1. Medical Assistant

Stedman's Medical Phrase Index

Stedman

Stedman’s Medical Terms and Phrases includes over 240,000 medical terms and phrases. Medical language professionals, medical transcriptionists, medical coders, students, medical secretaries, medical assistants, and court reporters will find this comprehensive publication . The content is keyword cross-referenced so that users can not only find the phrase by first and last word, but also by other keywords contained in the phrase. In addition, comprehensive sound-alike, medical abbreviations, and building blocks of medical language appendices are included.

2. Management

Marketing Strategies for the New Economy

Lars Tvede,Peter Ohnemus

Marketing Strategies for the New Economy provides clear explanations of how and where value and profits typically are generated in the high-tech business and how management can develop and execute strategies to position their high-tech companies for lasting success. To give the book a practical edge beyond these concepts, the authors present a "critical path" which is a coherent framework that pulls together these concepts, enabling the reader to implement a winning strategy in this highly competitive field. This work is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of the high tech markets. It presents examples of marketing plan structures, a high-tech marketing audit, and a chronology of major marketing breakthroughs.

3. Computer

Exploring Web Design (Design Exploration Series)

Jeremy Vest,William Crowson, Shannon Prochran,Shannon Pochran

Exploring Web Design provides a valuable introduction to the design fundamentals at work in all well-designed Web sites. The result of an award-winning Web designer's mission to teach these building blocks in clear, direct, and non-technical language, this book delivers a solid design foundation in layout, typography, color, and usability. While recognizing the importance of Macromedia ® Flash ™ and JavaScript, the author stresses that success comes from understanding design principles and how they apply to the world of the Web.

4. Book of the Month

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.

Steve Coll

For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies -- invisible wars that sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks and that provide its context. From the Soviet invasion in 1979 through the summer of 2001, the CIA, KGB, Pakistan's ISI, and Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Department all operated directly and secretly in Afghanistan. They primed Afghan factions with cash and weapons, secretly trained guerrilla forces, funded propaganda, and manipulated politics. In the midst of these struggles bin Laden conceived and then built his global organization. Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll tells the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, including its covert program against Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989, and examines the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998. Based on extensive firsthand accounts, Ghost Wars is the inside story that goes well beyond anything previously published on U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. It chronicles the roles of midlevel CIA officers, their Afghan allies, and top spy masters such as Bill Casey, Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki al-Faisal, and George Tenet. And it describes heated debates within the American government and the often poisonous, mistrustful relations between the CIA and foreign intelligence agencies.