September, 2001

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WARNING: Read this before buying or installing Windows Millennium Edition!
We started a review of Windows ME (Millennium Edition) elsewhere on this website. The article ended by asking you to hold on for the next part, which would discuss installing the new OS (Operating System). We hope you did, because we discovered something you need to know before buying -- or installing -- WinME. The article is NOT techy at all, and it's very short. IF YOU'RE NOT READY TO CHANGE OPERATING SYSTEMS YET, SAVE THIS ARTICLE. You will need it sooner or later.

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§ And Finally ....

Spotlight BookFile
Cory: Corazon Aquino and the Philippines

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§ Our background

Information about RECAP: Publications and our services.

 

§ Currently available RPI books

Some are print books, some are BookFiles™, and most have sample text to read here or to download. There may even be a FREE download of an entire book.

The Young Performer's Guide:
How to Break into Show Business

If you're a parent who wants to know how to get your child into show business or if you're a child (meaning you're under 21) and you want to be in the biz, this is the book to read. Here you can see the Table of Contents, the Introduction, and Chapter One. Co-author, Alan Simon, is the president of On Location Education, Inc., the only national company that tutors children on the sets of movies, TV, legit theater, rock groups, and more.

Cheese
A humorous, adult short novel. If you like Becket (Sam), Pinter, Pooh, Alice, Ionesco, Buñuel, spy stories, mysteries, and others of that ilk, you'll enjoy this story. Only the first section appears here.

Questionables
Every one of life's important questions in a humorous book written by Jonathan Swiller. It's also a great book to give as a gift.
Now a BookFile™.

Cory: Corazon Aquino and the Philippines
Beatrice Siegel's best-selling biography (pre-teen through adult) is now a BookFile™. In this book about the Philippines, Ms. Siegel gives a historical overview of the country's long struggle for independence and discusses the critical role of Corazon Aquino in bringing to an end the brutal years of the Marcos dictatorship.
     Ms. Siegel is
the popular author of timely books of social history for young readers, including the ALA Notable title An Eye on the World: Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer. The Chicago Sun-Times called her book Sam Ellis's Island "an unusual American portrait ... that discusses American sins as well as accomplishments." Recent acclaimed titles include The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Marian Wright Edelman: The Making of a Crusader.

The A to Z Crossword Puzzle Solver
An indispensable reference for every cruciverbalist. The Solver is not a dictionary, but it will help you fill in those annoying words if you have at least two letters.

RPI books for the Asian market.
In conjunction with Ultimate Publications, RPI has written and produced several educational texts.

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§ Other stuff

Miss Otis Regrets ... This short story first appeared in Box 749: The Magazine of the Printable Arts. Don’t mess around with collection agencies...

Moving Day A typical day in the Big Apple. Read this before you decide to move to Manhattan.

The RPI PhotoBook Remember black-and-white photographs? They often caught qualities that would have been lost in a color shot.

Drizzle A humorous, short, adult story. It comes from a crazy idea about a certain kind of plastic shopping bag and a character who would actually implement that idea.

Francisco Cabrera: Journeyman Hero This is an inspirational story for every teen and pre-teen who dreams of being in the Big Leagues.

Playing Stories, Telling Games: Collaborative Storytelling in Role-Playing Games This is an essay written by a brilliant young Ph.D. -- um, well, she's our President's daughter, too -- on certain aspects of role-playing games.

 

§ And Finally ....

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