Download or read book Hide and Geek written by T. P. Jagger and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A puzzlemaker’s last clue. A friendship’s last chance. Can four friends solve the puzzle that could save their town? Now in paperback. The GEEKs: Gina, Edgar, Elena, and Kevin have been best friends for as long as they can remember. So when their archnemesis points out that their initials make them literally GEEKs, they decide to go with it. The problem: The GEEKs’ hometown of Elmwood was once the headquarters of the famous toymaker Maxine Van Houten. Her popular puzzle sphere, the Bamboozler, put the town on the map. But Maxine passed away long ago. Now the toy factory is shutting down, and Elena’s mom and Kevin’s dad are losing their jobs. They might have to move—and that would mean splitting up the GEEKs! The quest: Maxine left one final puzzle, a treasure hunt that could save the town and keep the friends together. But only those who know and love Elmwood best will be able to solve it. GEEKs to the rescue!

Download or read book Mortgage Geek Home Buyers Handbook written by Jason R. Richardson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-13 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to purchasing a home designed for first time home buyers.

Download or read book Home Hacking Projects for Geeks written by Anthony Northrup and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents step-by-step instructions for a variety of projects to create ia high-tech home, including a pet monitor, a security system, a keyless entry, and a Linux-based home theater

Download or read book A House That Once Was written by Julie Fogliano and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best Illustrated book! A Boston Globe Best Children's Book of 2018 “Accompanied by Lane's evocative art that suggests layers of history, Fogliano's story turns this childhood scenario into a radiant poem about the mysteries of other people and the wonderfulness of home.” —New York Times Deep in the woods is a house just a house that once was but now isn’t a home. Who lived in that house? Who walked down its hallways? Why did they leave it, and where did they go? Two children set off to find the answers by piecing together clues found, books left behind, forgotten photos, and discarded toys, creating their own vision of those who came before, in this deeply moving tale of imagination by Ezra Jack Keats Award–winning author Julie Fogliano and Caldecott Award–winning illustrator Lane Smith.

Download or read book The Geek s Guide to Home Buying written by Karen James and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real estate geek's proven know-how educates first-time home buyers on all of the home-buying basics they need to know, including establishing a budget, finding a dream home, and getting the best mortgage for the money. Self-assessment tips help potential homeowners decide whether buying a house will stretch their finances too thin, saving them time and money and helping make the entire home-buying process stress-free.

Download or read book Low Power to the People written by Christina Dunbar-Hester and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how activists combine political advocacy and technical practice in their promotion of the emancipatory potential of local low-power FM radio. The United States ushered in a new era of small-scale broadcasting in 2000 when it began issuing low-power FM (LPFM) licenses for noncommercial radio stations around the country. Over the next decade, several hundred of these newly created low-wattage stations took to the airwaves. In Low Power to the People, Christina Dunbar-Hester describes the practices of an activist organization focused on LPFM during this era. Despite its origins as a pirate broadcasting collective, the group eventually shifted toward building and expanding regulatory access to new, licensed stations. These radio activists consciously cast radio as an alternative to digital utopianism, promoting an understanding of electronic media that emphasizes the local community rather than a global audience of Internet users. Dunbar-Hester focuses on how these radio activists impute emancipatory politics to the “old” medium of radio technology by promoting the idea that “microradio” broadcasting holds the potential to empower ordinary people at the local community level. The group's methods combine political advocacy with a rare commitment to hands-on technical work with radio hardware, although the activists' hands-on, inclusive ethos was hampered by persistent issues of race, class, and gender. Dunbar-Hester's study of activism around an “old” medium offers broader lessons about how political beliefs are expressed through engagement with specific technologies. It also offers insight into contemporary issues in media policy that is particularly timely as the FCC issues a new round of LPFM licenses.

Download or read book The Geek Handbook written by Alex Langley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And the GEEKS shall inherit the earth! Although it may not be good for their pasty white skin, Geeks these days are enjoying a moment in the sun. From Pop Culture to High-Tech Everything, Geeks rule and everybody else, well, drools. Drawing on his own knowledge of being a geek for almost 30 years, author Alex Langley provides essential advice for growth and survival for the modern Geek, including the top five games to play on your phone while listening to boring graduation speeches. There are also quotes and anecdotes from classic Geek gods such as Bill Gates, Sheldon Cooper, Felicia Day, "Weird" Al Yankovic and Dr. Who, that inspire all geeks to embrace not only your iPhones and Xboxes, but who you are. Let's face it, sometimes being the smartest person in the room isn't enough. And when it's not, The Geek Handbook can help. You'll discover: • Basics on social interaction, both online and off. • Fashion: just because you can wear socks and sandals doesn't mean you should. • Making friends, making dinner, making babies. • Warning signs your appliances might secretly be plotting against you. • Geeky charities that give a +1 to your Light Side score. • Geek girls: tips on interacting with or becoming one of these burgeoning beauties. So get your Geek on, and keep it on with The Geek Handbook.

Download or read book Events in the Life of an Ordinary Man written by Richard R. Pariseau and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Pariseau reveals the excitement, adventures, and predicaments one can get into if one is afraid to miss anything, welcomes every opportunity, seeks excitement, and listens to one's poker buddies when they suggest new or unfamiliar areas to explore. He earned a PhD at night school because he thought decision makers would more readily accept his analysis if it was authored by a doctor. Denied the opportunity to play basketball--his most accomplished sport--in college, he chose to play lacrosse and became a First Team All-American. Seeking an advantage over the competition at singles dances, he took dance lessons and ended up as a dance host and instructor aboard a cruise ship. Uncomfortable with the casual disrobing of the co-ed models at the university painting class, his poker buddies recommended that he "get over it" by spending time at a nudist camp. As an adventuresome traveler, he has sailed the Nile River and flown in a hot air balloon over the Valley of the Kings, gone hut-to-hut hiking in the Swiss Alps, and learned to throw a boomerang with the aboriginals in Cairns, Australia. Be entertained by the adventures and humorous predicaments of this ordinary man, and use it as a catalyst to document the adventures in your life.

Download or read book Rise of the Time Lords A Geek s Guide to Christianity written by Michael Belote and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rise of the Time Lords: A Geek's Guide to Christianity is the debut novel by popular blogger and professional engineer Michael Belote. In it, Belote shares the Gospel for the Geeks: how we can learn about the Trinity from a Pringles can, heaven from Doctor Who, grace from air conditioners, and the nature of man from Schrodinger's cat.

Download or read book Nightingale Way written by Emily March and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eternity Springs is a magical place where hearts come to heal—with a little help. As Emily March’s beloved series continues, a broken marriage finds new wings to fly. Dark, brooding Jack Davenport hides his secrets well, never telling his wife about the dangers of his job, never sharing his thoughts or worries . . . never sharing himself. After tragedy strikes, their marriage shatters. Now a threat to Catherine Blackburn’s life brings her back into his—and gives them a second chance. A reporter whose most recent investigation has ignited a national controversy and put her in harm’s way, Cat thinks she can handle herself. So when Jack grabs her off the street and sweeps her to his home above Eternity Springs, she’s furious. In the warm sanctuary of the Eternity Springs community, Jack and Cat face the heartache that drove them apart. But can they find the courage to pick up the pieces of a shattered love? Includes a preview of Emily March’s next Eternity Springs novel, Reflection Point Praise for the Eternity Springs series “For a wonderful read, don't miss a visit to Eternity Springs.”—Lisa Kleypas “With passion, romance, and revealing moments that will touch your heart, [Emily March] takes readers on an unhurried journey where past mistakes are redeemed and a more beautiful future is forged—one miracle at a time.”—USA Today

Download or read book Diary of a Dead Beat Dad written by William Lavon Binion and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Natural born Cyborgs written by Andy Clark and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the effects of modern technology on human intelligence.

Download or read book Figurativity across Domains Modalities and Research Practices written by Alexandra Bagasheva and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human ability to think non-literally has attracted the interest of various scholars for thousands of years. Over the centuries, they have defined and studied an extensive variety of tropes, such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, allegory, and irony, in terms of their communicative effectiveness and stylistic aesthetics and basically interpreted these simply as figurative linguistic expressions and mere flourishes adding flavour to underlying non-figurative content. Today, figurativity is understood as constitutive of various processes of human comprehension of the world, human communicative interactions, and everyday human functioning. This volume constitutes a representative selection of studies that provide novel answers to the open questions of how non-literal thought and non-literal expression in various media and discourses (co-)exist. The book focuses on figurative cognitive operations enabling non-literal thought, language and other semiotic expressions. The unique set of viewpoints and authors’ contributions upholds the cognitive approach to figurativity; it positions figurativity in various discursive environments, compares and contrasts figurativity in various languages and cultures, and traces the multimodal interplay of figurativity.

Download or read book Safe House Exposed written by Darlene L. Turner and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witness protection should have kept them safe. Instead, it left them completely exposed… Canadian border patrol officer Emma James has only one concern after putting a crime boss behind bars: keeping her daughter safe. But witness protection has a leak, and Emma's enemies know exactly where to find her. Now on the run with no safe haven, trusting her estranged former brother-in-law, police constable Mason James, to shield them is her only hope… From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.

Download or read book Nobody s Baby But Mine written by Susan Elizabeth Phillips and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Outrageous, heartwarming, wonderfully sensual…I loved it!” —Jayne Anne Krentz “For sheer fun, nobody beats Nobody’s Baby But Mine.” —Detroit Free Press The Minneapolis Star-Tribune writes, “Next to Tracy and Hepburn, no one does romantic comedy better than Susan Elizabeth Phillips.” For proof, you need to look no further than Nobody’s Baby But Mine. This classic comic love story from perennial New York Times bestseller Phillips unites a beautiful, brainy scientist desperate to be a mom with a brawny, smoking hot jock who, though handsome enough to father her child, is nowhere near as stupid as she wants her baby’s daddy to be. Emily Giffin, Jane Green, and Rachel Gibson fans take note: when it comes to delivering delightfully funny, supremely sexy contemporary women’s fiction, nobody but nobody is better than Susan Elizabeth Phillips.

Download or read book Internet San Francisco written by and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1994 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet San Francisco offers comprehensive coverage of Internet use, services, resources, and information in and about the city of San Francisco. From historical data to restaurant reviews, it offers complete coverage of local topics for residents of and visitors to the city of San Francisco. The book is part of Hayden Books' new line of regional Internet guides.

Download or read book Geekspeak written by Dr. Graham Tattersall and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How big is your vocabulary? How heavy is your house? Do the dead outnumber the living? What are the best words to use in a personal ad? We humans are a curious species, prone to think, ruminate, reflect, cogitate, mull over, and philosophize. We long to explain away the world around us, to answer all those seeming unanswerables: Why are we here? Is there a God? Is there life after death? And, above all, how many houseflies does it take to pull a car? A confirmed and superior geek, Dr. Graham Tattersall has rescued math from the prison of the classroom and put it to use in novel and unexpected ways to explain some oft-pondered mysteries of the world. Geekspeak is an essential tool that will help you exercise your brain and solve the unsolvable, make you sound intelligent so you can impress your friends, and enable you to better understand the fascinating world in which we live in ways never possible before. Math has a new champion, and the geeks a new king.