Author: Tommie McNeil
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781502525499
Category : Dysfunctional families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Two Left Shoes" is a feast of relevant social issues, in the midst of a twisted love triangle, disguised as an erotic thriller. Take a whirlwind tour through the mind of author Tommie NcNeil, if you dare, as he weaves a captivating story around the fictional lives of ordinary Galvestonians and their encounters with homophobia, bullying, teen suicide, domestic violence, drug addiction, HIV in the heterosexual community, and more. You may laugh, cry, cheer for the underdog or hate, but you will never be bored.
Two Left Shoes
Author: Tommie McNeil
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781502525499
Category : Dysfunctional families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Two Left Shoes" is a feast of relevant social issues, in the midst of a twisted love triangle, disguised as an erotic thriller. Take a whirlwind tour through the mind of author Tommie NcNeil, if you dare, as he weaves a captivating story around the fictional lives of ordinary Galvestonians and their encounters with homophobia, bullying, teen suicide, domestic violence, drug addiction, HIV in the heterosexual community, and more. You may laugh, cry, cheer for the underdog or hate, but you will never be bored.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781502525499
Category : Dysfunctional families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Two Left Shoes" is a feast of relevant social issues, in the midst of a twisted love triangle, disguised as an erotic thriller. Take a whirlwind tour through the mind of author Tommie NcNeil, if you dare, as he weaves a captivating story around the fictional lives of ordinary Galvestonians and their encounters with homophobia, bullying, teen suicide, domestic violence, drug addiction, HIV in the heterosexual community, and more. You may laugh, cry, cheer for the underdog or hate, but you will never be bored.
Ballet Shoes
Author: Noel Streatfeild
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0679847596
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Three orphan girls. A pair of pink slippers. A lifetime in the spotlight. Read the classic that has captivated generations! Pauline, Petrova, and Posy love their quiet life together. They are orphans who have been raised as sisters, and when their new family needs money, the girls want to help. They decide to join the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training to earn their keep. Each girl works hard following her dream. Pauline is destined for the movies. Posy is a born dancer. And Petrova? She finds she'd rather be a pilot than perform a pirouette. This beautiful children's classic is perfect for girls who love to dream about ballet, friendship, and finding their own special talents. Adult readers may remember them as the "Shoes" books from You've Got Mail!
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0679847596
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Three orphan girls. A pair of pink slippers. A lifetime in the spotlight. Read the classic that has captivated generations! Pauline, Petrova, and Posy love their quiet life together. They are orphans who have been raised as sisters, and when their new family needs money, the girls want to help. They decide to join the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training to earn their keep. Each girl works hard following her dream. Pauline is destined for the movies. Posy is a born dancer. And Petrova? She finds she'd rather be a pilot than perform a pirouette. This beautiful children's classic is perfect for girls who love to dream about ballet, friendship, and finding their own special talents. Adult readers may remember them as the "Shoes" books from You've Got Mail!
Creation
Author: Steve Grand
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674011137
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Working mostly alone, Grand produced Creatures(R), a computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems--creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is artificial life? In this book Grand proposes an answer.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674011137
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Working mostly alone, Grand produced Creatures(R), a computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems--creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is artificial life? In this book Grand proposes an answer.
Microeconomics
Author: David Besanko
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119554845
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Microeconomics is a classroom-tested resource for learning the key concepts, essential tools, and applications of microeconomics. This leading textbook enables students to recognize and analyze significant data, patterns, and trends in real markets through its integrated, student-friendly approach to the subject — providing practice problems, hands-on exercises, illustrative examples, and engaging applications that ground theory firmly in the real world. Each chapter, opening with a set of clearly defined learning goals based on the Bloom Taxonomy, features numerous Learning-by-Doing (LBD) problems, mathematical and graphical data, and varied problem sets focused on current events. Now in its sixth edition, the text offers extensive new and revised content throughout. All applications reflect current data and important new developments in the field of economics, including behavioral economics, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in policy evaluation and design, and computational-based microeconomics. Updated chapter openers, designed to increase student interest, cover topics including the economic impacts of climate change, U.S. household income and spending, surge pricing by Uber and Lyft, the effect of immigration on wages, and advances in robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, and more.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119554845
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Microeconomics is a classroom-tested resource for learning the key concepts, essential tools, and applications of microeconomics. This leading textbook enables students to recognize and analyze significant data, patterns, and trends in real markets through its integrated, student-friendly approach to the subject — providing practice problems, hands-on exercises, illustrative examples, and engaging applications that ground theory firmly in the real world. Each chapter, opening with a set of clearly defined learning goals based on the Bloom Taxonomy, features numerous Learning-by-Doing (LBD) problems, mathematical and graphical data, and varied problem sets focused on current events. Now in its sixth edition, the text offers extensive new and revised content throughout. All applications reflect current data and important new developments in the field of economics, including behavioral economics, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in policy evaluation and design, and computational-based microeconomics. Updated chapter openers, designed to increase student interest, cover topics including the economic impacts of climate change, U.S. household income and spending, surge pricing by Uber and Lyft, the effect of immigration on wages, and advances in robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, and more.
The Most Important Thing Happening
Author: Mark Steele
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 0781408849
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Fantastical Stories of Timeless TruthsA boardwalk peddler selling one ounce of God. A gentle mute who unwittingly triggers a tragic chain of events. Two businessmen declaring war over the Very Last Sandwich in the Entire World. The characters in the eleven short stories of The Most Important Thing Happening move through the whimsical, the mysterious, and the introspective toward the hope your soul longs for. So allow these stories to unfold before you one at a time. Chew on them. Let them haunt you. Go ahead and make a few fictional friends. Take a look at the world in a new way. You may come out the other side transformed.
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 0781408849
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Fantastical Stories of Timeless TruthsA boardwalk peddler selling one ounce of God. A gentle mute who unwittingly triggers a tragic chain of events. Two businessmen declaring war over the Very Last Sandwich in the Entire World. The characters in the eleven short stories of The Most Important Thing Happening move through the whimsical, the mysterious, and the introspective toward the hope your soul longs for. So allow these stories to unfold before you one at a time. Chew on them. Let them haunt you. Go ahead and make a few fictional friends. Take a look at the world in a new way. You may come out the other side transformed.
Journey into Amnesia
Author: John P Fox
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 150430022X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A childs novel for grown-ups In a dispute over child custody Judge Pankhurst offers Joni Cartwright the unenviable choice, the horrible decisionthat of choosing which parent she wants to live withthe child is so distressed by the ordeal and the seemingly insurmountable odds stacked against a once happy family, Joni takes her problems to bedwhere she dreams of solutions.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 150430022X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A childs novel for grown-ups In a dispute over child custody Judge Pankhurst offers Joni Cartwright the unenviable choice, the horrible decisionthat of choosing which parent she wants to live withthe child is so distressed by the ordeal and the seemingly insurmountable odds stacked against a once happy family, Joni takes her problems to bedwhere she dreams of solutions.
The Methodologies of Art
Author: Laurie Schneider Adams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429974078
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been 'read' in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a work's perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its culture (time and place) and its maker (the artist) and is dependent on its media (what it's made of). The methodologies discussed here (formal analysis, iconology and iconography, Marxism, feminism, biography and autobiography, psychoanalysis, structuralism, race and gender) reflect the multiplicity of meanings in an artistic image. The second edition includes nineteen new images, new sections on race, gender, orientalism, and colonialism, and a new epilogue that analyzes a single painting to illustrate the different methodological viewpoints.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429974078
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been 'read' in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a work's perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its culture (time and place) and its maker (the artist) and is dependent on its media (what it's made of). The methodologies discussed here (formal analysis, iconology and iconography, Marxism, feminism, biography and autobiography, psychoanalysis, structuralism, race and gender) reflect the multiplicity of meanings in an artistic image. The second edition includes nineteen new images, new sections on race, gender, orientalism, and colonialism, and a new epilogue that analyzes a single painting to illustrate the different methodological viewpoints.
Textualities
Author: Hugh J. Silverman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113497888X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Textualities is both an account of recent developments in Continental philosophy and a demonstration of philosophy as a distinctive theoretical practice of its own. It can be read as a presentation and evaluation of major figures from Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty to Focault and Derrida with detailed acconts of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Blanchot and Kristeva.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113497888X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Textualities is both an account of recent developments in Continental philosophy and a demonstration of philosophy as a distinctive theoretical practice of its own. It can be read as a presentation and evaluation of major figures from Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty to Focault and Derrida with detailed acconts of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Blanchot and Kristeva.
Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature
Author: Jörg Kreienbrock
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823245284
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Why do humans get angry with objects? Why is it that a malfunctioning computer, a broken tool, or a fallen glass causes an outbreak of fury? How is it possible to speak of an inanimate object's recalcitrance, obstinacy, or even malice? When things assume a will of their own and seem to act out against human desires and wishes rather than disappear into automatic, unconscious functionality, the breakdown is experienced not as something neutral but affectively--as rage or as outbursts of laughter. Such emotions are always psychosocial: public, rhetorically performed, and therefore irreducible to a "private" feeling. By investigating the minutest details of life among dysfunctional household items through the discourses of philosophy and science, as well as in literary works by Laurence Sterne, Jean Paul, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, and Heimito von Doderer, Kreienbrock reconsiders the modern bourgeois poetics that render things the way we know and suffer them.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823245284
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Why do humans get angry with objects? Why is it that a malfunctioning computer, a broken tool, or a fallen glass causes an outbreak of fury? How is it possible to speak of an inanimate object's recalcitrance, obstinacy, or even malice? When things assume a will of their own and seem to act out against human desires and wishes rather than disappear into automatic, unconscious functionality, the breakdown is experienced not as something neutral but affectively--as rage or as outbursts of laughter. Such emotions are always psychosocial: public, rhetorically performed, and therefore irreducible to a "private" feeling. By investigating the minutest details of life among dysfunctional household items through the discourses of philosophy and science, as well as in literary works by Laurence Sterne, Jean Paul, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, and Heimito von Doderer, Kreienbrock reconsiders the modern bourgeois poetics that render things the way we know and suffer them.
Fire on the Track
Author: Roseanne Montillo
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1101906170
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The inspiring and irresistible true story of the women who broke barriers and finish-line ribbons in pursuit of Olympic Gold When Betty Robinson assumed the starting position at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, she was participating in what was only her fourth-ever organized track meet. She crossed the finish line as a gold medalist and the fastest woman in the world. This improbable athletic phenom was an ordinary high school student, discovered running for a train in rural Illinois mere months before her Olympic debut. Amsterdam made her a star. But at the top of her game, her career (and life) almost came to a tragic end when a plane she and her cousin were piloting crashed. So dire was Betty's condition that she was taken to the local morgue; only upon the undertaker's inspection was it determined she was still breathing. Betty, once a natural runner who always coasted to victory, soon found herself fighting to walk. While Betty was recovering, the other women of Track and Field were given the chance to shine in the Los Angeles Games, building on Betty's pioneering role as the first female Olympic champion in the sport. These athletes became more visible and more accepted, as stars like Babe Didrikson and Stella Walsh showed the world what women could do. And—miraculously—through grit and countless hours of training, Betty earned her way onto the 1936 Olympic team, again locking her sights on gold as she and her American teammates went up against the German favorites in Hitler's Berlin. Told in vivid detail with novelistic flair, Fire on the Track is an unforgettable portrait of these trailblazers in action.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1101906170
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The inspiring and irresistible true story of the women who broke barriers and finish-line ribbons in pursuit of Olympic Gold When Betty Robinson assumed the starting position at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, she was participating in what was only her fourth-ever organized track meet. She crossed the finish line as a gold medalist and the fastest woman in the world. This improbable athletic phenom was an ordinary high school student, discovered running for a train in rural Illinois mere months before her Olympic debut. Amsterdam made her a star. But at the top of her game, her career (and life) almost came to a tragic end when a plane she and her cousin were piloting crashed. So dire was Betty's condition that she was taken to the local morgue; only upon the undertaker's inspection was it determined she was still breathing. Betty, once a natural runner who always coasted to victory, soon found herself fighting to walk. While Betty was recovering, the other women of Track and Field were given the chance to shine in the Los Angeles Games, building on Betty's pioneering role as the first female Olympic champion in the sport. These athletes became more visible and more accepted, as stars like Babe Didrikson and Stella Walsh showed the world what women could do. And—miraculously—through grit and countless hours of training, Betty earned her way onto the 1936 Olympic team, again locking her sights on gold as she and her American teammates went up against the German favorites in Hitler's Berlin. Told in vivid detail with novelistic flair, Fire on the Track is an unforgettable portrait of these trailblazers in action.