The Complete Idiots Guide To The Ultimate Reading List

Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Critical Reading written by Amy Wall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide to looking at literature with your own two eyes. What students know about Shakespeare, Orwell, Dickens, and Twain is primarily what their instructors tell them. Here’s a book that teaches the students how to move on to the next level—evaluate and read critically on their own, trust their own opinions, develop original ideas, analyze characters, and find a deeper appreciation for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more. • Ideal companion for college students and accessible for the casual reader as well. • Covers fiction, poetry, narrative nonfiction, biographies and memoirs, essays and editorials, and newspapers, magazines, and journals. • Features examples from published writing. • Includes a reading list and a glossary of literary terms.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List written by John Charles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great reads for busy people. This is a guide to help busy people find great reads in fiction and nonfiction. Filled with recommendations of popular, entertaining reading, this book covers mystery and suspense, romance, women’s fiction and chick lit, Westerns, science fiction, such nonfiction topics as animals, art, biography, memoirs, business, true crime, and more. Plus, each entry includes a summary of the book, its significance, and a critique/observation/comment.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature written by Laurie E. Rozakis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at American authors from Washington Irving to John Updike and provides brief biographical sketches, excerpts and summaries of major works, and explanations of major literary movements

Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Reading written by Abby Marks Beale and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents strategies and techniques designed to increase reading speed, and improve comprehension and retention of a variety of reading materials.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Discovering Your Perfect Career written by American Writers&Artists Inst and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you really want to do? Finding the perfect career isn't easy, but it's certainly attainable. This guide offers readers the chance to trade in their unsatisfying jobs for fulfilling careers. This book helps them by providing a process of self-assessment that includes questions on personality, talents, values, interests, and goals; advice on how to make a smooth transition from one career to another; and an action plan to take the steps toward landing the perfect career. -According to The Conference Group, only 48.9% of working Americans are satisfied with their jobs, the lowest level of job satisfaction since pollsters first began surveying the topic in 1995 -Career self-discovery books are among the best-performing in the career category

Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Social Security and Medicare written by Lita Epstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get it while you can ... Complex, ever-changing, and controversial, the future of our current system of Social Security and Medicare is uncertain. This indispensable guide explains the proposed changes and current status of these important social programs. Completely revised to incorporate changes to compensation scales and survivor benefits, and with an expanded section on Medicare and the new drug programs, this book is the most up-to-date overview of Social Security and Medicare currently available. * Revised and updated with the latest 2006 statistics on income scales and cost of living; such Social Security Benefits as survivor benefits and disability payments; tax codes; and more * Completely new chapters on Medicare, the Medicare Drug Programs, and the current political climate and proposed changes * Completely revised section on resources

Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Cover Letter written by Susan Ireland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides advice on creating effective cover letters and includes sample cover letters for such situations as following up a job interview, thanking someone for a job offer, and requesting information