Download or read book Cool Shades written by Vanessa Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today. Ubiquitous in fashion, advertising, film and graphic design, sunglasses are the ultimate signifier of 'cool' in mass culture; a powerful attribute pervading much fashion and pop cultural imagery which has received little scholarly attention until now. Accessible and highly engaging, this book offers an original history of how sunglasses became a fashion accessory in the early twentieth century, and addresses the complex variety of meanings they have the power to articulate, through associations with vision, light, glamour, darkness, fashion, speed and technology in the context of modernity. Cool Shades will be of great interest to students of fashion, design, visual and material culture, cultural studies and sociology, as well as general readers fascinated by this iconic fashion staple.

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-02 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Download or read book Searching for God Knows What written by Don Miller and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With equal parts wit and wisdom, New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller invites you to reconnect with your faith. Miller shares what he's learned firsthand--that our relationship with God is designed to teach us about redemption, grace, healing, and so much more. Searching for God Knows What weaves together timeless stories and fresh perspectives on the Bible to capture one man's journey to discover an authentic faith that's worth believing. Along the way, Miller poses his own questions about faith, religion, and community, asking: What if the motive behind our theology was relational? What if our value exists because God takes pleasure in us? What if the gospel of Jesus is an invitation to know God? Maybe you're a Christian wondering what faith you signed up for. Or maybe you don't believe anything and are daring someone to show you a genuine example of genuine faith. Somewhere beyond the self-help formulas, fancy marketing, and easy promises, there is a life-changing experience with God waiting for you--it just takes a little bit of searching. Praise for Searching for God Knows What: "Like a shaken snow globe, Donald Miller's newest collection of essays creates a swirl of ideas about the Christian life that eventually crystallize into a lovely landscape...[He] is one of the evangelical book market's most creative writers." --Christianity Today "If you have felt that Jesus is someone you respect and admire--but Christianity is something that repels you--Searching for God Knows What will give you hope that you still can follow Jesus and be part of a church without the trappings of organized religion." --Dan Kimball, author of The Emerging Church and Pastor of Vintage Faith Church, Santa Cruz, CA "For fans of Blue Like Jazz, I doubt you will be disappointed. Donald Miller writes with the wit and vulnerability that you expect. He perfectly illustrates important themes in a genuine and humorous manner...For those who would be reading Miller for the first time, this would be a great start." --Relevant

Download or read book Cloud Revolution written by Yale Esrock and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloud computing represents an evolution in technology and a revolution in business, for when a fixed asset like a computer becomes variable and on demand, all sorts of agility and new cost structures open up. The Cloud rEvolution report tackles this new world of information technology in a four-volume series. "Laying the Foundation" (1) introduces the Cloud rEvolution and explores the core technologies that lay the groundwork for cloud computing. "The Art of Abstraction" (2) shows how abstraction loosens the IT stack for flexibility and efficiency, eying the ultimate abstraction: the cloud. "The Cloud Effect" (3) describes the impact the cloud is having on IT and business tactically and strategically. "A Workbook for Cloud Computing in the Enterprise" (4, downloadable separately) offers guidance for transitioning to the cloud, which is rapidly becoming a question of when and how, not if.

Download or read book Hard Time Tough Churches Awesome God written by John N. Vaughan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * HARD TIMES * TOUGH CHURCHES * AWESOME GOD! 13 Churches that faced losing almost...Everything! Miami * Detroit * Orlando * San Diego Jacksonville * New Orleans * Mobile Springfield * Oklahoma City * Birmingham

Download or read book To Be Alive written by Chris Hessler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I remember sitting by your bedside when you recalled for me some of your thoughts during your darkest hours in the hospital. You expressed them as: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where will I go once I survive? Where would the courage come from to conquer fear? Deathly sick, you were determined to beat the odds. You recalled thinking of your Mom, the passionate musician, the high school valedictorian and straight A college student, caring mother of four, who fired up her children to make good grades so as to get into the best colleges and universities. The children obliged.

Download or read book MuzikMafia written by David B. Pruett and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2001, an unlikely gathering of musicians calling itself the MuzikMafia took place at the Pub of Love in Nashville, Tennessee. "We had all been beat up pretty good by the 'industry' and we told ourselves, if nothing else, we might as well be playing muzik," explains Big Kenny of Big and Rich. For the next year and a half, the MuzikMafia performed each week and garnered an ever-growing, dedicated fan base. Five years, several national tours, six Grammy nominations, and eleven million sold albums later, the MuzikMafia now includes a family of artists including founding members Big and Rich, Jon Nicholson, and Cory Gierman along with Gretchen Wilson, Cowboy Troy, James Otto, Shannon Lawson, Damien Horne (Mista D), Two-Foot Fred, Rachel Kice, and several more in development. This book explores how a set of shared beliefs created a bond that transformed the MuzikMafia into a popular music phenomenon. David B. Pruett examines the artists' coalition from the inside perspective he gained in five years of working with them. Looking at all aspects of the collective, MuzikMafia documents the problems encountered along the ascent, including business difficulties, tensions among members, disagreements with record labels, and miscalculations artists inevitably made before the MuzikMafia unofficially dissolved in 2008. A final section examines hope for the future: the birth of Mafia Nation in 2009.

Download or read book The Great Deception written by Josephine Fussell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am a firm believer that God will do just what He said He will do, for He delivered me from the spirit of witchcraft, and hatred. The prophet from judah disobeyed God, and he paid a dear price for it he lost his life. The prophet from judah was deceived by a man who said he was a prophet, for he lied to the man of God.

Download or read book Ancestry magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancestry magazine focuses on genealogy for today’s family historian, with tips for using Ancestry.com, advice from family history experts, and success stories from genealogists across the globe. Regular features include “Found!” by Megan Smolenyak, reader-submitted heritage recipes, Howard Wolinsky’s tech-driven “NextGen,” feature articles, a timeline, how-to tips for Family Tree Maker, and insider insight to new tools and records at Ancestry.com. Ancestry magazine is published 6 times yearly by Ancestry Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com.

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Download or read book Sincerely Me Volume 1 written by Matthew Garcia and published by Matthew Garcia. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember on the playground of your elementary school when someone would yell out, “Reeeeedo!” Or how in Hollywood multiple takes of the same scene are shot in order to select the best one? And now you can also snap endless pictures of yourself before you post the perfect #Selfie you want everyone to “like.” Life however, is not lived in this way. Oftentimes soon after a mistake is made or an experience is lived, we feel we could have done things differently or better. We wish for a redo. But what if you could go back? What if you could take the knowledge you have now and share it with yourself at a younger age? Would you have done things the same? Matthew Garcia, (IAmMatthewGarcia.com) founder and owner of Respect The Art Media (RespectTheArt.com), set out on a quest to collect a series of letters written by one generation to the next generation. Writing to younger versions of themselves, the authors share insights from their life experiences conveyed in a way that the younger versions of themselves would have actually listened. This book is a chance for the current and next generation to read their stories and learn from their trials and victories. - See more at: http://www.sincerelymethebook.com

Download or read book Iraq Full Circle written by Darron L. Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 2003 through 2010, more than 200,000 men and women were deployed in Iraq. For seven years, they fought ferociously in the blistering sands in the Land Between the Two Rivers. Some fought for pride or survival, some to bring democracy to a forsaken land that has known only tyranny and strife. Scores of books have been published about the war, most criticizing the strategies and execution. Some have been personal memoirs capturing the heroism and sacrifice. Here U.S. Army LTC Darron Wright, a proven combat leader, joins forces with author Mike Walling to lift the veil on the Iraq War, revealing the build-up of troops; the equipping, training, and planning; the capture of Saddam Hussein; the formation of the new Government; and the last patrol. Through vivid stories and military documents, this provides readers with a first-hand of the full conflict.

Download or read book Assembly written by West Point Association of Graduates (Organization). and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Baby Boo written by Amazing Baby and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books are created in a comfortable, strong trim size to fit growing hands and are sure to attract a baby's attention! Baby, Boo! introduces the child to early concepts of facial recognition through photographs of other babies. Night, Night! is the perfect little book for bedtime. The books uses photographs of other babies and strong graphics of familiar objects that baby will recognise and respond to.

Download or read book Scraplifting Inspirations written by Leisure Arts and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scraplifting Inspirations, -Scrapbookers thrive on seeing sample layouts, and this book from Creating Keepsakes compiles a wide array of inspiring designs to "scraplift" on the most popular themes.

Download or read book Algorithms in Bioinformatics written by Steven L. Salzberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-08-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings contain papers from the 2009 Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI), held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during September 12–13, 2009. WABI 2009 was the ninth annual conference in this series, which focuses on novel algorithms that address imp- tantproblemsingenomics,molecularbiology,andevolution.Theconference- phasizes research that describes computationally e?cient algorithms and data structures that have been implemented and tested in simulations and on real data. WABI is sponsored by the European Association for Theoretical C- puter Science (EATCS) and the International Society for Computational Bi- ogy (ISCB). WABI 2009 was supported by the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute and the Penn Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Pennsylvania. For the 2009 conference, 90 full papers were submitted for review by the Program Committee, and from this strong ?eld of submissions, 34 papers were chosen for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. The ?nal programcovered a wide range of topics including gene interaction n- works, molecular phylogeny, RNA and protein structure, and genome evolution.

Download or read book The Pot and How to Use It written by Roger Ebert and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the handy kitchen appliance, plus a range of recipes, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning movie critic. In The Pot and How to Use It, Roger Ebert—Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic, admitted “competent cook,” and long-time electric rice cooker enthusiast—gives readers a charming, practical guide to this handy and often-overlooked kitchen appliance. While The Pot and How to Use It contains numerous and surprisingly varied recipes for electric rice cookers, it is much more than a cookbook. Originating from a blog entry on Roger’s popular Web site, the book also includes readers’ comments and recipes alongside Roger’s own discerning insights and observations on why and how we cook. With an introduction by vegetarian cookbook author Anna Thomas and expert assistance from recipe consultant and nutritionist Yvonne Nienstadt, The Pot and How to Use It is perfect for fans of Roger’s superb writing, as well as anyone looking to incorporate the convenience and versatility of electric rice cookers into his or her kitchen repertoire.