Download or read book The Virtual Life of Fizzy Oceans written by David A. Ross and published by Open Books. This book was released on 2011-01-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fizzy Oceans lives, works and travels in the virtual world where the dead are very much alive, places like ancient Babylon have been reconstructed, and with the click of a button †WHOOSH! †one is transported throughout the Ages to events and destinations that make up our human history.
Download or read book Virtual Virgin written by Carole Nelson Douglas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For a red-blooded male, Las Vegas offers a virtual smorgasbord of temptation: sexy showgirls, vampy vampires, zombie starlets, you name it. But paranormal investigator Delilah Street isn't worried about losing her man to these vixens. Especially when the one woman with a soft spot for the guy also has a hard-shelled exterior ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Virtual Modernism written by Katherine Biers and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Virtual Modernism, Katherine Biers offers a fresh view of the emergence of American literary modernism from the eruption of popular culture in the early twentieth century. Employing dynamic readings of the works of Stephen Crane, Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, she argues that American modernist writers developed a “poetics of the virtual” in response to the rise of mass communications technologies before World War I. These authors’ modernist formal experimentation was provoked by the immediate, individualistic pleasures and thrills of mass culture. But they also retained a faith in the representational power of language—and the worth of common experience—more characteristic of realism and naturalism. In competition with new media experiences such as movies and recorded music, they simultaneously rejected and embraced modernity. Biers establishes the virtual poetics of these five writers as part of a larger “virtual turn” in the United States, when a fascination with the writings of Henri Bergson, William James, and vitalist philosophy—and the idea of virtual experience—swept the nation. Virtual Modernism contends that a turn to the virtual experience of language was a way for each of these authors to carve out a value for the literary, both with and against the growth of mass entertainments. This technologically inspired reengagement with experience was formative for American modernism. Situated at the crossing points of literary criticism, philosophy, media studies, and history, Virtual Modernism provides an examination of Progressive Era preoccupations with the cognitive and corporeal effects of new media technologies that traces an important genealogy of present-day concerns with virtuality.
Download or read book Hollywood s Silent Closet written by Darwin Porter and published by Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood's Silent Closet provides a banquet of information about the pansexual intrigues of Hollywood between 1919 and 1926, compiled from eyewitness interviews with men and women, all of them insiders, who flourished in its midst. Not for the timid, it names names and doesn't spare the guilty. If you believe, like Truman Capote, that the literary treatment of gossip will become the literature of the 21st century, then you will love Hollywood's Silent Closet. Hollywood's Silent Closet is a vivid portrait of the decadent, homosexual, and gossipy world of pre-talkie Hollywood. It's an Info-Novel where 90% of everything in it is true. It represents the greatest collection of star-studded scandal ever assembled on the film stars of Hollywood's Silent Era. Valentino, Ramon Novarro, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Pola Negri, Nazimova, and many others figure into eyewitness accounts of the debauched excesses that went on behind closed doors. It also documents the often tragic endings of America's first screen idols, some of whom admitted to being more famous than the monarchs of England and Jesus Christ combined. Many of the interviews that went into the compilation of this book were conducted between 1940 and 1974, as the subjects were nearing the end of their lives and were willing, at last, to reveal scandals and insights that had previously been repressed by their own fears and by the media machines of the studio system. Marriages of convenience are the norm as intra-male peccadillos (and lots of lesbian love, too) are swept under the potted palms of the Edwardian age. The hero of this tale is the amiably cross-dressing Durango Jones, a wide-eyed neophyte from Kansas, circa 1919, who hits Hollywood during its Pre-Code excesses, and stays for a sexual feast wherein the banquet consists of many of the era's most flamboyant sex symbols. And although technically, this title has been formatted as a novel rather than a straight-line biography, there's the sometimes disturbing sense that this book is genuinely historical as well as being a jolly and rollicking piece of very savvy entertainment. This is high-testosterone Hollywood at its most compulsively readable. The 60s didn't invent sex-the stars of the Silent Screen did. --Cruiser. Who slept with Mary Pickford's three husbands, her two brothers-in-law, and even her brother? The hero of Hollywood's Silent Closet, that's who! --Trova Roma.
Download or read book EPO and a Changing World written by C. D. Garmany and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Innovative Partnerships and Delivery Methods -- Towards Broadening the Audience -- The Evolving Nature of Astronomy Research and its Implications for EPO -- The EPO Profession: A Changing World.
Download or read book PC Mag written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-10-24 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PCMag.com is a leading authority on technology, delivering Labs-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services. Our expert industry analysis and practical solutions help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology.
Download or read book The Awful Abbey written by Dorothy R. Kliewer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deedra Masefield has the reputation of being a tough investigative reporter, though if the truth be known to the public, she's a gal who has suffered rejection and emotional pain, who cries into her pillow in the depths of night, and allows only her tough image to show. In this mystery, Deedra is sent by her newspaper's editor to a small town in northern California to learn why a famous movie actress remains strangely out of touch with friends and Hollywood. Her last known address was a place called Anthea Abbey where her eccentric/inventor husband, Ricardo Embustero, state that "he could invent without disturbing near neighbors, and where Sharlee could have a castle of her own." However, if Sharlee Devon has a castle, it appears that she is captive there. A newspaper delivery boy disappears after reporting the finding of a note thrown out of an upstairs window of the old abbey by Sharlee. There are rumors in town about a ghost-nun and a huge mutant boy, and townsfolk avoid the area. Deedra visits the abbey where she unexpectedly meets, Hannah, a tall person with an elongated nose and a perpetual post-nasal drip. Hannah wears full-length black dresses reminiscent of the nuns of a by-gone age, and gives the impression that she is Ricardo's sister. Deedra's man and colleague, Deke Thomas, arrives to help, then Deedra recalls that he and Sharlee Devon were once lovers. Again she is smote with the fact that Deke is not the marrying kind, and renews her vow to hunt for "Mr. Right." When at last Deedra rescues Sharlee Devon, and earns that front-page story, her pillow is the only witness of her not-so-tough image.
Download or read book Gender Violence Social Media and Online Environments written by Lisa M. Cuklanz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines contexts, practices, and activism on issues of gender violence at the intersections of online and public spaces. Through individual case studies, the volume considers the interplay between the virtual worlds of online spaces including social media, physical spaces and bodies, and the ways in which offline and online dimensions of experience can serve as motivators for, extensions of, or limitations to each other. Examining both problems and potential solutions, chapters explore the impacts of, and potential resistance to, the intersections of gender violence, social media, and our complex lived environments across national boundaries. Throughout the volume, close attention is paid to the difficult issues highlighted when prior conceptions of basic foundations such as public space, individual rights, and professional responsibility are confronted by new examples that further trouble the boundaries of long-held frameworks of legal, social, professional understanding, and even our comprehension of the "real." Each chapter grapples with a difficult reality related to gender violence, underscores possible ways forward, and highlights limitations, resisting easy answers to complex and persistent questions about rights, personal integrity, and social responsibility. Offering clear insights into a critical issue, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of media studies, social media, gender and women's studies, sociology and criminology, digital humanities, and politics.
Download or read book Cloud Computing and Big Data written by C. Catlett and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloud computing offers many advantages to researchers and engineers who need access to high performance computing facilities for solving particular compute-intensive and/or large-scale problems, but whose overall high performance computing (HPC) needs do not justify the acquisition and operation of dedicated HPC facilities. There are, however, a number of fundamental problems which must be addressed, such as the limitations imposed by accessibility, security and communication speed, before these advantages can be exploited to the full. This book presents 14 contributions selected from the International Research Workshop on Advanced High Performance Computing Systems, held in Cetraro, Italy, in June 2012. The papers are arranged in three chapters. Chapter 1 includes five papers on cloud infrastructures, while Chapter 2 discusses cloud applications. The third chapter in the book deals with big data, which is nothing new – large scientific organizations have been collecting large amounts of data for decades – but what is new is that the focus has now broadened to include sectors such as business analytics, financial analyses, Internet service providers, oil and gas, medicine, automotive and a host of others. This book will be of interest to all those whose work involves them with aspects of cloud computing and big data applications.
Download or read book Chasing the Tiger An International Mystery written by Fritz Galt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning crime thriller! Where do you turn when the mob is on your back? Small-town private eye Roy Flynn turns high-flying fugitive when he is framed for the assassination of a drug kingpin. He flees with the drug trafficker's wife to Barcelona, Porto Fino, and Bangkok in order to take down drug rings and uncover who set him up. Acclaimed mystery author Fritz Galt unleashes a timely tale in this gripping new international crime thriller, replete with chic European hotspots, super yachts and exotic locales. Chasing the Tiger will totally captivate you as it takes you on an extraordinary journey of thrills and intrigue around the world. If Roy succeeds, he'll save myriad lives, including his own! ""Exciting and enjoyable with a great ending. May be Galt's best!"" - author Henry D. Smith If you love page-turning crime thrillers set around the world, buy Chasing the Tiger now!
Download or read book Tall Dark Fangsome written by Michelle Rowen and published by Forever. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Dearly's vampire life is not all B-positive cocktails. A curse made her a nightwalker, the most vicious vamp there is; the charm she wears to curb her deadly tendencies is losing its juice; and a hunter from hell is turning up the heat. Gideon Chase will kill the ones she loves most if she doesn't obey his orders. That includes breaking up with master vampire Thierry and turning Gideon into an immortal vamp so he can escape a doom of eternal hellfire. Making things worse are Sarah's growing feelings for Gideon, a bad boy who keeps showing a vulnerable side . . . but is it for real? Will Sarah's dark side take over? Or can she cure herself of the nightwalker curse in time to stop Gideon and finally live happily ever after with Thierry . . . forever?
Download or read book Blood Electric written by Kenji Siratori and published by Creation Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new Japanese cyberpunk classic from the,nationally acclaimed young cult writer from,Hokkaido, a fatal collusion of drag embryos and,DNA angels in Cadaver City ignites the circuitry,of the ADAM Doll, whose eyes are fractured ports,of entry to a terminal videodrome where a,cyber-intelligent cut-up project - spanning,William S Burroughs to Japanese underground cinema,- aborts and implodes with amniotic velocity. As,gene war is waged in Placenta World and a,nano-junk virus pandemic spreads, the world is in,for quite a surprise.
Download or read book StarBriefs Plus written by Andre Heck and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With about 200,000 entries, StarBriefs Plus represents the most comprehensive and accurately validated collection of abbreviations, acronyms, contractions and symbols within astronomy, related space sciences and other related fields. As such, this invaluable reference source (and its companion volume, StarGuides Plus) should be on the reference shelf of every library, organization or individual with any interest in these areas. Besides astronomy and associated space sciences, related fields such as aeronautics, aeronomy, astronautics, atmospheric sciences, chemistry, communications, computer sciences, data processing, education, electronics, engineering, energetics, environment, geodesy, geophysics, information handling, management, mathematics, meteorology, optics, physics, remote sensing, and so on, are also covered when justified. Terms in common use and/or of general interest have also been included where appropriate.
Download or read book Vampire Nights written by Megan Hussey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampire Nights By Megan Hussey: Song of the Vamp; Sylvan is a vampire whose 'night job' facilitates his lifestyle. When he falls for Antonia, his no-nonsense manager, will he surrender the 'night life?'--Keeper of the Night; Hayden's keeper, Silvana Hopkins, struggles to reign in her client's wild ways. When he turns on his seductive charm, can she reign in her desires?
Download or read book Better Off Immortal written by Elle Chardou and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unhappily Ever After Manon and Mikkel have become what every living vampire dreams to be. They are Daywalkers, able to live both in the night and the day. While attending a conference of world’s vampire elite, the cracks in the foundation of their relationship slowly appear. Determined to make their marriage work, Manon tries to be the perfect trophy wife–relaxing, shopping and making love to her husband. But Mikkel is colder than ever and Manon can’t help but wonder–is she better off without Mikkel? Family Secrets When the vicious Zahara puts a price on Manon’s head it’s Mikkel’s handsome son, Emmerik, who is there for Manon. Under Emmerik’s protection, Manon learns her true heritage is different than she ever dreamed–and that Emmerik entices her in ways her husband does not…. Better Off Immortal? Manon must continue her journey as a Daywalker and live with the legacy that has haunted her people for thousands of years. With her unique blood and cunning skills, she evades assassins and faces a choice with life-changing consequences. Who should she choose to be by her side for eternity–Mikkel or Emmerik?
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