Download or read book Beene by Beene written by Geoffrey Beene and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pieces are pursuing the same truths. How are women moving through their days? Is the fabric young and easy in its seems? Is a silhouette speaking? What Beene sees as beautiful can be innocent or sly, a technical tour de force, or a shape made with one shy seam. But the beauty is always honest, coherent - invention born of precision."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book A Sharpened Axe written by Jill M Beene and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cursed nation. An unlikely heroine. Deadly stakes.This love could kill...Samiris can remember a time when her county, Leiria, was prosperous, a time before her father had gotten sick with the Wasting...A time before the curse fell.Now, Samiris is one of the Chosen, twenty women who have a chance to break the curse, but who also could die.Can Samiris navigate the social intrigue at court, deadly plots against the Chosen, a seemingly unloveable Crown Prince, and a stubborn adversary in order to break the curse?
Download or read book Real Retouching written by Carrie Beene and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the perfect glossy pages of a magazine to the larger-than-life images floating on a billboard in the sky, image retouching has become a key component of today's digital photography world. Sometimes controversial but widely accepted, and even expected, excellent retouching skills are crucial to finding success in the field of digital imaging. As you work through the clear step-by-step instructions in the book using the images provided on the downloadable resources, you'll learn how to do real retouching jobs from start to finish, including each and every technical step along the way. You'll also get behind the scenes advice for talking to clients and establishing a workflow to ensure that your client gets the results they are looking for. If you're a student or aspiring professional just starting out in the world of retouching, the information found in this book can help you find work in the advertising/retouching industry. If you're already a working photographer, you'll be able to add retouching to your repertoire as an additional offering to your clients. Carrie Beene is a professional retoucher and educator who has worked with some of the world's most prestigious companies In this new book, she'll share the techniques she has learned and developed over the years to help you navigate the often mysterious world of image retouching.
Download or read book The Wednesdays written by Julie Bourbeau and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Wednesday, strange things happen in Max's village. The townsfolk shutter their windows, lock their doors, and hunker down to outwait this plague of peculiarities referred to simply as "the Wednesdays." But Max is too curious for that, and when he accidentally lets the Wednesdays inside, his furious parents cast him out for the rest of the day. Soon he meets the Wednesdays themselves, strange silver-eyed boy-creatures obsessed with playing pranks. Initially he thinks they're quite fun, but they can also be cruel and dangerous. And then Max discovers a terrible secret: he must put an end to the curse of the Wednesdays . . . or become one himself.
Download or read book Sophie Simon Solves Them All written by Lisa Graff and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a third-grader, Sophie Simon is one smart cookie. She enjoys teaching herself advanced calculus and has performed successful heart surgery on an earthworm. She's also very clever when it comes to dealing with her clueless parents. But Sophie is no genius when it comes to calculating the high value of friendship--until, that is, she has to use her incredible IQ to help out some classmates with their own parental troubles.
Download or read book Legacy Girl Elayna Miller Book Three written by Jill M. Beene and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A web of danger, with the people she loves most caught in the middle...When Elayna Miller travels to Brazil to tangle with a major crime organization, she can't imagine what awaits her. As figures from her past converge, Elayna must determine who she can trust, and who's looking to slip a dagger between her ribs?With stakes this high, powerful players want to control the outcome. It's impossible to please everyone, but Elayna doesn't need any more dangerous enemies.Who lives, and who dies?The case spirals out of control when those closest to her are taken hostage. Elayna is desperate to protect her family and keep her team together, but it seems that not all of them will make it out of Brazil?As bullets fly and the body count rises, can Elayna keep her cover...and her life?Set against the shimmering heat of Brazil, Legacy Girl is a violent, fast-paced action-adventure ride, with comic relief and characters you'll love.
Download or read book A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia written by Thomas Harriot and published by Manchester [England] : Photolithographed for the Holbein Society, by A. Brothers. This book was released on 1888 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mr Pickwick s Guide to Marriageable Young Ladies written by Jill Beene and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fury Girl written by Jill Beene and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventure continues in Elayna Miller, book two! Elayna Miller kills people for a living, but only when they really deserve it... Once one of the CIA's most talented agents, Elayna Miller struck off on her own for moral reasons. Now surrounded by a like-minded team, she selects her cases carefully and only kills those who really have it coming. FURY GIRL is the second novel in the Elayna Miller series. If you enjoy fast-paced, intelligent storytelling with well-rounded, complex characters, you'll love FURY GIRL. In the aftermath of a case gone terribly wrong, Elayna Miller escapes to Italy for a well-earned vacation. But her time in Europe turns into a cat and mouse game that follows her back to the U.S. and ends up far closer to home than she could have ever imagined... A fast-paced, engaging book with tons of action! You'll be rooting for Elayna Miller... Join the scores of other readers who have fallen in love with Elayna Miller, and grab your copy of FURY GIRL today!
Download or read book Kill Girl written by Jill M. Beene and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pairs well with a frosty margarita... Elayna Miller kills people for a living, but only when they really deserve it. When her latest case leads her to Mexico, it also takes her in an unexpected direction, toward her past. In the aftermath, Elayna has to confront the fact that no one she loves is as safe as she has believed, and her team will never be the same again.
Download or read book Critical Mass written by James Wolcott and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Wolcott’s career as a critic has been unmatched, from his early Seventies dispatches for The Village Voice to the literary coverage made him equally feared and famous to his must-read reports on the cultural weather for Vanity Fair. Bringing together his best work from across the decades, this collection shows Wolcott as connoisseur, intrepid reporter, memoirist, and necessary naysayer. We begin with “O.K. Corral Revisited,” Wolcott’s career-launching account of the famed Norman Mailer–Gore Vidal dust-off on the original Dick Cavett Show. He goes on to consider (or reconsider) the towering figures of our culture, among them Lena Dunham Patti Smith, Johnny Carson, Woody Allen, and John Cheever. And we witness his legendary takedowns, which have entered into the literary lore of our time. In an age where a great deal of back scratching and softball pitching pass for criticism, Critical Mass offers a bracing taste of the real thing.
Download or read book Challenge for beautie written by Thomas Heywood and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Le Carr written by Lynn Beene and published by New York : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although le Carre's thrillers, like the work of genre novelists, include resourceful agents, animated narratives, technical espionage devices, and entangled political affairs, his characters, Beene contends, are more reminiscent of Charles Dickens's best caricatures: their actions remind readers that decency, love, and the line between betrayal and loyalty are precarious. In the tradition of Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, and Graham Greene, le Carre creates largely convincing characters whose often unshakable faith in conspiracy leads uncontrollably to treachery. Although often efficient, le Carre's people are pawns in an espionage chess game where betrayal is the basic tactic: once caught in the game, Beene observes, their only escapes are betrayal, death, or, worse, self-realization and angst, as is the case with the perennial character George Smiley." "Le Carre is singular among contemporary writers because, Beene argues, he exchanges action, the mainstay of espionage fiction and that which makes the genre pure entertainment, for psychological debate and ethical paralysis. Le Carre writes of an "our side" indistinguishable from "theirs": "we" can be incompetent, fumbling, and mindlessly destructive; "they" can be decent, conscientious, and dedicated.".
Download or read book Moneyball The Art of Winning an Unfair Game written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be “the most influential book on sports ever written” (People), but “you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis’s] thoughts about it” (Janet Maslin, New York Times). One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyone—but then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did one of the poorest teams in baseball win so many games? In a quest to discover the answer, Michael Lewis delivers not only “the single most influential baseball book ever” (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what “may be the best book ever written on business” (Weekly Standard). Lewis first looks to all the logical places—the front offices of major league teams, the coaches, the minds of brilliant players—but discovers the real jackpot is a cache of numbers?numbers!?collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors. What these numbers prove is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information had been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics. He paid attention to those numbers?with the second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to?to conduct an astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win . . . how can we not cheer for David?
Download or read book Teaching Science to English Learners written by Stephen Fleenor and published by SEIDLITZ EDUCATION, LLC. This book was released on 2019 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Science to English Learners is a go-to resource for science educators to promote listening, speaking, reading, and writing in their classrooms. Each chapter outlines specific, easy-to-implement strategies that foster academic language development and comprehension of science concepts, with specific scaffolds highlighted for each language proficiency level. Teaching Science to English Learners is thoughtfully designed to help teachers equip students to navigate inquiry-driven instruction, understand abstract science concepts, and master the multitude of science vocabulary that can be challenging for ELs and non-ELs alike. By equipping teachers with strategies to draw from students’ prior knowledge and focus on collaboration, this book helps science teachers make lessons accessible for all learners, while deepening content comprehension and developing academic language. Teaching Science to English Learners is the second in a set of books designed to help content-area teachers create learning environments in which English learners thrive.
Download or read book Slow Dancing with a Stranger written by Meryl Comer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction. When Meryl Comer’s husband Harvey Gralnick was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in 1996, she watched as the man who headed hematology and oncology research at the National Institutes of Health started to misplace important documents and forget clinical details that had once been cataloged encyclopedically in his mind. With harrowing honesty, she brings readers face to face with this devastating condition and its effects on its victims and those who care for them. Detailing the daily realities and overwhelming responsibilities of caregiving, Comer sheds intensive light on this national health crisis, using her personal experiences—the mistakes and the breakthroughs—to put a face to a misunderstood disease, while revealing the facts everyone needs to know. Pragmatic and relentless, Meryl has dedicated herself to fighting Alzheimer’s and raising public awareness. “Nothing I do is really about me; it’s all about making sure no one ends up like me,” she writes. Deeply personal and illuminating, Slow Dancing With a Stranger offers insight and guidance for navigating Alzheimer’s challenges. It is also an urgent call to action for intensive research and a warning that we must prepare for the future, instead of being controlled by a disease and a healthcare system unable to fight it.
Download or read book Teaching Social Studies to ELLs written by Tina Beene and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
