This witty and easy-to-read book is essentially an automotive awareness guide specifically written for women. It provides its readers with an understanding of some of the basic automotive concepts with the ultimate goal of helping women avoid being taken advantage of when they seek repair services. Put simply, this book will help women ask the right questions at the right time and in so doing, help level the playing field with those who might otherwise try to cheat them.
The art. The craft. The business. Animation Writing and Development takes students and animation professionals alike through the process of creating original characters, developing a television series, feature, or multimedia project, and writing professional premises, outlines and scripts. It covers the process of developing presentation bibles and pitching original projects as well as ideas for episodes of shows already on the air. Animation Writing and Development includes chapters on animation history, on child development (writing for kids), and on storyboarding. It gives advice on marketing and finding work in the industry. It provides exercises for students as well as checklists for professionals polishing their craft. This is a guide to becoming a good writer as well as a successful one.
Ben Harris is a talented news photographer whose job puts him where the action is—a job that costs him his marriage and his family. His ex-wife marries his editor and boss. For the sake of his two children, Harris swallows his pride and offers his hand in friendship. Then his best friend is killed by the blast of a concealed bomb in Harris’s surveillance van. He looks into the stories Gallagher was investigating to find the killer—and the target. Frames Per Second is the story of a flawed but good man trying to make the best of a bad situation. Trying to uncover the truth of his friend’s death, trying to keep his family together, trying to reconcile with the new man in their lives—and, ultimately, fighting desperately to keep them alive.
Welcome back to the not-so-sleepy town of Brooksport Village, where life continues to unfold. This is the place that will bring to the surface more mysteries and secrets that have been "closeted" inside human hearts for years. Their pain is about to end in this town that has already known its share of storms, grief, joy, and sorrow. It is a special town that puts its arms around all the "forlorn." Once again, join the author as you walk with the characters you have come to love in Open Door. Be introduced to the new personalities, who will find themselves on the precipice of experiencing changes in their lives leading them to a new life of faith, hope, and love. Just as Open Door brought change to hearts that were searching for forgiveness and new beginnings, Old Frames, New Pictures shows us that a person's past can be successfully blended into the present that brings hope for the future.
Known as the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay earned his title by addressing sectional tensions over slavery and forestalling civil war in the United States. Today he is still regarded as one of the most important political figures in American history. As Speaker of the House of Representatives and secretary of state, Clay left an indelible mark on American politics at a time when the country's solidarity was threatened by inner turmoil, and scholars have thoroughly chronicled his political achievements. However, little attention has been paid to his extensive family legacy. In The Family Legacy of Henry Clay: In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch, Lindsey Apple explores the personal history of this famed American and examines the impact of his legacy on future generations of Clays. Apple's study delves into the family's struggles with physical and emotional problems such as depression and alcoholism. The book also analyzes the role of financial stress as the family fought to reestablish its fortune in the years after the Civil War. Apple's extensively researched volume illuminates a little-discussed aspect of Clay's life and heritage, and highlights the achievements and contributions of one of Kentucky's most distinguished families.
Adam Bakken's frames of reference were God and his family, but most of all his father, John, who had taught Adam how to think and feel about family, and about God, and about everything else. John was a strong, intrinsically capable man of deep-seated faith, who, despite his wife's deep-seated emotional frailty, had imbued their four children with vitality and confidence. Carrying those gifts from John as both his preparation and his inspiration, Adam is at Princeton Theological Seminary studying to be a minister when his frames of reference are shaken. After struggling to cope with the aftershocks, Adam leaves Princeton, his friends and his family behind. But he soon discovers he cannot run away, because his history, the memories and the connections all travel with him - and every new experience reminds him of the past, forcing him to take stock again and again.
Contrary Imaginations was an original and suggestive study of two types of intelligent schoolboy – the converger with his preference for science and the diverger with his leaning towards the arts. In Frames of Mind, originally published in 1968, Liam Hudson extends and enriches this classification and begins to detect the existence of two subcultures. Within these it is not merely a question of leanings towards science or the arts as a vocation: respect for authority, masculine and feminine tendencies, qualities of perception, and the prevalent myths about various callings are all involved. The result is a very human and well-grounded investigation of the profound forces (whether of social origin or based within their own personalities) which, in varying ways, influence young people in choosing a career.
Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the lexicon. The demand for a fuller and more adequate understanding of lexical meaning required by developments in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science has stimulated a refocused interest in linguistics, psychology, and philosophy. Different disciplines have studied lexical structure from their own vantage points, and because scholars have only intermittently communicated across disciplines, there has been little recognition that there is a common subject matter. The conference on which this volume is based brought together interested thinkers across the disciplines of linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and computer science to exchange ideas, discuss a range of questions and approaches to the topic, consider alternative research strategies and methodologies, and formulate interdisciplinary hypotheses concerning lexical organization. The essay subjects discussed include: * alternative and complementary conceptions of the structure of the lexicon, * the nature of semantic relations and of polysemy, * the relation between meanings, concepts, and lexical organization, * critiques of truth-semantics and referential theories of meaning, * computational accounts of lexical information and structure, and * the advantages of thinking of the lexicon as ordered.
