Chocolate, Chimpanzees & a Court Reporter at Chute Pond
Chocolate, Chimpanzees & a Court Reporter at Chute Pond

Author: Linda Phillips

Publisher: Satin Romance

Published: 2023-11-21

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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“It’s a funny thing.” These are words that haunt Brucie Clark. She’s being stalked by a murderer, and is stuck with an arrogant, way too serious Office of Law Enforcement agent who is assigned to protect her life and help solve the case he’d pushed aside. A continuation of the novel, Marry Christmas, welcomes back the gang, plus new faces. Chute Pond, Wisconsin, and the trail Brucie takes to hide from the killer, are real places.

Common Errors in English Usage
Common Errors in English Usage

Author: Paul Brians

Publisher: Franklin, Beedle & Associates, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1887902899

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Online version of Common Errors in English Usage written by Paul Brians.

Accelerando
Accelerando

Author: Charles Stross

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-07-05

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 1101208473

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The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day. Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber’s son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all of humanity. For something is systematically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something beyond human comprehension. Something that has no use for biological life in any form...

A Beautiful Here
A Beautiful Here

Author: Linda Phillips

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781537413679

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SYNOPSIS: Linda Phillips followed the light and found her joy after emerging from the overwhelming darkness of losing her son to suicide following a lifelong struggle with severe depression. In the decades since, the state of mental health care has declined. In this tender retelling of the most painful experience of her life, Phillips not only gives raw insight into the reeling effects of suicide on her family and herself, she examines the process that helped her regain herself in the aftermath. Her insights offer a hopeful, effective solution. A very simple idea that can be initiated by any passionate, caring person. In this case, the focus is on musicians and the creative community as well as the community at large. It's called Nuçi's Space.

Simplified Signs
Simplified Signs

Author: John D.. Bonvillian

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys. Volume 1 outlines the research underpinning and informing the project, and places the Simplified Sign System in a wider context of sign usage, historically and by different populations. Volume 2 presents the lexicon of signs, totaling approximately 1000 signs, each with a clear illustration and a written description of how the sign is formed, as well as a memory aid that connects the sign visually to the meaning that it conveys. While the Simplified Sign System originally was developed to meet the needs of persons with intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, autism, or aphasia, it may also assist the communication needs of a wider audience - such as healthcare professionals, aid workers, military personnel, travellers or parents, and children who have not yet mastered spoken language. The system also has been shown to enhance learning for individuals studying a foreign language. Lucid and comprehensive, this work constitutes a valuable resource that will enhance the communicative interactions of many different people, and will be of great interest to researchers and educators alike. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher's website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found at www.openbookpublishers.com.

The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles

Author: Richard McKenna

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Sand Pebbles" by Richard McKenna. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Noise, Water, Meat
Noise, Water, Meat

Author: Douglas Kahn

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001-08-24

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0262611724

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An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts. This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first half of the century and the United States in the postwar years, Douglas Kahn explores aural activities in literature, music, visual arts, theater, and film. Placing aurality at the center of the history of the arts, he revisits key artistic questions, listening to the sounds that drown out the politics and poetics that generated them. Artists discussed include Antonin Artaud, George Brecht, William Burroughs, John Cage, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov.

Cupid's Strings
Cupid's Strings

Author: Patricia Hopper Patteson

Publisher: Satin Romance

Published: 2022-01-18

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1955784388

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Prudence Velcray has known only rejection on Valentine’s Day. Vowing this year will be different, she ends the romance with her boyfriend before she is dealt another crushing blow. Determined to boycott the romantic holiday, she retreats to Snowline Mountain Resort. Here, she accidentally meets Dr. Sebastian Stone, the brother of her third-grade Valentine, and the culprit of her Valentine’s Day downhill spiral. To wrench matters, cupid’s misguided arrow ensnares her in a hopeless attraction that she neither wants nor can deny. Sebastian Stone has devoted his life to medicine scarred by his brother Nicholas’s battle with leukemia when they were children. He has avoided long-term involvements and shuns Valentine's Day entrapments. Yet he is captivated by Prudence Velcray when circumstances throw them together, and they share a kiss that Sebastian can’t forget. As he rebels against his feelings for Prudence, he can’t help himself from falling in love with her. When he almost loses her trust, and a childhood secret is revealed, he must prove to Prudence he is worthy of her love.

The Foundations of Ethology
The Foundations of Ethology

Author: K. Lorenz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 3709136717

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This book is a contribution to the history of ethology-not a definitive history, but the personal view of a major figure in that story. It is all the more welcome because such a grand theme as ethology calls for a range of perspectives. One reason is the overarching scope of the subject. Two great questions about life that constitute much of biology are "How does it work (structure and function)?" and "How did it get that way (evolu tion and ontogeny)?" Ethology addresses the antecedent of "it. " Of what are we trying to explain the mechanism and development? Surely behav ior, in all its wealth of detail, variation, causation, and control, is the main achievement of animal evolution, the essential consequence of animal structure and function, the raison d' etre of all the rest. Ethology thus spans between and overlaps with the ever-widening circles of ecol ogy over the eons and the ever-narrowing focus of physiology of the neurons. Another reason why the history of ethology needs perspectives is the recency of its acceptance. For such an obviously major aspect of animal biology, it is curious how short a time-less than three decades-has seen the excitement of an active field and a substantial fraternity of work ers, the addition of professors and courses to departments and curricula in biology (still far from universal}, and the normal complement of spe cial journals, symposia, and sessions at congresses.