Getting Behind the Resume: Interviewing Today's Candidates

Book Description

THEA (previously known at TASP) is an exam requirement for application to any Texas public college or university. This edition includes two full-length practice exams with detailed explanations modeled after the actual THEA test. The practice questions will help students to review all THEA skill areas and learn fundamental strategies for the Reading, Writing, and Math sections of the exam. Also included in this edition is a CD-Rom that enables test-takers to access additional practice exams on their computers and review hundreds of practice questions.

THEA w/ CD (REA) - The Best Test Prep for the Texas Higher Education Assessment (Test Preps)

Average customer rating:

THEA w/ CD (REA) - The Best Test Prep for the Texas Higher Education Assessment (Test Preps)
Ellen Davis Conner , J. Chadwick-Joshua , G. Parks , Robert Blake Truscott , and C. Wajngurt
Manufacturer: Research & Education Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Testing | Education | Reference | Subjects | Books

General | Test Prep Central | Reference | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0738600059

Book Description

Prepare yourself to master the THEA. REA's newly revised guide has all you need to pass this important Texas educator exam.

This brand new study guide for students provides a comprehensive review covering the THEA's key sections: math, reading, and writing. Contains 2 full-length practice exams with detailed answers as well as diagnostic sections that pinpoint the teaching applicant's weaker areas. Follow up your study with REA's test-taking strategies, powerhouse drills and study schedule that get you ready for test day.

REA's CD-ROM software offers 2 full-length, timed, computerized practice THEA exams that give you the closest thing to experiencing an exam live. For Windows

THEA (REA) - The Best Test Prep for the Texas Higher Education Assessment (Test Preps)

Average customer rating:

THEA (REA) - The Best Test Prep for the Texas Higher Education Assessment (Test Preps)
J. Chadwick-Joshua , Ellen Davis Conner , G. Parks , Robert Blake Truscott , and C. Wajngurt
Manufacturer: Research & Education Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Education | Reference | Subjects | Books

Testing | Education | Reference | Subjects | Books

General | Test Prep Central | Reference | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0738600377

Book Description

How to Prepare for the THEA: Texas Higher Education Assessment (Barron's How to Prepare for the Tasp Texas Academic Skills Program)

Average customer rating:

How to Prepare for the THEA: Texas Higher Education Assessment (Barron's How to Prepare for the Tasp Texas Academic Skills Program)
Sandra L., Ph.D. McCune , Nancy J., Ph.D. Wright , Janet, Ph.D. Elder , and Katherine, Ed.D. Gonnet
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Testing | Education | Reference | Subjects | Books

General | Test Prep Central | Reference | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0764128469

Book Description

Updated to reflect the most recent THEA tests (formerly known as TASP) this manual gives students preparation for the required entrance exam at all publicly administered colleges in Texas. A full-length diagnostic test with answer keys includes reading, math, and writing sections. It is followed with extensive subject reviews in all three test areas and one full-length practice THEA test similar to the actual exam in length, format, question types, and degree of difficulty. The test comes with answer keys and explanations.

THEA, The Official THEA Study Guide (Texas Higher Education Assessment)

Average customer rating:

GREAT study guide!

THEA, The Official THEA Study Guide (Texas Higher Education Assessment)
Inc National Evaluation Systems
Manufacturer: Hendrick-Long Publishing Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0890560226

Product Description

This study guide is produced by the company that makes the test that new students in Texas must take upon entering state colleges in Texas. It contains a detailed instructional chapter on each of the skills eligible for testing. Each chapter includes numerous examples and exercises in reading, mathematics, and writing. A full-length test is offered along with an answer key.

Customer Reviews:

GREAT study guide!.......2006-06-29

This is a great book to study in preparation for the THEA test! I used it primarily to brush up on my math skills, and it was very thorough, explaining concepts in detail with good examples. It used terms that were easy to understand, and I never felt lost. I highly recommend this guide!

Book Description

This pamphlet analyses how the aims of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and its provision for intellectual property rights (IPRs), interact with international trade rules, particularly in the issues of seeds and plant varieties.

Customer Reviews:

Hit and Miss.......2004-08-31

Steinberg worked in advertising at some point in his career. I'm in advertising myself, so I can relate. His book seems like something written by someone in advertising-pretty strong concept, and writing that makes it obvious the author thinks he's very funny. In this book, he lists, from A-Z, annoying things, each with a little essay on it. Like listening to anyone complain, it depends on the topic. For instance, I enjoyed the chapter "A is for Advetising," mostly because it's true. Likewise, I agreed with "D is for Disney" and "M is for McDonald's" and "O is for Oprah." I hate those things too, and it's fun to complain about them. But maybe 18 of the letters of the alphabet were either things I didn't care about one way or the other, or just not funny. But it's a good-looking book, a nice size for a bookshelf.

Marvelous writing; hilarious insights.......2003-08-27

Someone gave me this book as a birthday present, and I let it collect dust for several years because I hadn't heard of the author and the cover of the book had a straight-to-the-bargain-bins look about it. Well, shame on me, because this book is fabulous. The author is an extremely clever wordsmith, and his descriptions and analyses of various "modern annoyances" are laugh-out-loud funny, largely because they are so dead on. This book reminds me of SPY magazine (which I *loved*) and makes me want to read everything else the author has written (even the book about college pranks--a topic that holds absolutely no interest for me).

Entertain, scabrious look at modern life.......2000-09-03

Neil Steinberg is annoyed. Not irritated, bothered, vexed or harassed. He's angry, in the same fashion as Mark Twain, who wrote the following: "I don't ever seem to be in a good enough humor with anything to satirize it; no, I want to stand up before it & curse it, & foam at the mouth -- or take a club and pound it to rags & pulp."

Fortunately for his book, "The Alphabet of Modern Annoyances," Steinberg doesn't take a club to politicians, the workplace, victims, Disney and Elvis. What he does do is line them up, in alphabetic order, no less, and bash at each of them for a couple of pages -- short, measured doses of hilarity mixed with fact -- before moving on to the next target. In the court of law, Steinberg would be convicted of drive-by satirizing.

And yet, Steinberg indulges in the non-humorist's attribute of fairness. Almost all his essays have that quality of giving his target an even break. Although always disliking Disney in general ("Disneyland seems like hell to me, the Hieronymus Bosch "Garden of Earthly Delights" version, with weird creatures and tortured denizens scrabbling over each other trying to find a way out."), he's not satisfied with leaving it there. He forces himself to articulate his passionate hatred of all things Disneyfied: its blandness, its desire to take our basic cultural heritage and drain them of the things that make them interesting in the first place to make them most appealing to the widest possible audience.

Even that, to Steinberg, is not enough. "We live in a world of bland smarm. Disney is no worse than -- I don't know, "Hello Kitty," or "Polly Pocket," or "My Little Pony," or any of those warm fuzzies designed to pick the pockets of the young."

He even looks to the left-wing Disney critics, and finds them more abhorrent than the object of their criticism.

Finally, Steinberg zeroes in on the undercurrent of totalitarianism that underlies the Disney "experience." The theme parks have taken the idea behind mass entertainment -- the letting loose of strictures, the temporary rebellion against society's constraints, and perverted it into something that's more constrained, more limited than real-life. "The implication is that our society has decayed so much that people will fly to Florida and pay $33 to walk down a main street that isn't cluttered with crack vials and dozing junkies."

(Maybe, but another thought came to mind as I was writing this. Perhaps we live in a society where the mockery of cultural values has become an everyday occurrence, not something performed the week before Lent. We have corporate honchos who crow about the number of loyal employees they've axed, pop stars acting as poster children of sluttery, professional athletes caught with prostitutes and drugs and awarded with multi-million dollar contracts, and painters, sculptures, "performance artists" and architects to whom craftsmanship and beauty are as taboo to them as revealing how much you make in a year is to anyone else. Is it any wonder that people willingly shell out the bucks to experience a society that not only is rigidly controlled, but dedicated solely to entertaining the people who pay its bills?)

Steinberg's alphabet is a catalog of cultural misdeeds that's compulsive to read and to read out loud. By revealing Oprah as the smarm-queen she is, UFO buffs for the ill-educated louts they are, and invasive, insensitive TV journalists for the vultures they have become, Neil Steinberg has performed a public service that's as funny and it is true. After the fall of the American civilization, one hopes that his book will be found among the rubble to show that not everyone fell for the cultural bottom-line.

Not literature, and thank God.......1998-07-27

In the interests of full disclosure, let me say: A) I know the author; B) He did not ask me to do this. Mostly, I'm motivated by the completely idiotic Kirkus review -- of course the author doesn't offer serious solutions. It ceases to be funny and turns into a policy paper if you offer solutions. Steinberg's take on the post office in "B is for bureaucracy" is dead on, as is "O is for Oprah." What the Kirkus review claims is the one bright spot, the terza rima parody, is the singular unfunny chapter in this book. And as for going over familiar ground, no one that I've seen has gotten to the heart of Oprah as has Steingberg. This isn't literature, and thank God. It's a hilarious, often mean-spirited look at what annoys the hell out of the author, and it doesn't pretend to be anything else.

Mostly entertaining........1998-03-24

Some of what Steinberg writes about has already been done to death by the media ("Oprah" and "McDonalds") plus he is just plain wrong in at least one instance (while it is true that most adults who abuse their children were themselves abused, it is not true that all or even most of these adults inevitably go on to abuse their own children). I also disliked his double-standard with regard to fat: apparently it's okay as long as you are male and don't weigh more than Steinberg himself does. However, the book is certainly worth reading, the sections on "Advertising," "Bureaucracy," "Idiot," "Litter," "Quackery," "Traffic," "UFO's," "Yugoslavia," and "Zealots" are insightful, humorous, interesting and well-written. My favorite chapter, "Computers," is laugh-out-loud-funny in places, in particular the part on Socratic dialogue in AOL Lobby 35. It's a good book for an evening or for reading aloud during a car trip.

Product Description

Learning the Classic Guitar is a new direction in guitar instruction. Many ideas in these books break new ground. Part Two should go along with part one and it presents the elements of music and procedures for developing ability to sight-read and memorize. It also introduces the visualization concept.

Customer Reviews:

need teacher for this book to be helpful.......2007-09-30

Requires a teacher that is familiar with the book.
Definitely not a "teach yourself" manual

Loving the Classic Guitar.......2006-12-03

A well thought-out method of considerable value for the analytically-minded guitar student, or even for experienced guitarists.

There are three books in the method: Parts 1, 2, and 3.

Part 1 (shouldn't that be "Part One"?) is all about the mechanical aspects of guitar playing: How to hold the guitar, the best ways to place your hands and move your fingers, etc. (Many use the word "technique" to describe this aspect of musicianship, but I call it "mechanics." I got the idea from Vladimir Horowitz, who said that technique is something beyond mere mechanics. He said that "technique is the ability to get your point across." So, in Vlodya's world of music, it would be possible for a musician to have very inelegant mechanics, yet have a superb technique! Haven't we all heard such musicians?)

Part Two is the "workbook." It features lessons in the form of musical studies and original repertoire pieces, written in standard notation. Many of these are duets to be played with a teacher or a more advanced player. It also introduces the reader to the study of solfege.

Part Three discusses expressive playing and gives guidance on developing one's performance skills.

At the least, the three books comprise a valuable reference work for a serious guitarist or guitar student. There are other grand guitar methods in the world, of course -- Carlevaro's and Aguado's, just to name two -- but I can't think of any other that is as well-organized, as systematic (it progresses through thoughtfully designed stages), as comprehensive, and as coherent as Mr. Shearer's.

MEL BAY PRESENTS AARON SHEARER LEARNING THE CLASSIC GUITAR Part 2: Reading and Memorizing Music with Music Composed by Alan Hirsh

Average customer rating:

MEL BAY PRESENTS AARON SHEARER LEARNING THE CLASSIC GUITAR Part 2: Reading and Memorizing Music with Music Composed by Alan Hirsh
Tom; edited by Poore
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: B000JCJDI4

Book Description

Halloween, you'd not be surprised to know, is my favourite holiday. - J. K. Rowling. This startling book reveals the secret history of Halloween. Its findings are unexpected and occasionally controversial. Halloween was not the ""Celtic Festival of the Dead"" - far from the claims of druid sacrifice and blood rites, the feis of Samain was in fact marked by notorious revels of drinking and feasting. The dead were actually brought to 31st October by the later Christian festivals of All Saints and All Souls. Ancient monuments including British standing stone circles and pyramids in Egypt and South America were aligned to the rising of the star constellation of the Pleiades - at October's end. The most famous of the Scottish witch trials centered on an alleged plot to assassinate King James VI, hatched at a Halloween night witches sabbat. Irish and Scottish customs and superstitions travelled with emigration to America. Halloween rites described in an 18th century poem by Robert Burns survived into 20th century America and today's trick or treating is an evolution of Scots guising. Halloween has its origins in Scotland. The huge success of the Harry Potter novels has coincided with the unprecedented rise in Halloween's popularity and the mainstream acceptance of modern witchcraft. All three have been attacked by the Fundamentalist Religious Right, which seeks to have them banned from American schools and communities.

Product Description

If you want to try your luck at the casino, but are intimidated by the croupiers and the game plans of seasoned players, this book is for you. Step-by-step explanations of the rules, procedures and options of play for all the games, as well as detailed information on winning chances, house advantages, and payout odds will have you placing bets with confidence in no time. Contains detailed playing instructions, strategic tips and hints, definitions of casino speak, and guidelines on money management. An excellent resource for playing: Baccara, Blackjack, Craps, Poker, Punto Banco, Roulette, and slots.

Average customer rating:

it explains the games greatly

Winning Casino Play
Avery Cardoza
Manufacturer: Cardoza Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

General | Sports | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0940685477

Customer Reviews:

it explains the games greatly.......2006-02-23

the book is very good at explaining the games in laymans terms and very simply. for video poker, let it ride and carriebean stud it gave great playing advice. now as long as luck is with you.....

Average customer rating:

Winning Casino Play

Manufacturer: CARDOZA PUBLISHING U
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GTFZQO

Book Description

Here's the book you need to prepare for the seven MOUS exams employers are demanding the most--Word 2002 Core, Word 2002 Expert, Excel 2002 Core, Excel 2002 Expert, PowerPoint 2002 Core, Outlook 2002 Core, and Access 2002 Core.
* In-depth coverage of official exam objectives
* Clear explanations of complex Office tasks
* Practical examples and detailed instructions
Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including:
Word Core and Expert
Inserting and Modifying Text
Creating and Modifying Paragraphs and Tables
Formatting and Managing Documents
Creating and Modifying Graphics
Using Mail Merge
Excel Core and Expert
Working with Cells and Cell Data
Managing and Modifying Workbooks
Creating and Revising Formulas
Importing and Exporting Data
Analyzing and Summarizing Data
PowerPoint Core
Creating and Modifying a Presentation
Inserting and Modifying Text and Visual Elements
Working with Data from Other Sources
Managing and Delivering Presentations
Workgroup Collaboration
Access Core
Creating and Using Databases and Tables
Creating and Modifying Queries
Creating and Modifying Forms
Defining Relationships
Producing Reports
Outlook Core
Creating and Viewing Messages
Scheduling
Managing Messages
Creating and Managing Contacts, Tasks, and Notes

Customer Reviews:

I passed all my exams using this book!.......2003-08-03

This book is not intended to be a general reference and it says so right at the beginning. Its purpose is to prepare people to take the MOUS (now MOS) exams and it does just exactly that. I used this book to take my Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access exams and passed them all! The explanations in this book were clear and to the point. The exercises really helped focus on the things I needed to learn and provided a context for why I would want to use the features in the first place. I highly recommend this book if you want to be sucessful in your exams.

Where's Notepad?.......2003-06-01

Normally, I'm a big fan of Annette Marquis and her exuberant and vivacious writing style when it comes to learning about MOS. To say that I was a little shocked at the blatant omission of Notepad would be an understatement. I teach a bevy of technical skills that no doubt prepare my students for "the real world," if you will. First and foremost among them, you guessed it, is Notepad.

I know it may seem easy to some of you(and especially me), but to my youngsters, I ahere to the adage "You can't walk before you run." I guess what I'm trying to say here is that Notepad is a great starting block to build an impressive foundation that leads to the pinnacle of MOS Mastery(it's MOS not MOUS now, so wake up Annette). When I spilled cheese whiz on the part about using bold and italics in conjunction in Word, I was so [mad]. But, I guess I can remember how to do it o.k. now, I think.

I found this book to help for teaching and work........2002-10-28

As an instructor of desktop applications such as Microsoft Office, I need to be able to answer question from students outside the realm of the classroom manual. Trying to keep up on the changes can sometime be very difficult to manage, that's why this book is so important to my everyday job.

The book is covering Word 2002 Core & expert, Excel 2002 Core & expert, PowerPoint 2002, Outlook 2002 and Access 2002 core only and throughout the 900 plus pages there is more information on each topic, showing me things that I never knew or easier ways to do things I already know.

Packed with over 350 exercises, I found out ways cut time, increase productivity and most importantly enhance both my work environment as well as the classroom. While I am not planning to take any exams in the near future, I wouldn't rule it out for next year.

The book is laid out objective by objective based on the exam, and the authors have certainly made very effort to make the learning process easy to follow while providing good detail in the infromation presented.

Overall some of the more advanced user may find very little addtional information, however for those with beginner to intermendiate skills this is certinaly a very good manual to have around.

Lots of dribble.......2002-10-25

This book talks a great deal about simple stuff that you should already know. I'd like a book that focused on the more advanced features that a prepared person may wish to review before an exam. Additionally, the book is boring.

Not good enough.......2002-09-16

This book addresses only the exam objectives for the MOUS certifications. So far so good, it doesn't purport doing anything else. Unfortunately, it is written in a step by step technique that has you do loads of simple things that has nothing to do with the objective under discussion. Of course it is easy enough to read over these steps without performing the tasks, but the real nuggets of knowledge are buried somewhere in the ramble. In short, it wastes your time on tesks that should be second nature to you if you're buying this type of book (yet it isn't robust enough to serve as a step by step).

I lost faith in the author when she wrote: "Interestingly, when we inserted this new movie clip, PowerPoint resized the existing text. Just click Undo if you have this same problem. The text returns to its original size and the clip is placed in the middle of the slide.". "...this same problem."?? This is an AutoCorrect feature! Either she does not know this or she is "talking down" to the reader.. bad either way.

Additionally, this book covers most of the objectives, but not all in enough detail so that you'd sail through the exam without a hitch. (I have written the PowerPoint exam before and failed, through no fault of mine - half the features weren't installed (Grrrr, some ATCs!), so I can remember some of the questions asked.

Unfortunately I don't have another text to recommend, this is the first one I've tried. Good luck with the exams!

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books