A Table in the Tarn


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Living, Eating And Cooking In South-West France, While Walking In South-West France, Cook And Journalist Orlando Murrin Dreamed Up The Adventure Of A Lifetime: Why Not Wave Goodbye To The Rat Race And Come To Live In This Rural Paradise, Where The Only Traffic Is The Boulangerie Van Delivering Baguettes? His Book Tells The Story Of How He Set Up A Boutique B&B And Includes 100 Amazing Recipes. The Story Of The Manoir De Raynaudes Begins On New Year'S Eve 2001 When Orlando And His Partner First Glimpse The Ruined Manoir At Dusk. Set In 13 Acres Of Lush Meadow, Woodland, Lakes And Garden, They Set About Transforming The Dignified Old Manor House Into A Phenomenally Successful Boutique B&B With Its Own Magnificent Kitchen Garden. A Table In The Tarn Charts The Discovery, Acquisition And Renovation Of The Property. Along The Way, We Learn About The Local Food Scene, With Its Astonishingly Rich Heritage Of Ingredients And Dishes, About Working In France And Coping With The Famous French Bureaucracy, And About The Unforeseen Delight Of Working With The Locals. Four Years On, With Countless Plaudits And A Coveted Entry In The Classy Mr And Mrs Smith Directory, The Business Attracts Visitors From Around The World And Continues To Be A Gastronomic Destination For Anyone Seeking Peace, Tranquillity And Above All Fantastic Food. Everything At The Manoir Is Home Made, From Breakfast Breads To After-Dinner Chocolates, And The Book Includes 100 Recipes. From The Sublime Roquefort Brioche Via Savoury Mini Clafoutis And Roast Pigeon Breasts In Armagnac To The Unparalleled Chocolate Nirvana With Creme Anglaise, This Collection Of Recipes Offers A Vivid Experience Of Life In Rural France. Cooks Everywhere Will Devour The Descriptions Of Country Cooking As Mastered By Generations Of French Cooks. Not Only Will You Learn The Insider Secrets Of Making Acclaimed Dishes From The Manoir, But Find Out What It S Like To Make A Dream Come True.




Hellenistic Civilisation


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the Silent Tarn


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Procedural Generation in Game Design


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Making a game can be an intensive process, and if not planned accurately can easily run over budget. The use of procedural generation in game design can help with the intricate and multifarious aspects of game development; thus facilitating cost reduction. This form of development enables games to create their play areas, objects and stories based on a set of rules, rather than relying on the developer to handcraft each element individually. Readers will learn to create randomized maps, weave accidental plotlines, and manage complex systems that are prone to unpredictable behavior. Tanya Short’s and Tarn Adams’ Procedural Generation in Game Design offers a wide collection of chapters from various experts that cover the implementation and enactment of procedural generation in games. Designers from a variety of studios provide concrete examples from their games to illustrate the many facets of this emerging sub-discipline. Key Features: Introduces the differences between static/traditional game design and procedural game design Demonstrates how to solve or avoid common problems with procedural game design in a variety of concrete ways Includes industry leaders’ experiences and lessons from award-winning games World’s finest guide for how to begin thinking about procedural design




Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers


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Nathaniel Tarn's newest collection of poems, Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers, dives deep into the spiritual and physical sufferings of our global age. After a moving overture, the book unfolds in five sections: "Of the Perfected Angels," with its lucid meditation on Issenheim altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald; "Dying Trees," written out of the horrible loss of hundreds of thousands of trees throughout the American West in recent years; "War Stills," an engagement with the ongoing atrocities in Iraq; "Movement / North of the Java Sea," taking flight from Maui to Bali to Papua New Guinea; and the final section "Sarawak," snaking its way through the river and indigenous anguish of Borneo, where Tarn as poet-anthropologist surveyed the loss of forest lands and its effects on tribal peoples.




Alturas de Macchu Picchu


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Long poem inspired by the author's journey to a ruined Inca city, Macchu Picchu, high in the Andes, symbolic not only of his physical journey but also of his spiritual adventure.




Atlantis, an Autoanthropology


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Over the course of his long career, Nathaniel Tarn has been a poet, anthropologist, and book editor, while his travels have taken him into every continent. Born in France, raised in England, and earning a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he knew André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Margot Fonteyn, Charles Olson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and many more of the twentieth century’s major artists and intellectuals. In Atlantis, an Autoanthropology he writes that he has "never (yet) been able to experience the sensation of being only one person.” Throughout this literary memoir and autoethnography, Tarn captures this multiplicity and reaches for the uncertainties of a life lived in a dizzying array of times, cultures, and environments. Drawing on his practice as an anthropologist, he takes himself as a subject of study, examining the shape of a life devoted to the study of the whole of human culture. Atlantis, an Autoanthropology prompts us to consider our own multiple selves and the mysteries contained within.







A Dance With Demons


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My French Platter Replenished


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No. 1 New Release in French Travel and General French Travel Guides. When Annemarie and Steve are unceremoniously sacked by a belligerent boss, they're forced to find a new home and work. As they take on the management of their new employers' majestic house, will the opportunities to create luscious food for the guests and explore rural France enable them to create a dream life? Or will French officialdom, family illness and a sudden career curveball send them hurrying home to New Zealand? Perfect for fans of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence, Janine Marsh's My Good Life in France and Beth Haslam's Fat Dogs and French Estates.