Game Development and Production

Game Development and Production

Author: Erik Bethke

Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1556229518

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A handbook for game development with coverage of both team management topics, such as task tracking and creating the technical design document, and outsourcing strategies for contents, such as motion capture and voice-over talent. It covers various aspects of game development.


Yellow Notebook: Lined Journal

Yellow Notebook: Lined Journal

Author: Your Notebook

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9781712219010

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This Notebook is 6x9 in lined journal. Simple handy and funny high quality product. Perfect appreciation gift for coworker, boss or yourself. All your ideas, goals, thoughts, plans, meetings Get rid of your stress and emotions. Express yourself! Ideal for any types of pens, pencils or ink. Specifications: Cover Finish: Matte Dimensions: 6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm) Interior: Lined, White Paper, Pages: 110


A Lawyer's Notes

A Lawyer's Notes

Author: Lowell B. Komie

Publisher: Swordfish Chicago Publisher

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780964195783

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A new collection of fiction, 14 stories published in 2008, by the author of The Legal Fiction of Lowell B. Komie, 29 stories published in 2005. Komie is also the author of The Judge's Chambers, 1983, the first collection of short fiction ever published by the American Bar Association in its more than 100 year history. He is the author of The Lawyer's Chambers and Other Stories, which won the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. Komie has practiced law in Chicago and Deerfield, Illinois for over 50 years.


The Abram's Daughters Collection

The Abram's Daughters Collection

Author: Beverly Lewis

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 1477

ISBN-13: 1441229132

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This bestselling series from Amish fiction legend Beverly Lewis spans three generations, chronicling the sorrows, joys, faith, and relationships of the Ebersol family. Collects the five novels of Beverly Lewis' New York Times bestselling Abram's Daughters series into one volume! Includes: 1 The Covenant 2 The Betrayal 3 The Sacrifice 4 The Prodigal 5 The Revelation


The Ghost Notebooks

The Ghost Notebooks

Author: Ben Dolnick

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1101871105

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Belletrist Book of the Month "[An] elegant, eerie new novel . . . Powerful." —The Washington Post A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become caretakers of a historic museum. When Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe decide to move from New York City to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, they aren't exactly running away, but they need a change. Their careers have flatlined, the city is exhausting, and they've reached a relationship stalemate. Hannah takes a job as live-in director of the Wright Historic House, a museum dedicated to an obscure nineteenth-century philosopher, and she and Nick swiftly move into their new home. The town’s remoteness, the speed with which Hannah is offered the job, and the lack of museum visitors barely a blip in their consideration. At first, life in this old, creaky house feels cozy—they speak in Masterpiece Theater accents and take bottles of wine to the swimming hole. But as summer turns to fall, Hannah begins to have trouble sleeping and she hears whispers in the night. One morning, Nick wakes up to find Hannah gone. In his frantic search for her, Nick will discover the hidden legacy of Wright House: a man driven wild with grief, and a spirit aching for home.


Nobody Rich or Famous

Nobody Rich or Famous

Author: Richard Shelton

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0816534462

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Once in a while, a book comes along that redefines the concept of family. Frank McCourt did it with Angela’s Ashes; Annie Dillard did it with An American Childhood. In Nobody Rich or Famous, author Richard Shelton (b. 1933) immerses us in the hardscrabble lives of his Boise, Idaho, clan during the 1930s and ’40s. Using a framework of journals, road trips, and artful storytelling, Shelton traces three generations of women. We meet his mother, Hazel, a model of western respectability, who carefully dresses in her finest clothes before walking into a bar and emptying a loaded handgun in the general direction of her husband. We meet his great-grandmother, Josephine, who homesteads a sod shanty and dies too young on the Kansas prairie. We follow his grandmother, Charlotte, as she grows from a live-in servant girl to a fiddle-playing schoolteacher who burns through two marriages before taking up with the iceman. Known for his storytelling, Shelton crafts a tale of poverty and its attendant sorrows: alcoholism, neglect, and abuse. But the tenacity of the human spirit shines through. This is an epic tale of Steinbeckian proportions, but it is not fiction. This is memoir in its finest tradition, illuminating today’s cultural chasm between the haves and have-nots. In the author’s words, Nobody Rich or Famous is “the story of a family and how it got that way.”


Goatsong

Goatsong

Author: Patricia Damery

Publisher: il piccolo editions

Published: 2012-06

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1926715764

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What happens when you lose everything: a mother, your home, your right to live alone? What happens when society calls you undesirable? When best efforts make it worse? Three women and a child, each alone. Nature heals . . . opens hearts . . . Nelda's small herd of goats and her wisdom, Ester's willingness to pay attention, Dee's caring action. These are the gifts from three unlikely women to the child Sophia. To know the saddest song there is, to know the Goatsong of tragedy, is to be reborn. Goatsong, a story of return, love, and redemption. -- "Some wonderful classics transcend age and gender: The Last Unicorn, The Red Balloon, The Little Prince. Goatsong joins that legendary trio. Unlike many books with mythic content, the emotions of the characters are authentic, their dialogue real and profound, the psychological insight as powerful as the tale." -Leah Shelleda, author of After the Jug Was Broken and The Book of Now. --


Fire Lover

Fire Lover

Author: Joseph Wambaugh

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1504041518

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The hunt forthe most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century—in this Edgar Award–winning true crime story that’s “stranger than fiction” (The New York Times). From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary story of the chase for the “Pillow Pyro,” led by one ambitious firefighter. Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr idolized law enforcement. However, after being rejected by both the LAPD and LAFD, he settled for a position with the Glendale Fire Department. There, he rose through the ranks, eventually becoming a fire captain and one of Southern California’s best-known and most respected arson investigators. But Orr led another, unseen life, one that included womanizing and an insatiable thirst for recognition. While Orr busted a slew of petty arsonists, there was one serial criminal he could not track down. Nothing was safe from the so-called Pillow Pyro’s obsession. Homes, retail stores, and fields of dry brush all went up in flames. His handiwork led to millions of dollars worth of property damage and the deaths of four innocent bystanders. But after years of evading the police, he made a mistake—one that would turn Orr’s life upside down. The Washington Post raves, “When [Joseph Wambaugh] talks about the culture of cops versus the culture of firemen, we get no speculation, only hard-earned details.” Based on meticulous research, interviews, case records, and thousands of pages of court transcripts, Fire Lover is Wambaugh at his best.


Ability Profiling and School Failure

Ability Profiling and School Failure

Author: Kathleen M. Collins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-04

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1135637156

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Ability Profiling and School Failure: One Child's Struggle to Be Seen as Competent explores the social and contextual forces that shape the appearance of academic ability and disability and how these forces influence the perception of academic underachievement of minority students. It is a powerful case study of a competent fifth grader, an African American boy growing up in a predominantly white, rural community, who was excluded from participating in science and literacy discourses within his classroom community. The case study form allows for the integration of the story of the student's struggle to be seen as competent in school, a context where his teacher perceives him as learning disabled, with Collins' own perspective as a researcher and teacher-educator engaged in a professional development effort with the teacher. The contribution of this book is to make visible the situated and socially constructed nature of ability, identity, and achievement, and to illustrate the role of educational and social exclusion in positioning students within particular identities. Highly relevant across the field of education, this book will particularly interest researchers, graduate students, and professionals in literacy and science education, curriculum and instruction, sociocultural theories of learning, discourse analysis of classrooms, research on teaching and learning, special education, social foundations, and teacher education.