Download or read book Stunning Jagged Edges of Precise Malfunction written by Jack Shiner and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Magnificent Failure written by Craig Ryan and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locked in a desperate Cold War race against the Soviets to find out if humans could survive in space and live through a free fall from space vehicles, the Pentagon gave civilian adventurer Nick Piantanida’s Project Strato-Jump little notice until May Day, 1966. Operating in the shadows of well-funded, high-visibility Air Force and Navy projects, the former truck driver and pet store owner set a new world record for manned balloon altitude. Rising more than 23 miles over the South Dakota prairie, Piantanida nearly perished trying to set the world record for the highest free fall parachute jump from that height. On his next attempt, he would not be so lucky. Part harrowing adventure story, part space history, part psychological portrait of an extraordinary risk-taker, this story fascinates and intrigues the armchair adventurer in all of us.
Download or read book Mastering Precision Piecing written by Sally Collins and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Precision Piecing from an Award-Winning Expert • The must-have book to take your quilting to the expert level • 7 new projects • Tips to improve your skills at every step of the quilting process • Learn to create the perfect 1/4" seam, sew straight, and chain piece for efficiency • Hundreds of illustrations and photos for clear direction • Use color like Sally for exquisite results Sally shows you how to bring accuracy to every step: pinning, cutting, sewing, and pressing. Seven pieced projects range from a miniature quilt to a large wallhanging. The projects use intermediate to advanced skills; two include appliqué.
Download or read book Fault Lines written by Meena Alexander and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this evocative memoir, an acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world. Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Fault Lines follows one woman’s evolution as a writer at home—and in exile—across continents and cultures. Meena Alexander was born into a privileged childhood in India and grew into a turbulent adolescence in the Sudan, before moving to England and then New York City. With poetic insight and devastating honesty, Alexander explores how trauma and recovery shaped the entire landscape of her memory: of her family, her writing process, and her very self. This new edition, published on the two-year anniversary of Alexander's passing in 2018, will feature a commemorative afterword celebrating her legacy. "Alexander's writing is imbued with a poetic grace shot through with an inner violence, like a shimmering piece of two-toned silk." —Ms. Magazine "Evocative and moving." —Publishers Weekly “One of the most important literary voices in South Asian American writing and American letters broadly writ, Meena Alexander’s close examination of exile and migration lays bare the heart of a poet.” —Rajiv Mohabir, author of The Cowherd’s Son
Download or read book Ever More Accurate Atrocities of Competence written by Jack Shiner and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Signed and Numbered Hardcover Edition. Poetry. New poems by Jack Shiner and selected poems from his three previously published books: Whispering Sands and Other Poems (1989), Raking Leaves-Poems (2004) and Stunning Jagged Edges of Precise Malfunction (2005)
Download or read book Digital Geometry Algorithms written by Valentin E. Brimkov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital geometry emerged as an independent discipline in the second half of the last century. It deals with geometric properties of digital objects and is developed with the unambiguous goal to provide rigorous theoretical foundations for devising new advanced approaches and algorithms for various problems of visual computing. Different aspects of digital geometry have been addressed in the literature. This book is the first one that explicitly focuses on the presentation of the most important digital geometry algorithms. Each chapter provides a brief survey on a major research area related to the general volume theme, description and analysis of related fundamental algorithms, as well as new original contributions by the authors. Every chapter contains a section in which interesting open problems are addressed.
Download or read book Beautiful Children written by Charles Bock and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller by the author of the forthcoming novel Alice & Oliver | Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters | A New York Times Notable Book “One word: bravo.”—The New York Times Book Review “Truly powerful . . . Beautiful Children dazzles its readers on almost every page. . . . [Charles Bock] knows how to tug at your heart, and he knows how to make you laugh out loud, often on the same page, sometimes in the same sentence.”—Newsweek One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn’t come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son’s room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy’s father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what’s become of their son, the circumstances surrounding Newell’s vanishing and other events on that same night reverberate through the lives of seemingly disconnected strangers: a comic book illustrator in town for a weekend of debauchery; a painfully shy and possibly disturbed young artist; a stripper who imagines moments from her life as if they were movie scenes; a bubbly teenage wiccan anarchist; a dangerous and scheming gutter punk; a band of misfit runaways. The people of Beautiful Children are “urban nomads,” each with a past to hide and a pain to nurture, every one of them searching for salvation and barreling toward destruction, weaving their way through a neon underworld of sex, drugs, and the spinning wheels of chance. In this masterly debut novel, Charles Bock mixes incandescent prose with devious humor to capture Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance and to provide a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America. Beautiful Children is an odyssey of heartache and redemption heralding the arrival of a major new writer. Praise for Beautiful Children “Exceptional . . . This novel deserves to be read more than once because of the extraordinary importance of its subject matter.”—The Washington Post Book World “Magnificent . . . a hugely ambitious novel that succeeds . . . Beautiful Children manages to feel completely of its moment while remaining unaffected by literary trends. . . . Charles Bock is the real thing.”—The New Republic “A wildly satisfying and disturbing literary journey, led by an author of blazing talent.”—The Dallas Morning News “Wholly original—dirty, fast, and hypnotic. The sentences flicker and skip and whirl.”—Esquire “An anxious, angry, honest first novel filled with compassion and clarity . . . The language has a rhythm wholly its own—at moments it is stunning, near genius.”—A. M. Homes “From start to finish, Bock never stops tantalizing the reader.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Rich and compelling . . . captures the hallucinogenic setting like a fever dream.”—Los Angeles Times
Download or read book Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery written by Achille Braquelaire and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Digital Geometry for Computer Imagery, DGCI 2002, held in Bordeaux, France, in April 2002.The 22 revised full papers and 13 posters presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on topology, combinatorial image analysis, morphological analysis, shape representation, models for discrete geometry, segmentation and shape recognition, and applications.
Download or read book The Incredible Shrinking Gospel written by Lee A Wyatt and published by Energion Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church is working with a shrunken Gospel, robbed of its power, limited in its scope, and unable to catch the interest of those it needs to reach. Who is responsible? More importantly, how can we reclaim the full content and the powerful nature of the Gospel itself? In this book, retired pastor Lee Wyatt looks at the crisis in the church, one he believes is caused by our loss of this full Gospel message. To rebuild our understanding he then revisits Jesus, helping us to become acquainted with Him and the meaning of his mission. Then, and only then, with this rebuilt picture of Jesus, does he revisit evangelism, and tell us how we can turn our efforts to reach around the world. Only when we have “unshrunk” our gospel can we successfully evangelize.
Download or read book Astonishing Hypothesis written by Francis Crick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will come to appreciate the strength and dignity of Berneta Ringer, a true Western heroine as Doig celebrates his mother's life after finding a cache of her letters, photographs, and childhood writings. It begins with her first winter living in a tent in Montana's Crazy Mountains to the ravages of the Depression on a ranch on Falkner Creek.
Download or read book A General Natural History Or New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals Vegetables and Minerals of the Different Parts of the World with Their Virtues and Uses in Medicine and Mechanics Including the History of the Materia Medica Pictoria and Tinctoria of the Present and Earlier Ages As Also Observations with a Great Number of Figures Elegantly Engraved By John Hill written by John Hill and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way written by Brian D. Schultz and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This celebrated narrative captured the attention of educators and the media by depicting the journey of one teacher and his students juxtaposed against the entrenched bureaucracy of Chicago's public education system. This second edition examines how school reform continues to fail students in urban contexts and offers compelling updates on students.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics written by Thomas Frognall Dibdin and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A General Natural History Or New and Accurate Descriptions Of The Animals Vegetables and Minerals Of the Different Parts of the World written by John Hill and published by . This book was released on 1751 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics Together with an Account of Polyglot Bibles Etc 4 Ed written by Thomas Frognall Dibdin and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A General Natural History Or New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals Vegetables and Minerals of the Different Parts of the World with Their Virtues and Uses as Far as Hitherto Certainly Known in Medicine and Mechanics Illustrated by a General Review of the Knowledge of the Ancients and the Discoveries and Improvements of Later Ages in These Studies Including the History of the Materia Medica Pictoria and Tinctoria of the Present and Earlier Ages written by John Hill (British apothecary and naturalist; author of many compilations dealing with horticulture, botany or medicine) and published by . This book was released on 1751 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
