Download or read book The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards written by Kristopher Jansma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award Honorable Mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award "F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson" (The Village Voice) in this inventive and witty debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe—from the author of Why We Came to the City As early as he can remember, the narrator of this remarkable novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansma’s hopelessly unreliable—yet hopelessly earnest—narrator will be haunted by the success of his greatest friend and literary rival, the brilliant Julian McGann, and endlessly enamored with Evelyn, the green-eyed girl who got away. A profound exploration of the nature of truth and storytelling, this delightful picaresque tale heralds Jansma as a bold, new American voice.

Download or read book Kristopher written by Phillip DiMarzo and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-10-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristopher, a young man who had a death wish, is now a crippled man on a mission, a magician wandering through the decades, deciding people's fate. Are heaven and hell one and the same? Will Kristopher lead you out of the lost--into the found? Let's follow him and find out, shall we?

Download or read book Why We Came to the City written by Kristopher Jansma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stunning . . . A beautiful, sprawling, and generous book. Jansma is a brilliantly talented writer, but he also has a unique insight into what friends mean to one another, and what it means to be part of a city in which you never quite belong, but can’t quite bring yourself to leave. It’s a heartfelt novel, tender and painful and cathartic all at once, and even if the characters belong to New York, the story belongs to us all.” —NPR December, 2008. A heavy snowstorm is blowing through Manhattan and the economy is on the brink of collapse, but none of that matters to a handful of guests at a posh holiday party. Five years after their college graduation, the fiercely devoted friends at the heart of this richly absorbing novel remain as inseparable as ever: editor and social butterfly Sara Sherman, her troubled astronomer boyfriend George Murphy, loudmouth poet Jacob Blaumann, classics major turned investment banker William Cho, and Irene Richmond, an enchanting artist with an inscrutable past. Amid cheerful revelry and free-flowing champagne, the friends toast themselves and the new year ahead—a year that holds many surprises in store. They must navigate ever-shifting relationships with the city and with one another, determined to push onward in pursuit of their precarious dreams. And when a devastating blow brings their momentum to a halt, the group is forced to reexamine their aspirations and chart new paths through unexpected losses. Kristopher Jansma’s award-winning debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, was praised for its “wry humor” and “charmingly unreliable narrator” in The New Yorker and hailed as “F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson” by The Village Voice. In Why We Came to the City, Jansma offers an unforgettable exploration of friendships forged in the fires of ambition, passion, hope, and love. This glittering story of a generation coming of age is a sweeping, poignant triumph.

Download or read book Kristopher S Big Adventure written by Janett Dunlap Earl and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristopher sets out to have a big adventure! When the day ends and he finds himself back at home, did he really have an adventure at all?

Download or read book Kristopher Kris What a Man written by Rudy Spolar and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristopher Kris was something right from the time he was born. He put his arms out and wanted to be hugged and smiled at. Just with that he was happy and satisfied. He carried that through his life. After he grew up and took over his fathers business, he became a whiz at it. His father started Communication Systems in the early stages. Kris became a genius at it and like his dad he took the business to a new level and was at the for front of communications at the time. Kris made millions, but the way he did it was extraordinary and different. Kris was wealthy, adventurous, intriguing, dynamic and he was pretty tough. He was a entrepreneur and became a philanthropist. He was a giving person and enjoyed that the most. I take you through a ride in his life up till when he is at the top of his game that you will enjoy. It is exciting, different and fun to see how he handles himself and all the ups and downs he comes across along the way. Like me, I hope you will see what a real piece of work Kris is. Kris did things his way and it was a good way. He will get your attention. I am a man who has led a pretty good life over all. I have done a lot of different things over the years and was somewhat successful to a certain point. I have seen a lot of things over the years. My greatest accomplishments were getting through it all. I brought up a family and have children that are successful and they are doing well for themselves. I have had a lot of different jobs over the years and that was what got me this far. Now I am at the point in my life where I thought I should write about some of the things that have fascinated me in a imaginary way. I wrote this book because Kristopher Kris is someone who I think a lot of men would like to be. I made Kris in a lot of different flavors and ways that will get your attention. See if Kris can get your attention like he got mine.

Download or read book Tripping to Somewhere written by Kristopher Reisz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half Neil Gaiman, and Jack Kerouac, this engrossing novel by an electrifying new voice in teen fiction explores what happens when two high-school misfits embark on a psychedelic road trip in search of the mythic Witches' Carnival. Original.

Download or read book The Sworn Virgin written by Kristopher Dukes and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dukes's gripping historical novel tells the tale of a desperate Albanian woman who will do whatever it takes to keep her independence and seize control of her future...even if it means swearing to remain a virgin for her entire life. When eighteen-year-old Eleanora’s father is shot dead on the cobblestone streets of 1910 Albania, Eleanora must abandon her dream of studying art in Italy as she struggles to survive in a remote mountain village with her stepmother Meria. Nearing starvation, Meria secretly sells Eleanora into marriage with the cruel heir of a powerful clan. Intent on keeping her freedom, Eleanora takes an oath to remain a virgin for the rest of her life—a tradition that gives her the right to live as a man: she is now head of her household and can work for a living as well as carry a gun. Eleanora can also participate in the vengeful blood feuds that consume the mountain tribes, but she may not be killed—unless she forsakes her vow, which she has no intention of ever doing. But when an injured stranger stumbles into her life, Eleanora nurses him back to health, saving his life—yet risking her own as she falls in love with him... “It’s hard to believe that the culture Dukes describes was ever real, but the amount of research she put into this book definitely shines through. The story remains fascinating throughout; readers will definitely find it difficult to put this novel down.”—San Francisco Book Review

Download or read book Symmetry written by Kristopher Tapp and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is perfect for a math course for non-math majors, with the goal of encouraging effective analytical thinking and exposing students to elegant mathematical ideas. It includes many topics commonly found in sampler courses, like Platonic solids, Euler’s formula, irrational numbers, countable sets, permutations, and a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. All of these topics serve a single compelling goal: understanding the mathematical patterns underlying the symmetry that we observe in the physical world around us. The exposition is engaging, precise and rigorous. The theorems are visually motivated with intuitive proofs appropriate for the intended audience. Students from all majors will enjoy the many beautiful topics herein, and will come to better appreciate the powerful cumulative nature of mathematics as these topics are woven together into a single fascinating story about the ways in which objects can be symmetric.

Download or read book The Ethics of Anarcho Capitalism written by Kristopher A. Borer and published by Kristopher Borer. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anarcho-capitalism is the most exciting social philosophy of modern times. But how does it work? This book illuminates the ethical system at the heart of anarcho-capitalism. It builds the non-aggression principle from praxeological foundations and develops techniques for applying it to real world conflicts. It explores the edges of libertarianism to show where it shines, and where it fails. “This is an excellent book on anarcho-capitalism. It covers all the bases, and then some. This is an enjoyable read, an easy read, and at the end of the road lies real insight. Five stars.” - Walter Block, author of Defending the Undefendable “I was dreading reading this, but it is conceptually excellent.” - Michael Malice, author of The New Right “This book uses praxeology to define libertarianism based on the non-aggression principle. Ancaps may find the implications disconcerting, or illuminating.” – Stephan Kinsella, author of Against Intellectual Property “For those who enjoy going deep into libertarian theory, the thought experiments and strategies in this book will prove valuable.” – Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski, author of Libertarian Quandaries

Download or read book Search Engine Optimization written by Kristopher B. Jones and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your visual, step-by-step guide to search engine optimization, from an Internet marketing expert Techniques and best practices for search engine optimization are constantly evolving. This visual guide to SEO is fully updated with information on the latest and most effective ways to move your website up in the search engine rankings. Internet marketing guru Kristopher Jones, a frequent keynote speaker at interactive marketing conferences, explains all the key concepts in a visual format so you can see how they work and what to do. Learn about keyword generation, internal linking, URL structure, content creation, using social media, and more. More than 70 percent of businesses today have websites; search engine optimization is a vital factor in growing a business by gaining new customers while increasing business from existing customers This two-color book is the only guide to search engine optimization that is presented in a visual format Presents search engine marketing principles including keyword generation, on-site optimization involving website structure, internal linking, URL structure, content creation, off-site optimization, social media optimization and more Author is a popular keynote speaker and panelist at interactive marketing and technology conferences Search Engine Optimization: Your visual blueprint for effective Internet marketing, Third Edition helps visual learners master and maximize SEO techniques.

Download or read book Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces written by Kristopher Tapp and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a textbook on differential geometry well-suited to a variety of courses on this topic. For readers seeking an elementary text, the prerequisites are minimal and include plenty of examples and intermediate steps within proofs, while providing an invitation to more excursive applications and advanced topics. For readers bound for graduate school in math or physics, this is a clear, concise, rigorous development of the topic including the deep global theorems. For the benefit of all readers, the author employs various techniques to render the difficult abstract ideas herein more understandable and engaging. Over 300 color illustrations bring the mathematics to life, instantly clarifying concepts in ways that grayscale could not. Green-boxed definitions and purple-boxed theorems help to visually organize the mathematical content. Color is even used within the text to highlight logical relationships. Applications abound! The study of conformal and equiareal functions is grounded in its application to cartography. Evolutes, involutes and cycloids are introduced through Christiaan Huygens' fascinating story: in attempting to solve the famous longitude problem with a mathematically-improved pendulum clock, he invented mathematics that would later be applied to optics and gears. Clairaut’s Theorem is presented as a conservation law for angular momentum. Green’s Theorem makes possible a drafting tool called a planimeter. Foucault’s Pendulum helps one visualize a parallel vector field along a latitude of the earth. Even better, a south-pointing chariot helps one visualize a parallel vector field along any curve in any surface. In truth, the most profound application of differential geometry is to modern physics, which is beyond the scope of this book. The GPS in any car wouldn’t work without general relativity, formalized through the language of differential geometry. Throughout this book, applications, metaphors and visualizations are tools that motivate and clarify the rigorous mathematical content, but never replace it.

Download or read book PillowFace written by Kristopher Rufty and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-03-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve year old Joel Olsen loves all things devoted to horror. Movies, comics, books, and of course his true passion, special effects. Being raised by his older sister Haley after the sudden death of their parents Joel is in a world truly of his own. At the launch of summer vacation Joel finds lying bloodied and near death in his backyard a masked man that is the epitome of what he adores. A flesh and blood slasher maniac! When he invites the masked man into his home to recover from his wounds an unexpected friendship is born, but Joel quickly realizes he's actually become involved in a true to life horror tale that he'll be lucky to survive. This maniac known as Pillowface is not only an uncontrollable killing machine, but he also has others searching for him, and they will go to great and bloody lengths to find him.

Download or read book Gone to See the River Man written by Kristopher Triana and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers.These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be they rock stars, actor, or authors. Or even serial killers.Lori's obsession is with Edmund Cox, who was convicted of butchering more than twenty women. She will do anything to get close to him, so when he gives her a task, she accepts.She has no idea of the horror that awaits her.Edmund says she must go to his cabin in the woods and retrieve a key to deliver to a mysterious figure known only as The River Man.She brings along her sister, and the trip becomes a surreal nightmare, one that digs up Lori's personal demons, the ones she feels bonds her to Edmund. Soon she will learn The River Man is not quite fact or folklore, and definitely not human . . . at least not anymore.

Download or read book And the Devil Cried written by Kristopher Triana and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jackie is released from prison, his boss Pino sends a limo to pick him up. Even fresh out of the joint, ruthless Jackie is ready to work, collecting money for the mob and using his special training to take care of bad accounts--permanently.But when a drunk driver kills Pino's young son, he gives Jackie a task that goes against every moral code. The drunk driver has a pre-teen daughter, and Pino doesn't just want vengeance--he wants an eye for an eye.Jackie accepts the job, but once he finds the girl he starts making plans of his own...And the Devil Cried is a dark thriller from Kristopher Triana, the award-winning author of Gone to See the River Man and Full Brutal. It is a viscous, unflinching novel that's bound to keep you burning.

Download or read book Matrix Groups for Undergraduates written by Kristopher Tapp and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matrix groups touch an enormous spectrum of the mathematical arena. This textbook brings them into the undergraduate curriculum. It makes an excellent one-semester course for students familiar with linear and abstract algebra and prepares them for a graduate course on Lie groups. Matrix Groups for Undergraduates is concrete and example-driven, with geometric motivation and rigorous proofs. The story begins and ends with the rotations of a globe. In between, the author combines rigor and intuition to describe the basic objects of Lie theory: Lie algebras, matrix exponentiation, Lie brackets, maximal tori, homogeneous spaces, and roots. This second edition includes two new chapters that allow for an easier transition to the general theory of Lie groups.

Download or read book RecordCovid19 written by Kristopher Lovell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RecordCovid19. Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic provides insights into the experience of the Covid19 pandemic from an historical and sociological perspective. Using the first-hand testimonies submitted as part of the #RecordCovid19 project as its inspiration, the chapters in this edited collection explore and contextualise the initial responses to the Covid19 pandemic. The collection examines people’s relationships with Covid19 as an historical event, including their own experiences of living through history; their relationship with their surroundings, including their relationships with family, the soundscapes and the emotional environments of a pandemic world; the impact and tone of political rhetoric, including the use (and misuse) of wartime myths and language in the United Kingdom; and finally, what lessons can be learnt from how people discuss their own personal stories and what lessons can we draw from previous examples of storytelling in moments of crisis. The result is a fascinating and rich discussion derived from an archive full of idiosyncratic experiences of life changing during the Covid19 pandemic.

Download or read book The Dying of the Light Interval written by Jason Kristopher and published by Grey Gecko Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has ended, and the few who are left struggle day by day to survive. They hoped that the worst thing they would have to deal with in this new world would be the walkers, come to rip and tear and kill. They were wrong. There are worse things than zombies. A refuge for the last remnants of the United States has gone silent and dark, while another has succumbed to the basest parts of human nature. Yet all is not lost, for in the farthest and coldest corner of the globe, marooned in an icy prison, a scientist has made a stunning breakthrough. A desparate rescue mission is launched to bring back the one person who can save them all, but the trip is long and dangerous, and its fate is uncertain.