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Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 is the in-depth, one-volume guide to administering Office SharePoint Server 2007direct from the experts. Get comprehensive information to plan, deploy, administer, and support Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. With this Administrators Companion, you get mission-critical information in a single volumestraight from the experts.
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A great starting point.......2007-06-26
With most new products you have to start somewhere and for those that are familiar with SP2003 but have no idea with 2007 or are new to SPS2007 then this is a great starting point to learn the architecture behind it all a reference guide to assist when you not 100% sure on doing something as an administrator.
Not for developers.......2007-05-13
Great book for pre-sales and administrators. But too much information in this book does not give crispy answers to questions
Sharepoint encyclopedia...........2007-05-05
It discusses everything you need to know with regard to MOSS 2007 but never really makes a point or stands out in any area. I read it and I feel like I am reading an infomercial about it and at times it lays out things you can do but it is not focused or useful in terms of diving into Sharepoint functionality or pointing out ways to actually get anything satisfying accomplished.
if you use MOSS 2007, you need this book!.......2007-04-11
This is the "real" documentation for MS Office sharepoint server 2007. I believe they should have included a pdf version with each licensed version of the server.
Contributing Authors Make it Worthwhile.......2007-04-11
When the "principle" author turns the writing reins over to others, the contents of this book becomes worthwhile. Unfortunately, that does not happen often enough. In reading this book I am reminded of the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon where Hobbes asks Calvin why he is not going to school. Calvin replies that he is just going to go on talk shows and hype himself.
Don't buy into the hype. If you do, you are going to feel very lonely with this Administrator's Companion. Scot Hillier's books, although they have a developer focus, offer a lot more than this book does for the administrator.
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The ultimate gift book for any American history buff--the nation's Presidents, as they've never been seen before
What were the leaders of the free world really doing during all those meetings? As the creators of Cabinet magazine reveal here for the first time, they were doodling. Our Founding Fathers doodled, and so did Andrew Jackson. Benjamin Harrison accomplished almost nothing during his time in the White House, but he left behind some impressive doodles. During the twentieth century--as the federal bureaucracy grew and meetings got longer--the presidential doodle truly came into its own. Theodore Roosevelt doodled animals and children, while Dwight Eisenhower doodled weapons and self-portraits. FDR doodled gunboats, and JFK doodled sailboats. Ronald Reagan doodled cowboys and football players and lots of hearts for Nancy. The nation went wild for Herbert Hoover's doodles: A line of children's clothing was patterned on his geometric designs.
The creators of Cabinet magazine have spent years scouring archives and libraries across America. They have unearthed hundreds of presidential doodles, and here they present the finest examples of the genre. Historian David Greenberg sets these images in context and explains what they reveal about the inner lives of our commanders in chief. Are Kennedy's dominoes merely squiggles, or do they reflect deeper anxieties about the Cold War? Why did LBJ and his cabinet spend so much time doodling caricatures of one another? Smart, revealing, and hilarious--Presidential Doodles is the ideal gift for anyone interested in politics or history. And for anyone that doodles!
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a fun read.......2007-10-17
A fun read that puts a person's face on the history we read so much about.
Nice gift book.......2007-08-09
I gave this book to a friend interested in presidential history. Hard cover makes a nice gift. COntents are fun and interesting to read. Would recommend to others. A bit on the pricey side though...
A Great Book for History Buffs!.......2007-04-03
At first glimpse, this book would seem to be a bit silly. Presidential doodles? Come on...it has to be a joke, right? Well, it isn't! It is actually a serious book that sheds some light on past Presidents and their habits. Even the doodling tells us a little about them, although not to the degree graphologists would have you believe.
The book is interesting because of the written content, as well as the doodles. In fact, the written commentary is wonderful, covering the subject of doodles, presidential minutiae, history of the "study of doodles or graphology" and a lot more. The book is nicely made, with a well stitched binding and the pages are a high quality glossy paper.
This book would be a great addition to anyone who studies history and would be a must for collectors of Presidential trivia and books about the Presidents. If you don't fall into those categories, and just want to read it, I would recommend a library or a used copy as it is fairly expensive and is designed for those desiring to keep it for some time. It is a great, quick read, however.
A Little Disapointing.......2007-01-16
I hoped there would be more to this book. Some of the doodles were interesting, some not. I didn't actually read the book, I bought it as a gift for someone, but I wasn't sad to let it go after I had flipped through it. But it might be just what you are looking for. It seemed "small" to me.
Great gift for that someone who has everything.......2007-01-09
Great holiday or anytime gift for people hard to buy for. people interested in history or politics will especially enjoy it.
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The television show The Office meets Bridget Jones in a novel set in an office so dysfunctional, it's bound to strike a chord with any nine-to-fiver
A compulsively readable, hilarious novel told through the e-mail messages of Martin Lukes. Martin Lukes is a man who is good at taking credit where it isn't due; a man who works hard at "personal growth" but consistently lets down everyone around him; a man who communicates with his sons by e-mail and fails to notice how smart his wife, Jenny, really is; a man -- in short -- who loves jargon but totally lacks understanding.
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Satirical but truly funny as well..........2007-08-12
Kellaway has encapsulated the essence of the corporate cyclone of shallowness. Not only in the writing but in the formate of dialogue throughout the book, her characters (or character as some might argue) live in a world of digital 'chat' with little substance.
To capitalise upon this, she has written a truly funny novel, while at the same time expressing some poignant concerns about consumerism, the corporate world, and Western culture in general. The book's satire is thick enough for the most cynical personalities, but it performs it in such a way that is truly funny. Also, the more 'obvious' humor and the vapid personality of the main character lightens the tone to a degree that is both enjoyable and in keeping with the undercurrents of the book.
Unfortunately, not enough is done with the other characters in the book. While the plot moves well, there is a definite lack of character development with most of the tertiary figures.
Nevertheless, it is one of the funniest things I have read in the past year.
funniest book i've read in a long time.......2007-06-25
My Director of Marketing recommended this book to me, I read it and laughed all the way through, then I recommended it to my Sales Director, who also laughed all the way through.
For folks who have a Blackberry in their lives or live with someone who does: others need not apply...or at least understand Blackberryitis.
Four months later, I still laugh about this book. Don't miss it.
really funny.......2007-05-13
Mr Martin is the epithome of the corporate person, greedy, shallow,vain, egotistical, but clueless about who he is and a cause of misery to himself and anybody around him. The book, based entirely on his emails is incredibly funny and witty. Everybody I know who has read it has been not-stop laughing while reading it. It will appeal to anybody who has held a job in any tipe of corporation or any large organization.
A book with "been there/seen that" feel (for all who worked in a large corporation).......2007-04-17
Lucy Kellaway, a columnist for Financial Times London brings to us a corporate year in the life of Martin Lukes, a fictitious middle-level manager who heads Marketing division in A&B, UK. We don't really know what A&B does, but we get a fair idea of how Martin gets his paycheque. He is constantly firing on all cylinders, pushing the envelope till it falls of the table and giving his 110% at bluesky thinking, and manages all this though he is constantly and completely snowed under.
A jargon junkie, a poor listener, envious snob and worried about his status all the time, Martin Lukes doesn't have an eye for detail and patience to followthrough a task to success. He is good at trading emails with his peer Graham - who probably is in the same ballpark capability and performance wise - complaining about A&B's every new initiative that doesn't require his contribution.
Think Ricky Gervais as David Brent in The Office and you have a good starting point in understanding Martin Luke. His sorry relationships with this mom, wife, sons and sister are his own creational mess - and his constant underperformer's fear of being unmasked makes him hypochondriac about colon cancer that later waters down to being piles.
In his one year's worth of email, you see Martin Lukes grow from present position to being Chief of Staff, almost the numero duo position in the company as he puts it. His real contributions towards this growth, however are
1.Re-branding of A&B: A hyphen (that has more heart than a dot), an umlaut and a circumflex, remaking A&B into a-b global
2.The concept of CreovationTM : A combination of creativity and innovation, nothing more nothing less.
3.Getting to know that the CEO Barry Malone is having a hot affair with Journalist Janine.
The story starts and ends with Martin's exchange with a headhunter. His corporate life guided by his #1 fan, Pandora from Coachworx!, who through her Bronze Executive Life coaching program and model-mania (No failures only feedback mantra, SARAH model and so on) fills his already-jargon-full life with more such, comes a complete and an eventfully funny circle.
MUST READ!
A monkey could have written this........2007-03-26
This book was bad. Really bad. Unfunny and just trying way too hard.
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- The resource I keep coming back to...
- Not what the title explains
- The benchmark in its field
- Thoughtful, but overly long and loosely held together
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Dynamics in Document Design: Creating Text for Readers
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From an international leader in document design, research-based insights about writing and visualizing documents that people can use . . .
This book is for writers and graphic designers who create the many types of documents people use every day at home or school, in business or government. From high-tech instruction manuals and textbooks to health communications and information graphics, to online information and World Wide Web pages, this book offers one of the first research-based portraits of what readers need from documents and of how document designers can take those needs into account.
Drawing on research about how people interpret words and pictures, this book presents a new and more complete image of the readerâa person who is not only trying to understand prose and graphics but who is responding to them aesthetically and emotionally.
Written by document design expert Karen A. Schriver, Dynamics in Document Design features:
- Case studies of documents before and after revision, showing how people think and feel about them
- Analyses of the interplay of text and pictures, revealing how words, space, visuals, and typography can work together
- A fascinating and informative timeline of the international evolution of document design from 1900 to the present
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The resource I keep coming back to..........2005-08-10
This book is the most useful one I've found on the subject. Design books of all stripes (document-design focused or otherwise) have a tendency to provide "principles" without ever providing real support for said principles. Books will be loaded with recommendations that may or may not be well supported by data, quantified or at least well documented study results, etc.
Schriver's book does exactly the opposite, and this is why it is longer than many others. It is impossible to read about Schriver's document design principles and not know exactly where they came from. Virtually every recommendation is, for once, well supported by research findings. This book never tells you to do something without first explaining why it should be done.
If you're looking for a short-and-sweet book that conveys the most basic principles of document design ("principles" that may in fact be a designer's personal preferences), this isn't it.
If you're looking for a book that will help you make better design decisions and help you understand why to make these decisions over others, then this is the book for you. After all, it isn't so unusual for professional designers and others in the workplace to have to explain exactly why they've made certain choices over others, and this book can help.
Not what the title explains.......2005-04-26
This book could be cut off to more than half pages it is now. The information is over explained and reader gets bored.
Better luck next time!
The benchmark in its field.......2005-03-06
The reviewers who say this book is wordy and over-long just don't get it. This is not a "how to do it in five easy lessons" handbook. If you find a book like that - burn it! Books like that are usually self-published by amateurs who don't understand the complexities of the field, and they are worse than useless. In fact, they are often filled with advice that has been so oversimplified that it is actually wrong. You CANNOT learn document design in five easy lessons.
Conversely, Schriver's book is a refreshingly thoughtful, well-researched, and comprehensive overview of document design. It starts with the history and philosophy of document design and continues through contemporary needs and trends. It contains especially strong advocacy for usability studies, including documentation of those conducted by the author and her colleagues. It's about time we document creators stopped "blaming the user" and started taking responsibility to make improvements when documents are hard to understand.
Document design is a relatively new field of study, so the comprehensive timeline of its development is a gold mine, especially since no author has attempted it before. This type of in-depth research is sorely needed.
Schriver explains things in a way that is clear and compelling, with lots of thoroughly documented examples and supporting charts, tables, and graphics for clarification. And her research spans several decades, which is invaluable for tracking the evolution of document design. She has produced an unparalleled work which will be the benchmark against which other books are measured for a long time.
Thoughtful, but overly long and loosely held together.......2003-11-22
For an author who believes in giving priority to readers, she actually does a rather poor job considering her reader. She is an academic and as such has the foible of wanting to put all her knowledge on display. So she's done little trimming and condensing of her material into a form that is really useful to readers who want to quickly get to core ideas about document design theory and practice.
The opening chapter abstracts are unnecessarily long, and just repeat what shortly follows in the body of the chapter. While I liked the way she put document design in a social and historical context, this could have been done much more succinctly. The long timeline is too tangentially related to what readers really want to know about, namely document design, to interest many of them. It seems included because the professor did a lot of research and just hated not to have more to show for it than a few succinct paragraphs.
Later chapters presenting the results of various reader response studies are interesting enough, but surely we could move more quickly to the results and their relevance to document design without spending so much time with dry narration of the actual empirical testing.
The theoretical section offers a long overview of theoretical approaches, arguing in favor of a rhetorical approach. Yet the chapters that go on to apply the theory offer advice and conclusions that hardly seem to warrant such a heavyweight theoretical foundation. For instance, the chapter on typography just offers familiar practical advice of the sort one gets in many introductory books on typography. The same is true about the long section about grids. All the opening theory favoring rhetorical approaches yields results that sound very close to the plain old common sense of the non-theoretical how-to craft school that gets debunked in the opening. So she does not end up making a very strong case for the value of her own theoretical approach, and we feel we waded through a lot of theory without much benefit.
In reality, I think she does have a case and she does have some good examples of how attending to the reader through empirical research can improve document design. But her ideas would be much more forcefully and usefully presented in 200 as opposed to 500 pages.
Terribly wordy - lots of deadwood.......2003-01-29
Sorry - I would not recommend this book to a TECHNICAL writer.
This book has 559 pages and could be cut down to maybe 100 pages of useful information. Each chapter has a full page explaining the chapter... if you have to do that, you haven't planned and written the chapter well. A good product sells itself.
It takes the author 5 pages in the preface to explain the book! It also has a lot of side head paragraphs explaining more... explaining the explanations. This book was painful reading for me... I kept thinking "bla bla bla bla bla"
This book seems to have a lot of the author's opinions and theory, but not very much practical information.
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The Divine Hours completes the celebrated trilogy of fixed-hour prayer manuals edited by Phyllis Tickle. Where gospel and shared meals are known as the "food and sustenance of the Church," the fixed-hour prayer is the "work," according to Tickle, religion editor for Publishers Weekly. Fans of the previous Divine Hours books (Prayers for Summertime, Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime) applaud Tickle's uncomplicated format, her use of a modern calendar rather than a liturgical one, and the single ribbon in the binding, which is, amazingly, all that readers need to track the daily offices. Fixed-hour prayers (also called "keeping the hours" or "saying the offices") are listed for each calendar day--morning, midday, and evening. Almost all of the sacred readings are from the New Jerusalem Bible, and the psalms and psalm hymns are lifted from the Book of Common Prayer. Some readers may object to the occasional passages with traditional, patriarchal language ("Almighty God, my heavenly Father: I have sinned against you, through my own fault....") Be assured that Tickle chose these readings carefully, no doubt relying upon her extensive religious studies and strong feminine perspective, as evidenced in her excellent memoir The Shaping of a Life. --Gail Hudson
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“A welcome remedy for the increasing number of lay Christians who have rediscovered the daily offices. Tickle puts each day’s prayers, psalms, readings, and refrains–everything you need–in one place. The rhythm that Tickle’s book establishes gives one a stronger sense of participating in an ancient, worldwide but very personal liturgy.”
–Nora Gallagher, beliefnet.com, and author of Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith
The third and final volume in a trilogy of prayer manuals compiled by Publishers Weekly religion editor Phyllis Tickle as a contemporary Book of Hours to guide Christians gently yet authoritatively through the daily offices.
The Divine Hours is the first major literary and liturgical reworking of the sixth-century Benedictine Rule of fixed-hour prayer. This beautifully conceived and thoroughly modern three-volume guide will appeal to the theological novice as well as to the ecclesiastical sophisticate. Making primary use of the Book of Common Prayer and the writings of the Church Fathers, The Divine Hours is also a companion to the New Jerusalem Bible, from which it draws its Scripture readings. The trilogy blends prayer and praise in a way that, while extraordinarily fresh, respects and builds upon the ancient wisdom of Christianity.
The third and final book in the set, Prayers for Springtime, provides prayers, psalms, and readings for this season associated with rebirth. Compact, with deluxe endpapers, it is perfect for those seeking greater spiritual depth. As a contemporary Book of Hours, The Divine Hours:
Prayers for Springtime
heralds a renewal of the tradition of disciplined daily prayer, and gives those already using the first two volumes the completion they are seeking. With this volume, the series culminates with three prayer manuals encompassing the liturgical and calendar year with the offices for every day.
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Very helpful Prayer Book.......2007-06-11
This is one of three volumes intended to guide the reader through the annual calendar in prayer. In each volume the author collects scriptures prayers and hymns into a daily rythmn of morning midday and evening prayers. The best thing about it is that what has traditionally been spread throughout a prayer book in several sections is here gathered onto one or two pages each day. Genius!
Good!!.......2007-05-14
I know some other reviewers mention it doesn't really follow the bcp, but it is still a really great collection to have in your library. The readings, morning, noon, night, and compline are short enough so that even the busies people can make time to pray.
My only complaint is the language, I would have liked to have seen a more inclusive text, especially in some areas where it would have really been helpful. I think Mrs. Tickle would have a better following if the language was updated. It is this way in all 4 of her books (Divine Hours - 3 books, and then the Evening Prayers). If you are sensitive to the male dominated text of the bcp, you probably will not like this.
A Prayer Director and Mentor.......2007-04-06
Phyllis Tickle has provided a great service to those of us who struggle with prayer. She directs our prayers with four daily times of prayer (I am pleased if I can average two out of the four), and mentors us by using a language of prayer that is both familiar and new. Protestants often feel that their prayers must be "Spirit-led" and original, but this can lead to guilt and the eventual abandonment of one's prayer life. While "praying with the church," I find that my own thoughts are often expressed through the words of the prayers, and in addition, I am moved into areas of prayer that I might otherwise neglect. Let us pray!
Any Moment.......2007-03-17
Follow the guidelines or make up your own. This book is written for the seeker & devout. Whatever you seek you will find here. The spirituality of this book allows you to bring Spirit into your presence at any time. Follow the Hours and you will find you are in relationship to God constantly. Open at any moment of your day/night and you will be in contact with the higher spirit you seek.
Liturgy of the Hours for non-Roman Catholics.......2006-07-13
Roman Catholics love it too!!!! This book is wonderful and subtle and changes your life!
If the discipline of daily prayer (let alone several times a day!) has ever been a struggle for you then YOU MUST BUY THIS BOOK and the rest of the series!
I cannot even begin to stress the importance of stoppping for a time-out with God four times a day. Ms Tickle has done a terrific job of putting together prayers, hymns and short Bible readings (OT & NT) that will guide and change you. She has managed to compile what we all need in order to put the hurry and worry and stress of life into perspective. It will encourage prayer for self and others and re-focus you on the truly important aspects of life.
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This best-selling text is more than a comprehensive introduction for the business writing course; it also serves as a post-college reference tool for students launching their careers. Successful Writing at Work takes a practical approach to prepare students for the wide array of communication tasks they will face on the job. The text is recognized for its abundance of realistic situations and problems, broad range of real-world examples, and detailed guidelines for drafting, editing, and producing professional documents and graphics.
To facilitate learning, the text is organized into four sections that build logically and sequentially. Part 1 introduces the basics: keys to effective writing, ethics, the writing process, and collaborative writing. Part 2 explores such simple business writing tasks as memos, types of business letters, emails, and how to conduct a job search. Part 3 covers the fine points of conducting research and documenting sources. Part 4 details more complex business communication activities, from designing visuals and web sites to writing proposals, drafting short and long reports, and making oral presentations.
- New! Updated technology coverage includes researching with electronic and online resources; writing for the web; creating visually effective web sites; using computer programs such as PowerPoint and Corel Draw to enhance oral presentations; and learning new technologies that continue to change the way people communicate in the workplace.
- New! Added writing instruction covers how to prepare news releases in the chapter on Summarizing Material, and instructions for policies and regulations in the chapter on Writing Instructions. The Documenting Sources chapter features up-to-date coverage of MLA and APA documentation styles.
- New! Up-to-date, thought-provoking approaches to business writing include enhanced coverage of thinking globally and multiculturally when communicating in various business contexts and engaging new real-world examples that demonstrate the kinds of situations students will face on the job.
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Excellent writing tool.......2002-04-03
Whether you are a novice at writing or just need help wording documents, this book is a wonderful guide. Samples are plenty, complete from determining who is your audience to effective guidelines and checksheets. You will learn simple editing techniques, exercises for practice. Extensive guidelines are given whether you do a resme, letter, research, short and long reports, proposal, charts, etc. Included, also is some instruction on technical writing (manuals, visuals, figures, etc.)
The book is well prepared, easy to read, formatted and designed well for easy reference. You don't have to be a "writer" to use this book. It is for anyone who may write a memo to a proposal in business. I encourage the use of this book; as it is one of the better I have used. ....MzRizz
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Ufficio Postale.......2007-01-26
Great little board book about the Post Office. Cute mouse characters. No English translation.
Average customer rating:
- Some fluff, little substance
- Potable Water?
- Don't bother sending for this one.
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Means Spanish/English Construction Dictionary: An Essential Tool on the Job Site and in the Office
Manufacturer: R.S. Means Company
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Book Description
This new tool is designed to facilitate communication among Spanish- and English-speaking construction communities--improving quality of performance and job-site safety. It features the most common words and phrases used in the construction industry with easy-to-follow pronunciations. Extensive building systems and tools illustrations make this publication a unique and valuable reference.
The dictionary includes: English-to-Spanish translations Spanish-to-English translations Phonetic pronunciations Useful on-the-job phrases Unit conversion factors and tables Illustrated sections of tools and equipment for each trade
An essential tool for contractors, construction workers, architects, building officials, and students in apprenticeship and training programs.
This book is a collaboration with the International Conference of Building Officials, who extensively researched the most-needed terms, as well as with Rolf Jensen & Associates, noted building code consultants.
Customer Reviews:
Some fluff, little substance.......2005-04-10
Substance is minimal. The terminology is not day-to-day but technical and geared to projects with many trades and workers. Hopefully, somebody is not referring to this book to explain to a worker the technical details of a fire sprinkler system, but, there are about 15 entries for various types of fire sprinklers. Unfortunately, there is not consistent detail for all trades - the book would (should?) then be ten times as thick.
If you are seeking something to help you and one or two house construction laborers communicate, this isn't it.
There are 107 pages of straight English-Spanish word conversions, in very large type, the "S" pages averaged 15 per page, so you're getting about 1,600 words, many of which are repetitive.
Many words have two translations, but no help as to which to use.
These 107 pages are just as easily found in any on-line translation dictionary.
The 5 pages of "useful phrases" were helpful - again, geared towards a large construction site where your normal translator is on vacation and you have to fill in. BUT, ONLY 5 pages.
Tools span (span = luz, or vano, or claro, wonder which will convey my meaning) 7 pages and would have been a great place for illustrations, but no.
The illustrations are meager and not particularly helpful. The sketches on the cover are not included in the book - deceitful advertising. My first grader's illustrated spanish-english dictionary with one page devoted to a jobsite was more helpful.
Save your money. Don't spend it on this.
Just a few of the words I hoped to find, but didn't:
Deep, dirt, driveway, fill, place, pour, smooth, soak...
Very deficient in verbs.
A note to R. S. Means, who's books, guides, and standards I have used for decades - pull this book off the shelf and start over, you are damaging what used to be a good name.
Potable Water?.......2002-10-08
Potable Water is the proper construction term and that is what it is known as industry wide. This is a construction dictionary not a slang dictionary. I am buying it!
Don't bother sending for this one........2001-11-23
Just in looking at the sample pages I decided this book was not worth sending for. A good example is "Agua Potable".....translated to "Potable water" in English. Ask the typical American for Potable Water and 9 out of 10 people won't know what you're talking about. Ask those same people for Drinking Water and you'll get a response.
The translations are very poor, and obviously not done by a native English speaker.
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