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1. New Books
Business and Computers
STEP BY STEP
The step
by step collection is the easiest and fastest way to learn the core
functionality of Microsoft Office 2000. The personal training system offers
easy-to-follow lessons that include clear objectives and real-world examples.
Work through every lesson to complete the full course, or do individual lessons
to learn just the skills you need. Either way, you learn at your optimum pace
from the teacher who knows you best—you. With this collection of books
you’ll learn to use:
• Microsoft
Excel 2000— you’ll learn to: • Create worksheets, charts, and graphs
to effectively analyze data•  Quickly
organize data using filter and sort • Simplify calculations using formulas,
AutoCalculate, Subtotal, and other functions• Use PivotTables and PivotCharts
to summarize and present data in a visual format• Liven up presentations by
inserting pictures, customizing formats, and adding charts• Publish data to
the Internet or intranets and work simultaneously with others by sharing a
workbook via your company intranet• Import data from other sources, merge
multiple spreadsheets, and share your work•
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Microsoft Word 2000— navigate the Word menu and use toolbar buttons to
simplify your work; cut, copy, paste, and format your text; change fonts, font
sizes, and font effects, and add borders, bullets, and shading—all with a few
clicks of the toolbar buttons! • Increase editing skills—enhance the
organization and design of your documents; automate tasks using advanced
features; use themes and create styles to change the look of all or part of your
documents; use templates and electronic forms to streamline and standardize your
work. • Develop advanced editing techniques
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 Microsoft
Access 2000—you’ll learn to: • Enter and view data—view, add, and
edit data using forms and tables; sort
and filter records;
preview and print reports; create mailing labels• Create and expand
databases—create new tables; relate tables and databases; work with external
data• Turn data into meaningful information—design queries and analyze data;
merge data from two tables into one form• Refine
your database—customize forms and reports; present reports more effectively;
present grouped data in
a report.
• Microsoft
PowerPoint 2000 - a presentation graphics program can help turn ideas into
professional, effective  presentations.
New features help PC users create presentations more easily, illustrate ideas
more powerfully, and deliver it all in any setting, from meeting rooms to the
Web.
Each
volume consists of approximately eight hours of instruction with dozens of
screen shots and illustrations. A companion CD is included with practice files
tightly integrated with the lessons. Other features include a "QuickLook
Guide" for easy visual navigation and "Finding the Best Starting Point
for You" to help users get the most out of the book.( From the Publisher)
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3. The Book of the Month
Who Rules the Net
 Who
Rules the Net?: Internet Governance and Jurisdiction
Adam Thierer,
Clyde Wayne Crews (Editor)
 The
rise of the World Wide Web is challenging traditional concepts of jurisdiction,
governance, and sovereignty. Many observers have praised the Internet for its
ubiquitous and "borderless" nature and argued that this global medium
is revolutionizing the nature of modern communications. Indeed, in the universe
of cyberspace there are no passports and geography is often treated as a
meaningless concept.
But does that mean traditional concepts of jurisdiction and governance are
obsolete? When legal disputes arise in cyberspace, or when governments attempt
to apply their legal standards or cultural norms to the Internet, how are such
matters to be adjudicated?
Cultural norms and regulatory approaches vary from country to country, as
reflected in such policies as free speech and libel standards, privacy policies,
intellectual property, antitrust law, domain name dispute resolution, and tax
policy. In each of those areas, policymakers have for years enacted myriad laws
and regulations for "real space" that are now being directly
challenged by the rise of the parallel electronic universe known as cyberspace.
Who is responsible for setting the standards in cyberspace? Is a "U.N. for
the Internet" or a multinational treaty appropriate? If not, who's
standards should govern cross-border cyber disputes? Are different standards
appropriate for cyberspace and "real" space? Those questions are being
posed with increasing frequency in the emerging field of cyberspace law and
constitute the guiding theme this book's collection of essays.
Contributors include: Vinton Cerf, Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Adam Thierer, Rep.
Christopher Cox, Jack L. Goldsmith, David G. Post, Jonathan Zittrain, Michael
Geist, Dan Burk, Bruce H. Kobayashi, Larry Ribstein, Robert Corn-Revere, Kurt
Wimmer, Michael Greve, Fred Cate, Harold Feld, Eric P. Crampton, Donald J.
Boudreaux.*
Table of Contents
(PDF)
*Taking from the Cato Institute. Washington, D.C.
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vember
21, 1963, President Kennedy flew to Texas to give several political speeches.
The next day, as his car drove slowly past cheering crowds in Dallas, shots rang
out. Kennedy was seriously wounded and died a short time later. Within a few
hours of the shooting, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald and charged him with
the murder. On November 24, another man, Jack Ruby, shot and killed Oswald, thus
silencing the only person who could have offered more information about this
tragic event.