on 07-Jul-2017 (Fri)

Wie, o co warto toczyć bitwy, a czemu pozwolić, by rosło po swojemu. Naczelna zasada: charakter [...]

What kind of book do you wish to write? Consult Chapter 2, particularly the sections discussing markets and all the hard thinking required in planning a successful book.

Do a partial makeover. This is the most common strategy, essentially to extract and build on one or more elements of the thesis, with any leftover material being reworked into articles or used to form the basis of subsequent research. The virtue of this approach is that you build on a strong base of coherent material; the downside is that reworked text is unlikely to be as good as text written from scratch for its particular purpose. Rewrite from scratch. The most radical solution - to completely rewrite your material from the ground up - normally gives vastly superior results, but many junior scholars lack the time and mental energy to carry such a huge task through to its conclusion.

it is absolutely imperative for you to seize and hold on to your reader's attention.

Your readers must be coaxed along from start to finish with in- teresting text connected by a clear (yet subtle) narrative thread.

At the same time, you must perform a delicate balancing act between grounding your study in the scholarly context of its readership on the one hand, and on the other hand letting it stand on its own merits as an independent and innovative piece of scholarship.

As The Hunt in Arabic Poetry demonstrates, hunting was an important topic from pre-Islamic times onwards, although the subject seems to have lost prominence after the Abbasid period.

The transformation of poetic representations of the hunt from the qas . ¯ ıda to the t . ardiyya forms the backbone of the bulk of this account. In the qas . ¯ ıda, the hunting theme is present in the second part, the rah . ¯ ıl (the journey through the desert), when the poet appears as the “wretched hunter” who hunts on foot and for subsistence. The protagonist here, however, is the animal he chases. Following the rah . ¯ ıl conventions of form, mood, and narrative, we can assume that since the animal, typically a stock character of the “animal panels” of the rah . ¯ ıl, also stands for the poet’s mount, the prey has to survive and the hunter has to be unsuccessful. An altogether different hunt emerges in the third and final part of the qas . ¯ ıda,whetherfakhr or mad ¯ ıh . . In either conclusion, the protagonist is the heroic and successful hunter whom Stetkevych classifies as “chivalrous” since he hunts on horseback. The technical contrast between the two forms of hunting is reflected in Arabic terminology: while s . ayd or qans . is used for the type of hunt evoked in the rah . ¯ ıl,the chivalrous hunt of the third part is referred to as t . ard.

Dios es el Ser respecto del cual nosotros los hombres (aparte de otras muchas cosas) nos jugamos el tipo, por activa y por pasiva.

Un tema de suma importancia, que debemos enfocar ahora de manera pensante; ver hasta qué punto podemos pensar a Dios.

Another perspective on value creation comes from converting the initial investment into a capital charge against the annual operating cash flows that the project generates. Recall that the project generates an annual operating cash flow of ¥294,800,000. If we subtract a capital charge of ¥270,570,310 (the amount of a five-year annuity having a present value of ¥1,000 million at 11 percent), we find ¥294,800,000 − ¥270,570,310 = ¥24,229,690. The amount of ¥24,229,690 represents the profit in each of the next five years after taking into account opportunity costs. The present value of a five-year annuity of ¥24,229,690 at an 11 percent cost of capital is exactly what we calculated as the project’s NPV: ¥89.55 million. Therefore, we can also calculate NPV by converting the initial investment to an annual capital charge against cash flow.