Download or read book Splotchy Bounces written by Lucky Sunlight and published by Editions Publibook. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the way to bounce back after absorbing every stroke suffered in his lifewhich makes all the difference between people. Betrayed in a parody of marriage that has lasted too long, Splotchy finaly enconters love in his early 40's. At 50, he discovers unemployment. He needs some flexibility to adapt himself to all changes in his sentimental and professional environment. He thus gets a shell, making him more resistant to wave motions of his existence that led him from Southern France to Brazil, via Sri Lanka... Boucing back, adapting, reinventing: this is exactly what this testimony is about. Originally, Lucky Sunlight is a french ingenior who worked for twenty-five years in an american multinational company based in Paris. Fifteen years ago, he decided to get a fresh new start in Brazil. In this book where the key word is love, he sincerely revisits vagaries of life, the currents we flee from or carring us away.

Download or read book Come Along Daisy written by Jane Simmons and published by Megan Tingley Books. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy the duckling becomes so engrossed in playing with dragonflies and lily pads that she temporarily loses her mother.

Download or read book A Ring of Endless Light written by Madeleine L'Engle and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In book four of the award-winning Austin Family Chronicles young adult series from Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, Vicky Austin experiences the difficulties and joys of growing up. "This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved." These are Vicky Austin's thoughts as she stands near Commander Rodney's grave while her grandfather, who himself is dying of cancer, recites the funeral service. Watching his condition deteriorate over that long summer is almost more than she can bear. Then, in the midst of her struggle, she finds herself the center of attention for three young men. Leo, Commander Rodney's son, turns to her as an old friend seeking comfort but longing for romance. Zachary, whose attempted suicide inadvertently caused Commander Rodney's death, sees her as the one sane and normal person who can give some meaning to his life. And Adam, a serious young student working at the nearby marine-biology station, discovers Vicky, his friend's little sister, incipient telepathic powers that can help him with his experiments in dolphin communications. Vicky finds solace and brief moments of peace in her poetry, but life goes on around her, and the strain intensifies as she confronts matters of love and of death, of dependence and of responsibility, universal concerns that we all must face. The inevitable crisis comes and Vicky must rely on openness, sensitivity, and the love of others to overcome her private grief. Once again, Madeleine L'Engle has written a story that revels in the drama of vividly portrayed characters and events of the spiritual and moral dimensions of common human experiences. A Ring of Endless Light is a 1981 Newbery Honor Book. Books by Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time Quintet A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters An Acceptable Time A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle; adapted & illustrated by Hope Larson Intergalactic P.S. 3 by Madeleine L'Engle; illustrated by Hope Larson: A standalone story set in the world of A Wrinkle in Time. The Austin Family Chronicles Meet the Austins (Volume 1) The Moon by Night (Volume 2) The Young Unicorns (Volume 3) A Ring of Endless Light (Volume 4) A Newbery Honor book! Troubling a Star (Volume 5) The Polly O'Keefe books The Arm of the Starfish Dragons in the Waters A House Like a Lotus And Both Were Young Camilla The Joys of Love

Download or read book Maya Studio Projects Texturing and Lighting written by Lee Lanier and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to create realistic digital assets for film and games with this project-based guide Focused entirely on practical projects, this hands-on guide shows you how to use Maya's texturing and lighting tools in real-world situations. Whether you need to sharpen your skills or you're looking to break into the field for the first time, you'll learn top industry techniques for this important skill as you follow the instructions for several specific projects. You can even create your own version, using final Maya scene files to validate results. The companion DVD includes supplemental videos, project support files, textures, tools, professional shaders, and more. Lighting and texturing projects are often an excellent way for new animators to break into the business This is the only project-based book dedicated to understanding and implementing Maya's texturing and lighting tools for creating realistic digital assets for film, video, and games Walks you step by step through lighting and texturing objects, characters, and locations Written by a professional CG artist who has worked on high-profile films including Antz and Shrek Includes a DVD with supplemental video instruction, additional tools, and more Practical, project-based instruction in this guide will help you perfect your skill with Maya's texturing and lighting tools.

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Download or read book Architecture by Moonlight written by Paul E. Fallon and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a natural disaster strikes, one imposing obstacle always impedes recovery: the need to rebuild. Not just homes, schools, and other buildings but also lives must be reconstructed. Yet amid the horror there is also the opportunity to build back better, to create more resilient buildings and deeper human connections. After Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, architect Paul E. Fallon wanted to help rebuild the magic island he had visited the previous summer. Over the next three years, he made seventeen trips to design and supervise construction of an orphanage and a school in Grand Goâve. In the process, he confronted the challenges of building in a country with sparse materials and with laborers predisposed toward magic over physics. Architecture by Moonlight is about much more than construction, however. Readers will also experience the many relationships Fallon developed as he balanced the contradictory demands of a boisterous American family constructing a memorial for their deceased daughter and Evangelical missionaries more interested in saving souls than filling bellies. Dieunison, a wily Haitian orphan, captured Fallon’s heart and exemplifies both Haiti’s tragedy and its indomitable spirit. Fallon’s personal experience is an eloquent tale of “an ensemble of incomplete people struggling in a land of great trial and great promise, trying to better understand their place on Earth.” He reveals how, when seemingly different people come together, we succeed by seeking our commonality. Architecture by Moonlight illustrates our strength to rise above disaster and celebrate recovery, perseverance, and humanity.

Download or read book Headstrong Like Us written by Krista Ritchie and published by K.B. Ritchie. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​You’re cordially invited to the wedding of Maximoff Hale & Farrow Keene, and according to Celebrity Crush—the ceremony for this American prince and his tattooed bodyguard is going to be the event of the century. There will be no wedding crashers. Including but not limited to: hateful people, rabid fans, nosy paparazzi, and other so-called media. There will be no drama. None whatsoever. Because when you put three famous families and their hot bodyguards together, nothing will go down. There will be no fighting. No brawls, fists flying, verbal slingshots, or rifts that tear into craters. Lovers only! Everything will be perfect. Nothing will go amiss during the happiest, most anticipated occasion of the year. But then again… They don't call it the Hale Curse for nothing.

Download or read book The Judgment Stone written by Robert Liparulo and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if praying became a curse instead of a blessing? Former Army Ranger Jagger Baird thought he had his hands full with the Tribe—the band of immortal vigilantes fighting to regain God’s grace by killing those opposed to Him. But that was before he encountered the ruthless group of immortals called the Clan. The Clan is after a prize that would give them unimaginable power—a piece of the Ten Commandments known as the Judgment Stone. Those who touch the Stone can see into the spiritual world: angelic warriors, treacherous demons, and the blue threads of light that signal the presence of believers in communion with God. By following the blue beam radiating from those closest to God, the Clan plans to locate His most passionate followers and destroy them. Jagger quickly realizes his high-tech gadgetry and training are no match for these merciless immortals. But how can he defeat an enemy who hunts believers through their prayers . . . and won’t stop until they’ve annihilated all those close to Him? In this high-action thriller, best-selling author Robert Liparulo examines the raging battle between good and evil on earth . . . and beyond.

Download or read book Northspur written by Richard Wilson Moss and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northspur is a yarn of a young poet and family man in search of truth. On the way, he wrestles with self-doubt, his ego, his uncontrolled male sexuality and his family's expectations. Northspur heralds the stops along the way.

Download or read book Sprout written by Dale Peck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sprout and his father move from Long Island to Kansas after the death of his mother, he is sure he will find no friends, no love, no beauty. But friends find him, the strangeness of the landscape fascinates him, and when love shows up in an unexpected place, it proves impossible to hold. An incredible, literary story of a boy who knows he's gay, and the town that seems to have no place for him to hide.

Download or read book Creating Games with Unity and Maya written by Adam Watkins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unity brings you ever closer to the "author once, deploy anywhere" dream. With its multiplatform capabilities, you can target desktop, web, mobile devices, and consoles using a single development engine. Little wonder that Unity has quickly become the #1 game engine out there. Mastering Unity is absolutely essential in an increasingly competitive games market where agility is expected, yet until now practical tutorials were nearly impossible to find. Creating Games with Unity and Maya gives you with an end-to-end solution for Unity game development with Maya. Written by a twelve-year veteran of the 3D animation and games industry and professor of 3D animation, this book takes you step-by-step through the process of developing an entire game from scratch-including coding, art, production, and deployment. This accessible guide provides a "non-programmer" entry point to the world of game creation. Aspiring developers with little or no coding experience will learn character development in Maya, scripts, GUI interface, and first- and third-person interactions.

Download or read book Redshift Render Basic User Guide written by Serdar Hakan DÜZGÖREN and published by Serdar Hakan DÜZGÖREN. This book was released on with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redshift is a high-performance production-quality renderer that supports biased rendering techniques for incredibly fast noise-free renders. With Redshift, you can get the rendering performance of a small render farm from your existing workstation, saving you time and money, and unleashing your creative potential. This guide provides information on setting up and using Redshift. In addition to documenting the various features and settings of Redshift, this guide provides important tips to help you get the most out of Redshift – including helping you choose the most appropriate global illumination techniques to use for a given scene and how to troubleshoot problems like splotches or flickering during animations. To navigate this guide, simply pick a topic from the Table of Contents on the left. You can also search for a specific keyword using the search box located in the top-right corner of every page.

Download or read book Oxford Thesaurus of English written by Maurice Waite and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The leading single-volume English thesaurus explores the richness of the English language with hundreds of thousands of synonyms and antonyms, and thousands of example sentences drawn from the Oxford English Corpus; finds the word you need quickly with carefully chosen and arranged synonyms; broadens your vocabulary and finds solutions to word puzzles and crosswords with hundreds of thematic word lists; and helps express yourself more accurately with hundreds of 'Choose the Right Word' boxes exploring the difference between similar words." --Book Jacket.

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Download or read book A Fistful of Magic written by Rebecca Chastain and published by Mind Your Muse Books. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 1253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bursting with humor, heart, and plenty of butt-kicking action, A Fistful of Magic is over 1,000 pages of sizzling adventure. Find out for yourself why urban fantasy readers can't get enough of this laugh-out-loud internationally bestselling series. READER REVIEWS "This story will have you captivated from start to finish" ★★★★★ "Rebecca Chastain has a hit series here, one full of humor, danger and amazingly awesome characters!" ★★★★★ "The amount of laughs, adventure, world building, and mishaps made this story totally worth reading. I recommend this to Urban Fantasy fans everywhere." ★★★★★ "Well-written, captivatingly charming, downright hysterical at times, this journey into Madison's mind and the new life she is living is a must read!" ★★★★★ A FISTFUL of EVIL (Book 1) Madison can see souls. Honestly, it's kind of gross. Madison Fox is shocked when she learns her soul sight is more than a distasteful affliction: It's a weapon for battling evil. Roped into a job she doesn't want, Madison wades into a world where monsters actively hunt her and deadly experiences are becoming the norm. Her survival depends on mastering the mechanics of her ethereal powers—fast. If only she had a clue what she was doing... A FISTFUL of FIRE (Book 2) Madison's back in hot water... Madison Fox survived her first week as California's newest illuminant enforcer, but Madison's problems are just igniting. Neighboring regions report an uncharacteristic flare-up of evil, fire-breathing salamanders blaze unchecked across the city, and Black Friday looms. Trapped doing cleanup amid mobs of holiday shoppers, Madison must determine who she can trust—and whose rules to follow—before her region and career go up in flames. A FISTFUL of FROST (Book 3) Madison's job—and soul—are on thin ice. When Madison Fox accepted a bond linking her to Jamie, a half-evil pooka, she assumed she would be strong enough to overcome his darker nature. Yet instead of Madison reforming Jamie, he's manipulating her into bending the rules. As if the degradation of her soul wasn't bad enough, winter has struck with a vengeance. A plague of frost moths have infested the state. Taking advantage of the abnormally frigid temperature, a dangerous breed of wicked, cold-blooded enemies flock to Madison's region from the north. Madison is in for the battle of her life, and if she hopes to survive, she must make an impossible choice: save herself and her region or save Jamie. Download your copy today! SERIES READING ORDER A Fistful of Evil (Book 1)* A Fistful of Fire (Book 2)* A Fistful of Flirtation (Book 2.5; a newsletter-exclusive bonus novella) A Fistful of Frost (Book 3)* Madison Fox Novella Box Set (Book 4) *Included in this box set FORMATS Available in ebook; available individually in print and audiobook AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Rebecca Chastain is the USA Today bestselling author of the Madison Fox urban fantasy series and the Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles fantasy trilogy, among other works. Inside her novels, you'll find spellbinding adventures packed with supernatural creatures, thrilling action, heartwarming characters (human and otherwise), and more than a little humor. Rebecca lives in Madison's territory and is keeping her fingers crossed that Madison will be able to protect her soul from the evil invasions plaguing her Northern California town. Visit www.rebeccachastain.com for behind-the-scenes bonus content, free short stories, and links to social media. REBECCA CHASTAIN'S OTHER BOOKS NOVELS OF TERRA HAVEN -Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles- Magic of the Gargoyles (Book 1) Curse of the Gargoyles (Book 2) Secret of the Gargoyles (Book 3) Lured (Book 3.5; a newsletter-exclusive bonus novella) -Terra Haven Chronicles- Deadlines & Dryads (Book 0.5) Leads & Lynxes (Book 1; forthcoming) STAND ALONE Tiny Glitches

Download or read book The Blaine McCracken Novels Volume Two written by Jon Land and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two knockout thrillers featuring the heroic rogue agent—from the USA Today–bestselling author and “one of the best all-out action writers in the business” (Los Angeles Review of Books). “Nobody writes action like Jon Land,” and his Blaine McCracken series blasts the thriller genre to a whole new level (John Lescroart). Collected here are the fourth and fifth adventures of the “no-holds-barred rogue agent” who nukes the rulebook to save the world (Publishers Weekly). The Omicron Legion: A mysterious league of elite assassins targets ninety-six of the most powerful people in America, and only McCracken can stop them before the murderers bring the country to its knees in Land’s “first-rate suspense thriller” (Publishers Weekly). The Vengeance of the Tau: Far beneath the sands of Alexandria in Egypt, an archaeological team digs deeper than anyone has before, seeking an ancient power older than the pyramids. What they unearth is an evil that threatens the whole world. An insidious secret organization, the Tau, attempts to harness the vicious force as part of a plan for world domination. But they didn’t count on a certain rogue American op.

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