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This new Rough Guide will make you a literary buff in the time it takes to say Jack Kerouac. Even if you already know your Hunter S Thompson from your Jim Thompson, you''ll still find it hard to resist a book which tells you which cult novel has been implicated in assassinations, which world famous novelist offered to throw himself off a train to prove his devotion to his literary idol and which cult poet and prose stylist inspired a Broadway musical and the Velvet Underground. There''s a critical guide to over 150 cult authors - from Kathy Acker to Yevgeny Zamyatin, including potted biographies, their must reads, and their surprising influences. Reviews of 100 cult novels - seminal works by authors who never quite achieved cult status themselves but still produced one classic work. Finally, there''s a cult collection - a feast of literary trivia which categorises writers by the diseases they suffered for their art, reveals 12 literary giants who wrote standing up, and pores over the little known fictional epics of Sarah Bernhardt and Benito Mussolini.

Since time began, people have not always felt they were doing the right job. But in a very real sense what they did defined who they were. This was particularly true when the structure of society was more rigidly set and social position was determined by trade or occupation rather than by achievement. In our own time, the world of work has changed enormously and some of the once familiar names and terms have fallen into disuse only to be understood with the help of a dictionary. For instance, who now knows what buddle boys, claquers, dobbers, hokey pokey men, rogue spotters and sperviters are? Colin Waters' excellent dictionary explains the function of nearly 4000 old trades, titles and occupations, and contains over 70 illustrations. It is a comprehensive reference book that will be widely welcomed and is sure to become a much used companion, especially to all those interested in family, social and local English history.

The only print version of the government's database designed to replace the 60+ year old "Dictionary of Occupational Titles" as "the" standard for industrial classification. Compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it contains the most accurate and up-to-date information on virtually every occupation in the workplace.

This comprehensive reference guide will serve as a much-needed companion volume to music dictionaries, to the literature of music history, and to composer monographs. Concentrating on major composers from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, it contains over 6,000 entries, listing each composition under its variant names, and giving the composer's last name. A section listing the principal sources consulted will aid the user in locating printed editions, recordings of a work, and biographical and bibliographical information about the composers. Compiled with both the professional and the amateur in mind, this guide will be found useful to an ever-increasing number of music devotees.

This is the first eBook Writing Wizard book, filling the gaps in eBook publishing knowhow that other publications do not reach.

A mistake in your ebook title is equal to 10 or even 100 mistakes in the book itself, because your title is what can make the difference between buying or moving on to another book.
Having a good title, and avoiding a bad or typo-ridden one, is essential for encouraging people to look inside your book, read the description and make that purchase. Well thought-out titles are also part of good marketing strategy.
Here you will find many tips that can be used by any author regardless of your publishing method or the format of your book.
This original information-packed book, with a dash of humour, covers the following topics, many of them containing hard-to-find information:
How long should titles be?
How to choose a title
Correct punctuation, grammar and capitalisation of titles
The many uses of subtitles
Making your book part of a series – even if it’s only one book
Hooking the reader with the title
Using a trademark as part of your title
Using the nature of the publication in the title for easier marketing
What to put in brackets
Differentiation of public domain titles
Using dates and numbers in titles
Basing titles on quotations
Humorous titles and puns
Pitfalls of using foreign language phrases and non-standard English
Words to avoid in titles (including one you’d never guess)
Omnibus and collection titles
Noting new and revised editions in the subtitle
Republishing under a different title
How the author’s name appears
Avoiding silly listing mistakes
Words to avoid on the book cover for professional appearance
The title and the cover design
Use of qualifications etc. on the cover
Using your title as a strategic marketing tool

At the end of the book there is an exclusive pre-publication checklist to help you create the best impression with your cover, title page and description.
This book concentrates on selecting and improving titles. It does not cover general information about publishing, formatting and marketing apart from occasional tips that appear throughout the book. Prospective authors will need to have such knowledge already or to acquire it from other publications. Links to a selection of relevant ebooks will be found at the end of this book.
I have written this book for writers serious about publishing quality books. I am dismayed at the trend of flooding the market with low-quality or outsourced ebooks, and include my thoughts on this phenomenon with a prediction of more shake-ups in ebook publishing.
This is a book with attitude and the writing is at times scathing towards the silliness and carelessness sometimes exhibited in published ebooks, and the poor standard of English often found. Examples of bad practice and bad titles, actually seen in published books, are provided so you know exactly what types of error to avoid. People are too blasé about awful English and the occasionally provocative approach within these pages is aimed at breaking bad writing habits, encouraging meticulous attention to the written word and letting you be the best self-publisher you can be.
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The author is an experienced writer of educational materials and has self-published several nonfiction titles in the past. He has also freelanced as a copy-editor and proofreader. Turning to Kindle publishing, he is working on a number of ebooks on hypnotherapy, self-help, e-publishing and other fields.

Approx. length 30,000 words; publisher’s estimated page length 150 pages. Optimised for all Kindle devices/apps with clickable table of contents, NCX navigation view and links to web resources.

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Title: Hot titles.(Association of Corporate Travel Executives)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Techniques (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 82 Issue: 5 Page: 36(1)

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Learn to be a good investigator and a successful retracement surveyor

In the era of CSI, forensic science has taken on an unaccustomed glamor. The fact is, forensic science plays as crucial a role in the field of land surveying and title investigation as it does in flesh-and-blood criminology. Land location, the stability of property lines, and the sanctity of title documents are of utmost interest to the legal system in general, and the court system in particular.

Forensic Procedures for Boundary and Title Investigation is the first book to present the application of investigative forensic techniques to the field of land boundary retracement. Covering basic logic, document research, and the interpretation of physical evidence on site, Forensic Procedures for Boundary and Title Investigation is an indispensable guide for?surveyors faced with a difficult retracement having little or faulty evidence.

Demonstrating the techniques that can be applied to boundary location, this fascinating and useful introduction to forensic science:
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Covers basic logic with tips for avoiding assumptions during the investigation that might result in error and bad conclusions
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Explains the standard operating procedures, common to all forensics fields, for the protection of scenes, evidence collection, and photography
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Provides detailed information on records research, reconstructing historical documentation, dealing with damaged documentation, and interpreting historic records containing antiquated measurements and wording
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Includes a unique presentation of physical evidence investigation techniques including interpreting stone, wood, and metal evidence found on site
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Takes an international approach, presenting universal investigative techniques and methods beyond the specifics of any single country
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Includes advice on using the Internet for research and how to draw upon surprising sources of historic information such as postcards, advertisements, and family histories


This extensive treatment is sure to become a standard reference work for professionals in many fields related to land investigation as well as a practical text for the training of investigators in the evidence recovery and interpretative processes leading to successful property location and ownership.

In a library catalog, uniform titles function to bring together, under one unique heading, all variant manifestations of a musical work. They help to collocate various forms of music, such as printed music, sound recordings, arrangements, and translations, and aid in distinguishing between different musical works with similar or identical titles. Establishing music uniform titles may be the most complex and difficult aspect of music cataloging, even for the cataloger with a strong background in music.

Uniform Titles for Music explains the concept and practice of uniform titles for musical works by a single composer and works of unknown or collective authorship, and it provides a step-by-step approach to establishing uniform titles. Michelle Koth explains the concept of a "type of composition," the process by which a title is determined to be generic or distinctive, and what further elements may be needed to uniquely identify a work represented by a uniform title. Several chapters are devoted to defining and explaining these further elements, such as medium of performance, identifying numbers, and key. The chapters closely follow the structure of Anglo American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. (AACR2), Chapter 25, with some re-ordering to allow the reader to progress from generic uniform titles to distinctive titles. Three appendixes provide a list of composers' thematic index numbers, a comparison of uniform titles for music and Library of Congress subject headings, and a bibliography of resources for authority work. Uniform Titles for Music is aimed at all levels of music cataloger, from the fresh out of library school beginner to the experienced cataloger who wants a refresher.

Not just a complete index to all the films detailed and discussed in all 24 books of the Hollywood Classics series, this 344-page final book, also provides exhaustive details and reviews of 80 additional movies. Packed with information, these reviews were not previously included because they were too long and/or too important – or simply because they didn’t fit into the overall theme of any individual book. These additional Hollywood movie classics include All the King’s Men, If I Were King, Red Dust, Raintree County, The Sun Shines Bright, People Will Talk, I Know Where I’m Going, Ivanhoe, The Big Store, The Dolly Sisters, The Desert Fox, Out of the Past, The Palm Beach Story, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Snake Pit, A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet (three versions), The Ten Commandments, Vertigo, The War of the Worlds, Waterloo Bridge, Ice Station Zebra, Only Angels Have Wings, The Lady Eve, Trouble Along the Way, Brewster’s Millions, In This Our Life and It’s a Wonderful World.