Lev's Violin
Lev's Violin

Author: Helena Attlee

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2021-04-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0241402565

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*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* 'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into the heart of music-making' Deborah Moggach From the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is told that it is an Italian instrument, named after its former Russian owner. Eager to discover all she can about its ancestry and the stories contained within its delicate wooden body, she sets out for Cremona, birthplace of the Italian violin. This is the beginning of a beguiling journey whose end she could never have anticipated. Making its way from dusty workshops, through Alpine forests, cool Venetian churches, glittering Florentine courts, and far-flung Russian flea markets, Lev's Violin takes us from the heart of Italian culture to its very furthest reaches. Its story of luthiers and scientists, princes and orphans, musicians, composers, travellers and raconteurs swells to a poignant meditation on the power of objects, stories and music to shape individual lives and to craft entire cultures.

Chord Quest Powerful Piano Lessons Level 1
Chord Quest Powerful Piano Lessons Level 1

Author: Meridee Winters

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-17

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781943821655

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"Chord Quest Powerful Piano Lessons" is designed specifically for kids who new beginners to piano. By using musical patterns, simple diagrams and fun characters, students sound great from their very first lesson - without needing to read music. This book is a great supplement to other beginner piano books, or can be used as a standalone introduction to piano.Meridee Winters All Star Piano Patterns Book 1 Students will learn: Finger Numbers, Black & Keys, White Keys, Chords, Arpeggios, Chord Progressions, Intervals, Major and Minor, Improvisation, Creative Spins, Songwriting... And much more!

Quests
Quests

Author: Jeff Howard

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2022-04-24

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1000576450

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Combining theory and practice, this updated new edition provides a complete overview of how to create deep and meaningful quests for games. It uses the Unity game engine in conjunction with Fungus and other free plugins to provide an accessible entry into quest design. The book begins with an introduction to the theory and history of quests in games, before covering four theoretical components of quests: their spaces, objects, actors, and challenges. Each chapter also includes a practical section, with accompanying exercises and suggestions for the use of specific technologies for four crucial aspects of quest design: • level design • quest item creation • NPC and dialogue construction • scripting This book will be of great interest to all game designers looking to create new, innovative quests in their games. It will also appeal to new media researchers, as well as humanities scholars in the fields of mythology and depth-psychology that want to bring computer-assisted instruction into their classroom in an innovative way. The companion website includes lecture and workshop slides, and can be accessed at: www.designingquests.com

The Five Levels of Attachment
The Five Levels of Attachment

Author: don Miguel Ruiz

Publisher: Hierophant Publishing

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1938289129

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Do you hold your beliefs? Or do your beliefs hold you? In this groundbreaking work, don Miguel Ruiz Jr. writes that we have all unwittingly made agreements about how we think we should live our lives and what we believe our personal truths are. But what most of us do not realize is that each one of these agreements represents an attachment, a limiting filter on who we think we are, and what our future could hold. The Five Levels of Attachment provides you with a measuring stick to understanding how tied you are to any belief, idea, or opinion. Each level represents how controlled you are by your own particular way of thinking. Armed with the awareness of which beliefs and ideas you are most attached to, you can better navigate the recurring situations in your life that cause you suffering, release any unhealthy beliefs that are no longer serving you, and create a future that is in alignment with your true and authentic self.

Levels
Levels

Author: Karl Fischer

Publisher: JournalStone

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1950305341

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Leonard Marcs is temp-to-hire at the Adventurer's Guild, and like most of the freelancers in Castaway, has no memory of coming to this dodgy little town at the bottom of the Multiverse. All he gets are terrible quests, and when he's not blackout drunk, he's being accosted by strange entities who seem to know him. His friends think he's being paranoid, but when Leonard finds a fish nailed to his door, it awakens forgotten memories of a sinister conspiracy, sending him on a reality-shredding voyage across the mysterious Levels.

Interactive Storytelling
Interactive Storytelling

Author: Mei Si

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-12-03

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 3642252893

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2011, held in Vancouver, Canada, in November/December 2011. The 17 full papers, 14 short papers and 16 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 paper and poster submissions. In addition, the volume includes 6 workshops descriptions. The full and short papers have been organized into the following topical sections: interactive storytelling theory, new authoring modes, virtual characters and agents, story generation and drama managment, narratives in digital games, evaluation and user experience reports, tools for interactive storytelling.

Infinity Quest with Sounds and Light
Infinity Quest with Sounds and Light

Author: Mitra Shaya

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2022-04-06

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 2322464163

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Society has imprisonned human beings into ignorance depriving them of consciousness opening and heart expansion. This book explains to you why and how mankind and the Earth have reached this stage now and it consciously gives you the keys of understanding and of progress on the path of Light.

What Happened to Anna K.
What Happened to Anna K.

Author: Irina Reyn

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-08-12

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1439123136

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A mesmerizing debut novel that reimagines Tolstoy's classic tragedy, Anna Karenina, for our time Vivacious thirty-seven-year-old Anna K. is comfortably married to Alex, an older, prominent businessman from her tight-knit Russian-Jewish immigrant community in Queens. But a longing for freedom is reignited in this bookish, overly romantic, and imperious woman when she meets her cousin Katia Zavurov's boyfriend, an outsider and aspiring young writer on whom she pins her hopes for escape. As they begin a reckless affair, Anna enters into a tailspin that alienates her from her husband, family, and entire world. In nearby Rego Park's Bukharian-Jewish community, twenty-seven-year-old pharmacist Lev Gavrilov harbors two secret passions: French movies and the lovely Katia. Lev's restless longing to test the boundaries of his sheltered life powerfully collides with Anna's. But will Lev's quest result in life's affirmation rather than its destruction? Exploring struggles of identity, fidelity, and community, What Happened to Anna K. is a remarkable retelling of the Anna Karenina story brought vividly to life by an exciting young writer.

Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Immersive Interfaces
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Immersive Interfaces

Author: Charles Wankel

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2012-12-05

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1781902402

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Uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to critically examine how gaming, simulation, and virtualization are being used to improve teamwork and leadership skills in students, and create engaging communities of practice. This volume discusses a framework for deploying and assessing these technologies.