Download or read book The Smoking Diaries Volume 2 written by Simon Gray and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a baby, Simon Gray discovered that he could move his pram while still nestling inside it. 'It was a complete mystery to the adult intelligences, how had he done it, if it was he who had done it, but if not he, who then and why? So the next afternoon they (Mummy and Nanny) planted the pram in the usual spot, and stood over it, watching - the baby lay there smiling or snivelling up at them, until it struck them that they should try observing the baby when unobserved by the baby, and they withdrew behind bushes and trees etc.; and thus witnessed the swaying of the pram, then the juddering of the pram, then its slow, unsteady progress along the path, the movement accompanied by a low humming and keening sound from within that reminded them more of a dog than a human ... "jouncing" was the word they used for it. I was a jouncer therefore.' In the second book of his chronicles of triumph and disaster which started with The Smoking Diaries, Gray intertwined scenes from his adult and his childish self to produce a brilliant and moving counterpoint of life's unsteady progress.

Download or read book Legend of the Black Rainbow Vol 2 written by Mark Osborne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One morning, Billy Fox finds a strange, long black mark on his life-line in the palm of his hand. As he searches online for any unbiased medical information he could find at his local library. He is soon befriended by a mysterious tall man called Mr Limerick. The stranger tells Billy, he has been marked with the Bloodstone Curse by someone. Then, very soon, as time goes by, his friends start going missing, as a demonic creature the Gadel is soon blamed for their disappearance. This leads Billy to make a very hard choice, and the only way to free his friends and lift the curse is to kill himself. Will he take his own life, to save the ones he loves? Or will Billy venture across the sands of Sandark, to slay the beast beyond the Black Rainbow?

Download or read book The Kelly and Victoria Fairy Stories Volume 2 written by Jim Best and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of stories about Victoria Fairy and Kelly the magical Unicorn, and of course Polo Bear. There's balloons, strange birds, boating, missing sugar-lumps, and lots of tea

Download or read book Dark Souls Beyond the Grave Volume 2 written by Damien Mecheri and published by Third Editions. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We thought we had gone through the topic in the first volume, those two games opened new pists of reflexions. The in-depth analysis of Hidetaka Miyazaki's Dark Souls saga continues with this volume 2, decoding the Bloodborne and Dark Souls III episodes. An indinspensale ebook for all the fans of the game Dark Souls ! EXTRACT The project, christened Project Beast, began soon after the Astorias of the Abyss DLC was released in August 2012. At the time, FromSoftware was also beginning to build Dark Souls II, its cash cow. Miyazaki kept his distance from this sequel, which was handed off to Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura, with support from the FromSoftware president and creator of King’s Field, Naotoshi Zin, who supervised the game system. On his end, Hidetaka Miyazaki formed a trusted team of regular collaborators, such as lead programmer Jun Itô (who had already filled this role for Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls), composer and lead sound designer Tsukasa Saitô (Armored Core games), and most of his regular artists: Daisuke Satake, Masanori Waragai and Hiroshi Nakamura. The success of Demon’s Souls, and the even greater success of Dark Souls, allowed FromSoftware to grow its ranks significantly. In total, no fewer than fifty programmers participated in the project, along with around twenty game system designers and fifty people working on visual creation (animation, scenery, characters, etc.). Thanks to financial support from Sony, many Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese studios were sub-contracted during the production to help with graphics and visuals. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Passionate about films and video games, Damien Mecheri joined the writers team of Gameplay RPG in 2004, writing several articles for the second special edition on the Final Fantasy saga. He continued his work with the team in another publication called Background, before continuing the online adventure in 2008 with the site Gameweb.fr. Since 2011, he has come aboard Third Éditions with Mehdi El Kanafi and Nicolas Courcier, the publisher’s two founders. Damien is also the author of the book Video Game Music: a History of Gaming Music. For Third Éditions, he is actively working on the “Level Up” and “Année jeu vidéo” collections. He has also written or co-written several works from the same publisher: The Legend of Final Fantasy X, Welcome to Silent Hill: a journey into Hell, The Works of Fumito Ueda: a Different Perspective on Video Games and, of course, the first volume of Dark Souls: Beyond the Grave. Curious by nature, a dreamer against the grain and a chronic ranter, Sylvain Romieu is also a passionate traveler of the real and the unreal, the world and the virtual universes, always in search of enriching discoveries and varied cultures. A developer by trade, he took up his modest pen several years ago to study the characteristics and richness of the marvelously creative world of video games. He writes for a French video game site called Chroniques-Ludiques, particularly on the topic of RPGs, his preferred genre.

Download or read book Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques written by Kristina Harris and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage guide offered turn-of-the-century seamstresses clear instructions for altering patterns and creating shirt-blouses, skirts, wedding gowns, coats, maternity wear, children's clothing, and other apparel.

Download or read book Harrow Bay Volume 2 written by Aurelia Skye and published by Amourisa Press. This book was released on with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the place where things that go bump in the night deliver your milk in the mornings, community is important to human and creature alike, and all Hell occasionally breaks loose. When Jody Shaw is hired to be the new sheriff of Harrow Bay, a small coastal community, she’s excited to rise through the ranks and try something new. At forty-three, her career is everything that matters to her, besides her mother and grandmother, who move with her. They soon learn Harrow Bay is a supernatural town. This volume contains books 5-8 of the completed 12-book series. This is paranormal women's fiction featuring a main heroine in her 40s, along with her mother and grandmother. There will be some slow burn romance, along with the occasional cursing and violence, and some sexual tension. Keywords: midlife romance, later in life romance, supernatural suspense, mystery, anthology, harrow bay series, small town, paranormal romance, paranormal fantasy, urban fantasy, humor, shifters, magic, witches, demons, angels, hell gate, warlocks, vampires, ghosts

Download or read book Victoria Cross Heroes Volume II written by Michael Ashcroft and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Lance-Sergeant Johnson Beharry VC THE VICTORIA CROSS is Britain and the Commonwealth's most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in the face of the enemy. It has been bestowed upon 1,355 heroic individuals from all walks of life since its creation during the Crimean War. Lord Ashcroft, who has been fascinated with bravery since he was a young boy, now owns 200 VCs, by far the largest collection of its kind in the world. Following on from the bestselling Victoria Cross Heroes, first published in 2006 to mark the 150th anniversary of the award, Victoria Cross Heroes: Volume II gives extraordinary accounts of the bravery behind the newest additions to Lord Ashcroft's VC collection - those decorations purchased in the last decade. With nearly sixty action-packed stories of courageous soldiers, sailors and airmen from a range of global conflicts including the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58, the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 and the First and Second World Wars, this book is a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit and a worthy tribute to the servicemen who earned the Victoria Cross. Their inspirational deeds of valour and self-sacrifice should be championed and never forgotten.

Download or read book Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain Part I Vol 2 written by Michelle Allen-Emerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. An extensive general introduction sets the material in context and extends the debate to provide a contemporary international perspective.

Download or read book The Forsyte Saga Volume 2 written by John Galsworthy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-27 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 - 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. His most notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.

Download or read book Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians Volume 2 written by Victoria Reifler Bricker and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the single most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, well-known cultural anthropologist Victoria Reifler Bricker was selected to be general editor. This second volume of the Supplement is devoted to Mesoamerican languages. It differs in both scope and content from its forerunner, Volume 5 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians: Linguistics, which presents a general survey of Middle American linguistics and descriptions of Classical Nahuatl, Yucatec, Quiche, Popoluca, Zapotec, Mazatec, Pame, and Chontal de Oaxaca. The aim of the present volume is to provide detailed sketches of five additional languages: Mixe, Chichimeco Jonaz, Choltí, Tarascan, and Huastec. All the grammatical sketches deal with the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the languages treated; most cover discourse as well. Taken together, these new essays represent a substantial enrichment of the earlier Handbook volume on linguistics. Alone, the Supplement stands as an invaluable reference guide for all who are interested in learning about these important and heretofore poorly treated languages of Middle America.

Download or read book Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians Volume 2 written by Munro S. Edmonson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the single most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, well-known cultural anthropologist Victoria Reifler Bricker was selected to be general editor.

This second volume of the Supplement is devoted to Mesoamerican languages. It differs in both scope and content from its forerunner, Volume 5 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians: Linguistics, which presents a general survey of Middle American linguistics and descriptions of Classical Nahuatl, Yucatec, Quiche, Popoluca, Zapotec, Mazatec, Pame, and Chontal de Oaxaca.

The aim of the present volume is to provide detailed sketches of five additional languages: Mixe, Chichimeco Jonaz, Choltí, Tarascan, and Huastec. All the grammatical sketches deal with the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the languages treated; most cover discourse as well. Taken together, these new essays represent a substantial enrichment of the earlier Handbook volume on linguistics. Alone, the Supplement stands as an invaluable reference guide for all who are interested in learning about these important and heretofore poorly treated languages of Middle America.

Download or read book Our Friend the Enemy written by David W. Cameron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Friend the Enemy is the first detailed history of the Gallipoli campaign at Anzac since Charles Bean’s Official History. Viewed from both sides of the wire and described in first-hand accounts. Australian Captain Herbert Layh recounted that as they approached the beach on 25 April that, once we were behind cover the Turks turned their .. [fire] on us, and gave us a lively 10 minutes. A poor chap next to me was hit three times. He begged me to shoot him, but luckily for him a fourth bullet got him and put him out of his pain. Later that day, Sergeant Charles Saunders, a New Zealand engineer, described his first taste of battle, The Turks were entrenched some 50-100 yards from the edge of the face of the gully and their machine guns swept the edges. Line after line of our men went up, some lines didn’t take two paces over the crest when down they went to a man and on came another line. Gunner Recep Trudal of the Turkish 27th Regiment wrote of the fierce Turkish counter-attack on 19 May designed to push the Anzac’s back into the sea, It started at morning prayer call time, and then it went on and on, never stopped. You know there was no break for eating or anything … Attack was our command. That was what the Pasha said. Once he says “Attack”, you attack, and you either die or you survive.

Download or read book The Victorian City written by Judith Flanders and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology—railways, street-lighting, and sewers—transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail.From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the colorful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, to the many uses for the body parts of dead horses and the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's meticulously researched, captivatingly written The Victorian City will ever view London in the same light again.

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Download or read book Tor Forge Author Voices Volume 2 written by Stacy Hague-Hill and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have the guts to steal from the Queen of England? Or the survival instincts to survive a zombie apocalypse? Have you ever wondered what your cat is staring at in a seemingly empty room? In this collection you can experience this all and much more. With this sampler, Tor and Forge Books proudly present a one-of-a-kind collection of articles written by our authors, along with excerpts of forthcoming books. We're highlighting a cross-section of our exciting new and popular titles in science fiction and fantasy, steampunk, young adult fiction, and your favorite video properties with a look at Tor'sHaloTM, Dragon AgeTM, Dead SpaceTM, and EVETM tie-in novels. Also included in this collection are articles and essays on the craft of writing and reflections on the many worlds of genre fiction. In this collection . . . GREG BEAR gives us a look at what it is like to write in the Halo universe with the newest entry into the Halo series, HALO: Cryptum. Read an excerpt of HALO: Cryptumand begin discovering the mysteries of the Forerunner society, the architects of the Halo rings. ORSON SCOTT CARD returns to fantasy with The Lost Gate and gives us a tour of the worlds connected to the Mithermages. BRIAN HERBERT and KEVIN J. ANDERSON launch an epic new science fiction series with Hellhole. KEVIN J. ANDERSON also provides us with a personal essay about his appreciation for the science fiction genre as an escape for the imagination. The long awaited sequel to Fire Upon the Deep by VERNOR VINGE releases on October 11th. In the meantime, check out a sneak-peak of TheChildren of the Sky. Award-winning author of the Fables comics, BILL WILLINGHAM, gives us a look at a new prose novel for middle grade audiences, Down The Mysterly River – to be released with interior art from Fables artist, Mark Buckingham With more features and novel previews by: STEVE ENGLEHART BRIAN EVENSON DAVID GAIDER FELIX GILMAN TONY GONZALES L.E. MODESITT, JR. CHERIE PRIEST CARRIE VAUGHN KENDARE BLAKE LISA DESROCHERS RHIANNON FRATER KIKI HAMILTON DAVID WEBER At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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