Shamutanti Hills (Puffin Adventure Gamebooks)

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Best Fantasy Role-playing Game Book Series

it's been years.

The tour de force of the gamebook genre

Shamutanti Hills (Puffin Adventure Gamebooks)
Steve Jackson
Manufacturer: Puffin Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Best Fantasy Role-playing Game Book Series.......2004-05-20

This is the first of four books from what was, in my opinion, the best fantasy role-playing game book series of the 1980s, by Steve Jackson (the one from the U.K.). As of May, 2004 these books are not available from Amazon U.S., but you can find them on the Amazon Canada web site as a newly republished boxed set. Let's hope they make it to the U.S. side soon. The adventures in each book are detailed with interesting characters, plot twists, and puzzles. Well worth the time of any fan of fantasy role-playing or "Choose Your Own Adventure" type books.

it's been years........2000-08-11

i do recall it being a very fun read, however - lone wolfish, but with a bit more class, a bit more taste. i'd like to get my hands on a copy again; mine has long since been lost.

The tour de force of the gamebook genre.......1997-08-20

As part one of the Sorcery series, this book starts slowly, but grows in stature by the end. Published initially as a boxed set with the Spell Book (which was to be required for all the successive books) but later all books were republished with the spells in the back. A copy of the original set is very rare

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Sorcery : The Shamutanti Hills
Steve Jackson
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Canada, Limited
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N2ZY06

Las Colinas De Shamutanti/the Shamutanti Hills

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Las Colinas De Shamutanti/the Shamutanti Hills
Steve Jackson
Manufacturer: Altea S a Ediciones
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The Shamutanti Hills (Steve Jackson's Sorcery, Sorcery! 1)

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The Shamutanti Hills (Steve Jackson's Sorcery, Sorcery! 1)
Steve Jackson
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIUZ08

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The Shamutanti Hills: Sorcery Series #1
Steve Jackson
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RN6RIY

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You're no dummy if you've got Microsoft Office 2000 on your Windows machine, but you might still need some help learning how to use it. There's nothing to be ashamed of--pick up Microsoft Office 2000 for Dummies and learn the ropes quickly, and you might even have fun while you're at it.

Each part of the software package--Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and the rest--gets its own section with tips, tricks, warnings, and the basic info you'll need to work with files, make your documents beautiful, and save yourself a few hours on hold with tech support. The visual style lends itself well to crossing over between page and screen without too much translation, and the writing is sharp, funny, and to the point.

After the advanced chapters, the book closes with the traditional "Part of Tens"--10 keystrokes you'll be using so much they deserve special attention, plus 10 tips to help you achieve Office wizardry. Whether you're an old hand with Office or are new to the game, Microsoft Office 2000 for Dummies will give you the information you need to get your work done. --Rob Lightner

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More than 70 million people have made Microsoft Office the most popular business software package on the planet. Whether you're a newcomer to the power and productivity of the entire Office suite -- with its word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, Web design, desktop publishing, and e-mail software -- or discovering Microsoft Office for the first time, you'll find yourself right at home with the friendly advice and plain-English answers inside Microsoft Office 2000 For Windows For Dummies.

Get all Office 2000 programs working together -- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage, Outlook, Publisher, PhotoDraw, and Internet Explorer -- and take your computing skills to the next level. Publish professional-looking Web pages from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and FrontPage. Organize your schedule and e-mail with Outlook; create dazzling slide presentations with PowerPoint; create documents quickly with Word; and budget your finances with Excel's cool charts and graphs.

Microsoft Office 2000 For Windows For Dummies covers the Standard, Professional, and Premium editions of Office 2000, so whatever your needs, we've got the answers!

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Very Informative.......2007-05-17

I ordered this book to learn more about MS Office. I received this book within 5 days and it is very helpful and very easy to understand.

Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows for Dummies.......2005-07-01

The book (Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows for Dummies)is like new. I could hardly believe when I open the package and saw the book. The speed at when it reaches me was also excellent. I would encourage anyone to conduct business it them.

Really for "Dummies".......2004-12-03

As others have said, this book is very very basic--perhaps because it attempts to cover all the components of the Office 2000 suite in less than 500 pages. If you have even basic familiarity with the program you're using, it won't be much help. For example, I turned to this book to see if I could discover some of the more sophisticated features of Outlook email, and was disappointed. It's pitched to the "how to send a message" crowd. But, I also am trying Excel for the first time, and it helped a lot just to be able to easily find how to enter a basic formula. Bottom line is, once you start using a program regularly you'll graduate from this manual pretty quickly.

Turned out to be less than useful.......2003-11-27

I got this book when I entered the working world out of university- aside from providing a few very basic tips on how to format printing and what not, there is not much to this book that is practically useful.

I wanted something that would pick up where I left off in college and help me make usable spreadsheets with guides to the various equations and what not- alas, there is very little here.

This book is only for total beginners- you will soon outgrow this book and wish you had something that went a bit farther in depth and was of more use as a reference guide.

Microsoft Office 2000.......2003-09-08

Great source of easy to read information!

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Good for Just Basics
Useless
Gentle intro but no depth
Outstanding "jump" start for those new or familari w/ Excel
Excel made easy...

Excel 2000 for Windows for Dummies
Greg, PhD Harvey
Manufacturer: For Dummies
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ASIN: 0764504460

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Practical, fun and easy-to-use books that cover topics with humor and entertainment. Filled with simple icons and clear, on-the-mark cartoons. WLY0764504460 WLY-0764504460 785555504462 8555550446

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You may not be a dummy, but that doesn't mean you were born knowing how to use spreadsheets. Excel 2000 for Windows for Dummies will bring you up to speed on Microsoft's premillennial package, even if you've never used anything like it before.

A great reference for the beginner and the pressed-for-time, this book is organized as a series of chapters that build from the basics of pointing and clicking and figuring out the different parts of the spreadsheet to more advanced topics like Web-based data entry and macros. Visual learners will find much to love as well--there are screen shots galore and plenty of icons to point you to the most salient items quickly.

Written in characteristic Dummies-style--laid-back and humorous--the text is as nonthreatening as can be; even the most diehard computer-phobes will find themselves chuckling as they (gulp) learn how to enter data. The techno-geeks down the hall might snicker at the bright yellow book on your desk, but you can snicker right back because you know you have better weekends. --Rob Lightner

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Good for Just Basics.......2003-08-29

This book is fine if all you want to do is basic spreadsheets. If cutting, pasting, basic formatting, or creating VERY simple formulas is all you need to do then this book is fine. However, if you are trying to do anything more complicated forget using this book. For instance, the section on creating Macros wasn't very detailed. In addition, the book is completely missing any explanation of how to use the more complicated formula functions (there is no mention of how to do any of the statistical functions). Probably 80% of what an average user needs is in this book. But for anything beyond the basics, forget it; you'll need another reference.

Useless.......2002-12-18

I foudn the book compleely useless and a waste of money. It explains nothing. After studying this book for two hours I was unable to do anything whatsoever in Excel. Look elsewhere.

Gentle intro but no depth.......2002-08-13

This is a good book for a non stressfull introduction, but there are few good hands on examples. I've found that by doing complex detailed step by step examples you can learn more faster. The learnkey.com website has a good excel class

Outstanding "jump" start for those new or familari w/ Excel.......2002-03-20

I used this book in lieu of sending a large group of our people to training classes. After doing so, the "help" requests for Excel went to absolute zero. Heck, I'm VP of IT and been working in spreadsheets since VisiCalc, and I picked up a couple of things.

Excel made easy..........2001-12-31

This book not only took the mystery out of spreadsheets, but made me a spreadsheet junkie. I keep it by my desk for reference. A definite for people who want a quick start into the world of spreadsheets.

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Covers All 8 Office 2000 Programs

The Microsoft Office 2000 Guide That Gives You More! Microsoft Office 2000 is powerful. It's versatile. And it's very complicated. Which is why you need this encore to Microsoft ^® Office 2000 For Windows ^® For Dummies ^®. It's packed with advanced techniques and secrets that will help you get More out of every program in the suite — and make you More creative, More efficient, and More productive.

Inside, find helpful advice on how to:

Find out how to make the advanced modules of Office — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook — work together seamlessly
Try out keyboard shortcuts, macros, templates, and customization features that make Office 2000 work smarter
Get up to speed on graphics and multimedia basics — and add impact to documents, presentations, printed pieces, and Web pages
Use PhotoDraw and FrontPage to make Web-page design as simple as creating a Word document
Get a handle on Small Business tools like Business Planner, Direct Mail Manager, Customer Manager, and Financial Manager
Create business cards, brochures, flyers, and other desktop publishing projects quickly and easily with Publisher

Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows for Dummies Quick Reference

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PowerPoint 2000 For Windows For Dummies
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Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows for Dummies Quick Reference
Doug Lowe
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"A yellow cover slapped on a lukewarm regurgitation of common Office tasks."

The Dummies Quick Reference series is the only good Dummies series knockoff, and with good reason: The books fill a necessary void. They look and smell like Dummies books, but they contain concentrated bits of how-to information. At least that's what the covers promise.

The most revealing thing about this book is that it's "revised" by Bjoern-Erik Hartsfvang, which is the most interesting name I've typed this year. (Well, next to Sanky Winkervan.) The book doesn't exactly explain what was revised, so I was eager to determine whether any of Doug Lowe's familiar and clever writing snuck through Hartsfvang's revision. Apparently, and to my regret, none of it did.

Honestly, there's nothing obscenely wrong with this book. It documents most of the major things you can do with the popular Office 2000 components: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and Publisher. There's a general introduction chapter that explains many of the common Office activities. Then the book breaks out into chapters covering each Office application. Still there's nothing special. It's just average information bobbing in a sea of mediocrity.

The topics aren't covered in real depth, which makes sense given the book's teensy size. There are step-by-step lists, but no inside hints, tips, or tricks. Often a table is presented as a solution without a real explanation of what the problem is. So, this book is more of a regurgitated manual than the kind of information I would expect to find. Despite the promise of Doug Lowe's name, this book is a disappointment. --Dan Gookin

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Time to make the jump to Microsoft's Office 2000 suite of productivity tools? No time to slog through pages and pages of user manuals? Cut straight to the heart of things with Microsoft Office 2000 For Windows For Dummies Quick Reference, your fast and friendly fingertip companion to getting up and running with the latest versions of Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Publisher.

Dive right in and emerge with the information you need to complete whatever task you have at hand. Inside Microsoft Office 2000 For Windows For Dummies Quick Reference, you'll find clear, no-nonsense explanations of all the Office 2000 features and commands in an easy A-to-Z order, and you'll discover how all the programs work together in one integrated suite. Review common chores used in all Office applications; use the powerful Office Wizards to save time and headaches when creating files; share data across applications, projects, or workgroups; and master the fine art of desktop publishing with Publisher 2000, the newest tool in the Office 2000 Professional Edition.

With its spiral, lay-flat binding for quick reference and its low price, this book will become your desktop companion.

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PowerPoint 2000 For Windows For Dummies.......2001-04-16

This book is organized into 20 chapters beginning with a very basic to advance. PowerPoint 2000 For Windows For Dummies delivers fast and friendly advice on how to: Master the PowerPoint basics and start creating great-looking presentations today. Use PowerPoint's slide masters, templates, and macros to save time and develop a consistent look. Select a color palette that maximizes the impact of your presentations; and create graphics, tables, and charts that drive your message home. Speed up production with Tri-Pane view, the new feature that lets you toggle between slides, outlines, and notes. Dazzle your audience with clip art, sounds, video, and other cool multimedia effects. Make sure everything runs smoothly when you're broadcasting slides from your laptop. Save your presentation in HTML and post it on your Web site. Those are a very interesting topics that covered in the book with very detail of "how to". The book is also organized in a very easy way in which you can use it as a reference. For example, if you want to have sound effect in your presentation you just jump right into the chapter that discusses how to create sound for your presentation without having to go through the whole book.

I found this book very helpful. I think this book would be an excellent book for college students. I highly reccommend this book to teachers because they can teach their students how to do PowerPoint presentations by just follow step by step as to what the book says.

PowerPoint 2000 For Windows For Dummies.......2001-04-16

Not artistic? Not techno-savvy? Not a problem! Create effective, eye-catching presentations that will blow your audiences away. This is the main theme of the book which I reviewed "PowerPoint 2000 For Windows For Dummies". With the expert advice of PowerPoint pro Doug Lowe and the know-how packed inside this plain-English reference, you find out how to organize, illustrate, and deliver your ideas with maximum impact and a minimum of headaches by using PowerPoint's powerful built-in features. Whether you're preparing a slide show for a conference room, a sales presentation for your laptop, or a demo for your Web site, the tips and tricks you find inside PowerPoint 2000 For Windows For Dummies will leave your audiences clamoring for more! This book is organized into 20 chapters beginning with a very basic to advance. PowerPoint 2000 For Windows For Dummies delivers fast and friendly advice on how to: Master the PowerPoint basics and start creating great-looking presentations today. Use PowerPoint's slide masters, templates, and macros to save time and develop a consistent look. Select a color palette that maximizes the impact of your presentations; and create graphics, tables, and charts that drive your message home. Speed up production with Tri-Pane view, the new feature that lets you toggle between slides, outlines, and notes. Dazzle your audience with clip art, sounds, video, and other cool multimedia effects. Make sure everything runs smoothly when you're broadcasting slides from your laptop. Save your presentation in HTML and post it on your Web site. Those are a very interesting topics that covered in the book with very detail of "how to". The book is also organized in a very easy way in which you can use it as a reference. For example, if you want to have sound effect in your presentation you just jump right into the chapter that discusses how to create sound for your presentation without having to go through the whole book.

I find this book very helpful for college students. If I have read this book prior to any of my PowerPoint presentations, I think my presentations would look really awesome. From this book, I've learned how to add graphics, graphs, and charts. Also, I highly reccommed this book to any teachers because they can teach their students how to do powerpoint presentations by just followed step by step on what the book said.

Microsoft Office 2000 for WIndows for Dummies.......2000-04-14

Great book. This is the book for anyone looking for quick reference about Word 2000, Excel 2000, Powerpoint 2000, Access 2000, Outlook 2000 and Publisher 2000. This is only a quick reference. For in-depth understanding you might need other books.

Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows (Dummies 101 Series)

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This book is phenomenal!
opened new doors

Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows (Dummies 101 Series)
Peter Weverka
Manufacturer: For Dummies
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ASIN: 0764504541

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Ready to make Office 2000 work for you? Packed with step-by-step instructions and exercises to get you up and running in Office, this fun and friendly tutorial helps you explore all the applications of Office 2000…including their exciting new Web capabilities.

Put Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, and Internet Explorer to work with more than 60 lessons that cover the most important features of Office 2000 in a thorough, easy-to-follow set of tutorials:

Create dynamite documents by becoming familiar with the ins and outs of Word 2000 Let Excel crunch those numbers for you…and make them look great with charts and

graphs Develop show-stopping PowerPoint presentations that you can run on-screen or online Use Outlook for all your e-mail messaging, contact info, and scheduling needs Compose and publish your own newsletters with Publisher Keep your data organized with Access Explore the Internet with Internet Explorer 5

Plus, Dummies 101: Microsoft Office 2000 For Windows comes with a bonus CD that includes practice files for most of the exercises in the book, two bonus chapters, Adobe's Acrobat Reader, and shareware versions of Jixxa, BrainsBreaker, and more.

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This book is phenomenal!.......1999-12-28

Loved it! As I do all Dummies books. These aren't necessariy bedside reading texts, rather great reference tools.

opened new doors.......1999-06-18

This book really helped me learn office. now I feel like I know the program well. I'm really glad I bot this book.

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