Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2958983021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2958983021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!
Author: Jesse VenturaPublisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1602397163
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Ventura--former governor, wrestler, and Navy SEAL--discusses what's wrong with the Democrats, the Republicans, and politics in America.
A DARK WINTER'S TALE
Author: A J BOOTHMANPublisher: Alvasda Kerezard
ISBN: 1916537006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Young student, Sarah, gets detached from her group in the wilderness with night falling. Desperate to escape the increasing cold and darkness she begins to make her way alone back to the hostel. All the while a serial killer has escaped from a high security prison and is believed to be in the area. A Dark Winter’s Tale is a short suspense story that will have you on the edge of your seat as the tension intensifies gradually until the dramatic finale.
Orange Sunshine
Author: Nick SchouPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429996668
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The true story of the drug-smuggling, church-founding “Hippie Mafia”: “A definitive history of the dark side of the 1960s.” —Los Angeles Times Few stories in the annals of American counterculture are as dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. They began as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers. But after discovering LSD, they embraced Timothy Leary’s mantra of “Turn on, tune in, and drop out” and resolved to make that vision a reality by becoming the biggest acid dealers and hashish smugglers in the nation. Just days after California became the first US state to ban LSD, the Brotherhood formed a legally registered church in its Laguna Beach headquarters, where they sold blankets and other paraphernalia. Before long, they also began to sell Afghan hash, Hawaiian pot (the storied Maui Wowie), and eventually Colombian cocaine, much of it smuggled in secret compartments inside surfboards and VW minibuses driven across the border. They befriended Leary, enlisting him in the goal of buying a tropical island where they could install the former Harvard philosophy professor and acid prophet as the high priest of an experimental utopia. The Brotherhood’s most legendary contribution to the drug scene was homemade: Orange Sunshine, their trademark acid tablet that produced an especially powerful trip. Their foot soldiers passed out handfuls at communes, Grateful Dead concerts, and love-ins up and down the coast. The Hell’s Angels, Charles Manson and his followers, and the unruly crowd at the infamous Altamont festival all tripped out on this acid. Jimi Hendrix even performed a private show for the Brotherhood on the slope of a Hawaiian volcano. Journalist Nicholas Schou takes us deep inside the group, combining exclusive interviews with both the surviving members and the cops who chased them. A wide-ranging narrative of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll (and more drugs), Orange Sunshine explores how America moved from the era of peace and free love into a darker time of hard drugs and paranoia.
The Art of Prompts 2
Author: Kevin AshleyPublisher: Kevin Ashley
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
The Art of Prompts 2 has hundreds of examples and prompt tips to help you create beautiful illustrations, comics, greeting cards, stories, articles and so much more with generative AI! You don't need to be an expert: the book comes with easy-to-use tools to help you save, experiment and share your prompts with Livebook, and instantly publish your creations online with the visual Prompt Maker, Story Maker, Comics Maker, Image Maker and more! This book is a great resource for anyone interested in digital art, creativity, writing and artificial intelligence. Includes hundreds of illustrations and tips on making beautiful digital art with all modern AI models: Google Gemini, OpenAI, Midjourney and more. Enjoy browsing through a gallery of hundreds of illustrations made with prompts, try them yourself and have fun! Make beautiful art and content easily! Includes easy-to-use online tools and 200+ beautiful illustrations and tested prompts you can copy-and-paste to jump start creating artwork instantly, or experiment live with Livebook. Learn to instantly create professional digital art for your projects, books, documentation, research, or business: Illustrations Stories Comics Greeting Cards Articles What’s so special about this book? It explains how to make prompts to generate art and creative content - a very useful skill for any artist or hobbyist making art with powerful artificial intelligence tools. Enjoy browsing through a gallery of hundreds of illustrations made with prompts and have fun! Easy-to-follow and well structured The book is well structured, so you can quickly find your genres or styles of illustrations or artwork and use hints, guidance and copy-paste prompts that I tested while working on this book, or use Livebook (included) to create prompts, notebooks and more. Save time and start with best practices Creating a great artwork with artificial intelligence takes time. The book provides best practices and tested prompts to get started quickly. What is a prompt? A prompt is a loosely defined input, like a phrase or instruction that tells A.I. what to do. The art of creating prompts is just like the art of talking to people: if you’re skilled in this art you’ll get fantastic results! More creative AI resources: What’s new in this book: besides lots of new prompt tips, each prompt in this book is available online on Livebook, a new resource where you can keep and share your prompts, play, experiment, make articles, posts, illustrations, books, websites, and more. Livebook helps you creating content based on just your ideas (no special skills necessary), and provides a content management platform for generative AI, with lots of easy-to-use generative AI tools built-in: the visual Prompt Maker, Comics Maker, Greeting Card Maker, Story makers, and tons of templates as part of the Prompt Mania prompt garden. Ta-Da! Meet the Prompt Maker: one of the new tools included in Livebook simplifies prompt engineering, shortening the path from your ideas to content: the tool will automatically make awesome visual and text prompts for you, saving you typing and time from a single idea. Prompts made by Livebook Prompt Maker fit any transformer, and significantly improve the output quality for Google, OpenAI, Midjourney, and other models. Also in the book: multi-modal prompts - for video, images, text and more! While the first Art of Prompts book focused purely on imaging and art, I decided to include more tips in this book that also cover text and videos. So, in addition to vision and images, in this book you’ll find entirely new comics, text and conversation sections, including Google tools and new models like multi-modal Gemini, that explains the art of getting what you want from machines and artificial intelligence. This book is to make anyone productive with AI, you don’t need to be a data scientist to use methods and tools I share here. I recommend checking books in this series for the background of many methods explained here. Livebook for Business brings a comprehensive generative AI solution for businesses, teams and organizations. For example, at the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Livebook powers AI Coaching that teams and coaches as part of long-term Team USA readiness program for LA Olympics 2028! It is the first ever content management system (CMS) designed from the ground up to work with generative AI. Livebook generative AI kiosk had been installed at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, next to the first computers and processors, entertaining visitors with generative stories. Hope you enjoy this book, learn, and have fun!
The Practice of Popular Music
Author: Trevor de ClercqPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 104001948X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Practice of Popular Music is a music theory and musicianship textbook devoted to explaining the organization of contemporary popular music styles such as pop, rock, R&B, rap, and country. Rooted in recent research showing that the structure of popular music differs from classical music in important ways, this textbook offers an approach to teaching music theory that is fully oriented around popular and commercial genres. Beginning with fundamentals and requiring no previous training in music theory or notation, this book eventually guides the reader through a range of advanced topics, including chromatic mixture, secondary chord function, complex time signatures, and phrase organization. Each chapter develops concepts in tandem with aural comprehension, and the included exercises balance written tasks with listening activities. A companion website provides links to playlists of the music discussed in the book. With an innovative approach designed to broaden the reach of music theory coursework to a wide range of students, including non-majors and those in modern music degree programs such as audio engineering, songwriting, and music business, this textbook enables readers to gain a deep understanding of music theory in the context of popular music.
220 Lyrics from the Eighties.
Author: Kiwi BlokePublisher: Paul Oliver
ISBN: 1471091023
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Contained in this book are the lyrics to over 200 of the greatest songs of the 80's. Contents are an easy layout containing the Artist and their songs for easy searching. Grab a copy and I guarantee it will bring back the memories.
The Book of Love
Author: Cynthia MarkovitchPublisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982247819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
The Book of Love is a twisted fairytale about a young girl growing up in America searching for the truth in a world of falsehoods only to discover her real identity.
Drive Me Out of My Mind
Author: Chad FariesPublisher: Emergency Press
ISBN: 0983022623
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Drive Me Out of My Mind is a coming-of-age story of wildness and wandering set primarily in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—its abandoned iron mines, desperate small towns, and heart-breaking bars. It’s the memoir of a boy raised by lawless and itinerant women and how he was cultured—and corrupted—by their hard-living, hard-drinking, and hard-loving ways. Given this lot in life, Faries tells how one boy was hurt into becoming a poet at the ripe age of two—to imagine another world other than the daily madness in front of him—a world where violent stalkers hovered over the hospital beds of women as they gave birth, where father figures also copulated with Gramma, where a worn Barbie doll was a main source of comfort, and where home meant 24 anonymous hovels in 10 years.
From the Eye of My Mind
Author: TGC PrasadPublisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184003692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
I am eighteen years old and five feet six inches tall. I have big eyes, long fingers, and I am healthy because I eat my food on time. I also have a mole on my left palm. Grandma says, ‘Mole on the palm is bad luck.’ Eric Hoffer, an American writer said, ‘A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.’ I wondered what a right time to die was? I feel I have an eye in my mind and I close it when I am with strangers. Mallika is autistic and lives in a strangely whimsical yet ordered world of her own. When her mother breaks the news to her that her beloved elder brother Ananth is going to get married, Mallika’s fragile world collapses. How will she deal with a stranger in her home and life? Told in an inimitable style, From the Eye of My Mind is a charming tale of acceptance, love, and a beautiful mind.
