Playing the Percentages
Playing the Percentages

Author: Derek Long

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2024-04-16

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1477328963

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A history of film distribution in the United States from the 1910s to the 1930s, concentrating on booking, circuiting, and packaging marketing practices. Told not as a “golden age” narrative of films, stars, or individual studios but as an economic history of the industry’s film distribution practices, Playing the Percentages is the story of how Hollywood’s vertically integrated studio system came to be. Studying the history of distribution during the growth of Hollywood, Derek Long makes a case for the domination of the studio system as the result of struggles over distribution practices. Through a combination of archival research, critical surveys of the film industry trade press, and economic analysis, Long uncovers a complex and ever-shifting system of wrangling between distributors and exhibitors. Challenging the overemphasis within scholarship on “block booking” as a monolithic distribution mode, and attending to distribution practices beyond simple circulation, Long highlights the crucial changes in film distribution brought about by live theater, the rise of features, and the transition to sound. Playing the Percentages is a comprehensive history of film distribution in the United States during the silent era that illustrates the importance of power struggles between distributors and exhibitors over booking, pricing, and playing time.

Percentages
Percentages

Author: Robert Watchman

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-12-28

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781505818512

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The Easy Steps Math Percentages book has been written to explain percentages in an easy to understand way. The language used is fully explained and simple so that students just starting to learn these concepts can understand them. It is written for those who need to learn how to do calculations with percentages and not just complete question after question. The explanations given are set out in a step-by-step fashion, which allows for easy following. This book starts at the beginning of percentages and uses examples to explain everything covered. Questions are included for practice and answers are in the back. Topics include: Finding the percentage of an amount, showing one amount as a percentage of another, percentages and fractions, percentages as decimals and more.

Rule of Three, Percentages and Interest
Rule of Three, Percentages and Interest

Author: Thomas Rießinger

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-02-10

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13: 3658327235

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In this essential, Thomas Rießinger explains the rules of percentage and interest calculation using many examples. The basic terms of interest and percentage calculation and the corresponding formulas are repeated so that they are easy to apply in everyday life. The author applies the percentage calculation to interest rate problems and introduces different types of three-sentence calculation. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Dreisatz, Prozente und Zinsen by Thomas Rießinger, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2016. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

Percentage Baseball
Percentage Baseball

Author: Earnshaw Cook

Publisher: Mit Press

Published: 2003-02-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780262532150

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How to play percentage baseball--and win! Irrefutable mathematical findings.

Twizzlers Percentages Book
Twizzlers Percentages Book

Author: Jerry Pallotta

Publisher: Cartwheel Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780439254076

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Using Twizzlers candy as the teaching tool, introduces young readers to the math concept of percentages.

The Book of Percentages
The Book of Percentages

Author: Tom Philbin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-06-18

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1440514054

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You will now be able to wow your friends, scare your kids, and bargain with your spouse as you use this book to legitimize bad decisions, idle threats, and risky ventures. With this one-stop statistical resource, you will have plenty of numbers to back up whatever you want (or don’t want) to do. Covering all aspects of everyday life, this enlightening little trivia book shows you that numbers can be informative yet entertaining—and work to your advantage. Inside you will learn interesting tidbits like: While 30% of all shoplifters are under thirty, 95% of shoplifters are females—just another thing for teenage boys to throw in their parents’ faces Ditching a diet is the fad thing to do, as 60% of dieters fail and go back to eating fatty foods Finding a faithful contractor is much easier than finding a faithful husband: Only 10% of home improvement contractors are reported larcenous while 22% of married men have committed adultery The world would have a whole lot more female vegetarians if people had to kill their dinner—90% of women would give up beef if they had to kill the cow Americans have a 40% chance of just dropping dead every day It’s a guaranteed enlightening read 100% of the time.

Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics

Author: N. Gregory Mankiw

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 9780716752370

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The fifth edition of the #1 bestselling intermediate macroeconomics text, with coverage based on the most recent data available, plus new student media resources.