Download or read book Who Says Women Can t Be Computer Programmers written by Tanya Lee Stone and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book biography of Ada Lovelace, the woman recognized today as history’s first computer programmer—she imagined them 100 years before they existed! In the early nineteenth century lived Ada Byron: a young girl with a wild and wonderful imagination. The daughter of internationally acclaimed poet Lord Byron, Ada was tutored in science and mathematics from a very early age. But Ada’s imagination was never meant to be tamed and, armed with the fundamentals of math and engineering, she came into her own as a woman of ideas—equal parts mathematician and philosopher. From her whimsical beginnings as a gifted child to her most sophisticated notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, this book celebrates the woman recognized today as the first computer programmer. This title has Common Core connections. Christy Ottaviano Books

Download or read book The Nostalgia Nerd s Retro Tech Computer Consoles Games written by Peter Leigh and published by Ilex Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember what a wild frontier the early days of home gaming were? Manufacturers releasing new consoles at a breakneck pace; developers creating games that kept us up all night, then going bankrupt the next day; and what self-respecting kid didn't beg their parents for an Atari or a Nintendo? This explosion of computers, consoles, and games was genuinely unlike anything the tech world has seen before or since. This thoroughly researched and geeky trip down memory lane pulls together the most entertaining stories from this dynamic era, and brings you the classic tech that should never be forgotten.

Download or read book Rhett Link s Book of Mythicality written by Rhett McLaughlin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Internetainers" Rhett & Link met in first grade when their teacher made them miss recess for writing profanity on their desks, and they have been best friends ever since. Today, their daily YouTube talk show, Good Mythical Morning, is the most-watched daily talk show on the Internet, and nearly 12 million subscribers tune in to see the guys broadcast brainy trivia, wild experiments, and hilarious banter (not to mention the occasional cereal bath). Now the award-winning comedians are finally bringing their "Mythical" world to the printed page in their first book. A hilarious blend of autobiography, trivia, and advice, Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality: A Field Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and Tomfoolery will offer twenty ways to add "Mythicality" to your life, including: Eat Something That Scares You Make a Bold Hair Choice Invent Something Ridiculous Say "I Love You" Like It's Never Been Said Speak at Your Own Funeral The goal of these offbeat prompts? To learn new things, laugh more often, and earn a few grown-up merit badges along the way. Heartfelt and completely original, this book will be the perfect gift for anyone looking for a fresh dose of humor and fun.

Download or read book The Computer s Nerd written by W. Royce Adams and published by Rairarubia Books. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, The Computer's Nerd won a 2003 Book-of-the-Year Young Adult Finalist award from ForeWord Magazine. With humorous overtones, this juvenile novel deals with the problem of school bullies and the repercussions that can come from the desire for revenge.

Download or read book The Vertical Plane written by Ken Webster and published by Iris Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vertical Plane: The Mystery of the Dodleston Messages: A unique supernatural detective story.

Download or read book State of the Union written by Walt Branam and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Wolfe, Assistant Director of the FBI, has learned a secret organization of billionaires intends to detonate an atomic bomb during the president’s State of the Union Address and take over the United States. They’re called the Order, and they have infiltrated the government and the media as part of a plan that has been in the making for years. Tom is told to drop the case. He is then suspended and arrested but promptly escapes. He is branded a conspiracy nut and national fugitive, so he can no longer depend on using traditional methods for his investigation. He needs outside help, and this includes his brother John, who was placed in a maximum-security prison after trying to expose the Order. John might hold the key to stopping the Order, so Tom has to find a way to free his brother by breaking into a secure Homeland Security facility. Tom now travels a bizarre path where old friends become mortal enemies. The clock is ticking, especially as the Order hires assassins to kill Tom and his allies. The president must be saved, and with him, America, but how far is Tom willing to go to stop a nuclear blast?

Download or read book My Boyfriend Bites written by Dan Jolley and published by Graphic Universe. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old New Mexico high school senior Vanessa Shingle learns that she destined to be a monster-hunter like her Van Helsing ancestor, and that the gorgeous janitor she is dating, Jean-Paul, is there to help although he, himself, is a vampire.

Download or read book 03 My Boyfriend Bites written by Dan Jolley and published by Graphic Universe ™. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanessa Shingle has a knack for choosing boyfriends who need fixing-the juvenile delinquent, The school cheat, The slacker....Then she meets Jean-Paul McClellan-the perfect project! Vanessa is determined to find out Jean-Paul's story. Why would such a smart hunk waste his life as a janitor? She drags her best friend Stork on a nighttime mission to learn more. What she sees makes her blood run cold.

Download or read book The Starchild Trilogy written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Starman Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 1439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In book one, Slingshot, three scientist/engineers reach for the stars as they blend their skills with a host of skilled colleagues to create the world’s first Space Launch-Loop. A team of young eco-terrorists will go to any length to halt the project. One woman is determined to scoop the story, reporting events to a watching world. Slingshot ranges from Seattle’s financial district, to the ocean bottom off Baker Island, to the edge of space, and across the vast panorama of an Equatorial Pacific. It’s a love story, a gender-bender, and a mystery about a missing aviatrix, a conspiracy, and a true-believer. It’s about high finance, intrigue, heroism, fanaticism, betrayal…and humanity’s surge into outer space. In book two, The Starchild Compact, an international team ventures to Saturn’s moon Iapetus to verify it really is a derelict starship. They discover the Founders, descendants of the starship’s builders who arrived in our Solar System 150,000 years ago. Together with the Founders, the explorers advance Founder science with momentous implications for the entire Solar System, paving the way for a joint push to the distant reaches of the Galaxy. But, a Persian Caliphate stowaway sabotages the mission, hoping to destroy science that he believes violates Islam. The Starchild Compact blends tomorrow’s science with human foibles, fears, beliefs, and political intrigue, speculating on how civilization might develop while traveling on a generational starship, and how modern humans might interact with remnants of that civilization. In book three, The Iapetus Federation, besieged Israelis on Earth make their way to Mars as the Federation expands throughout the Solar System. While global Jihad rages on Earth, putting millions to the sword, the Starchild Institute develops wormhole transportation. But will this new technology be ready in time to rescue all that is left of the United States, the beleaguered Lone Star Conservancy, and remnants of other cultures around the globe? From hand-to-hand combat in the oceans, to battles on Earth’s surface, to struggles in interplanetary space, our heroes fight to survive and expand to the far reaches of the universe.

Download or read book SLINGSHOT written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slingshot is a love story – about a man, a woman, another man, another woman, some gender-bending...and a machine, the largest ever built. Slingshot is a mystery – about a missing aviatrix, a conspiracy, a true-believer. Slingshot is an adventure – about following a dream, the ocean-deep, outer space. Slingshot is about constructing the first space launch- loop stretching 2,600 km between Baker and Jarvis Islands in the Equatorial Pacific. It’s about high finance, intrigue, unlimited ambition, heroism, fanaticism, betrayal...and about opening space to the common person. The setting is the day-after-tomorrow. Technology has advanced, the web is more pervasive than ever, but human ambition and greed remain unchanged. In Slingshot, Alex Regent, Margo Jackson, and Klaus Blumenfeld reach for the stars as they blend their skills to create the world’s first space launch-loop, backed by major software money. Environmental fanatic Lars Watson with his team of young eco-terrorists are funded by opposing financial interests, who will go to any length to halt the project. Reporter Lori Kutcher indiscriminately applies her own personal skills to ensure it is she who reports the unfolding events to a watching world. With a cast of 69, Slingshot takes you from Seattle’s world financial district, to the ocean bottom at 5,000 feet off Baker Island, to the edge of space 80 km above. You play with dolphins and battle sharks. You fly and sail and dive, you work and play and love across the vast panorama of an Equatorial Pacific being put to leash to serve humanity’s surge into outer space. While its accurate science and precise engineering will appeal to hard science-fiction buffs, Slingshot’s major focus is the grand journey, the opening of outer space to the common person by men and women who loom larger than life as they work, play, and love.

Download or read book Four Days The Revenge written by Lora Lindy and published by Lora Lindy. This book was released on 2022-09-18 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angelino Marquit is determined to get revenge, even if it means killing innocent people for the sport of it. To him, it's all a game. Agent Mike Ramsey has to stop him before the body bags continue to stack up. Marquit tries to make it easy for him. He gives Mike clues throughout the game, and one clue is 'life can be short with a full moon'. What does that mean? Mike's team has to figure it out before another innocent person dies. The ultimate kill will be someone close to the team; that is if they don't solve the clues. Time is ticking, and Mike has four days before Marquit gets his final revenge. This third and last book of the Days Trilogy ends the hatred between Mike and Marquit. Someone does prevail—but who?

Download or read book A Simple Choice written by Lynn Roberts and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Baxter is a happy, young professional woman whose life is torn apart when David, her husband, becomes physically abusive. For the first few years, they had what Kate often called a "too normal" marriage. Two years ago, all that mysteriously changed. An unexplained moodiness has now turned to anger and rage. When Kate threatens to leave with their son if the abuse doesn't stop, David promises to kill her if she does and then whispers a shocking secret that she's not sure she even believes. Discouraged by ineffective legal remedies, Kate flees with their son to another city and takes on a new identity. While David searches for clues to their whereabouts, he is questioned by a police detective who has new leads in a baffling homicide investigation. David and the detective both race against time in their respective pursuits. A Simple Choice is a gripping story of how the human spirit can be paralyzed by fear and doubt, yet set free by a simple choice. It touches the place within each of us that cries out for hope, courage, and freedom.

Download or read book Psyber and Clipped Eagles written by Pat Reilly and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time is the near future. The planet has fallen under the control of the Order, a faceless international cabal, which has essentially enslaved the world in an era that Christian believers refer to as the End Times. Angels of God, God's secret agents, based in the millennial rule of Christ, travel back in time and recruit human followers of Christ to assist in certain intelligence operations on behalf of the kingdom of God. David Psyber, private investigator and ex-spy for the US government, is now employed by C4 Enterprises. Fresh from a politically incorrect diatribe on a Boston radio station, Psyber is sent to the woods of Tennessee, where he and his wife, Lucia Lemieux, set up house on a deserted 737 airliner, the Clipped Eagle, out of the reach of the Order. Shortly after their arrival, Psyber is then sent on a mission by the mysterious Oeltjen, his control, on an operation in Stuttgart, Germany, to neutralize a grave threat to Israel and the world. Psyber gradually learns his employment with C4 Enterprises has divine and supernatural connections. International intrigue quick wit, humor, action, and a confrontation with Satan himself make for a fun ride and, for Psyber, deeper understanding of the battles to come. "Clipped Eagles," a short story included as part of the ongoing adventures, leads Psyber and his fellow operative, Bull Fisher, into the dark past of a bitter woman.

Download or read book Cruel and Unusual written by Patricia Cornwell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A knockout” (People) of a thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. “Killing me won’t kill the beast” are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can’t explain how medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell’s fingerprints on another crime scene—after she’d performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual...

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Download or read book A Necessary Deception written by Lucy Farago and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The agents of the renowned Investigative Collection Unit have to be the biggest, baddest, and brightest to take on missions no one else would dare. It doesn’t hurt that they’re also the sexiest. But in a shadowy world where reality means living on the razor’s edge of deception, few survive with their hearts intact . . . ICU intel expert Monty Buchannan’s idea of fun is creating software—not roughing it in a cabin off the grid in Alaska. But his team forced him to unplug when his intense need to be in control put a mission at risk. Being alone isn’t a problem; most people make him uncomfortable. But there’s something about the woman he finds floundering in a frozen stream that warms his ice-cold heart . . . Taylor Moore was once a spoiled socialite famous for her tabloid-worthy exploits, until she broke out from under wealthy father’s thumb. Now she’s the self-made CEO of an online matchmaking service—and on the run from Russian mobsters who’ve hijacked her website. But when she’s suddenly plucked from a river by a half-naked mountain man, trust will become a matter of survival. And desire just might break down the defenses that have kept them both playing it far too safe for far too long . . . “Lucy Farago has an eye for detail, a heart for romance, and a voice as layered as her plot and characters!” --Roxanne St. Claire, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author

Download or read book The Complete Queen B Trilogy written by Crista McHugh and published by Crista McHugh. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fans of YA will totally get a kick out of McHugh’s novel not only because it’s funny, but also because the characters are so real.” -- RT Book Reviews WINNER of the NATIONAL READERS CHOICE AWARD for best YA of 2015 Confessions of a Queen B* (Book 1) Alexis Wyndham is the other type of Queen B—the Queen B*tch. After years of being the subject of ridicule, she revels in her ability to make the in-crowd cower via the exposés on her blog, The Eastline Spy. Now that she’s carved out her place in the high school hierarchy, she uses her position to help the unpopular kids walking the hallways. Saving a freshman from bullies? Check. Swapping insults with the head cheerleader? Check. Falling for the star quarterback? So not a part of her plan. But when Brett offers to help her solve the mystery of who’s posting X-rated videos from the girls’ locker room, she’ll have to swallow her pride and learn to see past the high school stereotypes she’s never questioned—until now. The Queen B* Strikes Back (Book 2) Alexis Wyndham isn’t quite sure what to think about her “friendship” with star quarterback, Brett Pederson. Sure, he has more intelligence than the entire football team combined. Not to mention that fact he’s a great kisser. When he asks her to help him with his college admission essays, she isn’t sure if he’s doing it to spend more time with her or if he’s just using her for her brains. But after her nemesis, Summer Hoyt, makes it clear she’s not finished chasing after Brett, Alexis begins realize how hard she’s fallen for Brett. Now the war is on, and the head cheerleader will find out why she should never take on a Queen B*. The Queen B* and the Homecoming King (Book 3) The Queen B*, Alexis Wyndham, has only three rules when it comes to dating the star quarterback, Brett Pederson: 1.No obligations to spend every waking moment with each other. 2.No public displays of affection while at Eastline High. 3.And absolutely, under no circumstances, will she ever go to the Homecoming dance. But as her life is completely upended time and time again, she begins to wonder if some rules are meant to be broken.