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Stop struggling to manage all your genealogy facts, files, and data--make a plan of attack to maximize your progress. Organize Your Genealogy will show you how to use tried-and-true methods and the latest tech tools and genealogy software to organize your research plan, workspace, and family-history finds. In this book, you'll learn how to organize your time and resources, including how to set goals and objectives, determine workable research questions,...

"This book discusses how to prioritize debts and create a budget, reduce debts and cut expenses, negotiate with creditors, correct credit report errors and remove old information, add positive information to a credit report, adopt strategies to rebuild credit, and avoid identity theft and credit repair scams. Updates to this edition include the latest student loan repayment programs, new credit-building strategies, changes to the credit scoring of...

A fool-proof guide to essential outdoor skills in partnership with Outward Bound "Outward Bound Map & Compass Handbook does an excellent job of grounding the beginner while also introducing experienced outdoorsmen to sophisticated navigational techniques." "This book is certainly among the best ever written on using map and compass." "Deserves space on your bookshelf.... An ideal companion to Kjellstrom's orienteering book." "Long recognized as...

Provides complete and up-to-date information on the world's nations, including brand-new geopolitical maps, details on prominent figures and parties, contact information for diploatic missions, population statistics, geographic information, including climate and natural hazards, and facts on transportation, trade, and communication infrastructure.

"We were all taught the fundamentals of writing well in school. But how do we write effectively in today's hyper-interactive world? When The Elements of Style and On Writing Well were published in 1959 and 1976, the Internet hadn't been invented. Since then, there has been a radical transformation in how we communicate. The average American adult receives over 120 emails and over 100 text messages each day. With all this correspondence, gaining a...

GPS devices are great, but they can break, get lost, or easily be hampered by weather conditions or physical obstructions. That's why basic map and compass skills remain essential for anyone who spends time outdoors today. This popular, easy-to-use handbook has been helping people find their way for more than fifty years. Updated with current Web site information, photographs, and more, it covers traveling by map alone, by compass alone, or by map...

Provides a training program for beginning runners, discussing such topics as the psychology of running, cross training, diet and nutrition, and injuries.