July 4, 2008

Reference Best Sellers

  1. How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email & Other Cool Tricks: Read and Answer Email Anywhere, Anytime on the Amazing Amazon Kindle (The Amazing Amazon Kindle)
    More than just an e-Book reader, the Amazon Kindle is a multi-purpose device that allows its owners to keep up with their email just about anywhere and anytime, without paying monthly connection fees. Author Steve Windwalker's article provides a user-friendly primer to walk you through the steps of optimizing email for the Kindle. This 2200-word article is an excerpt from Windwalker's forthcoming book, The Amazing Amazon Kindle. Windwalker is also the author of Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon Marketplace and Other Online Sites, the bible for Amazon Marketplace. He is the author-publisher of the Big Man Getting Smaller and indieKindle blogs.
  2. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
    What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this
    controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:

    “I race motorcycles in Europe.”
    “I ski in the Andes.”
    “I scuba dive in Panama.”
    “I dance tango in Buenos Aires.”

    He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life plan” and instead mastered the new currencies—time and mobility—to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now.

    Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:

    • How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want

    • How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs

    • How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist

    • How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements"

    • What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income

    • How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it’s beyond repair

    • What automated cash-flow “muses” are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks

    • How to cultivate selective ignorance—and create time—with a low-information diet

    • What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are

    • How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50–80% off

    • How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office

    You can have it all—really.
  3. The Official SAT Study Guide by The College Board
    In March 2005, the College Board began administering the new SAT. The Official SAT Study Guide is the only book that features new SAT practice tests created by the test maker. Its packed with the information students need to get ready for the exam. Theyll gain valuable experience by taking eight practice tests and receiving estimated scores. With nine hundred pages and twenty-four chapters, the book helps students raise their confidence by reviewing concepts, test-
  4. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

    What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface—a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character—and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.

    In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest; a shared meal may signify a communion; and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just rain. Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, How to Read Literature Like a Professor is the perfect companion for making your reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.

  5. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition by American Psychological Association
    ...a new and improved style manual for writers and students in psychology and other behavioral and social sciences... gives writers easy-to-use guidelines on how to prepare manuscripts according to APA style.
  6. The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition
  7. Kaplan GRE Exam 2009 Premier Program (w/ CD-ROM) (Kaplan Gre Exam (Book & CD-Rom))
    The Education Testing Service continues to make gradual changes to the content of the GRE. But with this unique multi-format preparation program, students will receive the most accurate, timely details on the GRE test change.

     

    With features such as updates and useful resources on test changes posted directly to your online syllabus, test takers can depend on Kaplan for the most complete and up-to-the-minute information.

     

    This customized study program includes:

     

    -- The latest information on the November 2007 updates, including samples of the two new question types with detailed answer explanations.

    -- Up-to-the-minute GRE updates online

    -- 5 full-length practice tests (1 in the book, 1 online, and 3 on CD-ROM) 

    -- Hundreds of additional practice questions

    -- Detailed answer explanations

    -- Interactive online study plan and progress report that adapts to your goals and schedule

    -- Diagnostic test to target areas for score improvement

    -- Kaplan-exclusive score-raising strategies

    -- Essential tactics for the computer-adaptive test (CAT) format

  8. Now, Discover Your Strengths by Donald O. Clifton,Marcus Buckingham

    Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected.

    Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the national bestseller First, Break All the Rules, and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center, have created a revolutionary program to help readers identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. At the heart of the book is the Internet-based StrengthsFinder® Profile, the product of a 25-year, multimillion-dollar effort to identify the most prevalent human strengths. The program introduces 34 dominant "themes" with thousands of possible combinations, and reveals how they can best be translated into personal and career success. In developing this program, Gallup has conducted psychological profiles with more than two million individuals to help readers learn how to focus and perfect these themes.

    So how does it work? This book contains a unique identification number that allows you access to the StrengthsFinder Profile on the Internet. This Web-based interview analyzes your instinctive reactions and immediately presents you with your five most powerful signature themes. Once you know which of the 34 themes -- such as Achiever, Activator, Empathy, Futuristic, or Strategic -- you lead with, the book will show you how to leverage them for powerful results at three levels: for your own development, for your success as a manager, and for the success of your organization.

    With accessible and profound insights on how to turn talents into strengths, and with the immediate on-line feedback of StrengthsFinder at its core, Now, Discover Your Strengths is one of the most groundbreaking and useful business books ever written.

  9. Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine (Pocket Notebook Series)
    Prepared by residents and attending physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, this pocket-sized looseleaf is one of the best-selling references for medical students, interns, and residents on the wards and candidates reviewing for internal medicine board exams. In bulleted lists, tables, and algorithms, Pocket Medicine provides key clinical information about common problems in cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, nephrology, hematology-oncology, infectious diseases, endocrinology, rheumatology, and neurology. The six-ring binder resembles the familiar "pocket brain" notebook that most students and interns carry and allows users to add notes. This Third Edition is fully updated, has tabs to help readers locate organ systems, and has more cross-referencing in the index. It also has pockets in the front and the back of the book to accommodate the reader's own notes.
  10. WHAT GOT YOU HERE WON'T GET YOU THERE: HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE BECOME EVEN MORE SUCCESSFUL
    America's most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladderThe corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. They're intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle -- and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference. These are small "transactional flaws" performed by one person against another (as simple as not saying thank you enough), which lead to negative perceptions that can hold any executive back. Using Goldsmith's straightforward, jargonfree advice, it's amazingly easy behavior to change.Executives who hire Goldsmith for one-on-one coaching pay $250,000 for the privilege. With this book, his help is available for 1/10,000th of the price.