Midnight Modern

Midnight Modern

Author: Tom Blachford

Publisher: powerHouse Books

Published: 2017-02-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781576878347

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Midnight Modern brings into focus a view of Palm Springs and its internationally renowned modernist houses never before shown, shot entirely by the light of the full moon. Created over the course of three years by Australian photographer Tom Blachford, the surreal images function as portals in time, with the homes, cars, and beautiful scenery appearing almost exactly as it all did 60 years ago. The crisp moonlight adds a new dimension to the famous mecca of desert modernism and shows a contrasting side of a town famous for its sunshine, cocktails, and hedonism. Working closely with the Palm Springs community, Blachford gained remarkable access to some of the most coveted architectural jewels in the area, including the Kaufmann Desert House, Edris House, Frey House II, Frank Sinatra Twin Palms Estate, and dozens of restored Alexander tract homes in the valley. Blachford's work builds on the famous documentary and lifestyle approaches of Julius Shulman and Slim Aarons, but injects a signature mystery. His cinematic aesthetic acts as a stage for an untold narrative, inviting the viewer to script their own drama going on behind the walls of these historic homes. This original, lush work is a rich contribution to the record for those midcentury architecture and design lovers fascinated by Palm Springs.


Midnight Quilts

Midnight Quilts

Author: Lerlene Nevaril

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1607054574

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Lerlene Nevaril teaches you how to use black and other dark fabrics as the contrasting color with these 11 projects (3 table runners, 8 quilts). Show off your brights and solids in blocks like Log Cabin, and Pinwheel – they’ll glow like you’ve never seen before! Includes handy cutting charts plus a chapter with the basics for making these projects perfect—learn about the stitch-and-flip, making half-square triangles, and more. Lerlene’s love for needle arts began as a child; she has run a quilt shop, authored several books, and teaches around the country.


We Who Remain

We Who Remain

Author: Sean Fletcher

Publisher: Epic World Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13:

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The second book in the *now complete* I Am Phantom duology! They thought Project Midnight was gone. They were dead wrong. A year has passed since Drake Sinclair—AKA Phantom, the snarky, superpowered vigilante—defeated the psychopath Lucius Sykes and destroyed Project Midnight’s lab in his city. But something remains. Project Midnight is back with a vengeance. They’ve managed to replicate the serum that gave Drake his powers and are using it to create super soldiers more powerful than anything he’s ever faced. Soon, this will be one fight Phantom can’t win. But he won’t be alone. He’s found four other former test subjects just like him, powers and everything. If they can stop fighting long enough to work together, they might be able to stop Project Midnight once and for all. But while they prepare, a nemesis watches from the shadows, waiting to join the fight… Pulse-pounding action, Marvel-level snark, superhero origins, and romance collide in this intense young adult superhero fantasy series!


Midnight Teacher

Midnight Teacher

Author: Janet Halfmann

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781620141632

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This historical fiction picture book reveals the unknown story of Lilly Ann Granderson, an African-American teacher who risked her life to teach others during slavery.


I Am Phantom

I Am Phantom

Author: Sean Fletcher

Publisher: Epic World Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13:

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With great power comes a whole lot of trouble… Drake Sinclair has always had superpowers. Inexplicable. Powerful. Dangerous. He’s always been desperate to know why. But he’s not ready for the one person with answers to be a psychopath with a murderous vendetta. Still, Drake will do anything to discover the origins of his abilities and protect his new friends and the girl he’s falling for. Even if that means finding Lucius Sykes, the notorious psychopath ‘gifted’ with the same powers as Drake by a long-destroyed illegal organization called Project Midnight. Except, Project Midnight is back. And they’ll also do anything to finish what they started. Pulse-pounding action, Marvel-level snark, superhero origins, and romance collide in this intense young adult superhero fantasy!


Sunlight Burning at Midnight

Sunlight Burning at Midnight

Author: Jessica Ronne

Publisher: AuthorLoyalty

Published: 2021-03-13

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1940269989

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Starting out in life as a young wife and mother, you never imagine the ways your hopes and dreams might be completely shattered. For Jessica and her husband Jason, a series of unrelenting heartbreaks struck, beginning with their baby's diagnosis with a life-changing disability. Just a few short years later, thirty-three-year old Jason lay in a hospital bed, battling a Glioblastoma brain tumor. And within the span of six years of marriage, Jessica became a widow left alone to care for their four young children, including one with special needs. But the story doesn't end there. In the midst of storm after storm, Jessica stubbornly clung to God, and she found him to be faithful. Enter Ryan Ronne, a young widower and father of three. Ryan had also lost his spouse to brain cancer-in fact, around the same time Jessica's husband, Jason, had succumbed to the disease. Just as the idea of sunlight burning at midnight sounds impossible, so it seemed unlikely anything beautiful could arise from their devastation. But a new love story emerged, along with a combined family that now numbers eight children. As featured on the Today Show, theirs is an inspiring and encouraging story of faith. Here, Jessica Ronne tells her riveting story of finding hope amid havoc, and of the surprising ways that pain often commingles with joy.


The Biopolitics of Disability

The Biopolitics of Disability

Author: David T. Mitchell

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0472121189

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In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon “ablenationalism” and asserts that “inclusion” becomes meaningful only if disability is recognized as providing modes of living that are alternatives to governing norms of productivity and independence. Thus, the book pushes beyond questions of impairment to explore how disability subjectivities create new forms of embodied knowledge and collective consciousness. The focus is on the emergence of new crip/queer subjectivities at work in disability arts, disability studies pedagogy, independent and mainstream disability cinema (e.g., Midnight Cowboy), internet-based medical user groups, anti-normative novels of embodiment (e.g., Richard Powers’s The Echo-Maker) and, finally, the labor of living in “non-productive” bodies within late capitalism.


Getting Started with littleBits

Getting Started with littleBits

Author: Ayah Bdeir

Publisher: Maker Media, Inc.

Published: 2015-04-20

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1457186667

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littleBits are electronic building blocks with over 60 modules and trillions of combinations. With littleBits, anyone can harness the power of electronics, microcontrollers, and the cloud--regardless of age, gender, technical ability, or educational background. You can combine these simple, snap-together, magnetic bricks to make simple electronic circuits, or build robots and devices that combine sensors, microcontrollers, and cloud connectivity. This book, co-authored by littleBits founder Ayah Bdeir, along with top-selling author Matt Richardson (Getting Started with Raspberry Pi), teaches you just enough electronics to start making things with littleBits and takes you on up through connecting littleBits to the cloud and programming with its Arduino-compatible module.