Perfect Phrases for Business School Acceptance (Perfect Phrases Series)

By Paul Bodine
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Pages: 272,  Date: 2008-10-13
ISBN-10 : 0071598200
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Description: The Right Phrase for the Right Situation--Every Time
. .You've taken the GMAT, your transcript is in order, and you're ready to apply to business schools. Your personal statement and the interview are your major opportunity to distinguish yourself from the pack and demonstrate your full potential.

Perfect Phrases for Business School Acceptance gives you the phrases, statements, and approaches that will help you write a compelling essay, succeed at the interview, and stand out from your competition.

* Provides precise and effective language for applications, essays, interviews.
* Covers a wide range of potential answers to difficult questions .
* Guides you through the stages of the interview process .

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Barron's For Guide to Graduate Business Schools, 11th ed

By Eugene Miller
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 736, Publication Date: 1999-09
ISBN-10 : 0764108468, Rar 8.6 Mb

Description: Updated for the coming academic year, this manual presents profiles of nearly 640 graduate business schools across the United States, plus leading business schools in Canada. Details are provided on admission requirements, academic programs, fields of specialization, tuition and fees, career placement services, and other specifics that applicants to business schools need to know.

Additional features include advice on choosing the school that best fits the business students circumstances and career goals. The book also includes useful information about taking the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) and a sample GMAT exam with explained answers.

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How to Do Everything Adobe Illustrator CS4

Author :Sue Jenkins |McGraw-Hill Osborne Media |
Number Of Pages :337 Pages | ISBN: 0071603107 | PDF | 8.5 MB

Maximize the power of the number-one vector graphics program. This full-color guide is perfect for designers and artists looking to master the most powerful graphics program available.

Whether new to the software or upgrading from an earlier version, you will learn how to use the most important features of the latest version and create print, Web, and motion graphics.

The examples in the book demonstrate how to develop logos, editorial and book illustrations, page layouts, magazine ads, business graphs and charts, and more.

The book takes you step-by-step through the process of creating various types of illustrations, and demonstrates professional techniques, shortcuts, and solutions.

About the Author

Sue Jenkins is a Web and graphic designer, illustrator, teacher, photographer, and artist. She is an Adobe Certified Expert, an Adobe Certified Instructor, and the author of several Web design books.

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Unless: A Novel

By Carol Shields
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages: 336, File Size : 1.1 MB

Description:
Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of lightsummertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner -- silent, with a sign around her neck bearing the word "Goodness".

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Empire of Magic: medieval romance and the politics of cultural fantasy

By Geraldine Heng
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Number Of Pages: 496 Date: 2003-05-15
File Size : 1.6 MB

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Empire of Magic presents a beginning and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and argues that the Middle Ages and medieval fantasies of race and religion have recently returned.

Drawing on feminist and gender theory, as well as cultural analyses of race, class, and colonialism,

this provocative book revises our understanding of the beginnings of the 900-year-old cultural genre we call romance, as well as the King Arthur legend. Geraldine Heng argues that romance arose in the twelfth century as a cultural response to the trauma and horror of taboo acts—in particular, the cannibalism committed by crusaders on the bodies of Muslim enemies in Syria during the First Crusade. From such encounters with the East, Heng suggests, sprang the fantastical episodes featuring King Arthur in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s chronicle, the History of the Kings of England, a work where history and fantasy collide and merge, each into the other, inventing crucial new examples and models for romances to come.
After locating the rise of romance and Arthurian legend in the contact zones of East and West, Heng demonstrates the adaptability of romance and its key role in the genesis of an English national identity. Discussing Jews, women, children, and sexuality in works like the romance of Richard Lionheart, stories of the saintly Constance, Arthurian chivalric literature, the legend of Prester John, and travel narratives, Heng shows how fantasy enabled audiences to work through issues of communal identity, race, color, class and alternative sexualities in socially sanctioned and safe modes of cultural discussion in which pleasure, not anxiety, was paramount. Romance also engaged with the threat of modernity in the late medieval period, as economic, social, and technological transformations occurred, and awareness grew of a vastly enlarged world beyond Europe, one encompassing India, China, and Africa. Finally, Heng posits, romance locates England and Europe within an empire of magic and knowledge that surveys the world and makes it intelligible—usable—for the future to come.

Empire of Magic is expansive in scope, spanning the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, and detailed in coverage, examining various types of romance—historical, national, popular, chivalric, family, and travel romances,among others—to see how cultural fantasy responds to changing crises,pressures, and demands in a number of different ways. Boldly controversial,theoretically sophisticated, and historically rooted, Empire of Magic is a dramatic re-staging of the role romance played in the culture of a period and world in ways that suggest how cultural fantasy still functions for us today.

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Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture (Encyclopedias of Contemporaryculture)

By Gary Mcdonogh
Publisher: Routledge Pages: 800  Date: 2001-01-22
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415161614 File : PDF - 7 MB

Description:
This unique new title in the acclaimed Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture series offers a wide definition of culture--including age groups, cities, civil rights, consumption, ethnicity, production, sports, technology and transportation alongside film, literature, music and visual arts. Entries give contextual information as well as factual details and coverage spans from the End of World War II to the present day.

The 1200+ entries include:
affirmative action * Baby Boom * James Baldwin * Beat generation * censorship * coffee houses * disaster movies * Brett Easton Ellis * environmentalism * freedom/liberty * Gap (The) * homelessness * homophobia * individualism * internet * Ivy League * Quincy Jones * jukeboxes * Levittown * Liberace * life cycles * malls * marijuana * Eugene McCarthy * Microsoft * migration * minorities and television * National Rifle Association [NRA] * old age * Sylvia Plath * quinceanos * racial profiling * refugees * Roe vs. Wade * Scientology * sitcoms * soap operas * strikes * suicide * teenagers * Times Square * Time Warner * tipping * unions * Vietnam War * volleyball * White flight * yuppies * and many more...

Consultant editors: Sandra Gilchrist, University of South Florida; Rick Halpern, University College, London; Gail Henson, Bellarmine College, Louisville; James Kraus, Stony Point; Dewar Macleod, University of Montclair; Ed Miller, City University of New York Randall Miller, Saint Joseph's University; Enrique Sacerio-Gari, Bryn Mawr College
Includes extensive cross-referencing and a thematic contents list with suggestions for further reading and index.

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

By Jane Smiley
Publisher: Knopf | Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: 2005-09-13 | ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1400040590
File Size : 8.64 RARed PDF

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Over an extraordinary twenty-year career, Jane Smiley has written all kinds of novels: mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. “Is there anything Jane Smiley cannot do?” raves Time magazine. But in the wake of 9/11, Smiley faltered in her hitherto unflagging impulse to write and decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read one hundred of them, from classics such as the thousand-year-old Tale of Genji to recent fiction by Zadie Smith, Nicholson Baker, and Alice Munro.

Smiley explores–as no novelist has before her–the unparalleled intimacy of reading, why a novel succeeds (or doesn’t), and how the novel has changed over time. She describes a novelist as “right on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing,” yet whose “job and ambition is to develop a theory of how it feels to be alive.”

In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley invites us behind the scenes of novel-writing, sharing her own habits and spilling the secrets of her craft. She walks us step-by-step through the publication of her most recent novel, Good Faith, and, in two vital chapters on how to write “a novel of your own,” offers priceless advice to aspiring authors.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel may amount to a peculiar form of autobiography. We see Smiley reading in bed with a chocolate bar; mulling over plot twists while cooking dinner for her family; even, at the age of twelve, devouring Sherlock Holmes mysteries, which she later realized were among her earliest literary models for plot and character.

And in an exhilarating conclusion, Smiley considers individually the one hundred books she read, from Don Quixote to Lolita to Atonement, presenting her own insights and often controversial opinions. In its scope and gleeful eclecticism, her reading list is one of the most compelling–and surprising–ever assembled.

Engaging, wise, sometimes irreverent, Thirteen Ways is essential reading for anyone who has ever escaped into the pages of a novel or, for that matter, wanted to write one. In Smiley’s own words, ones she found herself turning to over the course of her journey: “Read this. I bet you’ll like it.”

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McGraw-Hill's GMAT, 2010 Edition (Book Only)

Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 4 edition (August 26, 2009)
Language: English, Paperback: 496 pages |
ISBN-10: 0071624120

Description:
Expert guidance to help you achieve the score you want
Completely revised and updated for 2010, McGraw-Hill’s GMAT brings all of McGraw-Hill’s business and education expertise to bear on helping you achieve the best score possible. It’s packed with topic reviews, testtaking strategies, up-to-the-minute test information, and plenty of practice tests and drills.

This authoritative and practical guide has been fully updated, with additional practice online and important information.

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