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...offbeat work by the heretofore little-known economist Ravi Batra of Southern Methodist University, has perched on the New York Times best-seller list for twelve weeks and has sold more than 300,000 copies. Competing doomsday books bear such titles as Blood in the Streets (a how-to manual for crisis investing), The Panic of '89 (a fictional thriller about global financial follies) and The National Debt (an indictment of America's borrowing habits...
...owner, The Apple Macintosh Book ($19.95) by Cary Lu provides several helpful hints on using a Mac. More sophisticated and artistically minded users would probably love a copy of the witty and philosophical Zen and the Art of the Macintosh (16.95). Perhaps a how-to guide to Lotus 1-2-3 or Database III would be appropriate for a senior doing a quantitative thesis. For those addictive hackers who eat, sleep and read computers, Hackers ($4.50) by Steven Levy is a fun account of famous and infamous computer heros. The Soul of a New Machine ($3.95) by Tracy Kidder...
...accountants and the H & R Blocks of this world must be rubbing their hands in glee," observes Raymond Kinzie, a senior vice president at Chicago's Lake View Bank. Indeed, tax advisers have been working overtime in a competition to develop the earliest and most detailed advice, and dozens of how-to books and pamphlets are already coming off the printing presses. Examples: the accounting firm Deloitte Haskins & Sells has published a free 96-page booklet, The Tax Revolution: A New Era Begins, and Pocket Books is coming out this month with J.K. Lasser's What...
...conference was designed to "train, equip and encourage" others who, like Graham, travel to spread the Christian message. North Americans and Europeans provided the majority of the instruction but cheerfully performed the routine chores as well, ushering and operating the weapon scanners that are now fixtures at large European gatherings. How-to workshops offered tips on everything from prison projects to street preaching to the use of drama, with continual emphasis upon methods that would be practical, efficient and inexpensive...
...addition, the report contains 37 pages of suggestions that are, in effect, a how-to guide for citizen action against pornography. The text includes suggestions on how to conduct a "court watch" program ("Citizens . . . will write to the prosecutor, judge or police officer and relay their opinions of the investigation, prosecution and disposition of the case") and how to monitor the lyrics of rock music ("Many popular idols of the young commonly sing about rape, masturbation, incest, drug usage, bondage, violence, homosexuality and intercourse...