March, 2004 Library's e-Newsletter

1. Sociology

Writer's Resources: From Paragraph to Essay
Julie Robitaille, Robert Connelly

A book for a college course in essay writing. Separate sections outline the writing process, define the structure of a paragraph and an essay, explain the various rhetorical patterns, and review the fundamentals of grammar. Numerous peer and professional models of good writing are provided. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland.

2. Business and Computers

Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET
by Ted Pattison (Author), Joe Hummel (Author)

Is the Visual Basic developer's guide to the .NET framework and object-oriented programming.

The authors introduce the basic architecture of the .NET Framework and explore Visual Basic .NET's new OOP features, the syntax required to use them, and the effect that syntax has on code behavior. Readers gain skills essential to creating well-designed applications and component libraries for the .NET Framework.

Among the topics explored in depth are:

Writing software for the .NET Framework
The Common Language Runtime (CLR)
The Framework Class Library (FCL)
Using Visual Basic's new object-oriented features
Programming with delegates, events, and exceptions
Understanding the difference between values and objects
Assembly deployment and versioning
COM and Visual Basic 6.0 interoperability

Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET is the definitive guide to a quick and smooth transition to this new language, and an indispensable tool for becoming comfortable and productive with Visual Basic .NET.
3. Topic of the Month

The Buying of the President 2004: Who's Really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers – and What They Expect in Return

New York Times Bestseller

The Buying of the President 2004 reveals how the process of choosing a president has moved from the voting booth to the auction block, and highlights the special interests that heavily invest in the politicians seeking the nation's highest office. Lewis and his team reveal and investigate the sponsors and the known and not-so-known conflicts of interest entangling each of the aspirants to the White House. This is the only book of its kind, containing investigative profiles and personal histories of the major presidential candidates.

Here you will find answers to questions like

Which candidate was paid by a pharmaceutical firm to give speeches while running for the Senate?
Who turned the Homeland Security Act into a bonanza for the biotech industry?
Which candidate proposed 32 separate tax breaks for big businesses that support his campaign?
Who is the "go-to guy" for the insurance industry?

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Cambridge dictionaries range from intermediate to proficiency level. They are clear, completely up-to-date and very easy to use.

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Bookworms

The book for March is :

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

American Authors

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Suggested Reading

Avoiding Office Email Gaffes

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