Christina

Monday, 9 September 2019

Book Suggestions- Russian authors?

answers1: Hi ! 
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky ; 
*"Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral
dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St.
Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a
hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money, thereby
solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues,
ridding the world of an evil worthless parasite. Raskolnikov also
strives to be an extraordinary being, similar to Napoleon, believing
that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose." 
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment 
 
=^,,^= 

answers2: Of course the above posted standbys, but for something
different try 
Lermontov "Hero of Our Time" 
Mikhail Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita" 
and then Zamyatin "We" (it's a dystopian fiction). 
 
or if you like weird, Kafka-esque stories try Gogol's short stories.
answers3: I am russian but I don't know any authors
answers4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Russian_novels
answers5: Well there are the givens--Tolstoy (War and Peace) and
Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment--which I fully recommend). 
 
Nabokov-- "Lolita" <--fantastic.
answers6: She immigrated to america from Russia so I'm not sure if it
counts, but I love Ayn Rand. I would suggest either Anthem, The
Fountainhead, or, best of all, Atlas Shrugged. Great books.
answers7: Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
The Brother Karamazov by Fyodor Doestoevsky 
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko 
 
Individual authors of Russian literature include: 
Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, and Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin.
answers8: Dostoevsky is the BEST! Crime and Punishment gets a bad rap
for being boring but it is far from it. It's about several murders but
it's not a murder mystery. It's way good.
answers9: Yes, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor Dostoevsky. He also
wrote THE BROTHERS KARAMOZOV. Leo Tolstoy wrote ANNA KARENINA and WAR
AND PEACE. All four are masterpieces. Coming more into the modern
day era. You have LOLITA by Vladamir Nabokov and DR. ZHIVAGO by Boris
Pasternak. I hope this helps.

Sunday, 8 September 2019

How hard is it to be a author?

answers1: it can be really easy. self publishing is simple, but
getting properly published takes years. age doesn't matter though,
it's your writing that's important. please read my prologue 
<a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvqnvoPIJMchXZF8oIREXYjsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091017161234AAUvM7k"class=Clr-b>http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...</a>
 
 
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answers2: easy, you already are..
answers3: first you have to have a great desire to share information
about something you know well. You have to know a lot about it
because well a book is maybe 300 pages and you'd have to write more
than 900 pages initially (and then cut it down leaving the important
stuff). You'd need someone to correct your spelling and sentence
structure and to type it up. It's difficult to find someone who would
type it up from a tape recording, and difficult to find someone to
type it from notes so you may end up typing it up yourself. So why
not sit down at the typewriter and just begin to compose. The best
I'd say would be to write several short stories. 
 
Then you choose what picture you want for the cover and what
information you want on the back. You choose the pictures for the
inside or if the book is an easy read and holds your attention and is
a paperback then it's ok not to have pictures. Putting the book into
chapters I found was difficult to do. And I did my book myself so did
several copies by xerox thinking that I'd make money but each cost me
about $13 (this was back around 1990 or so) but to pay for everything
else involved I had to charge $25. I was told at that time that I'd
have to choose the 100 copies for $1,000 by a nearby book printer (yes
they are around and you can find them on the net). They hadn't seen
the pictures yet so didn't include those in the price and then it got
pricey so that's why I chose to xerox. It took a lot of personal
effort to get out the first 25 books and save the money to get this
accomplished. Then there were the advertising costs and the
"expectance" that people would buy. Once your book starts to sell you
can consider yourself an author. You have to pay to have your book
advertised like on tv and radio and in magazines and on websites and
getting the first book off the ground is the most difficult. The
second time it goes easier for you and you use what you earned on the
first book to start the second book. Usually people work all their
lives and then have something to write about and some income from the
past to use toward being an author. 
 
As an afterthought I'd think that your education right now would be
more important than being an author and taking up your study time.
Writing does really take up a lot of time.
answers4: Just get a book out even if it doesn't sell one copy and
your an author
answers5: Well, if you want to be an English one then you need to use
the word 'an' in your question. 
Only you can tell your own story and what you have to do is make it
interesting enough for people to want to read it to the end. So you'd
pick an issue that worries people, especially a lifestyle issue, and
emphasise it so that people imagine they really do need to read what
you have to say in case they might find an answer or sympathy for
their own condition. Then start to drive the story via a series of
twists, turns and the odd dead end across the contemporary landscape.
 
It's not easy to get published unless you have something new and
potentially popular to say. Even then the publishers won't notice you
unless maybe you go via one of their agents. So it's hard, just like
being a top athlete. 50% talent, 50% training, and one without the
other seldom gets far.
answers6: When you are a kid author it is probably hard. plus you
don't know all the proper grammer.
answers7: No offense, but good grammar would help. You've got at
least three grammatical errors in your question. Learning to write
properly would be the first step.
answers8: it can take years to get a book published but you can just
write stories now. anyone can be an author as long as they have a good
imagination. and use better grammar. : )
answers9: How hard is it to be an author? 
 
You have to be willing to sit for hours on end working and working to
make nothing tangible - only a story that you pull from the deepest
corners of your psyche. You have to have the mental toughness to
withstand the inner voices that ask you why you aren't doing something
that financially makes more sense, why you keep working when you're
sure everything you've ever written sucks, and why you've never gotten
anything published yet. You have to have the strength to ignore all
the people asking when you're going to get a "real job." You have to
have the drive and the discipline to see a project through to the end,
to be critical of yourself while believing you have something worth
saying, to write the best thing you can. 
 
That's only the beginning. Then you have to have the courage to put
what you've written - little pieces of your soul, in essence - out
into the world for anyone to read. You're stripping yourself naked and
showing yourself to total strangers who will probably tell you you are
worthless as a writer and would be better off flipping burgers at
McDonald's. You are going to let your parents read the sex scenes, you
are going to let your significant other read the passages where your
character is unhappy with a relationship, you are going to let the
world read all the little bits of you that seep into your writing, and
you are going to be judged by them. You have to be able to stand up to
that. 
 
You have to love writing so much that you don't care that working at a
fast-food place makes more financial sense. You have to love writing
so much that even when the going is tough and each word feels like
pulling teeth, you sit at your keyboard and you keep working. You have
to love writing so much that you discipline yourself to finish things
by your deadlines, and you have to accept the fact that you may never
be published, and you have to keep writing anyways. 
 
And you have to clean up your grammar and spelling.
answers10: You become an author by getting a book published. 
 
And it can be quite difficult to do that.

Saturday, 7 September 2019

How much will a new author be paid?

answers1: $100000000
answers2: Mark Twain began to jot down interior the 1860's, his works
are seen realism. maximum of Twain's books have been bought by skill
of subscription. Canvassers went homestead to homestead around the
country and have been given orders for his books from human beings one
after the different. Twain made an incredible variety of money
merchandising his books by skill of subscription.
answers3: Youll get paid depending on how much books you sell 
plus you have to pay your publisher and your agent and the editor
answers4: Very little. 
 
Authors are generally paid either solely in royalties, or with an
'advance' which is a one-off payment, off-set against royalties. The
idea is that your book will make the publisher enough money to pay
back this advance, and the publisher then doesn't start paying you
royalties until this advance has been recouped for the publisher.
However, if your book doesn't make enough to do this, you don't have
to pay your advance back. Realistically, a new author would be very
lucky to get as much as £1,000 (sorry, don't know what that is in US
dollars - about $1500 - $2000, I'd guess) for their first advance. You
will hear tales in the press of authors who got a £50,000 advance, but
it's incredibly rare. 
 
So, you get paid in royalties, which is a percentage of the profits of
your book. But other people have to make profits from your book too,
such as the bookstore who sells it, and your publisher, and your
agent, if you have one (and you'd be unlikely to get a book deal
without one, as very few publishers accept unsolicited manuscripts
from new authors). So, it really does depend on how many books you
sell. Your royalties are a small (ie, low single figures) percentage
of the book's cover price, but only if it's sold at full price. 
 
This link is a useful guide. However, I would say that their figures
are actually rather generous in comparison to reality. 
 
<a href="http://www.poewar.com/the-basics-of-book-profits/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.poewar.com/the-basics-of-book...</a>
 
 
Most novelists don't even make a living wage out of writing. They do
other things as well. Terry Pratchett is one of the UK's best-selling
authors - he was the best-selling author of the 1990s in the UK, has
sold 55 million books worldwide, is translated into over 30 languages,
is one of the top-ten best-selling non-American authors in the US, etc
etc. He's very prolific, and he's written a huge number of books.
However... his first novel was published in 1971, and he didn't manage
to enough to give up his day job as a press officer until 1987. By
1987, he'd already had four Discworld novels published. That's one of
the most successful book series in the world. But it took that long
before he earned enough to write full-time. 
 
The absolute last reason anyone should write a book is money.

Friday, 6 September 2019

In Twilight the book?

answers1: A few times she is said to be brunette.
answers2: yes, she is. in twilight (first book) she is.
answers3: yes
answers4: yes. thats why edward prefers brunettes..
answers5: yes she is, 
 
dark hair on page 24 
there are others, i dont want to look, YAY LAZYNESS!

Thursday, 5 September 2019

SQL: 3 tables (book, author, book_author)?

answers1: As you're using mySQL, you should look at the GROUP_CONCAT
function. It can be found at: 
 
<a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/group-by-functions.html#function_group-concat"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/g...</a>
 
 
 
I don't have access to a mySQL database right at this moment that I
can check this works, but the following should do what you're after:
 
 
SELECT book.[book_id], book.[title], GROUP_CONCAT(author.[name]
SEPARATOR ', ') 
FROM (book INNER JOIN book_author 
ON book_author.[book_id] = book.[book_id]) 
INNER JOIN author.[author_id] 
ON author.[author_id] = book_author.[author_id] 
WHERE book.[book_id] = '1' 
 
 
Obviously change the where statement to whatever you want/need. 
 
 
Hope this helps! 
.
answers2: Yes, you need to use MySQL's GROUP_CONCAT function.

Wednesday, 4 September 2019

PINTEREST, INC. [PINS] - THE KEY TO SUCCESS LIES IN CONCENTRATING ON THE OVERALL PICTURE.

Pinterest, Inc. [NYSE: PINS] shares fell -1.18% or -0.41 points from their previous closing price of $34.42. The stock reached $34.01 during the last trading session. Over the last 5 trading days of the week, the PINS share price rose for 2 out of 5 days, increasing by +0.59% over the last 7 days.

PINS had two major price moves with the last trading session as the price rose to a high of $34.67 and reached $33.72 at one point. The most recent high is set lower than the 52-week high of $34.67. The most recent high is the $34.67 high. The 52-week high is currently at $36.83 from the current stock price, marking a rally from the recent low of $23.05. The 52-week high is now at $36.83 from the current stock price.

Pinterest, Inc. (NYSE:PINS): Analyst Valuation and Results of Operations
Stock traders often keep abreast of what leading stock market analysts are saying about a possible stock purchase. When it comes to Pinterest, Inc. PINS], the most recent average analyst rating available, comes from the quarter ending in December. On average, stock market experts give PINS a hold rating. The share price ranged from 23.05 to 36.83. This is compared to the last closing price of $34.42.

Wall Street analysts give their ratings on a scale of 1 to 5 and the current average for Pinterest, Inc. [PINS] sits at 2:58 a.m.. This is compared to 1 month earlier when the average rating was 2.58.

For the quarter ending March 19, Pinterest, Inc. [PINS] generated revenues of $0.2 billion. That's 0.65% more than the average estimate of $0.2 billion presented by Wall Street analysts. The three above indicators suggest that the stock as a whole has a mixed mix of positive appeal and some drawbacks, making it a somewhat risky investment that also has the potential to generate a high ROI over the long term.

Keep an eye out for the next planned quarterly results that this company is expected to publish on Do 7 November (65 days).

Fundamental analysis from Pinterest, Inc. (PINS)
Let us now turn to profitability: with a current operating margin for Pinterest, Inc. PINS] was -9.88 and its gross margin was +68.04.

The return on total capital of this company is -7.70, the return on invested capital 12.60%. The return on equity is -7.04 and the return on assets is -5.23. These figures indicate that Pinterest, Inc. is poorly managing its assets and is unlikely to be able to deliver successful short-term results to its investors.

In order to investigate the capital structure of this company, Pinterest, Inc. [PINS] has generated a total debt to total equity ratio of 17.39. Similarly, the total debt to total assets ratio is 12.69.

What about the valuation? The enterprise value to EBITDA of this company is -337.97. The enterprise value to sales for this company is now 24 August.

Shifting the focus to employee efficiency, Pinterest, Inc. PINS] earns $420,663 for each employee as part of their payroll. Also of interest are the liquidity data of this listed organization: its quick ratio is 8.20 and its current ratio is 8.20. Taking these ratios into account, this company has a healthy ratio between its short-term cash and cash equivalents and its short-term liabilities, making it a less risky investment.

Pinterest, Inc. [PINS] has 548.07 million shares outstanding, representing a total market capitalization of $18.86 billion. The share price ranged from 23.05 to 36.83. At its current price, it has fallen -7.65% from its 52-week high and 47.57% from its 52-week low.

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) of this stock is 55.87. This RSI value is good, indicating that this stock is neither overbought nor oversold.

Conclusion: Is Pinterest, Inc. [PINS] is a reliable buy?
Shares of Pinterest, Inc. PINS] provide investors with both positive and negative signals. Wall Street analysts have mixed valuations when it comes to the 12-month price outlook, and this company's financial figures show a combination of strengths and weaknesses. Based on the price performance, this investment is somewhat risky and at the same time has a reasonable potential for ROI.

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books about comedy or suspense?

answers1: There's a cool new book out called The Key to Nede. It's
really cheap and really exciting. These kids from an orphanage get
attacked by monsters and in trying to escape they end up in an
alternate world in sync with our. Check it out
http://www.amazon.com/The-Key-Nede-Karis...
answers2: I'm not sure what you are asking. Do you want titles of
comedy books, books about comedy, suspenseful books, books about
suspense, or books that are similar to Harry Potter? Or some weird
combination thereof? 
 
Can you clarify the request?