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Newly updated, concise guide to self-publishing, briefly summarizing key steps in preparing books for independent publication: from writing and editing to layout and design, printing and binding, and grassroots marketing. Regularly updated in print and online, making it a living book that keeps readers up-to-date for years to come.
Concise, compact guide to self-publishing and promoting books, using new technologies to slash costs and reach readers more directly. Includes links to extensive online resources, which are updated regularly to keep readers up-to-date for years to come.
A Student's Guide to Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is a general introduction to one of the great English novels of the nineteenth century. Misunderstood by most critics and commentators upon its publication in 1847, the story of Catherine and Heathcliff and their peers and descendants slowly became recognized as the work of a genius and is now on nearly every list of recommended books for both high school and college students. However, many students today find the novel difficult to read and understand because of its language and its setting; especially challenging to some are the sections in which characters speak in the Yorkshire dialect. This guide provides an easy-to-use glossary of ...
This book is the one many people in the military do not want recruits to read. The guide contains extremely helpful hints and advice to help new enlistees during the rigors of military training. Most important, the information is free from biased interests because it is "written by a recruit for a recruit." Although tailored toward the Army and Marines, any person enlisting in the Armed Forces will find the information exceedingly valuable. Even if a person is just thinking about the military, this book will help.
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Literary Market Place 2001 is the ultimate insider's guide to the U.S. book publishing industry, covering every conceivable aspect of the business. In two, easy-to-use volumes, it provides: -- 50 sections organizing everyone and everything in the business -- from publishers, agents, and ad agencies to associations, distributors, and events -- Over 14,500 listings in all -- featuring names, addresses, and numbers ... key personnel ... activities, specialties, and other relevant data ... e-mail addresses and Web sites ... and more -- Some 24,000 decision-makers throughout the industry, listed in a separate "Personnel Yellow Pages" section in each volume -- Thousands of services and suppliers e...
Networks of communication evolve in terms of reflexive exchanges. The codification of these reflections in language, that is, at the social level, can be considered as the operating system of society. Under sociologically specifiable conditions, the discursive reconstructions can be expected to make the systems under reflection increasingly knowledge-intensive. This sociological theory of communication is founded in a tradition that includes Giddens' (1979) structuration theory, Habermas' (1981) theory of communicative action, and Luhmann's (1984) proposal to consider social systems as self-organizing. The study also elaborates on Shannon's (1948) mathematical theory of communication for the...
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