Download or read book Time Space and a Slice of Cake written by Graeme Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Brinsley Kitten. He's a drunk. He's a coward. And he eats too much cake.He's also a blabbermouth and usually said blabberings are harmless... but not this time. Oh no. This time danger beckons.Someone has been listening, you see. Someone who needs a capable man for a perilous mission. Someone who thinks Brinsley Kitten is just that man. Someone who couldn't be more wrong.Sadly the someone is not to know that and before our Brinsley can even finish his gin and ginger beer, he's whisked off to rescue an ancient race of space creatures from a terrible fate. Not to mention there's also a planet to be saved from a savage totalitarian regime.Thus Brinsley is soon blubbing his way through a mind-bending adventure of psychedelic drugs, slugs, wheelchair-bound madmen, drunken brawls, planetary destruction and psychotic space pirates. Oh and let's not forget the Battenberg cake... that's very important!
Download or read book Changed in a Flash written by Elizabeth G. Krohn and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating first-hand account of an awakening into a psychic consciousness, paired with a revolutionary analysis by a respected professor of religion When Elizabeth Greenfield Krohn got out of her car with her two young sons in the parking lot of her synagogue on a late afternoon in September 1988, she couldn't have anticipated she would within seconds be struck by lightning and have a near-death experience. She felt herself transported to a garden and engaging in a revelatory conversation with a spiritual being. When she recovered, her most fundamental understandings of what the world is and how it works had been completely transformed. She was “changed in a flash,” suddenly able to interact with those who had died and have prescient dreams predicting news events. She came to believe that some early traumatic and abusive experiences had played a part in preparing her for this experience. Told in matter-of-fact language, the first half of this book is the story of Krohn’s journey, and the second is an interpretation and analysis by respected professor of religion Jeffrey J. Kripal. He places Krohn's experience in the context of religious traditions and proposes the groundbreaking idea that we are shaping our own experiences in the future by how we engage with near-death experiences in the present. Changed in a Flash is not about proving a story, but about carving out space for serious discussion of this phenomenon.
Download or read book My Strong Dad Goes To War written by Rema R. Kenton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rema R. Kenton started writing during her pre-teen years when she was a freshman in high school. She spent more time writing poems and stories during her post high school and post college years. She worked with children in clubs, church and school. She also worked with the Pathfinder Club where she was leader for more than a decade. She has written Meet Mindy the Betta Fish, The Praying Mantis and the Birds, Poems for Your Inspiration among other books. She currently works with fi fth graders at Emmanuel Children’s Mission and teaches Art to fi fth through eighth grade. She was born in Portland, Jamaica, West Indies: but now resides in Mount Vernon, New York.
Download or read book And in the End written by Sumit Mullick and published by Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 1901 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there evidence of some kind of existence beyond death, or is death the final destination...the end of everything? Ajit Singh, the custodian of the laws that govern the very fundamental basis of matter - atoms and subatomic particles, delves deep into the quantum world, which is at the essence of every component of the universe. Ajit discovers through his scientific research that death cannot exist in Quantum Physics and eventually decides on a radical option to prove his conviction to himself and the world. A remarkable scientific journey, explaining the mysteries of time and space, across multiple universes and across infinity, to discover the answers to the ultimate questions confronting us all – about life and death, and what could be in store for us beyond death. A saga with characters in real life situations, dilemmas, romantic liaisons, around whom the weird, counter-intuitive, concepts of the quantum world and astrophysics are enmeshed. But what remains to be seen is whether Ajit could prove what is there in the science and maths, or whether his sacrifice was in vain.
Download or read book Virtual Influencers written by Esperanza Miyake and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies the converging socio- cultural, economic, and technological conditions that have shaped, informed, and realised the identity of the contemporary virtual influencer, situating them at the intersection of social media, consumer culture, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and digital technologies. Through a critical analysis of virtual influencers and related media practices and discourses in an international context, each chapter investigates different themes relating to digitality and identity: virtual place and nationhood; virtual emotions and intimacy; im/ materialities of virtual everyday life; the biopolitics of virtual human-production; the necropolitics of pandemic virtuality; transmedial and mimetic virtualities; and the political economy of virtual influencers. The book argues that the virtual influencer represents the various ways in which contemporary identities have increasingly become naturalised with questions of virtuality, mediated by digital technologies across multiple realities. From practices relating to AI- driven, invasive data profiling needed for virtual influencer production to problematic online practices such as buying digital skin colour, the author examines how the virtual influencer’s aesthetic, social, and economic value obfuscates some of the darker aspects of their role as an extractivist technology of virtuality: one which regulates, oppresses, and/ or classifies bodies and datafied bodies that serve the visual, (bio)political, and digital economies of virtual capitalism. In the process, the book simultaneously offers a critique of the virtual influencer as a representational figure existing across multiple digital platforms, spaces, and times, and of how they may challenge, complicate, and reinforce normative ideologies surrounding gender, race, class, sexuality, age, and ableism. As such, the book sheds light on some of the more troubling realities of the virtual influencer’s existence, inasmuch as it celebrates their transformational potential, exploring the implications of both within an increasingly AI- driven, digital culture, society, and economy. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, this book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and students working in the area(s) of: Popular Culture and Media; Internet, Digital and Social Media Studies; Data justice and Governance; Japanese Media Studies; Celebrity Studies; Fan Studies; Marketing and Consumer Studies; Sociology; Human– Computer Studies; and AI and Technology Studies.
Download or read book Vegans Know how to Party written by Nancy Berkoff and published by The Vegetarian Resource Group. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent resource for anyone planning to put on a party for vegans who enjoy great food! As well as providing over 465 amazing vegan party recipes, chef Nancy Berkoff also gives readers invaluable lessons on how to prepare vegan 'ricotta', veloute, demiglaze, bechamel and more! Also includes sections on using vegan ingredients, basic party planning, egg substitues, hiring entertainment and more.
Download or read book Aspects of Metaphor in Physics written by Hanna Pulaczewska and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to copious case studies, this book attempts to give a broad and comprehensive view of the multiplicity of forms taken by metaphor in physics. A diachronic presentation of the views hitherto advanced on the role of metaphor in the natural sciences provides an introduction to the crucial issues. By means of a broad definition of metaphor as a lexical, semantic, and conceptual phenomenon, metaphor is identified at various levels of physics discourse: in metatheory and methodology; in the sociology of the origin and evolution of science; in theory and conceptualization, including physics models; in education; and finally in linguistic expression, including terminology. Whereas historians and theoreticians of science reduce the question of metaphor in physics to the question of the role of scientific models, where one area of physics provides concepts and structures for another area, the perspective adopted here is that of cognitive semantics. The study inquires into the way in which concept-formation and terminology in physics avails itself of the metaphoric bent immanent in everyday language, conceptualizing abstract ideas in spatial terms, inanimate things as intelligent, measurable phenomena in terms of the visual. Attention is also given to the way in which metaphoric processes make it possible to integrate new knowledge into old and sometimes obsolete structures rather than eliminating those structures altogether.
Download or read book The Cake Caf Bake Book written by Michelle Darmody and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer in the new-wave Irish food movement, Michelle Darmody opened the doors of The Cake Café in 2006 - a small bakery and café, tucked away in Dublin's south side. With her love of great food and great design, The Cake Café Bake Book combines the two in a beautiful compact publication about baking, filled with deliciously vibrant illustrations, tactile and informative about the love of preparing food. The baking in the book focuses on all things cake, from tray bakes to buns, biscuits to jam tarts, and of course plenty of 'cake cakes' proper. It features a section on icings and fillings, together with much practical information, diagrams, equipment and ingredient advice, and even how to make your own vanilla extract with a bottle of vodka and vanilla pods. The Café has become a neighbourhood staple with an international reputation, a place that is embedded in the conscience of the customers, and is as much a part of the city as the Forty Foot or Busáras. So much so that one of the regular customers - comedian David O'Doherty - has written the foreword to the book. Specializing in good quality home baking with contemporary attitude, rather than fancy, intricate cakes, all of the recipes in the book are ones used in the Café on a day-to-day basis.
Download or read book Cake written by Alysa Levene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cake can evoke thoughts of home, comfort someone at a time of grief or celebrate a birth or new love. It is a maker of memories, a marker of identities, and delicious! It was the year 878 A.D., and a man claimed sanctuary in a small village home in Wessex. To the surprise of the villager, the man was not a passing vagabond but Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons. The village homemaker was happy to hide him from the marauding Danes, provided he keep an eye on the cake she had baking in the oven. Preoccupied with how to re-take his kingdom, Alfred let the cake burn, and the incident passed into folklore forever. From these seemingly ignoble beginnings, not only was Alfred able to reclaim his spot in history, but the humble villager's cake has become a part of world culture as well. Alysa Levene looks at cakes both ancient and modern, from the fruit cake, to the pound cake, from the ubiquitous birthday cake to the angel food cake, all the way up to competitive baking shows on television and our modern obsession with macaroons and cup cakes. Along the way, author Alysa Levene shows how cakes are so much more than just a delicious sugar hit, and reflects on how and why cakes became the food to eat in times of celebration. Cake reflects cultural differences, whether it is the changing role of women in the home, the expansion of global trade, even advances in technology. Entertaining and delightfully informative, Cake: A Slice of History promises to be a witty and joyous celebration of our cultural heritage.
Download or read book Pink Revolutions written by Nishant Shahani and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pink Revolutions describes how queer politics in India occupies an uneasy position between the forces of neoliberal globalization, on the one hand, and the nationalist Hindu fundamentalism that has emerged since the 1990s, on the other. While neoliberal forces use queerness to highlight India’s democratic credentials and stature within a globalized world, nationalist voices claim that queer movements in the country pose a threat to Indian national identity. Nishant Shahani argues that this tension implicates queer politics within messy entanglements and knotted ideological triangulations, geometries of power in which local understandings of “authentic” nationalism brush up against global agendas of multinational capital. Eschewing structures of absolute complicity or abject alterity, Pink Revolutions pays attention to the logics of triangulation in various contexts: gay tourism, university campus politics, diasporic cultural productions, and AIDS activism. The book articulates a framework through which queer politics can challenge rather than participate in neoliberal imperatives, an approach that will interest scholars engaged with queer studies and postcolonial scholarship, as well as activists and academics wrestling with global capitalism and right-wing regimes around the world.
Download or read book The Age of Manipulation written by Wilson Bryan Key and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Key exposes the devious and sophisticated strategies that advertisers use in newspapers, magazines, and television to manipulate and seduce our thoughts and senses. He explores why Americans are the most manipulated people in the world. *Lightning Print On Demand Title
Download or read book IDo written by Christa Terry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to planning a wedding using Internet resources reveals how to save money and ease the process of every detail, in a reference for busy couples that covers a full range of needs from finding a venue and securing service providers to obtaining bridal gear and selecting floral arrangements. Original.
Download or read book Living with Momma written by Elizabeth B. Adams and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comfort for caregivers who need care themselves. Millions of Americans are caring for aging parents and grown children at the same time, and they often find themselves wondering, How is it possible to care for our families and ourselves at the same time? In Living with Momma, pastor Elizabeth B. Adams draws on her own life experiences to show caregivers who are serious about establishing rewarding relationships with adult family members how they can enjoy their challenging living arrangements. She also offers a practical tool: three questions for caregivers to ask for immediate change—to help them find a safe space of hope and faith, and protect themselves from caregiver fatigue.
Download or read book Simple Cake written by Odette Williams and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic ode to the joy of homemade cake, beautifully photographed and with easy mix-and-match recipes for a sweet lift any day of the week. “A sweet book full of incredible photography, delightfully simple recipes, and so, so much love.”—Alison Roman, author of Dining In NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND FOOD52 Everyone has a favorite style of cake, whether it's citrusy and fresh or chocolatey and indulgent. All of these recipes and more are within your reach in Simple Cake, a love letter from Brooklyn apron and bakeware designer Odette Williams to her favorite treat. With easy recipes and inventive decorating ideas, Williams gives you recipes for 10 base cakes, 15 toppings, and endless decorating ideas to yield a treat—such as Milk & Honey Cake, Coconut Cake, Summer Berry Pavlova, and Chocolatey Chocolate Cake—for any occasion. Williams also addresses the fundamentals for getting cakes just right, with foolproof recipes that can be cranked out whenever the urge strikes. Gorgeous photography, along with Williams's warm and heartfelt writing, elevate this book into something truly special.
Download or read book The White Cat s Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King s Lap Volume 1 written by Kureha and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Ruri Morikawa gets wrangled into a messy situation when her selfish childhood friend strands her in another world! To make matters somehow worse, a mysterious conspiracy then gets her abandoned in a perilous forest. Through an unexpected turn of events, she comes into possession of a mystical bracelet that allows her to transform into a white cat. Now that she's in the Land of the Dragon King, she has to hide the fact that she's humanâwhich means spending her days as a little white cat, for the time being... But how will she exact her much-earned revenge against those whoâve wronged her while stuck in the form of a small, fluffy, cuddly kitty cat?!
Download or read book The Watcher of Dead Time written by Edward Cox and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labrys Town, home to a million humans cut off from the rest of the universe, has been invaded. Those who protected it have been deposed. The Relic Guild are scattered across the worlds of the Aelfir. Many of them are dead or dying. The Genii control everything. The war is almost over. Clara, a young woman barely able to control her werewolf side, has seen her friends and mentors killed in front of her. She is the last hope for Labrys Town. But someone else is watching... The dramatic conclusion to the award-nominated fantasy trilogy which began with THE RELIC GUILD.
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1994 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
