Don't Get A SMALL Bang For Your BUCK


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Ever walked out of a doctor's office feeling that you got very little in exchange for your coin? Do you want to change that? Change a few things: - Be the patient but start thinking like a doc. - Learn the Art, Science, Business and Politics of Medicine. - Get to know where your diagnosis hides. 1) The best hiding place for your diagnosis is in your "story", the medical history that you tell your doc -learn how to tell a good "illness story" to your doc. 2) The diagnosis also hides "beyond the flesh" (outside the flesh) -get to know how to help doc get a diagnosis, wherever it hides. -Get a BIG Bang for your Health BUCK! -read this book and get the worth of every coin you spend on a medical consultation.




The SHORT! Guide to Producing


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In this book, Charles Merzbacher offers a concise, definitive guide to the essential skills, techniques and logistics of producing short films, focusing on the practical knowledge needed for line producing and overseeing smaller-scale productions. Drawing on insights from real-life production scenarios, veteran filmmaker and instructor Charles Merzbacher takes producers through every stage of the production process, from fundraising, preproduction and planning to the producer’s role in postproduction and distribution. Key topics include: Finding a worthy project; Schedules and budgets; Managing the casting process; Recruiting and managing crew; Location scouting; Legal and safety issues; Running a production; Negotiating music rights; And much more! An accompanying website—available at theshortseries.com—offers document templates for contracts, call sheets, budgets and other production forms, as well as sample production documents and short video guides featuring top industry professionals.




Running a 21st-Century Small Business


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Companies employing 10 persons or less are the economic powerhouse of the twentieth century. Now, the only book of its kind ever published tells you, step by step, how to start your own very small business and keep it running profitably, through the good times and the tough times. Written by a successful businessman and national lecturer, When Friday Isn't Payday: -- Helps you answer that all-important question -- Do I have what it takes to succeed in my own business? -- Clarifies the issues of partnership and involving family members -- Steers you toward the right location -- and tells you how much it will cost to open the doors -- Provides detailed, time-tested strategies for selecting vendors, selling, collecting, planning, goal setting, brain-storming, and problem solving -- Gives invaluable guidance on hiring, firing, training, and motivating employees -- Offers special in-depth sections on advertising, promotion, marketing, and trade shows.




Short Films 101


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Where does a young filmmaker begin? With the right short-film concept and this book! The right short can be a filmmaker's "business card" in Hollywood. Here's the authoritative handbook by one of Hollywood's most connected insiders that offers a step-by-step guide through the entire creative process of shooting a short film, as well as expert advice from established filmmakers, and a final game plan for promoting and selling the film once it's in the can.Topics covered include: € Concept € Budget € Finding equipment € Assembling a crew € Casting € Arranging for location € Locating festivals and ancillary markets € Working with the unions € Film vs. digital video Plus:€ A list of film schools € Oscar-winning shorts and nominees € A selection of short-film festivals € Actual short-film budgets € Sample scripts and shooting schedules € A helpful short-film glossary




Free Money


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Travel a road rich in possibilities and fraught with danger ... Journalist Declan Lynch's journey begins with a deposit of €100 in an online betting account, kicking off an honest attempt to explore the mysterious allure of gambling. Braving Paddy Power, the Premiership and Belgian women's tennis tournaments on Eurosport, Lynch's darkly humorous diary entries reveal the strange logic behind the punt - and of course there's always the chance of winning a little free money along the way. Drawing on the wise words of sages from Dostoevsky to Corleone to explain, justify and occasionally even excuse his predilection for a punt, Lynch offers a rare glimpse inside the mind of that ever-sanguine individual - the gambler.




V!VA Travel Guides


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Viva members around the world contribute to the travel guides' creation and updating. They provide information concerning hotels, restaurants, tours, shopping, and activities.







Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies


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Expert herbalist Maria Noël Groves has advice for budding herb gardeners: grow just what your body needs! In Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies, Groves provides 23 specially tailored garden plans for addressing the most common health needs, along with simple recipes for using each group of herbs. For chronic stomach problems, marshmallow, plantain, rose, fennel, and calendula make the perfect medicine, with recipes for tummy tea and gut-healing broth. Whether the need is for headache relief, immune support, stress relief, or a daily tonic, readers will learn the three to six herbs that are most effective and how to plant, harvest, and care for each one. In all of Groves’s plant suggestions, the emphasis is on safe, effective, easy-to-grow herbs that provide abundant harvests and can be planted in containers or garden beds.




The RDS Forex System


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Inside a unique system that allows you to identify and trade key turning points in the forex market The financial markets are in a constant state of affirming, breaking, and developing new support and resistance areas. Traders use a variety of methods to project support and resistance points based on past price action. However, the question of whether those areas will hold or break in real time is a much more difficult calculation. In The RDS Forex System, former pit trader Michael Radkay provides forex traders with a unique system for identifying support and resistance zones in the foreign currency market and developing profitable trading strategies around those zones. The system uses market volatility, momentum, and chart patterns to calculate support and resistance zones. As prices reach a specific zone objective, trading strategies are put in place to profit from the next movement. The book will show how this system gives traders a continuous sense of the market's directional bias, identifies potential turning points, and recommends levels to take profits off the table. Highlights the Rotating Directional System (RDS), a computer-based, longer-term application of the methodology used by many successful pit traders Discusses how to use a variety of indicators to identify support and resistance areas Reveals strategies employed to profit from market swings The RDS Forex System is an ideal guide for retail traders actively involved in the forex market.




The Clandestine Manufacture of Illicit Drugs


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