How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method


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The Snowflake Method-ten battle-tested steps that jump-start your creativity and help you quickly map out your story.




Women and Men of the States


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This text discusses and compares men's and women's career patterns in state government. It is based upon newly conducted original research surveys in six states. From this research, generalisations are made concerning commonalities and differences between men's and women's experiences in public adminstration at the state level. This is a new area of research: while much has been done at the federal level (and there is a federal database to work from) until now little work has been done and little data is available for the states.




Windows Movie Maker


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You will be using Windows Movie Maker, a video creating or editing software application, included in Microsoft Windows. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/ credits, audio track, timeline narration and Auto Movie. It also a basic audio track editing program.




A.L.A. Catalog


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Books and Reading


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Advances in Information Retrieval


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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 35th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2013, held in Moscow, Russia, in March 2013. The 55 full papers, 38 poster papers and 10 demonstrations presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 287 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: user aspects; multimedia and cross-media IR; data mining; IR theory and formal models; IR system architectures; classification; Web; event detection; temporal IR, and microblog search. Also included are 4 tutorial and 2 workshop presentations.




International Newspaper Librarianship for the 21st Century


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This volume consists of presentations at recent events of the IFLA Newspapers Section in Oslo 2005, Canberra 2005, Buenos Aires 2004, Shanghai 2004, Berlin 2003 and Cape Town 2003. It covers the variety and intensity of newspaper activities worldwide, emphasising both regional activities and current work in the fields of the preservation and digitisation of newspapers, and including reports on the ongoing US and UK projects. Another essential subject covered in this volume is the very complex issue of newspapers and copyright. This publication presents the current state of newspaper librarianship on all five continents. It reflects not only the remarkable progress made during recent years, but also the major challenges for the future.




Technology and the American Economy


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Developing an Outstanding Core Collection


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Presents step-by-step instructions for librarians on creating a core collection from scratch or revitalizing an existing collection, providing sample core lists in seven subject areas.




Technology and the American Economy; Report


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