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The Amazon Kindle is an electronic book reader made and sold by Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer and one of the nation’s biggest book sellers. Amazon is one of the iconic companies of the Internet era.
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The Amazon Kindle is an electronic book reader made and sold by Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer and one of the nation’s biggest book sellers. Amazon is one of the iconic companies of the Internet era.
The company made the leap from selling others’ products to selling its own when it introduced the Kindle, a reader with the capability of downloading books wirelessly, in November 2007. A few other companies, notably Sony, had been selling electronic book readers, but Amazon’s approach seemed to create a completely new experience, offering users the chance to buy virtually any book at any time anywhere.
The Kindle uses a display technology called electronic ink that is meant to mimic the experience of reading black letters on white paper. It is easier to read in bright lights and it uses less electricity than the sort of displays used on laptop computers and cellphones.
The device was praised by Oprah Winfrey, on her show in October 2008. Shortly thereafter, Amazon sold out of the first generation of Kindle devices, missing the critical holiday selling season.
A second version of the Kindle, with more memory and longer battery life, was introduced in February 2009 at the same price. A third, large-screen version, optimized to display textbooks and newspapers, was introduced in May 2009.
By that time the Kindle had become the company’s biggest selling product. Amazon built up a 90 percent share of the American e-book market, in part because it sells most new releases and best sellers at a heavily discounted standard price of $9.99. Many Kindle owners have said the low price motivates them to buy more e-books, but publishers feared that the price would eventually erode their profits.
The Kindle’s success also brought a string of competitors into the market it had established, most notably the iPad, Apple’s tablet computer with a high-contrast color screen, Web browser, games, applications and computing capabilities.
July 19, 2010 was a day for the history books — if those will even exist in the future. Amazon announced that during the previous three months, sales of books for the Kindle had for the first time outnumbered sales of hardcover books. In that time, Amazon said, it sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books, including hardcovers for which there is no Kindle edition.
The online version of the New York Times has dedicated an entire section of their website to the Kindle reading device. Read more…
If a court of law were to evaluate the evidence for Jesus Christ, what would it conclude about his identity? Is it possible to discover the true historical Jesus? Many scholars have carefully studied the facts about this person who has so greatly influenced human history.
If a court of law were to evaluate the evidence for Jesus Christ, what would it conclude about his identity? Is it possible to discover the true historical Jesus? Many scholars have carefully studied the facts about this person who has so greatly influenced human history.
The articles on this website reveal the truth regarding Jesus of Nazareth. Archaeologists, historians, textual scientists and New Testament scholars examine the wealth of evidence making him the most unique person in the history of our world. You will find answers to questions asked by skeptics about his existence, the credibility of his claims, his true identity, his fulfillment of prophecy, his resurrection, his relevance to our lives today, and the reliability of the New Testament gospels.
So what do the facts tell us? Can we trust the New Testament accounts of Jesus, or are the skeptics right? We invite you to examine the evidence.
Read The Evidence:
The following articles are from Y-Jesus magazine.
- Was Jesus a Real Person?
- Was there a Da Vinci Conspiracy?
- Is Jesus God?
- Are the Gospels True?
- Was Jesus the Messiah?
- Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
- Is Jesus Relevant Today?
Y-Jesus Magazine
Y-Jesus is a single-issue magazine that deals with the evidence regarding the most controversial person who ever lived. This 100 page, full-color, 8.5X11 magazine, illustrated with dramatic photos and contemporary graphics, will help both youth and adults understand the evidence regarding Jesus Christ and his radical claims.
Upgrading to WordPress version 3.0 can have quite some downfalls. As soon as I installed it I lost my Twitter connection. So far I have been using the “WP to Twitter” plugin, and it actually still functions under the 3.0 version. Nevertheless, I am now unable to modify the plugin parameters, which hurts especially when I add new categories.
Updating your software – in this case updating your WordPress blog to Version 3.0 – can be a frustrating process. I really do appreciate this new version, especially the new menu feature. It took a little bit to find a comprehensible documentation, but once you get it, you won’t forget, and you will appreciate it.
However, upgrading to version 3.0 can have quite some downfalls. As soon as I installed it I lost my Twitter connection. So far I have been using the “WP to Twitter” plugin, and it actually still functions under the 3.0 version. Nevertheless, I am now unable to modify the plugin parameters, which hurts especially when I add new categories.
While I liked the plugin, it was most annoying that you need to specifically allow new categories to be twittered. So, right now I am unable to automatically twitter posts in new categories.
I checked out the plugin’s website, and the guy who wrote it is considering discontinuing it, since Twitter will release some new requirements. As a result, I am now on the search for a new Twitter plugin.
Anybody out there with some advice/recommendation…?
Supplement:
Just found the “Post to Twitter” plugin. It doesn’t have as many options as the “WP to Twitter” plugin, but these numerous options were somewhat annoying. “Post to Twitter” works just fine, and it automatically shortens the hyperlink to your post. The conversion to short URLs is offered with the “WP to Twitter” plugin as well, but, due to the many parameters offered, the setup was cumbersome.
Retracing the complex history between China and Tibet, noted expert Warren Smith describes the uprising itself and explores its broader significance for Chinese-Tibetan relations. He sharply critiques China’s use of heavy-handed propaganda to recast the uprising and obscure its origins and significance.
Tibet’s Last Stand? The Tibetan Uprising of 2008 and China’s Response
by Warren W. Smith Jr.
This deeply knowledgeable book offers the first sustained analysis of the 2008 uprising in Tibet, which revealed much about Tibetan nationalism and even more about Chinese nationalism. Retracing the complex history between China and Tibet, noted expert Warren Smith describes the uprising itself and explores its broader significance for Chinese-Tibetan relations. He sharply critiques China’s use of heavy-handed propaganda to recast the uprising and obscure its origins and significance. The book convincingly shows that far from becoming more lenient in response to Tibetan discontent, China has determined to eradicate Tibetan opposition internally and coerce the international community to conform to China’s version of Tibetan history and reality.
Reviews
Tibet’s Last Stand? is the first book-length discussion of the 150 or so protests that took place in Tibet in 2008. Using clear, accessible language, Warren Smith offers a detailed summary of the protests that took place and especially of the responses of the security forces and politicians to unrest, together with extensive ethical and political commentaries by the author. –Robert J. Barnett, Columbia University
A lucid, comprehensive, and insightful account of the 2008 uprising in Tibet. Smith’s impressive analysis of the causes of the uprising is surpassed only by his detailed examination of the consequences of that eruption: the resurgence of Tibetan nationalism, the brutal Chinese crackdown and the collapse of the Dalai Lama’s negotiation attempts with Beijing. It is a must read for those concerned about the fate of Tibet. The book takes on special significance in the wake of the similar conflict in Xinjiang in 2009, providing useful insight into the future of China’s colonial empire. –Jamyang Norbu, author of The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes
Warren W. Smith Jr. has emerged as the preeminent writer on Tibetan history and Sino-Tibetan relations. His newest work solidifies that position by offering the most comprehensive account available of Tibet’s resistance during the buildup to the Beijing Olympics–an uprising that challenged China’s claim that it has a legitimate right to colonize and suppress the Tibetan people. Smith relates Beijing’s paranoid reaction to the uprising in fascinating detail. Anyone who is interested in the Tibetan issue or the nature of modern Chinese nationalism must read Tibet’s Last Stand?, a seminal and mesmerizing book. –Mikel Dunham, author of Buddha’s Warriors
“The most informative and fair account available of China’s occupation of Tibet and its consequences. . . . Open-minded readers of whatever opinion about China and Tibet will find much to learn from Tibet’s Last Stand, and may even change their minds. . . . This is a revealing and honest book. . . . Tibetans are unlikely ever to achieve their independence, Dr. Smith concludes, `but they retain the right to write their own history.’ This he says–and he is a great champion–must be the role of Tibetans in exile and their friends. . . . I believe that will be the judgment of many attentive readers of this invaluable book.” –Hong Kong Economic Journal
“A useful, detailed account of the 2008 demonstrations, the official response, and surrounding events. . . . Readers will gain a clear idea of the Chinese position on Tibet and of Beijing’s strategy in the region: a combination of Han immigration, economic development, assimilation, repression, and waiting for the Dalai Lama to die.” –Foreign Affairs
Buy the book through Amazon.com…
See also my article series of
The Panchen Lama Controversy
Who will identify the next incarnation of the Dalai Lama?
Anyone who is a Tibet activist, a serious student of Tibetan Buddhism, or a history buff will find Smith’s book indispensable. What is truly fresh and original in China’s Tibet?–and reveals Smith at his most penetrating and disturbing– is his analysis of China’s greatest propaganda successes. The tug of war between recorded fact and historical revisionism, autonomy and assimilation, Tibetan Buddhist culture and Chinese real estate, will continue while the rest of the world looks on from the sidelines. In the meantime, we should be very grateful that Warren Smith has kept a superb scorecard for us.
China’s Tibet? Autonomy Or Assimilation
by Warren W. Smith Jr.
Anyone who is a Tibet activist, a serious student of Tibetan Buddhism, or a history buff will find Smith’s book indispensable. What is truly fresh and original in China’s Tibet?–and reveals Smith at his most penetrating and disturbing– is his analysis of China’s greatest propaganda successes. The tug of war between recorded fact and historical revisionism, autonomy and assimilation, Tibetan Buddhist culture and Chinese real estate, will continue while the rest of the world looks on from the sidelines. In the meantime, we should be very grateful that Warren Smith has kept a superb scorecard for us.
Reviews
Smith has extensive living experience in the region and does his research with great care….Recommended. –Choice, November 2008
This is a landmark study of China’s efforts to fully subsume Tibet and to rewrite Tibetan history to conform to this official reality. Smith’s dispassionate, critical, and detailed account makes clear China’s goal of complete assimilation and the futility of the Dalai Lama’s policy to seek some kind of ‘meaningful autonomy’ for his country. –Jamyang Norbu, author of The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes
“In seven fluid chapters, the book covers recent Tibetan history, with an emphasis on Chinese propaganda and how Chinese leaders have viewed Tibet. . . . China’s Tibet?is essential for understanding how the Sino-Tibetan relationship became what it is today. . . . His clear-eyed analysis makes a very convincing case.” –Far Eastern Economic Review
Buy the book through Amazon.com…
See also my article series of
The Panchen Lama Controversy
Who will identify the next incarnation of the Dalai Lama?
While working on a documentary film, British journalist Hilton was permitted to accompany the Dalai Lama as he sought to identify the 11th incarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second-highest spiritual authority of Tibet’s ruling Buddhist sect. This excellent and artfully written book (part of which has appeared in the New Yorker) tells the complicated recent history of the Panchen Lama.
The Search For The Panchen Lama
by Isabel Hilton
While working on a documentary film, British journalist Hilton was permitted to accompany the Dalai Lama as he sought to identify the 11th incarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second-highest spiritual authority of Tibet’s ruling Buddhist sect. This excellent and artfully written book (part of which has appeared in the New Yorker) tells the complicated recent history of the Panchen Lama.
The 10th incarnation died under mysterious circumstances in 1989 and is considered by many Tibetans to have been a traitor. The 11th–still a child–is missing; the six-year-old boy was detained along with his family in the mid-’90s by Tibet’s Chinese rulers and has not been heard from since. Meanwhile, the Chinese authorities have offered another child as the spiritual leader incarnate.
Although she reveals the end of the story in the early pages of the book, Hilton relates this history with great drama and subtle wryness (for Westerners, she says, Tibet is “a kind of religious Disneyland”). Her wonderfully detailed writing illustrates the spiritual and political contours of these events. She describes, for example, a group of Tibetan lamas’ two-day journey to Lhamo Latso Lake, where they went to gain insight that helped them find the reincarnated Panchen Lama; their trek, which involved 20 yaks, a video camera and a set of binoculars, was also monitored closely by Chinese spies.
Hilton reports the story of the quest with great skill, weaving the history of Tibet with visits to monasteries in Tibet, China and India and conveying the power of a religion to survive the destruction of its institutions, the imposition of martial law, jailings and death in labor camps and prisons.
Reviews
An excellent primer on Tibetan history and ….a chilling picture of the brutality of Chinese repression in Tibet. – Wall Street Journal
Lively and vastly entertaining…. Hilton has seen—and participated in—one of the final moments of a lost Tibet. – Boston Sunday Globe
Riveting ….captures the panoramic scope of a remarkable story…. The ending is heartbreaking. – Los Angeles Times
[A]n outstanding book, well-researched, lively, scholarly, humorous, sympathetic, and eminently readable. – The Tablet, 18 September 1999
See also my article series of
The Panchen Lama Controversy
Who will identify the next incarnation of the Dalai Lama?
These days you’ll find numerous articles online promoting the best methods of promoting your first novel. To put it in a nut-shell, promoting your first novel is the most difficult marketing task in the business world.
These days you’ll find numerous articles online describing the best methods of promoting your first novel. To put it in a nut-shell, promoting your first novel is the most difficult marketing task in the business world (See also my post The Most Difficult Marketing Task In The Business World). Everybody, who likes to write about his/her success, has a specific recipe on how to promote their work.
The most obvious tool is a website or blog. No author can live without a website these days. But there are many who say a website alone doesn’t do it. I personally challenge that view, and the increasing success of my website is living proof.
Some swear by event marketing such as visiting bookstores, libraries, or even bicycling through the entire United States, everything to create a little buzz. Others will tell you, you need to develop a database of potential customers and send them a monthly newsletter. I could continue with another couple of hundreds of ideas, and they all will work to a certain degree. But they also work only for certain type of authors. Whatever these resources recommend, they never mention the most important marketing tool: Talent. My take is, if you have talent, and you preserver, you will find success eventually. Just don’t make the mistake of expecting instant success. Even the most successful authors had to be patient before the big payoff.
The saying is that, in average, authors and publishers start making profit with the release of the fifth novel. For that reason I am publishing the progress of my second novel, American Male Prostitute, as a free read on this website. Why waste my time with futile marketing? The best marketing tool for a novel is the release of the next one.
But this is not necessarily the method I am promoting in this post. As a matter of fact, I have started research for my third novel – title to be determined – and during the research process I had the idea of sharing the progress. The story line has to do with The Panchen Lama Controversy. The Panchen Lama is the second-highest authority in the Tibetan spiritual and political system. The Panchen Lama also shares the responsibility of identifying the next incarnation of the Dalai Lama. For more information on the topic see The Panchen Lama Controversy.
So, my marketing strategy for my next novel is that I post articles on this blog reflecting my current research progress. The above mentioned article series represents the background research, while further posts will address information directly relating to the chapters in my novel. For instance, one of the first chapters in my novel involves the American embassy in Beijing, thus there will be a post addressing the work of the embassy in China. In turn my blog will grow and attract more attention, until the time when I publish my next novel.
I report the progress also through Facebook and Twitter, and slowly but surely I am developing a fellowship of people with similar interest. Well, that’s my philosophy, and I think it will work for me.
Please leave a comment, whether you agree or not.
Like a dandelion in the wind, Hope Ladley blows from one farm to the next, helping cook for the field hands during the harvest. Illiterate and often twisting cliches and Bible verses into mind-boggling observations, Hope leaves widower Jakob Stauffer baffled by her unconventional ways. But her sunny disposition and unstinting love make changes of a different kind around the place. His little daughter and the pregnant sister he’s shielding from an abusive husband adore Hope, and things are getting accomplished even if Hope’s methods are unique.
Reviews
“…light yet thought-provoking – humorous yet serious…. This story was a delightful read.” – Trudy Smith, OnceUponaRomance.net
“Cathy Marie Hake paints characters so real they nearly walk off the page.” – Delia Latham, faithwebbin.net
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Like a dandelion in the wind, Hope Ladley blows from one farm to the next, helping cook for the field hands during the harvest. Illiterate and often twisting cliches and Bible verses into mind-boggling observations, Hope leaves widower Jakob Stauffer baffled by her unconventional ways.
But her sunny disposition and unstinting love make changes of a different kind around the place. His little daughter and the pregnant sister he’s shielding from an abusive husband adore Hope, and things are getting accomplished even if Hope’s methods are unique.
Then Jakob’s brother-in-law shows up and threatens the newfound peace and happiness of the farm. With Jakob’s future uncertain and his heart tangled, can the farmer convince Hope to take root and remain as his wife?
After her brother dies in a trauma room, nurse Claire Avery can no longer face the ER. She’s determined to make a fresh start–new hospital, new career in nursing education–move forward, no turning back. But her plans fall apart when she’s called to offer stress counseling for medical staff after a heartbreaking day care center explosion. Worse, she’s forced back to the ER, where she clashes with Logan Caldwell, a doctor who believes touchy-feely counseling is a waste of time. He demands his staff be as tough as he is. Yet he finds himself drawn to this nurse educator . . . who just might teach him the true meaning of healing.
Reviews
“Good-bye, ER. Hello, Critical Care! Candace Calvert delivers a wonderful medical romance that peeks inside the doors of an ER to discover a cast of real-life characters who learn to love and live and discover God’s truths, all in the high-stress world of medicine. If you like ER and House, you’ll love Logan and Claire and their friends at Sierra Mercy. Give me another dose, and soon!”
—Susan May Warren, award-winning author of Happily Ever After and Nothing but Trouble
“I’ve always said if I weren’t an author, I’d be in the medical field, so it’s no wonder I ate up Candace Calvert’s new book Critical Care. I lived and breathed the problems and struggles in ER along with the characters. Terrific story and terrific writing. Can’t wait for the next one!”
—Colleen Coble, author of Cry in the Night and Lonestar Secrets
“Finally, a reason to turn off ER and Grey’s Anatomy. Here is a realistic medical drama with heart. Candace Calvert gets it right with page-turning prose, a heartwarming love story, and hope. Don’t make us wait too long for the next one!”
—Harry Kraus, MD, best-selling author of Salty Like Blood and Could I Have This Dance?
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After her brother dies in a trauma room, nurse Claire Avery can no longer face the ER. She’s determined to make a fresh start–new hospital, new career in nursing education–move forward, no turning back. But her plans fall apart when she’s called to offer stress counseling for medical staff after a heartbreaking day care center explosion. Worse, she’s forced back to the ER, where she clashes with Logan Caldwell, a doctor who believes touchy-feely counseling is a waste of time. He demands his staff be as tough as he is. Yet he finds himself drawn to this nurse educator . . . who just might teach him the true meaning of healing.
In this smart, tender, insightful new novel, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin introduces two very different women who, over the course of two unforgettable weeks, learn about unbreakable bonds, unshakeable love, and the chances that come once in a lifetime — and change us forever.
In this smart, tender, insightful new novel, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin introduces two very different women who, over the course of two unforgettable weeks, learn about unbreakable bonds, unshakeable love, and the chances that come once in a lifetime — and change us forever…
When Elizabeth Caldwell planned a trip to Florence with her daughter, Marina, she secretly hoped for a warm, fuzzy bonding experience worthy of a Lifetime movie. But Marina — twenty-one, newly graduated, and close to her mom in many ways — has always been more the PBS type: dependable, practical, and completely in control.
Elizabeth knows Marina wants to avoid the kind of “stupid mistake” that left Elizabeth a single mother at twenty-two, and she’s bitten her tongue as Marina settles for a wealthy fiance who gives her everything she thinks she wants. After all, Elizabeth — unable to bring herself to fully commit to the man she has dated for years — is hardly an expert in romance. Still, a lot can happen on vacation, especially in Tuscany, where every scent borne on the warm breeze inspires delight, and every view makes the heart soar.
There, on streets once walked by Dante and Michaelangelo, Marina is blindsided by a gorgeous Italian named Luca who shows her how gloriously unpredictable passion can be, and Elizabeth finally lets go of the role that has defined her for so long to embrace her own uncertain future…
