Product Description: Under the Redwoods is Hergert's fourth collection of essays, originally written for the Rossmoor News. It contains a selection of "Ad Lib" columns, followed by Hergert's 2014 book reviews. In these pages you’ll read about: a misplaced medieval treasure, sadly languishing far from home; bakery goods developed by the Los Angeles Unified School District; a determined rediscovery of merguez sausages; a San Francisco church forever associated with Whoopi Goldberg; the best place to buy an almond torte; an extraordinary new seaside hiking trail south of San Francisco; a treasured grove of redwoods; and the history of the Allen wrench...read more

Product Description: Book reviews and interviews with Rossmoor authors.

Product Description: Rien à Paris un roman de Douglas Hergert

Product Description: Nothing in Paris / Rien à Paris a novel by Douglas Hergert Bilingual Edition

Product Description: In 1974, Douglas Hergert landed in Kabul, Afghanistan, to begin what would become a five-year, two-country tour in the Peace Corps. He lived and worked for two years in Afghanistan – when the country was still a peaceful and beautiful place to visit...read more

Product Description: Bring Out the Accordions is Douglas Hergert's third collection of essays, originally written for the Rossmoor retirement community of Walnut Creek, California. In these pages you'll read about people, books, food, and memories.

Product Description: Can't Get It in France -- More Stories from the Rossmoor News is Douglas Hergert's second collection of essays, originally written for the Rossmoor retirement community of Walnut Creek, California. In these pages you'll read about people, books, food, and memories, including: a culinary experience that people come from France to enjoy; a contemporary look at Shakespeare; the American life of an African son; an appreciation of the humorist Calvin Trillin; the buzz about San Francisco neighborhoods; and two favorite holiday essays, reprinted here from an earlier volume...read more

Introduces the features of the latest version of the Windows operating system, covering installation, customization, multimedia options, system maintenance, networking, connecting to the Internet, and e-mail. (view table of contents)

An illustrated tutorial explains the operating system's software resources and provides a series of two-page lessons in customizing the desktop, adding peripherals, performing calculations, and designing graphics (view table of contents)

Introduces the features of the latest version of the Windows operating system, and discusses files, screen options, word processing, applications, programs, graphics, and installation of hardware and software (view table of contents)

An illustrated tutorial explains the operating system's software resources and provides a series of two-page lessons in customizing the desktop, adding peripherals, performing calculations, and designing graphics (view table of contents)

Discusses how to develop programs in Visual Basic and offers sample applications of Visual Basic's programming tools and techniques (view table of contents)

A guide for beginning to intermediate users offers a tutorial approach to creating and using spreadsheets and databases

Product Description: This text provides the foundations of Visual Basic X programming for working programmers. It includes working sample code and Visual Basic shareware and freeware. The book comes with an accompanying CD-ROM.

Introduces the Prodigy on-line information service, and provides advice on installing and using the system for communications, news, financial and health information, children's activities, schoolwork, travel, shopping, and other purposes

An official guide to the Windows version of the popular spreadsheet discusses new developments, covers the major features, and provides details on functions and macros

Product Description: A fast and friendly reference to QBasic, the most popular language for novices learning to program, QBasic for Dummies leads readers, in a sequence of easy exercises, through all the beginning steps--how to start QBasic, type the lines of a program, correct mistakes in the code, and get your own homemade computer program up and running...read more

Product Description: A one volume step-by-step tutorial to the latest release of Microsoft Access, the up-and-coming database program from Microsoft. Hergert uses a small business as a case study showing how a business might actually go about building a database system and managing its resources using Microsoft Access...read more

Introduces the Windows graphic interface program, shows how to perform basic tasks, and reviews the applications programs that come with Windows

Tells how to perform basic tasks in Windows, work with the Program Manager, and use the applications programs that come with Windows