There's such possibility in the meeting of strangers. Such sadness in becoming strangers again. The works in this anthology cover the range of experiences tied up with being strangers. What does it mean to meet someone on the internet? Can two strangers save the world? How do you overcome the gut punch of being a stranger to your own world? These are the things these authors explore. A short, powerful anthology that shows you a good taste of what GenZ Publishing has to offer.
I Want to Know You' is an introspective look at her personal world and observations of the environment around her. Within this collection, Bethany explores her interpersonal relationships with family, the progression of time, and the changing landscape of Britain.
A follow-up to K.W. Peery's poetry collection, Tales of a Receding Hairline (named #1 on Amazon's American Poetry List), Peery writes about his personal life experiences through poetry and lyrics, as he grapples with morality and mortality. His unvarnished truth bleeds from his pen onto the page of each poem in this collection, while his unapologetic vulnerability is neatly embedded within each work of this impactful poetry collection. Peery is a prolific musician, and his book of poetry is just as enthralling.
Star quarterback Gunnar Rawlings has life all figured out. He has everything a senior in high school could want - admiration of the entire town, status as the best quarterback Blackridge High has ever seen, and a scholarship to UCLA. Everything in Gunnar's life is going according to plan. Then he meets Carrie Jennings. Falling in love with the marching band geek has its social ramifications, but Gunnar has now idea his entire life is about to be rewritten through a series of small moments. As Gunnar falls harder for Carrie, he discovers there's more to life than practice, games, and preparing for UCLA in the fall. He finds true happiness, true love, and above all, he learns what it means to fly. An emotional roller coaster, the story of Gunnar and Carrie teaches us all to live life deliberately, chasing our dreams, in spite of whatever adversity we may face. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Spencer Durrant is a fly fishing writer and novelist from Utah. Learning to Fly is his debut novel. He authors multiple monthly fly fishing columns for local and national publications, is Owner/CEO of Wasatch Writing Services, LLC, Marketing Director for Trout Life, and the Utah Jazz Correspondent for Ogden, Utah's Standard-Examiner. He loves steak, Mtn Dew, good folk music, and the solitude of the Rocky Mountains. If he's not at home writing, he's out fishing. Connect with him on Twitter or Instragram @Spencer_Durrant, or on Facebook @spencerdurrantauthor.
Nothingness addresses one of the most puzzling problems of physics and philosophy: Does empty space have an existence independent of the matter within it? Is "empty space" really empty, or is it an ocean seething with the creation and destruction of virtual matter? With crystal-clear prose and more than 100 cleverly rendered illustrations, physicist Henning Genz takes the reader from the metaphysical speculations of the ancient Greek philosophers, through the theories of Newton and the early experiments of his contemporaries, right up to the current theories of quantum physics and cosmology to give us the story of one of the most fundamental and puzzling areas of modern physics and philosophy.
On the atoll of Rongelap in the northern seas of the Marshall Islands, apprentice navigators once learned to find their way across the ocean by remotely sensing how islands transform the patterning of swell and currents. Renowned for their instructional stick charts that model and map the interplay of islands and waves, these students of wave piloting techniques embarked on trial voyages to ruprup jo̧kur, a Marshallese expression roughly translated as “breaking the shell” of the turtle, which would confer their status as navigators. These traditional practices, already in decline with imposing colonial occupations, came to an abrupt halt with the Cold War–era nuclear weapons testing program conducted by the United States. The residents and their descendants are still trying to recover from the myriad environmental, biological, social, and psychological impacts of the nuclear tests. Breaking the Shell presents the journey of Captain Korent Joel, who, having been forced into exile from the near-apocalyptic thermonuclear Bravo test of 1954, has reconnected to his ancestral maritime heritage and forged an unprecedented path toward becoming a navigator. Paralleling the Hawaiian renaissance that centered on Nainoa Thompson learning from Satawalese navigator Mau Piailug, the beginnings of the Marshallese voyaging revitalization—a collaborative, community-based project spanning the fields of anthropology, history, and oceanography—involved blending scientific knowledge systems, resolving ambivalence in nearly forgotten navigational techniques, and deftly negotiating cultural protocols of knowledge use and transmission. Through Captain Korent’s own voyaging trial, he and a group of surviving mariners from Rongelap are, against one of the darkest hours in human history, “breaking the shell” of their prime identity as nuclear refugees to begin recovering their most intimate of connections to the sea. Ultimately these efforts would inaugurate the return of the traditional outrigger voyaging canoe for the greater Marshallese nation, an achievement that may work toward easing ethnic tensions abroad and ensure cultural survival in their battle against the looming climate change–induced rising ocean. Drawing attention to cultural rediscovery, revitalization, and resilience in Oceania, the Marshallese are once again celebrating their existence as a people born to the rhythms of the sea.
Addressing the contradictions surrounding modern-day femininity and its complicated relationship with feminism and postfeminism, this book examines a range of popular female and feminist icons and paradigms. It offers an innovative and forward-looking perspective on femininity and the modern female self.
Multivariate normal and t probabilities are needed for statistical inference in many applications. Modern statistical computation packages provide functions for the computation of these probabilities for problems with one or two variables. This book describes recently developed methods for accurate and efficient computation of the required probability values for problems with two or more variables. The book discusses methods for specialized problems as well as methods for general problems. The book includes examples that illustrate the probability computations for a variety of applications.
Doug Stange reveals fascinating, breakthrough techniques for catching fish through the ice--crappies, walleyes, bluegills, sunfish, northern pike, perch, lake trout and other fish species.
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