Exploring Advanced Microsoft Office Access and Excel 2003 (Grauer Exploring Office 2003 Series)

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For Introductory Computer courses in Microsoft Office 2003 or courses in Computer Concepts with a lab component for Microsoft Office 2003 applications.

Master the How and Why of Office 2003! Students master the "How and Why" of performing tasks in Office and gain a greater understanding of how to use the individual applications together to solve business problems.

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Too many errors in an otherwise good book.......2007-07-13

I had to purchase this book for an on-line class that (unknown to me) expected the students to have a certain level of familiarity and experience with both Microsoft Access and Excel. I have some with Excel, but little with Access. I still managed to grasp what we were learning all right, but no thanks to the book.

The parts that are discussing the programs are well written and the included exercises appear to be well planned out step-by-step guides.

However, once you start doing the exercises, you run into major problems. All during the first chapter (on Excel) I kept finding that commands did not make sense and did not work the way they were supposed to. You are directed to the wrong cell, wrong row, or wrong figure for an example. Some figures that show what you should see in your work have the wrong information.

Luckily, in Chapter 2 (Access, which I am less familiar with than Excel), There aren't quite as many errors, but by that time I was wary of everything.

Continuing on, the errors are not as prevalent as in Chapter 1, but they keep sneaking up on you. Chapter 6 (as far as I am now) has some real doozies. In one long line of a financial formula, the book has a period where there is supposed to be a comma.

All in all, I would say that the errors in the book, and trying to work my way around them without the benefit of being in a classroom with a teacher that can help right away, has added anywhere from 25% to 50% more time onto going through the lessons. The instructor even had to change the due dates on the assignments because of all the errors.

One good thing is that, due to having to spend so much time examining the code and the structure of the lessons, I think I have learned the lessons better than if I just had to follow along the steps without really understanding what I was doing.

All in all, if the publisher does a better job of proofreading and corrects all the technical errors, this would make a good book to use. Since the on-line class is almost completely on your own with little input from the instructor, a step-by-step book like this would be one of the best you could use.

I tried going to the publisher's website to find a list of corrections, but was unsuccessful.

This book has a copyright of 2006 and no edition number associated.

Exploring Advanced Microsoft Office Access and Excel 2003

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Exploring Advanced Microsoft Office Access and Excel 2003
Philip A. Koneman
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIH6KU

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Planning, operating, and policy making in the electric utility and natural gas sectors involves important trade-offs among economic, social, and environmental criteria. These trade-offs figure prominently in ongoing debates about how to meet growing energy demands and how to restructure the world's power industry. Energy Decisions and the Environment: A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria Methods reviews practical tools for multicriteria (also called multiobjective) decision analysis that can be used to quantify trade-offs and contribute to more consistent, informed, and transparent decision making. These methods are designed to generate and effectively communicate information about trade-offs; to help people form, articulate, and apply value judgments in decision making; and to promote effective negotiation among stakeholders with competing interests. Energy Decisions and the Environment: A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria Methods includes explanations of a wide range of methods, tutorial applications that readers can duplicate, a detailed review of energy-environment applications, and three in-depth case studies.

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Understanding tensile fracture in rocks provides an important key for the interpretation of many problems in structural geology. This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to tensile fracture in rocks (faulting is briefly addressed), starting with an introduction to fracture physics and progressing through tectonofractographic features, characterized both in experimental settings and in geological outcrops. Four examples of sedimentary rocks and two of granites have been chosen to demonstrate the principles and problems in fracture geology. Principles of fracture mechanics and rock mechanics are applied throughout the book, which also explores current understanding about electromagnetic radiation induced by fractures and how such radiation can be used to monitor and predict earthquakes and hazardous collapses in mines. The monograph serves not only as a manual on how to handle specific problems and their solutions in fractual geology but also as a starting point for researchers and graduate students interested in the field of rock fracturing.

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Introduction to Random Chaos contains a wealth of information on this significant area, rooted in hypercontraction and harmonic analysis. Random chaos statistics extend the classical concept of empirical mean and variance. By focusing on the three models of Rademacher, Poisson, and Wiener chaos, this book shows how an iteration of a simple random principle leads to a nonlinear probability model- unifying seemingly separate types of chaos into a network of theorems, procedures, and applications. The concepts and techniques connect diverse areas of probability, algebra, and analysis and enhance numerous links between many fields of science. Introduction to Random Chaos serves researchers and graduate students in probability, analysis, statistics, physics, and applicable areas of science and technology.

Introduction to Random Time and Quantum Randomness (Monographs of the Portuguese Mathematical Society, V. 1)

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Introduction to Random Time and Quantum Randomness (Monographs of the Portuguese Mathematical Society, V. 1)
Kai Lai Chung , and Jean-Claude Zambrini
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9812384154

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This book is made up of two essays on the role of time in probability and quantum physics. In the first one, K L Chung explains why, in his view, probability theory starts where random time appears. This idea is illustrated in various probability schemes and the deep impact of those random times on the theory of the stochastic process is shown.

In the second essay J-C Zambrini shows why quantum physics is not a regular probabilistic theory, but also why stochastic analysis provides new tools for analyzing further the meaning of Feynman's path integral approach and a number of foundational issues of quantum physics far beyond what is generally considered. The role of the time parameter, in this theory, is critically re-examined and a fresh way to approach the long-standing problem of the quantum time observable is suggested.

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A great modern Pride and Prejudice

She's No Jane Austen...

Very fun twists on a favorite classic

Liked it, really wanted to love it

great read!

Jane Austen in Boca: A Novel
Paula Marantz Cohen
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Binding: Paperback

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Vanity and Vexation: A Novel of Pride and Prejudice

Seven Blessings: A Novel

ASIN: 0312319754

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a nice Jewish widower must be in want of a wife. Eligible men may be scarce in Boca, but that doesn't stop Carol Newman from plotting to marry off wealthy Norman Grafstein to her lonely mother-in-law, May. Even May's sharp-tongued friend Flo approves of Norman-though Norman's best friend Stan, a cynical professor, keeps getting under Flo's skin. Misunderstandings abound until love conquers both pride and prejudice in this perceptive, engaging comedy of manners.

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A great modern Pride and Prejudice.......2007-08-05

Cohen uses the Pride and Prejudice story in a Florida retirement community. It works well because of the closed society nature of that community. She remains faithful to Austen without carrying it to extremes. A delightful read.

She's No Jane Austen..........2007-05-12

I have no problem putting a book down I'm not enjoying. The only reason I didn't put this one down was because I spent the day in doctors' waiting rooms with the choice of this and "You And Your Thyroid" pamphlets.

I LOVE Jane Austen. You know and relate to and feel for the characters. You meet people in her books you know you've met before in real life and you laugh at the comparisons. You're drawn in.

Jane Austen in Boca on the other hand was filled with the most unlikeable and most cardboard-like characters I've ever "met" in one book. There wasn't even one that I remotely liked or cared what happened to. Carol was unsufferable (not delightfully ditzy like Mrs. Bennett); Flo was obnoxious and rude (not clever and insightful like Elizabeth); May was a completely boring little mouse (not gentle and loveable like Jane); Hy was supposed to be annoying because we're told he was (as opposed to the delightful absurdities we witnessed and enjoyed with Mr. Collins), Stan was absolutely flat and uninteresting even after the "change" (so totally unlike Mr. Darcy), etc., etc., etc.

And then the ending. Was there a page limit imposed by the publisher?

Silly book. The only reason I gave it two stars was because I managed to finish it. It won't get a place on my bookshelf though. I'll donate it to the local library because it's harmless and there seems to be plenty of people who apparently enjoy this kind of book.

Very fun twists on a favorite classic.......2007-02-01

What happens when you take the plot of Pride and Prejudice and plop it into a senior retirement community in Boca Raton, largely populated by jewish snowbirds from New York and New Jersey?

Lots of fun. I had read another book by this author, but when I realized this was about seniors, I was initially hesitant. I just didn't think the romance angst would work when played against seniors. Wow, was I wrong.

Could Darcy and Bingley possibly have been more sought after than two widowers in good physical shape, financially secure and with their own teeth? Very funny, very witty. Good characterizations all round and a wild and fun romp.

Conclusion occurs very quickly - my only plot complaint. All in all I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it as an exceptionally well-written, fun, modern Jane Austen-like romp through the senior set.

Liked it, really wanted to love it.......2006-07-19

A nice, friendly, cozy reworking of my beloved "Pride and Prejudice". I really wanted to love this book, and I almost did. This is a fun book, until the end. The end just feels so rushed, it's almost like the author just gave up. Another couple of chapters maybe and I would have loved it. Still, a good book - lots of fun, and worth the read.

great read!.......2006-04-19

When I saw this book in a bookstore on a business trip, the cover put me off, but i needed a book for the plane home and gave it a try and am very glad I did. it's a pitch perfect adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, set in a jewish retirement community in boca raton, florida --brilliant! the opening chapter sets the theme and comic tone, and by the end the emotion and drama are like being in a parallel universe with elizabeth and darcy---but with jewish senior citizens in modern day florida. i also enjoyed cohen's "jessie kaplan and the dark lady", although it wasn't quite as good as "boca". am looking forward to reading her "jane austen in scarsdale". For another modern-day adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, "This Side of Married" by Rachel Pastan, set in Philadelphia, is also quite good, although not as funny as "boca".

Jane Austen now through the lens of Boca Festa.(Miscellany)(use of the world of Jane Austen in modern novels): An article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal

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Jane Austen now through the lens of Boca Festa.(Miscellany)(use of the world of Jane Austen in modern novels): An article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
Cecilia Salber
Manufacturer: Jane Austen Society of North America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, published by Jane Austen Society of North America on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3538 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Jane Austen now through the lens of Boca Festa.(Miscellany)(use of the world of Jane Austen in modern novels)
Author: Cecilia Salber
Publication: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: Jane Austen Society of North America
Volume: 25 Page: 121(8)

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