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Book Synopsis The Floating Castle by : Craig Mills
Download or read book The Floating Castle written by Craig Mills and published by Boulevard. This book was released on 1995 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The peaceful world of Danventry is shattered by a vicious storm that precedes the arrival of an evil mage who steals the king's soul, prompting Prince Alexander to banish the evil forces from the kingdom and save his father. Original.
Book Synopsis Worlds of Wonder by : Johanna Basford
Download or read book Worlds of Wonder written by Johanna Basford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the worldwide bestsellers World of Flowers and Lost Ocean, a beautiful new coloring book that takes you on a captivating journey through imagined and fantastical realms. This isn't just a book; rather, it is a magical portal to many wondrous worlds. Within these pages you'll find tree-top castles, floating islands, and fairytale villages, all waiting to be brought to life in your colors. Go on an adventure and let your imagination roam from world to world, discovering enchanted sea turtles, curious cats, and lost song birds along the way. In this new coloring book, Johanna Basford lends her signature style of inky illustration to a series of brand new inkscapes and themes, all with a sprinkling of her much-loved botanicals. Get ready to discover whole new worlds of colors!
Book Synopsis Castle in the Air by : Diana Wynne Jones
Download or read book Castle in the Air written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones has again created a large-scale, fast-paced fantasy in which people and things are never quite what they seem. There are good and bad djinns, a genie in a bottle, wizards, witches, cats and dogs (but are they cats and dogs?), and a mysterious floating castle filled with kidnapped princesses, as well as two puzzling prophecies. The story speeds along with tantalizing twists and turns until the prophecies are fulfilled, true identities are revealed, and all is resolved in a totally satisfying, breathtaking, surprise-filled ending. Abdullah was a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer. His father, who had been disappointed in him, had left him only enough money to open a modest booth in the Bazaar. When he was not selling carpets, Abdullah spent his time daydreaming. In his dreams he was not the son of his father, but the long-lost son of a prince. There was also a princess who had been betrothed to him at birth. He was content with his life and his daydreams until, one day, a stranger sold him a magic carpet. All fans of classic fantasy books deserve the pleasure of reading those by Diana Wynne Jones, whose acclaim included the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. As Neil Gaiman stated, she was "quite simply the best writer for children of her generation." The three books in the World of Howl are: Howl's Moving Castle Castle in the Air House of Many Ways Other beloved series from Dianna Wynne Jones include the Chronicles of Chrestomanci and the Dalemark Quartet.
Download or read book Emperor Yutian War written by Zhang Cheng and published by Publicationsbooks. This book was released on with total page 3561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortunately, he learned a soul-sending method, and he can stay in do or die and stay in heaven and earth. As long as the fighters are not strangled, even if the body is annihilated, they can be born again.
Download or read book See No Weevil written by Kenyon Morr and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1996 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In charge of Daventry while her parents attend a wedding, Princess Rosella launches preparations for the Harvest Festival that suit her own taste and inadvertently unleashes millions of ravenous weevils throughout the kingdom. Original.
Book Synopsis The Floating World by : C. Morgan Babst
Download or read book The Floating World written by C. Morgan Babst and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Set in New Orleans, this important and powerful novel follows the Boisdoré family . . . in the months after Katrina. A profound, moving and authentically detailed picture of the storm’s emotional impact on those who lived through it.” —People In this dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, C. Morgan Babst takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina and the life of a great city. As the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora Boisdoré refuses to leave the city. Her parents, Joe Boisdoré, an artist descended from freed slaves who became the city’s preeminent furniture makers, and his white “Uptown” wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, are forced to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic—the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself. This mystery is at the center of Babst’s haunting and profound novel. Cora’s sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the successful life she built in New York City to find her hometown in ruins and her family deeply alienated from one another. As Del attempts to figure out what happened to her sister, she must also reckon with the racial history of the city and the trauma of a disaster that was not, in fact, some random act of God but an avoidable tragedy visited on New Orleans’s most vulnerable citizens. Separately and together, each member of the Boisdoré clan must find the strength to remake home in a city forever changed. The Floating World is the Katrina story that needed to be told—one with a piercing, unforgettable loveliness and a vivid, intimate understanding of this particular place and its tangled past.
Download or read book The Floating Island written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entries from the long-lost journal of Ven, a Nain youth, relate his adventures as he faces pirates and is rescued by a mermaid and a kindly sea captain who sends Ven to an inn, where he encounters fairies, ghosts, and other strange boarders.
Book Synopsis An Artist of the Floating World by : Kazuo Ishiguro
Download or read book An Artist of the Floating World written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.
Book Synopsis Phenomenology of the Gameworld: A Philosophical Toolbox for Video Game Developers by : Matthew E. Gladden
Download or read book Phenomenology of the Gameworld: A Philosophical Toolbox for Video Game Developers written by Matthew E. Gladden and published by Defragmenter Media. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human mind is the most powerful game engine – but it can always use some help. This book is meant for developers who want to create games that will evoke richer and more memorable “gameworlds” in the minds of their players. We don’t just enter such unforgettable gameworlds when we play first-person 3D RPGs with high-resolution graphics; even relatively simple 2D puzzle or strategy games with 8-bit-style visuals can immerse players in worlds that are beautiful, terrifying, mysterious, or moving, that are brutally realistic or delightfully whimsical. Indeed, good video games can transport us to incredible new worlds. The process by which a particular gameworld emerges is a symbiotic collaboration between developer and player: the game system presents a carefully architected stream of polygons and pixels, which somehow leads the player’s mind to construct and explore an intricate world full of places, people, relationships, dilemmas, and quests that transcends what’s actually appearing onscreen. Drawing on insights from ontology and philosophical aesthetics, this volume provides you with conceptual frameworks and concrete tools that will enhance your ability to design games whose iconic gameworlds encourage the types of gameplay experiences you want to offer your players. Among other topics, the book investigates: · The unusual ways in which a gameworld’s contents can “shrink” or “grow” in players’ minds, depending on whether the players are mentally positioned within a game’s social space, cultural space, built space, or tactical space. · The manner in which players’ minds spontaneously “concretize” the countless gaps that exist in a game – and how this dynamic explains why so many players still enjoy 8-bit-style games with retro pixel art. · The differing ways in which players experience success and failure, danger and safety, good and evil, the future and the past, the known and the unknown, and engagement and retreat, depending on whether a game reveals its gameworld through a “1D” game environment (like that of a text-based adventure), 2D environment (like that of a sidescroller or a grand strategy game with a top-down map view), 2.5D environment (like that of an isometric turn-based tactics game) or 3D environment (like that of a first-person shooter). · The powerful way in which players are able to mentally “explore” a gameworld simply by shifting their conscious awareness between different senses, media, ontological strata, and constituent spaces – without needing to travel through the gameworld’s terrain at all. · Necessary and optional elements of the gameworld – from built areas, natural landscapes, laws of nature, and a cosmogony to the game’s player and designer – and their roles in shaping the gameplay experience. · How to strategically employ the architectural paradigms of the Cyberspatial Grid, Maze Space, Biomimetic Net, Simulacral World, Virtual Museum, and Protean World when architecting locales within your game, in order to evoke particular kinds of emotional gameplay experiences for your players. · The nature of the unique “sixth sense” that 2D games grant to player characters (and players). · Simple techniques for helping your 2D game to “feel” more like a 3D game. · The differing kinds of immersiveness, interactivity, and determinacy possessed by different types of games and their implications for the gameplay experience. Once you’ve undertaken this philosophical and artistic journey, you’ll never look at your games – or their gameworlds – in quite the same way again. Phenomenology of the Gameworld is a book by the award-winning video game designer, philosopher, and writer Matthew E. Gladden. He has over 20 years of experience with commercial and non-commercial game development, has published numerous scholarly and popular works relating to the philosophy of video game design, virtual reality, and neurocybernetics, and has served as a video game conference keynote speaker.
Download or read book SAVIOR written by Jimmy Santoso and published by uwais inspirasi indonesia. This book was released on with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story begins with the story of the feud and rivalry between Archon and Sword angel with his allies in fighting for the job as Savior angel who will be chosen by God to bring about world peace for mankind on earth. After God determines which angel will be chosen as the Savior angel, the angel who is not chosen to be the Savior angel becomes hurt and has a grudge against the Savior angel. When the Savior angel is sent by God to come down to earth, his rival angels try to thwart his mission to bring world peace on earth by provoking, inciting and pitting the world's leaders on earth between North Korea, Russia, United States, Britain and China to war against each other and trigger the World War 3 on earth. Can the Savior angel prevent a World War 3 from happening on earth ? Can Savior angel prevent nuclear wars from happening on earth ?. This story gets even more interesting, when the Savior angel is carrying out his mission on earth it turns out that he also has a weakness, namely he is unable to resist his human desire for the temptation of beautiful women. He becomes a superstar singer and has many fans. The Savior angel's fame on earth make his rival angels even more jealous and envious of him. What is interesting in this story is that this story not only shows physical muscle fight between the Savior angel and his rival-evil angels but also delivers great and vicious tricks and intrigue between them. In the end, these rival-evil angels decide to come down to earth in order to kill the Savior angel and invade the world. Some of them have transformed themselves into a giant red five-headed dragon and godzilla. In addition to destroy the earth, the giant red five-headed dragon also attack the heaven and has great battle against the millions of angels there. Can the Savior angel save the earth from the invasion of evil angels and the deadly attack of the giant red five-headed dragon ?. Can the Savior angel save humanity from extinction ? The scenery view of setting places, the great epic battle and the touching story of this story would deliver great fantasy world which people around the world never ever seen and imagined before.
Book Synopsis Castle In The Sky by : Hayao Miyazaki
Download or read book Castle In The Sky written by Hayao Miyazaki and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2003-07-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Animation in Context by : Mark Collington
Download or read book Animation in Context written by Mark Collington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animation in Context is an illustrated introduction to cultural theory, contextual research and critical analysis. By making academic language more accessible, it empowers animators with the confidence and enthusiasm to engage with theory as a fun, integral, and applied part of the creative process. Interviews with contemporary industry professionals and academics, student case studies and a range of practical research exercises, combine to encourage a more versatile approach to animation practice – from creating storyboards to set designs and soundtracks; as well as developing virals, 3D zoetropes and projection mapping visuals. Mark Collington focuses on a core selection of theoretical approaches that shape animation narrative, supported by a broader set of shared theoretical principles from the worlds of art, design, film and media studies. This discussion is underpinned by cross-disciplinary thinking on a range of topics including genre, humour, montage and propaganda. These are applied to the analysis of a range of animated films and projects from Disney and Animé, to independent artist-filmmakers such as Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis and Jerzy Kucia. These ideas are also applied to other uses of animation such as advertising, sitcom, gaming and animated documentary.
Book Synopsis The Floating World of Castle Peak Bay by : E. N. Anderson
Download or read book The Floating World of Castle Peak Bay written by E. N. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metagalaxy written by Russell Scott and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: METAGALAXY Conclusions... Metagalaxy Conclusions is a continuation of the Metagalaxy where SamSon is forced to face his life and the choices he has made as he takes it upon himself to help all. SamSon finds out that everything and anything is still possible in this Metagalaxy, even becoming conventional. SamSon inspires others to step up and become moral as they seek out the greatest sources of evil to confront it and destroy it. They know that evil in the Metagalaxy is still indeed strong, smart, and attempting to take over. Love, honor, and loyalty are the keys to help this Metagalaxy survive. And if SamSon can convince others and himself that he is still their defender and needed, he will make sure it does. But his own power might lead to the Metagalaxy’s destruction.
Book Synopsis The Art of Castle in the Sky by : Hayao Miyazaki
Download or read book The Art of Castle in the Sky written by Hayao Miyazaki and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive examination of the art and animation of Studio Ghibli’s masterpiece of fantasy and flight, Castle in the Sky! The latest in the perennially popular line of Studio Ghibli art books, which include interviews, concept sketches and finished animation cels from classics such as Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro. Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky was the first feature film produced by the legendary Studio Ghibli. Sheeta, a girl who has the power to defy gravity, is on the run from pirates when she meets the young inventor Pazu. Together they explore the secrets of Laputa, a flying city constructed by a long-lost race of people. All of Miyazaki’s major themes—the power of flight, the bravery of young women, and a world wrecked by change—are captured with beautiful animation and joyous storytelling.
Book Synopsis The World of Havenor by : Carlo Carrasco
Download or read book The World of Havenor written by Carlo Carrasco and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of Havenor is an anthology of fantasy short stories that follows the trials of seven people who share one common dreamfreedom from the evil clutches of the Vandorran Empire. Readers will meet Varna, a teenager whose mutation gives her the ability to manipulate metal through touch and focus; Rally, a navigator who was banished from the colonial forces when her superiors discovered that she is a lesbian; Brick, a former knight who leads a treasure hunting team to aid his kingdoms poor people; Savannah and Sage, siblings who wield magical powers that reflect their respective differences; Ryder, a young explorer who searches for lost books of ancient magic spells; and Laetitia, the daughter of a freedom fighter who is about to realize her destiny. Through their exploits, readers will witness unique adventures unfold as well as timeless themes that they can relate with. Almost a hundred years have passed since the day the empire invaded their world. Through the decades, the Havenorians have lived in fear and could only struggle with oppression and abuse from the technology-armed colonists. Making matters worse is the impending arrival of Emperor Brutikus, who intends to make Havenor the new home world for his eight hundred million Vandorrans. Advising the emperor is Fesoj, the high priest of the Padsonian church of Vandorra. Fesoj rules with thousands of priests and clerics, waging a religious war against the Vivienite faith of the Havenorians, as well as their nonbelievers. As such, the Havenorians must unite and organize the fight for freedom before it is too late.
Book Synopsis Beginning Ring Programming by : Mansour Ayouni
Download or read book Beginning Ring Programming written by Mansour Ayouni and published by Apress. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain a gentle introduction to the world of Ring programming with clarity as a first concern using a lot of practical examples. The first part lays the foundations of the language and its basic features (data types, control structures, functions, and classes). The unique way to rigorously structure Ring programs is also explained. Then, in the second part you’ll discover Ring inputs, outputs, and what is in between. You’ll use the basic constructs of computer logic (sequence, selection, and iteration) to build simple and complex logic flows. You’ll go over the common mistakes that lead to code complexity, by example, and cover several strategies to solve them (refactoring, code cleansing, and good variable naming). Then, you’ll see a visual illustration of how Ring deals with scopes at the local, object, and global levels. In part three, you’ll play with two artifacts vital to Ring programming: functions and objects. You’ll learn how they can be composed to solve a problem and how advanced programming paradigms, such as declarative and natural, are beautifully implemented on top of them. As part of the discussion, you’ll also work on game programming. You’ll learn how you design your game declaratively, in Ring code, just as if you were designing it in visual software. Finally, the author lays out how programming can be understood in a gamified context. You will be told the truth about how gaming can be a better metaphor to achieve mastery of Ring programming. This book is for those who are passionate about writing beautiful, expressive, and learnable code. It has been designed so you can enjoy a beginner-friendly set of knowledge about Ring, and benefit from a one-stop collection of lessons learned from real-world, customer-facing programming projects. What You Will Learn Get started with Ring and master its data types, I/O, functions, and classesCarry out structural, object-oriented, functional, declarative, natural, and meta programming in RingUse the full power of Ring to refactor program code and develop clean program architecturesQuickly design professional-grade video games on top of the Ring game engine Who This Book Is For Beginners looking for a consistent and hackable programming environment with a strong flavor of learnability and expressiveness.
