Akram Najjar: 13 books

Akram has always been fascinated by the way children think. He believes that somewhere along the line, we spoil their imagination and creative outlook. This eBook remembers how children can easily absorb the magical and the fantastic. It introduces 9 stories Akram believes children will absorb probably...

In 1984, Akram wrote his first poem, having been drawn to poetry since his teens. He wrote several more and realized soon that many were focusing on internal emotional issues, particular to Akram. That gave him a jolt. He retracted by destroying most of the poems he had written. He also stopped reading...

These stories saw the light when the author was around 40 satisfying the writing urge he had always had. Having tried his hand at several literary genres, he settled on writing short stories. Moving away from socio-psychological or pseudo auto-biographical fiction, he concentrated on writing...

Microsoft Project hits a steep learning curve climb when the project manager starts tracking the actual values of schedules, costs and analyzing earned value. It has a wide range of options to be configured. These affect one another, sometimes in drastic ways, and hence your results. You need to setup...

This second puzzle eBook contains a collection of 50 puzzles or riddles with their solutions. These brain teasers require insight to solve but not brute force. Some of them rely on common sense. Others are AHA or GOTCHA puzzles that Martin Gardner loved. There are some that rely on lateral thinking...

This third puzzle eBook contains a collection of 50 puzzles or riddles with their solutions. These brain teasers require insight to solve but not brute force. Some of them rely on common sense. Others are AHA or GOTCHA puzzles that Martin Gardner loved. There are some that rely on lateral thinking...

This first puzzle eBook contains a collection of 50 puzzles or riddles with their solutions. These brain teasers require insight to solve but not brute force. Some of them rely on common sense. Others are AHA or GOTCHA puzzles that Martin Gardner loved. There are some that rely on lateral thinking...

This card trick eBook is different from the other Puzzle eBooks on this site. It contains a collection of 20 logical card tricks. The 20 tricks have been collected over the years, and when known, their originator is cited. Why are they Called Logical Card Tricks? Most books, YouTube clips or...

Pragmatic technical writing for practicing writers who need to apply effective methods. This eBook focuses on writing as a process. Writing can consist of a task covering a few days or a team based effort of a few months. Since some writing tasks are large, an appendix is included that covers some...

Not another book on Microsoft Project! How is this different? It only concentrates on planning activities. (The tracking of schedules, costs and earned value is developed in the companion eBook, Click Here). Through 141 workouts, it steps you through the planning of a project using Microsoft Project. Microsoft...

There is a fair number of stand alone applications as well as add on’s to Microsoft Excel in the market used to run Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) models. However, out of the box, Excel has all the functions you need to develop such models. What is needed are robust modeling procedures, techniques...

There is a fair number of stand alone applications as well as add on’s to Microsoft Excel in the market to be used to run Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) models. However, out of the box, Excel has all the functions you need to develop such models. What is needed are robust modeling procedures, techniques...

Earned Value Analysis was first developed and used in the construction industry. These days, and with the push by the Project Management Institute (PMI), it has started to be widely used in all types of projects. Essentially, there are 3 financial measures and 2 project measures used to extract other...