Graeme Smith

The Dogs are Eating Them Now is a highly personal narrative of the war in Afghanistan and how it went dangerously wrong. Written by a respected and fearless former foreign correspondent, who has won multiple awards for his journalism (including an Emmy for the video series Talking with the Taliban), this is a gripping account of modern warfare that takes readers into back alleys, cockpits and prisons - telling stories that would have endangered his life had he published this book while still working as a journalist.

Our War in Afghanistan

The Dogs Are Eating Them Now

Amazon.com and book publishers operate entirely differently.Amazon.com does NOT stock books.Book publishers do.Amazon.com stocks electronic files which can become books.They only become books AFTER someone buys a copy.So they also pay for the printing NOT Amazon.com.On the other hand book publishers BUY copyright for a book.Then they publish as many copies as they THINK they can sell.A publisher makes money.IF the amount received for sales.Is greater than the amount paid for publishing AND copyright.BUT it is not easy to do.An author makes money by selling copyright to a publisher.Thus there is NO relationship between sales and author payment.The amount offered for copyright reflects a publisher's anticipated sales.Thus established authors receive more than those just starting out.An Amazon.com author makes money in a very different manner.They receive a proportion of actual sales of their book.Thus NO sales = NO money!BUT the book can remain available.Published books are usually sold in a variety of outlets.The publisher needs to sell many just to cover costs.Methods used with other publishers do NOT work with Amazon.com.A publisher publishes AND sells books.They are actual books made of paper.Publishers earn money by selling books.But once printed a book cannot be changed.Thus any editing is done BEFORE publication.Although a new edition can be printed and sometimes is.Many authors try different publishers with their manuscript.They are looking for one who thinks they can sell the book.All authors hope they've written a best-seller.So how is Amazon.com book publishing different?The major difference is they are all ELECTRONIC.So Amazon.com has a huge store of electronic books.But Amazon.com does publish physical books too.But they are printed versions of eBooks.Methods used by other publishers are NOT used by Amazon.com.There are advantages for authors as a result.That's if you know of and use the opportunities provided.Do you use Apple or Word?I've never used Apple but I presume it works the same way as Word.If so then this book can help you.Start writing your book in Microsoft Word.Modify this file as often as needed.If corrections are needed make them in the Microsoft Word file.Soon you will be satisfied with what you have.The final version is copied to a Kindle Create file.You will need to download Kindle Create first.This is the file you upload to Amazon.com.My books are all in English.Your manuscript and book can be in any language Amazon.com supports.They will translate from your language too.Amazon.com is quite different from ALL other publishers.This is because of the way Amazon.com started.Initially only ebooks were published.They are electronic books with NO actual printed material.Book publishing came much later.Then the Amzon.com eBook system was adapted for books.As a result Amazon.com has become the biggest publisher in world.Amazon has different pathways for different kinds of books.There is a FREE creative tool available.They are for children's books, educational books, comics or manga (?).I have NOT used these pathways.My books were mostly published before they became available.It seems as if Amazon automatically decides your path.Thus you are allocated the one best suited to a novel or text.In my case I think there has been a problem for Amazon.My Easy-scan style of writing has not been anticipated.This has meant a great deal of re-writing.BUT that's for ME.Unless you write the same way you will NOT have this problem.Amazon.com provides a non-exclusive agreement.You keep creative control and own copyright.

It Could Be Easy!

Consider a Book

Are you at the starting gates?Artistic skills do NOT decide success.Someone without these shouldn't be trying to make a professional career.But many artists do have those and are still not successful.Finance is for success in any field, including professional artist.You can't get into any business without finance nor stay in business either.Being a professional artist is absolutely no different.An artist who can't afford to frame paintings cannot be a professional artist.Instead spend time raising finance from which to launch a sustained career.The odds are stacked against success.Of all paintings painted, most are NEVER sold!This doesn't mean you can't make it.It does mean you must well organised and clear headed about what you do.You will battle against many alternatives someone can spend $ you want.It's a tough world out there!You need determination, courage, persistence, imagination, planning, help.The good news is it can be done.There are artists who earn a living, and you can join them - it won't be easy!There are advantages in using eBay at the start of a career.The main one is you can learn to sell while still learning other career aspects.EBay provides you with all the easy-to-use tools you need to get started.If necessary create experimental studies especially to sell on eBay.You can list your items for auction and start selling right away.You have to learn two things - how eBay works AND how to sell on eBay.Use this knowledge to sell off eBay and also sell actual art works on eBay.It's much better than a website.An extra $1,000 a month beats a long-shot any day of the week!EBay changes how it works from time to time.In this book I provide the best advice that I had at the time of writing (2010).Almost surely there will have been changes since.But it is likely these have been designed to make the system easier to use.So it's important to ensure you're following eBay's official seller regulations.Then you can stay on their good side.EBay is great if you don't have much money to spend up front.It only costs a dollar or two to set up a regular eBay auction listing.You can get a steady, reliable source of income.Using eBay is great if you want to start making money RIGHT AWAY!Get your items listed on eBay and start making money TODAY, if you want.You won't make a million dollars overnight.But you can achieve a dependable stream of income in a very short time.As a way of learning to sell it's hard to beat.That's why eBay has a lot going for it for the new professional artist.But eventually it is just another way to sell what you do.Then choose from your own gallery, a commission based career, or eBay.Many artists try to learn how to sell but don't actually sell anything.That's impossible so if a selling price remained at $5 it could be worthwhile.But of course an important part of selling is to be able to raise your price.You can only learn this from a low starting base.Professional artists must start selling artworks somewhere.EBay provides the perfect place to learn sales and marketing strategies.As your prices are still low you can't lose much while you learn.EBay is the answer to many people's prayers - low cost and quick return.Begin a career, learn to paint, increase productivity, actually sell, all at once.You can even use eBay to develop a "regular" online business.It lets you grow an opt-in list of people before a website is even running!There's a chance to grow an opt-in list you can sell other products to.In addition eBay is an excellent place to do valuable market research.Then you know what your potential buyers are buying and why!Drive thousands of interested buyers to your site the day you launch it!These are people you've found on the world's largest marketplace.That means they're enthusiastic online shoppers!They're exactly the kind of people you want to introduce your works to.

Learn How

Successful Selling

Object-Z is an object-oriented extension of the formal specification language Z. It adds to Z notions of classes and objects, and inheritance and polymorphism. By extending Z's semantic basis, it enables the specification of systems as collections of independent objects in which self and mutual referencing are possible. The Object-Z Specification Language presents a comprehensive description of Object-Z including discussions of semantic issues, definitions of all language constructs, type rules and other rules of usage, specification guidelines, and a full concrete syntax. It will enable you to confidently construct Object-Z specifications and is intended as a reference manual to keep by your side as you use and learn to use Object-Z. The Object-Z Specification Language is suitable as a textbook or as a secondary text for a graduate-level course, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

The Object-Z Specification Language

1. Enhanced ProductivitypageFOCUS: ENHANCED PRODUCTIVITY. 15Chapter One: Your career vision. 17Chapter Two: How could an agent help? 23FOCUS: WHY HAVE AN AGENT? 29Chapter Three: Finding an agent. 31FOCUS: GALLERY CO-OPERATION. 45Chapter Four: How do galleries work? 47Chapter Five: An agent can work with a gallery.55Chapter Six: How will your agent work? 61Chapter Seven: An agent can earn you more! 83Chapter Eight: Finding the right agent? 101Chapter Nine: More ideas. 109

Art Marketing for All- One: Enhanced Productivity

3. More SalespageFOCUS: MAKE EXHIBITIONS WORK! 15Chapter One: Your career vision. 17Chapter Two: Planning ahead. 27Chapter Three: Start the sell-out! 31Chapter Four: Are offers sales? 41Chapter Five: Move into top gear. 47Chapter Four: Sell the exhibition. 53Chapter Seven: Wrapping up. 59FOCUS: CONTINUOUS PRINT PRODUCTION69Chapter Eight: Your future career. 71Chapter Nine: What are limited editions?77Chapter Ten: What is marketing about? 86Chapter Eleven: Print marketing. 97Chapter Twelve: Now plan a print project.103Chapter Thirteen: Wrapping up. 117

Art Marketing for All - Three: More Sales

4. More IncomepageFOCUS: HIRING BEATS SELLING. 15Chapter One: Your career vision. 17Chapter Two: Depending on income from your art?21Chapter Three: Art for business? 25Chapter Four: Take a closer look at hiring.31Chapter Five: Selling the hiring.47Chapter Six: Tools. 59Chapter Seven: Wrapping up.71FOCUS: COPYRIGHT IS EASY MONEY.75Chapter One: Your career opportunity. 77Chapter Two: Copyright.83Chapter Three: Prints and copyright. 87Chapter Four: Making money. 93Chapter Five: Business details. 101Chapter Six: Wrapping up! 109

Art Marketing for All - Four: More Income

Open a Gallery pageFOCUS: YOUR OWN GALLERY. 15Chapter One: Your career plan. 17Chapter Two: Making it work. 25Chapter Three: Do you need a website? 37Chapter Four: Build a contact list. 53Chapter Five: How do you keep clients? 63Chapter Six: What is selling? 86Chapter Seven: Buyers buy! 114 Chapter Eight: What is price? 148Chapter Nine: Another look at questions.177Chapter Ten: Is an exhibition next? 203Chapter Eleven: A look at hiring! 219Chapter Twelve: Wrapping up! 233

Art Marketing for All - Six: Open a Gallery

Best BuyingpageFOCUS: HELPING PEOPLE BUY. 15Chapter One: Looking after clients. 17Chapter Two: Buyers buy. 29Chapter Three: Needs and wants are related. 39Chapter Four: Leverage for real money. 49Chapter Five: Wrapping up. 61FOCUS: REFERRAL WEBSITE 73Chapter Six: Develop an effective website. 75Chapter Seven: A website that works. 93Chapter Eight: A referral website. 107

Art Marketing for All - Two: Best Buying

YOU OWN GALLERYYour career plan..***..Making it work..***..Do you need a wqebsite?..***..Build a contact list..***..Keeping clients..***..What is selling?..***..Buyers buy..***..What is price?..***..Another look at questions..***..Is an exhibition next?..***..A look at hiring..***..Wrapping upMarketing is finding buyers AND making sales..***..It's the same no matter what is sold!..***..Sometimes the process is simple like apples at a stall..***..It can be complex like selling aero-planes to an air-force..***..Most, including artworks are in between these poles..***..Think of fishing to understand marketing..***..Does a fisherman catch anything in a desert?..***..NO, there are no fish there.You market where possible buyers are..***..A fisherman goes where fish are - in water..***..But there are no fish in a swimming pool!..***..They need to be in the right water - a river, lake or sea.Different fish swim in different waters!..***..Sharks and marlin are in the ocean, while bream live in rivers..***..Likewise you must know who your target is with your marketing..***..Is it businesses, first home buyers, investors or what?..***..Each needs different marketing.You are in the right water for the fish you are after!..***..Some are nocturnal and won't be caught during the day..***..Marketing needs to be when the target is most receptive..***..At work, nights or weekends?You are at the right place and time so how do you catch the fish?..***..Usually with a fishing rod..***..Is it the right kind for the fish you want?..***..You won't catch a shark with a rod that takes a trout!..***..Your marketing must be attractive to the people you are after.Do you have the right bait?..***..Different bait attracts different fish..***..A carcass for a shark but a worm for many others..***..Can you provide something your target market will find attractive?Throwing any bait into the water catches nothing!..***..The bait must have a hook..***..Without fish taking the hook there is no catch..***..Different hooks are for different kinds of fish.Different hooks are also for different markets..***..The right hook gets your market to take the next step to a purchase..***..But this only needs to be a little step.Hooks only catch the fish..***..They're in the water, not the boat or beach, a hook is on the end of a line..***..What is your line like?..***..Is it strong enough you the fish you are after?..***..Also this varies for the kind of fish.How do you get a prospect to seriously consider what you sell?..***..To sell a print it won't need to be sophisticated..***..But selling an original Renoir will be much more complicated.The line has to have a reel too..***..Different reels for different fish..***..The right reel brings the fish to the end of your line..***..But it's not in the boat?You must lift the fish from the water to your boat or on the beach..***..Use fishing nets so now you have your catch..***..The fish is yours to do what you want..***..You can sell the fish But who might want to buy?..***..It could be for food or live a fish-tank or pool..***..They could be for re-stocking natural water places.Where can you find them?..***..Look where the fish buyers are!..***..Follow the path of the fisherman..***..And eventually you have a prospect asking can they buy..***..You have made a sale AND you can make more sales the same way.Making the sale is this five step process..***..Work from top to bottom.SUSPECTS are people who possibly want what you have for sale.PROSPECTS are people likely to want what you have for sale.BUYERS are those who have bought what you are selling.REPEAT BUYERS continue to buy what you sell.ADVOCATES help you sell to others.The order of importance to your sales is the reverse sequence.

Take the Plunge.

Open a Gallery

This is a careful, critical attempt, by a highly qualified British judge, to examine the evidence concerning the resurrection from the dead of Jesus of Nazareth. After a review of the basic legal principles involved regarding the use of evidence (What standard of proof is acceptable? Are we dealing with history or myth? What are our preconceptions?), this succinct but powerful document considers the testimony of individuals involved (Paul, James, Peter); the various resurrection accounts, their inconsistencies, and their value as evidence; possible sites for Jesus’ tomb; sources from outside the gospels, such as Josephus, Tacitus and Pliny; logical alternatives to the resurrection; and the opinions of experts in the fields of history, literary history, palaeography and law. Could this most improbable story be, at heart, true? What are the implications?

A lawyer weighs the evidence for the resurrection

Was the Tomb Empty

Ulrich Schmiedel

This book explores the roles of religion in the current refugee crisis of Europe. Combining sociological, philosophical, and theological accounts of this crisis, renowned scholars from across Europe examine how religion has been employed to call either for eliminating or for enforcing the walls around “Fortress Europe.” Religion, they argue, is radically ambiguous, simultaneously causing social conflict and social cohesion in times of turmoil. Charting the constellations, the conflicts, and the consequences of the current refugee crisis, this book thus answers the need for succinct but sustained accounts of the intersections of religion and migration.

Religion in the European Refugee Crisis

Kate Barclay

China Japan and South Korea’s international relations are shaped by the fact that all three countries are significant importers of resources. This book brings together work on specific aspects of the politics of resources for each of these countries, regionally and internationally. There are some similarities in the approaches taken by all these three. For example, their development assistance shares a focus on infrastructure building and reluctance to purposefully influence domestic politics. However, there are also significant differences due in large part to the individual nature of the states as international actors. China has significant domestic supplies of resources while Japan and Korea are net importers. China’s size also marks it out as different, as does its state socialist history and continuing authoritarian state. One of the key issues to understanding contemporary resource politics in Northeast Asia is that Western dominance of the world order is currently declining. In some cases Northeast Asian approaches to resources are seen as being mercantilist. In other cases Northeast Asian powers are seen as replacing Western powers in exploiting resource-rich developing countries. This book gives readers an informed view of this very important issue in contemporary international relations. This bookw as published as a special issue of Asian Studies Review.

The International Politics of Resources

East Asia's Demand for Energy, Minerals and Food

Eerke Boiten

John Derrick

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods, IFM 2004, held in Canterbury, UK, in April 2004. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers and one invited tutorial chapter were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are devoted to automating program analysis, state/event-based verification, formalizing graphical notions, refinement, object-orientation, hybrid and timed automata, integration frameworks, verifying interactive systems, and testing and assertions.

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