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This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader,s notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers' entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.

Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gewndolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend—the "rivals" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds—pandemonium breaks loose.

Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!.
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First things first: readers coming to To Have and Have Not after seeing the Bogart/Bacall film should be forewarned that about the only thing the two have in common is the title. The movie concerns a brave fishing-boat captain in World War II-era Martinique who aids the French Resistance, battles the Nazis, and gets the girl in the end. The novel concerns a broke fishing-boat captain who agrees to carry contraband between Cuba and Florida in order to feed his wife and daughters. Of the two, the novel is by far the darker, more complex work.

The first time we meet Harry Morgan, he is sitting in a Havana bar watching a gun battle raging out in the street. After seeing a Cuban get his head blown off with a Luger, Morgan reacts with typical Hemingway understatement: "I took a quick one out of the first bottle I saw open and I couldn't tell you yet what it was. The whole thing made me feel pretty bad." Still feeling bad, Harry heads out in his boat on a charter fishing expedition for which he is later stiffed by the client. With not even enough money to fill his gas tanks, he is forced to agree to smuggle some illegal Chinese for the mysterious Mr. Sing. From there it's just a small step to carrying liquor--a disastrous run that ends when Harry loses an arm and his boat. Once Harry gets mixed up in the brewing Cuban revolution, however, even those losses seem small compared to what's at stake now: his very life.

Hemingway tells most of this story in the third person, but, significantly, he brackets the whole with a section at the beginning told from Harry's perspective and a short, heart-wrenching chapter at the end narrated by his wife, Marie. In between there is adventure, danger, betrayal, and death, but this novel begins and ends with the tough and tender portrait of a man who plays the cards that are dealt him with courage and dignity, long after hope is gone. --Alix Wilber.
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Meet April Epner, the serious, scholarly, adopted daughter of two equally staid parents They die, but April finds that she's far from orphaned when her birth mother, Bernice Graverman, comes to claim April's heart and improve her wardrobe and love life, too. April is a Latin teacher, given to wearing flannel jumpers. Bernice is hostess of a third-rate daytime talk show and wears designer labels and toad-sized earrings. She descends upon April's quiet life with the tact of a size-six locust, and the delightful and surprising results of this unlikely reunion will keep you turning pages long after bedtime..
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Presentation slides have become the most misused tool in the history of communication, which is why this book is not another operating manual for PowerPoint

That's where this book is different It teaches how to craft slides that communicate effectively by using rules of good slide design. First and foremost, slides are a visual medium, yet most presenters make the critical mistake of treating PowerPoint like a word processor. But like all visual media, slides have design requirements that are very different from text-based tools.


Save Our Slides is the first undergraduate and professional text to articulate a detailed, systematic set of visual design rules for PowerPoint and to do so in a colorful, engaging way. This is the text that undergraduates in communication and business as well as working professionals have been waiting for. Most people know how to "make" slides, but look where that's gotten us--a well deserved backlash against ugly slides that confound the communication process rather than promote it. What's desperately needed in today's colleges and workplaces is a clear set of audience-centered design principles for PowerPoint.


In Save Our Slides, visual communication expert Dr. William Earnest does just that by carefully introducing, illustrating, and explaining his five Rules of Design, providing strategies for minimizing text use, avoiding poor color combinations, selecting appropriate clip-art, working with photographs, and more.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Why This Book?

A Brief Intro

A Few Simple Rules

Rule 1: Pick a Good Template
Exercise 1: Good Template, Bad Template
Designer's Notebook: Templates

Rule 2: Limit the Number of Words
Exercise 2: The Joy of Keywording

Rule 3: Use Sans Serif Fonts for Better Legibility
Designer's Notebook: Fonts

Rule 4: Handle Graphic Elements Professionally
Designer's Notebook: Clip-Art Styles

Rule 5: Choose High Contrast Color Combinations
Exercise 3: Putting It All Together
Exercise 4: You Make the Rules

About the Author.
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The text of this Norton Critical Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest is the established three-act version Originally in four acts, Wilde shortened it to three at the urging of George Alexander, the owner of the St. James Theatre and first actor to play Jack Worthing. The play is accompanied by explanatory annotations and by an appendix of excised portions.

"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Joseph Donohue, Regenia Gagnier, and Karl Beckson.

"Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, among them George Bernard Shaw's famous dissenting view and the American assessment by H. F. "Essays in Criticism" includes six diverse assessments of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Camille Paglia, Christopher Craft, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Peter Raby, and Richard Haslam.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide..
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Here's practical, easy-to-apply information for all of today's health care coding systems With this workbook, students will learn to code correctly and obtain the correct reimbursement for medical services. Practice exercises follow each "step" of information and conclude each unit. The workbook matches the organization of Step-by-Step Medical Coding, 2007 Edition, and offers three types of activities/exercises for each chapter: theory, practical, and reports. No other text on the market brings together such thorough coverage of all coding systems in one source!

• For each chapter, the workbook offers three types of activities/exercises:
  • Theory questions are comprised of fill-in-the-blanks, multiple choice, and true or false questions.
  • Practical activities consist of line coding exercises.
  • The reports exercises simulate a real-world experience by coding from original source documents that have been "washed" of all confidential information.

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