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Rumors Confirmed: Amazon.com's New Policy Regarding Print-On ... - Associated Content

Rumors Confirmed: Amazon.com's New Policy Regarding Print-On ...Associated Content, CO - Apr 17, 2008Because of the implications of such an action on the POD industry and the publishing industry as a whole as well as on my own interests as a writer, ...

The power of persuasion. (written communication in real estate management): An article from: Journal of Property Management

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Property Management, published by Institute of Real Estate Management on May 1, 1998. The length of the article is 2034 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: A well-written letter can be a highly effective persuasive tool for property managers.  read more »

Grantsmanship and Fund Raising

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Lauffer's book is about more than fund raising. It is also about programme and resource development, and about articulating the interests of an organization's interests with those of suppliers, consumers, and other parties. Without them organizations would have no resources -- and no business. Lauffer stresses the importance of flexibility of organizational and goal achievement. His book is very practical with checklists, exercises, and worksheets.

1700 Ways to Earn Free Book Publicity: Don't Pay to Market Your Writing

cover of 1700 Ways to Earn Free Book Publicity: Don't Pay to Market Your Writingauthor: Anne Hart
asin: 0595385532
binding: Paperback
list price: $17.95 USD
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Don’t pay to promote, publicize, and market your book. The quickest ways to get free publicity for your book are to work at a writing camp (a boot camp for creative writing) and query a magazine editor to ask whether you can get a go-ahead to write an article titled, “How to Write a Syllabus for Teachinga Course In ____. (Fill in the topic of your how-to book).  read more »

Collected Economic Writings: 14 Volumes

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These 14 volumes bring together for the first time the works of the important economist A.C. Pigou. Presented in their best and most significant editions, the set includes all of Pigou's major works from 1906 to 1952 as well as many of his smaller essays and lectures. Included are many items that are now rare and hard to access for the modern scholar.The collection starts with his acknowledged classic, Wealth and Welfare, in which he pioneered welfare economics, and which embodied his concerns for justice and the protection of the interests of the poor.  read more »

Second Lives: Becoming A Freelance Writer

cover of Second Lives: Becoming A Freelance Writerauthor: Bill Harris
asin: 0312200048
binding: Paperback
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Second Lives is a series written for people who are considering starting a second career in their thirties, forties, or fifties--whether out of necessity (as a result of downsizing) or because they are entering the workforce for the first time (after their children have left home) or simply because they want to find more interesting, satisfying work and want to work for themselves instead of for a company. Unlike other career advice books, the Second Livesseries is written for people who already know what their interests are, people who have already developed certain skills a  read more »

Schoolmaster to an Empire: Richard Henry Brunton in Meiji Japan, 1868-1876 (Contributions in Asian Studies)

cover of Schoolmaster to an Empire: Richard Henry Brunton in Meiji Japan, 1868-1876 (Contributions in Asian Studies)asin: 0313277958
binding: Hardcover
list price: $119.95 USD
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Brunton's memoir opens a window on life and times in Meiji Japan from 1868 to 1876, a crucial period in that country's transformation from a medieval backwater into an efficient modern society. Schoolmaster to an Empire, the premier volume in Greenwood's newly initiated Asian Studies Series, provides a rare first-hand account of a nineteenth century English engineer and his key role in the epic-making technical developments of the time.  read more »

Nonacademic Writing: Social Theory and Technology

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In this volume, methodological, cultural, technological, and political boundaries felt by writers are analyzed, translated, and challenged in a way that will appeal to researchers, theorists, graduate students, instructors, and managerial audiences. Instead of extracting rules from previous research, the contributors, working from multidisciplinary perspectives, describe and analyze the social and technological contexts surrounding nonacademic writing. Their essays present a formative rather than summative outlook toward future research on nonacademic writing.  read more »