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Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1997-09-22
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 0547562683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a violent ocean storm causes a crate holding assorted plastic tub toys -- including one resilient little duck -- to wash overboard, the course of Ducky's life alters drastically. This engaging story based on a real event includes an author's note.
Author: Donovan Hohn
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-03-03
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 110147596X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth. When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography. But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far, and they carry you away. Hohn's accidental odyssey pulls him into the secretive world of shipping conglomerates, the daring work of Arctic researchers, the lunatic risks of maverick sailors, and the shadowy world of Chinese toy factories. Moby-Duck is a journey into the heart of the sea and an adventure through science, myth, the global economy, and some of the worst weather imaginable. With each new discovery, Hohn learns of another loose thread, and with each successive chase, he comes closer to understanding where his castaway quarry comes from and where it goes. In the grand tradition of Tony Horwitz and David Quammen, Moby-Duck is a compulsively readable narrative of whimsy and curiosity.
Author: Barbara J. Fahrnbauber
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2013-06-05
Total Pages: 665
ISBN-13: 1481736043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlbert Fahrnbauer vowed on his mothers deathbed that he would dedicate his life to the service of mankind, and chose Art, through portraiture. He set out to develop a new scientific system that inspired people through color matched to each personality a portrait that revealed a blueprint toward a radiant better life. Alberts vision is the center of his life. But he needs help. He marries with the understanding his wife Barbara will join him in developing his Science-Art. They will have no children. He wants her to join him every step of the way painting only with his system. She must abandon her free-spirited, messy way of painting. This is the story of where each of them came from, their different personalities and how their backgrounds inspired, damaged, and diverged throughout their lives together. Volume 1 Inspired by Albert, Barbara marries him without really understanding what he wants of her. It is 1952. They live in the east side tenement district in New York City, like walking backwards through time. There are no refrigerators. Blocks of ice, swung onto a mans back with a huge hook are delivered up three flights of stairs to an icebox for 25 cents. Volume 2 is the journey to Atlanta, Georgia, and buying a home-studio. Albert inherits $10,000 and buys a dairy farm. Volume 3 opens with joyous hope for life on their farm. They are burdened by debt and the failure of the dairy. They hoped their farm would be their Garden of Eden. So begins Alberts remorse over abandoning his vow to create a new system of art. Everything they try shrivels to dust. Even the maids they hire during the Christmas rush for portraits seem to have a lot to teach them, Barbara especially.
Author: J. Storrs Hall
Publisher: Stripe Press
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1953953271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation: we’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years, and we’re still stuck in traffic in gas-guzzling sedans and boarding the same types of planes we flew in over half a century ago. What happened to the future we were promised? In Where Is My Flying Car?, J. Storrs Hall sets out to answer this deceptively simple question. What starts as an examination of the technical limitations of building flying cars evolves into an investigation of the scientific, technological, and social roots of the economic stagnation that started in the 1970s. From the failure to adopt nuclear energy and the suppression of cold fusion technology to the rise of a counterculture hostile to progress, Hall recounts how our collective ambitions for the future were derailed, with devastating consequences for global wealth creation and distribution. Hall then outlines a framework for a future powered by exponential progress—one in which we build as much in the world of atoms as we do in the world of bits, one rich in abundance and wonder. Drawing on years of original research and personal engineering experience, Where Is My Flying Car?, originally published in 2018, is an urgent, timely analysis of technological progress over the last 50 years and a bold vision for a better future.
Author: Scott Rogers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-05-30
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1119940532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn to design games for tablets from a renowned game designer! Eager to start designing games for tablets but not sure where to start? Look no further! Gaming guru Scott Rogers has his finger on the pulse of tablet game design and is willing to impart his wisdom and secrets for designing exciting and successful games. As the creator of such venerable games as God of War, the SpongeBob Squarepants series, and Pac-Man World, to name a few, Rogers writes from personal experience and in this unique book, he hands you the tools to create your own tablet games for the iPad, Android tablets, Nintendo DS, and other touchscreen systems. Covers the entire tablet game creation process, placing a special focus on the intricacies and pitfalls of touch-screen game design Explores the details and features of tablet game systems and shows you how to develop marketable ideas as well as market your own games Offers an honest take on what perils and pitfalls await you during a game's pre-production, production, and post-production stages Features interviews with established tablet game developers that serve to inspire you as you start to make your own tablet game design Swipe This! presents you with an in-depth analysis of popular tablet games and delivers a road map for getting started with tablet game design.
Author: Jerry Craig Gatch
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2014-08-29
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1499067313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is April 1975. The long Vietnam War is ending as the North Vietnam Army moves in on Saigon, the capitol city of the South. Millions of South Vietnam citizens have fled their homeland ahead of the advance of ruthless NVA soldiers. In the final days, Bull Saturn, his beautiful Vietnamese wife and a crew of three close friends on Guam have devised a plan to evacuate her extended family from Saigon Harbor by way of Malaysia and the Philippines. Their unusual vessel of choice is a large ocean going tugboat. Accomplishing the mission leads them into a gun battle with a NVA patrol boat and a number of other unexpected dangers which must be overcome. This story was inspired by the true adventure of an American man living on Guam.
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Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 666
ISBN-13: 9781582554464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, Best of Incredibly Easy! is an entertaining, practical, comprehensive reference on a wide range of topics that are vital to modern nursing practice. The book presents the most important topics and concepts from many of the other Incredibly Easy! Series® volumes, using a highly visual format, with numerous illustrations, recurring logos, memory joggers, bulleted lists, and charts to reinforce learning. Each chapter ends with an NCLEX®-style quick quiz, and study questions and answers appear at the end of the book. Appendices include a glossary, an English-Spanish quick-reference guide, and a listing of Web resources.
Author: Ardella Garland
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0684873761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the body of Fab Weaver, the head of Big Time Records, is found floating in Lake Michigan during a charity event, Georgia and her twin sister Peaches delve into the mystery when a close family friend is wrongly accused of the crime.
Author: Erin Soderberg Downing
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2024-04-09
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 164595241X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fourth Great Peach book finds the family back in Duluth, Minnesota for a summer filled with mystery, competition, pie, and . . . the World’s Largest Rubber Duck. School’s out soon, and the Peaches are looking forward to some quiet, especially now that the family’s B&B (aka the "Peach Pit") is finally running smoothly. But quiet and normal aren’t really the Peach way. When a massive Festival of Ships sails into their town, of course the Peaches have to dive in head-first. Ships of all kinds start rolling in: pirate ships, tall sailboats, tug boats, snazzy speed boats. And the highlight of the whole show: The WORLD’S LARGEST RUBBER DUCK. Suddenly the Peachtree B&B is sold out, and the Peaches are cooking up other tasty solutions. But then the World’s Largest Rubber Duck goes missing! Stolen? Sunk? Airlifted by aliens? The hunt is on for the famous icon, and the Peaches are leading the search. Using all their skills—on land and water—they are determined to find the missing duck and bring it back to its home in the harbor. The fourth book in the Great Peach Experiment series, Duck, Duck, Peach serves up a major mystery along with more challenges, humor, and family mis-adventures. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1847395570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNancy Harmon has a new home, a loving husband and two beautiful children. The thing is, she's had all this before . . . Seven years ago she escaped from a volatile marriage and the devastating deaths of her first two children. Now, she's trying to start afresh. The accusations. The newspaper stories. The blame. That's all behind her. Or so she thinks. For someone has not forgotten. Somebody who is determined to bring the terror and the pain hurtling back. One cold morning, Nancy leaves her children to play outside - but when she returns, they have disappeared. With growing terror, she realises it has begun again . . .
