It should have been a straight-forward miningE exploration to a asteroid a few light years away by a mixture of miners and prisoners wishing for a early release from their prison sentences. It should have been a straight-forward in and out of a carefully scouted out mine over in under a year which had enough coal and gold to save aE dying race for generations. But then the Wolf came, slaughtering everybody it encountered turning order to chaos, turning brother against brother and survival into a deadly, murderous game. Told in tense, horror micro poems, The Hour of the Wolf is the first book in a new series 'Role Reversal' by acclaimed poet, Andy N (Author of 'Return to Kemptown' and 'The End of Summer) redefining horror and poetry in a very different way.
Stepping away into the shadows, The Streets were all we could see is the fourth full-length poetry collection by Andy N, author of most recently 'The End of Summer' and 'The Birth of Autumn' walking away at least temporarily from seasonal mysteries into tiny almost flash fiction pieces masked as poems. Told almost as tiny murmurs, each of the poems contained within this book are told not as a sequel to either of his seasonal books but a grasping of emotions in the most tiny fragments of life from chasing goodbyes on front doorsteps to abandoned bicycles outside shopfront windows and cars dying when you least expect. The streets were all could see explores life through a different lens like a picture catching a memory before memory distorts it taking you a transformative journey from the good and the bad moments and everything that flows in-between it
A mysteries world A decaying empire within a wall that has existed for thousands of years. A building war A hidden nightmare tucked away for thousands of years. It all waits to be discovered in Enemy of the Wall, the first in a thrilling new series 'Barbarians of the Wall' that mixes fantasy and poetry in a thrilling reading experience by the author of the 'Role Reversal' series Andy N. Told from a variety of points of view, Enemy of the Wall takes the reader into a mysteries new world covered in a huge, epic wall where for thousands of years all inside the wall are citizens and all of those outside are not and a hidden menace that threatens everybody. Told in epic, long form fantasy poems, Enemy of the Wall will delight adults, teens and anyone who relishes an adventure tucked away in mystery and the shadows.
Wild Boy is the explosive first inside account of the rise and fall of Duran Duran. The band rose to conquer the globe with a string of unforgettable hits such as "Rio," "Hungry Like the Wolf," and "The Reflex." With Simon Le Bon as their frontman, they were the defining pop act of the 1980s, but Andy Taylor, the enigmatic lead guitarist, is widely acknowledged to have been their musical driving force. Then, at the very height of their achievement in 1985, Duran Duran imploded. Now Andy shares the story of what went wrong. With searing honesty, he charts every moment of Duran Duran's roller-coaster rise from their early days as club musicians through to international superstardom. He captures the glamour and excitement of the band's epic video shoots and the opulence of their world tours. He reveals the truth about the allegations of drug abuse and wild hedonism that dogged Duran Duran. Packed with more than twenty-five years worth of rock 'n' roll anecdotes, Andy tells of his time in the band The Power Station, and explains why Duran Duran reformed with its original line-up in 2003. But Wild Boy is also a moving story on a human level, as Andy describes how the pressures of fame took a terrible personal toll on him and his family. Moving from hilarious to harrowing at the turn of a page, Wild Boy is a must-read for anyone who lived through the 1980s, or who cares about music.
From Friendship to Love is what it says on the tin or the label is a study of two people falling in love told throughout a series of short poems. From Friendship to Love is a study of what happens when two people who were very very close friends take the chance and see what happens next if they try being a couple instead of just been best friends. From Friendship to Love is a honest and emotional study looking at things as a series of adventures with a tenderness and a sense of touch of humour rarely seen in poetry talking about how everything changed as two people simply tried to find happiness. Andy N is the author of 'Return of Kemptown' and 'The End of Summer' and is the writer of the 'Role Reversal' and 'Chronicles of the wall series
Stepping over the gate into pastures afresh, The Birth of Autumn, the third full-length poetry book by Andy N, author of both 'Return to Kemptown' and 'The End of Summer' is a collection of poetry rooted in the exhilaration and the melancholy in the change of season that follows Summer. Told in sparse, tender brush-strokes, the book is as much a sequel to his previous book The End of Summer as a further exploration of life as well as the change of rural and agricultural rhythms of Autumn all wrapped in a whirl of emotions that follows at the end of one season that follows into the next. The Birth of Autumn is a book lost in shadows as the skies begin to darken slowly but also brings back beauty into your emotions, adventures into feelings and the leaves on the floor into a miraculously vibrant colour.
Can a Simple Question Foolproof Your Life? When it comes to sorting out the complexities of life, only wisdom can reveal the best path. Let’s face it—we’ve all made some pretty dumb decisions in our lives. For most of us, there are chapters in the past we would like to rewrite. There’s money we wish we had never spent, relationships we wish we had never started, and perhaps a few invitations we wish we had never accepted. Unfortunately, we can’t do anything to reverse the bad decisions of the past. But there is certainly no reason to repeat them either. This six-part DVD and study guide focuses our attention on one crucial question that has the power to goof-proof our decision making from this point forward. Prepare yourself. You are about to be introduced to a question that will revolutionize the way you make decisions. Over the past twenty years, speaker and author Andy Stanley has shared the power of this question with thousands of students and adults all over the country. Designed for small group or personal use, this companion study guide to The Best Question Ever DVD will take you through the process of making wise decisions. This study guide includes six lessons. Each lesson includes easy-to-do exercises and discussion questions. Story Behind the Book In an effort to help people broken by bad decisions, Andy Stanley created a series first called Fool Proof. While searching the Bible for answers, he discovered the Best Question Ever. Now, after several years of teaching this principle to his church and through the extended home ministries of North Point Community Church , the DVD and study guide material are releasing to a national audience through North Point’s relationship with Multnomah.
From Friendship to Love II is what it says on the tin or the label is the next chapter of a study of two people falling in love told throughout a series of short poems. From Friendship to Love II is a study of what happens next when two people who were very very close friends take the chance and see what happens next if they try being a couple instead of just been best friends and enter their second year together as a couple From Friendship to Love II is a honest and emotional study looking at things as a series of adventures with a tenderness and a sense of touch of humour rarely seen in poetry talking about how everything changed as two people simply tried to find happiness with each other and what happens next as they enter their second year together as a couple.
Non c’è pace nell’Universo Marvel. Ancora devastato dal passaggio dell’Onda Annihilation, il pianeta centrale dell’impero Kree viene preso d’assalto e invaso − o, per meglio dire, assimilato − da un avversario forse persino più temibile. Mentre Nova, di ritorno sulla Terra, deve fare i conti con le conseguenze della guerra civile che ha visto contrapposti gli eroi, una nuova Quasar si mette alla ricerca di un misterioso “salvatore”, e Star-Lord si ritrova alla guida del primo nucleo di quelli che di lì a poco saranno conosciuti come i Guardiani della Galassia.
This is a book about anti war poetry but North West of England Writers, Andy N (author of 'Return of Kemptown' and co author of 'A means to an End) and Nick Armbrister (author of various books) who have fused together a short collection of poetry tackling the way war affects the ordinary man.
Professional tour leaders Andy N Robinson and Kirsty McGregor have spent over ten years leading group tours. In It’s NOT a Holiday!, they bring this combined experience together into a ‘must read’ book for all adventure travellers. Fun and informative, It’s NOT a Holiday!, will help you understand what group tours involve – the types of tour available, what happens on tour as well as offering advice to help you make the most of your time away. It introduces twenty stereotypical characters you will inevitably find on your own tour and how they cope with the delays, breakdowns, border closures and other hiccups that commonly occur on overland trips. The book highlights the A-Z of group travel through real stories and humorous anecdotes from their experience as professional tour leaders. It’s NOT a Holiday! should be the first item you pack as you prepare for that organised tour of a lifetime
In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we discuss and describe the positioning, functions, capabilities, and advanced programming techniques for IBM InfoSphereTM Streams (V2), a new paradigm and key component of IBM Big Data platform. Data has traditionally been stored in files or databases, and then analyzed by queries and applications. With stream computing, analysis is performed moment by moment as the data is in motion. In fact, the data might never be stored (perhaps only the analytic results). The ability to analyze data in motion is called real-time analytic processing (RTAP). IBM InfoSphere Streams takes a fundamentally different approach to Big Data analytics and differentiates itself with its distributed runtime platform, programming model, and tools for developing and debugging analytic applications that have a high volume and variety of data types. Using in-memory techniques and analyzing record by record enables high velocity. Volume, variety and velocity are the key attributes of Big Data. The data streams that are consumable by IBM InfoSphere Streams can originate from sensors, cameras, news feeds, stock tickers, and a variety of other sources, including traditional databases. It provides an execution platform and services for applications that ingest, filter, analyze, and correlate potentially massive volumes of continuous data streams. This book is intended for professionals that require an understanding of how to process high volumes of streaming data or need information about how to implement systems to satisfy those requirements. See: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247865.html for the IBM InfoSphere Streams (V1) release.
Following on from his debut collection 'Return to Kemptown', 'The End of Summer' is a poetry collection capturing both the every-moment of perpetual seasons as well as the vital minutiae of daily life, all wrapped up a whirl of words like autumn leaves kicked up by the last of summer's winds taking nature's contradictions and her false promises and casts them over our human condition, as hopeful and nostalgic disciples of the glorious sun and the beautiful snow. Told often in taut, short little pieces, the book invites comparisons with the poet Hugo Williams but also shows a love of music through two of the author's own favourite music groups with July Skies and Epic 45, which explores the Englishness of the countryside in sparse, echoing brush-stroke, s which often need more than one read to breathe the images he portraits. With an introduction by noted American writer, Amanda Silbernagel. 'The End of Summer' is a book that tunnels into memories, creating new emotions at the end of it.
The last great rock 'n' roll memoir, Andy McCoy's autobiography covers the legendary guitarist's life and exploits from childhood through to the rekindling of his massively influential band, Hanoi Rocks, in the 2000s. McCoy helped introduce punk to Finland from an early age - and from their base in a Stockholm subway station, Hanoi Rocks embarked on a wild, death-defying, jet-setting thrill ride. Includes dozens of rare, candid photos and a new preface written by McCoy in 2009 after the final breakup of Hanoi Rocks.
Stepping into a different mood, The Snow Was All We Could See is the third co-written book by Manchester poets / writers and married couple, Amanda Steel and Andy N, the authors of Run Away with Me in Seven Words, and The Lockdown Was All We Could See. While both books portrayed different lyrical journeys of life, loss and love - The Snow Was All We Could See is a continuation of the previous journeys, and takes the readers through lockdown into winter, examining the changes in their lives since The Lockdown Was All We Could See. This book contains a series of poems, prose and flash fiction; from observing the isolation of winter in a way they hadn't seen before, and memories (some true) told in flash fiction of adventures and feelings experienced in previous years, perhaps lost forever. This book is as much a love letter to winter and how times have changed, as much as what happens next, to those willing to venture outdoors. This invigorating short collection will hold your hand and make you think and smile across this magical season, sometimes in the same piece.
Since the early 1960s, William Christenberry has plumbed the regional identity of the American South focusing his attention on Hale County, Alabama, from which he hails. Although he is most often associated with American color photography, his multifaceted vision encompasses a mix of media that includes sculpture, drawing, painting and found-object assemblage. To understand the scope and complexity of his decades-long project, these various media must be considered together. His documentation of vernacular architecture, country churches and graveyards, signage, and landscape captures moments of quiet beauty in a sometimes mythic terrain that, with its worn iconography and buildings turned ramshackle, evokes the form and power of the passage of time. Since relocating to Washington, D.C., in 1968, Christenberry has dutifully returned home to photograph and consider the same locations annually - the green barn, the palmist building, the Bar-B-Q Inn, among others - fulfilling a personal ritual and documenting the physical changes wrought by the passing of a year. More than half the work in this comprehensive publication is previously unpublished.
Completely revised and expanded, this second edition of The Cytokine FactsBook is the most up-to-date reference manual available for all current well-characterized interleukins, cytokines, and their receptors. An additional 52 cytokines are included, doubling the number of entries from the previous edition. The key properties of each cytokine are described and presented in a very accessible format with diagrams for each of the receptors. The Cytokine FactsBook includes free online access to the regularly updated Cytokine Webfacts. Cytokine Webfacts is a web-based comprehensive compendium of facts about cytokines and their receptors that includes a variety of data representations, such as text, signal pathway diagrams and 3D images. This exciting resource is integrated into other databases via hypertext links to provide a unique network, and contains a web-enabled version of RasMol for viewing structures.
As the nightmarish modern horror anthology continues, can you survive part 3 of the Garth Ennis & Becky Cloonan serial “The War” as well as the 3rd monstrous Something is Killing the Children tale from James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera? In addition to even more of the darkest stories from the lightless corners of the industry’s greatest minds, this issue also features “The Foster” by Eisner and GLAAD media award nominated writer Steve Orlando (Midnighter, Scarlet Witch) and A.L. Kaplan (DC Pride 2023, Stuff of Nightmares), a gruesome story delving into the realm of body horror and loneliness.
In a one-of-a-kind graphic novel collaboration between the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian and the beloved illustrator behind Sarah’s Scribbles, Alice, Wendy, and Dorothy team up to save the multiverse, from Wonderland to Neverland and Oz. Originating as fan fiction from the brilliant imagination of Andy Weir, now brought to vivid life by Sarah Andersen, Cheshire Crossing is a funny, breakneck, boundlessly inventive journey through classic worlds as you’ve never seen them before. Years after their respective returns from Wonderland, Neverland, and Oz, the trio meet here, at Cheshire Crossing—a boarding school where girls like them learn how to cope with their supernatural experiences and harness their magical world-crossing powers. But Alice, Wendy, and Dorothy—now teenagers, who’ve had their fill of meddling authority figures—aren’t content to sit still in a classroom. Soon they’re dashing from one universe to the next, leaving havoc in their wake—and, inadvertently, bringing the Wicked Witch and Hook together in a deadly supervillain love match. To stop them, the girls will have to draw on all of their powers . . . and marshal a team of unlikely allies from across the magical multiverse. Advance praise for Cheshire Crossing “Deliciously funny . . . a shrewd and spirited adaptation that will leave audiences hoping for another installment . . . Andersen’s delightful cartoon drawing style meshes perfectly with Weir’s prose, allowing the work to broaden its appeal beyond middle graders to young adults and adults.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
This book is a compilation of my experiences while working as a "redneck" engineer for the oil field. I started my engineering career in 1979 when I began working directly for a very large oil service company along the Gulf Coast off the shores of Texas and Louisiana. By 1996, I had been working as an independent consultant for many years. I worked all along the Gulf Coast--the creme de la creme of the oilfield--and ventured into the California and Rocky Mountain areas. My wife says that I am the most politically incorrect person she has ever known. As you read this work, you will see that I make fun of many things and many different people. But also know, as she does, that I never mean to hurt anyone's feelings intentionally. I have real friends who live all across the world and are from many different religions and races. Hell, I even have friends who have had the misfortune to have been born in California; or who were educated at Texas A&M or LSU, and I even have friends who are from other bastions of cultic perspectives. If my language and attitde offends, it is not intentional (and, besides, I don't really give a damn).
* What is the relationship between youth culture and popular music? * How have they evolved since the second world war? * What can we learn from a global perspective? In this lively and accessible text, Andy Bennett presents a comprehensive cultural, social and historical overview of post-war popular music genres, from rock 'n' roll and psychedelic pop, through punk and heavy metal, to rap, rave and techno. Providing a chapter by chapter account, Bennett also examines the style-based youth cultures to which such genres have given rise. Drawing on key research in sociology, media studies and cultural studies, the book considers the cultural significance of respective post-war popular music genres for young audiences, with reference to issues such as space and place, ethnicity, gender, creativity, education and leisure. A key feature of the book is its departure from conventional Anglo-American perspectives. In addition to British and US examples, the book refers to studies conducted in Germany, Holland, Sweden, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Japan, Russia and Hungary, presenting the cultural relationship between youth culture and popular music as a truly global phenomenon.
Integrate key information to facilitate optimal design solutions Essential for any working architect, Architectural Design Portable Handbook guides you through projects every step of the way, summarizing, synthesizing, and systematizing the core tasks of design. Developed by noted architect Andy Pressman, this handy take-along reference is certain to become an indispensable tool. You’ll find value-added features such as quick tips and case studies, quotes from leading architects, checklists, and a customizable layout that encourages you to add your own helpful notes and reminders. And that’s in addition to expert, time- and error-sparing information on: * Design strategies * Site analysis methods * The use of CAD and other graphics * Working with clients * User-needs evaluation * Data compilation * Concept development * Exploring design alternatives * Computing and design * Presentations * More!
A short and punchy guide to the 'Overlanding Code of Conduct'. It outlines 160 tips and rules to surviving your overlanding experience. Whether you are about to embark on your first overland trip or have overlanded before, this fun guide will give you and your fellow passengers something to chuckle about on those long drive days.
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