The purpose of this text is to ensure the survival of skipper and crew in the event of their boat sinking. It features: advice on the essentials to pack into the emergency grab bag for a short or long cruise, hot or cold climate, coastal or offshore trip; flowcharts to prioritise abandon ship procedure; techniques for survival in the liferaft, short- and long-term - the why, when and how of liferaft survival; and checklists and tables.
Push the Limits of Your Creativity Creative Grab Bag captures the spirit of exploration and innovation—inside, you'll find inspiring work from 101 artists from around the world. Ethan Bodnar asked each artist to take on a task outside the realm of their normal work. Each task was randomly selected from a grab bag. The result is a collection of work brimming with creative energy. In this book, you'll find short biographies of the artists, examples of their typical work, their thoughts on the creative process, and images of their completed creative task. Here's a sampling of the creative grab bag tasks: Design a Building Make a Self-Portrait Make Art like a Child Design a Brand Create Visual Statistics Illustrate a Memory Illustrate Your Day Create a Collage Create a Sculpture Design a Book Cover Design an Album Cover Create a Photo Essay Photograph Strangers Design a Skateboard Design a Pair of Shoes Make a Wallpaper Pattern Design a Typeface Create an Animation Design a Character Creative Grab Bag also features tear-out cards, so you can do the creative challenges yourself. Work together or in a group, and push the limit—you'll break out of your routine and take your work into unchartered territory. PLEASE NOTE: Tear-out cards are NOT included with the ebook version of this title
Grab Bag is comprised of two interrelated novels, Dark Rides and Wish Book, from one of Canada's most important young writers. Both books are set in the same small rural city, in different eras (1950s, 1930s), each characterized by McCormack's spare and elliptical prose. Derek McCormack's journalism has appeared in many publications across North America, including nest, Saturday Night, and the National Post. In 2001, he was nominated for a National Magazine Award for an article he wrote on Halloween. Wild Mouse, a book McCormack co-authored with poet Chris Chambers, was nominated for the 1999 Toronto Book Award. His new novella, The Haunted Hillbilly, will be published in Canada by ECW Press in Fall 2003.
"The secrets in this book have put a LOT of money in my pocket. And they can do the same for you if you apply them to your own ads." - Michael Senoff Founder and CEO www.hardtofindseminars.com How to instantly increase your advertising response by 30% (or more) by making a few simple "tweaks" to your order form. Why using customer testimonials can actually hurt your sales. A secret way to make even "crappy" copy almost unbeatable. How to use an ordinary telephone to double your sales without doing any telemarketing. Why bad writing and lots of typos can make you more sales. How to create professionally produced video ads on a "shoe-string" budget. A sneaky (but 100% legal) way to use your competitor's customer testimonials... in YOUR advertising. How to "skeptic-proof" even your most outrageous claims and promises. A little-known way to get full page newspaper and magazine ads for pennies on the dollar. How to become a "celebrity" in your niche. The secret of banishing "writers block" forever. How to make it almost impossible for people to delete your email pitches. And much, much more. The Copywriting Grab Bag is packed with ways to multiply the profits of all your ads -- without needing a lot of money, experience or natural writing talent. Simply reach into this "grab bag" of copywriting and marketing instruction, pull out any one of the hundreds of gems you'll find, and immediately apply it to your unique situation.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads “One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —The New York Times Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe. A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.
The purpose of this text is to ensure the survival of skipper and crew in the event of their boat sinking. It features: advice on the essentials to pack into the emergency grab bag for a short or long cruise, hot or cold climate, coastal or offshore trip; flowcharts to prioritise abandon ship procedure; techniques for survival in the liferaft, short- and long-term - the why, when and how of liferaft survival; and checklists and tables.
The 152 page "Basic" version of the Emergency Grab Bag book is a step-by-step guide to prepare you for unexpected events.What if you were faced with an emergency evacuation, tornado, earthquake, wildfire, hurricane, bird pandemic or flu outbreak?What would you absolutely need to take with you? What would you most regret losing?What would you take with you if you had the time to prepare?This book will help you plan ahead and be better prepared.
A Grab Bag of Thoughts offers a window on the optimistic outlook and life's work of a man watching a rapidly changing world. Through stories, lyrics, poems and letters, Author Hank Perveslin shares his colorful escapades in the O.S.S. during World War II, delves into his romantic pursuits, explores his quest for justice, and recounts the joys and pitfalls of growing older. Perveslin's Grab Bag provides a rare opportunity to observe the path of a life well lived, and to discover its many valuable lessons.
Push the Limits of Your Creativity Creative Grab Bag captures the spirit of exploration and innovation—inside, you'll find inspiring work from 101 artists from around the world. Ethan Bodnar asked each artist to take on a task outside the realm of their normal work. Each task was randomly selected from a grab bag. The result is a collection of work brimming with creative energy. In this book, you'll find short biographies of the artists, examples of their typical work, their thoughts on the creative process, and images of their completed creative task. Here's a sampling of the creative grab bag tasks: Design a Building Make a Self-Portrait Make Art like a Child Design a Brand Create Visual Statistics Illustrate a Memory Illustrate Your Day Create a Collage Create a Sculpture Design a Book Cover Design an Album Cover Create a Photo Essay Photograph Strangers Design a Skateboard Design a Pair of Shoes Make a Wallpaper Pattern Design a Typeface Create an Animation Design a Character Creative Grab Bag also features tear-out cards, so you can do the creative challenges yourself. Work together or in a group, and push the limit—you'll break out of your routine and take your work into unchartered territory. PLEASE NOTE: Tear-out cards are NOT included with the ebook version of this title
