A Certain Kind of Light

A Certain Kind of Light

Author: Mary O’Meara

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-05-28

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1788031458

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A Certain Kind of Light could be described as a confessional, cosmic diary where a man steps into Eileen McCarthy's life, leaving the landscape changed and charged forever with a certain kind of light.


Author: Dennis Schaefer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1985-12-23

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0520907655

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Fifteen top cinematographers discuss their approaches to filmmaking, the films on which they have worked, and the techniques they have used to solve specific problems.


A Certain Kind of Starlight

A Certain Kind of Starlight

Author: Heather Webber

Publisher: Forge Books

Published: 2024-07-23

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1250867312

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In the face of hardship, two women learn how to rise up again under the bright side of the stars in A Certain Kind of Starlight, the next book from USA Today bestselling author Heather Webber, "the queen of magical small-town charm" (Amy E. Reichert) Everyone knows that Addie Fullbright can’t keep a secret. Yet, twelve years ago, as her best friend lay dying, she entrusted Addie with the biggest secret of all. One so shattering that Addie felt she had to leave her hometown of Starlight, Alabama, to keep from revealing a devastating truth to someone she cares for deeply. Now she’s living a lonely life, keeping everyone at a distance, not only to protect the secret but also her heart from the pain of losing someone else. But when her beloved aunt, the woman who helped raise her, gets a shocking diagnosis and asks her to come back to Starlight to help run the family bakery, Addie knows it’s finally time to go home again. Tessa Jane Wingrove-Fullbright feels like she’s failing. She’s always been able to see the lighter side of life but lately darkness has descended. Her world is suddenly in shambles after a painful breakup, her favorite aunt’s unexpected health troubles, and because crushing expectations from the Wingrove side of her family are forcing her to keep secrets and make painful choices. When she’s called back to Starlight to help her aunt, she’s barely holding herself together and fears she’ll never find her way back to who she used to be. Under the bright side of the stars, Addie and Tessa Jane come to see that magic can be found in trusting yourself, that falling apart is simply a chance to rise up again, stronger than ever, and that the heart usually knows the best path through the darkness. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


Some Kind of Hero

Some Kind of Hero

Author: Matthew Field

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2015-10-12

Total Pages: 751

ISBN-13: 0750966505

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For over 50 years, Albert R. Broccoli’s Eon Productions has navigated the ups and downs of the volatile British film industry, enduring both critical wrath and acclaim in equal measure for its now legendary James Bond series. Latterly, this family run business has been crowned with box office gold and recognised by motion picture academies around the world. However, it has not always been plain sailing. Changing financial regimes forced 007 to relocate to France and Mexico; changing fashions and politics led to box office disappointments; and changing studio regimes and business disputes all but killed the franchise. And the rise of competing action heroes has constantly questioned Bond’s place in popular culture. But against all odds the filmmakers continue to wring new life from the series, and 2012’s Skyfall saw both huge critical and commercial success, crowning 007 as the undisputed king of the action genre. Some Kind of Hero recounts this remarkable story, from its origins in the early ‘60s right through to the present day, and draws on hundreds of unpublished interviews with the cast and crew of this iconic series.


The Architecture of the Science of Living Beings

The Architecture of the Science of Living Beings

Author: Andrea Falcon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-06-06

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1009426389

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Scholars have paid ample attention to Aristotle's works on animals. By contrast, they have paid little or no attention to Theophrastus' writings on plants. That is unfortunate because there was a shared research project in the early Peripatos which amounted to a systematic, and theoretically motivated, study of perishable living beings (animals and plants). This is the first sustained attempt to explore how Aristotle and Theophrastus envisioned this study, with attention focused primarily on its deep structure. That entails giving full consideration to a few transitional passages where Aristotle and Theophrastus offer their own description of what they are trying to do. What emerges is a novel, sophisticated, and largely idiosyncratic approach to the topic of life. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.


A Certain Kind of Light

A Certain Kind of Light

Author: Thomas Moore

Publisher: Queer Mojo

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781608640836

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Told through the eyes of a nameless teenage boy, A Certain Kind of Light sees the narrator attempt to find some kind of cohesion in a life from which he feels increasingly disconnected. As his family, friendships, sexuality and even his taste in music and pornography begin to feel distant from him, his alienation expands. The things that once meant everything to him are stripped of an essence he begins to doubt they ever had. He fixates on a profile of a boy that he finds on the Internet, projecting illusory ideas upon a person that he has never met but feels a profound intimacy with. Feeling more and more lost, he attempts to work out the connection between a disparate set of coincidences, objects and events: a dead, mangled bird, the funeral of his best friend's father, a horrific experience with LSD, obsessive sexual fantasies and the disintegrating suburban life in which he was raised. Intensely emotional and disorientating, A Certain Kind of Light focuses on the intricacies of confusion.


Lectures and Essays

Lectures and Essays

Author: William Kingdon Clifford

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1108040942

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Essays by mathematician William Clifford, bridging the pure and social sciences in the wake of Darwinism, published posthumously in 1879.


Color and Light

Color and Light

Author: James Gurney

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2010-11-30

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0740797719

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Unlike many other art books only give recipes for mixing colors or describe step-by-step painting techniques, *Color and Light* answers the questions that realist painters continually ask, such as: "What happens with sky colors at sunset?", "How do colors change with distance?", and "What makes a form look three-dimensional?" Author James Gurney draws on his experience as a plain-air painter and science illustrator to share a wealth of information about the realist painter's most fundamental tools: color and light. He bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge for traditional and digital artists of all levels of experience.