free stuff -- on-line business books

Business books

I've put these out-of-print business books on-line:

How to collect business debts. Published in Australia in 1990. It's the lowdown on what debt-collection methods there are, how well they work and how to choose which to use. A lot of the material comes from behind the scenes: straight from lawyers, court officials, private investigators, and debt collectors -- talking informally and bluntly. Much of the information will work anywhere. Some of it would have worked well enough in Babylon and Thebes.

How electronic encryption works. A survey on secure email and private electronic data. In plain English. No mathematics

Other books and articles

Here's a copy of the first little book I wrote. It was a best-seller (in Australian numbers): The fly in your eye. It's about the dominant life form on the continent: the bush fly. That's how it sometimes seems. And how the dung beetles are fighting back.

I've also written a few articles about Perth:

All about the water supply in Perth, Australia.
The security of petrol and diesel supplies in Western Australia. Where the petrol and diesel come from, and what could reduce the supply.
Tips on choosing a suburb in Perth. Including how to find a neighbourhood you'll like and which suburbs to avoid. In much detail.

Here are two items about writing itself:

How to write things people will read -- professional writing tricks. Ways to get people to read and remember your memo, manual, letter, resume, brochure, report, thesis, or anything else. A PDF, with a few cartoons.
How to write a non-fiction book -- tips for people who want to write a non-fiction book and don't know how to start.

A book written for someone else:

We have written non-fiction books for other people. One of these is now on-line: Dead Fish and Fat Cats. How Canada lost most of its fishing industry.

-- Jim Heath

Jan 2007