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Lonely Planet Prague [City Guide]
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Lonely Planet Prague [City Guide]What is all the fuss about Prague? Well, with its film-star good looks and dark and mysterious soul, who wouldn't be seduced? Smoky jazz cellars and laid-back music festivals; glitzy shops and cool cocktail bars; history, culture, style. You think this city can't live up to its own press? Think again. Discover Bohemia's capital. EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY - extended Food & Drink chapter with detailed coverage of Czech beer and breweries. Explore, find your fun and sleep tight - expanded coverage of the best places to lay your head.
 
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Expert Resumes for Career Changers
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Dozens of professional resume writers share their secrets and sample resumes for successfully applying your current skills and experience to a new career. More than 180 pages of sampe resumes!
 
 
 
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Semiotics for Beginners
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Semiotics for BeginnersSemiotics is the study of signs. Semitocs studies all kinds of signs: from road signs to music to art to human language. Thsi book is a comprehensive illustrated guide for beginners on semiotics, or the study of signs, exploring the ideas of articulation, codes, criticisms of semiotic analysis, denotation, connotation and myth, encoding and decoding, intertextuality, modality and representation, modes of address, paradigmatic analysis, paradigms and syntagms, rhetorical tropes, semiotic analysis, signs, syntagmatic analysis and more
 
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Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Popular Culture
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Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Popular CultureScience news is met by the public with a mixture of fascination and disengagement. On the one hand, Americans are inflamed by topics ranging from the question of whether or not Pluto is a planet to the ethics of stem-cell research. But the complexity of scientific research can also be confusing and overwhelming, causing many to divert their attentions elsewhere and leave science to the "experts." Going beyond the issue-centered debates, Daniel Patrick Thurs examines what these controversies say about how we understand science now and in the future.
 
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The Craft of Research
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The Craft of ResearchSince 1995, more than 150,000 students and researchers have turned to The Craft of Research for clear and helpful guidance on how to conduct research and report it effectively . Master teachers Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams present an updated version of their classic handbook. Like its predecessor, this new edition reflects the way researchers actually work: in a complex circuit of thinking, writing, revising, and rethinking. It shows how each part of this process influences the others and how a successful research report is an orchestrated conversation between a researcher and a reader, explains how to build an argument and more.
 
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