Download or read book Loosely Based written by Storey Clayton and published by Virtualbookworm Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Norton, high school class of 2000, is tired of Kansas. His divorced parents barely know him, his distracted girlfriend barely cares, and he needs a change. College offers the promise of freedom from all he has known and grown to hate.Antigone Edgewood, college dropout, is fleeing Chicago. Her abusive boyfriend has gone too far, and now she will go as far as she can to get away. A late-night diner offers the chance to sit down and contemplate her future.Joe Ewing is investigating what he secretly suspects to be the biggest crime of his career."Loosely Based" is a story of interstates and intersections in modern American life.

Download or read book The Kill Stealer an Adventure Loosely Based on the Quantified Self Movement written by Dean Paul Dominguez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his birthday of all days, 13 year old Divi Rogallo gains unspeakable powers after slaying a gargantuan, dozen-headed Terrabird already bloodied and weakened by the army that failed to kill it, making him a person of interest for Clip Sharinggen who is seeking the final member of his mercenary group. The world in which they live is governed by video game mechanics that affect their lives. These mechanics are quantified attributes of a person or nonhuman animal such as life (HP), strength, defense, and speed. These mechanics play a serious role in the world, determining either success or failure for the characters. For this reason, Divi and his mercenary friends are constantly theorizing about these mechanics to ensure their own success. The group ventures through sublime natural landscapes and extreme climates, often to get a shot at their beloved bounty. The mechanics of this story are loosely based on RPG systems in video games and most recently: The Quantified Self Movement.

Download or read book A Semi Autobiographical Collection of Words Loosely Based on the Truth written by Joshua Prosser and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishing this material was never my intention whilst writing it. Most of this material was written over the past 10 years as a form of self expression to help me get through whatever it was I was having trouble coping with at the time. After speaking at various spoken word poetry events and receiving a lot of positive feedback I decided to try and reach more people through publishing a selection of my work. The book also features a piece of work written by Brooke Carter,Titled A Single Tear.

Download or read book Loosely Based On Last Thursday written by Michael Amore and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone recently said to me in a note, that they did not understand poetry. Thru the years I've heard that a lot...so, I was thinking about it. What is poetry? And if you bought this book, or are thinking about buying this book then...What is my poetry? Well.what is a song? A song just is... What is a painting? A painting just is... A poem, my poems, are just words the reader reads to some beat. The beat is undefined like the meaning to the words in a song. The reader, the listener, becomes the singer, the writer, the discoverer of the beat...the meaning.the reader (you) puts themselves in it. You read a poem as you listen to a song...as it relates to you, in your life.but it's tough to grab people these days for any would-be poet. There is more effort on the part of the reader of a poem as opposed to an album listener...and most people don't even listen to whole albums anymore...pretty soon we won't even hear whole songs...in 100 years we will be reduced to listening to almost inaudible beeps and chimes we assign numbers to, to signify their popularity amongst the general proletariat, and sub-American populous! My poetry is about these things: women, drinking, anxiety, depression, lust, revenge, love, death and recovery. This book is clearer revision of sorts, from my last book, 'Hate The New Girl.' Basically I cut out the fat in this one and fine tuned it. I have also reworked all the poems and have added some new ones. I have stopped drinking since HTNG, and I have found editing this book a whole hell of a lot easier sober. I caught a lot of mistakes and was able to cut deeper into the middle of what really works in the poems and few poetic short stories included. I really feel thatthis is finished piece of work, ready for you, as opposed to HTNG, which was more of a personal, chronological journal on my progression as a young poet and the sad events of my life up to that point. I can only hope that my future books come out as well as this one has, as I

Download or read book The Reckless Oath We Made written by Bryn Greenwood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new provocative love story from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things. “The story of Zee and Gentry is the reason we read.” —Brunonia Barry Their journey will break them—or save them. A moving and complicated love story for our time, The Reckless Oath We Made redefines what it means to be heroic. Zee has never admitted to needing anybody. But she needs Gentry. Her tough exterior shelters a heart that’s loyal to the point of self-destruction, while autistic Gentry wears his heart on his sleeve, including his desire to protect Zee at all costs. When an abduction tears Zee’s family apart, she turns to Gentry—and sets in motion a journey and a love that will change their lives forever. “[A] mind-blowing book that has left me scrambling to pick up the pieces of my brain and my shattered heart . . . Prepare to have your mind and heart expanded to their limits.” —The Oklahoman

Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular Drama Films Based on Actual Events written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Horse Sense for the New Millennium written by Wesley Allen Riddle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States faces the problems of ever-growing government, declining political participation, and the deterioration of moral society. It is a tumultuous and often troubling time in history. In Horse Sense for the New Millennium, author Wesley Allen Riddle offers a lens for interpreting modern political events and presents a conservative commentary on American life and politics. A collection of previously published columns, Horse Sense for the New Millennium offers a reservoir of creative conservative approaches distinct from more common ones advocated by progressive liberals. Compiling a decade of thoughts, Riddle discusses the state of American politics and government and shows that hope for Americas future lies in returning to the nations founding principles and applying them to the problems facing America today. He argues that the road map for success lies in the US Constitution. Horse Sense for the New Millennium presents an articulate and passionate critique of government in modern society including governments taking on too many roles, too many rules and regulations, and creating a nanny state that is socially and economically crippling the nation. Riddle explains the founders original intent and demonstrates their vision is still the key to Americas prosperity.

Download or read book World Constitution written by Nicholas Hagger and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World State Nicholas Hagger followed Truman, Einstein, Churchill, Eisenhower and others in calling for a democratic, partly-federal World State with sufficient authority to abolish war, enforce disarmament, combat famine, disease and poverty, and solve the world’s financial and environmental problems. Its lower house, a World Parliamentary Assembly, would initially be based in the UN General Assembly and eventually replace the UN. In this companion volume he sets out a Constitution for a United Federation of the World (UF). In 14 chapters and 145 Articles he details the UF’s structure and institutions at inter-national and supranational levels, and the rights and freedoms world citizens would be guaranteed. He lists the 26 precedents and 204 existing constitutions he consulted (including the UN Charter and the US and EU constitutional documents) and the sources on which the Articles are based. This comprehensive and authoritative Constitution sets out with great clarity and concision how the whole world can be governed, and can be laid before the UN General Assembly. As a blueprint for a World State that can bring universal peace and prosperity it may come to be regarded as one of the most remarkable feats of statecraft of our time.

Download or read book Free Spirit written by JennaKay Francis and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diesa de Tyronmen escapes from a brutal master only to be sold to an elf. Though mesmerized by his beauty, Diesa struggles for her freedom...and against her own growing love for her new master. Was she purchased only to win a wager? And, as her mother had claimed, will an elf claim her heart with his words, her very soul with his touch?

Download or read book Nitesh written by JennaKay Francis and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thalassa, a sea-witch, is captured when the warlord Rhaeven sends his troops to her small village. After the hard life she's already lived, she's resigned to her fate. Married at a young age to an abusive man she doesn't love, she's secretly glad to see her husband die. Now, pregnant, enslaved and stricken with a deadly disease, she only waits for her own death to release her from the torment that is life. Elfin Crown Prince of Diraenia, Terran, must choose a mate and produce an heir before his thirtieth birthday or risk forfeiting the crown to his youngest brother Unwin. Time is running out. Terran is twenty-nine, his fiancee is dead, and he believes Unwin responsible despite the lack of proof. To make matters worse, Terran's other brother Sinclair has disappeared, and Terran fears the worst. Bothered by a strange, haunting beat of drums no one can hear but Terran, the Crown Prince's thoughts continually turn to a brief encounter he shared with a young woman from Zal. For three days, he'd walked her back to her village, delivering her to her pre-ordained life there. For three days, he fell in love with a woman who could never be his. When he returned to his own palace, he'd seen the emptiness and despair of his own life. The drums call to Terran until he can longer deny his own need to revisit the village where he'd fallen in love. If he sees Thalassa one last time, can he make himself let go?

Download or read book Hymns for Morning and Evening Prayer written by Aelred-Seton Shanley and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of hymns for morning and evening prayer.

Download or read book Pathways To Success Through Identity based Motivation written by Daphna Oyserman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone can imagine their future self, even very young children, and this future self is usually positive and education-linked. To make progress toward an aspired future or away from a feared future requires people to plan and take action. Unfortunately, most people often start too late and commit minimal effort to ineffective strategies that lead their attention elsewhere. As a result, their high hopes and earnest resolutions often fall short. In Pathways to Success Through Identity-Based Motivation Daphna Oyserman focuses on situational constraints and affordances that trigger or impede taking action. Focusing on when the future-self matters and how to reduce the shortfall between the self that one aspires to become and the outcomes that one actually attains, Oyserman introduces the reader to the core theoretical framework of identity-based motivation (IBM) theory. IBM theory is the prediction that people prefer to act in identity-congruent ways but that the identity-to-behavior link is opaque for a number of reasons (the future feels far away, difficulty of working on goals is misinterpreted, and strategies for attaining goals do not feel identity-congruent). Oyserman's book goes on to also include the stakes and how the importance of education comes into play as it improves the lives of the individual, their family, and their society. The framework of IBM theory and how to achieve it is broken down into three parts: how to translate identity-based motivation into a practical intervention, an outline of the intervention, and empirical evidence that it works. In addition, the book also includes an implementation manual and fidelity measures for educators utilizing this book to intervene for the improvement of academic outcomes.

Download or read book Individual Differences and Task Based Language Teaching written by Shaofeng Li and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of a collection of empirical studies and research syntheses investigating the role of individual difference (ID) variables in task-based language teaching (TBLT)—a pedagogical approach that emphasizes the importance of the performance of meaning-oriented tasks in facilitating second language learning. TBLT is subject to learner-external as well as learner-internal factors, with the former referring to task- and context-related factors, and the latter to ID factors pertaining to learner traits, dispositions, or propensities. To date, the research has focused primarily on learner-external factors, and there has been insufficient and unsystematic research on individual difference factors. This volume brings centre stage this important but under-researched dimension by means of a comprehensive, in-depth examination of the role of key ID factors in TBLT. The volume integrates theory, research, and pedagogy by spelling out the mechanism through which IDs influence learning attainment, behaviours, and processes, examining evidence for theoretical claims, and discussing ways to apply research findings and cater to individual differences in the task-based classroom.

Download or read book Character Based Film Series Part 2 written by Terry Rowan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grourp of films or a character-based series, each complete on its own but sharing a common cast of main characters with continuing traits and a similar format, included are Alien, Austin Powers, Billy the Kid, Boston Blackie, The Bowery Boys, Captain Kidd, Charley Chan, The Cisco Kid, Davy Crockett, Dick Tracey, Dracula, Frankenstein, Gene Autry, The Green Hornet, King Kong, Living Dead, Marx Brothers, Matt Helm, Mexican Spitfire, Perry Mason, Peter Pan, The Range Busters, Sherlock Holmes, The Three Musketeers and The Wild Bunch. These and other character-based films are included in this book! 2 of 3 books.

Download or read book Simulation and Game Based Learning in Emergency and Disaster Management written by Drumhiller, Nicole K. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simulation and game-based learning are essential applications in a learning environment as they provide learners an opportunity to apply the course material in real-life scenarios. Introducing real-life learning allows the learner to make critical decisions at different points within the simulation providing constructive education that leads to a cognitive understanding of the material. The use of simulations provides the learner with the ability to cognitively store and recall learning in real-life experiences. Therefore, it is crucial to not only provide course material but to have students apply what they have learned in simulations that replicate real-life scenarios. These learned skills are essential for students to be marketable and thrive in a career field where decision making, problem solving, and critical thinking are job requirements. Simulation and Game-Based Learning in Emergency and Disaster Management is a cutting-edge research book that examines the best practices and holistic development when it comes to simulation learning within emergency and disaster management as well as global security. Drawing upon the neuroscience of learning, classroom instruction can be enhanced to incorporate active-experiential learning activities that positively impact a learner with long-term information retention. Each simulation project is carried out in different environments, with different goals in mind, and developed under various constraints. For these reasons, this book will provide insight into the simulation planning and development process, provide examples of online simulations and game-based learning activities, and provide insight on simulation development and implementation that can be used across disciplines in educational and training settings. As such, it is ideal for academicians, instructional designers, curriculum designers, education professionals, researchers, and students.

Download or read book Once Upon a Cliche written by Karen Wiesner and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detached and ignored for most of her life, Brayla Sullivan is the awkward, ugly duckling destined for spinsterhood who's never been kissed, never gone anywhere beyond the small town she was born and raised in. When she starts corresponding with a man from a "Meet Exotic Singles" website and he suggests they meet, she drops everything to fly to him in a last-ditch effort to find her happily-ever-after. The only son in a family of daughters, Shaun Levi, Peaceful's Chief of Police, has never looked the part of a dashing hero. Whenever he'd opened his mouth, his sisters had spoken for him or over him, and now any attempts at conversation with the opposite sex lead him to either a loss for words or making a mess that's ensured he'll stay a bachelor for life. Brayla has been nothing more than a buddy he's known all his life. But, when a kiss between them on a particularly lonesome New Year's takes a turn for the what-have-we-done?, he sees a side to his old friend he never anticipated...and the consequences may just leave him without a friend or a prayer of convincing her they could share so much more. Brayla's poorly-conceived plan to meet Mr. Right veers from point A to Z to F and every-sad-where in-between, leaving her hopelessly lost and desperate for someone to rescue her. Everything she expects to happen falls through while the unexpected may turn into everything she's ever dreamed of...or all she's dreaded. On the rocky road to happily-ever-after, who knows what can happen?

Download or read book Prince of the Hollow Hills written by Margaret L. Carter and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her sister mysteriously dies, Fern takes over the care of her baby nephew. She has no idea that his missing father wasn't an ordinary man or that baby Baird is heir to the throne of Elfland. Two rival elvish princes invade Fern's life--one hostile, the other alluring. One wants to kill the child, the other to guard him. But both intend to take him away from her...