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Businesses of all sizes are expanding with ebooks. An ebook is a paperless book in digital format that you can download to your computer, handheld or other reader device. It can be read by using a software program like Adobe (for .pdf formats) or Microsoft Word.

Here are several ways to expand your own business operations with ebooks.

Marketing - An ebook offers an inexpensive means of producing full-color marketing materials complete with graphics and audio components. Find good software or hire someone to help create your ebooks. Grab a digital camera and start snapping shots of your products, people using your products and services, your workers, etc. Then show off your shots, your products and describe your services with awesome power-packed presentations; web pages with interactive links for sound, visual presentations, communications (emails or forum posts) and more.

Education - When your products or services need explained, educate your prospects and clients with ebooks. Have sample or short versions available for trial offers or free downloads. Then include full-fledged detailed editions with product / service purchases. Educate with visual, sound and interactive point-and-click methods. Invite questions and feedback from recipients for improvements on future product and service development.

Communications - How many times do you get an email you with a question - the same question over and over gain it seems - that requires a book-length answer? Maybe questions like, “How do you create a basic website?” or “How can you market on a tight budget?” inspire lengthy replies. Well, now you can write one long reply, turn it into an ebook and send it out - over and over again and free up more time for other things. AND include your own marketing information inside so that readers can look you up on the Internet, pass your information along and give others the opportunity to find you, too.

New Product - Use surveys and take polls for new product creation. Include a link to a web page with a questionnaire and free download for recipients upon completion.

Sales Reps - Arm your sales representatives with professional, top-notch full-color media / product / service information kits presented via your ebooks to share with local newspaper, radio, television and other media reps, visitors and potential clients at trade shows and other events. Set up an introductory page in your ebook, then an index where people can click and quickly find your History, Mission Statement, product and service descriptions and images, Contact information, Testimonials, etc. Then copy the ebooks to disks and CDs to distribute at events. This gives people the opportunity to learn much more about you when they have more time afterwards.

So grab your cyber-pencil or keypad and start writing! Ebooks can definitely enlarge your operations.

Hans Hasselfors is a successful business entrepreneur and internet marketing consultant. Get the net working for you. Join a community of like-minded entrepreneurs and make your living online. Become a member of The Business Professional network. www.internet-marketing-experts-online.com

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Author: Bruce R. Cook
Publisher: Capital Crime Press
ISBN: 0977627675

Bruce R. Cook’s debut novel, Philippine Fever, is an engrossing and entertaining quick read, although at times a trifle gory. Mystery novels are usually corpse-driven, and this one is no exception with its sleuth of suspects.

Set in Manila in the Philippines, where the author had worked and where he researched the material for the book, the story centers on an American from Texas, Harvey Tucker, who is found dead in a dumpster behind a sex club. Apparently, he had been brutally beaten and taser prongs had been hooked to his testicles. Not a pleasant sight!

As a result, Sam Haine from the Los Angeles division of Homeland Security (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is assigned to the case to find why and who killed Tucker. Haine is not overjoyed about traveling to Manila, however, as he states, “it was better to be busy in the field, rather than be stuck behind an analyst’s desk.”

Our protagonist soon finds out that his time in Manila will be more than he bargained for, as he synchronizes his investigation with the local authorities, Detectives Lorenzano and Garcia. Haine discovers that Tucker had been mixed up in a world of unsavory characters involving questionable and sometimes horrendous business activities as the selling of Chinese immigrants. Apparently, Tucker was selling roosters for cockfights- a legitimate sporting event in the Philippines. With the profits, however, Tucker would purchase arms, such as automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and perhaps satchel mines, selling them to various para-military groups. One such group of terrorists was from Texas that were in the process of purchasing from him a cargo of Chinese AK-47’s. It was now up to Haine and his colleagues to sniff out and track down Tucker’s killer and prevent the shipment.

Thrown into the investigation are a series of events and clues that are difficult to connect and don’t seem to go anywhere, although all are in one way or another connected to Tucker and his murder. Further complicating matters is that the stunning Jennifer Santos from the office of the fiscal, whom Haine falls for, is asked to drop the case by a prominent congressman.

Philippine Fever is well paced storytelling with convincing characters, geographical setting and story plot at its best. Cook has made the most of his working years in Manila, as he succeeds in offering his readers a glimpse of a corner of the world with a unique culture and social context which effectively enhances the novel’s many thrilling scenes. Moreover, Cook provides his readers with clues without surprising coincidences that very often mar mystery and detective novels. This one should prove to be a winner and I look forward to more from Bruce Cook - perhaps a series of Sam Haine mysteries?

Norm Goldman is the Editor of the Book Reviewing & Author Interviewing site http://www.bookpleasures.com Bookpleasures.com comprises over 30 international reviewers that come from all walks of life and that review all genre. Norm also offers an Express Review Service. You can find out more about this service by clicking on http://www.bookpleasures.com Norm is ranked among the top 1000 Amazon.com reviewers.

In addition, Norm is the editor of the travel site http://www.sketchandtravel.com Together with his artist wife Lily, the couple blend words with art focusing on romantic destinations.

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Any library is characterized by a commanding bookcase.They service the purpose of holding and protecting literature and diaries from dust and increasing their life. A average bookshelf has level shelves to keep publications. These bookshelves sometimes come with glass doors for favorable admittance to books.

Tell me about a barristers bookcase.

lawyers have to show from various reference manuals for their practice. the legal diaries are costly and attorneys require to refer them oft. Barristers bookcases are hardy and hold large usefulness for a lawyer. These lawyers bookcases are usually made using oak wood, cherry wood in different finishes and tinctures.

What was the method of keeping volumes prior to barrister bookcases?

people did not feel the need for a bookcase as books were a rarity. books in past days were hand-written only. These volumes were located in boxes by the wealthy class. The reason behind this was the books were high-priced and could be bought by the affluent class only.These containers served as a bookcase for them.

After a while, these hand-penned volumes were seen in many well-to-do peoples homes. Due to this, the volumes were located in cupboards or on shelves.The bookshelves that we see Today are an offspring of these cupboards in the past, without the doors.

How were the books placed in these shelves?

These books were not located with a modern approach. books were stored with their bounds facing us and the backs to the wall. these books had a band built from leather or sheepskin as a cover that mentioned the title too.This band was located on the front edge and hence the books were arranged with their edges facing out.

After publishing engineering was invented, books were easily accessible to the common man due to the diminished costs.Another contributed gain of printing was that the publishers printed the title on the back of the record so that the edges were located inwards.

What materials were used?

In the old years, barrister bookcases were produced of oak principally. there were other choices of maple, cherry and pine wood if you liked. You can also go for economical choices such as steel in making a barrister bookcase. The oldest bookcases are said to exist in England in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. they were kept in the library in the sixteenth century.

The two major bookcase designers were Chippendale and Sheraton who produced exquisite bookcases glazed with little tabs wrapped in lattice frames. their bookcases gave the room a classy look.

Nows Barrister Bookcases.

It is genuinely grand to know about the travel of how a humble bookshelf has grown up to being a barrister bookcase over a point of time!

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Galileo, Darwin, and Hawking: The Interplay of Science, Reason, and Religion
Phil Dowe
Grand Rapids, Mich. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005.
205 pages. $21 paperback.

Sixteen hundred years ago, Augustine decided that the best model for the science-and-religion interplay was one of interaction and in Galileo, Darwin, and Hawking, philosopher of science and religion Phil Dowe argues that pattern continues today.

In his praiseworthy book, Dowe offers up four views of the science-and-religion relationship: naturalism, religious science, independence and interactivity. The first two brand the relationship as uncomplimentary, the third as unrelated, and the latter which Dowe favors sees religion and science as harmonious and dependent. He backs up his findings with detailed accounts of the history and philosophy of science-and-religion.

Dowe also reveals that ancient Christian belief made a single God the author of two books: the book of Scripture and the book of nature, which must correspond with each other. Augustine harmonized them. He counseled Christians to read scripture literally except where it conflicts with science, and then to interpret it metaphorically. Moreover, he advised reading Scripture as a spiritual work, not as science.

Conflict arises only when one book is exalted, the other demonized. If both receive equal recognition, either they serve separate functions, as in Stephen Jay Gould’s non-overlapping magisteria, or they mutually benefit each other, as Dowe argues clearly and logically in this book.

In Dowe’s first case study, Galileo is placed under house arrest by the Inquisition for promulgating Copernicus’ idea that Earth revolves around the sun. Surely, this is conflict. Yet, Dowe notes, the Vatican’s need for a better calendar and, therefore, a more accurate cosmology inspired Copernicus’ work, which he dedicated to the Pope. Moreover, this discord lay not between religion and science, but between sciences Aristotle vs. Copernicus for Augustine had harmonized Scripture with Aristotelian science.

More generally, the idea that God created people in the divine image rational and capable of governing inspired early science. Rational people can discover the workings of God’s rational world. As Dowe argues, governing requires power and scientific knowledge of nature increases power; therefore, humans should pursue science. These ideas gave early scientists the optimism and impetus to engage in science. Dowe claims the subsequent success of science supports the thesis that we do, in fact, share in the divine image.

Religion motivated Darwin, Dowe’s second case. As a student at Cambridge, Darwin studied William Paley’s Natural Theology, a design argument for the existence of God, and wrote On the Origin of Species in part to refute it. Yet, many scientists including Darwin think God and evolution compatible.

In evaluating Hawking, Dowe shows how even atheism is a way science and religion interact. The big bang gives the universe a beginning, reviving an old argument for the existence of God. Moreover, discovery that the universe is fine-tuned for the existence of life generates a new design argument. These God-promoting ideas, Dowe writes, drive the development of the “Hartle-Hawking no-boundary condition,” wherein the universe has no beginning and thus needs no creator. To avoid evoking God to explain the fine-tuning, other cosmologists hypothesize about the existence of multiple universes. According to Dowe, atheism drives an amazing amount of contemporary science, from Richard Dawkins’ biology to Hawking’s cosmology.

And Dowe is right. Partition between the two fields seems unlikely. Science is used to support religion, and religion or lack thereof stimulates science. Galileo, Darwin, and Hawking is worth pondering in all its detail.

Patricia A. Williams is a philosopher of science and a theologian who holds a doctorate from the University of Guelph in Ontario. This article was written for Science & Theology News.

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