recognise it. The project entry gives the name of each building and its architect, the location, and the address, if visitable, as well as the telephone number, where appropriate. There is also a system to indicate which projects are

Author: Marcia L. Conner
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: smarter, faster, learning, steps, simple, learn
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-02-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0471273902
ISBN-13: 9780471273905

How everyone can maximize his or her learning potentialWho doesn’t want to have the ability to learn more? In this revolutionary book, Marcia Conner distills her renowned learning solutions into an easy-to-use ten-step program that can help readers overcome information overload, absorb facts on the fly, and get things done faster. Filled with interactive sections, sidebars, and self-assessment quizzes, Learn More Now reveals how to listen to and trust one’s body, engage emotions, and make connections that will help readers learn more not just through study, but through experience,

Author: Marcia Moore
Publisher: Para Research
Keywords: world, bright, journeys
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1978
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0914918125
ISBN-13: 9780914918127

Author: Marcia Angell
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: deceive, companies, drug, truth
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-08-24
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0375508465
ISBN-13: 9780375508462

Many Americans have wondered why prescription drugs have become so expensive while advertising for those drugs seems to grow exponentially. Former New England Journal of Medicine Editor Marcia Angell has some answers. The pharmaceutical industry, according to Angell, is fraught with corruption and doing a disservice to customers, the federal government, and to the medical establishment itself. In The Truth About the Drug Companies, Angell explains how a huge portion of the revenue generated by "Big Pharma" goes not into research and development but into aggressive marketing campaigns to sell t