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Joseph Losey (British Film Makers)
ASIN: 0521383862 |
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The Films of Joseph Losey examines the career of the expatriate director through a close analysis of five of his most important and challenging films. When his leftist politics made him a target of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities in 1951, the blacklisted Losey left America and continued his film career in England. Concerned mainly with the use and abuse of power inherent in intimate relationships, Losey also examined these issues as manifested in institutions and social classes. His finest films attack the injustices and hypocrisy rooted in the privileges of the English class system and frequently depict the moral failure of characters who betray their best instincts. The Films of Joseph Losey also examines Losey's close working relationships with playwright/screenwriter Harold Pinter and actor Dirk Bogarde, his experimental form of storytelling, the psychological complexity of characters acting as narrator of their own stories, and the intricate handling of time in the structure of his films. Close studies of King and Country, The Servant, Accident, The Go-Between, and The Romantic Englishwoman confirm Losey's stature as a director of powerful and compelling films of both moral importance and great formal complexity.
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Time for a Losey renaissance, and this is your best bet!.......2006-06-30
Let this book on the key films of Losey's career be your first stop in the journey to discovering Losey's work. Joseph Losey is due for a major rediscovery, a well-deserved renaissance. For too long he has been relegated to the more esoteric shelves. To watch and study and enjoy his many movies is a real treat, to the dark, scary humor of The Servant to the resonating life lessions unveiled in The Go-Between (my favorite Losey film), to the harrowing, grimy, heartbreaking depths of King and Country is to become submerged in the provocative, moving work of a great artist. If you saw The Boy With The Green Hair as a child, it's unlikely that you'll ever forget it. Author Michael Riley and the others write with insightful acuity and illuminate several of Losey's major films to the point that you'll be rushing to the video store or searching on-line to experience for yourself the too neglected works of this master director.
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In the early 1970s Harold Pinter joined forces with director Joseph Losey and Proust scholar Barbara Bray to develop a screenplay of Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past. Pinter took more than a year to conceive and write the screenplay and called the experience "the best working year of my life." Although never produced, Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay is considered one of the greatest adaptations for the cinema ever written. With fidelity to Proust's text, the screenplay is an extraordinary re-creation by one of the leading playwrights of our time. It is, in its way, a unique collaboration between two extraordinary writers united across more than half a century and two different cultures by a special concern for time and memory.
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Surprisingly convincing.......2006-10-21
Summarizing Marcel Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu" is often seen as a hopeless endeavour, an undertaking so absurd it fit in perfectly with Monty Python humour and the reader must still be content with extracts of some passage or another unless he dares conquer the whole seven-volume masterpiece. In 1972, Nicole Stephane, who held the film rights to Proust's work, asked Joseph Losey if he would like to work on a film version. Losey turned to Pinter to write the screenplay, and THE PROUST SCREENPLAY was written over the following year.
The screenplay covers all of the Recherche, Pinter rejected any attempt to select one or two volumes as the center. The dramatic arc is twofold: on one hand the narrator moves toward disillusion in his personal life, but on the other hand all that has been lost (ultimately Time itself) is regained and then preserved permanently in the narrator's writing. The screenplay consists of 455 scenes, and just to give an idea of how compressed the narrative must be, the entire opening of "A la cote du chez Swann" up to "Un Amour de Swann" is represented in just fifteen pages of sparse script. But even with such trims, it is said that a film resulting from the screenplay would be about five hours long.
The action shifts among eras from scene to scene. Marcel sees M. Vinteuil's daughter and her lover in 1893, and in the next scene Albertine is telling him in 1901 of her esteem for the couple. Many scenes are single images. Scenes 134 and 135 are only of Saint-Loup looking at a photograph, 136 is only of an empty dining room in a hotel, and then 137 is of a band of girls on a cliff top in Balbec. However, there is a considerable amount of substantial dialogue here, especially in the tortured relationship of Marcel and Albertine. Of course, as this is a dramatic work by Pinter, we find the infamous "Pinter pause", but generally the voice is that of Proust, not the grim English playwright.
What a pity this film was never made. Although the common cinephile who has never read the Recherche wouldn't know the backstory of all characters and events, the film would still be a moving experience. For lovers of Proust's masterpiece, the screenplay is an opportunity to consider several portions of the novel in a new light due to Pinter's often relevatory telescoping of the story. At least the screenplay was printed and made widely available. If you've never read Proust, read him! And if you like the Recherche and are curious about a dramatization, do check out Pinter's creation.
Pinter takes a stab.......2003-10-30
Harold Pinter's screenplay of Proust's novel is commendable. It does not try to cram too much in, but instead relies on a more imagistic adaptation. Raoul Ruiz's recent movie "Time Regained" wasn't dissimilar--although named after the last volume, it really drew from the whole work. However, I have to feel that even so, it was of little interest to those not familiar with the novel. I think a movie based on Pinter's screenplay, as good as the screenplay is, would suffer the same fate. It would be a visual tone poem for the Proust fan, capturing one thing but leaving out a dozen others. The meat of the novel is in the narration, and I'm afraid the best way to translate it to the screen would be through a miniseries, even a regular series. It's the only medium that stands a chance at duplicating the scope of the novel. One has to remember that its great length is no accident, it helps constitute the very nature of the story. Pinter ought to expand his screenplay, like Proust expanded his early drafts of the recherche, to give a greater impression of the time lost, and give it to the BBC or something.
Too bad this was never made into a movie........2001-10-16
A screenplay of Proust's In Search of Lost Time sounds like a hopeless project. In the most recent translation, Proust's novel ran to over 4,000 pages. Reducing this to a screenplay would seem to require cuts of such magnitude that nothing of the novel would be left. Indeed, those movies that have been made of the novel usually are of a small part, like the Swann in Love section of Swann's Way. Pinter, however, managed to pull off the impossible. He concentrated on key events in the novel, and even more on key images. It is hard to say whether this would have worked with someone totally unfamilar with the material. However, presenting Proust's novel in any literal fashion would be impossible, and probably contrary to what he attempted to accomplish in his novel. Pinter's screenplay, for anyone who has read the novel, is a tremendous success. Unfortunately, it was never made into a movie.
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Joseph Losey
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The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A victim of McCarthyism, he later crossed the Atlantic to direct a series of seminal British films such as Time Without Pity, Eve, The Servant, and The Go-Between, which mark him as one of the cinema's greatest baroque stylists. His British films reflect on exile and the outsider's view of a class-bound society in crisis through a style rooted in the European art house tradition of Resnais and Godard. Gardner employs recent methodologies from cultural studies and poststructural theory, exploring and clarifying the films' uneasy tension between class and gender, and their explorations of fractured temporality.
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Joseph Losey a Revenge On Life
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A ferocious battle.......2007-08-30
David Caute paints a very fair political, psychological and professional portrait of the movie director Joseph Losey.
Losey was a child of the Great Depression. The dire straits of so many people turned him into a convinced leftist. It cost him dearly: he was blacklisted by Hollywood for being a `communist'.
He found work in Europe and the convinced leftist changed his attitude into `being on the left is already enough'.
He was an ambitious, energetic, tenacious person, who was also self-absorbed, self-destructive (alcoholism) and frustrated. In fact, he was never really happy. He was torn between, on the one hand, his Puritan morality (a work alcoholic desperate for work, shooting even commercials) and his rigid sense of responsibility and, on the other hand, the hedonistic existence of international show business.
Professionally, he was not a `movie author', but a writer's director, relying heavily on his screenwriters, e.g. Harold Pinter and David Mercer. He was a cinematographer, not an actor's director. Notwithstanding being a leftist, he didn't believe in message films, though, on the contrary, believed strongly in the star system.
His movie career was a long ferocious fight for and with projects, between Art and Profit. Once the budget was there, a continuous dirty battle with scripts, rights, actors, crew and producers (the money men) followed. And once the movie was finished and screened, a fierce exchange of arguments with movie critics, distributors and their marketing budgets turned into endless nightmares and an endless letter mails. Lack of box office success was one of the main reasons for the animosities.
He got also involved in battles between the super-egos of superstars (D. Bogarde: `What are you doing for the Welsh bastard (R. Burton)?')
His style is characterized by vacated space, track shots, separation of overheard conversation and image and clean cuts.
This book gives an extremely lively picture of the exhausting film business and is a must read for all movie fans.
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Joseph Losey: An American Director in Exile
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In one compact volume, POP DREAMS analyzes the trends, events, and personalities that influenced American culture from 1945 to 1970. The discussion broadens students' understanding of major events in popular culture by putting those events in historical context.
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brief and well written.......2005-08-25
This little book could easily have been a fully fledged tome. Loss surveys the popular American media in the 1960s. He shows how it echoed and in turn fed back on the burning issues of the times. The Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.
There is discussion of politics at the Federal level, with the actions of US Presidents being key events. But Loss manages to tie this all into a narrative that also encompasses analysis of the rock and roll scene and the counterculture.
The book is aimed at an undergraduate or high school reader, as a quick synopsis of trends that Loss traces back to 1945 and the emergence of the US from the Second World War. He hopes to whet the reader's appetite for more detailed reading of these vast topics.
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Clifford Pickover is by most standards a mathematics geek (Ph.D. research scientist for IBM, associate editor for two computer journals), but he is the coolest math geek you might ever meet. For this book he has compiled 30 chapters of mathematical puzzles (and one short story), all having some connection to the concept of infinity. These problems are open-ended; in the event that the reader actually solves the main puzzle, there are enough digressions, diversions, and tangents to keep even the fastest computer running for hours. Computer modelers will be happy to find that instructive BASIC and C language has been provided for most of the problems. Many puzzles have been previously posted on the Internet, and the best or weirdest replies have been included in this book.
If phrases like "Monte Carlo bootstrapping approximation" send you off the deep end, not to worry. These are not dry, dusty puzzles. In problems such as "The Loom of Creation," "Grid of the Gods," "Alien Abduction Algebra," and "The Infinity Worms of Callisto," Pickover has couched mathematical puzzles in bizarre science fiction scenarios to make them both fun and challenging. --Eric Warner
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"An original and exciting exploration of how utterly weird, and utterly beautiful, the infinite can be." —Ian Stewart, author of Does God Play Dice?
"In this the latest of Dr. Pickover's marvelous books, he breaks all finite chains to soar into the transcendental, mind-boggling regions of mathematical infinity. Written in the author's informal, clear style, it is a treasure trove of recreational problems, many published here for the first time, with special emphasis on computer programs and riveting graphics. As you soar, fasten your seat belt." —Martin Gardner, author of The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix.
"Inventive, quirky, fun! Pickover presents an engaging, inspiring romp in the realm of number and mathematical thought." —Ivars Peterson, author of The Mathematical Tourist.
"Join Pickover on his wonderful merry-go-round of ideas, and reach for the infinite. Keys to Infinity is an engaging book . . . a must for those wishing to explore the infinite in all its manifestations." —Theoni Pappas, author of The Joy of Mathematics.
"Clifford Pickover's Keys to Infinity unlocks the gates to some of the coast-bound highways and byways, and invites us to admire the scenery." —New Scientist.
"What could be more appropriate to the subject of infinity than a book like this one, so dense with wonderful puzzles, anecdotes, images, and computer programs that you could pore over it forever? In Keys to Infinity, Pickover has once again assembled a mathematical feast." —Carl Zimmer, Senior Editor, Discover.
"Dr. Pickover, an IBM researcher and the author of Chaos in Wonderland, has produced another engaging book of math-based puzzles and paradoxes organized around the general theme of infinity. . . the clear, conversational style makes the numerous equations easy to assimilate." —The Guardian.
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A fascinating exploration of topics on infinity.......2002-07-06
*The book is a collection of fascinating, thought-provoking essays on
various topics which are not necessarily all concerned with infinite
topics. Some may be discussions of really big numbers or
mathematical constructs, but these may or may not necessarily involve
infinity.
*If you absolutely cannot stand math stuff, this is not your book.
Otherwise, it has a range of math from very simple to really
advanced. I just brushed over the very advanced math stuff that I
either did not understand or had long ago forgotten, but I didn't
really feel like I missed anything.
*There are a slew of amazing visually complex and striking graphical
representations of various advanced functions, etc. All are well
worth exploring, even if they do not directly involve infinite
concepts. The book is loaded with such graphics, a real visual feast.
*The math is rather advanced in some sections but is quite elementary
in others. Best of all, a generous collection of computer programs
is included which can be used to explore almost every chapter.
*There are a few "mystery" type things, but mostly it is just very
exotic, seldom-explored areas of number theories and other areas of
mathematics.
*The chapter on Vampire numbers is really cool, I thought. I have
seen them mentioned in posts here from time to time, now I understand
what they are and why they are so interesting
*The chapter on recursion has loads of really cool pattern-type stuff
that you can easily explore with a PC. A great topic.
*The chapter near the back of the book on random numbers and random
number generators is great background for some anyone interested in quantum theory. I had never seen the RNG cloud graphics before, what a
unique and ideal way to show the effectiveness of an RNG.
As expected, this is a great book, I heartily recommend it for all.
A truly entertaining book on numbers.......2000-02-26
A perpetual idea machine, Clifford Pickover is one of the most creative, original thinkers in the world today. In most cases using only simple ideas, he follows paths that in many cases must be constructed immediately before traversal. In this, his latest installment in that trek of exploration, he is again at his best.
Each subject starts with a simple premise and the author follows it through to a basic conclusion. Many of the topics involve computer programs, and source code is provided. The programs are in several languages, including C, Pascal, BASIC and Rexx. However, most programs are quite short and represent basic algorithms, so it is not difficult to understand a program even if you are not familiar with the language.
Some of the topics include:
- 10^33, the largest power of 10 that can be represented as the product of two numbers that contain no zero digits.
- A debate as to whether there should be a national computing initiative to compute the first trillion digits of Pi.
- Fractal milkshakes, or creating a collection of fractal "bubbles."
Truly fuN with a capital N for number, this is another of the author's superb creations. A math book that is entertaining, and not just to people who find it so by nature or profession.
Published in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, reprinted with permission.
Infinity got you stumped? Get this book.......1998-06-21
Having trouble understanding the concept of "infinity"? Know the word but don't have a deep understanding of what it really is? This book is for you! The author can take such a hard-to-grasp concept like infinity and make it accessible to everyone. With a good sprinkling of computer programs for those with access to one, Pickover provides the reader with the ability to experiment with the ideas presented.
The one thing wrong with this book is that it's finite.......1997-09-14
This book is not just for maths nuts like me. Its for anyone who has a passing interest in the subject.
The author has in a crisp and concise wa,y managed to introduce, and in some cases explain, both the history and the solution, to some of the most mystifying problems to confront mankind in his infinite quest to understand the Ultimate Infinity - The Universe.
The cover notes suggest that the reader requires "no specialised mathematical knowledge " but you will need to understand some maths probably to GCSE level but then you would not buy, borrow or steal this book if you can't add, subtract, multiply and divide.
The computer programs that are sprinkled throughout the book do require a lot of thought and a good knowledge of the particular language, of which there are several, to make them work but, when they do, they demonstrate the beauty of maths as well as illustrate the ideas under discussion extremely well.
In all a very good read.
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Keys to Infinity
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One of six TreeTops non-fiction titles guaranteed to fascinate your junior readers as they explore the wide variety of themes.
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Google.com is one of the most popular sites on the Internet and is used around the world by millions of people every day. Sure, you know how to "Google it" when you're searching for something--anything!--on the Web. It's plenty fast and easy to use. But did you know how much more you could achieve with the world's best search engine by clicking beyond the "Google Search" button?
While you can interface with Google in 97 languages and glean results in 35, you can't find any kind of instruction manual from Google. Lucky for you, our fully updated and greatly expanded second edition to the bestselling Google: The Missing Manual covers everything you could possibly want to know about Google, including the newest and coolest--and often most underused (what is Froogle, anyway?)--features. There's even a full chapter devoted to Gmail, Google's free email service that includes a whopping 2.5 GB of space).
This wise and witty guide delivers the complete scoop on Google, from how it works to how you can search far more effectively and efficiently (no more scrolling through 168 pages of seemingly irrelevant results); take best advantage of Google's lesser-known features, such as Google Print, Google Desktop, and Google Suggest; get your website listed on Google; track your visitors with Google Analytics; make money with AdWords and AdSense; and much more.
Whether you're new to Google or already a many-times-a-day user, you're sure to find tutorials, tips, tricks, and tools that take you well beyond simple search to Google gurudom.
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Like every other Missing Manual I've read.......2007-03-26
I have maybe 6 or 7 of the Missing Manuals and each and every one of them is extremely well written. These really are the books that should've come with the product. And learning all about Google is no different.
Just good.......2007-03-09
Well, I expected more, may be some new tips, easy to read and some interesting data form google. But definitely didn't improve my search a lot. If you only want to sharp your knowledge it's ok.
The essential guide to Google for both advanced and beginning users.......2007-02-24
It was with much anticipation that I awaited the arrival of this book... as I've poked around Google quite a bit and thought I knew most of what was there. When I first opened the book, my inner Geek's eyes immediately glowed... I was going to learn some seriously cool things!
Similar to users of most of Microsoft's products, the casual user of a search engine uses less than 1% of its capability blissfully unaware of its awesome poewr and still thiking it's is amazing and that they know how to use it. As a business researcher, I've learned over time to use some of the advanced features, tricks and tips and and it's these kind of books that are indispensible. This book is a first class guide to unlocking the power of Google.
While the basic and advanced guidelines to creating powerful searches on Google alone are worth more than the entire price of the book, it also includes other many other detailed chapters of how to get the most out of Google. Advanced users may be familiar with many of the features discussed in this book, I am sure they'd still get enough gems out of it to leverage their search capabilities to easily make it a worthwhile purchase. While it is possible to poke around google and find most of the features described in this book, what you'd miss out on by doing that is the in-depth discussions on each feature and how to get the most use out of them. You simply will not find this information in Google and I think you'd be crazy, no, insane, to not buy the book for the reason that you can see most of the functions and tools on the Google website for free.
What you get from buying this book is having all the information well laid out, with excellent descriptions and discussions of each feature, screen captures, links to alternative resources, practical examples of how you'd use each feature also how to get the most them or how to modify their use. Also, there are little gems littered throughout the text... have you heard of Soople for example? Neither had I. When is it best not to use google, and what would you use? How best to structure your searches to get the most relevant outcomes. In short, how to get more out of Google. There are many tools offered in the basic search box including stock quotes, definitions (just hit those underlined words at the top of the search results page, yes, that's what they're for! I bet you've never clicked them - and, there are a whole host of other cool features there right before your eyes also, that like most people you'd never have used them), weather, flight details, powerful calculators etc. Then other tips like who's linking to your site or your competitors, how to find PDF files or PowerPoint presentations and how to read them if you don't have the relevant software. While you may have already known some of these features were there, often it takes a little nudge or a comment to see how valuable they are. For instance, while you could do a simple search on Google to find a personal financial budget (and you'd come up with lots of results), you could also do a Google search for Excel files only to locate a file on the web where someone has created a personal financial budget template. Similarly you could look for a PowerPoint presentation someone gave at a conference. If it's not there, it might be archived either at Google or another site... this book will tell you how to find it.
The book also includes detailed chapters of discussion on other features and tools offered by Google - things like Froogle, Google Groups, Google Toolbar, Desktop Search, Wireless, Gmail, and others. Then excellent discussions of Google Adsense, how to increase your ratings, how to add google to your site, Google Analytics, understanding traffic to your website, assessing your site, personalising Google. You can pretty quickly see that it's a darn comprehensive book. And the intent is to enable you to use these features as a power user, not someone who just types in their desired CD name into Froogle to do a simple search. And while there are chapters you may not want to read or are not relevant to you, you will find others that you want to underline whole slabs of text, post-it note it and so on.
So yes, you can save a couple of bucks by just looking around Google rather than buying this book, however, you'd likely miss out most of the really cool stuff that it has to offer.
If you like this book then you're probably going to be interested in the other similar ones 'Yahoo to the Max' (Google ain't the only great search engine! Yahoo does a whole heap of things Google doesn't) and The Extreme Searchers Guide to the Internet, both by Dee Hock.
I highly recommend Google: The Missing Manual for seasoned and beginning users alike.
Not very useful.......2007-01-10
For me, is not a very useful book, because is only a little more of that you can find in the help pages of Google site.
All you wanted to know about Google.......2006-08-14
The problem with Google is that it does not seem to advertise all of its tools, or for that matter, all the functions within their tools. For instance, did you know that you could search for Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN) with Google as see the auto history?
Google: The Missing Manual provides an essential source that brings together all the tools and hidden functions in the tools and puts it into an easy-to-read volume. The book is separated into four main components: searches with Google, general Google tools, Google tools specific to webmasters, and Gmail.
Google searching is the best-known tool that Google offers. It is the most popular web search on the Internet also. However, many of its functions are not as widely known, as they ought to be. This book goes through all the different items besides web pages that can be searched for (phone numbers, UPC codes, tracking numbers, and so on) and then goes into the search syntax. It presents search tools individually in easy-to-digest chunks to make it accessible to even the novice user.
The general Google tools include some of the newest Google tools such as Google Maps, Google Desktop and Google Print. The book goes through these point-by-point to give the reader a solid grasp on the latest tools available. It even includes a chapter on how to shop with Google and integrated Google with your web browser.
There are two tools, in specific, that have been to some measure controversial, Google Desktop and Google Search History. Google Desktop allows you to Google search the files on your computer for words and phrases. Google Desktop has to be explicitly installed and set up, but Google makes it clear (and the book re-emphasizes) that no data from your PC is sent to Google. Google Search History allows you to view previously executed searches (if you have a Google account and are logged in). Some are less than comfortable with the prospect of having all web searches archived, however, there are instructions in the book to delete the data and the service.
Third, the book goes through how to use Google to get the most out of your website. It talks about the rudimentary tasks of getting listed in Google searches and how to use AdSense and AdWords, which is invaluable information for the uninitiated. However, the most interesting chapter is on a tool not yet publicly available (you have to request an account and they grant them on a slow but ongoing basis), Google Analytics. Google Analytics harnesses the power of Google to get the most data and statistics out of your website visitors. It helps you know what keywords work, what your visitors are interested in, and what pages are or are not popular. After reading this section you'll unfortunately have to curb your enthusiasm because you'll have to wait in line like everyone else after you sign up.
Lastly, the book goes through all the power and functions of Google Mail. As a relatively new service, Gmail keeps adding functions for the user. This book has the most up-to-date information on how the manage mailboxes; work with the contact list, and setting up keyboard shortcuts. Unfortunately with the speed of Gmail development some functions like Google Talk integration are missed by the time the book hit the shelves.
All in all, the book is a solid resource for anyone trying to get the most out of Google and harness that many powerful tools Google brings to bear.
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Google Office: The Missing Manual
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Among its many amazing applications, Google now has web-based alternatives to many of the applications in Microsoft Office. This comprehensive and easy-to-follow new book enables you to explore Google's new office applications in detail. Once you do, you'll be in good company -- more than 100,000 small businesses and some corporations are already looking to take advantage of these free Google offerings.
Google Office: The Missing Manual teaches you how to use three relatively new applications from Google: "Docs and Spreadsheets", which provide many of the same core tools that you find in Word and Excel; and Google Calendar and Gmail, the applications that offer an alternative to Outlook. This book demonstrates how these applications together can ease your ability to collaborate with others, and allow you access to your documents, mail and appointments from any computer at any location.
Of course, as remarkable as these applications are, Google's office suite is definitely a work-in-progress. Navigating what you can and can't do and -- more importantly -- understanding how to do it isn't always easy. And good luck finding enough help online.
Google Office: The Missing Manual is the one book you need to get the most out of this increasingly useful part of the Google empire. This book:
- Explains how to create, save and share each of Google's web-based office applications
- Offers separate sections for Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, and Gmail
- Demonstrates how to use these applications in conjunction with one another
- Gives you crystal-clear and jargon-free explanations that will satisfy users of all technical levels
Many of you already use Gmail, but do you know its full potential? Do you know how you can increase its power by using Gmail with Doc and Spreadsheets and Google Calendar? You'll find out with
Google Office: The Missing Manual. You'll also come to understand why large corporations such as General Electric and Proctor & Gamble are taking a long, hard look at these applications.
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