The First 60 Seconds: Win the Job Interview before It Begins

In the first 60 seconds, interviewers can decide whether you will be moved to the top of the list… or dropped from consideration! In today's crowded job market, The First 60 Seconds is an innovative book that shows job seekers how best to impress in that crucial first minute and gives strategies to constantly differentiate themselves from the competition. From preparing a credentials package to connecting with the interviewer, candidates will learn how to set themselves apart every time—especially essential with a 5% national unemployment rate.

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All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School

Few beginning graduate students in mathematics and other quantitative subjects possess the daunting breadth of mathematical knowledge expected of them when they begin their studies. This book will offer students a broad outline of essential mathematics and will help to fill in the gaps in their knowledge. The author explains the basic points and a few key results of all the most important undergraduate topics in mathematics, emphasizing the intuitions behind the subject. The topics include linear algebra, vector calculus, differential and analytical geometry, real analysis, point-set topology, probability, complex analysis, set theory, algorithms, and more. An annotated bibliography offers a guide to further reading and to more rigorous foundations.

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How To Text Message Women (with Examples)

I use text messages a lot. In my opinion, it is a key tool available for interacting with women. I think they are better than phone AND email. They are quick, easy to respond to, and private. They can be light and friendly, fun and flirty, seductive, or downright nasty. I have had text message conversations that fit into all of these. I have even gotten my freak on, text style.

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Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things: An Unusual Book of Euphemisms

This book is a glorious demonstration of all the terrible things that we can say about one other, spoken in the glancing hilarity of euphemism, and presented in a delightful concoction of erudition and etymology. Civilized people across the ages have gone to such lengths to avoid saying the worst, or to say the worst in more polite terms, and this book brings to bear more scholarship, thought, and whimsy to these words and phrases than was expected or thought possible, leading this reviewer to blush, giggle, and laugh out loud in the middle of a bookstore. Well-written, well-researched, and well-illustrated, it it marvel that the English language can express so beautifully the worst things in our nature to express. Sex, old age, excrement, pregnancy, and drunkenness are just a few of the topics treated euphemistically.

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