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This all-new test preparation guide is a shorter version of the brand-new Barron's GMAT manual. Barron's Pass Key to the GMAT gives an overview and explanation of all four GMAT test sections: — Analytical Writing Assessment; — Integrated Reasoning; — Quantitative; — Verbal; It also offers intensive practice and review in all four test areas, presenting many test-like questions designed to help students assess their strengths and weaknesses. All questions come with answers and explanations. Reflecting the most recent changes in the GMAT format, this book gives special emphasis to practice and review for the Integrated Reasoning section, and includes questions that are similar to the ones on the actual GMAT. |
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Barron's Mini Look at Me Books are miniature versions of our larger Look at Me Books — resized to fit tiny hands. Scaled down to approximately half the original size, these books present the same warm illustrations with a slightly abridged story. In each, a mother animal takes care of her baby, keeping it safe and out of trouble. The stories complement full-color illustrations on every page that are handsomely rendered in a naturalistic style. Here, a baby dinosaur learns about the world. |
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Barron's Mini Look at Me Books are miniature versions of our larger Look at Me Books — resized to fit tiny hands. Scaled down to approximately half the original size, these books present the same warm illustrations with a slightly abridged story. In each, a mother animal takes care of her baby, keeping it safe and out of trouble. The stories complement full-color illustrations on every page that are handsomely rendered in a naturalistic style. Here, a baby panda bear learns about the world. |
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Barron's Mini Look at Me Books are miniature versions of our larger Look at Me Books — resized to fit tiny hands. Scaled down to approximately half the original size, these books present the same warm illustrations with a slightly abridged story. In each, a mother animal takes care of her baby, keeping it safe and out of trouble. The stories complement full-color illustrations on every page that are handsomely rendered in a naturalistic style. Here, a baby penguin learns about the world. |
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Barron's Mini Look at Me Books are miniature versions of our larger Look at Me Books — resized to fit tiny hands. Scaled down to approximately half the original size, these books present the same warm illustrations with a slightly abridged story. In each, a mother animal takes care of her baby, keeping it safe and out of trouble. The stories complement full-color illustrations on every page that are handsomely rendered in a naturalistic style. Here, a baby pony learns about the world. |
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The newly revised edition of Barron's SAT presents: A diagnostic test and six full-length practice tests with all questions answered and explained. An overview of the SAT, an explanation of the test's scoring method, and study advice. Test-taking tactics for the exam as a whole, and special strategies for each part of the test Subject reviews covering critical reading, grammar and usage, and math Detailed instruction in writing the required SAT essay. The manual can be purchased alone or with an optional CD-ROM that presents two additional full-length practice exams with automatic scoring and fully explained answers. BONUS: FREE ONLINE SAT COURSE! With your purchase of Barron's comprehensive SAT manual, you'll get FREE access to Barron's Online SAT Course--one of the most powerful SAT prep solutions available to students today. When you go online with Barron's, you get: A diagnostic test to establish your skill profile. A personalized SAT study plan to help you focus your time and energy. Expert video lessons with solutions to help you master difficult concepts. Additional practice quizzes and extra questions to help you optimize your score. A comprehensive SAT skill report to monitor your progress. SAT score projection. |
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Set to hit theaters in December 2014, Night at the Museum: The Secret of the Tomb promises to be filled with even more laughter and adventure than the first two movies! This novelized version of the comedy-adventure recreates the story in a format that young readers can enjoy at their leisure. Museum security guard Larry Daly has settled into his role as caretaker of the museum's magical inhabitants, but he's about to face his biggest challenge yet as he and his friends discover that the mysterious source that brings them to life is fading. It's up to Larry to figure out how and why his friends exist before it's too late! Includes 8 page full color insert with photographs from the movie. |
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This quick-reference dictionary for math students, teachers, engineers, and statisticians defines more than 700 terms related to algebra, geometry, analytic geometry, trigonometry, probability, statistics, logic, and calculus. It also lists and defines mathematical symbols, includes a brief table of integrals, and describes how to derive key theorems. It is filled with illustrative diagrams and equations. |
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This expanded and updated reference book lists approximately 5,100 Russian idiomatic words and expressions with their translations into English. Included are figures of speech, slang, and vulgarisms, many of which cannot be found in standard Russian-English dictionaries. Here are valuable insights on how Russian is really spoken today. Each entry comes with an example sentence in Russian and its English translation. |
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Books in Barron's pocket-sized Business Dictionaries series list thousands of specialized terms alphabetically and present concise definitions. The authors of all books in this series are recognized authorities in their special fields. Newly updated editions reflect new technologies and recent business trends. This volume defines more than 4,200 insurance terms that should be understood by agents, brokers, actuaries, underwriters, personnel professionals dealing with employee-benefit programs, and consumers who need to understand the insurance policies they plan to buy. Terminology covers life, health, property, and casualty insurance, as well as retirement plans. This new and heavily updated Fourth Edition has been expanded with approximately 200 new terms, and updatings of many other terms to reflect the current state of the insurance industry. |
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Books in Barron's pocket-sized Business Dictionaries series list thousands of specialized terms alphabetically and present concise definitions. The authors of all books in this series are recognized authorities in their special fields. Newly updated editions reflect new technologies and recent business trends. The new edition of this book presents more than 4,000 A-to-Z terms and definitions covering media analysis, target marketing, e-commerce, advertising art, copy, and production, radio and TV advertising and promotion, retailing, direct mail marketing, business-to-business promotion, and virtually all facets of sales and marketing operations. This new, expanded edition contains approximately 300 additional new and updated terms. |
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Even in today’s era of computer spell checking, it’s important for everybody to know how to spell words correctly. For those of us who speak and write in English—with its countless exceptions to spelling rules—that’s easier said than done. This book will help students, businesspeople, and everybody else master the art of spelling. The authors examine reasons why we misspell, then offer tips for improvement. Their methods include learning basic spelling rules, developing memory devices, and acquiring the habit of using a good dictionary. The authors explain homonyms and homophones, provide lists of frequently misspelled words, and present hundreds of quick-check exercises designed to improve every reader’s spelling. |
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Titles in Barron’s Business Success series are quick reads for busy people. They advise career-minded men and women on how to succeed at all levels of management, marketing, and other business undertakings, with emphasis on survival in the corporate environment. This book helps make business writing easy, with tips on matching business language to the proper format—memos, reports, proposals, letters, and more. This new edition also gives attention to e-mail, which in recent years has become a dominant medium for business communication. An appendix presents a quick-reference grammar guide, and cartoon-style line art captures the author’s light approach. |
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The updated edition of this quick-reference short-entry dictionary defines more than 2,500 accounting, auditing, compliance, and tax-related terms. General areas covered include financial accounting and reporting, managerial and cost management, auditing and financial statement analysis, compliance, and information technology (IT) terms. Also included are many terms from related business disciplines that the accountant must know, such as finance, personal finance, investments, Internet, economics, quantitative tools, and international finance terms. |
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This newly revised and updated manual presents a test overview of the GRE, test-taking advice, and a timetable for a typical computer-based test. Added features include. A diagnostic test with an answer key and answer explanations. A verbal reasoning review with practice questions in sentence completion and reading comprehension. An analytical writing review with scoring guidelines and practice exercises. A quantitative reasoning review that includes general math strategies, discrete quantitative questions, quantitative comparison questions, and data interpretation questions. Two full-length model GRE tests with answer keys and answer explanations. The manual can be purchased alone, or with an optional CD-ROM that includes two additional full-length computer-based GREs with all questions answered and explained and automatic scoring. |
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Many teachers of college-level business courses use titles in Barron's Business Review Series as textbook supplements to illustrate practical examples of business situations. The books also make excellent main texts in adult education and business brush-up programs. In addition to detailed analyses of today's business practices, these books include review questions with answers. The authors of this book describe and appraise several contemporary trends and techniques employed in company management, with reference to businesses of various sizes. The strengths and weaknesses of each method are reviewed. |
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Titles in Barron's Business Success Series are of special interest to newcomers to the corporate world, offering them practical advice on career advancement. The books are written by experienced business professionals and cover a wide range of business topics, from effective methods of communication with business colleagues to dealing with difficult people. Updated to keep pace with today's business marketplace, this book helps job interviewees meet the challenges of that all-important employment interview. For instance, what's the best answer to give a job interviewer when he asks about your background and you know you have less experience than other candidates? The author offers good answers for this and for many equally tough questions. She also presents general tips that apply to all interview questions and advises on ways to give answers that are clear, direct, and to the point. This 3rd Edition contains an appendix listing hundreds of possible interview questions as well, making this book a must-have tool for every smart job seeker. |
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Those preparing to take the Graduate Record Exam will get plenty of hands-on test-taking practice with this thoroughly updated and revised book. Students will find: Six full-length practice exams similar in length, structure, question types and degree of difficulty to the actual GRE exam. All questions answered and explained. Extra features include a detailed overview of all of the different types of GRE questions and a series of tips and strategies to help test takers maximize their scores. |
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Barron's brand-new GMAT is a game-changer, designed to give you the best balance in both the depth of content and breadth of strategies. Written by two of North America's leading GMAT experts and award-winning instructors, Barron's new GMAT book gives you the confidence to tackle every GMAT problem. You will know what to expect, what theory each question tests, what strategies you have in your arsenal and the step-by-step processes to get the correct answer quickly and efficiently. |
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This newly revised and updated manual presents a test overview of the GRE, test-taking advice, and a timetable for a typical computer-based test. Added features include. A diagnostic test with an answer key and answer explanations. A verbal reasoning review with practice questions in sentence completion and reading comprehension. An analytical writing review with scoring guidelines and practice exercises. A quantitative reasoning review that includes general math strategies, discrete quantitative questions, quantitative comparison questions, and data interpretation questions. Two full-length model GRE tests with answer keys and answer explanations. The manual comes with a CD-ROM that includes two additional full-length computer-based GREs with all questions answered and explained and automatic scoring. |
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