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Freelance Contract
Montage Legal Group’s Erin Giglia Speaking About the Use of Freelance/Contract Lawyers
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JON SABLE, FREELANCE (FS) 22-24 “The Contract” $0.00 |
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Graphic Artist’s Guild Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines (Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines) $25.49 For years, the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing and Ethical Guidelines has been the industry bible for graphic designers and illustrators. This, the 13th edition, continues the tradition with new information, listings and pricing information based on surveys of working designers. It addresses legal rights and issues such as how copyright laws affect the income and work of graphic artists. I… |
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Business and Legal Forms for Graphic Designers (3rd Edition) $16.00 New Third Edition! Business and Legal Forms for Graphic Designers provides 40 essential forms and checklists—all ready to copy and put to immediate use in any graphic design studio!Each form includes step-by-step instructions and can be used as is, or easily tailored to meet a specific business situation. This latest edition features brand-new forms for employment and lease agreements, as well a… |
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Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines (Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines) $8.00 Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical guidelines, 12th Edition is the industry bible, containing information all graphic artists and their clients need to buy and sell work in a totally professional manner. This edition has been revised and updated to provide all the information you need to compete in an industry moving at lightning speed…. |
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BOOK PROPOSALS THAT WORKED! Real Book Proposals That Landed $10K – $100K Publishing Contracts $28.7 Peek over the shoulders of highly successful, published authors to see how they landed publishing contracts worth $10,000 to $100,000! An enticing yet professional book proposal is the key!In these pages, you’ll find real book proposals that landed these publishing contracts: Simon and Schuster – $100,000; MIRA Books – “Six-Figure Advance”; Ghostwriting Former CEO’s Memoirs – $50,000; Ghostwriting Business Book for CEO – $40,000; Five Separate Publishing Contracts from One Proposal – $37,694.00; Music Sales Corporation – $25,000; Berkeley Books – $20,000; Osborne/McGraw-Hill – $19,500; Kensington Publishing Corp. – $17,500; Billboard Books – $17,500; Confidential Ghostwriting Contract – $15,000; Random House – $15,000; Que Publishers – $12,500; Prentice Hall – $11,000; The Vegetarian Resource – $10,000; Da Capo Press – $10,000; and Adams Media – $10,000. Genres of the books featured range from fiction to celebrity biographies, business, medical, memoirs, nutrition/cooking, sports, true crime, freelance writing, and more!From a “pitch sheet” distributed by an author at a writer’s conference, to a professional “manuscript evaluation” by a ghostwriter, to full-blown book proposals that look like books in themselves, you’ll find it all right here – everything you need to write and/or polish your own book proposal to perfection!BONUS! Successful ghostwriter, Anton Marco, shares his secret for landing ghostwriting clients. Don’t miss Anton’s real ghostwriting contract at the end of this book! It provides an example of what he charges and the payment terms he requires from each client. |
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Bette Davis Filmography $46.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a complete filmography of Bette Davis. Davis began acting in films in 1931, initially as a contract player with Universal Studios where she made her film debut in The Bad Sister. She signed with Warner Bros. in 1932 and remained with them until 1949, after which she continued as a freelance performer. Her final film appearance was in Wicked Stepmother, released in 1989, the year of her death. |
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Beyond the Great Recession: What Happened and How to Prosper $11.17 The economy is complicated, and it’s changing fast. You know it’s affecting your life and business, but you don’t have time to figure it out. Kimberly Amadeo does. She boils it all down for you in her book Beyond the Great Recession: What Happened and How to Prosper. This entertaining 216-page book tells you what really caused the Great Recession, what shifts to expect, and most important, what you need do now. Beyond gives you the facts, so you can form your own opinion. It explains things clearly so you can understand what really happened. The Great Recession was caused by a perfect storm of economic events. One of these was financial innovation: derivatives such as mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps. These products were so complex because they were created by “quant jocks” running computer programs. Even the hedge funds that bought them didn’t really understand their true value. And they weren’t regulated.The result? The economy had a heart attack. Although the patient didn’t die, it won’t be running a marathon anytime soon. Life has changed. One such change, the Freelance Economy, means employers will keep part-time, contract and temp workers instead of hiring full-time workers and paying an additional 40% in benefits. To prosper, you must look for multiple streams of income, be flexible, and diversify. This is just one of the tools you will learn about in Beyond the Great Recession. |
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Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering: What Every Lawyer and Law Firm Needs to Know about Temporary Legal Services $4.99 In a tough economy, contract (freelance) lawyering is the fastest growing segment in the legal profession. More lawyers and law firms are turning to temporary legal services as an answer to building profitability and managing growth. This new third edition – with separate chapters for contract lawyers and hiring lawyers – has the latest on rate-setting, placement agencies, state and local ethical opinions, and malpractice liability, and it offers sample agreements and marketing tips. |
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Content Rights for Creative Professionals $54.95 This 256 page text is a practical guide designed to provide its reader with a firm understanding of the principles underlying the ownership and use of content, so that when questions arise, they will be able to make correct, well-informed decisions???whether concerning their personal works, or works of others that a company wishes to copyright or trademark. In addition, the reader will be more capable of exercising sound judgment in structuring employment and contract relationships and of acquiring and/or licensing works, which are at the core of the business of communicating. *Access to the most up-to-date copyright and trademark information*Provides a firm understanding of the priciniples underlying the ownership and use of content*Suits the perspective of the freelance artist as well as the in-house media professional |
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Curse of the Kissing Cousins (Where Are They Now? Mystery Series #1) $6.99 Boston freelance reporter Tilda Harper writes articles about former stage and screen stars—and where they’ve crash-landed. But when someone starts murdering the cast from the TV show Kissing Cousins, and the actress who played Tilda’s favorite character, Mercy, vanishes, Tilda must find her before a killer cancels her contract once and for all. |
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Fender Benders $7.99 In his first three novels, Bill Fitzhugh created new strains of homicidal insects, sliced open the illegal transplant business, and sinfully skewered the Church and Madison Avenue with the same spear. Now he turns his attention to the hitmaking machinery of Music City, U.S.A.Depending on your point of view, Fender Benders is either a skewed look at the country music industry or a clear-eyed view of a damn screwy business. It’s a Grand Old Opera complete with murder, treachery, greed, drugs, twangy music, a love triangle, and the best fried swimps you’ll ever put in your mouth.First off, some folks down South have taken to dropping like flies. One minute they have a headache, the next they have a date at the funeral home. Seems some lunatic is tampering with boxes of headache powder, lacing them with sodium fluoroacetate. It’s a nasty death, but at least it’s quick, and it makes you forget you had a headache.Second off, Eddie Long wants to move to Nashville and become a country music star, but right now he’s stuck in Hinchcliff, Mississippi. Eddie’s big break comes with a contract to tour the Mississippi casino circuit. While he’s on the road, his wife dies, the victim of an apparent serial killer. The emotional turmoil of his wife’s death causes Eddie to write the best song of his life. He takes it to Nashville, hooks up with a hoary management company, and launches his career.Meanwhile, Jimmy Rogers is a freelance writer covering the Mississippi music scene. He loves writing and a girl named Megan. Jimmy decides early on that he is going to write Eddie’s biography. But as he’s researching Eddie’s wife’s murder, Jimmy comes to a surprising conclusion. He can’t proveit, but publishing it might make his own career.Megan is a smart, talented, and popular radio personality in a tiny market. But she wants a faster way to Easy Street. So she turns to Eddie. In Nashville.Before it’s all over, everybody’s planning to make a killing one way or another |
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Fender Benders $0.99 In his first three novels, Bill Fitzhugh created new strains of homicidal insects, sliced open the illegal transplant business, and sinfully skewered the Church and Madison Avenue with the same spear. Now he turns his attention to the hitmaking machinery of Music City, U.S.A.Depending on your point of view, Fender Benders is either a skewed look at the country music industry or a clear-eyed view of a damn screwy business. It’s a Grand Old Opera complete with murder, treachery, greed, drugs, twangy music, a love triangle, and the best fried swimps you’ll ever put in your mouth.First off, some folks down South have taken to dropping like flies. One minute they have a headache, the next they have a date at the funeral home. Seems some lunatic is tampering with boxes of headache powder, lacing them with sodium fluoroacetate. It’s a nasty death, but at least it’s quick, and it makes you forget you had a headache.Second off, Eddie Long wants to move to Nashville and become a country music star, but right now he’s stuck in Hinchcliff, Mississippi. Eddie’s big break comes with a contract to tour the Mississippi casino circuit. While he’s on the road, his wife dies, the victim of an apparent serial killer. The emotional turmoil of his wife’s death causes Eddie to write the best song of his life. He takes it to Nashville, hooks up with a hoary management company, and launches his career.Meanwhile, Jimmy Rogers is a freelance writer covering the Mississippi music scene. He loves writing and a girl named Megan. Jimmy decides early on that he is going to write Eddie’s biography. But as he’s researching Eddie’s wife’s murder, Jimmy comes to a surprising conclusion. He can’t proveit, but publishing it might make his own career.Megan is a smart, talented, and popular radio personality in a tiny market. But she wants a faster way to Easy Street. So she turns to Eddie. In Nashville.Before it’s all over, everybody’s planning to make a killing one way or another |
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First steps in Clinical Supervision: a guide for healthcare professionals $33.79 “… packed with practical ideas and activities to try out in the supervision situation and underpinned by relevant theory.”—John Driscoll, Freelance CPD Consultant & Development CoachFirst Steps in Clinical Supervision is designed as a toolkit for anyone starting out as a clinical supervisor. The book focuses on developing core skills of supervision, as well as your ability to reflect and improve on those skills.Addressing all aspects of supervision, the book gives you practical frameworks needed to start, maintain and evaluate clinical supervision—from how to start a supervision contract to how to run a session. The book offers: Clear information and guidance on what the supervisor needs to know as they prepare to take on the role of clinical supervisor Practical examples and demonstration of key clinical supervision skills Simple explanations of the key frameworks and models for clinical supervision Reflective questions and activities you can use in supervision sessions An example of a method of evaluation when reviewing supervision Ways of keeping healthy as a supervisor and staying within the spirit of supervision The book includes tips for developing the supervision relationship, focusing on areas identified as the ones supervisors struggle with the most.Paul Cassedy is a health lecturer in the School of Nursing at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. He is a registered mental nurse and accredited counselor. |
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Freelancing Expertise: Contract Professionals in the New Economy $24.95 Contract work is more important than ever-for better or for worse, depending on one’s perspective. The security once implied by a full-time job with a stable employer is becoming rarer, thereby erasing one of the major distinctions between “freelance work” and a “steady gig.” Why hang on to a regular job for the sake of security if security can no longer be assumed? Instead, contractors, hired temporarily for specific knowledge and skills, market their expertise as they move from project to project. Even though their employment is precarious, a great many consider freelancing preferable to holding a “regular” job: the control they feel over their time and careers is well worth the risks that come with relatively uncertain cash flow. Freelancing Expertise is a qualitative study of decision making, work practices, and occupational processes among writers and editors who work in print and Web communications and programmers and engineers who work in software and systems development. Debra Osnowitz conducted sixty-eight extended interviews with representatives of both groups and twelve interviews with managers and recruiters, observed four different work settings in which contractors work alongside employees, and monitored blogs and online discussions among contractors. As a result, she provides a unique and sensitive assessment of a cultural shift in occupations and organizations. Osnowitz calls for a reconfiguration of the employer/employee relationship that accepts more variation and flexibility: just as “freelancing” has, over time, taken on many traits considered characteristic of traditional career paths, so might regular jobs make themselves more appealing to today’s workforce by mimicking some of the positive aspects of transactions between clients and contract workers. |
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Freelancing Expertise: Contract Professionals in the New Economy $69.95 Contract work is more important than ever-for better or for worse, depending on one’s perspective. The security once implied by a full-time job with a stable employer is becoming rarer, thereby erasing one of the major distinctions between “freelance work” and a “steady gig.” Why hang on to a regular job for the sake of security if security can no longer be assumed? Instead, contractors, hired temporarily for specific knowledge and skills, market their expertise as they move from project to project. Even though their employment is precarious, a great many consider freelancing preferable to holding a “regular” job: the control they feel over their time and careers is well worth the risks that come with relatively uncertain cash flow. Freelancing Expertise is a qualitative study of decision making, work practices, and occupational processes among writers and editors who work in print and Web communications and programmers and engineers who work in software and systems development. Debra Osnowitz conducted sixty-eight extended interviews with representatives of both groups and twelve interviews with managers and recruiters, observed four different work settings in which contractors work alongside employees, and monitored blogs and online discussions among contractors. As a result, she provides a unique and sensitive assessment of a cultural shift in occupations and organizations. Osnowitz calls for a reconfiguration of the employer/employee relationship that accepts more variation and flexibility: just as “freelancing” has, over time, taken on many traits considered characteristic of traditional career paths, so might regular jobs make themselves more appealing to today’s workforce by mimicking some of the positive aspects of transactions between clients and contract workers. |
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Glory Be! (Love Inspired Suspense Series) $1.99 Ron and Janet Benrey are a husband-and-wife team who write romantic-suspense novels for Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense. Their writing journey took them along significantly different paths before they cowrote their first novel in the late 1990s. Ron Benrey has been a writer “forever.” He wrote his way through engineering school working as a freelance writer and editor for magazines such as Electronics Illustrated and Popular Science Monthly. He eventually moved on to writing speeches, annual reports and the occasional advertisement–all for high-tech corporations. Along the way, he wrote seven nonfiction books about electronics and technology. He jokes that his specialty is writing interesting words about dull subjects. Janet Benrey is a late-blooming writer. Earlier in her career she performed a variety of unusual jobs, including executive recruiter (“headhunter”) and wedding photographer. She began writing with Ron in 1989, soon after she earned a degree in communications and they launched Benrey+Benrey, a marketing communications firm.Ron and Janet’s daytime collaboration to create marketing materials for large corporations soon became an after-hours partnership to write cozy romantic mysteries with strong Christian themes. “We started to think about an interesting story and one thing led to another,” Janet says. “We’re both avid readers, and we decided to write the kind of suspense novels we enjoy.” Although both Ron and Janet were published nonfiction writers, it took them more than seven years to master the specific techniques of fiction writing. “At one low point,” Ron says, “we threw away everything we’d written and began again.”Their perseverance paid off with a contract for their first novel, Little White Lies, for a major Christian publisher. “Our Cozy Mystery series for Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense began with our sixth novel, Glory Be!” Janet explains. “We followed up with |
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Glory Be! (Love Inspired Suspense Series) $4.95 Ron and Janet Benrey are a husband-and-wife team who write romantic-suspense novels for Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense. Their writing journey took them along significantly different paths before they cowrote their first novel in the late 1990s. Ron Benrey has been a writer “forever.” He wrote his way through engineering school working as a freelance writer and editor for magazines such as Electronics Illustrated and Popular Science Monthly. He eventually moved on to writing speeches, annual reports and the occasional advertisement–all for high-tech corporations. Along the way, he wrote seven nonfiction books about electronics and technology. He jokes that his specialty is writing interesting words about dull subjects. Janet Benrey is a late-blooming writer. Earlier in her career she performed a variety of unusual jobs, including executive recruiter (“headhunter”) and wedding photographer. She began writing with Ron in 1989, soon after she earned a degree in communications and they launched Benrey+Benrey, a marketing communications firm.Ron and Janet’s daytime collaboration to create marketing materials for large corporations soon became an after-hours partnership to write cozy romantic mysteries with strong Christian themes. “We started to think about an interesting story and one thing led to another,” Janet says. “We’re both avid readers, and we decided to write the kind of suspense novels we enjoy.” Although both Ron and Janet were published nonfiction writers, it took them more than seven years to master the specific techniques of fiction writing. “At one low point,” Ron says, “we threw away everything we’d written and began again.”Their perseverance paid off with a contract for their first novel, Little White Lies, for a major Christian publisher. “Our Cozy Mystery series for Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense began with our sixth novel, Glory Be!” Janet explains. “We followed up with |
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Hormel Foods: Spam, Hormel, James Hormel, American Dream, Burke Corporation, Jeffrey M. Ettinger, Geordie Hormel, Spam Jam $10.75 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Spam, Hormel, James Hormel, American Dream, Burke Corporation, Jeffrey M. Ettinger, Geordie Hormel, Spam Jam, Jay Catherwood Hormel, George A. Hormel. Excerpt: American Dream American Dream (1990) is a cinéma vérité documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple and co-directed by Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, and Lawrence Silk. The film recounts an unsuccessful strike in the heartland of America against the Hormel Foods corporation. Synopsis The film is centered on unionized meatpacking workers at Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota between 1985 and 1986. Hormel had cut the hourly wage from $10.69 to $8.25 and cut benefits by 30 percent despite posting a net profit of $30 million. The local union (P-9) opposed the cut, but the international union, the United Food and Commercial Workers , did not support them. The local union is shown hiring a freelance strike consultant, Ray Rogers, who comes in with charts, graphs and promises of a corporate campaign to draw national press attention. Rogers delivers in the short term, but, it is not enough to defeat opposition from Hormel management and the UFCW international union. The local union, in defying its national union, believed that its workers should be paid more by Hormel than unionized workers at other companies. This came at a time when the U.S. had just emerged from a deep recession and inflation was at or near double digits, thus making the company’s financial position fragile despite its profitability. A negotiator for the national union is shown on camera explaining that their rapacity cost the national union forty years of benefits, as the local union made the mistake of “tearing up” and attempting to rework the contract, thus opening the door for Hormel to toss out guarantees and benefits that had |
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Independent Contractor $46 An independent contractor is a natural person, business, or corporation that provides goods or services to another entity under terms specified in a contract or within a verbal agreement. Unlike an employee, an independent contractor does not work regularly for an employer but works as and when required, during which time she or he may be subject to the Law of Agency. Independent contractors are usually paid on a freelance basis. Contractors often work through a limited company, which they themselves own, or may work through an umbrella company. In the United States, any company or organization engaged in a trade or business that pays more than $600 to an independent contractor in one year is required to report this to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as well as to the contractor, using Form 1099-MISC |
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Independent stardom: Female stars and freelance labor in 1930s Hollywood. $49.99 In the 1930s, male "moguls" ran the Hollywood studio system, exerting almost absolute control over all elements of film production, and a key to maintaining this dominance was the option contract, which enabled the studio to exploit a star's career for seven years. Nonetheless, in the context of this coercive system, select female film stars used their contractual labor to achieve professional autonomy as freelance artists. This dissertation examines how female film stars used their contractual labor to challenge the patriarchal business structure of Hollywood by taking an active role in shaping their careers through freelance labor practice when producers and moguls presumably manipulated stardom for their own economic gain. Their decision to work autonomously was risk-taking for the period, when a long-term contract guaranteed secure employment and prestige associated with a powerful major studio. They sought professional independence in the following ways: they worked with independent producers and talent agents, signed non-exclusive and non-option contracts with special creative and financial provisions, received a cut of their films' distribution profits, or made a limited number of pictures at a variety of studios. By doing so, they achieved what I classify as independent stardom—the individual agency that these stars attained in the studio system as freelance artists rather than as long-term studio contractees before it became standard film industry practice during the postwar era. This study also argues how these stars' freelance labor conspicuously shaped their public personae in popular discourses. Their independent stardom became a significant characteristic of their off-screen image that, in turn, coded them in the press as "modern" working women. In this way, the project blends together an industrial and cultural framework comprised of archival research that consults primary historical texts (contracts, legal |
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Independent stardom: Female stars and freelance labor in 1930s Hollywood. $49.99 In the 1930s, male "moguls" ran the Hollywood studio system, exerting almost absolute control over all elements of film production, and a key to maintaining this dominance was the option contract, which enabled the studio to exploit a star's career for seven years. Nonetheless, in the context of this coercive system, select female film stars used their contractual labor to achieve professional autonomy as freelance artists. This dissertation examines how female film stars used their contractual labor to challenge the patriarchal business structure of Hollywood by taking an active role in shaping their careers through freelance labor practice when producers and moguls presumably manipulated stardom for their own economic gain. Their decision to work autonomously was risk-taking for the period, when a long-term contract guaranteed secure employment and prestige associated with a powerful major studio. They sought professional independence in the following ways: they worked with independent producers and talent agents, signed non-exclusive and non-option contracts with special creative and financial provisions, received a cut of their films' distribution profits, or made a limited number of pictures at a variety of studios. By doing so, they achieved what I classify as independent stardom—the individual agency that these stars attained in the studio system as freelance artists rather than as long-term studio contractees before it became standard film industry practice during the postwar era. This study also argues how these stars' freelance labor conspicuously shaped their public personae in popular discourses. Their independent stardom became a significant characteristic of their off-screen image that, in turn, coded them in the press as "modern" working women. In this way, the project blends together an industrial and cultural framework comprised of archival research that consults primary historical texts (contracts, legal |
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JCT 2005: Clause by Clause $34.18 * Uses a novel clause-by-clause approach to explain the important JCT 2005 contract* Written by an experienced author, explaining in simple English the meaning and relevance of each clause to avoid common misunderstandings* Includes up-to-date legal cases that explain the development and interpretation of the contractThe Joint Contracts Tribunal’s suite of contracts (commonly known as JCT 2005) are the most commonly used in the UK to procure major building work. Understanding the contracts, and which to use, is vital knowledge for all students on construction-related HND or degree courses, but these clauses can contain convoluted language, leading to confusion. This easy-to-follow guide takes the reader through the JCT 2005 building contracts clause by clause, in an easy-to-follow format, in simple but effective language that eliminates misinterpretation. Spilt into 3 sections, this book provides a summary of the current JCT Contracts, identifying which to use for what type of work, along with an analysis of their risk, liability, documentation, design responsibility and financial procedures, ensuring that JCT 2005 Building Contract: clause by clause is the vital, definitive reference for the aspiring construction professional.Phil Griffiths is a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University with interests in contract administration, finance and project management. He graduated from Nottingham Trent Polytechnic in 1971 and worked as a quantity surveyor in local authority and a medium sized construction company. He also spent some time as a director of a small construction company and is a freelance estimator. |
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Jct 2005: Clause by Clause $40.95 * Uses a novel clause-by-clause approach to explain the important JCT 2005 contract* Written by an experienced author, explaining in simple English the meaning and relevance of each clause to avoid common misunderstandings* Includes up-to-date legal cases that explain the development and interpretation of the contractThe Joint Contracts Tribunal’s suite of contracts (commonly known as JCT 2005) are the most commonly used in the UK to procure major building work. Understanding the contracts, and which to use, is vital knowledge for all students on construction-related HND or degree courses, but these clauses can contain convoluted language, leading to confusion. This easy-to-follow guide takes the reader through the JCT 2005 building contracts clause by clause, in an easy-to-follow format, in simple but effective language that eliminates misinterpretation. Spilt into 3 sections, this book provides a summary of the current JCT Contracts, identifying which to use for what type of work, along with an analysis of their risk, liability, documentation, design responsibility and financial procedures, ensuring that JCT 2005 Building Contract: clause by clause is the vital, definitive reference for the aspiring construction professional.Phil Griffiths is a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University with interests in contract administration, finance and project management. He graduated from Nottingham Trent Polytechnic in 1971 and worked as a quantity surveyor in local authority and a medium sized construction company. He also spent some time as a director of a small construction company and is a freelance estimator. |
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List of Murderers by Number of Victims $43.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of murderers by number of victims. Both serial killers and spree killers are included, but acts of terrorism (such as the September 11th Attacks) and murder-for-hire (contract killings) are excluded. The murders must be reliably referenced to have been committed “with [the murderer's] own hands.” Murderers are listed here by the most common consensus figures, where possible. In cases of murder-suicide, the perpetrator is not included in the victim count. Pedro Alonso López (born 8 October 1948 in Santa Isabel, Colombia) is a Colombian-born confessed serial killer, accused of raping and killing more than 300 girls across South America. Aside from uncited local accounts, López’s crimes first received international attention from an interview conducted by Ron Laytner, a long time freelance photojournalist who first met López in his Ambato Prison cell in 1980. |
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No Laughing Matter $8.99 Norman Hudis, born 1922 started as a junior reporter and joined the RAF in the Second World War. Towards the end of his five-and-a-half years’ service, he was on the editorial staff of the Cairo-based Air Force News and traveling, as the war’s youngest war correspondent, the length and breadth of the Middle East. Post-war, aiming to become a playwright, he had a modest success with his first effort, Here is the News – enough for Pinewood Studios to offer him a screenwriting contract. Then he went freelance as a prolific writer of B movies. Hudis-scripted, low-budget The Tommy Steele Story was a million-pound box-office success and Hudis was then offered a long-term contract by its producer Peter Rogers. With director Gerald Thomas at the helm, the Carry On production trio was complete, for the three of them went on to film Carry On Sergeant and five others, including the archetypal Carry On Nurse – top British box-office film of its year. Following the huge Carry On success, he moved to America in response to offers. There, he has written for The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Marcus Welby, Simon and Simon, Baretta (Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award), The Story of Esther (three awards), Hawaii Five-O, and Cannon, amongst others. Hudis now works for producers in both countries. |
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No Laughing Matter $7.55 Norman Hudis, born 1922 started as a junior reporter and joined the RAF in the Second World War. Towards the end of his five-and-a-half years’ service, he was on the editorial staff of the Cairo-based Air Force News and traveling, as the war’s youngest war correspondent, the length and breadth of the Middle East. Post-war, aiming to become a playwright, he had a modest success with his first effort, Here is the News – enough for Pinewood Studios to offer him a screenwriting contract. Then he went freelance as a prolific writer of B movies. Hudis-scripted, low-budget The Tommy Steele Story was a million-pound box-office success and Hudis was then offered a long-term contract by its producer Peter Rogers. With director Gerald Thomas at the helm, the Carry On production trio was complete, for the three of them went on to film Carry On Sergeant and five others, including the archetypal Carry On Nurse – top British box-office film of its year. Following the huge Carry On success, he moved to America in response to offers. There, he has written for The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Marcus Welby, Simon and Simon, Baretta (Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award), The Story of Esther (three awards), Hawaii Five-O, and Cannon, amongst others. Hudis now works for producers in both countries. |
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Novels by K. W. Jeter (Study Guide): Blade Runner 2: the Edge of Human, Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night, the Mandalorian Armor $8.96 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Blade Runner 2: the Edge of Human, Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night, the Mandalorian Armor, Infernal Devices, Hard Merchandise, Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon, Noir, Slave Ship, Morlock Night. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Mandalorian Armor is a Star Wars Expanded Universe novel. The book mainly talks about the web in which Boba Fett is trapped. The book is set shortly after Jabba the Hutt’s barge is destroyed and flashes back to when the Bounty Hunters Guild still existed. This book is set during the events of Return of the Jedi. It begins with Dengar searching through the wreckage of Jabba’s sail barge for anything or anyone of value. As Dengar is ready to give up, assuming that the Jawas had beat him to the wreckage, he notices two things: first, that the Sarlacc appears to be dead; and second, that there is a survivor. The survivor is Boba Fett, who had blown his way out of the Sarlacc pit. Boba’s distinctive armor had suffered damage from his time in the pit and he was nearly dead. While Dengar moved Fett to a cave for shelter, the book flashes back to between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes; back to a period where Boba Fett is a freelance bounty hunter at odds with the Bounty Hunters Guild. Kuat of Kuat, the hereditary CEO of the Empire’s chief subcontractor for military items is interested in the events that occurred at Jabba’s palace and on his sail barge. Kuat of Kuat reviews holoprojections uploaded from the palace and regardless of the evidence, is not convinced Boba Fett is dead without additional confirmation. In the first of many flashbacks to the period between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, Bossk and Zuckuss have been assigned by the Bounty Hunters Guild a contract for an accountant wanted by the Hutts. Although |
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People Die $3.26 Working freelance for a select organization, JJ is a contract killer, and he’s built a reputation as a discreet, professional cleaner who doesn’t cause trouble for his employers or clients. But now he’s not just a predator–he’s the prey in this hip British novel that provides killer entertainment. |
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People from Rock County, Minnesota: Jim Brandenburg, Quentin C. Aanenson, Shantel Vansanten, Wendell Erickson, James Russell Wiggins $8.87 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jim Brandenburg, Quentin C. Aanenson, Shantel Vansanten, Wendell Erickson, James Russell Wiggins, Andy Steensma. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Jim Brandenburg (born 1945) is an environmentalist and internationally renowned nature photographer and filmmaker based near Ely, Minnesota. His extensive career includes over 10 years as a newspaper photojournalist, over 30 years as a contract photographer for the National Geographic Society, and commissions from such groups as the United States Postal Service, NHK and the BBC. Jim Brandenbug was born and raised in Luverne, Minnesota in the farms and prairies of Southwestern Minnesota. After studying at Worthington Community College, he went on to attend the University of Minnesota Duluth, where he majored in art history and worked for the local public television station. Upon graduating, he returned to Worthington, Minnesota and began working as a photojournalist for the Worthington Daily Globe. Within months, he began submitting work to the National Geographic Society as a freelance photographer, and in 1978 he became a contract photographer for National Geographic Magazine. Additionally, his photography has been published in a number of National Geographic Society books including “Journey Into China”, “Heart of a Nation” and “Discovering Britain and Ireland”, in which his photos of the Highlands in Scotland were featured. His work has been included in many other magazines, such as Life, Newsweek, The Smithsonian, and GEO and has been featured on all the major television and radio networks including ABCs Prime Time Live and CBS News Sunday Morning and Dateline NBC as well as National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Brandenburg was commissioned by the United States Postal Service to create a set … More: |
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Renaissance Killer: Being the Wholly True and Unexaggerated Account of the Life and Times of Henry H. Hugo, the World’s Most Gentlemanly Contract Kill $17.99 The most compelling autobiography of the decade! Known throughout the world for years as the deadliest, most elusive killer of his kind, and wanted by virtually every law enforcement agency across the globe, famed freelance hitman-for-hire Henry H. Hugo finally tells his amazing story in his own words. From the traumas and indignities of his troubled childhood, to his early days just starting out in his controversial profession, to his triumphs over all manner of uncommon adversity, the die-hard crime enthusiast will positively thrill to the eclectic, eccentric exploits related in harrowing detail within the pages of this tell-all tome. Alternately deeply disturbing, darkly funny, and strangely erotic, Mr. Hugo’s unprecedented memoir is a tour de force of violent action, heart-rending drama, unnatural perversity, and strange and colorful predicament, the likes of which the ranks of history’s foulest individuals could not invent. |
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Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success $14.95 Written by two freelancers who broke the rules to win the game, this handbook contains a wealth of information for writers who are frustrated by the seemingly limited ways to operate in the freelance market. It explains that freelancers can negotiate for more money and better terms without risking their careers, shows that editors are not the writer-gobbling monsters many freelancers fear, and explains how to establish and foster work relationships. In this updated second edition there are more ideas, more rules to break, and more resources to get started, including a suite of appendixes covering topics such as contract procedures, getting paid, services for freelancers, generating ideas, and doing research. As inspiration, the book includes examples of real writers who have gone against “expert” advice and flourished. Being shy doesn’t pay, and following the rules puts a writer in a long line of other sheep; with this text as a guide, writers can step out of the herd and build a successful business in a crowded market. |
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Secrets of the Ninja $14.95 The highly controversial “bible” of forbidden ninja techniques—use at your own risk! Ashida Kim is one of only a handful of individuals who learned the true secrets of ninjitsu from a real ninja. Everything a warrior needs to learn the true Silent Way is here, from mastering invisibility in the presence of an enemy to penetrating any place unseen…to passing without leaving a trace and much more: The nine steps used to erase shadow and sound Sentry removal through five key assassination techniques Attacking from ambush—above, below, or behind The art of escaping, including crucial contingency plans The exotic art of tonki and the nine ways of throwing The techniques of huo nei kuo, or “capture in passing” A word to the wise warrior: Secrets of the Ninja is for academic study ONLY. Ashida Kim is an internationally renowned martial-arts expert who teaches and lectures around the world. He is the author of Ninja Mind Control and Ninjitsu for Women. In addition to teaching, both at his own Dojo and on contract to other schools, he maintains affiliate clubs around the globe, hires out as a freelance agent to select intelligence agencies, and teaches police seminars. |
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Secrets of the Ninja $0.99 The highly controversial “bible” of forbidden ninja techniques—use at your own risk! Ashida Kim is one of only a handful of individuals who learned the true secrets of ninjitsu from a real ninja. Everything a warrior needs to learn the true Silent Way is here, from mastering invisibility in the presence of an enemy to penetrating any place unseen…to passing without leaving a trace and much more: The nine steps used to erase shadow and sound Sentry removal through five key assassination techniques Attacking from ambush—above, below, or behind The art of escaping, including crucial contingency plans The exotic art of tonki and the nine ways of throwing The techniques of huo nei kuo, or “capture in passing” A word to the wise warrior: Secrets of the Ninja is for academic study ONLY. Ashida Kim is an internationally renowned martial-arts expert who teaches and lectures around the world. He is the author of Ninja Mind Control and Ninjitsu for Women. In addition to teaching, both at his own Dojo and on contract to other schools, he maintains affiliate clubs around the globe, hires out as a freelance agent to select intelligence agencies, and teaches police seminars. |
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Secrets of the Ninja $4.5 The highly controversial “bible” of forbidden ninja techniques—use at your own risk! Ashida Kim is one of only a handful of individuals who learned the true secrets of ninjitsu from a real ninja. Everything a warrior needs to learn the true Silent Way is here, from mastering invisibility in the presence of an enemy to penetrating any place unseen…to passing without leaving a trace and much more: The nine steps used to erase shadow and sound Sentry removal through five key assassination techniques Attacking from ambush—above, below, or behind The art of escaping, including crucial contingency plans The exotic art of tonki and the nine ways of throwing The techniques of huo nei kuo, or “capture in passing” A word to the wise warrior: Secrets of the Ninja is for academic study ONLY. Ashida Kim is an internationally renowned martial-arts expert who teaches and lectures around the world. He is the author of Ninja Mind Control and Ninjitsu for Women. In addition to teaching, both at his own Dojo and on contract to other schools, he maintains affiliate clubs around the globe, hires out as a freelance agent to select intelligence agencies, and teaches police seminars. |
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So Red the Rose (Film) $42.99 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A freelance newsreel cameraman and cinema projectionist, he made his debut as a director in 1913 with Hurricane in Galveston. In Hollywood from 1915, he worked on a variety of film-related jobs before directing a feature film, The Turn in the Road, in 1919. A successful mounting of Peg o’ My Heart in 1922 got him a long term contract with Goldwyn Studios, later to be absorbed into MGM. Three years later he made The Big Parade, among the most acclaimed war films of the silent era, and a tremendous commercial success. This success established him as one of MGM’s top studio directors for the next decade. In 1928, Vidor received his first Oscar nomination, for The Crowd, widely regarded as his masterpiece and one of the greatest American silent films. |
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Start Your Own Office and Administrative Support Service $17.95 Forget “Assistant”-Become an Entrepreneur!In today’s new business environment, there are great work-from-home opportunities for office managers, executive assistants, administrative professionals and anyone else with excellent organizational and computer skills. Why fight traffic to go to an office when you can do the same work-perhaps at better pay-from home? Start your own office or administrative support service, offering your word processing, dictation, database management, telephone, communication or other administrative services on a contract basis to companies around the globe. Learn how to turn your business skills into a profitable freelance opportunity:Write a strong business plan that lays out your path to successDetermine services and policies that maximize profitsGet great deals on the software and equipment your business needsHire an excellent staff if your business grows too big for one personGo above and beyond your competition to attract regular clientsSuccessful entrepreneurs in this field reveal the secrets to growing a highly profitable business. Plus, get websites and contact information for valuable resources in the “Business Support Service National Directory” inside. Leave the drab office behind and strike out on your own in this hot field. |
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Start Your Own Office and Administrative Support Service: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Success $3.38 Forget “Assistant”-Become an Entrepreneur!In today’s new business environment, there are great work-from-home opportunities for office managers, executive assistants, administrative professionals and anyone else with excellent organizational and computer skills. Why fight traffic to go to an office when you can do the same work-perhaps at better pay-from home? Start your own office or administrative support service, offering your word processing, dictation, database management, telephone, communication or other administrative services on a contract basis to companies around the globe.Learn how to turn your business skills into a profitable freelance opportunity: Write a strong business plan that lays out your path to success Determine services and policies that maximize profits Get great deals on the software and equipment your business needs Hire an excellent staff if your business grows too big for one person Go above and beyond your competition to attract regular clientsSuccessful entrepreneurs in this field reveal the secrets to growing a highly profitable business. Plus, get websites and contact information for valuable resources in the “Business Support Service National Directory” inside. Leave the drab office behind and strike out on your own in this hot field. |
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The Hong Kong Contract $16.22 Intrigue in the Far East, ex-Hong Kong cop Bill Jedburgh needs to find out the real facts behind an old buddy’s sudden death. Bill Jedburgh, is a former Royal Hong Kong Police Inspector trained as a sniper and bodyguard. Disenchanted with the police force, he has resigned and, encouraged by a dubious entrepreneur, takes up a new occupation as an anonymous, freelance hitman called ‘The Reliable Man.’ In The Hong Kong Contract one of his old police buddies is killed under odd circumstances and Bill is commissioned by the Singapore Intelligence Service to investigate and take appropriate action. |
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The Hong Kong Contract $3.99 Intrigue in the Far East, ex-Hong Kong cop Bill Jedburgh needs to find out the real facts behind an old buddy’s sudden death. Bill Jedburgh, is a former Royal Hong Kong Police Inspector trained as a sniper and bodyguard. Disenchanted with the police force, he has resigned and, encouraged by a dubious entrepreneur, takes up a new occupation as an anonymous, freelance hitman called ‘The Reliable Man.’ In The Hong Kong Contract one of his old police buddies is killed under odd circumstances and Bill is commissioned by the Singapore Intelligence Service to investigate and take appropriate action. |
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The Lazarus Drop $4.95 The time is the end of the 21st century, when the Greenhouse Effect has done its dirty work, submerging huge areas of land, and causing worldwide economic and social disruption. Earthquakes and flooding have left Japan a remnant of its old self. Europe has been carved up into power blocks. Mexico has devolved into a cluster of fiefdoms. Brazil has become the dominant power on the South American continent. The United States is intact, but looking over its shoulder. Nathanial Blue, freelance trouble shooter, gets a contract from an unnamed government agency to drop into Mexico, find and rescue a Hungarian scientist who may have the secret of interstellar space travel, and haul him back to the relative safety of the USA. What Blue doesn’t know, until it is almost too late to matter, is that the government agency that hired him is almost as dirty as the bad guys on the other side, and that he is not meant to make it back alive. |
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The Renegade Writer $14.95 Written by two freelancers who broke the rules to win the game, this handbook contains a wealth of information for writers who are frustrated by the seemingly limited ways to operate in the freelance market. It explains that freelancers can negotiate for more money and better terms without risking their careers, shows that editors are not the writer-gobbling monsters many freelancers fear, and explains how to establish and foster work relationships. In this updated second edition there are more ideas, more rules to break, and more resources to get started, including a suite of appendixes covering topics such as contract procedures, getting paid, services for freelancers, generating ideas, and doing research. As inspiration, the book includes examples of real writers who have gone against expert advice and flourished. Being shy doesn’t pay, and following the rules puts a writer in a long line of other sheep; with this text as a guide, writers can step out of the herd and build a successful business in a crowded market. |
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eBay to the Max: Own a Trading Post, Be a Trading Assistant & Powerseller $1.01 From the Publisher: Take your eBay selling to the next level. If you are hungry for the tips, techniques, best practices and resources necessary to run a high volume online auction business, eBay to the Max: Be a Trading Post Owner, Trading Assitant & PowerSeller will give you the information necessary to move to the next level of selling. Working your way towards PowerSeller status? Find out how to get there faster. Already a PowerSeller? Learn how, why and when to become a Trading Assistant. Ready to move on to running other people’s auctions? Find out what it takes to become the owner of a retail Trading Post. This book will show you the technical, management and marketing skills it takes to professionally grow your business to the level you desire. You’ll learn about: Hiring, training and managing employees. Real estate, local regulations, insurance and other issues that come with opening a retail storefront. Obtaining co-op advertising funds, discounts, and VIP tech support. All other aspects of running a successful eBay business, such as packing, shipping, and problem resolution. This insider’s view of running an eBay Trading Post and other types of eBay businesses is not available anywhere else. Get the edge on the competition with eBay to the Max: Be a Trading Post Owner, Trading Assitant & PowerSeller. About the Author: Ron Mansfield is a computer consultant, instructor, and freelance writer. Recently he joined the team at www.i-soldit.com to help roll out the premier eBay drop store franchise network with more 100 stores open and 400 under contract. In his spare time he enjoys collecting, restoring, buying, and selling collectible electronics from the fifties and sixties. He has achieved PowerSeller status, runs an eBay Store, and an active online community for enthusiasts of mid-century electronics. His best-selling, award winning books have been published by Que and others in e |