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Based in original research, this ground-breaking book challenges the age-old "wisdom" of the publishing industry. By blending over 60 years of influence research from the business and leadership field with nonfiction authorship, this little book doesn't just teach writing skills, it provides a fundamental paradigm shift for authors that takes their books to a whole new level.
Experts and thought leaders will discover: What influence really is, why...
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HOW DO I MAXIMIZE MY BOOK MARKETING EFFORTS? HOW DO I AVOID AUTHORSHIP ANALYSIS PARALYSIS BEFORE IT STARTS? Have you ever asked yourself these questions? If so, this is the perfect e-book for you! In this concise and practical guide for indie authors, Mike Kowis, Esq., and Sharon C. Jenkins share their tips for maximizing your book marketing efforts and avoiding the dreaded authorship analysis paralysis. In this handy guide, you will learn:What is...
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Animation: Genre and Authorship explores the distinctive language of animation, its production processes, and the particular questions about who makes it, under what conditions, and with what purpose. In this first study to look specifically at the ways in which animation displays unique models of 'auteurism' and how it revises generic categories, Paul Wells challenges the prominence of live-action moviemaking as the first form of contemporary cinema...
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We all make excuses from time to time, putting off doing something we really want to do.
Why do we do that?
In No Excuses! Your Guide to Successful Authorship, you are taken through a series of steps that will support you through the stumbling blocks you may be feeling toward writing your story.
Whether you have a business story or write in a world of fantasy, there is no better time than now to share your gift with the world.
Go on. You can do...
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Even after 400 years we are still fascinated, not only by the works attributed to William Shakespeare, but as to whether he actually was the true author. Many Shakespearean scholars regard any questioning of the true authorship as merely fringe belief and largely disparage the claims that Shakespeare was a front for the real author. Douglas Baker uses a completely new approach to unlock the mysteries surrounding the authorship of the so-called Shakespearean...
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In this book, Jacob H. Sawyer explores the concept of hiddenness as a means to unlock the intriguing, and oft misunderstood, authorship of Soren Kierkegaard.
By understanding the melancholy man as first and foremost a Christian thinker, this work gives special attention to how the form of Kierkegaard's authorial task complements its content, giving particular attention to his use of pseudonyms. The first part of the book addresses the explicit content...
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Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels achieved stunning global success in part because of the mystery surrounding their pseudonymous author. English-speaking readers were tantalized by her enigmatic biography as well as what they took to be her authentic portrayal of working-class Naples. However, we now know that the person behind the writing is most likely Anita Raja, a prominent translator of German literature whose background is very different from...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Ben Jonson's Folios and the Question of Authorship is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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Standing outside elite or even middling circles, outsiders who were marginalized by limitations on their freedom and their need to labor for a living had a unique grasp on the profoundly social nature of print and its power to influence public opinion. In Empowering Words, Karen A. Weyler explores how outsiders used ephemeral formats such as broadsides, pamphlets, and newspapers to publish poetry, captivity narratives, formal addresses, and other...
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Over the last few centuries the authorship of the book of Hebrews has been a contentious topic, but lately a strong scholarly consensus has emerged that Paul was not the author. There is no similar consensus about who did author the book; the consensus is entirely negative. Nonetheless, it takes some courage for a scholar to risk his reputation by challenging a so thoroughly assured conclusion of many scholars. Yet this is precisely what Dr. David...
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Do you want to turn writing from a hobby into a business? You no longer need a publisher sliding their hand into your pocket and making your profits disappear.
Most of us dream of writing the great American novel, not a book that only our friends and family will read. Far too often, brilliant books die a silent death because authors are not marketers. We are creative spirits who yearn to unleash our creative visions on the world, not spend our days...
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Who else wants their dream book written today?
If you can speak out loud, then YOU have what it takes to become a lightning-fast, bestselling author.
Most people dream of writing a book, but those manuscripts end up shoved away in dusty drawers, half-finished and abandoned to be eaten by moths.
Many of them are great writers, many of them have great ideas. Yet so many people come to the conclusion that they'll never finish their books.
Why? Because...
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Alistair Fox presents a theory of literary and cinematic representation through the lens of neurological and cognitive science in order to understand the origins of storytelling and our desire for fictional worlds. Fox contends that fiction is deeply shaped by emotions and the human capacity for metaphorical thought. Literary and moving images bridge emotional response with the cognitive side of the brain. In a radical move to link the neurosciences...
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Catalyzed by her notoriously "dirty," fabulously successful bestseller Valley of the Dolls, the "Jackie Susann Sixties" brimmed with camp comedy that now permeates contemporary celebrations of the author, from Pee-wee's Playhouse to RuPaul's Drag Race and Lee Daniels's Star. First christened "camp" by Gloria Steinem in an excoriating review of Valley of the Dolls and compounded by the publishing juggernauts “The Love Machine” (1969), “Once Is...
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In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain additional affiliations with places such as France, Russia, or Israel, affords a unique opportunity to analyze the foundational moments of diasporic literature. Making German Jewish Literature Anew...
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Few works have gazed on the Marcan topic with as much a detail as this one. The tradition on the origin and authorship of the second Gospel looms up from the shadows in southern central Anatolia, closing the first third of the first century AD, pointing out the relation of Mark, one of the most consistent secondary figures of the New Testament, and Peter the apostle. In no more than fifty years, tradition will stress the link of Mark's work with the...
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Contrary to theories of single person authorship, America's Corporate Art argues that the corporate studio is the author of Hollywood motion pictures, both during the classical era of the studio system and beyond, when studios became players in global dramas staged by massive entertainment conglomerates. Hollywood movies are examples of a commodity that, until the digital age, was rare: a self-advertising artifact that markets the studio's brand in...
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The Bible is entirely man-made. The Folly Bible establishes this disruptive thesis by way of a critical analysis of the Bible's own content, in a shooting-itself-in-the-foot sort of way. The first part of the book is a study of what must be the three most famous messianic, old-testament prophecies in the Christian Bible: Daniel 9:25-29, Isaiah's Virgin, and Psalm 22. I demonstrate the editorial seam in each of them that exposes the machinations of...
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Today, the director is considered the leading artistic force behind a film. The production of a Hollywood movie requires the labor of many people, from screenwriters and editors to cinematographers and boom operators, but the director as author of the film overshadows them all. How did this concept of the director become so deeply ingrained in our understanding of cinema?
In Hollywood's Artists, Virginia Wright Wexman offers a groundbreaking history...