Post Report

Post Report

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Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13:

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Series of pamphlets on countries of the world; revisions issued.


Bolivia Handbook

Bolivia Handbook

Author: Alan Murphy

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9781900949491

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A comprehensive guide to Bolivia providing coverage from La Paz hotels to Amazonian national parks, this second edition is in the travel-proof paperback format with extra extending flaps. It includes: detailed coverage of Bolivia's rich cultural heritage; practical advice on everything from rafting down jungle rivers to skiing down the world's highest piste; a Spanish for Travellers section; and colour maps to help plan the trip.


Space-Age Acronyms

Space-Age Acronyms

Author: Reta C. Moser

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1461595940

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Acronym agglomeration is an affliction of the age, and there are acronym addicts who, in their weakness, find it impossible to resist them. More than once in recent months my peers have cautioned me about my apparent readiness to use not only acronyms, but abbreviations, foreign isms, codes, and other cryptic symbols rather than common, ordinary American words. Many among us, though, either have not received or have chosen to ignore such advice. As a consequence, what we write and speak is full of mystery and confusion. It is then for the reader and listener and for the writer and speaker that Reta C. Moser has compiled this guide. Its effective application to the art of communication is urged. Such use should help avoid many of the misunderstandings involving terminology which occur daily. Although such misunderstandings are certainly crucial in humanistic and social situations, they are often of immediate import and the trigger to disaster in scientific, technical, and political situations. Some 15,000 acronyms and 25,000 definitions are provided (a 50- and 47 -percent increase over the 1964 edition!), with due credit to Miss Moser's diligence in making the compilation and with the acknowledgment that the acronymical phenomenon is very much with us. This edition, like the first, is certain to be of value to writers, librarians, editors, and others who must identify and deal with acronyms.