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The Oral History Workshop
Collect and Celebrate the Life Stories
of Your Family and Friends
Cynthia Hart with Lisa Samson
Cynthia Hart shows
exactly how to collect,
record, share, and preserve
a family member’s
or a friend’s oral history
in this practical and inspirational
guide. The book
breaks down what too
often feels like an overwhelming
project into a
series of easily manageable
steps—the pros and
cons of video recording,
four steps to keeping the
interview on track—and
includes hundreds of
questions designed to
cover every aspect of your
subject’s history.
Paper: $12.95/$15.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-5197-5
No. 15197
Black-and-white photos throughout;
224 pages; 6" x 9"
“Is This Thing On” A Computer
Handbook for Late Bloomers,
Technophobes, and the Kicking &
Screaming Revised Edition Abby Stokes
“Stokes gives the feeling
of a friend explaining it
all to you.”—The New
York Daily News
Now updated and
revised, the user-friendliest,
most reassuring, complete
guide for seniors,
the fastest-growing demographic
among social
networks. Ms. Stokes covers
it all: how to choose,
buy, and start using a
computer. How to sign up
for e-mail and use search
engines. Plus, the ins and
outs of online shopping,
banking, travel planning,
dating, research, social
media. And information
on all the new gadgets:
smartphones, tablets,
e-readers.
172,000 copies in print.
Paper: $16.95/$19.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6882-9
No. 16882
Previous ISBN:
978-0-7611-4619-3
Two-color; illustrations throughout;
448 pages; 7" x 9"
Steven Petrow’s Complete Gay
& Lesbian Manners The Definitive
Guide to LGBT Life Steven Petrow
with Sally Chew
Finally, the first big
book of manners for the
more than 15 million
lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender people
in the United States and
Canada and the people
who love them, work with
them, and live with them.
Written by Steven Petrow,
the go-to authority on the
subject, this definitive
book is encyclopedic in
its approach and filled
with practical wisdom,
lively wit, and much
insight. Coming out, sex
and dating, commitment
ceremonies, travel, workplace
issues, bullying and
homophobia, travel, and
more.
Paper with flaps:
$17.95/$21.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-5670-3
No. 15670
Line art; 448 pages; 73/8" x 91/ 8"
Hardcover: $28.95/
$35.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6522-4
No. 16522
The independent Inventor’s
Handbook The Best Advice from
Idea to Payoff Louis J. Foreman and
Jill Gilbert Welytok
How to turn a milliondollar
idea into a million
dollars. Cowritten by the
creator of PBS’s Everyday
Edisons and a patent
attorney, here is everything
a future inventor
needs: Understanding the
difference between a good
idea and a marketable
idea. Market research on a
tight budget. The effective
pitch, questions to ask a
prospective manufacturer,
14 licensing land mines
to avoid, and Ten Things
Not to Tell a Venture
Capitalist.
Paper: $14.95/$18.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-4947-7
No. 14947
320 pages; 7" x 9"
The NPR ® Guide to Building a
Classical CD Collection Second
Edition, Revised and Updated Ted Libbey
In his informed and
indispensable guide,
National Public Radio’s
Ted Libbey takes listeners
by the hand through
the classical repertory to
build a music library of
the essential 350 works.
184,000 copies in print.
• Selection of the Book-of-the-
Month Club.
Paper: $15.95/$19.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-0487-2
No. 10487
Photographs and illustrations
throughout; 538 pages; 6" x 9"
Previous ISBN: 1-56305-051-X
The NPR ® Listener’s Encyclopedia
of Classical Music Ted Libbey
Jam-packed with 1,500
entries and over 2,000
recommended recordings,
this is an everythingyou-need-to-know
bible.
Buyers will receive a
password to an interactive
website that allows them
to listen to over 500 examples
of works, techniques,
and performers discussed
and cross-referenced in
the book.
• Alternate selection of Bookof-the-Month
Club, History Book
Club, and Insight Out Book Club.
Paper: $19.95/$24.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-2072-8
No. 12072
Photographs and illustrations
throughout; 992 pages; 6" x 9"
Hardcover: $29.95/
$33.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-3642-2
No. 13642
NPR is a registered trademark of National Public Radio.
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