I am delighted and honored to announce my latest book — Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac — is now published and available for purchase everywhere outstanding books are sold!
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Technology changes the world and reforms the body. If you’re looking for a great book
that will help guide you through the dramatic changes in creating content and personality on the web — and in your real life — I invite you to purchase my new book, Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac!
We were displeased to learn Columbia University is tumbling down the Google tube:
Columbia University has partnered with Google, Inc. to digitize select public domain printed volumes in the University Libraries’ collections and make them available online using Google Book Search. The digitization project will provide teachers, students, scholars, and readers around the world with an unprecedented ability to search, locate, and read books from the University’s collections. The digital collection resulting from this project significantly advances Columbia’s ability to serve its academic community, as well as readers worldwide.
Ah, another year, another list of things that I really liked. I’m sorry to say but you won’t find any of these things under your chair once you have finished reading this article – I’m not quite Oprah, alas.
Melancholia is a necessary part of the swing and sway of everyone’s life, — but the author is especially susceptible to the dangerous wants of the warp and woof of melancholy.
Why is this so and where does that tempting blue pit hide its warrants?
Every new project begins in fear and ends in death.
An author always wonders if their idea is ever full enough or sustainable enough to engage an outside mind; then, when the process is over, the divinity of creating new life on the page ends in the quiet and small death of the author’s hopes and dreams as the final period is placed on the page.
In a previous article — Audio Books: Is Hearing Reading? — we asked aloud if listening to a book with your ears provided an identical experience as reading one with your eyes.
We just finished writing the Google Apps Administrator Guide for Thomson Publishing and we are now Daring David Pogue. We have composed the following missive to the master Mac author:
Dear David Pogue:
We are daring you — actually, DOUBLE SECRET daring you (and when “we” say dare we mean “I’ but there is more power in the collective imagination) — to ignore us.
We are coming at you — hard and heavy in all your safe places and in The New York Times Square tower — by writing two new Apple books for Thomson/Cengage Publishing due to hit international bookshelves soon:
Picture Yourself Learning Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
and
Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
We are hungry. We are dedicated. We are fast. We will outlive you!
Thank you.
Sincerely,
David W. Boles (aka “The WordPunk“) Boles Books Writing and Publishing http://BolesBooks.com
NOTE: We have yet to actually send that note directly to Mr. Pogue for we are in fear of appearing ungrateful and inappropriate in the light of our ongoing love of his previously hard-won books on the Mac OS and Apple.
P.S.: We also mention here and now we are writing another new book for Thomson called Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1 and it includes a Bonus DVD for learning the signs and phrases. Janna M. Sweenie is once again our co-author after our raging success writing Hand Jive: American Sign Language for Real Life together.
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