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Make It Fancy

Cooking at Home With Sad Papi (A Cookbook)

By: Brandon Skier

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Make It Fancy

Cooking at Home With Sad Papi (A Cookbook)

By: Brandon Skier

National Bestseller “Advanced home cooks looking to dazzle a dinner party will want to check this out.”—Publishers Weekly ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING COOKBOOKS OF SPRING 2024: Epicurious • ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF SPRING 2024: Eater Take your home recipes and techniques to the next level with TikTok sensation and professional chef Sad Papi. When Brandon Skier first created Sad Papi (@Sad_Papi) and started posting cooking videos to TikTok, he’d just lost his job as a chef at the beginning of the pandemic. He’d spent ten years working in the kitchen of some of the top restaurants in Los Angeles—learning all the secrets of the business, understanding how chefs take cooking to the next level and, as Brandon says, how to “make it fancy.” By the time his videos started going viral, his black hoodie, backwards baseball cap, and tattoos had become his signature. Soon after, he was listed among the rising cooking social media stars in The New York Times. Just like his addicting videos, Make it Fancy teaches you how you can cook like a professional chef and elevate meals in a doable way—all while having fun in the kitchen. Before long, you’ll be coming up with your own ways to enjoy staple and main dish recipes for unusual dishes like: Lime Leaf Peanuts Burnt Onion Powder Pistachio Dukkah Preserved Lemon Vinaigreette Puffed Beef Tendon Brussel Sprouts with Chorizo Breadcrumbs Duck Confit with Mole Poblano Pork Chop with Fennel Pollen and Pear Mostarda And more! For cooks who want to understand why restaurant food is so delicious, Make it Fancy will quickly earn a place on their kitchen bookshelf.

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Simon and Schuster

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1668004259

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Make It Fancy

Cooking at Home With Sad Papi (A Cookbook)

By: Brandon Skier

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Make It Fancy

Cooking at Home With Sad Papi (A Cookbook)

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GoPro

Professional Guide to Filmmaking

By: Bradford Schmidt,Brandon Thompson,Nick Woodman

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GoPro

Professional Guide to Filmmaking

By: Bradford Schmidt,Brandon Thompson,Nick Woodman

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Pearson Education

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0321934164

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9780321934161

Fiddlerman

By: Brandon W. Caswell

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Fiddlerman

By: Brandon W. Caswell

This book is an autobiography detailing the events, large and small, of my life from childhood to my present age of nearly 90 years. It encompasses a life that was launched in a fairly wealthy family and includes all of the frills to be expected in such a life. From this beginning it proceeds through service in the Navy in WWII to a life as a musician and traveling salesman, and then down the sordid path of a drunk to life on skid row. At this low point it returns to another life of success in business and a wonderful personal life with a second wife and son. It is an accurate and forceful description of the horrors of the drinking alcoholic, and then the successes of the life of sobriety found in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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1452044414

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Among Heroes

A U.S. Navy SEAL's True Story of Friendship, Heroism, and the Ultimate Sacrifice

By: Brandon Webb,John David Mann

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Among Heroes

A U.S. Navy SEAL's True Story of Friendship, Heroism, and the Ultimate Sacrifice

By: Brandon Webb,John David Mann

Navy SEAL sniper and New York Times bestselling author Brandon Webb’s personal account of eight of his friends and fellow SEALs who made the ultimate sacrifice. “Knowing these great men—who they were, how they lived, and what they stood for—has changed my life. We can’t let them be forgotten. We’ve mourned their deaths. Let’s celebrate their lives.”—Brandon Webb As a Navy SEAL, Brandon Webb rose to the top of the world’s most elite sniper corps, experiencing years of punishing training and combat missions from the Persian Gulf to Afghanistan. Along the way, Webb served beside, trained, and supported men he came to know not just as fellow warriors, but as friends and, eventually, as heroes. This is his personal account of eight extraordinary SEALs who gave all for their comrades and their country with remarkable valor and abiding humanity: Matt “Axe” Axelson, who perished on Afghanistan’s Lone Survivor mission; Chris Campbell, Heath Robinson, and JT Tumilson, who were among the casualties of Extortion 17; Glen Doherty, Webb’s best friend, killed while helping secure the successful rescue and extraction of American CIA and State Department diplomats in Benghazi; and other close friends, classmates, and fellow warriors. These are men who left behind powerfully instructive examples of what it means to be alive—and what it truly means to be a hero. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

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Penguin

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0451475631

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9780451475633

Zen in the Art of Helping

By: David Brandon

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Zen in the Art of Helping

By: David Brandon

A succinct, uncompromising study of what it means to help other people, this book, first published in 1978, examines the helping process in the light of the principles of Zen Buddhism. Emphasizing the Zen precepts of true compassion, newness and Taoistic change, it explains how a helper can break down the artificial barriers that serve to separate people and hinder the helping process. As the teachings of Zen demonstrate, real compassion involves a selflessness and respect that can bring helper and helped together.

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Routledge

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1317214714

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9781317214717

Boldly Go

Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder

By: William Shatner

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Boldly Go

Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder

By: William Shatner

The beloved star of Star Trek, recent space traveler, and living legend William Shatner reflects on the interconnectivity of all things, our fragile bond with nature, and the joy that comes from exploration in this inspiring, revelatory, and exhilarating collection of essays. Long before Gene Roddenberry put him on a starship to explore the galaxy, long before he actually did venture to space, William Shatner was gripped by his own quest for knowledge and meaning. Though his eventful life has been nothing short of extraordinary, Shatner is still never so thrilled as when he experiences something that inspires him to simply say, “Wow.” Within these affecting, entertaining, and informative essays, he demonstrates that astonishing possibilities and true wonder are all around us. By revealing stories of his life—some delightful, others tragic—Shatner reflects on what he has learned along the way to his ninth decade and how important it is to apply the joy of exploration to our own lives. Insightful, irreverent, and with his signature wit and dramatic flair, Boldly Go is an unputdownable celebration of all that our miraculous universe holds for us.

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Simon and Schuster

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1668007320

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9781668007327

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Urban Legends

By: Brandon Toropov

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Urban Legends

By: Brandon Toropov

A collection of modern-day urban myths and folklore explores questions relating to famous figures, government conspiracies, paranoia, revenge, chain letters, and humiliating experiences.

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0028640071

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9780028640075

Humans of New York

By: Brandon Stanton

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Humans of New York

By: Brandon Stanton

Based on the blog with more than four million loyal fans, a beautiful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring collection of photographs and stories capturing the spirit of a city Now an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Humans of New York began in the summer of 2010, when photographer Brandon Stanton set out to create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all in an attempt to capture New Yorkers and their stories. The result of these efforts was a vibrant blog he called "Humans of New York," in which his photos were featured alongside quotes and anecdotes. The blog has steadily grown, now boasting millions of devoted followers. Humans of New York is the book inspired by the blog. With four hundred color photos, including exclusive portraits and all-new stories, Humans of New York is a stunning collection of images that showcases the outsized personalities of New York. Surprising and moving, printed in a beautiful full-color, hardbound edition, Humans of New York is a celebration of individuality and a tribute to the spirit of the city. With 400 full-color photos and a distinctive vellum jacket

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St. Martin's Press

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125027754X

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9781250277541

Paragraphs & Essays

With Multicultural Readings

By: Lee Brandon

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Paragraphs & Essays

With Multicultural Readings

By: Lee Brandon

This new edition of an enduring textbook ... offers students instruction in the essential forms and purposes of writing, with a strong emphasis on using the writing process. And because writing and reading are so closely related, each chapter presents, through The Reading Connection, examples of paragraphs and essays written by professionals and students as models and material to inspire students' own writing. -Back cover

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D.C. Heath

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0669297909

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9780669297904

Dream Like a Champion

Wins, Losses, and Leadership the Nebraska Volleyball Way

By: John Cook,Brandon Vogel

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Dream Like a Champion

Wins, Losses, and Leadership the Nebraska Volleyball Way

By: John Cook,Brandon Vogel

Since becoming the Nebraska women’s volleyball coach in 2000, John Cook has led the team to four national championships, seven NCAA semifinal appearances, and the nation’s top winning percentage in women’s volleyball. In Dream Like a Champion Cook shares the coaching and leadership philosophy that has enabled him to become one of the game’s winningest coaches. Growing up in San Diego, Cook acquired his coaching philosophy from his experiences first as a football coach, then as a student of the sport of volleyball on the beaches of Southern California. After a stint as an assistant volleyball coach at Nebraska, he returned to Nebraska as head coach in 2000 and won the national championship in his first season. Even with a bar set so high, Cook saw at Nebraska’s tradition-rich program the potential for even greater growth and success. He decided to focus on higher expectations, training, motivation, goal setting, and other ways to build the strongest teams possible. In Dream Like a Champion Cook shares the philosophy behind Nebraska’s culture of success and reveals how he’s had to learn, evolve, and be coached himself, even in his fifth decade as a coach. With openness and candor he delivers insights about his methods and passes along lessons that can be used by leaders in any field. Cook also shares behind-the-scenes anecdotes about Nebraska volleyball moments and players—and how he coaches and teaches his players about life beyond the court.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496201779

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The Reckoners Series

Steelheart; Firefight; Calamity

By: Brandon Sanderson

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The Reckoners Series

Steelheart; Firefight; Calamity

By: Brandon Sanderson

The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series Perfect gift for fans of the Maze Runner series, this includes all three books in Brandon Sanderson's Reckoners series—Steelheart, Firefight, and Calamity. How far would you go for revenge if someone killed your father? If someone destroyed your city? If everything you ever loved was taken from you? David Charleston will go to any lengths to stop the Epics. But to exact revenge in this new world, David will need the Reckoners—a shadowy group of rebels bent on maintaining justice. And it turns out that the Reckoners might just need David, too. Praise for the Reckoners Series: “Another win for Sanderson . . . he’s simply a brilliant writer. Period.” —Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the Wind ★ “Snappy dialogue, bizarre plot twists, high-intensity action, and a touch of mystery and romance . . . leaves [readers] panting for the sequel.” —Booklist, Starred "Action-packed."—EW.com “Compelling. . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store.” —The A.V. Club “An absolute page-turner."”—Publishers Weekly "A straight-up Marvel Comics-style action drama."—Kirkus Reviews

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Delacorte Press

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1524766321

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9781524766320

Firefight

By: Brandon Sanderson

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Firefight

By: Brandon Sanderson

The #1 New York Times bestseller and sequel to Steelheart from Brandon Sanderson, the author of Oathbringer, coauthor of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn trilogy, presents the second book in the Reckoners series: Firefight. And don’t miss Calamity, the exciting conclusion to the Reckoners series! Newcago is free. They told David it was impossible, that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic. Yet Steelheart--invincible, immortal, unconquerable--is dead. And he died by David's hand. Eliminating Steelheart was supposed to make life simpler. Instead, it only made David realize he has questions. Big ones. And no one in Newcago can give him answers. Babylon Restored, the city formerly known as the borough of Manhattan, has possibilities, though. Ruled by the mysterious High Epic Regalia, Babylon Restored is flooded and miserable, but David is sure it's the path that will lead him to what he needs to find. Entering a city oppressed by a High Epic despot is risky, but David's willing to take the gamble. Because killing Steelheart left a hole in David's heart. A hole where his thirst for vengeance once lived. Somehow, he filled that hole with another Epic--Firefight. And now he will go on a quest darker and even more dangerous than the fight against Steelheart to find her, and to get his answers. Praise for the Reckoners Series: #1 New York Times Bestselling Series “Another win for Sanderson . . . he’s simply a brilliant writer. Period.” —Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the Wind “Action-packed.” —EW.com “Compelling. . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store.” —The A.V. Club

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Delacorte Press

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0449818403

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9780449818404

American Kitsune, Vol. 8

A Fox's Rescue

By: Brandon Varnell

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American Kitsune, Vol. 8

A Fox's Rescue

By: Brandon Varnell

When the fan service fails... The action prevails… Lilian has been kidnapped by the Shensheng Clan. Kevin and Iris go on a journey to rescue her from the clutches of Shinkuro Shensheng, the Bodhisattva, which requires sneaking into the Citadel of Light. But infiltrating the most powerful Celestial Kitsune’s stronghold isn’t their only problem. With threats waiting around every corner, including but not limited to: yokai gangsters, scantily-clad Amazonians, and tentacle monsters, saving Lilian is looking more and more like a pipe dream.

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Kitsune Incorporated

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1951904419

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Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training for Speed and Sport

By: Leigh Brandon,James Berrange

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Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training for Speed and Sport

By: Leigh Brandon,James Berrange

What does it take to succeed in sports? The formula for being a champion can be distilled into several skill sets that are essential for playing at a competitive level, with some of the most important being strength, speed and stamina. This full colour illustrated training guide takes an in-depth look at your muscles at work during various sporting activities, making it crystal clear how to tailor your training to your specific needs. Whether you play football, baseball, tennis, basketball, rugby, lacrosse - the anatomical illustrations used in this book show exactly how your muscles are engaged and how to improve your performance. Not only will athletes get the ultimate look at what happens to their bodies during bursts of speed, they will also find running and sprinting activities, elastic band overspeed activities, stretching activities, exercises to develop the muscles around the knees to limit potential injury, and general lower body development. The book is divided into eight sec

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Fox Chapel Publishing

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1743371616

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9781743371619

Summer Freeze!

By: Brandon Terrell

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Summer Freeze!

By: Brandon Terrell

In the middle of summer, Mr. Freeze blankets Gotham City in a blizzard, and the reader must choose how Batman will thwart him and bring summer back to the city.

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Capstone

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143429708X

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Atlantis: Battle Against Timpist

By: Brandon R. Benjamin

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Atlantis: Battle Against Timpist

By: Brandon R. Benjamin

Brother and sister, Sean and Rebecca Cove, two teenagers who enjoy swimming and both have a strange love for the water are not your ordinary teenagers. However, they do not know how extraordinary they are. Sean and Rebecca are about to embark on a journey that will take them deep under the Atlantic Ocean to a world that theyd never thought existed. Along their journey, they both discover that the new world they have found is the legendary, mythical city of Atlantis and that they are Atlanteans themselves. Sean and Rebecca will face dangers that no man has faced and obstacles that will put them to the test of their abilities. Little do they know, they will meet their long lost Atlantean father and will be torn between a war of the Atlanteans, Humans and their own Atlantean uncle, Timpist, which whom was banned from Atlantis and has now returned to declare war for the throne!

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Xlibris Corporation

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145356506X

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9781453565063

Hands-On Machine Learning with R

By: Brad Boehmke,Brandon M. Greenwell

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Hands-On Machine Learning with R

By: Brad Boehmke,Brandon M. Greenwell

Hands-on Machine Learning with R provides a practical and applied approach to learning and developing intuition into today’s most popular machine learning methods. This book serves as a practitioner’s guide to the machine learning process and is meant to help the reader learn to apply the machine learning stack within R, which includes using various R packages such as glmnet, h2o, ranger, xgboost, keras, and others to effectively model and gain insight from their data. The book favors a hands-on approach, providing an intuitive understanding of machine learning concepts through concrete examples and just a little bit of theory. Throughout this book, the reader will be exposed to the entire machine learning process including feature engineering, resampling, hyperparameter tuning, model evaluation, and interpretation. The reader will be exposed to powerful algorithms such as regularized regression, random forests, gradient boosting machines, deep learning, generalized low rank models, and more! By favoring a hands-on approach and using real word data, the reader will gain an intuitive understanding of the architectures and engines that drive these algorithms and packages, understand when and how to tune the various hyperparameters, and be able to interpret model results. By the end of this book, the reader should have a firm grasp of R’s machine learning stack and be able to implement a systematic approach for producing high quality modeling results. Features: · Offers a practical and applied introduction to the most popular machine learning methods. · Topics covered include feature engineering, resampling, deep learning and more. · Uses a hands-on approach and real world data.

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CRC Press

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1000730433

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9781000730432

Along the Tuolumne River

By: Brandon Guzman,Miguel Velazquez

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Along the Tuolumne River

By: Brandon Guzman,Miguel Velazquez

The Tuolumne River begins up in the Sierra Nevada and flows through Mariposa County, Tuolumne County, and, finally, Stanislaus County. From its origins to the endpoint flowing into the San Joaquin River, it provides life and an economic source for this entire region. Once a major shipping route, it now provides irrigation water to one of the most agriculturally industrious regions in the world. The history of the Tuolumne River is the story of Stanislaus County and the surrounding areas.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439649383

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9781439649381

Radiohead and Philosophy

The Wrath of Kant

By: Jason T. Eberl,Brandon W. Forbes

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Radiohead and Philosophy

The Wrath of Kant

By: Jason T. Eberl,Brandon W. Forbes

Not only is Radiohead the most innovative and influential rock bandit's also the most philosophically and culturally relevant. Since the 1993 breakthrough hit ""Creep,"" the band keeps on making waves, with its view of the Bush presidency (Hail to the Thief), its anti-corporatism, its ecologically conscious road tours, its videos, and its decision to sell In Rainbows online at a 'pay whatever you want' price. Composed by a team of Radiohead fans who also think for a living, Radiohead and Philosophy is packet like a crushed tin box with insights into the meaning and implications of Radiohead's work. Paranoid or not, you'll understand Radiohead better than any android. ""Can a rock band still matter? Can it be a positive force in a postmodern world? For millions, Radiohead can, and these thought-provoking essays address how and why Radiohead makes a difference by working at the margins of popular culture.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459601041

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9781459601048

Folk Illusions

Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception

By: K. Brandon Barker,Claiborne Rice

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Folk Illusions

Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception

By: K. Brandon Barker,Claiborne Rice

“[A] well-researched and well-written book . . . linking traditional folklore studies to current scientific research and to thinking about human behavior.” —American Journal of Play Wiggling a pencil so that it looks like it is made of rubber, “stealing” your niece’s nose, and listening for the sounds of the ocean in a conch shell—these are examples of folk illusions, youthful play forms that trade on perceptual oddities. In this groundbreaking study, K. Brandon Barker and Claiborne Rice argue that these easily overlooked instances of children’s folklore offer an important avenue for studying perception and cognition in the contexts of social and embodied development. Folk illusions are traditionalized verbal and/or physical actions that are performed with the intention of creating a phantasm for one or more participants. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that combines the ethnographic methods of folklore with the empirical data of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology, Barker and Rice catalogue over eighty discrete folk illusions while exploring the complexities of embodied perception. Taken together as a genre of folklore, folk illusions show that people, starting from a young age, possess an awareness of the illusory tendencies of perceptual processes as well as an awareness that the distinctions between illusion and reality are always communally formed. “With clear focal points, sound and carefully explained methodology, and thought-provoking, substantial analysis, this book makes an excellent contribution to children’s folklore and related fields.” —Elizabeth Tucker, author of Children’s Folklore: A Handbook “A compendium of perceptual illusions, gathered from performers across the country, sorted into formally related perceptual categories, and analyzed under various theories of perception.” —Journal of Folklore Research

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Indiana University Press

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0253041112

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9780253041111

To Be a Warrior

The Adventurous Life and Mysterious Death of Billy Davidson

By: Brandon Pullan

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To Be a Warrior

The Adventurous Life and Mysterious Death of Billy Davidson

By: Brandon Pullan

An energetic and engaging investigation into the life and death of legendary climber, paddler, and recluse Billy "Kayak Bill" Davidson. Billy Davidson (1947-2003) was born in Calgary, Alberta, and grew up in an orphanage in the 1950s. Living close to the Rockies, he was introduced to mountaineering at an early age and climbed his first mountain at 12 years old, eventually becoming one of Canada's most prolific big wall climbers, with historic ascents in the Rockies and Squamish, along with an early free ascent of the North America Wall of El Capitan in Yosemite. After suffering a nearly fatal fall in the late 1970s, he abandoned the climbing scene and moved to BC's Pacific Northwest, where he spent most of his time kayaking and painting, living alone on various remote islands in the Inside Passage for over 30 years. A sometimes meticulous journal writer, Davidson made what would be his last entry, on December 7, 2003. Three months after Billy's final diary note, he was found dead near his camp in the remote Goose Islands group near Hakai, British Columbia. He died of a gunshot wound to the head. Based on years of research using Davidson's journals and dozens of interviews with those who knew him, outdoor journalist Brandon Pullan has penned a remarkable biography of an enigmatic character who continues to loom large in both the mountaineering and the kayaking communities of western Canada.

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Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated

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1771604379

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9781771604376

The Hot Corner

By: Brandon Scheller

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The Hot Corner

By: Brandon Scheller

This book is a compilation of articles he wrote, while attending WSU. His Sports Column, The Hot Corner was quickly a reader favorite. Four of the individual articles won him awards with the Society of Professional Journalism, as well as the 2007 SPJ award for best National Collegiate Sports Column writing.

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1441572422

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