Download or read book Riddles of Existence written by Dalt Wonk and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspired by costume designs of the golden age of Mardi Gras, The Riddles of Existence is a kind of modern reinvention of Tarot Cards. But these cards are not for predicting the future -- they are for having fun now! The Riddles of Existence are an oversized deck of cards, each with a figure wearing a costume. Beneath the illustration, there is a riddle in verse. The costume is the answer, or a hint at the answer, of the riddle. It's a game any number can play. You can have fun alone or even better, with friends. Turn up a card. Read the riddle. Contemplate the costume. Who can guess the answer?" -- from publisher's website
Download or read book Smuggler s Cove written by Martin Cate and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin and Rebecca Cate, founders and owners of Smuggler’s Cove (the most acclaimed tiki bar of the modern era) take you on a colorful journey into the lore and legend of tiki: its birth as an escapist fantasy for Depression-era Americans; how exotic cocktails were invented, stolen, and re-invented; Hollywood starlets and scandals; and tiki’s modern-day revival, in this James Beard Award-winning cocktail book. Featuring more than 100 delicious recipes (original and historic), plus a groundbreaking new approach to understanding rum, Smuggler’s Cove is the magnum opus of the contemporary tiki renaissance. Whether you’re looking for a new favorite cocktail, tips on how to trick out your home tiki grotto, help stocking your bar with great rums, or inspiration for your next tiki party, Smuggler’s Cove has everything you need to transform your world into a Polynesian Pop fantasia. Make yourself a Mai Tai, put your favorite exotica record on the hi-fi, and prepare to lose yourself in the fantastical world of tiki, one of the most alluring—and often misunderstood—movements in American cultural history.
Download or read book The New Testament Of Our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ Translated Into the Indian Language And Ordered to be Printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New England written by [Anonymus AC09711217] and published by . This book was released on 1661 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winter Brothers written by Ivan Doig and published by HMH. This book was released on 1982-10-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blend of modern-day travel memoir and nineteenth-century history, “infused with the fresh air and spirit of the Northwest” (The New York Times Book Review). The author of the acclaimed This House of Sky and Mountain Time provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through his exploration of the unpublished diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, an early settler of the region who was drawn there from Boston in the 1850s. Winter Brothers fuses excerpts from these diaries with author Ivan Doig’s own journal entries, as he travels in Swan’s footsteps one winter along the once-wild coastline of Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. What emerges is a remarkable interaction of two minds, a dialogue across time that links the present with the reality of the American frontier. “Absorbing . . . A double portrait of striking clarity, yet with wonderfully subtle hues.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book The Year s Work in Nerds Wonks and Neocons written by Jonathan P. Eburne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on intellect, passion, alienation, and America’s geeky subcultures. What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies, D&D players, wallflowers, bookworms, and RPG players grow up? And what can they tell us about the life of the mind in the contemporary United States? With recent years bringing us phenomena from #GamerGate to The Big Bang Theory, it’s clear that nerds, policy wonks, and neoconservatives play a major role in today’s popular culture. The Year’s Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons delves into subcultures of intellectual history to explore their influence on contemporary American intellectual life. Not limiting themselves to describing how individuals are depicted, the authors consider the intellectual endeavors these depictions have come to represent, exploring many models and practices of learnedness, reflection, knowledge production, and opinion in the contemporary world. As teachers, researchers, and university scholars continue to struggle for mainstream visibility, this book illuminates the other forms of intellectual excitement that have emerged alongside them and found ways to survive and even thrive in the face of dismissal or contempt.
Download or read book Service Model written by Adrian Tchaikovsky and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time. To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose. Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Cage of Eden written by Yoshinobu Yamada and published by Kodansha Comics. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PANIC IN THE SKY! ? The base has gotten bigger thanks to everyone's cooperation, but there is another unknown extinct animal that attacks the base! This time, it's a huge bird! Akira's group panics as they face the carnivorous bird, but it doesn't end there as another dreadful enemy attacks! Will the group be able to escape the danger?
Download or read book Theory and Modeling of Rotating Fluids written by Keke Zhang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic account of the theory and modelling of rotating fluids for researchers and students in geophysics, astrophysics and engineering in half a century.
Download or read book Native Writings in Massachusett written by Ives Goddard and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1988 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edition of all known manuscript writings in the Massachusetts language by native speakers. Basic linguistic, historical, and ethnographic analyses are included. Massachusetts is an extinct Eastern Algonquian language spoken aboriginally and in the Colonial period in what is now southeastern Massachusetts. The Indians speaking this language are those referred to as the Massachusetts, the Wampanoags (or Pokanokets), and the Nausets, who inhabited the region encompassing the immediate Boston area and the area east of Narragansett Bay, incl. Cape Cod, the Elizabeth Isl., Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. Illus. with original documents. In two volumes.
Download or read book Iran Israel and the United States written by Ofira Seliktar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the process of evaluating Iran’s nuclear project and the efforts to roll it back, resulting in the 2015 nuclear agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPA). Despite its aura of scientific exactitude, nuclear intelligence is complex and susceptible to methodological disagreements and political bias at the international oversight level—the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)—and within the countries involved in the rollback project – Israel and the United States. To highlight both the technological problems of assessing compliance and the politicization, each chapter in the book uses a real-time comparison of the nuclear developments in Iran, and the perception of Israel and the United States. This methodology yielded some significant results. Essentially, two camps had formed in each country; those who were pushing for an agreement with Iran and those who opposed it. The Israeli intelligence agencies – the Mossad and the Military Intelligence – as well as the highly secretive Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) which advised them considered the program to be weak and slow moving. The right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu suggested that Iran was steps away from the “point of no return,” making it an existential threat to Israel. A virtually identical split emerged in Washington. While the intelligence community and the advising scientists from the National Nuclear Laboratories, considered Iran progress to be relatively modest, the Republicans and the Israel lobby - the Jewish organizations and the Christian Zionists— warned of the imminent danger of a nuclear Iran. With the Obama administration pushing for the JCPOA, a fierce debate took place in Congress. The Israeli intelligence and military chiefs led by the Mossad chief Meir Dagan, which had previously blocked Netanyahu from a preemptive action, quietly supported the agreement. In Washington, the Israel lobby, and the Republicans, helped by Netanyahu, mounted an all-out effort to defeat the deal in Congress. The pro-deal coalition fought back by mobilizing the scientific community, military and intelligence officials, the business lobby, and grassroots Democrats. The JCPOA represents the first successful effort of peaceful counterproliferation. At the same, excessive politicization has clouded its legitimacy and cast doubt about its future.
Download or read book Horsy Hops written by Anthony Barton and published by Breakwater Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horsy Hops is a delightful story for children in pictures and verses. It introduces eight creatures invented by Newfoundlanders to frighten young children into behaving themselves. Among them are the Bullymaroo, the Horsy Hops, the Boobagger, the Angle Dog, the Stalligan, the Oodle Addle, the Beachy Bird and the Oonchook. The clever little girl in the story confronts all these creatures but instead of being afraid she out-smarts them all by means grounded in folklore. Each must be outwitted and befriended on his own terms before being invited to a birthday party to sing the Horsy-hops song. Story and Pictures by Anthony Barton
Download or read book Eco Anxiety written by Heather White and published by Harper Horizon. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The climate crisis and its resulting eco-anxiety is the biggest challenge of our time. The anxiety that comes with worrying about how environmental harm will impact our--and our children's--lives can be overwhelming. Learn how to balance practicing daily sustainability actions while caring for your own eco-anxiety in this revolutionary book from noted environmentalist Heather White. In Eco-Anxiety, White shows you how to contribute to the climate movement through self-discovery and self-care. Utilizing the Service Superpower Profile Assessment included in the text, you’ll discover how your personality, interests, and strengths can be of service to others and the planet. This book will serve as your guide to: Begin a 21-Day Kickstarter Plan that shares specific sustainable actions you can take Track your progress with journal prompts and exercises that'll help you measure mental health benefits Listen and talk with loved ones about their climate anxiety Commit to being an eco-aware individual and inspire your family, friends, and community to work toward a regenerative, sustainable world Setting the intention each day to take a small step to care for the planet--can help ease your eco-anxiety, push the culture toward climate solutions, and create a sense of joy. One Green Thing>
Download or read book Family Planning written by Michael Z. Lewin and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Z. Lewin's Italian family-run private detective agency in Bath faces trouble with the kids, and murder, in Family Planning. Three generations of the Lunghi family live and work together, and when they take on a new case right before Christmas, it proves quite a handful. Especially when everyone seems to be a bit preoccupied: Mama wants to open a cafe; nerdy David is head over heels for a Dirty girl; Marie is meeting strange men in bars; Gina and Angela are out to help a glamorous client--and that's just the beginning. "Gentle family fun, heavy on the charm." – Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Scrappy Wonky Quilt Block Extravaganza written by Jason Bowlsby and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to use scraps, odd cuts, and small fabric treasures in unexpected ways to create one-of-a-kind quilts. Create stunning contemporary abstractions of iconic quilt blocks! With no sewing experience needed, learn how to create stress-free wonky quilt projects with these templates and techniques as your guides. Step-by-step tutorials and detailed layout diagrams will show you how to create wonky quilts that include half-square blocks, curves, slash-and-insert strips, and many more! Working through each block style will develop your skills by levels until even the most complex blocks make sense and can be achieved with the bridging techniques of this book. Projects are beginner-friendly, allowing access to quilters of all skill levels. Explore 13 accessible and beginner-friendly projects to create iconic impressionistic quilt blocks Learn how to finish off different block styles with easy-to-follow techniques Discover a freeform version of your craft to create modern, impressionistic interpretations of traditional quilt blocks using scraps, odd cuts, and small treasures of fabric
Download or read book From Alzheimer s With Love written by Marc Swift and published by Made For Success Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsmart the Brain. Go for the Heart. Marc's mother was exhausted by the time her husband reached his third year of Alzheimer's disease. Marc comes to Orlando from Tulsa for the week of Thanksgiving. His mother asks him to stay. From Alzheimer's, with Love is the true life story of a 6-month journey from deterioration to restoration from this devastating disease. As Marc follows his vision from Jesus, he discovers new ways to outsmart Alzheimer's by going for the heart. Marc enables his dad to get back in touch with himself through interactive physical exercise, guided visualization, and narrative storytelling. Find freedom for your loved one by taking this life-giving journey. Discover how Marc developed a system to help his father escape the prison of his own isolation and reconnect with his wife and son. In this story, you will take an intimate walk through the daily struggles of helping to restore connection with victims of Alzheimer's disease.
Download or read book Death and Mr Pickwick written by Stephen Jarvis and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and Mr. Pickwick is a vast, richly imagined, Dickensian work about the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age. Like Charles Dickens did in his immortal novels, Stephen Jarvis has spun a tale full of preposterous characters, shaggy-dog stories, improbable reversals, skulduggery, betrayal, and valor-all true, and all brilliantly brought to life in his unputdownable book. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, featuring the fat and lovable Mr. Pickwick and his Cockney manservant, Sam Weller, began as a series of whimsical sketches, the brainchild of the brilliant, erratic, misanthropic illustrator named Robert Seymour, a denizen of the back alleys and grimy courtyards where early nineteenth-century London's printers and booksellers plied their cutthroat trade. When Seymour's publishers, after trying to match his magical etchings with a number of writers, settled on a young storyteller using the pen name Boz, The Pickwick Papers went on to become a worldwide phenomenon, outselling every other book besides the Bible and Shakespeare's plays. And Boz, as the young Charles Dickens signed his work, became, in the eyes of many, the most important writer of his time. The fate of Robert Seymour, Mr. Pickwick's creator, a very different story-one untold before now. Few novels deserve to be called magnificent. Death and Mr. Pickwick is one of them.
