Jarol has created a well-paced, carefully plotted novel...Ethan's Moon Tower is an engrossing novel that would appeal to engineer, inventor, and astronomer types, as well as readers who enjoy rich settings and danger that comes in the form of wild dust storms and feuding neighbors." - The Children's Book Review When endless drought has left the Earth dry and nearly lifeless, one boy reaches for the sky. Ethan is too young to remember rain. At least not the kind that soaks the soil and flows in creeks. He never knew a time before the wells ran dry, before Mother and Father's endless battle against dust-storms that coat their beds and clothing, and foul their meager meals with grit. Unless they soon find water, Ethan and his parents, along with the last of their neighbors, will abandon lands they've farmed for generations, and strike out in search of more fertile territory - if only they knew of such a place. While gazing at the moon's reflection in a mud puddle at the bottom of yet another failed well, Ethan reckons the moon's surface could be covered by vast seas and expanses of rich soil. The next day he sets out to build a tower and find out for himself. When the other villagers learn of his plan, they band together and join him. Though they are on the verge of starvation, hope of finding greener pastures inspires such hearty folk to forge ahead. As they pierce the heavens, Ethan's Moon Tower leads them to the greatest treasure of all. That is, until jealous neighbors try to take it from them. Read Ethan's Moon Tower today to see what unexpected discoveries lay beyond the wildest of dreams.
An instructional handbook to help multimedia developers create leading-edge applications through the power of Delphi explains how to incorporate sound, video, graphics, animation, and hypertext into multimedia projects as well as a custom Web browser. Original. (Advanced).
Covering the latest version of Visual Basic, the authors take readers into the fascinating world of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Learn about multimedia and Windows programming, programming the Windows API, creating multimedia applications for the Internet and World Wide Web and video capturing the editing using Video for Windows.
Three multimedia gurus take you into the fascinating world of the Internet and World Wide Web. You'll learn about multimedia programming, programming the Windows API, creating multimedia applications for the Internet and World Wide Web, and using bare-metal techniques for sound playback and sprite animation.
Contains all the information you'll need in switching to the Windows version of this bestselling word processor. Explains how to customize WordPerfect to your working environment, using it as efficiently as possible. Focuses on the steps needed to incorporate WordPerfect for DOS features and procedures in the 6.0 version for Windows so that a user's investment of time and money in existing libraries of macros, templates and documents is not lost.
This unique software/book adventure set shows Visual C++ programmers how to develop fun and exciting multimedia applications. It provides detailed coverage of key multimedia features including sound, music, animation, video, hypertext, graphics imaging, and more. CD-ROM contains amazing multimedia development software and custom Visual C++ programs for exploring multimedia techniques.
Since so few people appear knowledgeable about public affairs, one might question whether collective policy preferences revealed in opinion surveys accurately convey the distribution of voices and interests in a society. This study, the first comprehensive treatment of the relationship between knowledge, representation, and political equality in opinion surveys, suggests some surprising answers. Knowledge does matter, and the way it is distributed in society can cause collective preferences to reflect disproportionately the opinions of some groups more than others. Sometimes collective preferences seem to represent something like the will of the people, but frequently they do not. Sometimes they rigidly enforce political equality in the expression of political viewpoints, but often they do not. The primary culprit is not any inherent shortcoming in the methods of survey research. Rather, it is the limited degree of knowledge held by ordinary citizens about public affairs. Accounting for these factors can help survey researchers, journalists, politicians, and concerned citizens better appreciate the pitfalls and possibilities for using opinion polls to represent the people s voice.
This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the future of US warfare, including its military practices and the domestic and global challenges it faces. The need to undertake a comprehensive analysis about the future of warfare for the US is more pressing today than ever before. New technologies and adversaries, both old and new, have the potential to revolutionize how wars are fought, and it is imperative that policy makers, military planners, and scholars engage with the latest analyses regarding these new threats and weapon systems. The primary aim of this book is to provide a clear and comprehensive depiction of the types of conflict that the United States is likely to become involved with in the future, as well as the methods of warfare that it may employ within these struggles. While a number of scholarly books have previously considered some of the potential features of US warfare in the future, many of these writings are either outdated or have limited their focus to just one or two of the main types of warfare that may occur and omitted consideration of the others. This book intends to remedy this deficiency in the literature. The volume consists of thematic chapters which address the key issues relevant to the future of US warfare, including cyber warfare, asymmetric conflicts, drone warfare, and nuclear strategy. Through the provision of a series of analyses by leading international academics, the volume provides an important interdisciplinary examination of the different areas of warfare that the United States is expected to use or encounter in the future. This book will be of great interest to students of US foreign policy, military studies, strategic studies and International Relations in general.
Covering the latest version of Visual Basic, the authors take readers into the fascinating world of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Learn about multimedia and Windows programming, programming the Windows API, creating multimedia applications for the Internet and World Wide Web and video capturing the editing using Video for Windows.
This survey of the major factors that influence voting behaviour in Japan demonstrates, through a wide range of examples, that there are recognizable bases of comparison between Japanese and Western voting behaviour. It also produces a number of contrasts with voting in the West.
Providing students with a verbal description of the quantitative research process, this work makes selective use of the formal symbolism of mathematics and statistics. The text is intended for use in year-long introductory courses in political-science quantitative research methods.
This unique software/book adventure set shows Visual C++ programmers how to develop fun and exciting multimedia applications. It provides detailed coverage of key multimedia features including sound, music, animation, video, hypertext, graphics imaging, and more. CD-ROM contains amazing multimedia development software and custom Visual C++ programs for exploring multimedia techniques.
The deluxe edition featuring critically acclaimed writer Ed Brubaker's seminal run on the Dark Knight and The Joker. The deluxe edition featuring critically acclaimed writer Ed Brubaker's seminal run on the Dark Knight and The Joker. Witness Batman's first encounter with The Joker in this volume collecting the graphic novel BATMAN: THE MAN WHO LAUGHS by Ed Brubaker and Doug Mahnke! This collection also includes DETECTIVE COMICS #784-786, a murder mystery tale guest-starring Green Lantern Alan Scott.
Three multimedia gurus take you into the fascinating world of the Internet and World Wide Web. You'll learn about multimedia programming, programming the Windows API, creating multimedia applications for the Internet and World Wide Web, and using bare-metal techniques for sound playback and sprite animation.
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