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Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

By: Neal Ford,Mark Richards,Pramod Sadalage,Zhamak Dehghani

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Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

By: Neal Ford,Mark Richards,Pramod Sadalage,Zhamak Dehghani

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no best practices--that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures. Architecture veterans and practicing consultants Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and Zhamak Dehghani discuss strategies for choosing an appropriate architecture. By interweaving a story about a fictional group of technology professionals--the Sysops Squad--they examine everything from how to determine service granularity, manage workflows and orchestration, manage and decouple contracts, and manage distributed transactions to how to optimize operational characteristics, such as scalability, elasticity, and performance. By focusing on commonly asked questions, this book provides techniques to help you discover and weigh the trade-offs as you confront the issues you face as an architect. Analyze trade-offs and effectively document your decisions Make better decisions regarding service granularity Understand the complexities of breaking apart monolithic applications Manage and decouple contracts between services Handle data in a highly distributed architecture Learn patterns to manage workflow and transactions when breaking apart applications

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Slavery in the Cherokee Nation

The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855-1867

By: Patrick Neal Minges

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Slavery in the Cherokee Nation

The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855-1867

By: Patrick Neal Minges

Exploring the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation, this text looks at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the 19th century.

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Routledge

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1135942080

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Dream Weddings

Create Fresh and Stylish Photography

By: Neal Urban

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Dream Weddings

Create Fresh and Stylish Photography

By: Neal Urban

Neal Urban is known for his unique, award-winning wedding photography. His images have a real energy—saturated colors, dramatic poses, and a real magazine-style, polished look. Images like these don’t happen by chance; there is a high level of skill involved, from the inception of the shot through to the final presentation. In this book, Neal Urban presents 60 of his best images, along with a lighting diagram, setup shot, or screen shot and an alternate image from the event. Readers can approach the book from cover to cover or zero in on specific portraits they might want to emulate with their own clients and focus their attention on the creative process used to create those images. In every one of the 60 two-page spreads, you’ll get insights into the hows and whys behind Urban’s genius. You’ll discover what inspired the image concept, which lighting units and modifiers Urban selected to create the mood in the shot, and how the bride, groom, couple, and other major players in the day’s events were posed to help tell the story of the day. One of the things that sets Urban’s work apart is his HDR—high dynamic range—imaging. The complex approach allows photographers to produce final images contain a much-expanded range of tones, from white to black, than can be captured and reproduced with a “straight” image. As many of the striking images in this book were made with extensive postproduction work, readers will learn more tips and techniques for effective, efficient, artful image-editing than is found in the average book written for wedding photographers. Below written by the author My photography may be contemporary but I also cover the bases of photojournalism and the traditional family portraits. Not only do we provide a service but we also give them an experience of a lifetime. In the portrait session we direct and create moments that last a lifetime. I'd like to share that you can create world class images in your own hometown. You will learn how to create images and compete with the big shot wedding photographers who travel the world and shoot weddings in places like Italy, France and Spain.

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1608957004

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Word Embodied

The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art

By: Halle O'Neal

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Word Embodied

The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art

By: Halle O'Neal

In this study of the Japanese jeweled pagoda mandalas, Halle O’Neal reveals the entangled realms of sacred body, beauty, and salvation. Much of the previous scholarship on these paintings concentrates on formal analysis and iconographic study of their narrative vignettes. This has marginalized the intriguing interplay of text and image at their heart, precluding a holistic understanding of the mandalas and diluting their full import in Buddhist visual culture. Word Embodied offers an alternative methodology, developing interdisciplinary insights into the social, religious, and artistic implications of this provocative entwining of word and image.O’Neal unpacks the paintings’ revolutionary use of text as picture to show how this visual conflation mirrors important conceptual indivisibilities in medieval Japan. The textual pagoda projects the complex constellation of relics, reliquaries, scripture, and body in religious doctrine, practice, and art. Word Embodied also expands our thinking about the demands of viewing, recasting the audience as active producers of meaning and offering a novel perspective on disciplinary discussions of word and image that often presuppose an ontological divide between them. This examination of the jeweled pagoda mandalas, therefore, recovers crucial dynamics underlying Japanese Buddhist art, including invisibility, performative viewing, and the spectacular visualizations of embodiment.

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1684175887

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Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom

By: Neal Feigenson

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Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom

By: Neal Feigenson

Increasingly in America s courtrooms lawyers, litigants, and expert witnesses attempt to recreate what it s like to be inside the litigant s mind. But is it really possible to claim this perception as evidence? Is seeing really believing? Can anyone really know what it s like to have another person s perceptual experiences, when only that person has direct access to them? And why should courts ever admit visual or auditory evidence that purports to convey what another person s consciousness is like? How might these simulations affect the ways that judges and jurors do justice? Experiencing Other Minds thoughtful explores this evidentiary and cognitive terrain. Whether a simulation actually provides reliable knowledge about the other person s inner experience, depends on the strength of our grounds for believing in it. And that depends largely on how the simulation was made. Primarily a descriptive and analytic work, Experiencing Other Minds conducts a legal anthropological inquiry into a novel and distinctive evidentiary practice, situating each example of digitally simulated subjective perception in its case context and drawing on cognitive psychology, media studies, science and technology studies, and other disciplines to understand how each simulation produces specific epistemological and rhetorical effects. By paying closer attention to the different kinds of simulation and the different knowledge claims they offer, we can develop best practices for responsibly incorporating such evidence in the courtroom, and thereby improve the quality of justice as well.

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University of Chicago Press

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022641373X

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The Surprising Imagination of C. S. Lewis

An Introduction

By: Jerry Root,Mark Neal,Root

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The Surprising Imagination of C. S. Lewis

An Introduction

By: Jerry Root,Mark Neal,Root

Narnia, Perelandra—places of wonder and longing. The White Witch, Screwtape—personifications of evil. Aslan—a portrait of the divine. Like Turkish Delight, some of C.S. Lewis’s writing surprises and whets our appetite for more. But some of his works bite and nip at our heels. What enabled C.S. Lewis to create such vivid characters and compelling plots? Perhaps it was simply that C.S. Lewis had an unsurpassed imagination. Or perhaps he had a knack for finding the right metaphor or analogy that awakened readers’ imaginations in new ways. But whatever his gifts, no one can deny that C.S. Lewis had a remarkable career, producing many books in eighteen different literary genres, including: apologetics, autobiography, educational philosophy, fairy stories, science fiction, and literary criticism. And while he had and still has critics, Lewis' works continue to find devoted readers. The purpose of this book is to introduce C.S. Lewis through the prism of imagination. For Lewis, imagination is both a means and an end. And because he used his own imagination well and often, he is a practiced guide for those of us who desire to reach beyond our grasp. Each chapter highlights Lewis’s major works and then shows how Lewis uses imagination to captivate readers. While many have read books by C.S. Lewis, not many readers understand his power to give new slants on the things we think we know. More than a genius, Lewis disciplined his imagination, harnessing its creativity in service of helping others believe more deeply. “Truly fresh, rhetorically astute works about C. S. Lewis are rare, but this provocative new volume by Jerry Root and Mark Neal emerges at just the right time to reinvigorate Lewis scholarship beyond the clichés we continue to repeat to each other. The Surprising Imagination of C. S. Lewis delivers just that salvo, an ingenious, empathetic, lavishly informed elucidation of Lewis’s understanding of the life of the imagination.” —Bruce L. Edwards, Professor Emeritus of English and Africana Studies, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH “Our grasp of ‘imagination’ is such a pale and paltry thing; Neal and Root offer a much-needed corrective by illustrating Lewis’s robust use of the word. The happy result is a more accurate and nuanced reading of Lewis. But there is more: through their careful work, we are graced with a rich, new vocabulary to discern and describe the many uses of creative imagination all around us.” —Diana Pavlac Glyer, Professor of English at Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA, author of The Company They Keep: C .S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community “This fabulous book on Lewis’s imagination will delight readers new to Lewis and those who, like the authors, have been reading him for decades. It shimmers with the joy of exploration and discovery. The Surprising Imagination of C. S. Lewis is a reliable and inspiring guide not only to Lewis but to a treasure trove of imaginative books that fired Lewis’s own imagination. In Robert Frost’s delightful phrase, this book is the occasion for a ‘fresh think.’” —Wayne Martindale, Emeritus Professor of English, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL “Jerry Root and Mark Neal make excellent use of Lewis's literary criticism of other authors to show how he employed different varieties of imagination in his own works. The result is a good book about Lewis and an even better one on the capacity of imagination to enrich each of our lives every day.” —Mark Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN “For nearly four decades I have been reading books and articles in the field of Lewis studies. This volume is one of the most original and fascinating books on Lewis to appear in a long time.” —Lyle W. Dorsett, Billy Graham Professor of Evangelism, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, Birmingham, AL

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Everfound

By: Neal Shusterman

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Everfound

By: Neal Shusterman

In the limbo that is Everlost, Mary, Nick, Allie, and others must determine whether that place and Earth will continue to exist, as well as where their own futures lie.

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American Warrior

The True Story of a Legendary Ranger

By: Gary O'Neal,David Fisher

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American Warrior

The True Story of a Legendary Ranger

By: Gary O'Neal,David Fisher

The epic story of one of America's greatest soldiers, Ranger Hall of Fame member Gary O'Neal, who served his country for forty years Chief Warrant Officer Gary O'Neal is no ordinary soldier. For nearly forty years, he has fought America's enemies, becoming one of the greatest Warriors this nation has ever known. Part Native American, O'Neal was trained in both military combat and the ways of his native people, combining his commitment to freedom with his respect for the enemy, his technical fighting skills with his fierce warrior spirit. From his first tour in Vietnam at seventeen to fighting in both Gulf wars, O'Neal was nothing less than a super soldier. A minefield of aggression bordering on a justice-seeking vigilante, O'Neal kept fighting even when wounded, refusing to surrender in the face of nine serious injuries and being left more than once. O'Neal earned countless military honors as a member of the elite Army Rangers corps, a founding member of the legendary first Department of Defense antiterrorist team, a member of the Golden Knights Parachuting Team, and more, devoting his life to training the next generation of soldiers. His unbelievable true stories are both shocking and moving, a reminder of what it means to be a true American hero. In O'Neal's own words, he "wasn't born a warrior"—life made him one. American Warrior will serve as inspiration for American men and women in uniform today, as well as appeal to the countless veterans who served their country alongside O'Neal.

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1250022754

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Biogeochemistry and the Environment

By: Michael O'Neal Campbell

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Biogeochemistry and the Environment

By: Michael O'Neal Campbell

Biogeochemistry may be defined as the science that combines biological and chemical perspectives for the examination of the Earth’s surface, including the relations between the biosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere. Biogeochemistry is a comparatively recently developed science, that incorporates scientific knowledge and findings, research methodologies, and models linking the biological, chemical, and earth sciences. Therefore, while it is a definitive science with a strong theoretical core, it is also dynamically and broadly interlinked with other sciences. This book examines the complex science of biogeochemistry from a novel perspective, examining its comparatively recent development, while also emphasizing its interlinked relationship with the earth sciences (including the complementary science of geochemistry), the geographical sciences (biogeography, oceanography, geomatics, earth systems science), the biological sciences (ecology, wildlife studies, biological aspects of environmental sciences) and the chemical sciences (including environmental chemistry and pollution). The book covers cutting-edge topics on the science of biogeochemistry, examining its development, structure, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary relations, and the future of the current complex knowledge systems, especially in the context of technological, developments, and the computer and data fields.

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Springer Nature

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3031470176

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Maze Master

A Thriller

By: Kathleen O'Neal Gear

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Maze Master

A Thriller

By: Kathleen O'Neal Gear

New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Gear's new apocalyptic thriller Maze Master shows the world ending not in fire nor in ice but in science. Kathleen Gear, who often co-writes with her husband W. Michael Gear, has authored 42 books which have been New York Times, USA Today and international bestsellers. Translated into 29 languages, there are around 17 million copies of her books in print worldwide. LucentB is a retrovirus that’s inevitable, unstoppable, and utterly catastrophic for humanity. The US government believes the only person who can find the cure is the geneticist who tried to warn them about it and then disappeared: James Hakari. They assign the task of finding him to his former student Anna Asher, who in turn recruits paleographer and religious studies scholar Dr. Martin Nadai. The brilliant but insane geneticist is leaving clues for Anna and Martin to follow, showing he’s truly earned his students’ nickname for him: the Maze Master. The search takes Anna and Martin around the world and into a warzone they never imagined. Maze Master's LucentB is based off of the real retrovirus HERV-K, which has caused several plagues over the past 75,000 years, almost wiping out Neanderthals 50,000 years ago, and maybe 30,000 years ago. Modern geneticists consider HERV-K not to be extinct, but rather to be waiting for some trigger to come alive again. With its scientific and archaeological authenticity and suspenseful clues, Maze Master will have readers rushing through its intricate maze to find out the fate of the world in this thrilling adventure.

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The Great Eagles

Their Evolution, Ecology and Conservation

By: Michael O'Neal Campbell

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The Great Eagles

Their Evolution, Ecology and Conservation

By: Michael O'Neal Campbell

This book examines the current literature and knowledge on the evolution and ecology of all the birds named as eagles, with particular emphasis on the larger species. It also examines the past and current relations between eagles and people, including habitat change and conservation issues. Eagle ecologies and conservation are currently seriously impacted by human activities such as industrialization, urbanization, pollution, deforestation and hunting. Some eagle species have consequently experienced extreme population changes. There are, however, some positive developments. Eagles have a strong, historic bond with human civilization, due to their status as the world’s most charismatic birds. Conservation policies have also been successful in repopulating some ecosystems with breeding eagles. Therefore, despite the complexity of this relationship, there may yet be hope for this unique species group, frequently rated as the kings of birds, and symbolic of human power, ambition, royalty, nationality, and even concepts of God. It is hoped that this book will contribute to the further understanding of these unique and fantastic birds.

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1315278073

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Gardener's Guide to Tropical Plants

Cool Ways to Add Hot Colors, Bold Foliage, and Striking Textures

By: Nellie Neal

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Gardener's Guide to Tropical Plants

Cool Ways to Add Hot Colors, Bold Foliage, and Striking Textures

By: Nellie Neal

Now gardeners can bring an exotic flair to their gardens by introducing the color, textures, and fabulous foliage of tropical plants. Not just for hot climates anymore, bromeliads, orchids, bananas, palms, birds of paradise, elephant ears, canna, and more can bring a touch of the tropics to any garden. Gardener’s can choose from more than 150 plants featured in this book, each chosen for the visual impact it adds to any landscape or container garden. Plants are organized by a range of clearly defined zones, making it easy for gardeners to find the plants that will succeed in their landscape. Author Nellie Neal explains how to best use tropical plants both indoors and out. To make this book a universally useful guide, it is organized to explain how to grow tropical plants in a wide range of clearly defined zones. Further, the book illustrates how to best use these plants in landscapes and containers, indoors and out, no matter where you live. It is a practical, user-friendly celebration of tropical plants.

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Cool Springs Press

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1610582799

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Vultures

Their Evolution, Ecology and Conservation

By: Michael O'Neal Campbell

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Vultures

Their Evolution, Ecology and Conservation

By: Michael O'Neal Campbell

This book reexamines current knowledge on the evolution, ecology, and conservation biology of both New World vultures (Cathartidae) and Old World vultures (Accipitridae) and seeks answers to past and present regional extinctions, colorizations, and conservation questions. Extinct species of both families are examined, as is the disputed evidence fo

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1482223627

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The Skinjacker Trilogy

Everlost; Everwild; Everfound

By: Neal Shusterman

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The Skinjacker Trilogy

Everlost; Everwild; Everfound

By: Neal Shusterman

Not every child who dies goes on to the afterlife. Some are caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. It’s a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost kids run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth. Allie and Nick don't survive the car crash, and end up in Everlost, where coins are more valuable than anyone knows, fortune cookies tell the truth, monsters are real, and the queen of lost souls lives in a once-beloved tower. Nick and Allie have to learn to survive in a world with different rules, and figure out who they can trust--and who they must oppose at all costs. At stake is nothing less than the fate of Everlost and the living world they have left behind. In this gripping trilogy, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between.

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1442444274

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A Glimpse Beyond the Veil

By: Gordon Neal

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A Glimpse Beyond the Veil

By: Gordon Neal

The story begins with Gordon and Jane, walking on a corridor, on the astral plane. Their two blue, regal tigers accompany them. The tigers are their spirit guides and guardians. Soon, they find themselves in a series of rooms, which have the internal appearance of a monastery. The rooms are located inside a rock formation. There are no doors or signs of an entrance. Huge pillars, with open spaces between, allow light to enter. They are standing in a large room, with a group of native American tribal elders, who are seated at a large table. Gordon is included in a group of twelve men, who are called the selected. Jane is in a group of twelve women, called the accepted. Each pair of the selected and accepted will have a role to play in the future, involving spiritual awakenings. Born in the same year, all of the selected of that year are male, and their accepted partners are female. On alternate years, it is reversed, with the females being the selected, and males the accepted.

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Balboa Press

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1982280808

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The Neglected C. S. Lewis

Exploring the Riches of His Most Overlooked Books

By: Mark Neal,Jerry Root

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The Neglected C. S. Lewis

Exploring the Riches of His Most Overlooked Books

By: Mark Neal,Jerry Root

Readers who can quote word for word from C.S. Lewis’s theological classic, Mere Christianity, or his science fiction novel, Perelandra, have often never read his work as a professional literary historian. They may not even recognize some of the neglected works discussed, here. Mark Neal and Jerry Root have done students of Lewis a great service, tracing the signature ideas in Lewis’s works of literary criticism and showing their relevance to Lewis’s more familiar books. Their thorough research and lucid prose will be welcome to all who would like to understand Lewis more fully, but who feel daunted by books of such evident scholarly erudition. For example, when you read The Discarded Image on the ancients’ view of the heavens, you understand better why Ransom has such unpleasant sensations when first descending toward Malacandra in Out of the Silent Planet. And when you come across Lewis’s discussion in OHEL of a minor sixteenth-century poet who described the hellish River Styx as a “puddle glum,” you can’t help but chuckle at the name when you meet the famous Marshwiggle in The Silver Chair. These are just two examples of how reading the “Neglected Lewis” can help every reader understand Lewis more fully.

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Paraclete Press

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1640602976

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Daisy Air Rifles and BB Guns

100 Years of America's Favorite

By: Neal Punchard

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Daisy Air Rifles and BB Guns

100 Years of America's Favorite

By: Neal Punchard

Arranged by product type, this book features 300 close-up photos celebrating not only the BB guns, but also the water pistols, cork guns, and accessories that were deemed essential by young marksmen. Every item is accompanied by an informative capsule history that details its design, constsruction, notable features, and an assessment of its place in Daisy history.

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Motorbooks International

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0760313334

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Science Fiction Video Games

By: Neal Roger Tringham

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Science Fiction Video Games

By: Neal Roger Tringham

Understand Video Games as Works of Science Fiction and Interactive Stories Science Fiction Video Games focuses on games that are part of the science fiction genre, rather than set in magical milieux or exaggerated versions of our own world. Unlike many existing books and websites that cover some of the same material, this book emphasizes critical analysis, especially the analysis of narrative. The author analyzes narrative via an original categorization of story forms in games. He also discusses video games as works of science fiction, including their characteristic themes and the links between them and other forms of science fiction. Delve into a Collection of Science Fiction Games The beginning chapters explore game design and the history of science-fictional video games. The majority of the text deals with individual science-fictional games and the histories and natures of their various forms, such as the puzzle-based adventure and the more exploratory and immediate computer role-playing game (RPG).

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148220388X

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Lynnehurst, Books I & II

By: Sarah Ditchburn Neal

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Lynnehurst, Books I & II

By: Sarah Ditchburn Neal

LYNNEHURST IS A PORTRAIT of a Canadian family reaching back to the early years of our nationhood and stretching forward into the twenty-first century. Lynnehurst puts the spotlight on a part of English Canada, the Muskoka Lakes District of Ontario, a setting which the author knows well.

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1312667141

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People of the Earth

A Novel of North America's Forgotten Past

By: W. Michael Gear,Kathleen O'Neal Gear

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People of the Earth

A Novel of North America's Forgotten Past

By: W. Michael Gear,Kathleen O'Neal Gear

New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors and award-winning archaeologists W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear bring the stories of these first North Americans to life in this and other volumes in the magnicent North America's Forgotten Past series. Set five thousand years ago and ranging through what is now Montana, Wyoming, northern Colorado, and Utah, People of the Earth follows the migration of the Uto-Aztecan people south out of Canada. It is the unforgettable tale of a woman torn between two peoples and two dreams, of the two men who love her and the third who must have her, and of the vision given to the peoples long ago by the spirit of the wolf. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Macmillan

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146681778X

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Queen's Trap

By: Neal Enrick

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Queen's Trap

By: Neal Enrick

A talented troupe of street performers ply the towns and kingdoms of an alternate Middle Ages, secretly fighting the Red King who, with his disarmingly handsome son, the Red Wolf, are plotting world conquest. The troupe's showmaster is one of The Thirteen, a band of mentalist leaders charged with subduing the Red Monarchy and fulfilling a centuries-old utopian prophecy.Key to that achievement is finding the Red Whelps, hidden daughters of the Red Wolf, each unknowing their true parentage and kinship. They, when found and brought together, are foretold to manifest an until now unknown power to bring about the downfall of their grandfather, the Red King. If The Thirteen succeed, will the half-sisters¿ power prove wieldable or be chaotic? And is the Red Wolf secretly plotting to use it for his own ends?Amid this tumult, a beautiful but diabolical princess in a kingdom threatened by the Red King, plots her own rise to world domination. She will collude, cajole, seduce and kill on her quest to become the world's monarch.

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099890032X

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Gardener's Latin

A Lexicon

By: Bill Neal

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Gardener's Latin

A Lexicon

By: Bill Neal

DIV For more than a decade, gardeners have been turning to a beautiful little hardcover book called Gardener's Latin, by Bill Neal. Neal understood that as Latin terms began appearing with increasing frequency on nursery tags and gardening catalogs, gardeners would need help. So he weeded through the Latin words that describe and distinguish among plants and flowers and compiled a volume of select, brief, clear definitions. Gardener's Latin leads us down the path from abbreviatus to zonatus, turning aside here and there along the way for little-known horticultural facts and fables and the wisdom of gardeners from Virgil to Vita Sackville-West.“/DIV>

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1565127439

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Hunted Maidens

By: Neal Enrick

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Hunted Maidens

By: Neal Enrick

Sundered Muse Trilogy Book 1: A talented troupe of street performers ply the towns and kingdoms of an alternate Middle Ages, secretly fighting the Red King who, with his disarmingly handsome son, the Red Wolf, are plotting world conquest. The troupe's showmaster is one of The Thirteen, a band of mentalist leaders charged with subduing the Red Monarchy and fulfilling a centuries-old utopian prophecy. Key to that achievement is finding the Red Whelps, hidden daughters of the Red Wolf, each unknowing their true parentage and kinship. They, when found and brought together, are foretold to manifest an until now unknown power to bring about the downfall of their grandfather, the Red King. If The Thirteen succeed, will the half-sisters' power prove wieldable or be chaotic? And is the Red Wolf secretly plotting to use it for his own ends?

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0998900338

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Almost Like A Song

By: Bobby O'Neal

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Almost Like A Song

By: Bobby O'Neal

Almost Like A Song is a book of simple poems, telling a simple story.

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0557058597

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Family Hand-Me-down Book

Creating and Celebrating Family Traditions

By: Debbie Trafton O'Neal

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Creating and Celebrating Family Traditions

By: Debbie Trafton O'Neal

Offers suggestions for creating and sharing family traditions through cooking, crafts, and everyday fun.

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Augsburg Books

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1451406363

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The Discovery Tarot Path

A New Model for Self-Reading with the Rider-Waite-Smith Deck

By: Stephanie Leon Neal

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The Discovery Tarot Path

A New Model for Self-Reading with the Rider-Waite-Smith Deck

By: Stephanie Leon Neal

The Tarot has been a potent tool for divination and self-examination for hundreds of years. Now, in this exciting new book, Stephanie Leon Neal, founder of the Global Tarot Association, shares her own unique method for soul exploration and transformation using the beloved and time-tested Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck. Under Neal’s guidance, you will learn:: · The individual meanings for all 78 Tarot cards, including the Major and Minor Arcana · How to recognize and interpret the Tarot image “keys” · How to create your own Tarot key deck · How to relate your life to the Universal story embedded in the Tarot’s incredible imagery Containing a complete guide to reading the Tarot for yourself and others, The Discovery Tarot Path offers both the beginner and the experienced Tarot reader the opportunity to better divine the answers to life’s important questions.

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Turning Stone Press

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161852125X

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Moon Hunt

People of Cahokia

By: W. Michael Gear,Kathleen O'Neal Gear

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Moon Hunt

People of Cahokia

By: W. Michael Gear,Kathleen O'Neal Gear

An evocative novel of America’s greatest pre-Columbian city by New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear

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Forge Books

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0765380595

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9780765380593

Like Anybody Would Know a Crow

By: Neal Clayton

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Like Anybody Would Know a Crow

By: Neal Clayton

As development overturns the landscape of North Carolina, tenth-grader Chris Fuller knows he’ll end up fighting Brandon, a new kid who just moved into the housing development that destroyed Chris’s beloved pine forest. Brandon turns out to be a real runner, far better than Chris, shows no respect for locals, and when it comes to a school project that has Chris baffled, slams his hand down and says, “It’s as good as done!” Chris needs an idea for the project, but mostly he’s trying to find a way to be talking to violinist Muriel. She makes the crazy suggestion he try talking to someone from the past, anyone who might give him an idea. But he’s pretty sure he’s already been spoken to, maybe by a mythological night sky jaguar, who asks, “Do you know how fire burns in water?” When Chris’s first idea falters and he gets desperate, the jaguar makes a way for Brandon’s troubled past and Chris’s faithfulness as a friend to cross paths and carry them to a new place of standing and friendship.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666748366

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Can't I Love What I Criticize?

The Masculine and Morrison

By: Susan Neal Mayberry

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The Masculine and Morrison

By: Susan Neal Mayberry

Taking a close look at all the key male figures in Toni Morrison’s eight novels, this book explores Morrison’s admitted, but critically neglected, interest in the relationships between African American men and women and the “axes” on which these relationships turn. Most Morrison scholarship deals with her female characters.Can’t I Love What I Criticize?offers a response to this imbalance and to Morrison’s call for more work on men, who remain, in her words, “outside of that little community value thing.” The book also considers the barriers between black men and women thrown up by their participation in a larger, historically racist culture of competition, ownership, sexual repression, and fixed ideals about physical beauty and romantic love. Black women, Morrison says, bear their crosses “extremely well,” and black men, although they have been routinely emasculated by “white men, period,” have managed to maintain a feisty “magic” that everybody wants but nobody else has. Understanding Morrison’s treatment of her male characters, says Susan Mayberry, becomes crucial to grasping her success in “countering the damage done by a spectrum of sometimes misguided isms”--including white American feminism. Morrison’s version of masculinity suggests that black men have “successfully retained their special vitality in spite of white male resistance” and that “their connections to black women have saved their lives.” To single out her men is not to negate the preeminence of her women; rather, it is to recognize the interconnectedness and balance between them.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820336513

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9780820336510

Mrs. Neal's Not-So-Conventional Meditation Class for Teens

By: Nancy Neal

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Mrs. Neal's Not-So-Conventional Meditation Class for Teens

By: Nancy Neal

What if we were taught as teenagers how to have a healthy relationship with ourselves? What if we were taught from a very young age how to naturally calm our anxiety and understand ourselves as individuals? Mrs. Neals passion is to bring this opportunity to as many teens as possible. Her book, mrs. neals not-so-conventional Meditation Class for Teens, provides a resource to help young people develop into themselves with greater ease and confidence. The universal truths written in her new book are simple for teens to understand, and to apply to their daily lives, producing immediate results. Her meditation exercise is a useful daily tool for relaxation, and for teaching teens how to come back into their natural state of being, which is free of anxiety and depression. Nicole A. Mikel (a former high school student of Mrs. Neals) Clinical Holistic Health Practitioner and Clinical Holistic Life Coach Mrs. Neal, I LOVE THIS BOOK! I like that it has so much information, and how it explains everything. It is all so positive and uplifting, and the quotes are great! I cant wait to read it again and do all the Student Challenges, Homework Assignments and the other exercises. I have already been starting my day with a more positive attitude. I want all my friends to read this, too! Thank you for writing this for us! comments from M a student who offered to read the manuscript

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1504335139

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9781504335133

The Fume in the Tomb

By: Katherine Pebley O'Neal

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The Fume in the Tomb

By: Katherine Pebley O'Neal

When the Golden Nose of King Tustinkhamen is stolen from the Museum of Ancient Sniffstory, the Stink Squad finds the museum full of suspects, including Gnarla the fortune-smeller and the hard-of-smelling Professor Feeble.

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Simon and Schuster

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0689857039

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9780689857034

Deadly Ploy

By: Neal Enrick

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Deadly Ploy

By: Neal Enrick

Mayhem and mystery with a medieval twist.

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Lulu.com

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0998900354

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9780998900353

The Art of Engagement Portraits

Lighting, Posing and Postproduction for Breathtaking Photography

By: Neal Urban

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The Art of Engagement Portraits

Lighting, Posing and Postproduction for Breathtaking Photography

By: Neal Urban

With bold colors, inventive lighting, creative postproduction, and eye-catching poses, Neal Urban creates engagement portraits that go far beyond the expected. In this book, he takes you behind the scenes with dozens of couples to show you how each image was conceptualized, customized, and brought to life. Under Neal’s careful eye, a patch of tall grass in a parking-lot becomes an exotic setting for two, the couple’s favorite dive-bar is transformed into a backdrop for timeless romance, and city streets become cinematic wonders. Shooting in the late-afternoon, sunset, and evening hours, Urban works carefully with the natural light, ambient sources in the scene, off-camera flash, LED, and tungsten sources to beautifully sculpt the couple and bring his scenes to life. Spend a few hours perusing this book and you’ll never approach engagement photography the same way again!

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Amherst Media

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1608957470

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9781608957477

Other Worlds (feat. stories by Rick Riordan, Shaun Tan, Tom Angleberger, Ray Bradbury and more)

By: Rick Riordan,Tan,Ray Bradbury,Tom Angleberger,Neal Shusterman,Rebecca Stead

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Other Worlds (feat. stories by Rick Riordan, Shaun Tan, Tom Angleberger, Ray Bradbury and more)

By: Rick Riordan,Tan,Ray Bradbury,Tom Angleberger,Neal Shusterman,Rebecca Stead

Ten incredible trips into the unknown await you...

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0007535031

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Guys Read: Other Worlds

By: Jon Scieszka,Rick Riordan,Tom Angleberger,D. J. MacHale,Rebecca Stead,Ray Bradbury,Shaun Tan,Neal Shusterman,Shannon Hale,Kenneth Oppel,Eric S. Nylund

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Guys Read: Other Worlds

By: Jon Scieszka,Rick Riordan,Tom Angleberger,D. J. MacHale,Rebecca Stead,Ray Bradbury,Shaun Tan,Neal Shusterman,Shannon Hale,Kenneth Oppel,Eric S. Nylund

Other Worlds, the fourth volume in Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read anthology series for tween boys, features ten thrilling new tales of science fiction and fantasy from some of the biggest names in children’s literature. Prepare yourself for ten trips into the unknown, as ten of your favorite writers—Rick Riordan, who has written an all-new and exclusive Percy Jackson tale, Tom Angleberger of Origami Yoda fame, Newbery medalist Rebecca Stead, Shannon Hale, D. J. MacHale, Eric Nylund, Kenneth Oppel, Neal Shusterman, Shaun Tan, and none other than the late Ray Bradbury—spin tales of fantasy and science fiction the likes of which you have never imagined. Compiled by National Ambassador for Children’s Literature (and Secret Ambassador for the Intergalactic Alliance) Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: Other Worlds is sure to boldly take you where no reader has gone before.

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0062239120

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