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Your complete preparation resource for the GRE, with full-length practice tests, free online coaching videos and a customized study-plan app! McGraw-Hill's GRE, 2014 Edition offers complete coverage of the GRE General Test and includes more practice and valuable new online features. Prepare for exam day with: 4 tests in the book; 2 interactive tests online; 2 more practice interactive GREs on the CD-ROM; online coaching videos demonstrating GRE problem-solving techniques; GRE vocabulary list; sample analytical writing essays at varying score levels; and strategies for answering every question type.

Your complete preparation resource for the GMAT, with full-length practice tests, free online coaching videos and a customized study-plan app! You're ready for the next step in your education: business school. Whether you are newly graduated college student or have been in the workforce for a while, you'll need to prepare for the GMAT to get into the school you want. And we're here to help! McGraw-Hill's GMAT has the features you need to get your desired score. You will learn how to master the GMAT through practice with questions just like those on the real exam.

Your complete preparation resource for the GMAT, with full-length practice tests, free online coaching videos and a customized study-plan app! You're ready for the next step in your education: business school. Whether you are newly graduated college student or have been in the workforce for a while, you'll need to prepare for the GMAT to get into the school you want. And we're here to help! McGraw-Hill's GMAT has the features you need to get your desired score. You will learn how to master the GMAT through practice with questions just like those on the real exam.

Your complete preparation resource for the SAT, with full-length practice tests, free online coaching videos and a customized study-plan app! McGraw-Hill's SAT, 2014 Edition is a complete SAT coaching program that focuses on building your reasoning skills as the best preparation for the exam. Packed with targeted instruction and hundreds of problem-solving exercises, it also offers full-length practice SATs in print and online, with complete explanations for every question. Prepare for exam day with: 4 full-length practice SATs in the book, with fully explained answers 2 complete interactive practice tests online 4 additional tests on CD-ROM 20 free coaching videos online NEW! 10 tutor-led instructional videos in an app Pull-out Smart Cards for easy subject review 16-page Welcome section Detailed 10-week study plan Test-taking practice with questions just like those on the real SAT.

We all wish we could sharpen key management skills — like writing more effective emails or proposals, focusing to-do lists on what really matters, giving more persuasive presentations, or dealing with a boss who makes you want to scream. But who has the time? The HBR Guides can help. Packed with concise, practical tips from leading experts — and examples that make them easy to apply — the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges. Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from the most trusted brand in business. Coming fall 2012. — HBR Guide to Better Business Writing, by writing expert Bryan A. Garner: Learn how to write clear, persuasive business documents — from e-mails to proposals to reports — that get results. — HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations, by presentations expert Nancy Duarte: Learn how to engage your audience, sell your ideas, and motivate people to act on them. — HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers Learn how to speak the language of finance so you can make smarter management decisions — and advance your career. — HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done Learn how to prioritize your tasks, manage your time, and stay focused on what really matters. — HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across Learn how to build stronger relationships — and partner more effectively — with your boss and your colleagues. — HBR Guide to Project Management Learn how to set clear project goals, map out critical tasks, and keep the team humming so you can deliver the goods on time and on budget.

A full-color, visual guide to using Facebook — written by a senior, for seniors. Facebook for Seniors QuickSteps provides hands-on guidance to seniors who want to enjoy the social interaction offered by the world's most popular social network. The book addresses seniors in a voice that is their own — written by a senior talking to other seniors about how take advantage of the full spectrum of Facebook apps and tools without mistakenly sharing the wrong data with the wrong people. Color screenshots with explanations show exactly what you'll see on your computer screen while you're doing a task.

Leverage the power of the world's largest professional network for all your business purposes Maximum Success with LinkedIn revolutionizes the way busy professionals use LinkedIn. It isn't just about professional networking and job-seeking; it's a step-by-step guide to answering any professional challenge by harnessing the potential of LinkedIn. It explains how to use LinkedIn to: Find customers, partners, investors, or advisors; Hire qualified employees; Build a personal brand to draw customers and recruiters; Attract opportunities for more work, media exposure, lucrative partnerships; Increase your network with thousands of contacts with one simple technique; Find and land the perfect job; Develop business relationships. Dan Sherman is a full-time LinkedIn consultant, trainer, and speaker, who works with companies and individuals to help them maximize the potential of the world's largest professional network. He has more than twenty years of corporate marketing management experience at successful firms, ranging from Silicon Valley Internet startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Keeping employees focused and enthusiastic during times of organizational upheaval is crucial to a company’s ability to move through change quickly and effectively. This comprehensive guide offers managers hundreds of ready-to-use phrases right at their fingertips. No matter the change situation whether it be handling resistance, clarifying new roles and responsibilities, or rallying teams Perfect Phrases for Communicating Change will provide managers with the right words at the right time. They will learn how to: Announce change Respond to questions Overcome employee fear Clarify roles and responsibilities Keep employees motivated Address performance problems This easy-to-use guide includes everything a manager needs to succeed the winning words and all-purpose phrases that will empower employees to adapt quickly to challenges of organizational change.

Leadership development has become a top business priority. When leaders at every level are empowered, companies excel in innovation and are able to respond instantly to changing market dynamics. Perfect Phrases for Leadership Development has hundreds of ready-to-use phrases for empowering others to take on leadership responsibilities regardless of their specific position in the company. You’ll find all the right words and phrases you need for: Boosting employees’ sense of autonomy Redirecting efforts without stifling creativity Encouraging decisiveness and resourcefulness Igniting energy and enthusiasm.

When it comes to sales presentations, every word counts—but who has the time tocraft perfect presentations all the time? You do—when you have Perfect Phrases for Sales Presentations. This go-to guide isexactly what you need to streamline this critical process. With hundreds of ready-to-use, time-saving phrases for delivering a winning sales presentation, this conciseguide provides the ideal language for: Making a great fi rst impression Finding and cultivating prospective clients Grabbing and holding your customer’s attention Establishing your product’s value Getting commitment—and closing the deal.

Clearly crafted company announcements—both internal and external—are critically important for your company’s day-to-day operations. Perfect Phrases for Writing Company Announcements has hundreds of ready-to-use phrases suitable for any announcement, regardless of the situation or scenario. Learn the most effective language for: Describing new products and services Explaining hiring procedures Detailing a new strategic focus Announcing relocation or expansion Articulating mergers and strategic partnerships.

Leverage today's hottest social media platform to reach more customers and make more sales. Instagram Power covers it all — from getting set up with an account to promoting a brand to integrating the photo-sharing app into an existing marketing strategy. It provides easy-to-implement action steps, business-oriented strategies, and simple tips to guide you through a series of activities to grow your business. Jason Miles is the author of Pinterest Power and cofounder and marketer at Liberty Jane Clothing. He is also the Vice President for Advancement (Marketing, Development, and Human Resources) at Northwest University, where he is responsible for enrollment marketing, as well as branding, alumni relations, and fundraising.

Authentic TOEFL questions from the test-makers themselves! Official TOEFL iBT Tests with Audio contains five actual retired TOEFL test forms with authentic TOEFL reading, listening, speaking, and writing questions. Each form includes an answer key and complete audio transcripts. You also get audio for all the listening passages of the tests, provided on the accompanying audio CD.

The vocabulary skills you need for a high score on the TOEFL exam. For students whose first language is not English and who wish to study at a university with an English-based curriculum, no admittance test is more important than the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). 400 Must-Have Words for the TOEFL helps you score well by arming you with the most important English vocabulary words commonly found on this crucial exam. This new edition also includes the recent changes made to the test, especially the emphasis on academic and campus vocabulary in the reading/listening and speaking/listening sections. Features: free Language Lab app with flashcard vocabulary quizzes; 400 words in key categories, including food, computers, society, history, finance, politics, friendship, science, the arts, and more; 150-plus skill-building activities and exercises, including paraphrasing, synonym and antonym matching, and prefix and suffix identification; proven strategies for incorporating new words into everyday vocabulary; and complete review of synonyms, paraphrasing, roots, prefixes, suffixes, etc.

The fundamentals of exceptional management. Skills for New Managers, Second Edition, covers the essential areas of new management like hiring new employees by asking the right questions, delegating work efficiently, dealing with the stress, communicating effectively, and developing mentoring, leadership, and coaching skills. Written specifically for today's busy manager, Briefcase Books feature eye-catching icons, checklists, and sidebars to guide managers step by step through everyday workplace situations. Morey Stettner is a business writer, communication consultant and the author of four business books. He has written more than 700 articles for Investor's Business Daily and currently writes for IBD's Managing for Success page.

Since the first edition was published in 1961, Landscape Architecture: A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design has outlined the land-planning process in clear, simple, and practical terms. The revised edition of the book that has for decades provided instruction on the planning of workable and well-related use area, taking into consideration the volumetric shaping of exterior spaces, exploring the possibilities of site-structure organization, applying contemporary thinking to the planning of human habitations and communities, and providing guidance on creating more efficient and pleasant places within the context of the city and the region contains information on sustainable planning, design, and management along with crucial information regarding water conservation, water management, and stormwater management--and new and updated color photographs!

Untangle the complexities of economics with this easy-to-use self-teaching guide. Economics DeMYSTiFieD series walks you step-by-step through the fundamentals of this often confounding subject. It covers all the basics in plain language, including consumer behavior, the realities of supply and demand, factors that lead to inflation, and how firms go about maximizing profits.

Get off the ground with iCloud — Apple's revolutionary file storage system. How to Do Everything: iCloud explains how to wirelessly exchange and update information across all of your Apple devices, including the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and any Mac computers running OS X Lion. Learn how to easily share and back up files and data, including music, photos, documents, and videos. This step-by-step guide introduces you to the new iCloud service and walks you through all of its key features and functions, providing a comprehensive understanding of what this service does and how to best utilize it. Screen shots and tutorials help you start using all aspects of iCloud quickly. How to Do Everything: iCloud Contains easy-to-follow instructions with screen shots and illustrations that explain the nine iCloud features — iTunes, Photo Stream, Apps, Books, Documents, Backup, Contacts, Calendar, and Mail. Includes How To and Did You Know sidebars that provide extra information to help you with tricky issues and queries. Offers troubleshooting sidebars with detailed instructions for working around problems. Explains how to synchronize data across the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac.

The authoritative preparation guide to help you conquer the IELTS. The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is a paper-based test that consists of four modules — Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking. Question types include multiple choice, sentence completion, short answer, classification, matching, labeling, and diagram/chart interpretation. Created by ESL experts at Cambridge University in the UK, IELTS has now overtaken the TOEFL to become the worlds leading English proficiency exam for college and university admissions. McGraw-Hills IELTS provides intensive instruction and practice for every question type you may encounter on this important exam, plus four complete sample tests with explanations. The audio CD packaged with the book provides audio tracks for all listening portions of the test.

Your complete preparation resource for the GRE, now with free online coaching videos McGraw-Hill's GRE, 2013 Edition offers complete coverage of the revised-format GRE General Test, now with more practice and valuable new online features. The book matches the new GRE format introduced in 2011 Prepare for exam day with: 4 tests in the book 2 more practice interactive GREs on the CD-ROM 2 interactive tests online 20 online coaching videos demonstrating GRE problem-solving techniques GRE vocabulary list Sample analytical writing essays at varying score levels Strategies for answering every question type.

Expert guidance on the SAT Subject Test in Literature... Many colleges and universities require you to take one or more SAT II Subject Tests to demonstrate your mastery of specific high school subjects. McGraw-Hill's SAT Subject Test: Literature is written by experts in the field, and gives you the guidance you need perform at your best. This book includes... Full-length sample tests. Diagnostic exams to help students pinpoint strengths and weaknesses. Hundreds of questions with complete explanations. Step-by-step reviews of all topics covered in each exam. Strategies to help students get their best score...

This book helps you implment Grid Control in your enterprise. This hands-on guide shows Oracle administrators how to build a robust Grid Control infrastructure through practical, jargon-free instruction and real-world examples. This infrastructure allows you to efficiently manage all of your systems. You will learn to install, configure, and maintain both Oracle and non-Oracle Grid Control products and optimize system availability and performance.

This work offers perfect phrases to stand out on the TOEFL — for the more than 800,000 people who take the test. To be accepted into most North American undergraduate and graduate programs, international students must take and pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Perfect Phrases for the TOEFL Speaking and Writing Sections gives you all the phrases and most commonly used words you need to excel on both the writing and speaking sections of the test. Presented in the easy-to-understand Perfect Phrases format, these phrases allow you to effectively communicate and express yourself in standard American English, and to score your very best on the test.

What you need to know to get the best score on the next generation GMAT scheduled to launch in June 2012! You're ready for the next step in your education: business school. Whether you are newly graduated college student or have been in the workforce for a while, you'll need to prepare for the GMAT to get into the school you want. And we're here to help! Totally updated for the next generation GMAT scheduled to launch in June 2012, McGraw-Hill's GMAT has the features you need to get your desired score. You will learn how to master the GMAT through practice with questions just like those on the real exam.