Quicken99 for Busy People

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This fast-paced book takes you on a whirlwind tour of Quicken 99 software, showing you how to perform the main tasks that Quicken users need to know. While its colorful format is welcoming to new users, the book does not supply a screen shot for every step; users who have a bit of familiarity with the interface may have better success than complete novices.

The book begins by showing you how to set up an account and record transactions within it. Once you are comfortable with the basics, Quicken 99 for Busy People tells you how to categorize transactions and customize some of the features within your account. The middle chapters of the book instruct you on how to reconcile your accounts, write and print checks, and take advantage of the timesaving online options that Quicken offers for paying bills and following accounts. In addition, you will learn how to set reminders, run reports, track loans and assets, perform household budgeting, manage investment activity, and estimate your taxes.

This guide draws attention to expert advice, timesaving tips, cautions, and word definitions. Color screen shots and illustrations make the examples easy to see, but savvy users may find the cartoon-like drawings to be condescending. --Cristina Vaamonde

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Keep track of your finances--bank and credit accounts, loans, investments, mortgages, and more--all from your own computer. Quicken 99 for Busy People shows you how to use the leading personal finance software to make the most of your money without spending lots of time. You'll find out how to access up-to-the-minute transaction records from your accounts, track your investment portfolio, and get the latest news on companies and financial markets. Even tax season is easier when you use Quicken to plan your income taxes. Writing checks and licking envelopes will be things of the past once you're managing your finances electronically with help from Quicken 99 for Busy People.

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This book actually makes personal finance fun to read about........1998-12-12

Finally--Quicken explained in plain English! I'd tried using some of the other books, but this was the first one to make sense to me. It was easy to understand, fun, and it actually did help me get my finances in order.

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A Solid Effort!

More than just GAMES!

A bit deceiving...

A wonder of a book about the wonders of Improv!

Become More Brilliant in Business with Improvisation, Inc!

Improvisation, Inc.: Harnessing Spontaneity to Engage People and Groups
Robert Lowe
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Quick . . . Think fast!

Performers have been doing it for centuries. Now for the first time, Robert Lowe, a pioneer in the field of improvisation, hands you the techniques you need to think on your feet and apply these techniques in your workplace or classroom.

This book gives you:
* The same techniques that improvisational actors use to increase their confidence
* A method of using humor to establish a strong rapport with your audience, students, or participants
* An effective way of using body language and voice for greater clarity and impact
* Scores of field-tested worksheets, checklists, and group activities to help you incorporate improvisational thinking and speaking into your own presentation style

The business world may be changing at breakneck speed, but this ancient form of theatre is as appealing as ever. Buy this book and put improvisation to work for you today!

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A Solid Effort!.......2001-03-30

Robert Lowe provides a hands-on guide to using the techniques of improvisational theater to increase spontaneity and creativity in the workplace. He shows how to use these "improv" techniques to improve communication, break down bureaucracy and help people in your organization express their talents. He includes many examples, including guided visualizations, fill-in questions and exercises, along with personal stories and accounts from his workshops. While some of the tips on creativity and visualization will sound familiar to those who know self-help literature, Lowe's background in theater and improv makes his approach fresh. We [...] recommend this book as a useful guide for top managers and for anyone leading or working with a group or team. Here's why the show must go on.

More than just GAMES!.......2000-12-28

I read this book from cover to back, constantly discovering wonderful new things that as an exeperienced improv performer, never quite knew or understood. Mr. Lowe does a splendid job at presenting "easy-to-read" metaphors on how the art of improv can benefit the small to the very large corporation. I would highly recommend this book to not just the savvy CEO but to the SAVVY improv performer who wishes to break out of the stage arena and right into the corporate training world.

Hold on to your seat, Lowe doesn't just present old Spolin games, he defines their use in our technological highly-communication-based era.

A bit deceiving..........2000-10-26

I purchased this book and hungrily read it cover to cover. I had looked at the reviews and was expecting a book that would transfer the skills of improvisation to a corporate environment. The book is well written, but does not deliver on its promise. It spends way to much time rambling on about sizes of groups and spiritual references. Of the 263 pages, about 10 are relevant to corporate trainers, and improvisation techniques that are appropriate in business. Disappointing.

A wonder of a book about the wonders of Improv!.......2000-10-24

Robert Lowe has written a wonder of a book! He has expertly and creatively transferred his wellspring of Improv knowledge to the written page in a smart and cohesive manner. Not only is this unique and timely book a must for professionals such as actors, public speakers, educators and managers, it is also a book for the layman who seeks to improve their communication skills. This is a book for everyone! Read it and see what I mean!

Linda Himes Guyan

Become More Brilliant in Business with Improvisation, Inc!.......2000-08-28

This book deserves more than five stars!

Robert Lowe is America's leading improvisation teacher for executives and managers. He captures the best of his years of experience in this fascinating book filled with exciting exercises to help you better tap into your inner resources.

Most people associate improvisation with comedy clubs and speech tournaments in school. What has this got to do with business, you ask?

Improvisation is a remarkable way to communicate because it creates more authentic messages and delivery of those messages. It is as though the person is speaking from the innermost soul. Compare that to reciting a prepared speech or script that you don't really believe in or understand.

Those who have studied communication know that body movements and tone of voice have more impact on the hearer than the words that are spoken. With improvisation, those movements and tones are much more powerful and authentic. In a sense, your subconscious ends up speaking directly to the other person's subconscious. In improvisation, your subconscious loosens up to emerge with ways to act on subtle clues about your audience that you are not even consciously aware of.

Comics often use improvisation to develop the basis of routines that they polish into slick, prepared comedy. In doing so, they are using the creativity-enhancing aspects of improvisation The most confident humorists rely only on improvisation for their comedy.

Experience with improvisation can also help you and your team to have better ideas supported with both more confidence and more flexibility when you are communicating in an important situation.

Robert Lowe's book here is especially valuable because it also helps you assist your colleagues to improve their improvisational skills as well. The wide variety of exercises in the book is very valuable because some of them are bound to feel very comfortable for anyone. But be sure to try the ones that initially feel uncomfortable. Often, those are the ones that work best once you let go of your conscious mind. Those are also the ones that make you stronger and more capable in less time.

Another benefit of improvisation is that we all learn best when we are playing. And improvisation is wonderful fun! Why do I say that? Because I have used improvisation training myself, and found it helpful to me in many business situations. At the end of every exercise I have ever done, I was having a ball. Further, I found that I am more comfortable with myself after have worked on these important skills.

I first developed an interest in this subject when I observed that many of the most talented members of our consulting firm's staff had acting training. These capable people noticed more about those they were communicating with, and had more ways to be effective in getting their points across. So for years, learning these skills has been part of our staff improvement process. From those experiences, I found that improvisation training was the best method to use.

A major strength of this book is that Robert Lowe genuinely likes people and enjoys working with them. You will find a warm supportive style behind everything here that will encourage you and others to make rapid progress.

But don't just read this superb book. Also, try out all of his recommendations so you can feel the power of this wonderful creativity-enhancing communications method!

Overcome your stalled thinking that only traditional ways to learn can make you and your organization more effective!

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Clear and easy-to-understand

Overcoming Hypertension (Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper's Preventive Medicine Program)
Kenneth H. Cooper
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Like a time bomb ticking away, hypertension  builds quietly, gradually, placing unbearable strain on  the body until it explodes--in heart attack,  stroke, kidney failure, arterial disease, even death.  But the disease does not have to progress that  way. Here, in the third volume of the highly  acclaimed Preventive Medicine Program,  Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, one of the nations foremost  experts in the field of preventive medicine,  presents a medically sound, reassuringly simple program  that help you lower you blood pressure--and keep  it down, often without drugs. Overcoming  Hypertension gives  you:

--The latest facts on how cholesterol, cigarette  smoking, obesity, and stress affect coronary risk  levels.

--Your high blood pressure  risk profile, with newly devised charts for men  and women.

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--Three distinct dietary programs, complete with  menus, recipes, nutritional charts, healthy cooking  tips, and much more.

--Take  charge of your health and well-being with  Overcoming  Hypertension.

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Clear and easy-to-understand.......2005-08-21

Like millions of American men, I have been diagnosed with hypertension--high blood pressure. Well, I'm not one to take things lying down, so I set out to find a good book on the subject, and this is the book that I found. Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper is one of America's leading experts on preventative medicine, and this book is an absolute wonder!

Dr. Cooper begins the book by explaining what hypertension is and how it works, explaining everything about high blood pressure, including what the measurements (systolic and diastolic) actually mean. After that, he explains how the condition is treated, and what steps you can take, including exercise and diet.

Overall, I found this to be a great book. The author has an excellent way of unfolding the subject in a clear and easy-to-understand manner. I now understand so much more that I did just from talking to my doctor. So, let me just say that I love this book, and highly recommend it to anyone and EVERYONE who has been diagnosed with hypertension. This is the book to get!

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The Probable Infinity Of Nature And Life
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The probable infinity of nature and life;: Three essays (Studies in science)
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The Probable Infinity of Nature and Life Three Essays
William Emerson Ritter
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This is the most comprehensive anthology of Søren Kierkegaard's works ever assembled in English. Drawn from the volumes of Princeton's authoritative Kierkegaard's Writings series by editors Howard and Edna Hong, the selections represent every major aspect of Kierkegaard's extraordinary career. They reveal the powerful mix of philosophy, psychology, theology, and literary criticism that made Kierkegaard one of the most compelling writers of the nineteenth century and a shaping force in the twentieth. With an introduction to Kierkegaard's writings as a whole and explanatory notes for each selection, this is the essential one-volume guide to a thinker who changed the course of modern intellectual history.

The anthology begins with Kierkegaard's early journal entries and traces the development of his work chronologically to the final The Changelessness of God. The book presents generous selections from all of Kierkegaard's landmark works, including Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Works of Love, and The Sickness unto Death, and draws new attention to a host of such lesser-known writings as Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions and The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air. The selections are carefully chosen to reflect the unique character of Kierkegaard's work, with its shifting pseudonyms, its complex dialogues, and its potent combination of irony, satire, sermon, polemic, humor, and fiction. We see the esthetic, ethical, and ethical-religious ways of life initially presented as dialogue in two parallel series of pseudonymous and signed works and later in the "second authorship" as direct address. And we see the themes that bind the whole together, in particular Kierkegaard's overarching concern with, in his own words, "What it means to exist; . . . what it means to be a human being."

Together, the selections provide the best available introduction to Kierkegaard's writings and show more completely than any other book why his work, in all its creativity, variety, and power, continues to speak so directly today to so many readers around the world.

Customer Reviews:

May the laughter by on your side.......2003-10-03

With a dizzying series of pseudonyms, from Climaticus to Anticlimaticus, this book selects from the Hong's expansive translation of all of Kierkegaard's writings. The introductions place each piece in context, but don't over interpret as some other books. Reading from the complete work presents a view of Kierkegaard's total plan ("The Authorship") and his voices of the religious, esthetic, and ethical. In light of the whole body, "Concluding Unscientific postscript" seems to have a pivotal role. Existentialists may like to claim him as he speaks of the individual about despair, fear and trembling, and anxiety, but make no mistake his work is to be a Christian (" Once and for all I must urgently request the kindly disposed reader continually to bear in mente [in mind] that the total thought in the entire work as an author is this" becoming a Christian"). He is a self appointed critic of the established church and the inclusion of the lesser known "The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air' shows the religious side. Present are all of Kierkegaard's "Knights": the Knight of Faith, the Knight of Infinite Resignation, and the Knight of Hidden Awareness. Humor and irony abound. Come leap in, and have a good read!

haven't read this particular edition of Kierkegard.......2002-01-17

nevertheleee... introduced to man as on of
the four main existentialist.., nietsche,
camus sartre... maybe fifth antoine de
st. exupery's flight to arras

however.. suffice to comment.. kierkegard
is mellow man

the triumvirate brace of christianic
philosophy is soren kierkegard, and
the psychologists, bruto bettleheim,
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"Best of Soren Kierkegaard".......2001-10-22

I am of Danish descent, so I is nice to hear from the motherland. However, I am not of K's tradition, so this is an outsider's look at Mr. K's philosophy.

I am quite impressed with what Mr. K has to say. It took me a while to get into his style of speaking and writing, but one I picked up his dialect, I was awestruck! Sometimes titles not only grab you, but mesmerize you. His essay "Sickness unto Death," which I had heard of in passing, was one of these titles that I just could not get out of my head.

The advantage of this compilation is that it is done by the General Editors of the "Collected Works of S. K.," so the translation, pagination and diction are all the same in the individual books and this small hors d'oeuvre plate. Having used various translations of Machiaveli, or different editions of Plato, it is nice to have one standard translation.

I recommend book as a being like a "Best of Kierkegaard," much like a "Best of" CD from an unknown band. You get the good stuff, eliminate all the filler material, and can buy the individual books if you so choose.

As I said, I am not of K's faith, but I appreciate his faithfulness in search for truth!

Excellent Anthology.......2001-07-02

A wonderful, chronologically arranged anthology from the immensely prodigious output of Soren Kierkegaard, complete with excellent introductory notes.

My only criticism? The typography is a bit dense, and in particular the font size for the running text is small. I would appeal to the publisher to reformat this book using a larger text size (e.g., 10 point) -- even at the expense of adding additional pages to the overall book size.

The Master of Irony.......2001-05-12

Søren Kierkegaard is undoubtedly the comedian's philosopher. And his humor is fundamentally reassuring - hilarious, even biting, but never bitter or nihilistic. He is one of the major influences on the films and writings of Woody Allen. Often Kierkegaard is rumored to be bleak, hopeless and terrifying. There are elements of despair, yes, but I've always found him good for a laugh even at his darkest. His humor is similar to Woody Allen's in that it is simultaneously cathartic, sobering and very funny. I flip around this excellent anthology and re-read passages in my spare time for encouragement.

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This book, a selection from the writings of the great existentialists, illustrates the vast range and depth of existential thinking. It includes selected pieces by eight prominent existentialists: Sören Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Edited and with an Introduction by H. J. Blackham.

The Essential Kierkegaard.(Review) (book review): An article from: Scandinavian Studies

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The Essential Kierkegaard.(Review) (book review): An article from: Scandinavian Studies
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Title: The Essential Kierkegaard.(Review) (book review)
Author: Jason Francis
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Date: September 22, 2000
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Essential Kierkegaard.
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