Teeka and Other Stories

Teeka and Other Stories
Author: Ferrell Rosser
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2002-10
Genre:
ISBN: 0595252567
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Short stories of fantasy and horror. Monsters and heroes, demons and ghosts, they are all here, as well as other characters of fantasy, both familiar and strange. Placed in both otherworldly and contemporary settings, these tales of heroic fantasy and disturbing horror are meant to frighten, delight, and provoke the imagination. Satire, humor, and off beat thoughts abound.

Shadows in the Garden and Other Stories

Shadows in the Garden and Other Stories
Author: Wayne Kyle Spitzer
Publisher: Hobb's End Books
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2020-02-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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The original story upon which the film Shadows in the Garden is based ... and 7 other tales. A vignette of dream shimmers briefly in my mind. I remember I was crouched in a dark yard, this yard—staring at that same clothesline. I was cold, so cold, and frightened, and I didn't know why. It was far too dark to see anything clearly. I could tell only that there was something hung from the line. Approaching it, I saw how it swung back and forth in the night-wind heavily. It wasn't until I was close enough almost to touch it that I realized what it was. It was the pale woman's head …

Tika in Action

Tika in Action
Author: Jukka L. Zitting
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1638352631
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Summary Tika in Action is a hands-on guide to content mining with Apache Tika. The book's many examples and case studies offer real-world experience from domains ranging from search engines to digital asset management and scientific data processing. About the Technology Tika is an Apache toolkit that has built into it everything you and your app need to know about file formats. Using Tika, your applications can discover and extract content from digital documents in almost any format, including exotic ones. About this Book Tika in Action is the ultimate guide to content mining using Apache Tika. You'll learn how to pull usable information from otherwise inaccessible sources, including internet media and file archives. This example-rich book teaches you to build and extend applications based on real-world experience with search engines, digital asset management, and scientific data processing. In addition to architectural overviews, you'll find detailed chapters on features like metadata extraction, automatic language detection, and custom parser development. This book is written for developers who are new to both Scala and Lift and covers just enough Scala to get you started. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. What's Inside Crack MS Word, PDF, HTML, and ZIP Integrate with search engines, CMS, and other data sources Learn through experimentation Many examples This book requires no previous knowledge of Tika or text mining techniques. It assumes a working knowledge of Java. ========================================​== Table of Contents PART 1 GETTING STARTED The case for the digital Babel fish Getting started with Tika The information landscape PART 2 TIKA IN DETAIL Document type detection Content extraction Understanding metadata Language detection What's in a file? PART 3 INTEGRATION AND ADVANCED USE The big picture Tika and the Lucene search stack Extending Tika PART 4 CASE STUDIES Powering NASA science data systems Content management with Apache Jackrabbit Curating cancer research data with Tika The classic search engine example

Distant Planes

Distant Planes
Author: Kathy Ice
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Each of the dazzling stories found in this compelling fantasy anthology opens a door into a place called Dominia--where adventures begin, and the action--and the magic--never stops. Contributors include Michael Stackpole, Robert Vardeman, and 15 others.

Big Book of Best Short Stories

Big Book of Best Short Stories
Author: Kenneth Grahame
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 818
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8577774910
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This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. The theme of this edition is: Fantasy For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: Edgar Rice Burroughs: - Tarzan's First Love - A Jungle Joke - Tarzan Rescues the Moon - John Carter and the Giant Of Mars - The Ancient Dead - Beyond Thirty - Skeleton Men of JupiterJohn Kendrick Bangs: - The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall - The Spectre Cook Of Bangletop - A Midnight Visitor - The Speck On The Lens - A Quicksilver Cassandra - The Ghost Club - A Psychical PrankOscar Wilde: - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - The Sphinx without a Secret - A Model Millionaire - The Happy Prince - The Fisherman and his Soul - The Nightingale and the Rose - The Young KingLord Dunsany: - Chu-Bu and Sheemish - The Hoard of the Gibbelins - The Quest of the Queen's Tears - How One Came, As Was Foretold, To The City Of Never - The Wonderful Window - The Bride Of The Man Horse - The House Of The SphinxKenneth Grahame: - The Twenty-First of October - Dies Irae - Mutabile Semper - The Magic Ring - Its Walls Were as of Jasper - A Saga of the Seas - The Reluctant Dragon

Big Book of Best Short Stories

Big Book of Best Short Stories
Author: Abraham Merritt
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 1126
Release: 2019-11-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8577775720
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This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. The theme of this edition is: Science Fiction. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: Abraham Merritt: - The Pool Of The Stone God - The Last Poet And The Robots - The Fox Woman - The People Of The Pit - The Drone - Through The Dragon Glass - Three Lines Of Old FrenchEdgar Rice Burroughs: - Tarzan's First Love - A Jungle Joke - Tarzan Rescues the Moon - John Carter and the Giant Of Mars - The Ancient Dead - Beyond Thirty - Skeleton Men of JupiterHerbert George Wells: - The Time Machine - A Dream Of Armageddon - The Crystal Egg - The Man Who Could Work Miracles - The Flowering of the Strange Orchid - The Sea Riders - The AppleStanley G. Weinbaum: - A Martian Odyssey - The Adaptative Ultimate - Parasite Planet - Pygmalion's Spectacles - The Mad Moon - Redemption Cairn - The Lotus EatersFitz-James O'Brien: - The Diamond Lens. - The Lost Room. - What Was it? A Mystery. - My Wife's Tempter. - The Golden Ingot. - The Child Who Loved a Grave. - Thw Wondersmith.

7 Best Short Stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs

7 Best Short Stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-01-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8577770338
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Edgar Rice Burroughs only entered The Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2003 - more than 50 years after his death - but at this point he had a place of honor in the hearts and minds of science fiction, adventure and fantasy lovers. Its iconic characters, such as Tarzan and John Carter, became icons of pop culture and influenced all who came after. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: Tarzan's First Love A Jungle Joke Tarzan Rescues the Moon John Carter and the Giant Of Mars The Ancient Dead Beyond Thirty Skeleton Men of Jupiter

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 5998
Release: 2019-02-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8577770699
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This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - H.P. Lovecraft, - Edgar Allan Poe, - Arthur Conan Doyle, - Katherine Mansfield, - Jack London, - Guy de Maupassant, - Virginia Woolf, F. - Scott Fitzgerald, - Edith Wharton, - Stephen Crane, - Susan Glaspell, - Kate Chopin, - Laura E. Richards, - Alice Dunbar-Nelson, - Louisa May Alcott, - Hans Christian Andersen, - Charles Dickens, - Nathaniel Hawthorne, - Henry James, - Mark Twain, - Charlotte Perkins, - Elizabeth Gaskell, - Herman Melville, - James Joyce, - Leo Tolstoy, - Nikolai Gogol, - Anton Chekhov, - Fyodor Dostoevsky, - Maxim Gorky, - Leonid Andreyev, - Ivan Turgenev, - Joseph Conrad, - Aleksander Pushkin, - Robert Louis Stevenson, - Robert E. Howard, - G. K. Chesterton, - Edgar Wallace, - Arthur Machen, - Ambrose Bierce, - Talbot Mundy, - Abraham Merritt, - Zane Grey, - Edgar Rice Burroughs, - Oscar Wilde, - Rudyard Kipling, - E.T.A. Hoffman, - Bram Stoker, - H.G. Wells, - Franz Kafta - Washington Irving.

Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 3

Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 3
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 2343
Release: 2019-01-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8577770346
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This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - Robert Louis Stevenson:The Waif Woman The Bottle Imp Thrawn Janet Markheim The Body Snatcher Olalla Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert E. Howard:Worms of the Earth The Queen of Black Coast Pigeons from Hell The Children of the Night Red Nails The Twilight of the Grey Gods The Shadow of the Vulture - G. K. Chesterton:The Blue Cross The Invisible Man The Man Who Was Thursday – A Nightmare The Strange Crime of John Boulnois The Three Tools of Death The Wrong Shape The Mistake of the Machine - Edgar Wallace:The Cat Burglar Circumstantial Evidence The Ghost of Downhill The Poetical Policeman Red Aces The Four Just Men The Shadow Man - Arthur Machen:The Great God Pan The White People The Black Seal The Novel of the White Powder The Red Hand The Inmost Light The Bowmen - Ambrose Bierce:An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge One Summer Night The Death Of Halpin Frayser The Moonlit Road A Psychological Shipwreck The Stranger The Middle Toe of the Right Foot - Talbot Mundy:The Soul Of A Regiment The Pillar Of Light The Lady and the Lord Kitty Bruns Her Fingers The Mystic India Speaks The Real Red Root The Hermit and the Tiger - Abraham Merritt:The Pool Of The Stone God The Last Poet And The Robots The Fox Woman The People Of The Pit The Drone Through The Dragon Glass Three Lines Of Old French - Zane Grey:Amber's Mirage The Ranger Don: The Story Of A Lion Dog The Wolf Tracker Lure of the River A Missouri Schoolmarm Monty Price's Nightingale - Edgar Rice Burroughs:Tarzan's First Love A Jungle Joke Tarzan Rescues the Moon John Carter and the Giant Of Mars The Ancient Dead Beyond Thirty Skeleton Men of Jupiter

Tarzan Books 1 through 5

Tarzan Books 1 through 5
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: eStar Books
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2013-01-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612106129
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This edition contains the first five books from the Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes, The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar and a bonus of Jungle Tales of Tarzan. Jungle Tales of Tarzan is the 6th book in the series.