Here are authentic stories you can re-tell to friends, family, classmates, club or conference audience. Use them as great conversation starters, in student projects, or to make telling points in a business talk. Off-beat but nothing off-color. Just remarkable eye-openers, and above all, true and memorable encounters. There are five categories: true history and adventure; how we humans behave; mysteries and out-of-this-world ideas; nature's wonders; science and space technology.

The book has several color illustrations, charts of the symbols, and a clear chapterized text. Runes and Rune Reading: An Introduction to the Runic Symbols of Northern Europe joins a fairly large contingent of volumes contributing to this popular topic. Modern readers of all ages are fascinated by the medieval world, and many adults are also drawn to the intuitive possibilities of the somewhat mysterious nordic runes. "Rune Reading" occurs when a person looks at a runic symbol, chosen in one of various ways, and reflects on the qualities which it traditionally represents. This can be done for...

Here's a user-friendly list of words and phrases we meet soon after a computer comes to live with us. New users may not appreciate being called dummies or idiots, nor do they need to buy a big dictionary of thousands of bits of computer jargon intended for "geeks." This is as un-geeky as it gets with just 200 entries.Trust me, that's enough to get you going.