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The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and other works, and many young people now identify with vampires in complex ways. Blood Read explores these transformations and shows how they reflect and illuminate ongoing changes in postmodern culture. It focuses on the metaphorical roles played by vampires in contemporary fiction and film, revealing what they can tell us about sexuality and power, power and alienation, attitudes toward illness, and the defi...
In Writing That Means Business, Ellen Roddick, draws on her WriteAssets(R) seminars for Fortune 500 companies to put the fundamentals of clear, concise, convincing business writing at your fingertips. This comprehensive guide will teach you how to: - Streamline reports and memos for maximum impact - Control your tone-when to be formal or friendly, humorous or diplomatic - Map your ideas before you write - Edit your own writing - And much more Whether you are on the way up or already at the top, Writing That Means Business shows you a sure-fire way to sharpen your competitive edge.
This workbook provides principals with the tools they need to put into practice the concepts outlined in Written Expression: the Principal's Survival Guide, a volume in Eye On Education's hardcover series, The School Leadership Library. The workbook expands the topics covered in the hardcover book and provides additional examples. On the diskette you will find many of the sample documents printed in both the hardcover book and this workbook. You may use these files as templates for your own writing tasks.
The A-to-Z guide to spotting and fixing usability problems Frustrated by pop-ups? Forms that make you start over if you miss a field? Nonsensical error messages? You're not alone! This book helps you simply get it right the first time (or fix what's broken). Boasting a full-color interior packed with design and layout examples, this book teaches you how to understand a user's needs, divulges techniques for exceeding a user's expectations, and provides a host of hard won advice for improving the overall quality of a user's experience. World-renowned UX guru Eric Reiss shares his knowledge from decades of experience making products useable for everyone...all in an engaging, easy-to-apply manne...
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