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Weapons are one of the largest single costs that Somali pirates have. According to a book on AK-47s from Amazon, the guns cost about $345. That is a total of $173,000 because each of 500 men is armed. The price for 9MM pistols on the black market runs about $200, for a total of $100,000. Browning 50 caliber machine guns are $14,000 each, with at least one per raider and two per mother ship for a total cost of just over $1 million. Rocket propelled grenades which are used in most raids...
...professional dream of publishing with them for years. I had to convince them that they should publish me,” Dr. Mark S. Micale says. Micale, a History professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ultimately succeeded. The Press published his most recent book on medical history, “Hysterical Men,” last fall...
...Obtaining the rights to publish a book is only the beginning of an extended process. Authors keep in constant contact with their editors, as they send in chapters and discuss ideas...
...Manuscript editors then go through the draft to improve the quality of the prose. Before it can be printed, the manuscript must also be reviewed anonymously by two other experts in the field. Then the book, vetted and designed, can finally be sent out to the outside companies that compose and print the final product. Over the course of the process, Knoll says, “We shape, curate, and disseminate information...
...confident that the services they provide to academia and readers at large will not become obsolete. “We perform a scholarly function—it’s eminently transportable to other media,” Knoll says. They hope that while information-gathering is changing, the book will remain relevant...