Author : Lisa Williams; Deonte Burns
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 149906666X
God will determine which side the coin lands on. You can’t say anything is as slick as an oil can. Whatever game you’re playing, it’s best to play it fair. Call it heads or tails. If you’ve never cheated on someone but been cheated on, what was the excuse they gave you? If you’re still with that person, how have they changed? Did you do anything to get even? Did you forget? Did you forgive? Who gambles to lose?
Author : Lisa Williams
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1499025130
THIS BOOK HAS BEEN FORMATTED IN THE RUBIX READ FORMAT. THE RUBIX READ PROVIDES MULTIPLE BEGINNINGS TO ONE ENDING WITHOUT CONFUSION. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO READ THEN FLIP THIS BOOK FROM FRONT COVER(START OF LISA'S BIOGRAPHY) TO THE BACK COVER(START OF DEONTE'S BIOGRAPHY). TWO WELL COMPOSED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES LEADING TO THE TRUE LOVE STORY IN THE CENTER OF THE BOOK. BOTH STORIES WERE DIFFICULT TO TELL CONSIDERING TO PAIN AND MENTAL STRUGGLE TIED TO THE LIVES OF THE AUTHORS. COMPARE THE BACKGROUNDS OF THESE YOUNG AUTHORS AND FIND YOUR OWN EMOTIONAL BOND. WHY IS THE INTERSTATE IMPORTANT? WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU? HIGHWAY PATROL, FAMILY VACATIONS, BUSINESS TRIPS, EVERYDAY COMMUTE, ROADKILL, THE SCENERY, CAR ACCIDENTS, AAA, SEATBELTS, DRUG TRAFFIC, ETC... EVERY VEHICLE ON THE INTERSTATE HAS ITS OWN STORY TO TELL. I-75, I GUESS, AT A BIRDS EYE VIEW LOOKS LIKE AN ADVANCE ANT FARM. IT HAS ALL THOSE DIFFERENT AGENDAS CO-EXISTING. A RIPPLE CAN BE DUE TO WEATHER, A DRIVER UNDER THE INFLUENCE OR SHORT A FEW HOURS OF SLEEP, CONSTRUCTION, SO FORTH AND SO ON. WHO KNOWS WHEN THEIR JOURNEY WILL BE OVER? LIFE DOESN'T COME WITH A NAVIGATOR HELPING YOU TO YOUR DESTINATION WITH THE LUXURIES OF AVOIDING DETOURS, TRAFFIC JAMS, COLLISION, ROAD RAGE AND VITAL CHAIN REACTION. THE INTERSTATE NEVER TURNS OFF AND NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO YOUR SHADOW FOLLOWS. WHO WANTS TO LOOK BACK AT UGLY SHADOWS WHEN YOU HAVE THE FREEDOM TO KEEP GOING? WOULD YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR IF YOU KNEW THE DEVIL WAS BEHIND YOU? SOME WOULD LOOK OUT OF CURIOSITY VERSUS BEING STARTLED OR CAUGHT OFF GUARD. BUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES DOESN'T HOLD WEIGHT TO THE WILL POWER YOU'RE GOING TO NEED TO TAKE YOUR EYES OFF OF HIM. FORGETTING WHO WAS IN THE CAR FOR THE ENTIRE RIDE...
Author : Trevor B. Williams
Publisher : Trevor B. Williams
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2019-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1733111875
"Williams's debut novel is hard SF at its best." —Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of “Quantum Night” “Eternal Shadow reads like a Michael Crichton sci-fi thriller…” 4.5/5 Stars. —San Francisco Review “Fans of the hard science fiction of Andy Weir (The Martian) and Isaac Asimov… will have their eyes glued to the pages.” 4.9/5 Stars. —IndieReader “When apocalyptic disaster looms, humanity turns to science and technology in this well-crafted tale.” —Kirkus Review “…A thoughtful, intelligent portrait of humanity’s first contact with extraterrestrial life.” —Foreward Reviews What would you do if the world was going to end in ten years? For Jennifer Epstein, a by-the-books senior researcher at SETI, there is only one answer: prevent the apocalypse from happening. Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus were destroyed by an alien threat. The deck was stacked against humanity before the cards came out of the box. But Jennifer isn’t alone. She has Samantha Monroe, her excitable but brilliant colleague. From South Africa, CEO Muzikayise Khulu of Khulu Global supplies his vast resources to the ultimate race for survival. The three find themselves in an unlikely alliance while political brinkmanship, doomsday cults, and untested technologies form ever-growing obstacles. Will humanity unite to face the greatest challenge of their time, or will it destroy itself before the alien ship arrives?
Author : Keith B. Payne
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Deterrence (Strategy)
ISBN : 9780985555320
"Shadows on the Wall: Deterrence and Disarmament examines and contrasts the three alternative philosophical positions about the nature of the international system and patterns of human behavior that underlie three competing narratives seen in U.S. public debate regarding nuclear deterrence and disarmament. For over six decades, these three competing narratives, built on contrary philosophical traditions, have been the basis for contending positions regarding U.S. nuclear policy-ranging from advocacy for complete global nuclear disarmament to advocacy for the maintenance of robust U.S. nuclear capabilities for deterrence. Each of these three different narratives is based on different speculative expectations about developments in the international system and future patterns of human behavior. Given the inherent uncertainties about future developments in the international system and human behavior, none of these narratives can be deemed to objectively correct, or certainly wrong. They may, nevertheless, be judged to entail different levels of prudence for U.S. and allied security"--
Author : Patrick Webster
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476689970
One of the most visually compelling films ever made, Barry Lyndon can--and should, argues the author--be seen as Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece. This comprehensive analysis examines such topics as the unique way in which Kubrick photographed the film, Kubrick's subtle understanding of cinematic storytelling, the deliberate upturning of generic expectation, and the eclectic use of music. It also provides a more rigorous reading of the film from a diverse range of theoretical approaches: structuralist, feminist, psychoanalytical, Marxist and postcolonial readings.
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Page : 926 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 1888
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Martin Evening
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1000259919
Adobe Photoshop 2020 for Photographers by acclaimed digital imaging professional Martin Evening has been revamped to include detailed instruction for all of the updates to Photoshop on Adobe’s Creative Cloud, including significant new features such as Cloud document saving, the new Content-Area Fill and the Texture slider and Depth Range Mask for Camera Raw. This guide covers all the tools and techniques photographers and professional image editors need to know when using Photoshop, from workflow guidance to core skills to advanced techniques for professional results. Using clear, succinct instruction and real world examples, this guide is the essential reference for Photoshop users. The accompanying website has been updated with new sample images, tutorial videos, and bonus chapters.
Author : Jill Leslie McKeever Furst
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300072600
A richly illustrated look at basic Precolumbian beliefs among ancient Mesoamerican peoples about life and death, body and soul. Drawing on linguistic, ethnographic, and iconographic sources, art historian Jill McKeever Furst argues that the Mexica turned not to mental or linguistic constructions for verifying ideas about the soul, but to what they experienced through the senses. 32 illustrations.
Author : Peter Wuss
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1443806870
Film provides experience potential. Contemporary cognitive psychology gives the opportunity to define this impact on the film spectators’ mind in regard to different aspects of cognition, imagination and emotion. Proceeding from these positions, this book considers a number of practical issues of cinematic narration with which filmmakers, theorists and cineastes are frequently confronted: What is storytelling, and how may we objectify the regularities to be found at work in different modes of narration in the fiction film, among them structural principles of “art-cinema” which are often experienced on a level beneath conscious reception? What is the role of the element of conflict in the process of narration, and what are the effects that the representation of conflict situations on the screen has on the viewers’ emotions? How can we define “cinematic tension” and also “suspense”, and how does each influence the disposition of the audience? What constitutes a “reality-effect” in fiction films, and how can it vary in different modes of storytelling? How are a given protagonists’ dreams, fantasies and play behaviour integrated both into the course of narrative events and into the development of the spectator’s imageries and ideas? And finally: How do film genres work on a psychological level? Providing a theoretical framework for further empirical research, the book outlines a differentiated model for analysing key devices of cinematic narration in view of their impact on the spectators’ mind.
Author : Columbia University
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 1915
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