The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Shopping


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Tired of shopping at the mall? Now, it's easier than ever--and more secure--to shop online. Learn basics of maneuvering through eBay and other sites that offer everything from books to collectibles, vintage cars to travel deals. Accessible text provides quick reference.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet


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An overview of the Internet explores such online fundamentals as getting connected, searching the Web, contributing to newsgroups, FTP, Gopher, chat groups, e-mail, multimedia, MP3, and online security.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying a Piano


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Tune in and tone down piano-shopping stress. Unfamiliar with manufacturers, manufacturing methods, materials, or price ranges, the piano buyer can still educate himself before making the big investment, saving time, money, and frustration. This is the first book written by salespeople that dispels myths and airs dirty tricks, making it an easy–to–use buyer’s guide for all the well known, and many of the not–so–well known, piano models. • How to choose from new or used, digital or acoustic, upright, grand, hybrid, or player pianos • Nearly half a million pianos are purchased annually in the United States, with Americans spending nearly $1.7 billion a year on them • Piano technicians and teachers require this accurate information to dispense advice on buying




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting Your Own Business, 6th Edition


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• New content on developing social media and web strategies • More than 120 documents—available at idiotsguides.com—offer time-saving ideas as well as bonus chapters




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth


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Walks expectant parents through the entire nine-month process of giving birth, with tips on choosing delivery options, what to eat and what to wear, exercise, how to deal with the emotional roller coaster, and its effects on the couple's relationship, with new information on medical practices, genetic testing, conception, and more. Original.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Electronics 101


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A creative spark for electronic enthusiasts. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Electronics 101 teaches readers the fundamentals of electronics in an engaging, hands-on way. Appropriate for students and aspiring hobbyists alike, this book is loaded with more than a dozen projects that start simple and progressively get more involved as the reader moves through the book. Topics include: fundamentals of electronics: electrons, voltage, current, power, conductors, insulators, semiconductors, etc.; designing, building, and modifying circuit boards; sensors and controllers; and transmitters and receivers. ? Community college enrollment-where basic courses in electronics are most often taught-is at an all time high, up 8% from 2008 enrollment to 3.4 million new students per year. ? Specifically designed to appeal to both students and hobbyists with lost of fun, hands-on projects to aid in the learning process.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Marketing, 2nd edition


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From online marketing to old-fashioned word-of-mouth, readers will find a comprehensive update on key marketing basics, as well as such topics as: • Guerilla marketing. • Marketing to Boomers and Latinos. • Online marketing. • Targeted, but affordable direct mail. • Sample marketing plans for several types of small businesses (as well as a couple of larger projects). • Practical, do-it-yourself distribution strategies. • Analysis of business segments and trends, and much more.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Web-Based Business


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The web-based basics! Aspiring web entrepreneurs will find here everything they need to know about starting and running their own small-scale online business. Whether they intend to sell goods, services, subscriptions, or advertising, this book provides them with the specific nuts and bolts of planning, designing, build­ing, hosting, marketing, and operating their online businesses. • The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Starting Your Own Business has over a quarter million copies sold in five editions • 1.6 million web-based businesses in the U.S., a $175 billion market in 2007 • Online businesses benefiting from increasing number of Internet users—with increased traffic for subscription, advertising, and affiliate program revenue




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knitting


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Knitting made easy - especially for beginners. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Knitting, Becca Smith takes aspiring knitters step-by-step through her "learn-as-you-go" teaching technique. Knitters are guided from purl stitch to finished scarf with hundreds of clear and easy-to-understand photos along the way. Readers will also learn to make hats, mittens, blankets, pillows, sweaters, socks, even kimonos-as well as their own patterns. With The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Knitting, anyone can go from picking up a needle to becoming a master knitter. ?A new "learn-as-you-go" way of teaching makes this book perfect for beginners ?Packed with hundreds of clear and easy-to-understand photos ?According to the Craft Yarn Council of America, 53 million American women knit or crochet ?Author is an expert knitter and owns her own knitting and yarn company




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Campus Safety


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A handbook that covers it all. There are many issues surrounding campus safety that students should be prepared for. This unique guide covers everything from dorm rules, frat house myths and realities, and protecting property, to staying out of trouble on the Web, at the ATM, and elsewhere, to drinking, drugs, dating, spring break, staying healthy, how to handle different kinds of people and places, and what to do in emergencies.