Why authors go wrong and other explanations,

Why authors go wrong.--A barbaric yamp.--In the critical court.--Book "reviewing".--Literary editors, by one of them.--What every publisher knows.--The secret of the best seller.--Writing a novel.

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"The rose of Dixie." The third ingredient.- The hiding of Black Bill.- Schools and schools.- Thimble, thimble.- Supply and demand.- Buried treasure.- To him who waits.- He also serves.- The moment of victory.- The head-hunter.- No story.- The higher pragmatism.- Best-seller.- Rus in urbe.- A poor rule.

Henry Baker: Author of the first microscopy laboratory manual

Henry Baker (1698–1774) was a typical 18th century polymath: natural historian, poet, translator of Molière, editor of a popular periodical and prolific correspondent. He was a cofounder of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries. Baker’s influence on the development and popularization of the microscope was considerable and he wrote three books; the first, The Microscope Made Easy, was a best seller. In 1741 Baker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and played a prominent role in its activities for 30 years. The Bakerian Lecture was founded as a result of a bequest in his will.

Edición y estudio del libro segundo de "La crónica de los muy valientes y esforçados e invencibles cavalleros don Florisel de Niquea..."

Los libros de caballerías castellanos suponen uno de los géneros más destacados y transcendentales del siglo XVI, por encima de otros que, aparentemente, tuvieron una enorme relevancia para sentar las bases de la narrativa moderna; nos referimos a la ficción pastoril, la picaresca, la sentimental o la bizantina. Señalamos como principio y origen del mismo la publicación de la primera edición del Amadís de Gaula de Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, a partir de la versión primitiva medieval, en 1508. Tuvieron un éxito sin precedentes en la época, como lo corroboran los más de ochenta títulos que forman parte del corpus caballeresco y una difusión de casi dos siglos, desde finales del siglo XV hasta comienzos del siglo XVII, tanto de manera impresa como de forma manuscrita. Sin duda, podemos asegurar que eran los best-seller de la época, convirtiéndose en todo un fenómeno literario, con una notoriedad que traspasó nuestras fronteras peninsulares, tanto en Europa como en América. Prueba de ello son las numerosas traducciones que se hicieron en Italia, Francia, Alemania, Holanda, Inglaterra, Portugal e incluso hasta una versión hebrea del primer libro del Amadís de Gaula. En cuanto a su influencia en el Nuevo Mundo no podemos dejar de mencionar, a modo de curiosidad, cómo estos libros dejaron su huella a través de los conquistadores. Así, Magallanes llamó patagones a los aborígenes de la región austral de Sudamérica por influencia del Primaleón, del que deriva el topónimo Patagonia y Las Sergas de Esplandián, de Montalvo, fue fuente de inspiración para otros dos topónimos: California y Amazonas...

Perfil de la estrategia político-militar de las FARC, Sendero Luminoso, y el EPP

El interés de esta investigación es realizar un estudio relativo a la estrategia de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Sendero Luminoso, y el Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo. Se analiza y explica estos actores armados no estatales perfilan una estrategia que vincula a la guerra irregular como medio militar para alcanzar sus objetivos políticos. Este trabajo efectuará un análisis de alcance explicativo mediante la tipología de monografía, en el cual se establezca la estrategia y su vinculación con los aspectos políticos y los medios militares de los tres actores objeto de este estudio. Por consiguiente, se realizará un uso de elementos teóricos y conceptuales que permitan dar alcance a la relación entre las variables de este trabajo.

Seller, buyer and VPP agents behavior on a simulated electricity market

Competitive electricity markets are complex environments, involving a large number of different entities, playing in a dynamic scene to obtain the best advantages and profits. MASCEM is an electricity market simulator able to model market players and simulate their operation in the market. As market players are complex entities, having their characteristics and objectives, making their decisions and interacting with other players, a multi-agent architecture is used and proved to be adequate. MASCEM players have learning capabilities and different risk preferences. They are able to refine their strategies according to their past experience (both real and simulated) and considering other agents’ behavior. Agents’ behavior is also subject to its risk preferences.

TAKING THE PERSPECTIVE OF A SELLER AND A BUYER: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRICE ELICITATION AND PRICE FRAMING

This dissertation consists of two essays which investigate how assuming the role of a seller or a buyer affects valuations in a price elicitation task (essay I) and how different presentations of an equivalent price affect evaluations when a consumer plays the dual roles of a buyer and a seller in transactions involving trade-ins (essay II). Sellers’ willingness to accept (WTA) to give up a good is typically higher than buyers' willingness to pay (WTP) to obtain the good. Essay I proposes that valuation processes of sellers and buyers are guided by a motivational orientation of “getting the best.” For a seller (buyer) indicating WTA (WTP), getting the best implies receiving as much as possible to give up a specific good (giving up as little as possible to get the specific good). Results of six studies suggest that the WTA-WTP elicitation task activates different directional goals, leading to the WTA-WTP disparity. The different directional goals lead sellers and buyers to focus on different aspects and bias their cognitive reasoning and interpretation of information. By connecting the valuation process to the general motivation of getting the best, this research provides a unifying framework to explain the disparate interpretations of the WTA-WTP disparity. Many new purchases and replacement decisions involve consumers’ trading in their old products. In such transactions, the overall exchange may be priced either as separate transactions (partitioned) with price tags for the payment and the receipt or as a single net price (consolidated) which takes into account the value of the trade-in. Essay II examines whether consumers prefer a partitioned price versus a consolidated price presentation. The findings suggest that when consumers are trading in a product which has a low value relative to the price of a new product, they prefer a consolidated price. In contrast, when trading in a product which has high value, they prefer a partitioned price. The results suggest that consumers use the price of the new product as an anchor to evaluate the trade-in value, and the perception of the trade-in value influences the overall evaluation especially when the transaction is partitioned.

Best after rain : waterfall discharges and the tourist experience

Waterfalls attract tourists because they are aesthetically appealing landscape features that are not part of everyday experience. It is generally understood that falls are usually seen at their best when there is a copious flow of water, especially after heavy rain. Guidebooks often contain this observation when referring to waterfalls, sometimes warning readers that the flow may be severely reduced during dry periods. Indeed, many visitors are disappointed when they see falls at such times. Some are saddened when the discharge of a waterfall has been depleted by the abstraction of water upstream for power generation or other purposes. While, for those in search of the Sublime or merely the superlative, size is often important, small waterfalls can give great pleasure to lovers of landscape beauty. According to guidebooks, however, even these falls are usually best seen after rain. Drawing on tourist and travel literature and personal journals from the eighteenth century to the present, and with reference to examples from different parts of the world, this paper discusses the importance of discharge in the tourist experience of waterfalls.

A Best Practice Process for Fleet Safety Training

This paper outlines a process for fleet safety training based on research and management development programmes undertaken at the University of Huddersfield in the UK (www.hud.ac.uk/sas/trans/transnews.htm) and CARRS-Q in Australia (www.carrsq.qut.edu.au/staff/Murray.jsp) over the past 10 years.