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Download or read book Building Magic written by Owen Davies and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variety of objects have been found up chimneybreasts, bricked up in walls, and concealed within recesses: old shoes, mummified cats, horse skulls, pierced hearts, to name only some. The most common approach to these finds is to apply a one-size-fits-all analysis and label them survivals and apotropaic (evil-averting) devices. This book reconsiders such interpretations, exploring the invention and reinvention of traditions regarding building magic. The title Building Magic therefore refers to more than practices that alter the fabric of buildings, but also to processes of building magic into our interpretations of the enigmatic material evidence and into our engagements with the buildings we inhabit and frequent.
Download or read book Creating Magic written by Lee Cockerell and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s not the magic that makes it work; it’s the way we work that makes it magic.” The secret for creating “magic” in our careers, our organizations, and our lives is simple: outstanding leadership—the kind that inspires employees, delights customers, and achieves extraordinary business results. No one knows more about this kind of leadership than Lee Cockerell, the man who ran Walt Disney World® Resort operations for over a decade. And in Creating Magic, he shares the leadership principles that not only guided his own journey from a poor farm boy in Oklahoma to the head of operations for a multibillion dollar enterprise, but that also soon came to form the cultural bedrock of the world’s number one vacation destination. But as Lee demonstrates, great leadership isn’t about mastering impossibly complex management theories. We can all become outstanding leaders by following the ten practical, common sense strategies outlined in this remarkable book. As straightforward as they are profound, these leadership lessons include: Everyone is important. Make your people your brand. Burn the free fuel: appreciation, recognition, and encouragement. Give people a purpose, not just a job. Combining surprising business wisdom with insightful and entertaining stories from Lee’s four decades on the front lines of some of the world’s best-run companies, Creating Magic shows all of us – from small business owners to managers at every level – how to become better leaders by infusing quality, character, courage, enthusiasm, and integrity into our workplace and into our lives.
Download or read book Three Parts Dead written by Max Gladstone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of intrigue, a murdered god, and the business of necromancy: an urban fantasy set in an alternate reality
Book Synopsis The Magic-System Blueprint by : C. R. Rowenson
Download or read book The Magic-System Blueprint written by C. R. Rowenson and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your world deserves the best magic system you can dream of. A quality magic system can transform your story from average to unforgettable. Let's face it, you've spent countless hours dreaming of the perfect magic system that not only enhances your stories, helps define your characters but also hooks your readers. But what do you do when your magic system becomes overwhelming? Or if you can't quite figure out how to make all the pieces work together? The Magic System Blueprint, by C. R. Rowenson, is a simple magic-building tool that allows authors to quickly map out their magic system. This innovative blueprint will enable authors of every experience level and background to Gain a holistic sense of how your magic system works Understand how your magic system fits into your story Determine how your setting and magic system are flawlessly incorporated Whether it be game creation, worldbuilding, or novel writing, having a well-established magic system is the cornerstone of your story. With the Blueprint in hand, you can analyze any system in existence and build every system imaginable.
Book Synopsis Cultures and Beyond by : Randy Ellefson
Download or read book Cultures and Beyond written by Randy Ellefson and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written to help fantasy and science fiction storytellers, game designers, gamers, and hobbyists, Cultures and Beyond (The Art of World Building, #3) is a how-to guide for filling an imaginary world with fascinating societies. It includes chapters on creating cultures, calendars, monetary systems, military groups, religions, the supernatural, systems of magic, magic items, names, and more. You'll also learn how to leverage real world cultures while making them seem original. Even those who've never invented a world will soon be masters as the authors decades of experience walk you through using pre-made templates that make world building faster, better, and easier to complete.Understand how to use analogues to quickly build unique societies based on Earth. Invent interesting crimes and punishments that involve imaginary creatures or technologies. Create currencies for different places while keeping them easy for your audience to fathom. Master the art of creating naming styles for different societies. Fashion new military groups in gritty detail. Dream up sensible rules for magic, its practitioners, the supernatural and what happens when things go wrong. Learn what kind of files you'll need to create, how to organize them, and get jump started with the free templates you'll use again and again.Cultures and Beyond is the third volume in The Art of World Building, the only multi-volume series of its kind. Readers will learn how much world building to do for each scenario they encounter and whether the effort will be rewarding for them and their audience.
Book Synopsis Mastering Magic Cards by : George Baxter
Download or read book Mastering Magic Cards written by George Baxter and published by Wordware Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the art of masterful deck construction.
Download or read book The Far Field written by Madhuri Vijay and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Remarkable . . . Vijay traces the fault lines of history, love, and obligation running through a fractured family and country.” —Anthony Marra, New York Times–bestselling author Winner of the 2019 JCB Prize for Literature Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize–winner Madhuri Vijay’s The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present. In the wake of her mother’s death, Shalini, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. Certain that the loss of her mother is somehow connected to the decade-old disappearance of Bashir Ahmed, a charming Kashmiri salesman who frequented her childhood home, she is determined to confront him. But upon her arrival, Shalini is brought face to face with Kashmir’s politics, as well as the tangled history of the local family that takes her in. And when life in the village turns volatile and old hatreds threaten to erupt into violence, Shalini finds herself forced to make a series of choices that could hold dangerous repercussions for the very people she has come to love. With rare acumen and evocative prose, in The Far Field Madhuri Vijay masterfully examines Indian politics, class prejudice, and sexuality through the lens of an outsider, offering a profound meditation on grief, guilt, and the limits of compassion. “A chance to glimpse the lives of distant people captured in prose gorgeous enough to make them indelible—and honest enough to make them real.” —The Washington Post “A singular story of mother and daughter.” —Entertainment Weekly
Book Synopsis Always Magic in the Air by : Ken Emerson
Download or read book Always Magic in the Air written by Ken Emerson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit farther uptown and composed some of the most beguiling and enduring entries in the Great American Songbook. Always Magic in the Air is the first thorough history of these renowned songwriters-tunesmiths who melded black, white, and Latino sounds, integrated audiences before America desegregated its schools, and brought a new social consciousness to pop music.
Book Synopsis Creating Magic by : Richard McKeever
Download or read book Creating Magic written by Richard McKeever and published by Community Links. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Emperor's Soul by : Brandon Sanderson
Download or read book The Emperor's Soul written by Brandon Sanderson and published by Dragonsteel, LLC. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER, 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novella! From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Emperor’s Soul showcases a fascinating magic system as the clock ticks down for a condemned criminal. When Shai is caught replacing the Moon Scepter with her nearly flawless forgery, she must bargain for her life. An assassin has left the Emperor Ashravan without consciousness, a circumstance concealed only by the death of his wife. If the emperor does not emerge after his hundred-day mourning period, the rule of the Heritage Faction will be forfeit and the empire will fall into chaos. Shai is given an impossible task: to create—to Forge—a new soul for the emperor in less than one hundred days. But her soul-Forgery is considered an abomination by her captors. She is confined to a tiny, dirty chamber, guarded by a man who hates her, spied upon by politicians, and trapped behind a door sealed in her own blood. Shai’s only possible ally is the emperor’s most loyal councillor, Gaotona, who struggles to understand her true talent. Time is running out for Shai. Forging, while deducing the motivations of her captors, she needs a perfect plan to escape… -------------------- “Sanderson proves to be an exceptionally talented writer in the pages of this book. Complex as some of the background is, he never gets bogged down filling in details for the reader. Instead we learn everything we need seamlessly as the story unfolds. His prose is lyrical without ever getting in its own way … His characters are fascinating and fully realized. … The Emperor’s Soul is one of those rare high fantasies that feels fresh and is filled with a sense of wonder.” —Charles de Lint, Fantasy & Science Fiction -------------------- A note from the publisher: Brandon will send a free copy of this ebook to anyone who purchased the Tachyon Publications trade paperback. See the title page in the ebook preview for details.
Download or read book Temple Magic written by William Gray and published by . This book was released on 1994-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the problems and details one is likely to encounter in temple practice. Learn how a temple should look, how it should function, what a ceremonialist should wear, what physical postures best promote the ideal spiritual/mental attitude, and how magic is worked in a temple. Very practical for the beginner.
Download or read book Fight Write written by Carla Hoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether a side-street skirmish or an all-out war, fight scenes bring action to the pages of every kind of fiction. But a poorly done or unbelievable fight scene can ruin a great book in an instant. In Fight Write you'll learn practical tips, terminology, and the science behind crafting realistic fight scenes for your fiction. Broken up into "Rounds," trained fighter and writer Carla Hoch guides you through the many factors you'll need to consider when developing battles and brawls. • In Round 1, you will consider how the Who, When, Where, and Why questions affect what type of fight scene you want to craft. • Round 2 delves into the human factors of biology (think fight or flight and adrenaline) and psychology (aggression and response to injuring or killing another person). • Round 3 explores different fighting styles that are appropriate for different situations: How would a character fight from a prone position versus being attacked in the street? What is the vocabulary used to describe these styles? • Round 4 considers weaponry and will guide you to select the best weapon for your characters, including nontraditional weapons of opportunity, while also thinking about the nitty-gritty details of using them. • In Round 5, you'll learn how to accurately describe realistic injuries sustained from the fights and certain weapons, and what kind of injuries will kill a character or render them unable to fight further. By taking into account where your character is in the world, when in history the fight is happening, what the character's motivation for fighting is, and much more, you'll be able write fight scenes unique to your plot and characters, all while satisfying your reader's discerning eye.
Book Synopsis Kindergarten Magic by : Kathy MacMillan
Download or read book Kindergarten Magic written by Kathy MacMillan and published by ALA Editions. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This time-saving program planner for librarians and classroom teachers alike includes everything you need to get started—reading lists, flannelboard patterns, poems, songs, easy crafts, even take-home activities to extend the learning process.
Download or read book Bad Magic written by Pseudonymous Bosch and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is incredibly BAD. It does not contain MAGIC. Or a mysterious ghost girl. Or spontaneous combustion. Or Spanish-speaking llamas. Nope. None of these things. Okay... maybe one of these things. But certainly not MAGIC. It’s just an ordinary tale of a normal boy who goes to summer camp on a desert island. Nothing exciting or weird happens. The camp is definitely NOT for crazy, badly-behaved kids, and there are NO SECRETS or MYSTERIES at all. And absolutely NO MAGIC whatsoever...
Book Synopsis Creating Business Magic by : David Morey
Download or read book Creating Business Magic written by David Morey and published by Mango. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieve Exceptional Results and Beat Your Competition "... how the power of magic can ignite your own imagination, power through barriers, and get way ahead of any competition." ―David Copperfield, American magician #1 New Release in Organizational Change First comes the magic, and then the magic becomes the reality We are all capable of magic. You may think you know what magic is. Abracadabra, hocus-pocus. Forget about it. Magic is what human beings do. It's just that some do it a lot better than others. Key business strategy secrets from the world's greatest magicians. This book takes everything that three remarkable authors―a corporate strategist, a former acting CIA director, and a world-renowned magician―have learned about magic and packs it into a unique framework that captures the best of this art form. Then the book relates it directly to key lessons applicable to a wide variety of business enterprises. The authors' objective is not to create a new generation of magicians, but to adapt nine strategies of the world's greatest magicians; bolstering innovation, energizing leadership, and sparking business success. Magic and disruptive innovation. Each chapter opens with a scenario depicting a pivotal historic moment in magic (think Harry Houdini, Doug Henning, Penn and Teller, David Copperfield) and uses it as a starting point to explore how the magical technique employed can create a fertile environment for industry, disruptive innovation, and propel a company light years ahead of the competition. Learn how to: Anticipate the next trends Create remarkable new products Launch marketing and advertising campaigns that will mesmerize Make dazzling sales presentations Resolve seemingly unsolvable business dilemmas Inspire teams with resilient change leadership If you have read Creating Magic by Lee Cockerell or Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi, you'll want to read Creating Business Magic.
Download or read book Real Magic written by Ash Magic and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic is making the impossible possible. And there are tons of tips and tricks in this book, but the REAL MAGIC is finding the good vibes every day in everything you do! Australian magician and TikTok star Ash Magic is here to turn your frown upside down with his unique blend of magic, positivity and lifestyle content. Find out how he overcame challenges, including anxiety and ADHD, to become a world-class stage performer and online sensation. Pick up Real Magic for personal photos and anecdotes, never-before-shared insights into Ash's story and the philosophy behind his success. Read about how to recreate Ash's magic tricks and learn how to bring his good-vibes mindset into YOUR life. If you know where (and how) to look, real magic is out there and opportunities are just around the corner! Real Magic is the kind of fun, positive lift we all need right now - for Ash Magic fans and anyone who needs a little bit of sunshine in their lives!
Download or read book Magic written by Michael D. Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical world -- The meanings of magic -- Magical acts -- Magic contested and condemned -- Magical identities -- The reality of magic -- Magic in the modern world
