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88 Money-Making Writing Jobs
by Robert Bly<p><i>THE BEST WAYS TO MAKE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WRITING!</i></p><p>Writers today are no longer just working on books and newspapers. Businesses, advertisers, and hundreds of other outlets are desperate for people who can craft effective messages and persuade people with their words. A strong writer can make $50 to $200 per hour, or even more. . . if you know where to find the work. </p><p>Robert Bly is a professional writer who makes more than $600,000 per year from his writing. Now, he's ready to share his secrets. <b>88 Money-Making Writing Jobs</b>presents the best outlets writers can find to turn their words into profit (including many that few people think to seek out). </p><ul><li>Along with an overview of each job, you'll discover:</li><li>A breakdown of what it typically pays</li><li>The nuts and bolts of what you'll write</li><li>What it takes to work in the field</li><li>How to get started</li><li>Resources for finding the work</li></ul><p>For anyone serious about a career as a writer, this guide offers the best information on how to make incredible money in ways that are fun, challenging, and make the most of your writing talents. </p>
90 Days To Your Novel: A Day-by-Day Plan for Outlining & Writing Your Book
by Sarah DometGot 90 Days? Then You Can Be a Novelist Many famous authors write their novels in a matter of weeks. William Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying in six weeks. Joyce Carol Oates often cranks out two or three books a year. Stephen King believes first drafts should take no more than three months to complete. So, what's the trick? Novel writing isn't about inspiration. It's about the time, energy, and discipline to see the project to its finish. With The 90-Day Novel at your side, now is the time. This inspiring guide will be your push, your deadline, and your spark to finally, without excuses, and in three short months, nail that first draft of your novel. The difference between wanna-be writers and real writers is the difference between talk and work. If you commit to the schedule and the techniques within The 90-Day Novel and invest two to three hours a day for twelve weeks, you will complete your book. An outline will appear. Characters will take shape. A plot will emerge. Scenes will come together and form a story worth reading. And then the talking can begin! This helpful guide provides:Instruction that distills the elements of the novel-from crafting your outline to developing intriguing characters and believable plots Strategies for gaining support from your family and friends Motivating insights about writing and writers to minimize your inevitable moments of doubt A schedule to keep you in the writing zone and keep you focused, creative, and working Whether you're writing your first novel or your third, this guide provides the coaching, the planning, and the writerly commiseration to help get your book written.
97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know
by Daniel BerlinTap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every UX practitioner needs to know. With 97 short and extremely useful articles, you'll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your skills through sound advice.Working in UX involves much more than just creating user interfaces. UX teams struggle with understanding what's important, which practices they should know deeply, and what approaches aren't helpful at all. With these 97 concise articles, editor Dan Berlin presents a wealth of advice and knowledge from experts who have practiced UX throughout their careers.Bring Themes to Exploratory Research--Shanti KanhaiDesign for Content First--Marli MesibovDesign for Universal Usability--Ann Chadwick-DiasBe Wrong on Purpose--Skyler Ray TaylorDiverse Participant Recruiting Is Critical to Authentic User Research--Megan CamposPut On Your InfoSec Hat to Improve Your Designs--Julie MeridianBoost Your Emotional Intelligence to Move from Good to Great UX--Priyama Barua
99 More Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP Model (Siop Ser.)
by Maryellen Vogt Jana Echevarria Marilyn WashamThe SIOP ® model is proven to be one of the most effective methods of teaching our English learners. Now teaching with SIOP is even easier with the second volume of Vogt, Echevarria, and Washam's 99 MORE Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP ® Model. Offering brand new, classroom-ready activities, this indispensable resource revisits SIOP ® and shows how to use it each day in the classroom. Whether searching for activities that build vocabulary, keep students highly engaged, or make content concepts clear, these teacher-tested strategies adhere to SIOP ® principles and reinforce best practices. Chapters are organized around SIOP ®'s eight components and thirty features, so teachers learn not only what activities to try, but also why they work. With its dual focus on implementation and understanding, this must-have resource helps you create a classroom where students progress both academically and in their English language proficiency.
9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #579)
by Luis Fernando D’Haro Rafael E. Banchs Haizhou LiThis book presents the outcomes of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), “Towards creating more human-like conversational agent technologies”. It compiles and provides a synopsis of current global research to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances in the context of the classical problems of language understanding, dialogue management and language generation, as well as cognitive topics related to the human nature of conversational phenomena, such as humor, empathy and social context understanding and awareness.
A: The Emergence of Social-Cultural Reality (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies)
by Kobus MaraisThis volume outlines a theory of translation, set within the framework of Peircean semiotics, which challenges the linguistic bias in translation studies by proposing a semiotic theory that accounts for all instances of translation, not only interlinguistic translation. In particular, the volume explores cases of translation which does not include language at all. The book begins by examining different conceptualizations of translation to highlight how linguistic bias in translation studies and semiotics has informed these fields and their development. The volume then outlines a complexity theory of translation based on semiotics which incorporates process philosophy, semiotics, and translation theory. It posits that translation is the complex systemic process underlying semiosis, the result of which produces semiotic forms. The book concludes by looking at the implications of this conceptualization of translation on social-cultural emergence theory through an interdisciplinary lens, integrating perspectives from semiotics, social semiotics, and development studies. Paving the way for scholars to analyze translational aspects of all semiotic phenomena, this volume is essential reading for graduate students and researchers in translation studies, semiotics, multimodal studies, cultural studies, and development studies.
A, B, See!
by Tana HobanA collection of photograms of objects which begin with a particular letter of the alphabet.
A.C. Swinburne: A Poet's Life (The Nineteenth Century Series)
by Ricky RooksbyAlgernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was one of the literary sensations of the Victorian period. His iconoclastic poetry and prose challenged attitudes to sex, politics, religion and censorship. Not only writing some of the most original lyric poetry of the time and pioneering criticism, Swinburne became a cultural icon. In the 1860s his very name was a symbol of progressive forces emerging in a repressive age. Readers across the world identified with the paganism and humanism of his poetry. Swinburne's was a turbulent life lived against a backdrop of beautiful settings in the Isle of Wight and Northumberland, and shared with a host of Victorian luminaries, or artists and writers such as D G Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, Burne-Jones, Morris and Simeon Solomon. It is a life touched by early tragedy and romantic disappointment, by extraordinary fame and abject loneliness, by masochism and alcoholism, but above all by an unquenchable vivacity. At the centre was the charmingly spoken, excitable genius whom Burne-Jones described as 'quite the most poetic personality I have ever known.' the artistic prodigy who seemed to have read almost everything, who was as happy revelling in the sea as in literary discourse. Based on new research and many unpublished letters, Rikky Rooksby sheds light on Swinburne's personality and relationships, and discusses how Swinburne's poetry develops from early pessimism to a recovered joy in the energies of the natural world. This biography is a sympathetic and fresh account of one of the most colourful figures in English literature.
A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word: New Perspectives on the Mature Work
by Yisrael LevinFocusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's later writings, this collection makes a case for the seriousness and significance of the writer's mature work. While Swinburne's scandalous early poetry has received considerable critical attention, the thoughtful, rich, spiritually and politically informed poetry that began to emerge in his thirties has been generally neglected. This volume addresses the need for a fuller understanding of Swinburne's career that includes his fiction, aesthetic ideology, and analyses of Shakespeare and the great French writers. Among the key features of the collection is the contextualizing of Swinburne's work in new contexts such as Victorian mythography, continental aestheticism, positivism, and empiricism. Individual essays examine, among other topics, the dialect poems and Swinburne's position as a regional poet, Swinburne as a transition figure from nineteenth-century aesthetic writing to the professionalized criticism that dominates the twentieth century, Swinburne's participation in the French literary scene, Swinburne's friendships with women writers, and the selections made for anthologies from the nineteenth century to the present. Taken together, the essays offer scholars a richer portrait of Swinburne's importance as a poet, critic, and fiction writer.
A cuerpo abierto
by Manuel RivasUn libro de artículos fundamentalmente crítico y a medio camino entre el periodismo y la literatura. «Este es un viaje de periodismo indie. Independiente, libre, irónico, crítico y de fábrica literaria. Digo eso, lo de literario, sin complejo. El mejor periodismo constituye siempre una pieza literaria. El sentido de A cuerpo abierto, en todo caso, responde a un propósito que con encarnizada precisión enunció Rodolfo Walsh. Esa idea de que escribir es un avance laborioso contra la estupidez.»Manuel Rivas
A de activista
by Martha E. Gonzalez Innosanto NagaraFollowing on the outrageous success of Innosanto Nagara's A is for Activist (now in its fourth printing), A de Activista is a Spanish-language ABC board book written by Grammy Award-winning lyricist and singer Martha Gonzalez and illustrated by Nagara for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for. The alliteration, rhyming, and vibrant illustrations make the book exciting for children, calling them to action while teaching them a love for books.From the Board edition.
A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage (Routledge Revivals)
by Philip GardnerFirst published in 1992, A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage brings together the most important and significant critical response to the poetry of A.E. Housman from the time of his writing to 1951. It contains ninety-four items—articles, reviews, and comments which provide an accurate picture of how Housman the poet was seen during his lifetime and for some years beyond it. The picture which emerges is of a poet not only of popular appeal, but of great literary distinction, who was admired by the majority of reviewers and critics who discussed his work. Among those quoted are J.B. Priestley, Edmund Gosse, Cyril Connolly, T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, Cleanth Brooke, Stephen Spender, John Sparrow, and E.M. Forster.
A.E. Housman: The Collected Poems Of A. E. Housman
by A.E. HousmanA. E. Housman, being one of the most famous and widely read poets of the early twentieth century, is certainly worthy of praise. His 'Collected Poems' are therefore a valuable read because they allow readers to gain an impression of the author's mind, opinions and lifestyle. Furthermore, they simultaneously depict a man who was deeply pessimistic and obsessed with death, and, on the other hand, illustrate a man who was also very much concerned with love, youth, life and the fleetingness of the these concepts.It is easy to understand why Housman's sensitive and sympathetic depictions of heroic English soldiers influenced and affected his readers, as his poetry is often written in an uncomplicated, yet sensitive style, which allows readers to feel as if they are witnessing events almost as the poet writes them down. These poems are also intriguing to read if you are a Shakespeare fan, as it is possible to spot many Shakespeare references in Housman's writing. A glossary or footnotes at the back of this book would be appreciated in any further editions, in order to allow readers to gain more understanding of the other poets and authors that Housman was influenced by. In brief, this collection presents the literary highlights of Housman's career, and this will be most appreciated by readers new to Housman's poetry.
A favor del amor
by Cristina NehringUna reivindicación del amor pasional como fuerza creadora. «Fresca e inteligente. Nehring lleva al lector por un viaje fascinante que bebe de la mejor literatura.»Mario Vargas Llosa Desde siempre, el hecho de vivir de una manera intensa una pasión amorosa se ha considerado como una mancha negra a la hora de valorar la capacidad intelectual de una mujer, un hecho que en cambio no se da en el caso de los hombres. Muchos criticaron, por ejemplo, a Mary Wollstonecraft –la autora de los Derechos de la mujer- por haber sucumbido al amor por un hombre hasta el punto de intentar dos veces el suicidio; en cambio, Petrarca pudo dedicar toda su vida a suspirar por Laura, sin que eso mermara su prestigio de poeta. Las hazañas eróticas de los hombres son un plus en la consideración de su prójimo; las aventuras de las mujeres son deslices que pueden distraerlas de sus tareas de profesionales... Lo curioso es que ese prejuicio no está instalado solo en la mente del varón, sino que ha sido cultivado por el movimiento feminista, que veía la relación heterosexual como una experiencia cercana a la violación y consideraba toda relación romántica entre hombre y mujer como un signo de debilidad. Hoy, en pleno siglo XXI, el miedo a la enfermedad y el gusto por la eficacia han reducido el arrebato amoroso a un juego controlado y a menudo aburrido, que puede durar una noche o alargarse hacia una vida de pareja dictada por la sensatez y el cálculo. ¿Dónde ha quedado entonces la locura amorosa? Al hilo de las teorías y experiencias que nos ha dejado la tradición de Occidente –desde Dante y Shakespeare a Emily Dickinson y Simone Beauvoir-, alternando conceptos abstractos y apuntes de vida real, Nehring propone un nuevo acercamiento a la pasión, entendida como una lucha vital que nos hace crecer como individuos. Seamos hombres o mujeres, esa locura amorosa que, contrariamente a lo que suele decirse, nos vuelve clarividentes con respecto al otro, es finalmente una de las nuevas y hermosas reivindicaciones de nuestro siglo. La crítica ha dicho:«Una auténtica bofetada en la cara. Tanto para las feministas de la vieja guardia como para la sociedad patriarcal en la que continuamos viviendo. [...] Un ensayo francamente recomendable para comprender la carga que durante décadas, y probablemente todavía hoy, llevan quienes, además de ser mujeres, escriben sobre el amor.»Álvaro Colomer, El Mundo «Un ensayo sugerente y polémico [que] apuesta por las relaciones maduras entre iguales en un nuevo entendimiento de la pasión erótica.»Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, Babelia «Un libro feroz, divertido [...] y único que te hace reflexionar sobre tu vida íntima de una manera nueva.»New York Times Book Review «Una defensa entusiasta del ardor imprudente y el exceso romántico. [...] Nadie se atreverá a negar que Nehring tiene razón.»Wall Street Journal
A hombros de gigantes
by Umberto EcoEco inédito. Las brillantes clases magistrales que Umberto Eco pronunciaba en la universidad, junto con una que no llegó a pronunciar. «Somos como enanos que están a hombros de gigantes, de modo que podemos ver más lejos que ellos, no tanto por nuestra estatura o nuestra agudeza visual, sino porque, al estar sobre sus hombros, estamos más altos que ellos.»Bernardo de Chartres A hombros de gigantes representa para los lectores de Eco un evento festivo. Lejos de las aulas universitarias, de las conferencias académicas y de las ceremonias de honor Eco escribe estos textos a lo largo de tres lustros, para entretener a los numerosísimos espectadores de la Milanesiana, el festival creado y dirigido por Elisabetta Sgarbi. Son textos que se inspiran a menudo en el tema central elegido cada año en la Milanesiana, pero que luego recorren ríos de repertorios que beben de la filosofía, la literatura, la estética, la ética y los medios de comunicación para devolvernos, en un lenguaje afable, imbuido de ironía, a veces lúdico o mordaz, la quintaesencia del universo de Eco. La crítica ha dicho...«Diez siglos en una frase, ese es el método Eco. A hombros de gigantes es una de las más brillantes y majestuosas colecciones de apuntes que un curso universitario podría ofrecer.»Paolo di Paolo, La Repubblica «En tiempos de crisis radical del progreso, de dudas sobre la existencia misma de un mañana (el futuro es una imaginación) y de la obsesión identitaria que coloca las utopías en el pasado, A hombros de gigantes es una bocanada de aire fresco.»Wlodek Goldkorn, L'Espresso «Una narración que tiene la calidad de las clases de Eco, que sus alumnos tanto añoran [...]. Este libro es una muestra ejemplar de quién era Eco.»Furio Colombo, Il Fatto Quotidiano «La lección póstuma de Umberto Eco: para ver desde arriba el juicio universal es mejor subirse a hombros de los antepasados.»Gianfranco Marrone, La Stampa «Este gigantesco sabio a quien nada humano le era ajeno demuestra que lo lúdico no está reñido con lo académico, [...] un pretexto para navegar por los meandros de su vasta sabiduría mezclando filosofía, literatura, estética, ética o el análisis de los "mass media".»Miguel Lorenci, El Comercio
A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning: Linguistics, Semiotics and Discourse Theory (Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory #23)
by Ronald SchleiferIn this book, first published in 1987, Professor Schleifer sets Greimas’ work in its intellectual context and sets forth the development of his distinctive style of interpretation. Moreover, the author goes on to consider Greimas’ work against the latest examinations of discourse in philosophy, depth psychology, and literary criticism. He tests Greimas’ semiotic square against Derridean deconstruction, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and the literary analyses of Paul de Man. This book will constitute an important and lucid survey of an often inaccessible critic, and will be of interest to students of literature.
A la intemperie: Colaboraciones periodísticas, intervenciones públicas y ensayos
by Roberto BolañoTodos los textos de no ficción escritos por Roberto Bolaño: pequeñas piezas maestras de uno de los escritores más originales de la literatura contemporánea en español. \ <P><P>«Déjenlo todo, nuevamente. Láncense a los caminos.» (Del manifiesto infrarrealista) A la intemperie compila todas las columnas, los artículos y las reseñas publicadas por Roberto Bolaño en medios españoles e hispanoamericanos desde la década de los setenta y hasta su muerte en 2003. <P><P>Asimismo, se recogen en el libro los prólogos escritos para obras de otros autores, las conferencias y los discursos pronunciados, y el sugerente manifiesto infrarrealista formulado en la etapa creativa de México. El humor, la literatura y la cultura, las reflexiones que atraviesan sus obras narrativas, sus lecturas, su visión del mundo -en ocasiones polémica, siempre desinhibida- y numerosas anécdotas conviven en este volumen que da a conocer otra faceta del autor: más teórica, sí, pero tan profundamente autobiográfica como la que atraviesa sus obras más conocidas. Una muestra del genio creador que convirtió a Bolaño en uno de los escritores contemporáneos más importantes. <P><P>«A la intemperie nos permite esa mezcla de curiosidad y espionaje que los millenials llaman estalqueo: la ocasión de escudriñar cuanto Bolaño pensaba -o acaso no pensaba, pero sí escribía- sobre sus caballitos de batalla, sus próceres y enemigos literarios, con una mirada hacia su extravagante mundo interior.» <P><P>Del prólogo de Jorge Volpi
A.M. Klein
by A. M. Klein Elizabeth A. PophamIn the final volume of the Collected Works of A.M. Klein, Elizabeth Popham completes the process of restoring the public voice of one of Canada's most respected authors. A.M. Klein: The Letters is the first compilation of a significant body of Klein's correspondence. Using his communications to construct a compelling narrative, Popham traces Klein's career from his apprenticeship to great critical success and his tragically premature silence.The content of Klein's letters gives new resonance to his works, most notably to his critically acclaimed novel The Second Scroll (1951) and his Governor General Award-winning The Rocking Chair and Other Poems (1948). In his exchanges with publishers and scholars, Klein glosses his own writing and argues for the integrity of his poetic vision. Samplings of his correspondence with Seagram's Distilleries clarify Klein's controversial role as ghost-writer and PR consultant for Sam Bronfman. A valuable resource for understanding Canadian literary modernism, diasporic Judaism, and the culture of Montreal, A.M. Klein: The Letters is a remarkable portrait of an important Canadian literary figure of the twentieth century.
A.M. Klein: Original Poems 1937-1955 and Poetry Translations
by A. M. Klein Zailig PollockIt is for his poetry that A.M. Klein is best known and most warmly remembered. This collection includes all Klein's poetry, both original works and translations from Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, and Latin. Many of them, coming from all periods of his careers, have never been published.The poems are arranged chronologically according to date of composition. This makes possible, for the first time, an appreciation of Klein's poetic development. The editor's introduction places this development in the perspective of Klein's life and time, and in particular explores Klein's lifelong struggle to reconcile his dual vocations as both a Jewish and a modernist writer.The textual apparatus identifies all authoritative versions for each poem and lists all emendations and all substative variants in both published and mauscript versions. The explanatory notes gloss obscure terms and references. They also provide a rich context for appreciation and interpretation by drawing connections with Klein's life, his wide reading, and his work as a whole. Wherever possible, Klein's own numerous, but scattered, comments on his poems have been cited.
A. Mary F. Robinson: Victorian Poet and Modern Woman of Letters
by Patricia RiggBorn in England in 1857, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson contributed to cultural and literary currents from nineteenth-century Victorianism to twentieth-century modernism; she was equally at home in London and Paris and prolific in both English and French. Yet Robinson remains an enigma on many levels.This literary biography integrates Robinson's unorthodox life with her development as a writer across genres. Best known for her poetry, Robinson was also a respected biographer, history writer, travel writer, and contributor of reviews and articles to the Times Literary Supplement for nearly forty years. She had a romantic friendship with the writer Vernon Lee and two happy – and celibate – marriages. Her salons in London and Paris were attended by major literary and artistic figures, and she counted amongst her friends Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, John Addington Symonds, Gaston Paris, Ernest Renan, and Maurice Barrès.Reflecting a decade of research in international archives and family papers, A. Mary F. Robinson reveals the extraordinary woman behind the popular writer and critically acclaimed poet.
A mis mejores amigos no los he visto nunca: Cartas y ensayos selectos
by Raymond ChandlerUn viaje excepcional al mundo de Chandler, marcado por la genialidad, el alcoholismo, la soledad y la visión crítica de la industria del cine. Una lectura fundamental para los fans del género. A mis mejores amigos no los he visto nunca recoge una amplísima selección de la correspondencia y la obra periodística de Raymond Chandler, y constituye como tal un volumen inédito. Aquí se desvelan sus reflexiones literarias, que se caracterizan por un gran sentido del humor, los secretos de su personalidad siempre al borde del abismo, su intuición artística, su curiosidad intelectual y su tormentosa relación con Hollywood. La primera parte del libro es una antología de sus cartas a amigos, editores, agentes y colegas que se lee como una fascinante biografía. La segunda parte consiste en una decena de artículos escritos para la prensa -varios nunca antes traducidos- , que retratan su cambiante visión del mundo a lo largo de los años. Reseña:La obra de Chandler me parece tan imprescindible literariamente como pueda serlo la de Hemingway o Scott Fitzgerald.»Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
A, My Name Is Alice
by Jane BayerThe antics never quit as a parade of animals sell their wares in this wildly illustrated version of the familiar alphabet ditty and ball-bouncing game.
A paso de cangrejo: Artículos, reflexiones y decepciones 2000-2006
by Umberto EcoAntología de los artículos publicados por Umberto Eco entre comienzos de 2000 y finales de 2005. A paso de cangrejo es como parece caminar la historia en este nuevo milenio. Tras el 11 de septiembre la humanidad entró en una peligrosa regresión. Volvieron los viejos conflictos territoriales, las guerras medievales con denominación de «cruzada», la nostalgia por los totalitarismos, el antisemitismo y otras formas de racismo. Eco arremete contra la forma de vida contemporánea, las guerras, la política internacional y el consumo en las grandes superficies como único espacio de ocio posible, sin olvidar el nefasto papel de los medios de comunicación, empeñados en construir una imagen del mundo basada en el espectáculo. El resultado es un libro intenso y combativo, cargado de lúcidos análisis sobre el escenario que nos rodea. La crítica opina...«Un trabajo excelente que escapa del maniqueísmo al uso y apuesta por la cautela intelectual ante un presente incierto como el nuestro.»ABC de las artes y las letras