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The aggregate enterprise of manufacturing and technically producing books. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
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In my opinion this approach is true. Because short size texts are more attractive for people, due to the fact that they can consider that they will read it in a few minutes and understand easily. Actually, to produce short and understandable texts in academy is not that simple ( because we want to write everything clearly ) , readers and researchers need this type of readings.
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Alexander would you like to hire money.
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Are sciences more of a continuum from hard to soft than those two as discrete categories? How? Why? I think the former. My book here somewhat touches on that question:
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This continuum would certainly apply to psychology. There is some use of mathematical models and a great deal of methodology applied in some cases but there are many non-quantitative hypotheses only tested statistically. Sometimes the concepts employed in these studies are not clearly defined. Worse still the sampling of subjects is opportunistic and stimuli are often selected on an ad hoc basis. Mostly it is not tight (hard) science.
I am not sure whether sociology should be included in the discussion of science, in which case you need to go beyond soft to hairy. I have met quality material but innumeracy and and lack of clarity are all too common features of the thinking found here.
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I mean what are the programming languages ​​used in building libraries on the Internet I am still a beginner and I would like to build a library that contains various books and I want your advice and opinion on this and I also want to know how long it takes I previously learned the HTML language and css and a bit of c++. I would like a good explanation please.
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Noura Jabbar If you plan to build a library with various books, you will need a free GitHub account and minimal knowledge about markdown. Still, this last one is optional because there is also a WYSIWYG editor at your disposal. Good luck!
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In many countries, reading is reportedly declining, we read less and less books, which is reportedly related to the development of information media on the Internet. Perhaps the development of social media also contributes to the declining readability of books.
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Please enter the title of the book on literature you read last time?
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Al-Sukkariya is a novel written by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, and it is the third part of Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988. Al-Sukaria is the name of a neighborhood in Cairo, and it is the neighborhood in which most of the events of the novel take place. The events of this part begin eight years after the end of the events of the previous part, i.e. in 1934, and end in 1943.
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I received an email from Nova press, NY with a request to provide research or review chapter(s) for a book cooperation within the scope of my research interests. I would be interested, if you have i) experience with this kind of publication and ii) where are the benefits in terms of dissemination and/or citations etc.?
As books usually are not made open access, I do only see a benefit for the publisher as they earn money with this. The authors are not paid for their work and have no share on the revenue... so why should I cooperate? Prestige??
Many thanks for your input,
Richard
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Scientific books are collections of chapters=reviews. Standalone reviews are better in terms of dissemination. But the words "book" and "chapter" are magic spells. So every sincere academic-ladder climber wants to have a chapter or two in their lists of publications. Books are usually not "open access," but they are often "open, sesame."
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What is academic value of self published e-books on Amazon self Publishing or any other self publishing channel? E-books as reliable citation source?
I have been working with both practitioners and academicians since last 7 years. I worked in corporate sector in strategy, customer experience, customer value management and analytics section.
As a corporate trainer, I am conducting training's on customer advocacy and customer value management. So far I have worked with more than more 100 companies as an independent consultant.
With academicians I have co-authored more than 20 papers and working on many more.
Throughout these seven years, I recorded almost everyday in my journal. I learned many things.
I would like to share all this in such a way that it should be interesting for all three segments. In this context I think the e-Book is something which everyone can easily read. However, I am also concerned about value of E-book in eyes of academicians? In terms of citations and profile of researcher/writer?
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Yes reliable and most of them are replica copies of original books
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I just discovered today that the publisher of a journal in which I had an article published in 2016 has reprinted that article in a huge four-volume compendium (listing no editor).
I am sure that our copyright contract gave them permission to do this, but should I treat it as a separate publication in my CV?
I do not believe that any changes have been made to the text of the original.
I have not come across this circumstance before.
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I think you can include in your CV with a note that it has been reprinted.
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Many publishers ask authors to provide LaTeX source of their article or book. It is believed that this helps in easier handling of the publication tasks. However, it seems that publishers use some other "Photoshop-like" software at the end of the publication process for copy-editing and similar tasks. Does LaTeX lack a specific feature that forces publishers to use these labor-intensive software?
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One my recent books was written in Lotus WordPro, then converted to Adobe PDF and MSWord. It was copyedited in Wales, typeset in India, printed in Singapore, and published in England. When I read the printed book against the copyedited manuscript, I was aghast. So many errors that I couldn't count them all. Spaces were eliminated, resulting in gibberish word combinations; uppercase letters were reduced to lower case, and vice versa; etc., etc., etc.
Digital handling of texts was supposed to improve the whole process, but in my experience, the opposite is true.
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The percent recognised to the authors is often lower than the discounts on the cover price offered to distributors of printed book.
For e-books, the computation is obscure and penalising because most downloadings are done in the frame of forfait contracts and because often not based on the single title.
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We seem to have a language barrier issue here - I certainly did not indicate that the revenue was the same, I said that the percentage was the same. To wit, if your book sells for $6, you get 60 cents on a 10% scheme, and if it sells for $30, then you get $3: the revenue is clearly not the same, but the contracted % worth is wholly unaffected.
I'm not clear as to why you'd sprinkle an English language text with misleading foreign-language words ? Maybe if you happen to not know a word a less misleading way would be to look it up rather than using a foreign word without forewarning or explanation....
Your issue in d) must be addressed beforehand in the contract you write. Self-publishing would of course leave you with a higher percentage, but self-publishing, especially in science, is usually not a good idea; maybe the fees you leave to the publishing house can be deemed as your recognition of the true service they provide in enhancing your exposure. No one will ever read , let alone review, a self-published science book, because of all the Dunning Kruger's out there who self-publish.