Download or read book Don t Start the Revolution Without Me written by Jesse Ventura and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ventura--former governor, wrestler, and Navy SEAL--discusses what's wrong with the Democrats, the Republicans, and politics in America.
Download or read book A DARK WINTER S TALE written by A J BOOTHMAN and published by Alvasda Kerezard. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young student, Sarah, gets detached from her group in the wilderness with night falling. Desperate to escape the increasing cold and darkness she begins to make her way alone back to the hostel. All the while a serial killer has escaped from a high security prison and is believed to be in the area. A Dark Winter’s Tale is a short suspense story that will have you on the edge of your seat as the tension intensifies gradually until the dramatic finale.
Download or read book Orange Sunshine written by Nick Schou and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the drug-smuggling, church-founding “Hippie Mafia”: “A definitive history of the dark side of the 1960s.” —Los Angeles Times Few stories in the annals of American counterculture are as dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. They began as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers. But after discovering LSD, they embraced Timothy Leary’s mantra of “Turn on, tune in, and drop out” and resolved to make that vision a reality by becoming the biggest acid dealers and hashish smugglers in the nation. Just days after California became the first US state to ban LSD, the Brotherhood formed a legally registered church in its Laguna Beach headquarters, where they sold blankets and other paraphernalia. Before long, they also began to sell Afghan hash, Hawaiian pot (the storied Maui Wowie), and eventually Colombian cocaine, much of it smuggled in secret compartments inside surfboards and VW minibuses driven across the border. They befriended Leary, enlisting him in the goal of buying a tropical island where they could install the former Harvard philosophy professor and acid prophet as the high priest of an experimental utopia. The Brotherhood’s most legendary contribution to the drug scene was homemade: Orange Sunshine, their trademark acid tablet that produced an especially powerful trip. Their foot soldiers passed out handfuls at communes, Grateful Dead concerts, and love-ins up and down the coast. The Hell’s Angels, Charles Manson and his followers, and the unruly crowd at the infamous Altamont festival all tripped out on this acid. Jimi Hendrix even performed a private show for the Brotherhood on the slope of a Hawaiian volcano. Journalist Nicholas Schou takes us deep inside the group, combining exclusive interviews with both the surviving members and the cops who chased them. A wide-ranging narrative of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll (and more drugs), Orange Sunshine explores how America moved from the era of peace and free love into a darker time of hard drugs and paranoia.
Download or read book The Art of Prompts 2 written by Kevin Ashley and published by Kevin Ashley. This book was released on with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Prompts 2 has hundreds of examples and prompt tips to help you create beautiful illustrations, comics, greeting cards, stories, articles and so much more with generative AI! You don't need to be an expert: the book comes with easy-to-use tools to help you save, experiment and share your prompts with Livebook, and instantly publish your creations online with the visual Prompt Maker, Story Maker, Comics Maker, Image Maker and more! This book is a great resource for anyone interested in digital art, creativity, writing and artificial intelligence. Includes hundreds of illustrations and tips on making beautiful digital art with all modern AI models: Google Gemini, OpenAI, Midjourney and more. Enjoy browsing through a gallery of hundreds of illustrations made with prompts, try them yourself and have fun! Make beautiful art and content easily! Includes easy-to-use online tools and 200+ beautiful illustrations and tested prompts you can copy-and-paste to jump start creating artwork instantly, or experiment live with Livebook. Learn to instantly create professional digital art for your projects, books, documentation, research, or business: Illustrations Stories Comics Greeting Cards Articles What’s so special about this book? It explains how to make prompts to generate art and creative content - a very useful skill for any artist or hobbyist making art with powerful artificial intelligence tools. Enjoy browsing through a gallery of hundreds of illustrations made with prompts and have fun! Easy-to-follow and well structured The book is well structured, so you can quickly find your genres or styles of illustrations or artwork and use hints, guidance and copy-paste prompts that I tested while working on this book, or use Livebook (included) to create prompts, notebooks and more. Save time and start with best practices Creating a great artwork with artificial intelligence takes time. The book provides best practices and tested prompts to get started quickly. What is a prompt? A prompt is a loosely defined input, like a phrase or instruction that tells A.I. what to do. The art of creating prompts is just like the art of talking to people: if you’re skilled in this art you’ll get fantastic results! More creative AI resources: What’s new in this book: besides lots of new prompt tips, each prompt in this book is available online on Livebook, a new resource where you can keep and share your prompts, play, experiment, make articles, posts, illustrations, books, websites, and more. Livebook helps you creating content based on just your ideas (no special skills necessary), and provides a content management platform for generative AI, with lots of easy-to-use generative AI tools built-in: the visual Prompt Maker, Comics Maker, Greeting Card Maker, Story makers, and tons of templates as part of the Prompt Mania prompt garden. Ta-Da! Meet the Prompt Maker: one of the new tools included in Livebook simplifies prompt engineering, shortening the path from your ideas to content: the tool will automatically make awesome visual and text prompts for you, saving you typing and time from a single idea. Prompts made by Livebook Prompt Maker fit any transformer, and significantly improve the output quality for Google, OpenAI, Midjourney, and other models. Also in the book: multi-modal prompts - for video, images, text and more! While the first Art of Prompts book focused purely on imaging and art, I decided to include more tips in this book that also cover text and videos. So, in addition to vision and images, in this book you’ll find entirely new comics, text and conversation sections, including Google tools and new models like multi-modal Gemini, that explains the art of getting what you want from machines and artificial intelligence. This book is to make anyone productive with AI, you don’t need to be a data scientist to use methods and tools I share here. I recommend checking books in this series for the background of many methods explained here. Livebook for Business brings a comprehensive generative AI solution for businesses, teams and organizations. For example, at the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Livebook powers AI Coaching that teams and coaches as part of long-term Team USA readiness program for LA Olympics 2028! It is the first ever content management system (CMS) designed from the ground up to work with generative AI. Livebook generative AI kiosk had been installed at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, next to the first computers and processors, entertaining visitors with generative stories. Hope you enjoy this book, learn, and have fun!
Download or read book The Practice of Popular Music written by Trevor de Clercq and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Practice of Popular Music is a music theory and musicianship textbook devoted to explaining the organization of contemporary popular music styles such as pop, rock, R&B, rap, and country. Rooted in recent research showing that the structure of popular music differs from classical music in important ways, this textbook offers an approach to teaching music theory that is fully oriented around popular and commercial genres. Beginning with fundamentals and requiring no previous training in music theory or notation, this book eventually guides the reader through a range of advanced topics, including chromatic mixture, secondary chord function, complex time signatures, and phrase organization. Each chapter develops concepts in tandem with aural comprehension, and the included exercises balance written tasks with listening activities. A companion website provides links to playlists of the music discussed in the book. With an innovative approach designed to broaden the reach of music theory coursework to a wide range of students, including non-majors and those in modern music degree programs such as audio engineering, songwriting, and music business, this textbook enables readers to gain a deep understanding of music theory in the context of popular music.
Download or read book 220 Lyrics from the Eighties written by Kiwi Bloke and published by Paul Oliver. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contained in this book are the lyrics to over 200 of the greatest songs of the 80's. Contents are an easy layout containing the Artist and their songs for easy searching. Grab a copy and I guarantee it will bring back the memories.
Download or read book The Book of Love written by Cynthia Markovitch and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-05-17 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Love is a twisted fairytale about a young girl growing up in America searching for the truth in a world of falsehoods only to discover her real identity.
Download or read book From the Eye of My Mind written by TGC Prasad and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am eighteen years old and five feet six inches tall. I have big eyes, long fingers, and I am healthy because I eat my food on time. I also have a mole on my left palm. Grandma says, ‘Mole on the palm is bad luck.’ Eric Hoffer, an American writer said, ‘A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.’ I wondered what a right time to die was? I feel I have an eye in my mind and I close it when I am with strangers. Mallika is autistic and lives in a strangely whimsical yet ordered world of her own. When her mother breaks the news to her that her beloved elder brother Ananth is going to get married, Mallika’s fragile world collapses. How will she deal with a stranger in her home and life? Told in an inimitable style, From the Eye of My Mind is a charming tale of acceptance, love, and a beautiful mind.
Download or read book Drive Me Out of My Mind written by Chad Faries and published by Emergency Press. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drive Me Out of My Mind is a coming-of-age story of wildness and wandering set primarily in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—its abandoned iron mines, desperate small towns, and heart-breaking bars. It’s the memoir of a boy raised by lawless and itinerant women and how he was cultured—and corrupted—by their hard-living, hard-drinking, and hard-loving ways. Given this lot in life, Faries tells how one boy was hurt into becoming a poet at the ripe age of two—to imagine another world other than the daily madness in front of him—a world where violent stalkers hovered over the hospital beds of women as they gave birth, where father figures also copulated with Gramma, where a worn Barbie doll was a main source of comfort, and where home meant 24 anonymous hovels in 10 years.
Download or read book Thresholds Rethinking Spirituality Through Music written by Marcel Cobussen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thresholds Marcel Cobussen rethinks the relationship between music and spirituality. The point of departure is the current movement within contemporary classical music known as New Spiritual Music, with as its main representatives Arvo P John Tavener, and Giya Kancheli. In almost all respects, the musical principles of the new spiritual music seem to be diametrically opposed to those of modernism: repetition and rest versus development and progress, tradition and familiarity versus innovation and experiment, communication versus individualism and conceptualism, tonality versus atonality, and so on. As such, this movement is often considered as part of the much larger complex called postmodernism. Joining in with ideas on spirituality as presented by Michel de Certeau and Mark C. Taylor, Cobussen deconstructs the classification of the 'spiritual dimensions' of music as described above. Thresholds presents an idea of spirituality in and through music that counters strategies of exclusion and mastering of alterity and connects it to wandering, erring, and roving. Using the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Georges Bataille, Jean-Fran‘s Lyotard, Jacques Derrida and others, and analysing the music of John Coltrane, the mythical Sirens, Arvo P and The Eagles (to mention a few), Cobussen regards spirituality as a (non)concept that escapes categorization, classification, and linguistic descriptions. Spirituality is a-topological, non-discursive and a manifestation of 'otherness'. And it is precisely music (or better: listening to music) that induces these thoughts: by carefully encountering, analysing, and evaluating certain examples from classical, jazz, pop and world music it is possible to detach spirituality from concepts of otherworldliness and transcendentalism. Thresholds opens a space in which spirituality can be connected to music that is not commonly considered in this light, thereby enriching the ways of approaching and discussing music. In orde
Download or read book Utta Drivel Short Stories written by Alan Pinkett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utta Drivel Short Stories is a collection of comic short stories read out at Creative Writing evening classes to much laughter. They cover a wide range of subjects. From a neolithic sex strike, to the ancient Egyptians Lotatotty & Obsequiops, to philosophers meeting at the Fill the Greek, the Parthenon canteen. From an abattoir wedding, to the first Russian to laugh in 200 years, to the Knights of the Round Hovel. There are longer short stories about the fun to be had working in the Falkland Islands & Hong Kong. Other short stories tell of rocky horror in Transylvania, of banned fox hunts switching to hunting smokers & sheep taking over Wales. In a different vein, staff in a St Trinians-type school hold an emergency meeting & when a man's private parts suddenly drop off, he considers having a vagina fitted by a quick-fit fanny fitter. And there is a pirate treasure story with Midshipman BraceYourself and a science fiction one that features Startifartlast, a mystic Chinese Constipate.
Download or read book Postmodern Management Theory written by Marta B. Calás and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this volume asks: when was ‘The Postmodern’ in the History of Management Thought? Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich have chosen this subtitle as entry point to the collection for several reasons. The first, and most evident, is that it prompts us to reflect on the inclusion of a volume on postmodern organization studies within a series of books on the history of management thought. What does such inclusion signal? Are we saying that we are past the postmodern in organization studies? That we have transcended modernity and, beyond, postmodernity? Similar to other social sciences, organization and management studies in the Anglo-American and European academy became impressed by the styles of ‘postmodernism’ and their epistemological companions, ‘poststructuralisms’, during the 1980s. For this collection we have selected twenty two journal articles, published between 1985 and 1996, that we consider emblematic of postmodern endeavours in management thought, as they further our understanding of how ‘truth’ (of any paradigmatic persuasion), is fashioned through particular discourses and other signifying practices. Taken together, these articles address the following questions: What has the field accomplished through attempts at being postmodern? With what consequences? And, where does the field stand now, if it is still/already (going) after ‘the postmodern’? In our view ‘the postmodern’ cannot transcend modern management thought; it is, rather, part of it. Nevertheless, the mere appearance of efforts towards making the field ‘postmodern’ makes it important to account for them in the history of the field. Such is the narrative that we are trying to portray in this volume.
Download or read book The Red Triangle written by Tapan Gupta and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book written by 朱文章 and published by 正中書局．流傳文化．墨文堂文化. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deadlier Than the Male written by P. Nandakumar Warrier and published by One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posted as the new director of IIM Kozhikode, Sujata Das knew she was entering a hornet’s nest. She has to fend with criminal elements with links to the drug mafia and other equally unsavoury organizations. But she imposes strict rules of conduct right from the start, not appreciated by faculty members and students who are used to taking unwarranted liberties as self-proclaimed geniuses. She has favourites, a girl student with a tragic past, and a dashing young professor who turns out to be gay. But questions go begging though she has her sources of information: is there widespread covert drug abuse on campus? Is there a paedophile lair nearby with links to some members of the institute? A failed suicide attempt forces her hand, and she opts for a decisive surgical strike of sorts against the forces posing a danger to the IIMK campus and the tranquil countryside itself.
Download or read book Sunshine Supergirl written by Linda Jean Reidenbaker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all of us who choose the wrong partner and the wrong lifestyle, and live to laugh about it, rocking on the porch. Not for the stupid; but all of us who do the stupidest things all the while knowing better. For the dark, and jaded. For all of us who found out our mother was right all along. For the lovers of the bittersweet moments in life. The moments that kill you and give you life at the same time. I say, get lost in this.
