A wide-ranging collection of essays covering a multitude of topics: from how best to write technical documents for an international audience to can readability be measured. In the mix is a discussion on structured authoring, why human-generated indexes are important, ethical obligations on technical writers and manufacturers of goods, and much more.

This book is aimed at academics and practitioners of technical writing, and anyone whose employment requires them to write technical documents.

This is a journal about a trip to the edges of the mathematical universe. It is testament to the fact that even the amateur lover of numbers--one both daunted and humbled by the sledgehammer tools of the professional mathematician--can discover new terrains, new patterns and new interconnections. All that's needed is a pen and paper, an inquisitive mind and a modicum of patience--and perhaps a simple spreadsheet to see if a keyhole discovery can be scaled up into something worthy of a conjecture or even a theorem. This book is full of curiosities and conjectures, all the product of idle...