«Titles in Barrons «Easy Way» series are self-teaching manuals that cover a wide range of subjects and skills. Among them are several language-learning books for beginners. This second edition of «Mandarin Chinese the Easy Way» comes with an audio compact disc that supplements the book, providing pronunciation help and listening comprehension material in the form of spoken dialogues. This book-and-CD combination introduces basic sentence patterns and practical vocabulary by dramatizing many true-to-life and often humorous conversational situations in Mandarin Chinese. An introduction to Chinese written characters is presented in the books final chapter.»

This language phrasebook presents more than 1,500 Russian expressions with translations to help English-speaking travelers get around in hotels, airports, train stations, restaurants, and other travel sites. The newly revised edition has been improved with more attractive and useful city maps, availability of ATMs, faxes, and other modern facilities in far-away cities and towns, and much more.

Here is a fast-reference guide to legal terminology compiled especially for consumers and business people who are not lawyers. More than 2,000 clear and concise definitions are arranged alphabetically. They cover everything from abandonment to zoning. Examples are offered to illustrate and clarify many definitions.

Students of English as a second language will value this book as an excellent self-instruction guide, or alternately, as a handy workbook to supplement their formal ESL course. Many ESL teachers will also value this volume as their preferred textbook or textbook supplement. Following a diagnostic pretest, the author guides students through the details of reading, writing, developing vocabulary and grammar, listening, speaking, and correct pronunciation of American style English. She devotes separate chapters to each of the parts of speech, as well as to sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, word roots, homonyms and synonyms, idioms, rules for academic writing in English, and more. Each chapter contains a list of vocabulary words carefully selected to expand every ESL student’s word power in English. The book concludes with a set of comprehensive vocabulary review exercises and a lengthy comprehensive English exam with answers. Students who master these final two chapters can feel confident regarding their command of English.

Offers basic instructions in Windows Server 2008 and networking concepts. This book explains what servers do, how basic networking works (IP basics and DNS/WINS basics), and the fundamentals of the under-the-hood technologies that support staff must be familiar with, such as the Microsoft Management Console and the Registry. Presents a 12-step process for producing that perfect resume in various formats needed for a job search. This title also shows how to create a dynamic cover letter that stands out from the crowd.

The most commonly used 510 Russian verbs are arranged alphabetically in a table format, one verb per page with English pronunciation and translation. Verbs are fully conjugated and presented in all forms. The book's additional features include common idioms with example sentences to demonstrate verb usage and a grammar review.

«A great companion for international travelers, the new edition of this handy language-teaching package combines the pocket-size bilingual Russian «At a Glance» phrasebook with two audio compact discs that present simplified dialogues in Russian. The phrasebook holds more than 1500 expressions that travelers need for making themselves understood in hotels, airports, train stations, restaurants, and other places they’re likely to visit. The book also contains an additional 2,000-word bilingual dictionary, plus travel tips, driving tips, simplified maps of major Russian cities, and more. The audio CDs, which replace the cassette tapes in earlier editions, familiarize travelers with often-needed phrases, and also provide help with language pronunciation and listening comprehension. Barron's publishes «Now You're Talking!» language packages in five different languages.»

This book contains more than 4,000 marketing-related terms and definitions that cover a wide array of topics. Among them are print production, radio, TV, and outdoor advertising, internet marketing, direct marketing, market research and testing, pricing, marketing legislation, and much more. Here's a fact-filled reference guide for small business owners, internet marketers, advertising artists and copywriters, media analysts, business students, sales and marketing managers, and others seeking to understand marketing concepts.

The authors offer guidance in understanding and analysing financial statements, the time-value of money, making capital budgeting decisions, and much more. Appendices include a list of online Internet resources and short descriptions of Excel financial and investment functions. New in this edition is up-to-date information on SEC reporting requirements, managing dependent-demand inventories, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and more. Titles in this series speak to men and women who are starting a company or managing an ongoing small-to-medium-size business. Emphasis is on daily operations and problem solving, with examples cited in these books based on true-to-life situation.

«This up-to-date edition of «Management» covers the management curriculum as it is presented in leading business schools today. The authors describe and appraise contemporary trends and techniques employed in the management of both large and small companies.»

«This pocket-size book lists approximately 6,000 words in English with translations into Russian. Words are divided into several different categories and listed alphabetically within each category. Categories include greetings, numbers, measurements, moods and emotions, driving situations, travel situations, sports, foods, shopping, phoning, and many others. All titles in Barron's foreign language «Vocabulary Series» include pronunciation guides and a bilingual and alphabetical quick «Wordfinder» section. Barron's «Vocabulary» books are useful students' classroom supplements as well as handy travelers' aids.»

The spectre of the French Revolution — the rumbling of the death carts, the thud of the guillotine, the ferocious mobs and the storming of the Bastille — is vividly portrayed Charles Dickens' epic tale.

Travelers with intermediate-level knowledge of Spanish, and students of Spanish language on intermediate or advanced levels will value this book as a key to getting past the slang barrier and grasping Spanish and its idioms as people of different regions and social classes actually speak it. Close to 4,500 words and colloquial expressions seldom found in standard English-Spanish dictionaries are listed alphabetically with definitions. Included with each entry is a phrase or a brief sentence that demonstrates how the term is used in a conversational context, followed by its meaning in English. In an engrossing preface, the author discusses the nature of slang and its uses in all languages. And since Spanish is the official language of 21 countries, each with its own regional idioms, he indicates in each of this book's entries whether the specific idiom is more commonly used in Spain or in Latin America. With the intention of being comprehensive, the author includes some entries that are generally considered vulgar, and which some readers might find offensive.

Here's a very approachable textbook for both children and adults who speak English as their second language. It acquaints students with correct English sentence construction, parts of speech, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, and offers extra tips on how to expand one's English-language vocabulary. After laying out these fundamentals, the authors proceed with solid instruction on writing a paragraph in English, and then with instruction on writing a multi-paragraph story. Advice includes choosing a topic to write about, sketching out a rough draft, and finally revising and editing the finished piece. Students once daunted by what they perceived as the intricacies of English will be attracted by the authors' student-friendly approach to proficiency.

The author creates a hypothetical company and analyses both domestic and international marketing strategies that it would typically employ in today's business climate.

«Barrons is today and always has been the Number-One reference source for verb usage in virtually every major language. Leading all competition, the best selling» 501 Italian Verbs» beats all less well-established rivals with its brand-new 3rd edition. Its printed in two colors, it features tinted page edges for ease of reference, and it comes with extra help for Italian language students in the form of a CD-ROM. The book presents the most important and most commonly used Italian verbs arranged alphabetically with English translations in chart form, one verb per page, and conjugated in all persons and tenses, both active and passive. The accompanying CD-ROM gives students practice exercises in verb conjugation plus a concise grammar review. This combined book and software package is a comprehensive guide to Italian verb usage with a wealth of reference material and language tips, including a bilingual list of more than 1,250 additional Italian verbs, helpful expressions and idioms for travelers, and verb drills and short tests with all questions answered and explained.»

This valuable language reference book presents 201 of the most often-used Mandarin Chinese monosyllabic verbs, with compounds and phrases for each verb. This title departs from Barron’s more typical 201/501 Verbs books in that it does not present conjugation tables. Chinese verbs cannot be conjugated because they do not change to indicate tense, person, or number. This book presents each verb, one verb per page, with both its Chinese character and its English infinitive form printed at the top of the page. Examples of common verb compounds are then presented in exemplary phrases with Chinese characters. Pronunciation for each phrase is given in the Roman alphabet (pinyin) and their meaning is given in English. The authors open this book with an enlightening introduction that explains Mandarin Chinese verb usage. They also provide extensive appendices at the end of the book, listing Chinese characters in both traditional and simplified forms.

Barron’s 501 Arabic Verbs is printed in Arabic script with exemplary sentences in English for each verb. To reflect correct Arabic style, 501 Arabic Verbs has been printed back cover to front and back page to front. Verbs are arranged alphabetically in a table format, one verb per page with English translation, and conjugated in all tenses and forms. The book’s additional features include common idioms with example sentences to demonstrate verb usage and a grammar review.

Barron’s is today and always has been the Number-One reference source for verb usage in virtually every major language. Leading all competition, the best selling 501 French Verbs beats all less well-established rivals with its brand-new 6th edition. It’s printed in two colors, it features tinted page edges for ease of reference, and it comes with extra help for French language students in the form of a CD-ROM. The book presents the most important and most commonly used French verbs arranged alphabetically with English translations in chart form, one verb per page, and conjugated in all persons and tenses, both active and passive. The accompanying CD-ROM gives students practice exercises in verb conjugation plus a concise grammar review. This combined book and software package is a comprehensive guide to French verb usage with a wealth of reference material and language tips, including a bilingual list of more than 1,250 additional French verbs, helpful expressions and idioms for travelers, and verb drills and short tests with all questions answered and explained. Learning French is Twice as Easy with This Helpful 2-in-1 Combination! The easy-to-use reference book gives you: — The most common French verbs, one verb per page, conjugated in all tenses — Common idioms and example sentences demonstrating verb usage — Verbs conjugated with avoir or tre to form a compound tense — Over 2,600 additional regular verbs conjugated like model verbs among the 501 — Index of common irregular French verb forms identified by their infinitive — A summary of sequence of verb tenses... and much more The bonus CD-ROM gives you: — Sentence completion exercises — fill in the correct word — Dialogue exercises—fill in the appropriate response — Word completion exercises—find the correct verb form — Word seek exercises—find the right word to fit the phrase — Matching with English—find correct translations in the right-hand column — Correct answers given for all exercises

Here’s an especially handy two-in-one reference volume for middle school and high school students. The top half of every page serves as a standard dictionary, while the bottom half is a thesaurus that presents selected words from the dictionary section and gives a list of synonyms for each. This dictionary-thesaurus combination offers definitions of more than 40,000 words and phrases, augmented with over 100,000 synonyms. Headwords in both sections are printed in color. Each dictionary headword is designated by its part-of-speech and comes with one or more definitions. Every thesaurus headword — in addition to its list of synonyms — comes with an example sentence that uses the word in context. Corresponding dictionary and thesaurus entries are always cited on the same page for fast, easy reference.