Book Description
A wealth of practical advice to help writers enhance their career and engage with readers in the digital age.
Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1408129132
A wealth of practical advice to help writers enhance their career and engage with readers in the digital age.
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Publisher : Rock Point Gift & Stationery
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1631062972
Document your reading experiences, create a book wish list, and find places for book lovers to visit, including literary pilgrimages and iconic bookstores, with Book Life: A Reader's Journal.
Author : Carrie Hayes
Publisher : HTPH PRESS
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
BASED ON A TRUE STORY. NEW YORK CITY, 1868 They beguilded the suffragists, seduced the millionaires and answered to no one. Spiritualist sisters, VICTORIA WOODHULL and TENNSEE CLAFLIN were independent, politically progressive free thinkers when Victoria became the first woman to run for President of the United States. The Establishment vowed to destroy them.
Author : Roland Ss Jefferson
Publisher : Vtrust
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 16,24 MB
Release : 2021-09-22
Category :
ISBN : 9780578894799
It's been 5 years since the Trump inspired insurrection of January 6. But the seeds of rebellion have continued to fester in a divided country that sits on the brink of anarchy . The issue isn't if the re will be another atte mpt to overthrow our democracy . But simply a matter of when? And in what form will it be? In Los Angeles a black prostitute PEPPER has stolen a USB flash drive from the laptop of an influential white nationalist politician because he refused pay her for sex. But unknown to Pepper, the flash drive is encrypted with a detailed outline for an other insurrection designed by a group of ultra conservative white supremacist politicians in an effort to salvage dwindling white influence and political power. Known as the Alice Plan, it sets forth the protocols for the establishment of a new 'whites English speaking republic to be located on foreign soil . The Alice Plan calls for US corporations to divest themselves of any and all financial interes ts in America, and to redirect tho se resources to finance the building of the new republic while gradually relocating the entire white population out of America by the end of 2050. Pepper's efforts to blackmail the politician for money are met with death threats . So she hires a white disabled ex cop TERRY C. TAYLOR as her bodyguard for $5,000 until she can find out what's on the flash drive. But Taylor is a bigoted racist ex detective who takes her money but doesn't take Pepper's fears seriously ------ Until she turn s up dead in the L.A. River. A month later CARMEN Pepper's white half sister who lives in New Jersey notifies Taylor she received a letter and small package from Pepper stating in the event of her death she was instructed to give the ex detective the flash drive and another $5,000 to pursue her killers. Back in Washington DC treasonous Kansas Senator METHIAS CRANDAL has called a clandestine meeting with the thirteen white supremacist politicians to bring them up to date on the missing flash drive and the death of the prostitute. Not knowing where the prostitute hid the flash drive, they decide to hire NATHAN HANDLER a brutal ex Marine and veteran Psych Ops interrogator at the infamous Abu Grib prison to try and find where Pepper hid the flash drive and to liquidate the person she left it with. But when Handler shows up unannounced on Taylor's doorstep and offers to pay him $20,000 to help find the flash drive, Taylor realizes Pepper s fear was real and that someone high up in the government is willing to kill to retrieve it. Tayl or doesn't tell the Kandahar veteran he already has the flash drive. Instead he sets out to locate someone who can crack open the encrypted information. And when he does, it sets in motion a deadly cat and mouse chase that takes them across two continents and 9000 miles of ocean that ends up in the corridors of power in the Oval Office. And the only question that remains........Is the president a part of it?
Author : Nathanael Novosel
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781948220002
"What is the meaning of life?" Throughout history, people have spent much of their lives trying to explain how the world works and why. Initially, they seek to live better lives and thrive. Ultimately, they seek to find purpose and significance in their existence. Experience the scientific and philosophical journey billions of years in the making to answer the question that all living beings capable of rational thought will ask themselves: why are we here? Over the course of that journey, you will come to understand how humans determine their meaning and, with some of your own analysis, discover your own purpose along the way.
Author : Lily E. Kay
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780804734172
This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn of the information age and its impact on representations of nature, heredity, and society. Drawing on archives, published sources, and interviews, the author situates work on the genetic code (1953-70) within the history of life science, the rise of communication technosciences (cybernetics, information theory, and computers), the intersection of molecular biology with cryptanalysis and linguistics, and the social history of postwar Europe and the United States. Kay draws out the historical specificity in the process by which the central biological problem of DNA-based protein synthesis came to be metaphorically represented as an information code and a writing technologyand consequently as a book of life. This molecular writing and reading is part of the cultural production of the Nuclear Age, its power amplified by the centuries-old theistic resonance of the book of life metaphor. Yet, as the author points out, these are just metaphors: analogies, not ontologies. Necessary and productive as they have been, they have their epistemological limitations. Deploying analyses of language, cryptology, and information theory, the author persuasively argues that, technically speaking, the genetic code is not a code, DNA is not a language, and the genome is not an information system (objections voiced by experts as early as the 1950s). Thus her historical reconstruction and analyses also serve as a critique of the new genomic biopower. Genomic textuality has become a fact of life, a metaphor literalized, she claims, as human genome projects promise new levels of control over life through the meta-level of information: control of the word (the DNA sequences) and its editing and rewriting. But the author shows how the humbling limits of these scriptural metaphors also pose a challenge to the textual and material mastery of the genomic book of life.
Author : Eileen Chanin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Book collectors
ISBN : 9781584563075
"First published 2011 by Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd"--Title page verso.
Author : Vincent Kelly
Publisher : Puppy Dogs & Ice Cream
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2021-08-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781956462029
An important book for early readers that highlights the beauty of our differences. All cultures are beautiful. All languages are beautiful. Celebrating our differences is beautiful!
Author : Newton Marshall Hall
Publisher :
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 1959
Category :
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Author : Victor Bradford
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2010-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 142693114X
Growing up in Washington, D.C., Victor Bradford never knew his parents. He spent the first years of his life in an orphanage and then moved to a foster home. Bullied by his classmates and mistreated by his foster siblings, he came to understand the meaning of evil. Transferred to a group home, he knew he would quickly learn about life. Indeed, he was introduced to cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, and sex. He was headed down a path of self-destruction. A telling and honest memoir, The Book Life shares the author's many struggles and hardships. But it is also a story of redemption as he tells of how he found victory over drugs and alcohol through the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. He narrates this story to encourage others to enter into a relationship with the Lord in order to avoid the pitfalls and trials he experienced throughout his life. The Book Life demonstrates how God's loving grace transformed him from a selfish drug addict into a loving and caring human being.