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Create Your Ultimate Resume, Portfolio, and Writing Samples: An Employment Guide for the Technical Communicator |
Technical Writing Careers |
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Writing a Professional Life: Stories of Technical Communicators on and off the Job |
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The Skills of Document Use: From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning
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Indexing Books, Second Edition
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Visual Grammar
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Thesaurus Construction and Use: A Practical Manual, Fourth Edition
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Technical Writing 101: A Real-World Guide to Planning and Writing Technical Documentation, Second Edition
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Minimalism Beyond the Nurnberg Funnel
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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
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The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax
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Far From the Madding Gerund
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The Art of Indexing |
The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers,
Editors, and Publishers, Fourteenth Edition |
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| Electronic Editing with Microsoft Word
By Jennie Ruby Published by IconLogic ISBN 189176246X Get more information from Amazon.com |
Indexing: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide for Technical Writers By Kurt Ament Published by William Andrew Publishing, LLC ISBN 0815514816 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| The Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications
Published by Microsoft Press ISBN 1572318902 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Microsoft Windows User Experience
Published by Microsoft Press ISBN 0735605661 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Single Sourcing: Building Modular Documentation By Kurt Ament Published by Noyes Publications ISBN 0815514913 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Standards for Online Communication: Publishing Information for the Internet/World Wide Web/Help Systems/Corporate Intranets By Joann T. Hackos and Dawn M. Stevens Published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0471156957 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Successful Indexing With RoboHELP HTML Edition By William Meisheid Published by Sageline Publishing ISBN 0967257042 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Teach Yourself Indexing for RoboHELP Classic By William Meisheid Published by Sageline Publishing ISBN 0967257034 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| The Tech Writer's Survival Guide: A Comprehensive Handbook for Aspiring Technical Writers By Janet Van Wicklen Published by Facts on File, Inc. ISBN 0816040397 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Technical Editing, Third Edition By Carolyn Rude Published by Longman ISBN 020533556X Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Technical Writing Style By Dan Jones Published by Allyn and Bacon ISBN 0205197221 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Writing Software Documentation By Thomas T. Barker Published by Allyn and Bacon ISBN 0205195768 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
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The Design of Sites
By van Duyne, Landay, Hong ISBN 0131345559 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Designing Interfaces
By Jennifer Tidwell ISBN 0596008031 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Don’t Make Me Think
By Steve Krug ISBN 0321344758 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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About Face 2.0
By Alan Cooper and Robert M. Reimann ISBN 0764526413 Get more information from Amazon.com |
The Design of Everyday Things
By Donald Norman ISBN 0465067107 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
By Rosenfeld and Morville ISBN- 0596527349 Get more information from Amazon.com |
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition
By Edward R. Tufte ISBN 0961392142 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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The Art and Science of Web Design
By Jeffrey Veen ISBN 0789723700 Get more information from Amazon.com |
The Non-Designer's Design Book
By Robin Williams ISBN 0321193857 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Contextual Design
By Hugh Beyer and Karen Holzblatt ISBN 1558604111 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Envisioning Information
By Edward Tufte ISBN 0961392118 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Information Design
By Robert Jackson ISBN 0262600358 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices
By Dan Saffer ISBN 0321432061 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Information Architecture for Designers: Structuring Websites for Business Success
By Peter Van Dijck ISBN 2880467314 Get more information from Amazon.com |
The Elements of User Experience
By Jesse James Garrett ISBN 0735712026 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
By Mike Kuniavsky ISBN 1558609237 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Datacloud: Toward A New Theory Of Online Work
By Johndan Johnson-Eilola ISBN 1572736356 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Crossing the Chasm
By Geoffrey Moore ISBN 0060517123 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Understanding Comics
By Scott McCloud ISBN 006097625X Get more information from Amazon.com |
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A Pattern Language
By Christopher Alexander ISBN 0195019199 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
By Henry Petroski ISBN 0674463684 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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How Buildings Learn
By Stewart Brand ISBN 0140139966 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds
By Mitch Resnick ISBN 0262680939 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Information Architecture: An Emerging 21st Century Profession
By Earl Morrogh ISBN 0130967467 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web
By Christina Wodtke ISBN 0735712506 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Information Architecture: Designing Information Environments for Purpose
By Alan Gilchrist ISBN 1856044874 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Information Architecture for Designers: Structuring Websites for Business Success
By Peter Van Dijck ISBN 2880467314 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Practical Information Architecture: A Hands-On Approach to Structuring Successful Websites
By Eric L. Reiss ISBN 0201725908 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Mapping Websites: Digital Media Design
By Paul Kahn and Krzysztof Lenk ISBN 2880464641 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Proven Portals: Best Practices for Planning, Designing, and Developing Enterprise Portals
By Dan Sullivan ISBN 0321125207 Get more information from Amazon.com |
e-Learning by Design
By William Horton ISBN 0787984256 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Web-Based Instruction: A Practical Guide for Online Courses
By James Van Keuren ISBN 1578864437 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Designing Effective Online Instruction: A Handbook for Web-Based Courses
By Daniel P. Li, Hongqin Koontz, Franklin R. Compora ISBN 1578863864 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Rapid Instructional Design: Learning ID Fast and Right
By George M. Piskurich ISBN 0787980730 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Prioritizing Web Usability
By Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger ISBN 0321350316 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design By Alan Cooper Published by IDG Books Worldwide ISBN: 1568843224 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Built for Use: Driving Profitability Through the User Experience By Karen Donoghue Published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing ISBN: 0071383042 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery By Joann T. Hackos Published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471085863 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Designing and Writing Online Documentation: Second
Edition By William Horton Published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471306355 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Designing Effective Wizards: A Multidisciplinary Approach By Daina Pupon Wickham (Editor) Published by Prentice Hall PTR ISBN: 013092377X Get more information from Amazon.com |
Designing Large-Scale Web Sites: A Visual Design
Methodology By Darrell Sano Published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN 047114276x Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective
Human-Computer Interaction, Third Edition By Ben Shneiderman Published by Addison-Wesley ISBN 0201694972 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Designing Visual Language By Charles Kostelnick and David D. Roberts Published by Allyn and Bacon ISBN 0205200222 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Designing Web-Based Training By William Horton Published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN 047135614X Get more information from Amazon.com |
Dynamics in Document Design: Creating Texts for Readers By Karen A. Schriver Published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0471306363 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Envisioning Information By Edward R. Tufte Published by Graphics Press ISBN 0961392118 Get more information from Amazon.com |
GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers By Jeff Johnson Published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers ISBN 1558605827 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| How to Export Information about High Technology By Nancy Hoft Published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0471037435 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web By Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville Published by O'Reilly & Associates ISBN 1565922824 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Information Design By Robert Jacobson and Richard Saul Wurman Published by MIT Press ISBN: 0262600358 Get more information from Amazon.com |
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech
Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity By Alan Cooper and Paul Saffo Published by Sams ISBN: 0672316498 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Interaction Design By Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp, and Jennifer Preece Published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0471492787 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Interactivity by Design: Creating & Communicating
With New Media By Ray Kristof and Amy Satran Published by Hayden Books ISBN 1568302215 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| A Practical Guide to Localization By Bert Esselink Published by John Benjamins North America Inc. ISBN 1588110060 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Principles of Web Design By David K. Farkas and Jean B. Farkas Published by Longman ISBN 0205302912 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| The Visual Display of Quantitative Information By Edward R. Tufte Published by Graphics Press ISBN 096139210X Get more information from Amazon.com |
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence
and Narrative By Edward R. Tufte Published by Graphics Press ISBN 0961392126 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Web Design: A Beginner's Guide By Wendy Willard Published by Osborne McGraw-Hill ISBN 0072133902 Get more information from Amazon.com |
The Web Page Design Cookbook By William K. Horton, Lee Taylor, Arthur Ignacio, and Nancy Hoft Published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0471130397 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Web Redesign: Workflow That Works By Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler, and Jeffrey Veen Published by New Riders Publishing ISBN 0735710627 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Easy Web Graphics By Julie Adair King Published by Microsoft Press ISBN 0735611920 Get more information from Amazon.com |
The Icon Book By William Horton Published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN 047159900x Paper ISBN 0471599018 Disk Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Building Enhanced HTML Help with DHTML and CSS By Jeannine M. E. Klein Published by Prentice Hall PTR ISBN 0130179299 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Building Windows 95 Help By Nancy Hickman Published by M&T Books ISBN 1558514775 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| How to Write Usable User Documentation By Edmond H. Weiss Published by Oryx Press ISBN 0897746392 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Minimalism Beyond the Nurnberg Funnel By John M. Carroll (Editor) Published by MIT Press ISBN 026203249X Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Is the Help Helpful? How to Create Online Help That Meets Your Users' Needs By Jean Hollis Weber Published Hentzenwerke Publishing ISBN 1930919603 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Managing Your Documentation Projects By JoAnn T. Hackos Published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0471590991 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Starting a Documentation Group: A Hands-On Guide By Peter J. Hartman Published by Clear Point Consultants Press ISBN: 0967417902 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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Managing Virtual Teams: Getting the Most from
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Wikis for Dummies
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Wiki: Web Collaboration
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The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web
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iText in Action: Creating and Manipulating PDF
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| ActionScript: The Definitive Guide By Colin Moock Published by O'Reilly & Associates ISBN 1565928520 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Beginning JavaScript By Paul Wilton Published by Wrox Press Inc. ISBN 1861004060 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0 By David Buser, Chris Ullman, Jon Duckett, John Kauffman, Brian Francis, David Sussman, Juan T. Llibre Published by Wrox Press Inc. ISBN 1861003382 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Beginning PHP4 By Chris Lea, Wankyu Choi, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman Published by Wrox Press Inc. ISBN 1861003730 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Cascading Style Sheets, Second Edition: Designing for the Web By Hakon Wium Lie, Bert Bos, and Robert Cailliau Published by Addison-Wesley ISBN 0201596253 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide By Eric Meyer Published by O'Reilly & Associates ISBN 1565926226 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Designing with JavaScript, 2nd Edition: A Definitive Introduction By Nick Heinle and Bill Pena Published by O'Reilly & Associates ISBN 156592360X Get more information from Amazon.com |
Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference By Danny Goodman Published by O'Reilly & Associates ISBN 1565924940 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Dynamic HTML Reference And Software Development Kit By Microsoft Corporation Published by Microsoft Press ISBN 1199000949 Get more information from Amazon.com |
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide By Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy Published by O'Reilly & Associates ISBN 059600026X Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| HTML: A Beginner's Guide By Wendy Willard Published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing ISBN 0072130261 Get more information from Amazon.com |
HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide By Elizabeth Castro Published by Peachpit Press ISBN 0201354934 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| JavaScript Bible By Danny Goodman and Brendan Eich Published by Hungry Minds, Inc. ISBN 0764531883 Get more information from Amazon.com |
JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart
Guide, Fourth Edition By Tom Negrino and Dori Smith Published by Peachpit Press ISBN 0201735172 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition By David Flanagan Published by O'Reilly & Associates ISBN 0596000480 Get more information from Amazon.com |
JSP: A Beginner's Guide By Gary Bollinger and Bharathi Natarajan Published by Osborne McGraw-Hill ISBN 0072133198 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Just Java 2 By Peter van der Linden Published by Prentice Hall ISBN 0130105341 Get more information from Amazon.com |
PHP and MySQL Web Development By Luke Welling and Laura Thomson Published by Sams ISBN 0672317842 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Professional ASP.NET By Dave Sussman, Alex Homer, Rob Howard, Karli Watson, Brian Francis, Richard Anderson Published by Wrox Press Inc. ISBN 1861004885 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Programming Perl, Third Edition By Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant Published by O'Reilly & Associates ISBN 0596000278 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days By Scott Mitchell and James Atkinson Published by Sams ISBN 0672318636 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes By Ben Forta Published by Sams ISBN 0672316641 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Web Design in a Nutshell, Second Edition By Jennifer Niederst Published by O'Reilly & Associates ISBN 0596001967 Get more information from Amazon.com |
XML Bible By Elliotte Rusty Harold Published by IDG Books Worldwide ISBN 0764532367 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| XML in a Nutshell By Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means Published by O'Reilly & Associates ISBN 0596000588 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| ColdFusion 5 Web Application Construction Kit By Ben Forta and Nate Weiss Published by Que ISBN 0789725843 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: A Beginner's Guide By Ray West and Tom Muck Published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing ISBN 0072191600 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Essentials of RoboHELP Classic 9 By Kevin A. Siegel Published by IconLogic ISBN 1891762664 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Essentials of RoboHelp HTML 9: Skills & Drills By Kevin A. Siegel Published by IconLogic ISBN 189176263X Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| FrameMaker for Dummies By Sarah O'Keefe Published by IDG Books ISBN 0764506374 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Instant Macromedia Flash 5 By Jim Caldwell and Samuel Wan Published by Osborne McGraw-Hill ISBN 0072131446 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Mastering RoboHelp Office 2002 By Janice Carlson Published by Carlson Online Information Design Get more information from Amazon.com |
Mastering RoboHelp Office 9 By Janice Carlson Published by Carlson Online Information Design Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| RoboHelp 2000 Bible By John V. Hedtke and Elisabeth Knottingham Published by IDG Books Worldwide ISBN 0764546449 Get more information from Amazon.com |
RoboHELP 2000 for WinHelp: The Course in a Book By William Meisheid and David Locke Published by Sageline Publishing ISBN 0967257026 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 5 in 24 Hours By Phillip Kerman Published by Sams ISBN 067231892X Get more information from Amazon.com |
Successful Indexing With RoboHELP HTML Edition By William Meisheid Published by Sageline Publishing ISBN 0967257042 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Teach Yourself Indexing for RoboHELP Classic By William Meisheid Published by Sageline Publishing ISBN 0967257034 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Teach Yourself RoboHELP 2000 for HTML Help in 24
Hours By Char James-Tanny ISBN 0672316250 Published by Sams Get more information from Amazon.com |
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The WebWorks Publisher Cookbook
By Sarah O'Keefe, Bill Burns, Sheila Loring, Alan Pringle ISBN 0970473311 Get more information from Amazon.com |
MadCap Flare for RoboHelp users
By Scott DeLoach ISBN 0615141455 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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FrameMaker 7: The Complete Reference
By Sarah O'Keefe and Sheila A. A. Loring ISBN 0072223618 Get more information from Amazon.com |
FrameMaker 5.5.6 for Dummies
By Sarah S. O'Keefe and John Warnock (Foreword) ISBN 0764506374 Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| The Design of Everyday Things By Donald A. Norman Published by Doubleday Books ISBN 0385267746 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity By Jakob Nielsen Published by New Riders Publishing ISBN 156205810X Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability By Steve Krug Published by Que ISBN 0789723107 Get more information from Amazon.com |
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed By Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir Published by New Riders Publishing ISBN 073571102X Get more information from Amazon.com |
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| Usability Engineering By Jakob Nielsen Published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers ISBN 0125184069 Get more information from Amazon.com |
User and Task Analysis for Interface Design By Joann T. Hackos and Janice C. Redish Published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0471178314 Get more information from Amazon.com | |
