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Book Synopsis Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by : Robin Sloan
Download or read book Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore written by Robin Sloan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a web-design drone, and serendipity, sheer curiosity and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey have landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. But Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than its name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything. Instead they “check out” impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he has embarked on a complex analysis of the customers’ behaviour and roped his friends into helping him figure out just what’s going on. But once they take their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the secrets extend far beyond the walls of the bookstore. Evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or Umberto Eco, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like—an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave.
Book Synopsis Living Penumbra by : Seraphim Penumbra
Download or read book Living Penumbra written by Seraphim Penumbra and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey that had to be taken... Everyone struggles to figure out who they are and what to do with their lives at some point, right? I took it personally. When I decided to embark on a modern-day vision quest to figure it out, my friends and family thought I was crazy. Maybe I was. I was positive that a cosmic intervention would deliver me to a heightened sense of identity and purpose when I declared my intention to the universe and followed the signs and synchronicities. It did. Over twenty years ago, I left my world behind to embark on an amazing journey. "Living Penumbra" is an untainted and sometimes-chilling account of that journey, told through a series of intimate journal entries spanning over fifteen years.
Book Synopsis New Concepts in Stroke Diagnosis and Therapy by : Alberto Radaelli
Download or read book New Concepts in Stroke Diagnosis and Therapy written by Alberto Radaelli and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a summary of recent research and debates on old and new aspects in stroke medicine. The volume covers topics such as causative factors of stroke such as hypertension, the immune system, genetic factors and the neurovegetative system, to the role of new imaging techniques in improving diagnosis and treatment, from preventive therapy and recanalization to the important and intriguing effects of neuroprotection, neuroregeneration and post stroke rehabilitation. Readers will be able to understand perspectives from stroke medicine researchers about the relationship between the nervous system and other physiological systems in the body and their role in the onset and treatment of stroke. The volume is intended as a resource for neurologists and medical professionals involved in other specialties such as cardiology, internal medicine, rehabilitation and physiology.
Book Synopsis Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by : Robin Sloan
Download or read book Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore written by Robin Sloan and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone—and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead "checking out" impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he's embarked on a complex analysis of the customers' behavior and roped his friends into helping to figure out just what's going on. But once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore. With irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan has crafted a literary adventure story for the twenty-first century, evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or a young Umberto Eco, but with a unique and feisty sensibility that's rare to the world of literary fiction. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave, a modern-day cabinet of wonders ready to give a jolt of energy to every curious reader, no matter the time of day.
Download or read book Penumbra written by Songeziwe Mahlangu and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mangaliso Zolo is a hapless recent graduate, still living in the southern suburbs of Cape Town near the university. Manga has an office job at a large insurance company, but he is anonymous and overlooked in this vast bureaucracy. Penumbra charts Manga's daily struggles with mental illness and the twin pull, from his many friends and acquaintances, between a reckless drug-fuelled lifestyle and charismatic Christianity. The novel brings an alternative experience of Cape Town to life, one far removed from both the gloss of tourism brochures and the familiar poverty of the Cape Flats. Mahlangu's voice is unlike anything South African literature has yet seen and this debut novel dissects young, urban slackers in South Africa with startling precision.
Download or read book Eclipse Penumbra written by John Shirley and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in the cyberpunk trilogy A Song Called Youth, this thrilling chapter recounts the struggle between guerilla fighters and neofascists for control of an orbiting space colony.
Download or read book Penumbra 1 written by Anne Katherine, Ma and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penumbra 1 traces the adventures of one soul as it inhabits the body of a priest in Atlantis, a temple prostitute in Syria, a nomad in the Middle East, and a well-known and respected contemporary therapist, Anne Katherine. Starting in pre-historic times and continuing to the current era, her story resumes in Penumbra 2 as she becomes a messenger for the disciples, a Dutch farmboy, a Scots woman, and a Native American shaman. Sammuel was but a boy on a mountain farm, not knowing that it was unusual that he could shift the position of a cloud or bring a bird to his finger. Then a group of priests recognized his gifts and took him to the Temple where his natural skills were cultivated and channeled. He found his beloved there and an adversary also. These relationships presented him with two different paths--one would take him to the mission he was born to, the other would detour him toward a lesser good. It was a time of great earth change and he was to be an important part of what unfolded. But the choices he was making as a student and a young priest were building the man he would become. Could concern about others' opinions be powerful enough to keep him from fulfilling his mission? Kalea lived in a small desert village until she was taken from her mother and sold to the temple. She was called a priestess, but her duties required her to serve the priests. She was surrounded with people who loved her and wanted to help. Could she find purpose in a life she hated? Habib wandered the desert with his nomadic tribe. After lusting after a protected female, he nearly lost his life near the oasis. A dream offered him a new idea about a more noble way of being a man. Would he choose it? Perhaps we live in another time of great earth change. Perhaps you have your own special calling. Are signs, dreams, or people nudging you? Do you get stopped by pride, fear, or not recognizing the help that is near you? Penumbra will open your mind to the possibilities that are hidden in the flow of your own life. Observe how the mistakes of a former life can be repaired in this life and that sickness and unhappiness can be healed by amending old errors. "I've fixed my former mistake. This is an incredibly blessed feeling and I invite you to discover it." "Penumbra is going to change the way we think about our personal histories. This is the cusp of a new way of understanding." The Rev. Sherry Buckner "A beautiful book, filled with psychological and spiritual insights." Dr. Glen Smead
Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sourdough written by Robin Sloan and published by MCD. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, "a perfect parable for our times" (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and under-socialized software engineer discovering a calling and a community as a baker. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Southern Living Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her—feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves to the General Dexterity cafeteria every day. Then the company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market—and a whole new world opens up.
Download or read book Legacy of Shadow written by Craig Gallant and published by Winged Hussar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two men of earth stumble upon an artifact that bestows upon one of them control of and responsibility for an ancient space station that stands as the last bastion of freedom in the galaxy. With the support of his friend and others he meets along the way, he does his best to fill the office until a suitable successor can be found. At the same time forces of galactic oppression move to use his presence as an excuse to crush the station. He battles determined enemies, betrayal, and his own inner demons to defend the position blind luck put him into, but in the process, he might have started a process that might destroy every human in the galaxy.
Download or read book Book of the Hunt written by Tom Dolph and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book of the Hunt is not about hunting; it's about being a Huntsman. It's about the Wisdom of the Hunt; the Holy Grail of True Manhood, sought, but never found, by the so-called "men's movement" of the early 1990s. This ancient Initiation Tradition has been set down in writing for the first time ever, but only after more than a decade and a half of careful consideration and consensus among the Brotherhood.
Download or read book Penumbra written by Susan Parulekar and published by Har-Anand Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a story about woman finding one's place in the post-modern sphere. Rachel's voyage of female self-discovery speaks of a woman who wanted something better for herself, even if she wasn't quite sure what.
Download or read book Backyard Stargazer written by Pat Price and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Living U.S. Constitution by : Saul K. Padover
Download or read book The Living U.S. Constitution written by Saul K. Padover and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-05-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable book updated the study of constitutional law with the addition of twenty contemporary Supreme Court cases dealing with such controversial topics as the legislative veto, stop-and-frisk, “set asides” to benefit minorities, and hate speech. Beginning with the story of the forming of the Constitution, it includes illuminating character sketches of the delegates written by their contemporaries, as well as the complete text of the Constitution itself. The Supreme Court decisions that the author cites were selected for their variety and complexity, and because they shed light on the problems that arise under the rule of the Constitution and the interpretations of that rule. This third edition was prepared by Jacob W. Landynski, an expert on constitutional law and a longtime colleague at the New School for Social Research of the original author, the outstanding historian and political scientist Saul K. Padover. Besides adding twenty additional cases, Professor Landynski re-edited the existing cases and rewrote the case introductions throughout in order to make the book as informative and concise as possible. The result is a unique and important contribution toward understanding the document upon which our nation is founded.
Download or read book Video Bioinformatics written by Bir Bhanu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advances of live cell video imaging and high-throughput technologies for functional and chemical genomics provide unprecedented opportunities to understand how biological processes work in subcellularand multicellular systems. The interdisciplinary research field of Video Bioinformatics is defined by BirBhanu as the automated processing, analysis, understanding, data mining, visualization, query-basedretrieval/storage of biological spatiotemporal events/data and knowledge extracted from dynamic imagesand microscopic videos. Video bioinformatics attempts to provide a deeper understanding of continuousand dynamic life processes.Genome sequences alone lack spatial and temporal information, and video imaging of specific moleculesand their spatiotemporal interactions, using a range of imaging methods, are essential to understandhow genomes create cells, how cells constitute organisms, and how errant cells cause disease. The bookexamines interdisciplinary research issues and challenges with examples that deal with organismal dynamics,intercellular and tissue dynamics, intracellular dynamics, protein movement, cell signaling and softwareand databases for video bioinformatics.Topics and Features• Covers a set of biological problems, their significance, live-imaging experiments, theory andcomputational methods, quantifiable experimental results and discussion of results.• Provides automated methods for analyzing mild traumatic brain injury over time, identifying injurydynamics after neonatal hypoxia-ischemia and visualizing cortical tissue changes during seizureactivity as examples of organismal dynamics• Describes techniques for quantifying the dynamics of human embryonic stem cells with examplesof cell detection/segmentation, spreading and other dynamic behaviors which are important forcharacterizing stem cell health• Examines and quantifies dynamic processes in plant and fungal systems such as cell trafficking,growth of pollen tubes in model systems such as Neurospora Crassa and Arabidopsis• Discusses the dynamics of intracellular molecules for DNA repair and the regulation of cofilintransport using video analysis• Discusses software, system and database aspects of video bioinformatics by providing examples of5D cell tracking by FARSIGHT open source toolkit, a survey on available databases and software,biological processes for non-verbal communications and identification and retrieval of moth imagesThis unique text will be of great interest to researchers and graduate students of Electrical Engineering,Computer Science, Bioengineering, Cell Biology, Toxicology, Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, ComputerVision and Pattern Recognition, Medical Image Analysis, and Cell Molecular and Developmental Biology.The large number of example applications will also appeal to application scientists and engineers.Dr. Bir Bhanu is Distinguished Professor of Electrical & C omputer Engineering, Interim Chair of theDepartment of Bioengineering, Cooperative Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, and MechanicalEngineering and the Director of the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems, at the University of California,Riverside, California, USA.Dr. Prue Talbot is Professor of Cell Biology & Neuroscience and Director of the Stem Cell Center and Core atthe University of California Riverside, California, USA.
Book Synopsis A System of Natural Philosophy: in which the Principles of Mechanics ... are Familiarly Explained ... by : John Lee Comstock
Download or read book A System of Natural Philosophy: in which the Principles of Mechanics ... are Familiarly Explained ... written by John Lee Comstock and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A System of Natural Philosophy by : John Lee Comstock
Download or read book A System of Natural Philosophy written by John Lee Comstock and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
