The recent growth in how-to books and websites had aided choice, combined with better careers advice from schools and universities.
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If you think how-to books are a recent phenomenon, think again.
Mindstorms has spawned 40 how-to books and ten new programming languages.
The Ultimate Fly Fishing Guide basically collates a bunch of things that one could put together or find on the Internet or in fishing how-to books.
The company focuses on creating how-to books for tablets.
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Charlie Papazian Few have done more to inspire brewing at home than Charlie Papazian, a master brewer, author of how-to books on homebrewing and one of the pioneers of the homebrew movement.
As you may have suspected, these criteria ruled out the vast majority of those books written in the subject matter, and forced me to expand my search well beyond prescriptive how-to books.
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But what I've found is that in this world of how-to books and writer's advice and so forth, and in Kansas City we don't have writer's workshops like you do in the East or the West Coast, but in all these things the discussion is entirely about fiction.
About a third would be at least somewhat likely to take library classes on how to download e-books onto handheld devices (including smartphones), or classes on how to use an e-reader or tablet computer.
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These include links to his books, how-to's on building Web sites, free fonts and wallpaper, advice on getting a job at a startup and pictures of cats and himself.
The Art of the Start makes lavish use of tables and how-to lists, which in most books is lazy-author Power-Point fodder.
Donaldson was quick to reassure audiences that Drawing Julia was neither a narcissistic comment, nor a life drawing class, but a chance to chat about how some of her best-known books were brought to life through the efforts of Axel Scheffler, Nick Sharratt and David Roberts.
The problem to be tackled, he realized, was how to get the big publishers to agree to lending of e-books.
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Early phone books offered tips on how to use the receiver - "the lips should be almost touching the mouthpiece and there is rarely need to shout" - and to "announce your identity at once upon receiving a call".
The majority of self-publishing books also make big promises to the reader of how much money they can make writing on their own, but this book tells the truth.
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The challenge for the NHS, where self-help books are already used in many places, is how to implement this model so people have easy supported access in primary care, he said.
African-Americans, Hispanics, and those who live in lower-income households are more likely than others to say they would be interested in borrowing pre-loaded e-reading devices and take classes about how to use the devices and download books.
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David Roberts explained how he made the move from designing fashion to designing children's books - and worried the dinosaurs he drew for Donaldson's book Tyrannosaurus Drip had no character without their clothes.
As ever, we're breaking out the Gadget Table to discuss the month's latest and greatest (and not-so-greatest), including the iPhone 5, Amazon's Kindle Fire and Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1, before Brian heads out to the private (annex) library of comedian-turned-deranged-billionaire John Hodgman to discuss how technology is impacting the publishing industry and his upcoming books " That is All" and " The Complete World Knowledge Boxed Set".
Yet as tens of thousands of authors self-publish their work, publishers' control continues to weaken over how titles are distributed and which books are offered for sale.
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The budget would remove the Postal Service's two defaults in retiree health-care payments from the government's books as part of wider changes to how the agency funds retirement.
My understanding is that there is now some training of the service members in terms of how to deal with this kind of situation -- disposal of the Koran, respect for holy books, things like that -- for service members serving in Afghanistan.
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We read books about self-realization, we visit seminars, we think about how to develop our full potential and while everything we hear might make sense to us, real change can only happen through direct experience and the most immediate experience is a big, long dip into the magic world of our feelings and emotions.
Tesco has acquired Mobcast, the award-winning digital book platform provider, to offer our customers even more choice in how they buy and enjoy books.
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Mr. Howey continued to write and self-publish new books, including a zombie novel and prequels to "Wool" that explore how and why the silos were built.
However, there are clearly risks involved in giving aid to others to administer - however much scrutiny of its books DfID allows, and however closely it monitors how governments and UN bodies, for example, spend its cash.
He talks in detail about his faith, and in speeches can cite the books of Micah and Isaiah, or how Leviticus and Deuteronomy cannot be applied letter-for-letter to the modern world.
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