How to Access the Federal Government on the Internet [Paperback]

Bruce Maxwell (Author)

Book Description

Series: How to Access the Federal Government on the Internet | Publication Date: December 1998

This user-friendly guide -- now updated with the latest Internet information -- helps both experienced and novice Internet users around the world to navigate a wealth of U.S. government information available on the Web.

With U.S. federal agencies and departments continuing to use the Internet to offer free information to the public, invaluable information and many hot tips are there for the taking. But many new sites have been added, many sites are still hard to find, and those that are found often provide only stale and misleading information. In this edition of How to Access the Federal Government on the Internet, Bruce Maxwell helps turn the vast universe of information about the U.S. federal government into a world where readers can find the exact information they need.

The detailed index points readers to specific information and the easy organization of topical chapters helps readers develop a general feel for "what's out there."

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The Federal Government has a reputation for being distant and inaccessible to the common man or woman. Try to get the appropriate individual on the line, find the form, obtain the information, or register the complaint without pulling out quantities of hair or spending hours on hold, and you'll see whence comes that notoriety.

It is precisely for this sort of access that the Internet works so well. Opening the relevant Web site takes a matter of seconds, and you're there, with documents for the browsing, forms for the printing, and e-mail for the sending of whatever your comments or queries may be. This book is Maxwell's fourth edition of federal Internet access, so he has the format down pat, with more than 900 sites, mailing lists, and newsgroups you can get to for free. There are sites for federal statistical data and consumer publications, information for women starting businesses and safe Web links for kids, online forms for federal student aid and details about toxic chemicals, clinical trials on cancer therapies, and international travelers' health advice. For each topic, Maxwell tells a little about what you'll find on the site, plus vital statistics such as access address and e-mail. So the This is MEGA Mathematics! site has lesson plans, activities, and stories related to the math for map coloring, graph theory, knots, and algorithms, and Dr. Felix's Free MEDLINE page provides links to all the Internet sites that offer free access to MEDLINE, plus tutorials and relevant links.

The more you browse the table of contents, the more you realize how much there is that you want to explore. Maxwell's Web links are not just for folks who want to fight City Hall--they open up the whole world, from agriculture and the arts to health, jobs, technology and transportation. --Stephanie Gold

Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Cq Pr; 4 edition (December 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568023871
• ISBN-13: 978-1568023878
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,067,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This is perhaps the best book of it's genre on accessing the federal government. Far too many of these books focus on the "how" to access the federal government. This book focuses almost entirely on the "why". A majority of us do not realize the subtle reasons we all wish we could hack into the federal government, the needs to control the monetary flow of the richest nation in the world, a need that we all share as a human beings. This book helps us explore our relationships with and perceptions of wealth. We learn to accept who we are in the scheme of cash-flow thus allowing us to be comfortable with ourselves as we plow a cement truck through the walls of the federal reserve. Other related titles are "How to Commit Suicide Fast", "If You Thought the Government Was Watching You Now...", "Getting in Touch With Your Lust for Power, Wealth and Corruption", "The Whitehouse's Favorite Lapdance" and "Spiking the Punch at the State of the Union Address".