Download or read book The Ball at Sceaux written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2024-09-18 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ball at Sceaux" is the fifth work of Honoré de Balzac, one of the oldest texts of la Comédie Humaine. In writing this novella Balzac seems to have been inspired by the fables of La Fontaine, especially La fille ("The Girl") and Héron ("The Heron"). "The Human Comedy" is Honoré de Balzac's 1829–48 multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–30) and the July Monarchy (1830–48).

Download or read book Wicked Witch Murder written by Leslie Meier and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Halloween around the corner, and a mysterious murder close to home, Lucy’s Stone’s fall is off to a sinister start . . . When the bewitching Diana Ravenscroft comes to quiet Tinker's Cove and opens Solstice, a quaint little shop offering everything from jewelry to psychic readings, Lucy Stone writes her off as eccentric but harmless. Even after Diana gives her a disturbingly accurate reading, Lucy can’t help but befriend the newcomer. But not everyone in town is so enchanted. And when Lucy stumbles upon a dead body near her home, she can’t shake the feeling that something ominous is lurking in the crisp October air . . . Convinced Diana is an evil witch, prominent businessman Ike Stoughton blames her for a series of recent misfortunes, including Lucy’s gruesome discovery and his own wife’s death, and rallies the townsfolk against her. But after Lucy learns the murder victim was a magician and close friend of Diana’s, she starts to wonder who’s really stirring up a cauldron of trouble. By Halloween, her suspicions lead her to a deadly web of secrets—and a spine-chilling brush with the things that go bump in the night . . . “The warm, small-town ambiance and the persevering Lucy Stone make this a winner for cozy fans.” —Library Journal

Download or read book Decoded written by Jay-Z and published by One World. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time. Praise for Decoded “Compelling . . . provocative, evocative . . . Part autobiography, part lavishly illustrated commentary on the author’s own work, Decoded gives the reader a harrowing portrait of the rough worlds Jay-Z navigated in his youth, while at the same time deconstructing his lyrics.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “One of a handful of books that just about any hip hop fan should own.”—The New Yorker “Elegantly designed, incisively written . . . an impressive leap by a man who has never been known for small steps.”—Los Angeles Times “A riveting exploration of Jay-Z’s journey . . . So thoroughly engrossing, it reads like a good piece of cultural journalism.”—The Boston Globe “Shawn Carter’s most honest airing of the experiences he drew on to create the mythic figure of Jay-Z . . . The scenes he recounts along the way are fascinating.”—Entertainment Weekly “Hip-hop’s renaissance man drops a classic. . . . Heartfelt, passionate and slick.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Download or read book Machine Learning with R written by Brett Lantz and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a tutorial to explore and understand the power of R for machine learning. This practical guide that covers all of the need to know topics in a very systematic way. For each machine learning approach, each step in the process is detailed, from preparing the data for analysis to evaluating the results. These steps will build the knowledge you need to apply them to your own data science tasks.Intended for those who want to learn how to use R's machine learning capabilities and gain insight from your data. Perhaps you already know a bit about machine learning, but have never used R; or perhaps you know a little R but are new to machine learning. In either case, this book will get you up and running quickly. It would be helpful to have a bit of familiarity with basic programming concepts, but no prior experience is required.

Download or read book The Greatest Guitar Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Collection). This comprehensive collection for all guitarists includes 100 songs in genres from jazz standards, to pop/rock favorites, Motown masterpieces and movie music, to traditional tunes, country numbers and classical pieces. Notation styles include: note-for-note transcriptions (Blue on Black * Give Me One Reason * Sweet Child O' Mine * Wild Thing); Easy Guitar with Notes & TAB (Building a Mystery * Circle of Life * Day Tripper * Fur Elise * Misty * Torn * Walk This Way); Easy Guitar (Boot Scootin' Boogie * I Shot the Sheriff * My Favorite Things * Unchained Melody); Chord Melody Guitar (Alman * Bourree * Estudio); Fingerstyle Guitar (Amazing Grace * Greensleeves * My Heart Will Go On); and Guitar Riffs (Angie * Brown Eyed Girl * Here Comes the Sun * Layla * My Girl); and more!

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang written by John Ayto and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of modern slang draws on the resources of the "Oxford English Dictionary" to cover over five thousand slang words and phrases from throughout the English-speaking world.

Download or read book Real England written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by Portobello Books. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We see the signs around us every day: the chain cafs and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; and the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. For the first time, here is a book that makes the connection between these isolated, incremental local changes and the bigger picture of a nation whose identity is being eroded. As he travels around the country meeting farmers, fishermen and the inhabitants of Chinatown, Paul Kingsnorth reports on the kind of conversations that are taking place in country pubs and corner shops across the land - while reminding us that these quintessentially English institutions may soon cease to exist.

Download or read book Let s Celebrate written by Kate DePalma and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical, sensory nonfiction text and vibrant illustrations invite readers to experience a child’s-eye view of 13 holidays around the world, such as the Spring Festival in China, Inti Raymi in Peru, Eid al-Fitr in Egypt, Día de Muertos in Mexico and the New Yam Festival in Nigeria. Includes pronunciation guides, a global festival calendar and educational notes about why we celebrate.

Download or read book Thousands of Lies written by Manuel Marrero and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Agent Rx, chronic criminal and fugitive, goes off on a dust binge, he hits rock bottom and hits the road, leaving a trail of tears, violence and infamy in his wake. Meanwhile, Jordan Strong uncovers a highly classified method of time travel under the fixed scrutiny of various government agencies and chapters of the occult all coveting his guinea pig tits 'n appeal. Enlisting Rx's blue-collar bred double helix for tedium and accumulation of detail, they exploit parallel realities and paradoxical time lines to mine a collaborative novel transcribed from the voices of the dead. They stage the Phenotypical Exploitation, a kidnapping of Jane Bale and subsequent sale to NYC's dance music circuit, purveyor of drugs, sex and art. But their interests unravel when Agent Rx tries to reverse engineer the domestic trial of the century, bringing the novel, its author and the Exploitation's fatally erotic subject into notoriety for dollars on retrograde dimes. Together, they embark on a literary crusade of self-sabotage that threatens to fall off the cutting edge of a techno thriller, picaresque odyssey and log of skeletons. An upscale Polish call girl develops a posthumous reputation as the poster child for the right to die movement. The simultaneous advances in medical science and life expectancy coincide with the human colonization of Mars. A transgendered stick-up thug pulls off a career robbery, befriends a US President, gets used by the CIA, and becomes a father. A media star attempts to change her image. Paranormal visitations threaten the sanity of hard drug addicts, all the while a support group for movement disorders braces as a roundtable therapeutic free-for-all. Is a telephonic method of time travel the real deal, or an exploitation in itself, a device for dredging up juice from a cold vein? This is the story of two men among hundreds of ghosts and trees, from Cuba in the 1930s to New York in 2046. I know folks from the rust belt to the dust bowl who've never seen these trees. Go see them. You owe it to yourself.

Download or read book 523 Ways to Be Awesome written by Kathryn Thompson and published by Workman. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted to write a symphony, explore the galaxy, or save a life? With 523 Ways to Be Awesome, a gift book based on Kathryn Thompson's viral blog post "Drops of Awesome," you will learn how you are already doing those and other amazing things . . . a bit . . . and how you can do them a bit more.

Download or read book Bobbin Up written by Helen Cerne and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we do not remember our childhoods do they still exist?Shifting is the true story of two children growing up in the aftermath of the Second World War. Attracted like a law of nature, Serge, a boy born in northern Italy and Helen, a girl born in Australia are inextricably drawn to each other in a changing world. A social history of the west of Melbourne in the 1950s-1960s, it is also a unique love story.This collaborative autobiography, told from a male and female perspective, explores the dynamics of family life, the importance of place and cultural dislocation in shaping identity. Understated and simply told, this is an evocative narrative about the emotional, social and psychological changes of two individuals maturing into adulthood. A fine and impressive work. It is accomplished at a high literary standard, with an acute understanding of the way fictive-literary stratagems can be incorporated in an autobiographical work to achieve an engaging and richly rewarding text for the reader.' - Kevin Brophy The vivid and detailed recreation of the texture of the decades through which the characters live is one of the strengths of the novel. - Jeri Kroll Shifting skilfully weaves and patterns two distinct voices and cultures ... to create a tapestry full of evocative detail and memorable characters struggling with loss, new beginnings and love. - Tom Petsinis

Download or read book The Easter Bunny s Assistant written by Jan Thomas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easter? I’m so excited!

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Download or read book Stories of the Far North written by Jack London and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of the Far North by Jack London - Standard Print Edition - Short Story Collection: THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS - THE GREAT INTERROGATION - WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER - SIWASH - THE MAN WITH THE GASH - JAN, THE UNREPENTANT - GRIT OF WOMEN - WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS - A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA - AT THE RAINBOW'S END - THE SCORN OF WOMEN - LOST FACE - TRUST - TO BUILD A FIRE - FLUSH OF GOLD - THE PASSING OF MARCUS O'BRIEN - THE WIT OF PORPORTUK - IN THE FORESTS OF THE NORTH - THE LAW OF LIFE - NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS - THE MASTER OF MYSTERY - THE SUNLANDERS - THE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEF - KEESH, THE SON OF KEESH - THE DEATH OF LIGOUN - LI WAN, THE FAIR - THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN - THE WHITE SILENCE - THE SON OF THE WOLF - THE MEN OF FORTY MILE - IN A FAR COUNTRY - TO THE MAN ON TRAIL - THE PRIESTLY PREROGATIVE - THE WISDOM OF THE TRAIL - THE WIFE OF A KING - AN ODYSSEY OF THE NORTH - BROWN WOLF - THAT SPOT - ALL GOLD CANYON - THE STORY OF KEESH - BALD-FACE - THE NIGHT-BORN