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Being Hal Ashby

Author : Nick Dawson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813139198
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Being Hal Ashby written by Nick Dawson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the director behind Harold and Maude, Being There, and other quirky classics: “A superb biography of this troubled, talented man.” —Tucson Citizen Hal Ashby set the standard for subsequent independent filmmakers by crafting unique, thoughtful, and challenging films that continue to influence new generations of directors. Initially finding success as an editor, Ashby won an Academy Award for editing 1967’s In the Heat of the Night, and translated his skills into a career as one of the quintessential directors of 1970s. Perhaps best remembered for the enduring cult classic Harold and Maude, Ashby quickly became known for melding quirky comedy and intense drama with performances from A-list actors such as Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail, Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn in Shampoo, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda in Coming Home, and Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine in Being There. But Ashby’s personal life was difficult. After enduring his parents’ divorce, his father’s suicide, and his own failed marriage all before the age of nineteen, he became notorious for his drug abuse, which contributed to the decline of his career near the end of his life. Ashby always operated outside Hollywood’s conventions, and though his output was tragically limited, the quality of his films continues to inspire modern directors as varied and talented as Judd Apatow and Wes Anderson, both of whom acknowledge Ashby as a primary influence. In Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel, the first full-length biography of the maverick filmmaker, Nick Dawson masterfully tells the turbulent story of Ashby’s life and career.

Company Town

Author : Madeline Ashby
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466889853
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Company Town written by Madeline Ashby and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Winner of the Sunburst Award Society's Copper Cylinder Adult Award 2017 Canada Reads Finalist 2017 Locus Award Finalist for Science Fiction Novel Category 2017 Sunburst Award Finalist for Adult Fiction 2017 Aurora Awards Finalist for Best Novell Madeline Ashby's Company Town is a brilliant, twisted mystery, as one woman must evaluate saving the people of a town that can't be saved, or saving herself. "Elegant, cruel, and brutally perfect, Company Town is a prize of a novel." —Mira Grant, New York Times Bestselling and Hugo-Award nominated author of the Newsflesh series New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd. Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bio-engineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig—making her doubly an outsider, as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline? Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but all of the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. Company Town has never been the safest place to be—but now, the danger is personal. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

vN

Author : Madeline Ashby
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 0857662635
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book vN written by Madeline Ashby and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Peterson is a self-replicating humanoid robot known as a VonNeumann. For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother's past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive. Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she's learning impossible things about her clade's history - like the fact that she alone can kill humans without failsafing... File Under: Science Fiction [Von Neumann Sisters | Fail Safe Fail | The Squid & the Swarm | Robot Nation]

Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

Author : Muata Ashby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781884564529
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead written by Muata Ashby and published by . This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Know myself, I know myself, I am One With God -From the Pert Em Heru "The Ru Pert em Heru" or "Ancient Egyptian Book of The Dead," or "Book of Coming Forth By Day" as it is more popularly known, has fascinated the world since the successful translation of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic scripture over 150 years ago. The astonishing writings in it reveal that the Ancient Egyptians believed in life after death and in an ultimate destiny to discover the Divine. The elegance and aesthetic beauty of the hieroglyphic text itself has inspired many see it as an art form in and of itself. But is there more to it than that? Did the Ancient Egyptian wisdom contain more than just aphorisms and hopes of eternal life beyond death? In this volume Dr. Muata Ashby, the author of over 25 books on Ancient Egyptian Yoga Philosophy has produced a new translation of the original texts which uncovers a mystical teaching underlying the sayings and rituals instituted by the Ancient Egyptian Sages and Saints. "Once the philosophy of Ancient Egypt is understood as a mystical tradition instead of as a religion or primitive mythology, it reveals its secrets which if practiced today will lead anyone to discover the glory of spiritual self-discovery. The Pert em Heru is in every way comparable to the Indian Upanishads or the Tibetan Book of the Dead."  $28.95 ISBN# 1-884564-28-3 Size: 81/2" X

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

Author : Cherise Wolas
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250081440
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Resurrection of Joan Ashby written by Cherise Wolas and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award Longlisted for 2018 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Kirkus Reviews’s Best Fiction of 2017 Kirkus Reviews’s Best Debut Novels of 2017 Booklist’s Top 10 First Novels: 2017 The New York Times Book Review’s Editors’ Choice Indie Next Pick for September 2017 Kirkus Reviews’s 13 Fiction Debuts & Breakthroughs That Live Up to the Hype Bustle’s 9 Fall Book Debuts By Women You’re Going To Want To Read Immediately Nantucket Magazine’s 7 for September 2017 Kirkus Reviews’s 9 Excellent Reads for Labor Day Weekend Entertainment Weekly’s Thirteen Books to Read in August San Diego Magazine’s Your Book Shelf: 5 Books to Read in August “[A] stunning debut...reminds me of my most favorite authors: J.D. Salinger, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Joan Didion.” —A.M. Homes I viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just married believes as I do—work is paramount, absolutely no children—and now love seems to me quite marvelous. These words are spoken to a rapturous audience by Joan Ashby, a brilliant and intense literary sensation acclaimed for her explosively dark and singular stories. When Joan finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she is stunned by Martin’s delight, his instant betrayal of their pact. She makes a fateful, selfless decision then, to embrace her unintentional family. Challenged by raising two precocious sons, it is decades before she finally completes her masterpiece novel. Poised to reclaim the spotlight, to resume the intended life she gave up for love, a betrayal of Shakespearean proportion forces her to question every choice she has made. Epic, propulsive, incredibly ambitious, and dazzlingly written, The Resurrection of Joan Ashby is a story about sacrifice and motherhood, the burdens of expectation and genius. Cherise Wolas’s gorgeous debut introduces an indelible heroine candid about her struggles and unapologetic in her ambition.

Life of Turner Ashby

Author : Thomas Almond Ashby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Life of Turner Ashby written by Thomas Almond Ashby and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Having entered the service of Virginia on the 19th day of April, 1861, as captain of a company of cavalry, Ashby rose by rapid promotion to the rank of brigadier-general, being in command of all the cavalry in the Army of the Valley at the time of his death, June 6, 1862. In less than fourteen months he had reached a post of distinction that has given him a noteworthy place in the history of his state and established his fame as one of the heroic characters of his time."--Preface.

ReV

Author : Madeline Ashby
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 0857668587
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book ReV written by Madeline Ashby and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third and final installment of the Machine Dynasty, the rapture for which the self-replicating humanoid vN were engineered finally comes to pass. Now that the failsafe that once kept vN from harming humans has been hacked, all vN are discovering the promise – and the peril – of free will. Her consciousness unleashed across computer systems all across the world, the vicious vN Portia stands poised to finally achieve her lifelong dream of bringing humanity to its knees. The old battle between her and her grand-daughter Amy comes to its epic conclusion in the war for the very systems that keep the planet running. Can Amy get her family to the stars before Portia destroys every opportunity for escape and freedom? File Under: Science Fiction

The Ashby Book

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1482 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Ashby Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

With Amusement for All

Author : LeRoy Ashby
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813123976
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book With Amusement for All written by LeRoy Ashby and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.

Materials and the Environment

Author : M. F. Ashby
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 0123859719
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Materials and the Environment written by M. F. Ashby and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the growing global concern for sustainable engineering, this title is devoted exclusively to the environmental aspects of materials.

The Last of the Soul Searchers

Author : David W. Ashby
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664166394
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book The Last of the Soul Searchers written by David W. Ashby and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaun MacGregor is a complex man who struggles with alcoholism and relationships with women. He becomes involved in a battle for the control of Earth. Groomed by his mentor, John Running Bull, Shaun assists the alien Arcturians in saving humanity from the evil Annunaki. With his psychic abilities, Shaun mediates the transformation of evil humans controlled by the Annunaki, changing monsters into harmless clones by presenting them to the Arcturians for adjustments to their souls. Shaun’s stepfather, Mike “Mad Dog” MacGregor, who appears as a human, is the supreme leader of the Annunaki. A retired Air Force colonial, Mad Dog plots to wipe out humanity, so that his people may colonize Earth. The colonel has long viewed Shaun as his nemesis because Shaun is a Nephilim--half human and half Arcturian. He soon threatens Shaun’s existence. With the help of John Running Bull and the ex-Annunaki cyborg Bart, Shaun, and his new love interest Vicki kayak sixty miles to the point deep in the Red River Gorge area in Eastern Kentucky where they are extracted to safety. Along the way down the river, the group experiences many dangers, including learning of the Annunaki’s plan to wipe out humanity by transforming the Earth’s atmosphere so that it is unable to support human life by replacing oxygen with methane gas and carbon dioxide, perfect for the Annunaki. Human activities such as hydraulic fracturing and fossil fuel consumption have long been wrecking the Earth, but the process is taking too long. Nubira, home planet of the Annunaki, is rapidly being destroyed as their sun turns into a supernova. In addition to speeding up the destruction of the planet, Mad Dog MacGregor urges his cohorts to release a virus via their Annunaki Manchurian candidate in Wuhan, China, thus expediting the complete demise of the human species. Extraction is complete when Shaun and Vicki escape by jumping off Seventy Six Falls near Lake Cumberland in Kentucky. There the pair are forced into a wormhole that deposits them into the decade of the 1950s. Such time travel is the Arcturians’ version of a cosmic witness protection plan. When Shaun and Vicki arrive in the 50s, their identities are altered, but not their souls. Shaun becomes a famous writer and uses his influence for good. Finally, Shaun makes it back to the year 2020, and is faced with horrors that threaten his sanity, and threatens his ability to protect humanity from the evils of the Annunaki. Will Shaun survive long enough to save the planet, or will he become just another instrument in the Annunaki conquest of earth.

Materials and Sustainable Development

Author : Michael F. Ashby
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 012802562X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Materials and Sustainable Development written by Michael F. Ashby and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, from noted materials selection authority Mike Ashby, provides a structure and framework for analyzing sustainable development and the role of materials in it. The aim is to introduce ways of exploring sustainable development to readers in a way that avoids simplistic interpretations and approaches complexity in a systematic way. There is no completely "right" answer to questions of sustainable development – instead, there is a thoughtful, well-researched response that recognizes concerns of stakeholders, the conflicting priorities and the economic, legal and social aspects of a technology as well as its environmental legacy. The intent is not to offer solutions to sustainability challenges but rather to improve the quality of discussion and enable informed, balanced debate. Winner of a 2016 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association Describes sustainable development in increasingly detailed progression, from a broad overview to specific tools and methods Six chapter length case studies on such topics as biopolymers, electric cars, bamboo, and lighting vividly illustrate the sustainable development process from a materials perspective Business and economic aspects are covered in chapters on corporate sustainability and the "circular materials economy" Support for course use includes online solutions manual and image bank

Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593)

Author : Timothy Ashby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910895832
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593) written by Timothy Ashby and published by . This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only biography of William Ashby, an Elizabethan intelligence agent and diplomat who served as ambassador to Scotland during the Spanish Armada crisis. Focusing on the Anglo-Scottish geo-political relationship during the decade of 1580-1590, with its machinations and bizarre background stories, this book provides fresh social, political and foreign policy insight from the perspective of a gentleman spy who took part in some of the most important events of his time.Elizabethan Secret Agent will appeal to readers of historical biography, particularly those with an interest in espionage and Anglo-Scottish relations in the years leading up to the Act of Union. The author held two Top Secret security clearances during his career, so is in a unique position to write about his ancestor William Ashby, one of the original spies. Subjects covered Espionage, Secret Agents, Elizabethan Politics, Anglo-Scottish relationship 1580-90.

Plain Jane

Author : Alan Patrick Herbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Plain Jane written by Alan Patrick Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story I'll Tell

Author : Natalie Ashby
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 166553561X
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Story I'll Tell written by Natalie Ashby and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natalie Ashby has lived all of her life in active ministry. Her parents were evangelists and church planters with twelve children in tow -- she was the youngest girl. She married right out of high school and became a Pentecostal preacher's wife. When her husband was diagnosed with cancer, she expected life to slow down but it only increased in responsibility. Though the illnesses that plagued him were long-suffering, nothing could prepare her for the day he died. Suddenly, she was called "widow". A dirty word. A constant reminder of a long journey that led to the label. Natalie candidly shares the road to discovering her identity, purpose, calling and coming out on the other side. This book is her story in this season of life -- a newly-widowed former pastor's wife navigating life outside of full-time ministry. The tables have turned, her seat has changed, and she's along for the ride.

Materials and Design

Author : Michael F. Ashby
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 1856174972
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Materials and Design written by Michael F. Ashby and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2010 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Materials are the stuff of design. From the very beginning of human history, materials have been taken from the natural world and shaped, modified, and adapted for everything from primitive tools to modern electronics. This renowned book by noted materials engineering author Mike Ashby and Industrial designer, Kara Johnson, explores the role of materials and materials processing in product design, with a particular emphasis on creating both desired aesthetics and functionality. The new edition will feature even more of the highly useful "materials profiles," that give critical design, processing, performance and applications criteria for each material in question. The reader will find information ranging from the generic and commercial names of each material, its physical and mechanical properties, its chemical properties, its common uses, how it is typically made and processed, and even its average price. And with improved photographs and drawings, the reader will be taken even more closely to the way real design is done by real designers, selecting the optimum materials for a successful product. * The best guide ever published on the on the role of materials, past and present, in product development, by noted materials authority Mike Ashby and professional designer Kara Johnson--now with even better photos and drawings on the Design Process * Significant new section on the use of re-cycled materials in products, and the importance of sustainable design for manufactured goods and services * Enhanced materials profiles, with addition of new materials types like nanomaterials, advanced plastics and bio-based materials

Materials Selection in Mechanical Design

Author : M. F. Ashby
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 : 9780750627276
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Materials Selection in Mechanical Design written by M. F. Ashby and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New materials enable advances in engineering design. This book describes a procedure for material selection in mechanical design, allowing the most suitable materials for a given application to be identified from the full range of materials and section shapes available. A novel approach is adopted not found elsewhere. Materials are introduced through their properties; materials selection charts (a new development) capture the important features of all materials, allowing rapid retrieval of information and application of selection techniques. Merit indices, combined with charts, allow optimisation of the materials selection process. Sources of material property data are reviewed and approaches to their use are given. Material processing and its influence on the design are discussed. The book closes with chapters on aesthetics and industrial design. Case studies are developed as a method of illustrating the procedure and as a way of developing the ideas further.