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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Sure, you can get great classical literature at Project Gutenberg to download as e-books or even to convert to computer-generated ‘audiobooks’ (although you might not like listening to Ode to a Grecian Urn as interpreted orally by a text-to-voice software program). You can also download real audiofiles (mp3’s, wav’s, etc) from Librivox recordings. {This volunteer-run […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
This is what Matthew W. Barrett , CEO of Barclay’s Bank had to say:
If you can get me a young person who can divine the patterns of imagery in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, it would take me just a half hour to teach that person how to break down a balance sheet.
Teach kids the humanities, and […]
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
From my research, the best answer I can give is “I don’t know.” However, if you examine the work of educational researcher John Tyler, you will discover that studies indicate about 2% of GED holders complete the first year of college. If one were to extrapolate from this percentage, the percentage who actually receive a […]
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
A ranking of 850,000 on Amazon probably means a book sells one or two copies a year. You could get a bit cynical and say you’re surprised it’s even that high. However, as traditional and e-book publishers churn out those clone-like English writing texts that will guarantee you’ll write prose ‘not fit for Christian ear […]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
There’s no way I or anyone else can make money on this book so consider this pro bono advice. The best book I’ve found on how to create a successful website was published in 1997, and currently ranks #269,560 on […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Do you find it odd that the book rated as the top selling title in Audiology on Amazon.com is a guide that provides suggestions on how to write stylistically superior prose? I thought it strange at first, but then it made perfect sense. I’m assuming there isn’t some strange anomaly like a misplaced category or […]
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