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The symbols designed by Rudolf Modley are very much alive today. They are used--much as he created them--as clip art in brochures, newsletters, newspapers, magazines, software, and even on television. [...]

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Merriam-Webster, Inc. 2003. 11th ed. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc. [ISBN 0-87779-809-5. 1,624 pages, including index, CD-ROM, and one-year subscription to online service. $25.95 USD.] I suppose it's [...]

David M. Levy. 2001. New York: Arcade Publishing. [ISBN 1 -55970-553-1. 212 pages. $24.95 USD.] I don't really like to gush in a book review, but you'll have to forgive [...]

Patricia T. O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman. 2002. New York, NY: Harcourt, Inc. [ISBN 0-15-100593-1. 240 pages, including index. $17.95 USD.] Most of us are familiar with Patricia O'Conner through her [...]

2000. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. [ISBN 0-395-82517-2. 2,074 pages. $60.00 USD.] Franklin P. Adams observed, 'I find that a great part of the information I have was [...]

'The more you know about typefaces, the better you are able to use them.' Thus says Allan Haley, executive vice president of the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) and author of [...]

Marilyn vos Savant. 2000. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. [ISBN: 0-393-04903-5. 204 pages, including index. $22.95 USD.] I recently went to pay a convenience store clerk for [...]

Constance Hale. 1999. New York, NY: Broadway Books. [ISBN 0-7679-0308-0. 285 pages, including index. $20.00.] Constance Hale is a former editor at Wired magazine and is also the editor of [...]

Patricia I. O'Conner. 1999 New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & Company. [ISBN: 0-15-100371-8. 230 pages, including index. $18.95.] 'Words fail me is about techniques for making poor writing presentable and [...]

Christopher Burke. 1998. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press. [ISBN: 1-56898-158-9. 223 pages, including index. $35.00 (softcover).] John Brockmann has argued that 'Technical communicators need to know their profession's forebears' [...]

R. John Brockmann. 1998. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. [ISBN 1-57273-077-3. 464 pages, including index. $32.50 (softcover).] Many of us have eagerly awaited the appearance of this book for several years, [...]

Geoffrey Dowding. 1998. Newcastle, DE, and London, UK: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library. [ISBN: 1-884718-44-2. 277 pages, including appendixes and index. $29.95 (softcover).] Have you ever looked at [...]

If Don Bush has taught us anything, it's that the primary skill of the technical writer is writing. If we don't know how to write and how to write well, [...]

The first obvious thing about Wired style is that it doesn't look like most other books. It is wirebound, like many of our user guides, but it has a slip [...]

Bill Horton's most recent book completes his trilogy in technical communication, following Writing and Designing Online Documentation and Illustrating Computer Documentation. Those of you who have come to expect only [...]

'Today we are living in the late age of print.' Jay David Bolter To students of Marshall McLuhan and writers of online documentation, Bolter's statement comes as no surprise. But [...]

John A. Barry. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991. 268 pages with index. $22.50. With tongue-in-cheek, John Barry describes his book as a 'paper-based, productized bookware module ... designed to [...]

William Horton. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991. 313 pages with index. $32.95 (soft cover). ... what you can present by means of pictures, do not tell by [...]