Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories
Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories

Author: Russell Charles Leong

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 0295802723

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Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern Asians and Asian Americans. In styles ranging from naturalism to high-camp parody, Leong goes beneath stereotypes of immigrant and American-born Chinese, hustlers and academics, Buddhist priests and street people. Displacement and marginalization — and the search for love and liberation — are persistent themes. Leong’s people are set apart, by sexuality, by war, by AIDS, by family dislocations. From this vantage point on the outskirts of conventional life, they often see clearly the accommodations we make with identity and with desire. A young teen-ager, sold into prostitution to finance her brothers’ education, saves her hair trimmings to burn once a year in a temple ritual, the one part of her body that is under her own control. A documentary film producer, raised in a noisy Hong Kong family, marvels at the popular image of Asian Americans as a silenced minority. Traditional Chinese families struggle to come to terms with gay children and AIDS.

The Book of Phoenix
The Book of Phoenix

Author: Nnedi Okorafor

Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Published: 2015-05-05

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0698175166

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A fiery spirit dances from the pages of the Great Book. She brings the aroma of scorched sand and ozone. She has a story to tell.... The Book of Phoenix is a unique work of magical futurism. A prequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Who Fears Death, it features the rise of another of Nnedi Okorafor’s powerful, memorable, superhuman women. Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York’s Tower 7. She is an “accelerated woman”—only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix’s abilities far exceed those of a normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her treadmill, and basking in the love of Saeed, another biologically altered human of Tower 7. Then one evening, Saeed witnesses something so terrible that he takes his own life. Devastated by his death and Tower 7’s refusal to answer her questions, Phoenix finally begins to realize that her home is really her prison, and she becomes desperate to escape. But Phoenix’s escape, and her destruction of Tower 7, is just the beginning of her story. Before her story ends, Phoenix will travel from the United States to Africa and back, changing the entire course of humanity’s future.

DevOps For Dummies
DevOps For Dummies

Author: Emily Freeman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1119552222

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Develop faster with DevOps DevOps embraces a culture of unifying the creation and distribution of technology in a way that allows for faster release cycles and more resource-efficient product updating. DevOps For Dummies provides a guidebook for those on the development or operations side in need of a primer on this way of working. Inside, DevOps evangelist Emily Freeman provides a roadmap for adopting the management and technology tools, as well as the culture changes, needed to dive head-first into DevOps. Identify your organization’s needs Create a DevOps framework Change your organizational structure Manage projects in the DevOps world DevOps For Dummies is essential reading for developers and operations professionals in the early stages of DevOps adoption.

Phoenix
Phoenix

Author: Kimberly Packard

Publisher:

Published: 2012-11

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780988323742

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The Phoenix of Persia
The Phoenix of Persia

Author: Sally Pomme Clayton

Publisher: Tiny Owl Publishing

Published: 2019-05-02

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781910328439

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In a bustling marketplace in Iran, a traditional storyteller regales her audience with the tale of Prince Zal and the Simorgh. High up on the Mountain of Gems lives the Simorgh, a wise phoenix whose flapping wings disperse the seeds of life across the world. When King Sam commands that his long-awaited newborn son Zal be abandoned because of his white hair, the Simorgh adopts the baby and raises him alongside her own chicks and teaches him everything she knows. But when the king comes to regret his actions, Prince Zal will learn that the most important lesson of all is forgiveness. In this special edition, the story has been set to music, with each instrument representing a different character. You can download music composed by Amir Eslami (ney), Nilufar Habibian (qanun), Saeid Kord Mafi (santur), and Arash Moradi (tanbur). The music accompanies Sally Pomme Clayton's stunning narration of this classic tale from the Shahnameh.

Sons of the Phoenix
Sons of the Phoenix

Author: Joseph Mackay

Publisher:

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780998132105

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Without warning a savage alien race began attacking Earth's colonies. Marlena Mercer, the greatest pilot in the United Earth Defense Force, was there to stop them. She failed. Now, six years have passed and the threat remains, slowly moving closer to Earth. The task of defending mankind falls upon the sons of the legendary hero.Connor often dreams about the alien creatures that killed his mother. Raised by his step-father for six years, Connor is unexpectedly conscripted by the United Earth Defense Force on his tenth birthday to take part in experimental alien enhancements and specialized training at the OMBIcademy.Frustrated by strict rules of the academy, haunted by unrelenting dreams of his mother, and living in the shadow of his older brother's achievements, Connor clings to the one thing that sets him apart from the other recruits: his indomitable determination.