Download or read book D J VU written by Yogveer and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘How did I get here?’ ‘It does not happen in the real world, or does it? And we call it Déjà Vu’. Life, for him, would never be the same again! His one-in-a-dime life takes an unexpected turn a fateful day, and he was far from being prepared for it – a perfect fusion of curiosity, adventure, human relations and humour. This story reveals a hero unlike others, who finds himself trapped in another world and at a different time. But his characteristics and character continue with him in his journey into oblivion leaving an everlasting impression on the reader. No one knows how he reached that world. This army veteran remained a mystery for everyone there, and whatever he saw in that world remained a mystery to him. Will he be trapped there forever? This book will take you on a curious ride with surprising turns at each stage.
Download or read book Music and Joy written by Daniel K. L. Chua and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Confucius to Saint Augustine and Beethoven to the blues, a rediscovery of the joy that is music In this revelatory book, Daniel K. L. Chua asks a simple question: Is music joy? For Chua, the answer is a resounding yes--music is a lesson in joy that teaches us how to live well. But to hear this ancient knowledge, he says, we have to attend to a music that is so much greater than our greatest hits. Drawing on extensive sources, from the Confucian classics to the writings of Saint Augustine, Chua's book is a globe‑trotting, time‑traveling, mind‑boggling journey to rediscover the joy that is music. Using examples from Beethoven to the blues and from philosophy and theology to music theory, Chua updates the relation between music and joy and argues for its relevance in the face of our many political and environmental crises. He opens our ears to a music that is the very definition of joy for today's troubled world.
Download or read book Oblivion written by Harry J. Maihafer and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On Saturday, January 14, 1950, at 6:18 P.M., Cadet Richard Cox left his room at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to go to dinner with an unidentified visitor. The man was supposedly someone Cox had known when they served in an intelligence unit in Germany. Cox never returned. In 1957, Richard Cox was declared legally dead, and the files were closed. It was as if he had vanished off the face of the earth." "Then in 1985, thirty-five years after Cox's disappearance, a retired history teacher named Marshall Jacobs decided to pursue the mystery as a research project. Through the Freedom of Information Act, he obtained voluminous once-secret files from the Army and FBI. Jacobs plunged into a labyrinthine search - and what began as a hobby became an obsession. He traveled the country interviewing witnesses from the Florida Keys to the Pacific Northwest. What he discovered were tales of murder, intrigue, and cover-up. It took more than seven years, but Jacobs eventually found the one witness who enabled him to bring the case to closure." "In Oblivion, Harry J. Maihafer tell the enthralling story of Jacob's search for Richard Cox. Its startling climax is one that readers will long remember."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Firmin written by Sam Savage and published by Delta. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a shredded copy Finnegans Wake, nurtured on a diet of Zane Grey, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and Jane Eyre (which tastes a lot like lettuce). While his twelve siblings gnaw these books obliviously, for Firmin the words, thoughts, deeds, and hopes—all the literature he consumes—soon consume him. Emboldened by reading, intoxicated by curiosity, foraging for food, Firmin ventures out of his bookstore sanctuary, carrying with him all the yearnings and failings of humanity itself. It’s a lot to ask of a rat—especially when his home is on the verge of annihilation. A novel that is by turns hilarious, tragic, and hopeful, Firmin is a masterpiece of literary imagination. For here, a tender soul, a vagabond and philosopher, struggles with mortality and meaning—in a tale for anyone who has ever feasted on a book…and then had to turn the final page. NOTE: This edition does not include illustrations.
Download or read book Oblivion Road written by Alex McAulay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five stranded teenagers must battle for their lives against a group of escaped convicts, and each other, in this shocking survival thriller from the author of Bad Girls and Lost Summer. Courtney Stanton thinks she's on just another ski trip with her friends -- until a horrific car accident strands them all on an isolated Colorado road during a blizzard. Frightened but alive, Courtney and her companions discover an abandoned vehicle nearby, and seek help. But the vehicle turns out to be a prison van, with the inmates missing, and the guard's dead body in the front seat. Soon after, a stumbling figure emerges from the snow, a handcuffed refugee from the van. He says he's been in prison for selling meth, but that he once served in the army. Dare they trust him? He pleads innocence about the guard's murder, warns them about the other fugitives, and promises he will help guide them out of the wilderness. But as the group begins a nightmare trek across the frozen landscape, they start to get the feeling he hasn't told them the entire truth, and someone -- or something -- is secretly watching their every move.
Download or read book Neurotic Lusciousness written by Chris Marsh and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you're afraid to think it, think it anyway. When you're too scared to feel it, just let go and feel every excruciating second. When you're so worried what other's are thinking about you, you'll die frozen in fear. If you never say what's on your mind, no one will ever pay attention. Neurotic Lusciousness are the deep-seated X rays of the human experience that keep us up all night in a puddle of our own cold sweat, dialing a lover's number at 3 a.m., questioning our own mortality, self-worth, and ability to love and be loved. They are the jolting flashbacks of perfect grace, grinding pain, warm kisses, broken hearts, desolate souls, and new beginnings that demand to be re-visited over and over at a moment's notice. Let it out!
Download or read book Oblivion s Children written by Jim Wegryn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robots are merely machines until they escape the bounds of programming and reveal that spark called free will. Yet that gift of consciousness may be only an illusion, a facade of elaborate imitation. Not even Turing's test can prove otherwise. But there is a way they can show their soul. If they were asked to help save humankind, could they? If so, would they?
Download or read book Performing Mixed Reality written by Steve Benford and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A computer scientist and a performance and new media theorist define and document the emerging field of mixed reality performance. Working at the cutting edge of live performance, an emerging generation of artists is employing digital technologies to create distinctive forms of interactive, distributed, and often deeply subjective theatrical performance. The work of these artists is not only fundamentally transforming the experience of theater, it is also reshaping the nature of human interaction with computers. In this book, Steve Benford and Gabriella Giannachi offer a new theoretical framework for understanding these experiences—which they term mixed reality performances—and document a series of landmark performances and installations that mix the real and the virtual, live performance and interactivity. Benford and Giannachi draw on a number of works that have been developed at the University of Nottingham's Mixed Reality Laboratory, describing collaborations with artists (most notably the group Blast Theory) that have gradually evolved a distinctive interdisciplinary approach to combining practice with research. They offer detailed and extended accounts of these works from different perspectives, including interviews with the artists and Mixed Reality Laboratory researchers. The authors develop an overarching theory to guide the study and design of mixed reality performances based on the approach of interleaved trajectories through hybrid structures of space, time, interfaces, and roles. Combinations of canonical, participant, and historic trajectories show how such performances establish complex configurations of real and virtual, local and global, factual and fictional, and personal and social.
Download or read book Oblivion s Gate Trilogy written by Ryan Kirk and published by Waterstone Media. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic that shouldn't exist. A secret war. The courage to save an empire. As one of the empire's most skilled soldiers, Brandt is no stranger to combat. After he and his fellow wolfblades fight a merciless warrior armed with unbelievable powers, Brandt is left shattered. Searching for answers, Brandt stumbles upon a secret war, fought by a very few, that threatens the land he calls home. Alena is a gifted student studying for university exams. She moonlights as a thief and spy, searching for a purpose beyond the walls of her small town. When she steals a powerful artifact she becomes the most wanted thief in the empire, sending her fleeing across the continent for safety. Their quest for answers uncovers lies buried for generations. Lies at the heart of their empire. As a mysterious and powerful enemy prepares their assault, Brandt and Alena must race to find the truth and save their home. Before the Gate Beyond Oblivion summons them both. The Oblivion's Gate Trilogy collects for the first time the complete epic fantasy series!
Download or read book Cognition in the Real World written by Alastair D. Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only textbook to frame cognitive psychology in the context of our everyday lives.Our lives are governed by cognitive processes, whether we are searching for a face in a crowd, driving to work, or learning a second language. Cognition in the Real World brings together expert contributors who explain the processes underlying everyday behaviours.It is set apart from traditional textbooks by being organised by behaviours we are exposed to every day-such as drawing a picture, learning your way around a new city, or deciding how to invest your money. Such activities naturally involve a variety of cognitive functions; by considering thesefunctions in an integrated way, the text provides a complete picture of how behaviours work together, rather than separately.Drawing upon important insights from areas such as developmental psychology and neuroscience, Cognition in the Real World demonstrates how cognitive psychology fits with the broader subjects around it, rather than treating it as an independent topic.With a strong foundation in cognitive theory, framed by an original and engaging real-world approach, the text makes the topics of cognition come alive.
Download or read book Apathy written by L K Reid and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were sicknesses in this world even holy water couldn't wash away. In vicious nights, beautiful monsters lay. Some with faces known, some ready to play. Unsure of a friend, unsure of a foe, Be certain of nothing you think you know, Because what once enters Winworth, never leaves again. Skylar Blackwood thought she knew what monsters looked like. But in Winworth, nothing is what it seems. Not the arrival of a stranger with eyes that see too much, and lips that taste like danger. Not the young women who begin disappearing in the night. And certainly not the people in the sleepy town she grew up in that begin to turn on one another. One truth is undeniable, something wicked is loose in Winworth. No one is safe, and trusting the wrong person could cost Skylar everything. Trapped between the two worlds as secrets start to unravel, what little sanity Skylar has left threatens to shatter, leaving her with more questions than answers. Turns out, real monsters are never what they seem. APATHY is the first book in Secrets of Winworth series, dealing with dark themes that might not be suitable for all readers. It is recommended only for readers above the age of 18.
Download or read book Character Development and Storytelling for Games written by Lee Sheldon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third edition of Character Development and Storytelling for Games, a standard work in the field that brings all of the teaching from the first two books up to date and tackles the new challenges of today. Professional game writer and designer Lee Sheldon combines his experience and expertise in this updated edition. New examples, new game types, and new challenges throughout the text highlight the fundamentals of character writing and storytelling. But this book is not just a box of techniques for writers of video games. It is an exploration of the roots of character development and storytelling that readers can trace from Homer to Chaucer to Cervantes to Dickens and even Mozart. Many contemporary writers also contribute insights from books, plays, television, films, and, yes, games. Sheldon and his contributors emphasize the importance of creative instinct and listening to the inner voice that guides successful game writers and designers. Join him on his quest to instruct, inform, and maybe even inspire your next great game.
Download or read book Glory at a Gallop written by William Brooksher and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2002-08-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a cast of characters including Jeb Stuart, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Robert E. Lee, this informative and well-received volume details the Confederate cavalry's intrepid exploits during the Civil War. Among many action-packed tales are the stories of Forrest's capture of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Stuart's long ride and late arrival at Gettysburg, and Wade Hampton�s daring raid to steal the Union army's herd of beef. William R. Brooksher and David K. Snider uncover the real stories behind these Confederate legends, writing with a flair for the romantic and debonair cavalrymen. Author John Macdonald calls Glory at a Gallop, a selection of the Military Book Club, a 'well-researched, fascinating work.'
Download or read book Zhuangzi The Essential Writings with Selections from Traditional Commentaries written by Zhuangzi and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a translation of over two-thirds of the classic Daoist text Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), including the complete Inner Chapters and extensive selections from the Outer and Miscellaneous Chapters, plus judicious selections from 2000 years of traditional Chinese commentaries, which provide the reader access to the text as well as to its reception and interpretation. Brief biographies of the commentators, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index are also included.
Download or read book Operations Management in Context written by Frank Rowbotham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operations Management in Context provides students with excellent grounding in the theory and practice of operations management and its role within organizations. Structured in a clear and logical manner, it gradually leads newcomers to this subject through each topic area, highlighting key issues, and using practical case study material and examples to contextualize learning. Each chapter is structured logically and concludes with summary material to aid revision. Exercises and self-assessment questions are included to reinforce learning and maintain variety, with answers included at the end of the text.
Download or read book Bulletin written by National Railway Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oblivion Song By Kirkman De Felici 30 written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan Cole faces Ghozan Dakuul with the fate of the Earth hanging in the balance! Where do things go from here? You will never guess!
