Download or read book Josh Moonford and the Lost City of Cantia written by James Essinger and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So what are you saying, Josh?' Lindsay asked me, 'that there's a secret Roman town down here where people speak Latin and which nobody knows about in the world we come from?' This extraordinary, highly imaginative, hugely entertaining novel tells the story of fifteen-year-old Josh Moonford, his younger twin brother and sister Sam and Dora, Cornish girl Lindsay Penhaligon, warm-hearted gang leader Troy Wilson and arrogant sixth-former (and self-proclaimed genius) Declan Jacques, and their mind-blowing adventure in the underground high-tech Roman world of Cantia, located beneath the famous cathedral city of Canterbury. Can Josh and his friends - aided by the world-famous movie star Carlo Clancy - end the brutal Cantian revolution that could lead to disaster for our world?
Download or read book Writing Fiction a user friendly guide written by James Essinger and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Fiction is a little pot of gold... "e;Screenplay"e; by Syd Field for film, "e;Writing Fiction"e; by James Essinger for fiction. It's that simple.'William Osborne, novelist and screenwriter'Writing Fiction - a user-friendly guide' is a must-read if you want to write stories to a professional standard. It draws on the author's more than thirty years of experience as a professional writer, and on the work and ideas of writers including:- Anthony Burgess- Joseph Conrad- George Eliot- Ken Follett- Frederick Forsyth- Dan Harmon- Ernest Hemingway- David Lodge- Norman Mailer- John Milton- Ben Parker- J.K. Rowling- William Shakespeare- Martin Cruz Smith- J.R.R. TolkienThe twenty-four chapters cover every important matter you need to know about, including: devising a compelling story, creating and developing characters, plotting, 'plants', backstory, suspense, dialogue, 'show' and 'tell', and how to make your novel more real than reality.Also featuring special guest advice from legendary screenwriter Bob Gale, who wrote the three immortal 'Back to the Future' movies (1985, 1989 and 1990), and novelist and screenwriter William Osborne, whose many screen credits include the co-writing of the blockbuster 'Twins' (1988), this highly entertaining book gives you all the advice and practical guidance you need to make your dream of becoming a published fiction writer come true.
Download or read book Rollercoaster written by James Essinger and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wacky, outrageous, imaginative, bonkers, Rollercoaster is also really rather fun. Written by James Essinger in 1979 when he was a virgin, it tells the story of how warm-hearted would-be hippie Rod Coaster teams up with illustrious senior policeman Chief Superintendent Pickling Fox-Foetus, who has never made a mistake, to try to thwart a terrorist attack on one of West Germany's most pretentious hotels. After many adventures, Rod finally finds true love with a charismatic Finnish beauty.'Rollercoaster' is a book you won't easily forget, even if you're no longer a virgin.
Download or read book Mating Game written by Jovanka Houska and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Ivana ('call me Vanny') Jones, a sexy, beautiful, warm-hearted professional chess-player. She has a problem: she's only attracted to guys who can beat her... so what's she to do when a chess amateur, the Russian billionaire Boris Bogolyubov, proposes marriage?Not only that, but as Vanny tries to achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a chess grandmaster, she develops a crush on Norwegian sex-god Sven while also falling for a stunning and adoring Frenchwoman. Meanwhile, Vanny's hoping a revolutionary new drug treatment will save her best friend Charlotte's life.Set in London, Monaco, Budapest, Helsinki, Odessa, New York... and Leicester, this sparkily written, passionate, emotional and entertaining novel will rock your boat... even if you've never shouted'Checkmate!'
Download or read book Charles and Ada written by James Essinger and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The partnership of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever. They were an unlikely pair – one the professor son of a banker, the other the only child of an acclaimed poet and a social-reforming mathematician – but perhaps that is why their work was so revolutionary. They were the pioneers of computer science, creating plans for what could have been the first computer. They each saw things the other did not: it may have been Charles who designed the machines, but it was Ada who could see their potential. But what were they like? And how did they work together? Using previously unpublished correspondence between them, Charles and Ada explores the relationship between two remarkable people who shared dreams far ahead of their time.
Download or read book Frankie written by James Essinger and published by Blue Sparrow Books. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ten million thalidomide pills had already been produced for distribution in the United States when it was first submitted to the FDA for approval. The morning sickness wonder drug had been approved for sale in Germany, Canada, and the UK, and the drug's distributors assumed that it would be no different in the United States. The answer they received was unexpected and firm: it needed more testing. It later came to light that thalidomide was causing severe birth defects throughout the world, and that Frances Kelsey, the FDA pharmacologist who had denied the drug's approval, was in fact a hero. Her courageous and unwavering integrity proved to be decisive in preventing one of the greatest pharmaceutical disasters of the twentieth century.Now, in this first ever biography, the fascinating and unlikely hero is portrayed in full detail. Read about the quiet, matter-of-fact woman who stood up to a major pharmaceutical company, did her job in the face of enormous pressure, and when presented with the highest civic honors, credited her whole team with the accomplishment. It's an incredible story of integrity in the moment of truth, of the power of humble courage, and of hundreds of thousands of lives saved by an ordinary woman."
Download or read book JOSH MOONFORD AND THE LOST CITY OF CANTIA written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jacquard s Web written by James Essinger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the 200-year evolution of the principles of Jacquard's knitting machines to the information revolution of the twentieth century and the desk-top computer of today. --From cover (p. 4).
Download or read book Ada s Algorithm written by James Essinger and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Ada Lovelace], like Steve Jobs, stands at the intersection of arts and technology."—Walter Isaacson, author of The Innovators Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named “Ada,” after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century’s version of a rock star, Lord Byron. Why? Because, after computer pioneers such as Alan Turing began to rediscover her, it slowly became apparent that she had been a key but overlooked figure in the invention of the computer. In Ada Lovelace, James Essinger makes the case that the computer age could have started two centuries ago if Lovelace’s contemporaries had recognized her research and fully grasped its implications. It’s a remarkable tale, starting with the outrageous behavior of her father, which made Ada instantly famous upon birth. Ada would go on to overcome numerous obstacles to obtain a level of education typically forbidden to women of her day. She would eventually join forces with Charles Babbage, generally credited with inventing the computer, although as Essinger makes clear, Babbage couldn’t have done it without Lovelace. Indeed, Lovelace wrote what is today considered the world’s first computer program—despite opposition that the principles of science were “beyond the strength of a woman’s physical power of application.” Based on ten years of research and filled with fascinating characters and observations of the period, not to mention numerous illustrations, Essinger tells Ada’s fascinating story in unprecedented detail to absorbing and inspiring effect.
Download or read book Jeff Koons written by Norman Rosenthal and published by Ashmolean Museum Oxford. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curated by Koons himself, together with guest curator Norman Rosenthal, this show features seventeen important works, fourteen of which have never been exhibited in the UK before. They span the artist's entire career and his most well-known series, including Equilibrium, Statuary, Banality, Antiquity and his recent Gazing Ball sculptures and paintings. This exhibition will provoke a conversation between his creations and the history of art and ideas with which his work engages. Jeff Koons burst onto the contemporary art scene in the 1980s. He has been described as the most famous, important, subversive, controversial and expensive artist in the world. From his earliest works Koons has explored the 'ready-made' and 'appropriated image', using unadulterated found objects and creating painstaking replicas of ancient sculptures and Old Master paintings which almost defy belief in their craftsmanship and precision. Throughout his career Koons has pushed at the boundaries of contemporary art practice, stretching the limits of what is possible. Exhibition: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (07.02.-09.06.2019).
Download or read book The Future of Banking written by Henry Engler and published by Addison Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades the growth of the financial services industry has been explosive. It has had to adapt to a host of new phenomena as they arise including regulatory issues, risk management, new technology, globalization, consolidation and branding. This volume presents the opinions and predictions of the chief operators within the banking industry - the people dealing with these phenomena and leading change.
Download or read book A Woman of Quality Sarah Vinke the Divine Sarah and the Quest for the Origin of Robert Pirsig s Metaphysics of Quality written by James Essinger and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We hope readers have enjoyed the quest for the ultimate goal, of finding enough re Sarah Vinke, to say how she came to be aware of the Ancient Greek " Arête' ", and from this, tease out why she introduced the corresponding concept of "Quality", to Robert Pirsig, Author of book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". In particular, we want readers to see just why Sarah asked Robert Pirsig, "Are you teaching Quality?"we hope we have established, the absolutely vital role Sarah Vinke played in it, and the key inspiration she gave its author Robert Pirsig to focus on 'Quality. This was so our readers would fully understand, how Sara Vinke and Montana State College were crucial, to how ZMM came to be written. It was Sarah's Classics training (Grinnell College & U Wisconsin Graduate School), and most particularly her deep understanding of the Ancient Greek life practice of Arête' (her Quality), that enabled and embolden her to be the outstanding person she became. Thus: In writing our Sarah Vinke Biography, our investigative journey, we have answered many questions as to "The Mystery ¿ The Mystique ¿ The Enigma ¿ of Sarah Vinke". And thus, there is a NEW Mystery, and a critical one, since this evidently turned Sarah's own path to the full realization, for all of us & especially Robert Pirsig, of the vital importance of the Ancient Greek's (not Romans), and thus she must have become more fully aware, vitally aware, of their living excellence, their highest aspirations, their Arête'.
Download or read book A Female Genius written by James Essinger and published by Severn House Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the dangerous romantice poet whose name became a byword for scandal. Over the past decades, she herself has become a surprising underground star for digital pioneers all over the world, starting with Alan Turing. Embraced by programmers and women intechnology, Ada even has her own day that is commemorated every year on Google's search engine.
Download or read book The Seven Deadly Skills of Competing written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Man s Mountain written by Graham Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frankie written by James Essinger and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the one woman who, against all odds, stopped Thalidomide in its tracks because it poisoned a nation
Download or read book Misper written by Bea Davenport and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I knew this girl, you see. A sort of a friend. No one thought she really mattered much, but that turned out to be a mistake. Because she blew a hole through my life - and the lives of everyone I knew.Anna's found the perfect friend in Zoe: she's cool, she's smart, she's goth, she's gorgeous. If only geeky Kerry would stop hanging around and cramping their style. They'd like to get rid of her. But they should be careful what they wish for...The Misper by best-selling crime and children's writer Bea Davenport is a gripping story of obsessive friendships, jealousies, bullying - and the consequences of your actions.
