Black Canvas

Black Canvas
Author: Dana Aros
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2016-08-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1680762745

In this map-your-destiny book, you make the decisions as Kelly Anne, who has been on various medications for her bipolar disorder since she was fourteen. Now a senior in high school and off your medication, you struggle to express yourself to old friends who fear you or don't believe you; to your dad, whose alcoholism keeps him distant; and to your stepmom, who wants to control you. You must find normalcy again by learning to navigate the roadblocks of your own mind. Black Canvas is from Dark Roads, an EPIC Press series. Some titles may contain explicit content and/or language.

Black Canvas

Black Canvas
Author: Kriti Gangwar
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2017-09-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1543701140

Masira Singh considers herself, an ordinary teenager with an ordinary life until bizarre dreams and unexplainable chills begin plaguing her. As her dreams lead her into a mountain village where she is greeted by a boy, a series of unimaginable incidents slowly begin to turn her life upside down. While she attempts to learn why she is being tested, Masira is left with agonizing choices. Unsure of her place in the giant scheme of things she seeks help, only to find herself alone in a place where even her best friend refuses to trust her. In a battle between the logical and the probable; between the established and the intuited, Masira was torn, alone and in danger. She must determine if she was making the right choices or was simply being misled only to put herself and those she loves in danger by taking a risky course. But how will she decide where her duty lies, especially when everything is at stake and no one believes her story? In this shadowy tale, an ordinary teenager has to make extraordinary choices in a challenging battle between reality and a dream world to learn the truth, before it is too late.

Collecting African American Art

Collecting African American Art
Author: Halima Taha
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1998
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Presents African American artists, identifies dealers, and offers practical advice on insurance, framing, and tax and estate planning.

Blank Canvas

Blank Canvas
Author: E M Lindsey
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2019-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781095901113

When a car accident changed the trajectory of his life at fifteen, Sam Braga set out to find his own way in the world. It never occurred to him he'd find home in Fairfield, Colorado, working with a childhood friend at a tattoo shop, and the legal guardian of a gorgeous little girl who was abandoned by her mother at birth. Sam has his life organized exactly the way he needs it. Maisy, work, and his found-family. There isn't room for anything else. Especially when DCS gets involved and tells him that his disability might interfere with his petition to finally adopt the little girl he's been raising. Sam might be lonely, but he just doesn't have room for love.Niko Pagonis tells himself he's not using the small town of Fairfield as an escape, but who is he kidding. When his NHL career ends two minutes after it begins, Niko flees the East Coast in search of somewhere to settle. He finds home in the form of his accounting firm and his gym buddies who never abandon him on leg-day. Eventually, however, it's not enough. Niko craves connection, and above all, he wants to feel like he belongs. He stumbles onto the unlikely family at Irons and Works, and more than that, he finds himself in the path of the gorgeous single-dad who has made it clear he has no plans to fit Niko into his routine.But things aren't always that simple, even when both men try to make them that way. A misguided offer of friends with benefits turns into something else, and both Sam and Niko know they're flirting with disaster. Still, neither one of them can seem to stay away from the other. Will they find their way through the mess before someone gets hurt? Or will it all come crashing to the ground.Blank Canvas is the second book in the Irons and Works series. Each book contains an individual storyline with no cheating and HEA.

Playing in the Shadows

Playing in the Shadows
Author: William H. Bridges
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2020-02-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0472126520

Playing in the Shadows considers the literature engendered by postwar Japanese authors’ robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African American literature. The Allied Occupation brought an influx of African American soldiers and culture to Japan, which catalyzed the writing of black characters into postwar Japanese literature. This same influx fostered the creation of organizations such as the Kokujin kenkyū no kai (The Japanese Association for Negro Studies) and literary endeavors such as the Kokujin bungaku zenshū (The Complete Anthology of Black Literature). This rich milieu sparked Japanese authors’—Nakagami Kenji and Ōe Kenzaburō are two notable examples—interest in reading, interpreting, critiquing, and, ultimately, incorporating the tropes and techniques of African American literature and jazz performance into their own literary works. Such incorporation leads to literary works that are “black” not by virtue of their representations of black characters, but due to their investment in the possibility of technically and intertextually black Japanese literature. Will Bridges argues that these “fictions of race” provide visions of the way that postwar Japanese authors reimagine the ascription of race to bodies—be they bodies of literature, the body politic, or the human body itself.

Catalog

Catalog
Author: Sears, Roebuck and Company
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1012
Release: 1922
Genre: Manufactures
ISBN:

Lean UX

Lean UX
Author: Jeff Gothelf
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1491953578

UX design has traditionally been deliverables-based. Wireframes, site maps, flow diagrams, content inventories, taxonomies, mockups helped define the practice in its infancy.Over time, however, this deliverables-heavy process has put UX designers in the deliverables business. Many are now measured and compensated for the depth and breadth of their deliverables instead of the quality and success of the experiences they design. Designers have become documentation subject matter experts, known for the quality of the documents they create instead of the end-state experiences being designed and developed.So what's to be done? This practical book provides a roadmap and set of practices and principles that will help you keep your focus on the the experience back, rather than the deliverables. Get a tactical understanding of how to successfully integrate Lean and UX/Design; Find new material on business modeling and outcomes to help teams work more strategically; Delve into the new chapter on experiment design and Take advantage of updated examples and case studies.

Blank Canvas

Blank Canvas
Author: Craig Stanland
Publisher: Lioncrest Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781544519470

No matter who you are, no matter how bad things look, you can rebuild your life. In 2012, Craig Stanland made a choice that would cost him everything. After he had exploited the warranty policy of one of the largest tech companies in the world for almost a year, the FBI finally knocked on his door.  He was arrested and sentenced to two years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $834,307 in restitution. He lost his wife, his homes, his cars, his career, and even his identity. He wanted nothing more than to die. Blank Canvas is a meditation on our remarkable capacity to rebuild and reinvent our lives. Through powerful storytelling, Craig proves that our greatest adversities do not have to be the end. Sometimes, they can be our greatest beginning.

Python for Everyone

Python for Everyone
Author: Cay S. Horstmann
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Python
ISBN: 1119638291

Introduction -- Programming with numbers and strings -- Decsions -- Loops -- Functions -- Lists -- Files and exceptions -- Sets and dictionaries -- Objects and classes -- Inheritance -- Recursion -- Sorting and searching.

The Blank Canvas

The Blank Canvas
Author: Anna Held Audette
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1993-09-28
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0834823438

The Blank Canvas offers solid advice for everyone who struggles with artist's block or other problems of creative expression, including: drawing subject matter from unexpected sources, mining one's daily visual responses for images, overcoming self-doubt and criticism, making choices when torn between several ideas, and getting started on assignments.