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Book Synopsis Full Blown: Me and My Bipolar Family by : David Lovelace
Download or read book Full Blown: Me and My Bipolar Family written by David Lovelace and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Lovelace, along with his brother and both his parents, is bipolar. This is his extraordinary and vivid memoir of life within his memorable, maddening, loving and unique family.
Book Synopsis Tuco and the Scattershot World by : Brian Brett
Download or read book Tuco and the Scattershot World written by Brian Brett and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author’s memoir of life with an African grey parrot offers “a thoughtful and generous celebration of minds and bodies different from our own” (Times Literary Supplement, UK). For thirty years, Brian Brett shared his office and his life with Tuco, a remarkable parrot given to asking questions such as “Whaddya know?” and announcing “Party time!” when guests showed up at Brett’s farm. Although Brett bought Tuco on a whim, he gradually realized the enormous obligation he has to his pet, learning that the parrot is far more complex than he thought. In Tuco and the Scattershot World, Brett not only chronicles his fascinating relationship with Tuco, but uses it to explore the human tendency to “other” the world, abusing birds, landscapes, and each other. Brett sees in Tuco’s otherness a mirror of his own experience contending with Kallman syndrome, a rare genetic condition that made him the target of bullies—and nurtured his affinity for winged creatures. Brett’s meditative digressions touch on topics ranging from the history of birds and dinosaurs to our concepts of knowledge, language, and intelligence—and include commentary from Tuco himself. By turns provocative and deeply moving, Tuco and the Scattershot World “is not a straight memoir—it’s something much more wondrously weird . . . a view of the human predicament that is hilarious, sobering and profound” (Globe & Mail, UK).
Download or read book Scattershot written by David Lovelace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the author's predominantly bipolar family discusses his parents' and brother's struggles with their symptoms, his own development of bipolar disorder, and his observations on the connection between his family's illness and their religious faith.
Download or read book Tuco written by Brian Brett and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Both a biography of an irreverent African Grey parrot--given to asking "Whaddya know?" and announcing "Party time!"--and an exploration of the history of birds/ dinosaurs, the relationships between humans and birds, our notions of language and intelligence, and our tendency to "other" anything that is different from us, Tuco also describes Brett's own painful experience of being othered as an androgyne. Provocative, profound, hilarious, and moving, Tuco is most of all the extraordinary story of Brett's decades-long relationship with this singular bird, what Brett calls "a story we made together."--
Download or read book Squadron UK written by Simon Burley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Squadron UK? Squadron UK is THE British Superhero Role-Playing Game. Although a completely new game - this is a classic, old-school system honed to perfection by a player, referee and writer with decades of Superhero Gaming experience. What's so special about it? * Addictive character generation - the perfect blend of random rolling and design. * Fast and furious combat - that makes you feel like you're IN the comic. * Innovative campaign rules - this is a full role-playing game, not just a combat game. What's in this book? * The complete Basic game system - with simplified character creation and an example adventure to get you up and running within minutes. * Advanced rules to allow experienced players to customise the game to their tastes. * A complete example campaign "Squadron: Birmingham" - months of adventure.
Book Synopsis Agents and Artificial Intelligence by : Ana Paula Rocha
Download or read book Agents and Artificial Intelligence written by Ana Paula Rocha and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in February 2020. Overall, 45 full papers, 74 short papers, and 56 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 276 initial submissions. 23 of the 45 full papers were selected to be included in this volume. These papers deal with topics such as agents and artificial intelligence.
Book Synopsis Scattershooting by : Blackie Sherrod
Download or read book Scattershooting written by Blackie Sherrod and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of articles from Dallas Morning News columnist, Blackie Sherrod.
Download or read book Scattershot written by Richard Goodwin and published by Seedpod Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fed up with low-paying, menial jobs that infringe on his boozy, loafing lifestyle, Wicker sets off on a road trip to Las Vegas, where the drinks are free, the slots are loose, and a megajackpot could solve his problems forever. On his pilgrimage he finds exactly what he wasn't looking for in Edna, a wayward geriatric with an agenda of her own. Scattershot is a weird, wild, darkly comic first novel that is not to be missed.
Book Synopsis Horizontal Vertigo by : Juan Villoro
Download or read book Horizontal Vertigo written by Juan Villoro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city ’s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today—one of the world’s leading cultural and financial centers. In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: “Living in the City,” “City Characters,” “Shocks,” “Crossings,” and “Ceremonies.” What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City’s genius loci, its spirit of place.
Book Synopsis Poetic Escape by : Clayton Hobart Fox
Download or read book Poetic Escape written by Clayton Hobart Fox and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of poems touching on several of the most important human emotions not the least of which is a desire to escape the pressures we all face each day even if only for a short while. With the exception of the Limericks, most of these works are written in quatrain. This is the author´s favorite form of verse and is an easy form to read and is very effective in making a statement. The author has attempted to touch on as many human emotions as he could. You are sure to find some of these works amusing so that takes care of humor and laughter. The word Pathos as appearing in this collection serves our very human need to feel pity, sympathy and compassion. As you read some of these ballads you can look forward to a sudden rush of ecstatic joy just as you felt at your own wedding and just as you felt at the wedding of your beloved daughter or son that brought those tears of joy; or perhaps as you felt at the birth of your very first grandchild. Or how about the time you got your first kiss? Remember that rush of adrenaline and how scared you were before the happiness took over from the fear as your lips tenderly clung and your heart felt like it was going to swell up and burst right out of your body. Now last but certainly not least there is sadness. This is probably the most important and necessary emotion you will ever feel. We make the journey through this life by making comparisons so if we had never experienced sadness how would we know how to recoghize joy?
Book Synopsis All Hands on Deck! by : Nate Christen
Download or read book All Hands on Deck! written by Nate Christen and published by Interaction Point Games. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Elements of Quantum Optics by : Brice Scott
Download or read book Elements of Quantum Optics written by Brice Scott and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book gives a broad coverage of the basic elements necessary to understand and carry out research in quantum optics. It presents a variety of theoretical tools and important results for two-level and semiconductor media, many of which could only be found in the original literature of in specialized monographs up to now. The text reveals the close connection between many seemingly unrelated topics. The book "e;Quantum Optics"e; has been written to meet the requirement of the degree and post graduate students. The subject matter has been discussed in such a simple way that the students will find no difficult to understand it. Most of the examples given in the book have been selected from various university examination papers and the book cover the syllabus of almost all the universities.
Download or read book Trauma Farm written by Brian Brett and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author transforms a single day on his small farm into a “gorgeously thoughtful meditation on the natural world” and our place in it (Vancouver Sun). The acclaimed poet and author Brian Brett takes readers on an irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of his small island farm in British Columbia, affectionately named Trauma Farm. With fascinating ruminations on everything from the natural history of farming to the horrors of industrial slaughterhouses, Brett’s day of tending to his farm becomes a Joycean epic of agrarian life. Brett moves from the tending of livestock, poultry, orchards, gardens, machinery, and fields to the social intricacies of rural communities and, finally, to an encounter with a magnificent deer in the silver moonlight of a magical field. Brett understands both tall tales and rigorous science as he explores the small mixed farm—meditating on the perfection of the egg and the nature of soil while also offering a scathing critique of agribusiness. Whether discussing the uses and misuses of gates, examining the energy of seeds, or bantering with his family, farm hands, and neighbors, Brett remains aware of the miracles of life, birth, and death that confront the rural world every day. Trauma Farm was a 2009 book of the year in the Times Literary Supplement and the Globe & Mail, and winner of Writers’ Trust Canadian Non-Fiction Prize.
Download or read book Scattershot written by Jon Athan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The streets of Redwood, California are being stalked by a brutal serial killer known as The Scattershot Slayer-a tall, lanky man who kidnaps and tortures his victims before creating grotesque pieces of public art with their mutilated bodies. Viola Santoro, a freelance journalist, is tracking Scattershot for her independent investigation in hopes of writing an exposé. After she unwittingly captures the serial killer's attention, she receives the scoop of a lifetime. Scattershot kidnaps Viola, straps her to an iron chair in his dungeon, and forces her to watch his acts of torture-over and over. He doesn't harm her, though. Instead, he gives her what she wants: his motives, his dreams, his life story. Jon Athan, the provocative author of The Good, the Bad, and the Sadistic, invites you into the broken mind of a disturbed serial killer. WARNING: This book contains scenes of graphic violence. This book is not intended for those easily offended or appalled.
Book Synopsis Entertainment-Education by : Arvind Singhal
Download or read book Entertainment-Education written by Arvind Singhal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arvind Singhal and Everett M. Rogers have developed this unique volume focused on the history and development of entertainment-education. This approach to communication is the process of designing and implementing a media message to both entertain and educate to increase audience members' knowledge about an educational issue, create favorable attitudes, and change overt behavior. It uses the universal appeal of entertainment to show individuals how they can live safer, healthier, and happier lives. Entertainment formats such as soap operas, rock music, feature films, talk shows, cartoons, comics, and theater are utilized in various countries to promote messages about educational issues. This book presents a balanced picture of the entertainment-education strategy, identifying ethical and other problems that accompany efforts to bring about social change.
Book Synopsis Silicon Photonics IV by : David J. Lockwood
Download or read book Silicon Photonics IV written by David J. Lockwood and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth book in the series Silicon Photonics gathers together reviews of recent advances in the field of silicon photonics that go beyond already established and applied concepts in this technology. The field of research and development in silicon photonics has moved beyond improvements of integrated circuits fabricated with complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology to applications in engineering, physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, and medicine. The chapters provided in this book by experts in their fields thus cover not only new research into the highly desired goal of light production in Group IV materials, but also new measurement regimes and novel technologies, particularly in information processing and telecommunication. The book is suited for graduate students, established scientists, and research engineers who want to update their knowledge in these new topics.
Download or read book This Bright Future written by Bobby Hall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A raw and unfiltered journey into the life and mind of Bobby Hall, who emerged from the wreckage of a horrifically abusive childhood to become an era-defining artist ... A self-described orphan with parents, Bobby Hall began life as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, the only child of an alcoholic, mentally ill mother on welfare and an absent, crack-addicted father. After enduring seventeen years of abuse and neglect, Bobby ran away from home and--with nothing more than a discarded laptop and a ninth-grade education--he found his voice in the world of hip-hop and a new home in a place he never expected: the untamed and uncharted wilderness of the social media age"--
