Author : Mark James Foster
Publisher : Writers Republic LLC
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1646200365
Teruf is fifteen, and desires to enjoy time with his friends Ken and Al and exploring new feeling he is having for Ken’s little sister, Quwilla. He finds he cannot leave behind the weighity obligation to which he has been born--to save earth and her people from the ravagesof the dragon Egruocs and his seven evil daughters, who are well underway with their wicked plans.Teruf experiences fear, danger, tragic loss and moments of triumph
Author : Mark James Foster
Publisher : Book Venture Publishing LLC
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1641665815
Teruf is the first book in its series that are built around the Mayan Prophecies of the year 2012. However, it was unknown that this was only going to initiate the start of the many devastations and destructions that will be released upon the earth. It was never meant to mean the complete ending of humanity as some may have presumed. The story begins with a young boy of ten when he begins to have strange dreams that are frighteningly realistic-and even more frightening as elements of his dreams begin to come true. Teruf learns more about his unique purpose in the age-old battle between good and evil, He also learns that his parents have strange abilities and talents also which are all destined to come together with him.
Author : DC Logan
Publisher : Writers Republic LLC
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1646204174
This is a story about regular teenagers who knew each other since middle school, they live in a town that is shrouded with mystery. Urban legends and fairytales become more than folklores. Certain phenomena cause a chain of events which triggers something within these teens. All things require an explanation and most will stop at nothing to get their answers no matter who they choose to get them from. There have been horrific rumors of people disappearing. Their Summer vacation might not turn out the way they expect it. Some may try to find the truth about themselves, about the rumors, and maybe even each other. There is a bright side to every shadow. Every light has a shadow, but every shadow needs light to exist. Shadows are where fear, monsters, and darkness lie. Whose side are you on?”
Author : Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0892363339
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Dutch architect and architectural philosopher, created a series of buildings and a body of writings from 1886 to 1909 that were among the first efforts to probe the problems and possibilities of modernism. Although his Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with its rational mastery of materials and space, has long been celebrated for its seminal influence on the architecture of the 20th century, Berlage's writings are highlighted here. Bringing together Berlage's most important texts, among them "Thoughts on Style in Architecture", "Architecture's Place in Modern Aesthetics", and "Art and Society", this volume presents a chapter in the history of European modernism. In his introduction, Iain Boyd Whyte demonstrates that the substantial contribution of Berlage's designs to modern architecture cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of the aesthetic principles first laid out in his writings.
Author : Neil Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2005-10-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1134787464
Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of new middle-class tastes and a demand for urban living. It reveals gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', the author explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness. The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge.
Author : Jane Fenoulhet
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1910634972
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.
Author : Gerrit C. van der Veer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3642734022
This book provides a broad overview of the contributions of experimental research in psychology and related disciplines to the domain of human-computer interaction. Four major topics are considered. The first deals with the presentation of visual information and basic aspects of visual information processing. Some relevant applications are also illustrated in the domains of texts and visual presentation of statistical information. The second major topic is concerned with the representation of knowledge. The interaction between man and machine is most effective if both components have an adequate representation of knowledge. Several techniques of representation are shown, and the compatibility between human representation and machine representation is discussed. The development of expert systems will in many respects change the nature of the interaction between man and machine in artificial intelligence. In the third part, future developments, the current state of expert systems as compared with human experts and the characteristics of productions systems which are so prominent in most expert systems are all discussed. Finally, some features of interaction with systems are reviewed, including the ergonomic value of key boards and advanced input modes like handwritten text and speech. Procedures for searching for information in large databases and for the use of natural language in the interaction between man and machine are increasingly important.
Author : Mike Lehane
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401179530
Blood-sucking insects are the vectors of many of the most debilitating parasites of man and his domesticated animals. In addition they are of considerable direct cost to the agricultural industry through losses in milk and meat yields, and through damage to hides and wool, etc. So, not surprisingly, many books of medical and veterinary entomology have been written. Most of these texts are organized taxonomically giving the details of the life-cycles, bionomics, relationship to disease and economic importance of each of the insect groups in turn. I have taken a different approach. This book is topic led and aims to discuss the biological themes which are common in the lives of blood-sucking insects. To do this I have concentrated on those aspects of the biology of these fascinating insects which have been clearly modified in some way to suit the blood-sucking habit. For example, I have discussed feeding and digestion in some detail because feeding on blood presents insects with special problems, but I have not discussed respiration because it is not affected in any particular way by haematophagy. Naturally there is a subjective element in the choice of topics for discussion and the weight given to each. I hope that I have not let my enthusiasm for particular subjects get the better of me on too many occasions and that the subject material achieves an overall balance.
Author : Reinder P. Meijer
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Author : IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release :
Category : Collection development (Libraries)
ISBN : 9789077897805
"The World Through Picture Books (WTPB) is a programme of the IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section in collaboration with IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Children's Librarians all over the world understand how important picture books in both traditional and digital formats are for children, for their development, cultural identity and as a springboard into learning to read for themselves. The idea behind the World Through Picture Books was to create a selection of picture books from around the world that have been recommended by librarians, as a way of celebrating and promoting the languages, cultures and quality of children's book publishing globally. The 3rd edition highlights 530 picture books, from 57 countries and featuring 37 languages. It is fully digital and the catalogue as well as a poster and bookmark can be downloaded free of charge." --
