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Shop Online: The Lazy Way (Macmillan Lifestyles Guide)

Seltzer, Richard

Business & Money

MacMillan Distribution

Amazon.com Review During its time on the Web, the AltaVista search engine has undergone several revisions and continues to evolve. Though it faces competition from a number of worthy competitors, it's fair to say that AltaVista ranks as the most feature-rich general-purpose Web search tool. This book helps you get the most out of AltaVista's power, using tables and examples to show you how to get what you need.The authors first explain how to do basic searches, then move on to more advanced searches with Boolean operators and AltaVista's special parameters. Chapters detail how to do such things as search Usenet newsgroups and how to translate hits into other languages. If, for instance, you want to limit a search to Australian pages, this guide details the procedure. A lengthy alphabetical chapter lists searches for particular targets and, in doing so, illustrates some unusual search strategies.Those who publish their own Web sites will appreciate the chapter that reveals how AltaVista ranks the sites it indexes. Many of the engine's ranking algorithms are secret (and remain so), but many others are public and receive satisfactory coverage. An entertaining appendix lists the words most frequently used in Web pages (the is the big winner) and an Excite-like list of the most searched-for words (though apparently with the raunchiness edited out). --David Wall Product Description The only book available with an exclusive AltaVista focus, this definitive handbook helps readers learn how to conduct the most precise or expanded searches possible without getting overloaded, and how to go beyond the Web in their searches. Original. (All Users). From the Back Cover Experience the revolutionary search powers of AltaVista! AltaVista Search is the world's most popular Internet search tool. With access to the largest Web index in the world, it serves over 32 million search requests per workday! Now with this second edition of the award-winning, best-selling, officially endorsed The AltaVista Search Revolution, you'll learn how to master AltaVista's exciting search technologies and get connected to information - fast! Using step-by-step search examples and expert tips, learn to make your Internet searches even more precise and bring a steady flow of traffic to your own Web site. AltaVista is fast, powerful, and simple to use. Find anything on the Internet using precise and accurate searches - ideal for library/academic use; Master AltaVista Search's new interface and learn about its new features; Get your Web site picked up by AltaVista Search - tips from Web masters reveal how; Learn the fascinating inside story of how AltaVista Search came to be, and how it has expanded around the world.

AltaVista Search Revolution

Computers & Technology

Ray, Eric J.

Ray, Deborah

Networking & Cloud Computing

McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media

A crash course in getting significant business results from a Web site-at low cost Web Business Bootcamp focuses on activities that anyone can do to improve their online business, even with little cash and without technical sophistication. Richard Seltzer outlines the tasks that entrepreneurs and e-commerce managers typically delegate to experts without knowing enough to properly set goals, coordinate activities, or monitor progress-and then provides low-tech, low-cost techniques for making informed decisions and getting the hands-on experience needed to do smart business on the Internet. Businesses both large and small can apply his innovative ideas such as "flypaper" and "content-based Internet marketing"-effective strategies he has learned and used with his own Web site-to attract targeted traffic to their Web sites.

Web Business Boot Camp: Hands-On Internet Lessons for Managers, Entrepreneurs, and Professionals

Processes & Infrastructure

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Race is arguably the most profound and enduring cleavage in American society and politics. This book examines the sources and dynamics of the race cleavage in American society through a detailed analysis of intergroup and intragroup differences at the level of mass opinion. The ethclass theory, which examines the intersection of ethnicity and class, is used to analyze interracial differences in mass attitudes. This analysis yields three clusters of opinion that distinguish African Americans from whites -- religiosity, interpersonal alienation, and political liberalism. The authors then examine the intragroup sources of these opinion differences among blacks in terms of class, gender, age, region, and religion. While the authors demonstrate an embryonic trend of more black middle class opinion agreement with whites, the book confirms the ethclass character of the black experience whereby race and race consciousness are still more significant than class in shaping black attitudes. Given the growing class bifurcation in black America and the continuing debate about its significance in shaping black attitudes and behavior, this book offers a refreshing new analysis of the homogeneity as well as heterogeneity of black mass public opinion.

Race, Class, and Culture: A Study in Afro-American Mass Opinion (Suny Series in Afro-american Studies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Smith, Robert Charles

Community & Culture

State Univ of New York Pr

Tells the story of a Russian cavalry officer who fights in the Manchurian Campaign of the Boxer Rebellion

The Name of Hero

Literature & Fiction

United States

Tarcherperigree

When an elementary class sets out on a quest to save the world form disenchantment, their adventures reveal paradoxes of the human mind and ways of awakening the magic within us.

Lizard of Oz

Children's Books

Animals

B & R Samizdat Express

The story, which begins in an assisted-living facility in New Hampshire, leads to 18th century Boston and London, where there may be unfinished business that residents, through mirror selves, must take care of. As Abe, Mercy, and their friends come under the influence of forces they don't understand, they adopt antique attire, get drunk on two-hundred-year-old wine, and become experts in the lives of their other selves. In their alter egos, Mercy is Mercy Otis Warren, playwright and historian from Massachusetts at the time of the American Revolution; and Abe is Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne, the general who at Saratoga lost the battle that led to England losing the war and who then became one of the most popular playwrights on the London stage.After dreams of what their other selves did and could have done, Mercy and Abe discover a tunnel in the basement that leads to other places and other times, where they could accidentally or deliberately change the course of history.

Parallel Lives

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

All Things That Matter Press

Without knowing why or how, two college students wake up 50 years older than they were when they went to sleep and with no memory of what has happened in between. Trying to figure this all out, they read a novel that Frank wrote about them and his family before the missing years. This novel within the novel is a coming-of-age family saga with Charlie, an amateur movie maker; Sarah, his insightful bible-believing mother; Irene, his creative and uninhibited wife; Frank, his nephew, the author of the novel; and Marge, who loves and hates both Frank and Charlie. Can they sort truth from fiction when perception and action are often shaped by lies? Frank and Marge bond with one another as they find ways to slip through cracks in time and space. Cracks that are doors to their past, present, and future. The first door is birth. The second is death. Finally, Frank and Marge go through the fourth door.

Beyond The 4th Door

Genre Fiction

The lives of Ruth and Mark are transformed by nevermind magic that Ruth learned from her mother-magic that can undo what has been done and alter the shape of reality. They fall in love and marry in their early 20s during WWII. They split up, then meet forty years later and fall in love again. When they first meet, their on-again-off-again romance and the challenges of wartime America force them to grow up quickly. Their marriage falls apart when they lose their four-month-old son, Davey, during a transcontinental train trip. They blame one another and divorce. Then, separately, each of them invokes nevermind, finds Davey, and raises him. When they meet and fall in love for the second time, they realize they've been living in parallel worlds and need to bring those worlds together into a new reality.

Nevermind

Breeze, a young woman in present-day Connecticut, goes into a medically inexplicable coma. Her boyfriend, Yannie, a senior at Yale, has to get her the help she needs to survive while trying to solve the mystery of this goddess-like free spirit who appeared out of nowhere two months before.In part two, Breeze awakens in a different body in a different place and time. She is at Troy in the body of Briseis, love-slave of Achilles. She fears she’ll be taken for a demon. She knows the story she is trapped in, and she learns that she can make changes in what the story leaves unsaid, so long as she doesn't alter the direction of the narrative.In part three, Breeze finds herself in still another body. It's the fourth century AD and she’s at the temple of the Eleusinian Mysteries, near Athens. A young woman lies down on the altar next to the corpse of another young woman. In the ritual, she expects her soul will move to the body of the dead woman. Instead, the dead woman comes to life with the soul of Breeze. That glitch leads to humorous complications as well insights into the ironies of everyday life and love.Breeze and Richard's three previous novels (Parallel Lives, Beyond the 4th Door, and Nevermind) can be read in any order. They are independent stories, with overlapping themes and styles. Each novel presents a different view of reality, a different way of trying to understand the mysteries of life.

Breeze

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