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Book Synopsis Halcyon Days by : Peggie Phipps Boegner
Download or read book Halcyon Days written by Peggie Phipps Boegner and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1986 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Phipps, Jr. (1839-1934) was a partner to Andrew Carnegie in in the steel industry. He built Westbury House in Long Island which is now a public showpiece. Includes biographical data on him and his descendants for two generations.
Book Synopsis Coming Home to Story by : Geoff Mead
Download or read book Coming Home to Story written by Geoff Mead and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories take us into other worlds so that we may experience our own more deeply. Master storyteller Geoff Mead brings the reader inside the experience of telling and listening to a story. He shows how stories and storytelling engage our imaginations, strengthen communities and bring adventure and joy into our lives. The narrative is interspersed with consummate retellings of traditional tales from all over the world.
Download or read book Halcyon Journey written by Marina Richie and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marina Richie's pursuit of the belted kingfisher is one of curiosity and kinship with a wild creekside community in Missoula, Montana. The first book to feature North America's beloved bird of waterways, Halcyon Journey threads natural history, memoir, and myth. Epiphanies and a citizen science discovery punctuate Richie's seven seasons tracking a skittish pair of birds. The female is more colorful than the male (unusual and puzzling) and the birds' earthen nest holes are fiendishly difficult to locate. Far-flung adventures to other continents in search of kingfisher kin deepen the author's relationship with Montana birds. In winter, she explores tribal stories of the kingfisher as messenger and helper. By the water's edge, she reconciles the loss of her naturalist father and taps into her own powers, inspired by the bird of the headfirst plunge and rattling call. Book jacket.
Download or read book Racing the Beam written by Nick Montfort and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-01-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the relationship between platform and creative expression in the Atari VCS, the gaming system for popular games like Pac-Man and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that “Atari” became the generic term for a video game console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which established new techniques, mechanics, and even entire genres. This book offers a detailed and accessible study of this influential video game console from both computational and cultural perspectives. Studies of digital media have rarely investigated platforms—the systems underlying computing. This book, the first in a series of Platform Studies, does so, developing a critical approach that examines the relationship between platforms and creative expression. Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost discuss the Atari VCS itself and examine in detail six game cartridges: Combat, Adventure, Pac-Man, Yars' Revenge, Pitfall!, and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. They describe the technical constraints and affordances of the system and track developments in programming, gameplay, interface, and aesthetics. Adventure, for example, was the first game to represent a virtual space larger than the screen (anticipating the boundless virtual spaces of such later games as World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto), by allowing the player to walk off one side into another space; and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was an early instance of interaction between media properties and video games. Montfort and Bogost show that the Atari VCS—often considered merely a retro fetish object—is an essential part of the history of video games.
Download or read book The Halcyon Days written by Kamu Pillai and published by SHAHAN KHAN . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE HALCYON DAYS" vol-1 is a compilation enclosed with 75 amazing writers. All the writeups of this anthology will surely add a smile to your face. The purpose behind "THE HALCYON DAYS" refers to A serene interval of elation, exceptionally in the yore. The term refers to the era around the hibernal solstice. that is equated with calm weather, which in Greek mythology was attributed to the power of the fabled halcyon bird that was said to calm the whirlwind and marine. The halcyon days of something, are a time in the former when it was especially pleased or prosperous. it’s a coalition of numerous amazingly written segments. which will take you on a fascinating adventure and you'll find who they are;
Book Synopsis Retrogame Archeology by : John Aycock
Download or read book Retrogame Archeology written by John Aycock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive research, this book explores the techniques that old computer games used to run on tightly-constrained platforms. Retrogame developers faced incredible challenges of limited space, computing power, rudimentary tools, and the lack of homogeneous environments. Using examples from over 100 retrogames, this book examines the clever implementation tricks that game designers employed to make their creations possible, documenting these techniques that are being lost. However, these retrogame techniques have modern analogues and applications in general computer systems, not just games, and this book makes these contemporary connections. It also uses retrogames' implementation to introduce a wide variety of topics in computer systems including memory management, interpretation, data compression, procedural content generation, and software protection. Retrogame Archeology targets professionals and advanced-level students in computer science, engineering, and mathematics but would also be of interest to retrogame enthusiasts, computer historians, and game studies researchers in the humanities.
Book Synopsis The Halcyon Days of Youth by : Aishwarya Nedumaran, Abinaya.GK
Download or read book The Halcyon Days of Youth written by Aishwarya Nedumaran, Abinaya.GK and published by Spectrum Of Thoughts. This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE HALCYON DAYS OF YOUTH " is a top notch collection of blissful & wistful emotions to be boxed up by our artistic writers in various genres . There's a crowd pleasing fact that, Life is merely a riding on "Tilt a whirl", confined with thrills & delights that has been twistfully twirled. In that way, "THE HALCYON DAYS OF YOUTH " brings into notice about the good olden days of the youth that needs be treasured & cherished throughout our lives. Because undeniably, "The eidetic of youth days has always been meant to soothe our souls , putting us over on a misty spot, relishing an unrivaled experience " This Book has been complied by Ms.AISHWARYA NEDUMARAN & ABINAYA GK. They Both have Co-authored several books & this is their second compilation work.
Book Synopsis The Cook of the Halcyon by : Andrea Camilleri
Download or read book The Cook of the Halcyon written by Andrea Camilleri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series Giovanni Trincanato has brought ruin to the shipyard he inherited from his father and when a worker he fires hangs himself on the construction site, Inspector Montalbano is called to the scene. In short order, the inspector loses his temper with the crass Giovanni, delivers a slap to his face, and unfortunately, it won’t be the last he sees of Trincanato. Meanwhile, a mysterious schooner called Halcyon shows up in the harbor, seemingly deserted except for just one man. With its presence comes even more mysteries, another death, and the arrival of the FBI. Alongside Sicilian-American Agent Pennisi, Montalbano and his team must attempt a suspenseful infiltration operation in this new, page-turning Inspector Montalbano mystery.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Days by : Bonnie J. Blackburn
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Days written by Bonnie J. Blackburn and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Book of Days explores the fascinating history that underpins our familiar Western calendar. In the traditions of almanacs and Chambers's original Book of Days, the authors have collected together a rich body of historical fact, legend, lore, and literature for each day of the year,but this astonishing range of information is interfused with wit and scholarship to provide an authoriative, beautifully written reference work. From 1 January to 31 December, with additional notes on seasons, months, and the days of the week, this is a unique work to be referred to constantly andto be treasured.
Book Synopsis A Theatre for Dreamers by : Polly Samson
Download or read book A Theatre for Dreamers written by Polly Samson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Delicious' Nigella Lawson 'Clever and beguiling' Guardian 'Sublime and immersive' Jojo Moyes Erica is eighteen and ready for freedom. It's the summer of 1960 when she lands on the sun-baked Greek island of Hydra where she is swept up in a circle of bohemian poets, painters, musicians, writers and artists, living tangled lives. Life on their island paradise is heady, dream-like, a string of seemingly endless summer days. But nothing can last forever. 'A surefire summer hit ... At once a blissful piece of escapism and a powerful meditation on art and sexuality' Observer 'Heady armchair escapism ... An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience' Sunday Times 'If summer was suddenly like a novel, it would be like this one. Immaculate' Andrew O'Hagan
Download or read book Ruth on the Phone written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of chronologically ordered photographs taken between 1995 and 26th January 2004, the book takes the form of a novel without words. The sequence shows Ruth, first at the end of the telephone receiver, later on a cordless phone, the one constant as time and place change around her. Photographs by Nigel Shafran.
Book Synopsis Kitty Saves the World by : Carrie Vaughn
Download or read book Kitty Saves the World written by Carrie Vaughn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final novel in the Kitty Norville series. Kitty is running out of time, after her failed attempt to take down the ancient vampire Roman. The elusive vampire lord has begun his apocalyptic endgame, and Kitty does not know where he will strike next. Meanwhile, pressure mounts as Kitty and her pack realize that not even Denver is safe as they experience the true reach of Roman's cult.
Book Synopsis Dragonfrigate Wizard Halcyon Blithe by : James M. Ward
Download or read book Dragonfrigate Wizard Halcyon Blithe written by James M. Ward and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His yeoman voyage now behind him, Blithe must now accept new responsibilities as he ascends to the rank of DRAGONFRIGATE WIZARD HALCYON BLITHE. In the latest chapter of the young wizard's nautical education he finds himself second in command of a captured enemy vessel that must engage a demonship in combat before returning to port. Upon his return he is assigned duty on a dwarven dragonship where he and his shipmates encounter the deceit of politics and diplomacy before they can regain the security of their Arcanian dragonship and the company of their trusted crewmates. Combining elements of Hornblower with Harry Potter, and Robert Louis Stevenson with Robin Hobb, the Halcyon Blithe are nautical tales rich in magic and intrigue set against a panorama of fantastic naval battles as we follow the career of a young midshipwizard as he moves up through the ranks of His Majesty's Navy. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis As Kingfishers Catch Fire by : Gerard Manley Hopkins
Download or read book As Kingfishers Catch Fire written by Gerard Manley Hopkins and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' incomparably brilliant poetry, ranging from the ecstasy of 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). Hopkins' Poems and Prose is available in Penguin Classics.
Book Synopsis Star Wars: The Halcyon Legacy by : Ethan Sacks
Download or read book Star Wars: The Halcyon Legacy written by Ethan Sacks and published by Marvel Comics. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 300 years, the Halcyon has been the preeminent cruise ship in the galaxy. As Republics and an Empire have risen and fallen, this luxury space vessel has been a constant...despite an occasional bumpy ride or two. Now, prepare to learn the incredible story of the ship at the heart of the sensational Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel at Walt Disney World! Get ready to journey across the galaxy, enjoying stories that straddle genres and explore different eras of Star Wars -- each of which illustrates the rich history of the Halcyon. And you're sure to recognize a few familiar faces along the way!
Download or read book Justice Wing written by Eric Burns-White and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of Justice Wing, heroes and villains have contended with one another for decades spanning four eras. Now, with the heroes in nadir, Super-archer Broadhead, one of the first prosahuman heroes (meaning he possesses no special powers) struggles to maintain his edge with a failing body. This struggle is compounded by a well deserved reputation for being a butthole (though usually not using the word 'butt') and for an incident that cost him his partnership with his sidekick and the respect of his peers many years before. And yet, through it all he continued to both fight to protect the innocent (admittedly usually while insulting them) and to continue to improve both his skills and his gear, under the basic ethos he always lived by: Plan your projects, create and test a prototype, produce the final result, then continually perfect the design with new models. Now, ten years after a worldwide disaster caused by a mad god's desperate attempt to destroy not just the world but the entire multiverse, Broadhead keeps himself held together with medication and black market super science. But, with a young super-archer named Darkhood coming up, continued estrangements, haunted by his past, and finally benched for his own safety and health, Broadhead finds himself plunging into increasingly vivid memories spanning all four eras -- the Emergence of the heroes, their Halcyon Days, the horrifying Apocalypse Agenda, and now Justice Wing In Nadir, reliving his worst mistakes. Seeking validation, he desperately watches a television program that tests and debunks super-feats in hopes they will prove Darkhood's greatest arrow-shot was impossible... only to have the one person he never thought would support Darkhood show up. After a life of pushing prosahuman heroes to train and prepare for all situations instead of grandstanding and making it up as they go along, Broadhead's last remaining legacy seems ready to crumble... along with his very life. Content Warning: This story contains adult language, allusions to and discussions of verbal and emotional abuse, and (brief and entirely undetailed) references to physical abuse of a child.
Book Synopsis Do You Want it Good Or Do You Want it Tuesday? by : Ruth Artmonsky
Download or read book Do You Want it Good Or Do You Want it Tuesday? written by Ruth Artmonsky and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children growing up in the 1930s and 1940s were delighted by characters such as Orlando, Babar and Little Tim, as well as enjoying the wonderfully illustrated world of Puffin Picture books. It was W.S. Cowell's of Ipswich who worked with the illustrators to produce these iconic books and who were to produce the much sought after prints of such masters as Henry Moore, Picasso, George Braque, Raoul Dufy, and Eric Ravilious. This book tells the story of the managers and employees of this creative company who, along with their more regular bread-and-butter work, produced outstanding colour lithographic printing that was not only unique, but also entirely magical and original bringing children's literature to life.
