Jack McCall was born to be a priest because his father wanted it so badly. Alan Clement was born a Catholic because his mother was one. In On the Way Out, two elderly men from two starkly different walks of life share a year's worth of humorous, insightful conversations as they discuss things that matter and reflect on life.

Jack McCall was a Jesuit priest for thirty years and then a married man for thirty more. His friend Alan Clement lived through loss of a business; the joys of marriage, family, relationships; and the discovery of self-worth. As they share transcripts from their conversations in a retirement home that detail their experiences from a combined more than one hundred and sixty years of life, it is evident that neither had a smooth journey as each faced his share of disappointments, losses, and struggles. Yet as their lively conversations reveal, both eventually discovered resilience and the will to live a rewarding life, despite facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

On the Way Out is an inspirational compilation of insightful exchanges of wisdom and humor from two men from different sides of the tracks who, through their diverse experiences, ultimately learned to embrace happiness, faith, and love.

Computer technology pervades almost every aspect of our life: from the cars that we drive, to the mobile phones that we use to communicate; from the digital cameras that capture images of the world around us, to the laser printers that turn image into picture. Yet at the heart of these enabling technologies lie fundamental components and systems, without the understanding of which such technologies would never have been developed. Principles of Computer Hardware explores the fundamentals of computer structure, architecture, and programming that underpin the array of computerized technologies around which our lives are now built. The book opens with an introduction to the fundamental concepts upon which computers are constructed - gates, circuits, logic - and computer arithmetic, the 'language' through which computers communicate. It then reveals how computers are structured and how they operate, taking us step-wise from the instruction set architecture, the bringing together of instructions through assembly language programming, and on to the heart of the computer, the central processing unit. The book then builds on these foundations to consider how the hardware interfaces with its surroundings, introducing us to topics such as computer memory; operating systems and the interface between hardware and software; and computer peripherals and computer communications - the interface with the outside world. Always putting educational value first, Principles of Computer Hardware uses the 68K processor as a powerful teaching and learning tool, putting substance firmly before style. With the clarity of explanation and captivating style for which Alan Clements is renowned, the book draws the student in to the heart of the subject, to foster an in-depth understanding from which more specialised study can then extend. The learning experience is enriched still further with a free CD-ROM, providing resources to enable students to engage with the subject in a hands-on manner: * A Windows-based simulator for the student to explore the design of digital circuits * Windows and DOS-based 68K simulators for students to investigate the operation of the 68K processor * An ARM simulator for students to write programs for a RISC processor, and run them on a PC Online Resource Centre: For lecturers (password protected): * Figures from the book available to download, to facilitate lecture preparation * Solutions to problems featured in the book, to aid formative learning * Multiple choice question test bank, to facilitate assessment of students' learning

Jack McCall was born to be a priest because his father wanted it so badly. Alan Clement was born a Catholic because his mother was one. In On the Way Out, two elderly men from two starkly different walks of life share a year's worth of humorous, insightful conversations as they discuss things that matter and reflect on life.

Jack McCall was a Jesuit priest for thirty years and then a married man for thirty more. His friend Alan Clement lived through loss of a business; the joys of marriage, family, relationships; and the discovery of self-worth. As they share transcripts from their conversations in a retirement home that detail their experiences from a combined more than one hundred and sixty years of life, it is evident that neither had a smooth journey as each faced his share of disappointments, losses, and struggles. Yet as their lively conversations reveal, both eventually discovered resilience and the will to live a rewarding life, despite facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

On the Way Out is an inspirational compilation of insightful exchanges of wisdom and humor from two men from different sides of the tracks who, through their diverse experiences, ultimately learned to embrace happiness, faith, and love.

You Can Be Great On Your Feet is a promise kept for those who read the book. "Take it to work, take it to bed, and take it to heart." Within this compact, down to earth, in your face paperback is the experiment and wisdom of a corporate spokesman who represented Fortune 50 firms throughout the USA and Europe and had faced hundreds of audiences ranging form physicians to philosophers and everything in between. He has coached over 200 top executives in speaking techniques and thousands of sales executives in making presentations.
You won't find Alan Clement's radical common sense approach to speaking in a textbook. He deals in reality. He has been there, and he fills the pages with techniques that work. Get ready to accept the fact that the most effective presentations at major meetings, for example, should be no longer than 10 minutes, followed by a 15 minute Q&A. That include the CEO's talk (no one is allowed to make a speech).
The book provides an opportunity for companies to improve the bottom line by improving the communicating skills of its people in place. That represents a 45% saving just sitting there waiting, because studies show that employees in the typical workplace are misinterpreting one another for more than half the time. No accident that the best way to improve their communicating is to show them how to be great on their feet.
Clement points out that most of us gather stuff to impress the audience rather than relate to the audience. The good presentation starts with the audience point of view, he states. Their objective determines what we say and how we say it.
Talk the talk is popular expression and also a good way to start your preparation. Thesmart speaker visualizes one person who reflects the audience objective and speaks to her or him, maybe in the car on the way to work with the pocket tape recorder asking it in strange idea? We're ending up in the spoken-word medium; why not start there?
This little book is filled with ideas that at first may strike us as strange, but on reflection make perfect sense. They were borne out of experience.
The reader will be treated to a series or original techniques, as evidence by the chapter titles, such as: Making Meetings Make Sense, Deck the Slide Deck, the Q&A is the Hammer, Reinforcing with Visuals, Making Sense of Humor, and Listening to Send a Message.
Take this book to work, or take it to bed, but take it to heart and see how quickly You Can Be Great On Your Feet.

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE: THEMES AND VARIATIONS stresses the structure of the complete system (CPU, memory, buses and peripherals) and reinforces that core content with an emphasis on divergent examples. This approach to computer architecture is an effective arrangement that provides sufficient detail at the logic and organizational levels appropriate for EE/ECE departments as well as for Computer Science readers. The text goes well beyond the minimal curriculum coverage and introduces topics that are important to anyone involved with computer architecture in a way that is both thought provoking and interesting to all.