Two for Twenty

Two for Twenty
Author: Buck Rish
Publisher: Buck Rish
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2007-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781604410921

The authors pens his fourth novel based on stories he heard while visiting his paternal grandparents in South Carolina. Stories about mules, slaves, war, mysticism, illness, swamps, railroads and golf are included in his extensive Southern heritage.

Abcs That Make Cent$

Abcs That Make Cent$
Author: Cynthia Elliott CPA
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2011-10-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1463441789

Do you know your ABCs to money management? Are you able to make dollars and sense out of your personal finances? Does your family have financial independence? If you answered no to any of these questions, then ABCs that make cent$ is just for you. It is essential for everyone to apply these ABCs to their own money management system. You and everyone in your family will learn how to apply the knowledge and translate it to your own personal life; its as simple as 1-2-3. If you do not learn this NOW, then you and your family could miss out on various opportunities needed in order to survive and succeed financially in these challenging times. There is hope! ABCs that make cent$ will provide ways for you to manage your finances, enforce budgeting and saving and set goals to build wealth. The instructions provided are for you to carry forward and follow daily. The direction is to have funds for rainy days, emergencies, special occasions, big events and retirement. As a family, you will learn special techniques that will be amusing for the adult and entertaining for your children of all ages. These tools are crucial for your future well-being and for the name sake of your youngsters. Allow ABCs that make cent$ to help you get up, stay up and initiate ascending to higher financial grounds. This book is definitely a Godsend. Stop stumbling at base level zero and start climbing to financial wealth by using the ABCs detailed in this book. Quotes regarding the book: You are about to embark on a voyage into monetary enlightenment. Enjoy your journey. You will be rewarded. J. David Spiceland, PhD, CPA, Professor of Accountancy. Cynthia's publication comes at a great time when people are in need of professional advice concerning their finances. She has hit a home-run. Laurence V. Plummer, Sr., President, Plummer Financial Services, LLC. Cynthia has done an excellent job of capturing my weakness when it comes to my motivation to spend... I'm elated with the solutions she offers and I will make sure all of my friends and family have a copy of this book. Marilyn Kelley, Business Instructor and friend Dallas, Texas. ABCs that make cents has practical tools; its filled with great ideas to building a successful financial plan for your family, needed especially during these economic times. Christine Shipman, CPS Miami, Florida.

Pro Android 5

Pro Android 5
Author: Dave MacLean
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 728
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1430246812

Pro Android 5 shows you how to build real-world and fun mobile apps using the Android 5 SDK. This book updates the best-selling Pro Android and covers everything from the fundamentals of building apps for smartphones, tablets, and embedded devices to advanced concepts such as custom components, multi-tasking, sensors/augmented reality, better accessories support and much more. Using the tutorials and expert advice, you'll quickly be able to build cool mobile apps and run them on dozens of Android-based smartphones. You'll explore and use the Android APIs, including those for media and sensors. And you'll check out what's new in Android, including the improved user interface across all Android platforms, integration with services, and more. By reading this definitive tutorial and reference, you'll gain the knowledge and experience to create stunning, cutting-edge Android apps that can make you money, while keeping you agile enough to respond to changes in the future.

Script the Strong Ant

Script the Strong Ant
Author: Antonio Edwards
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2011-07-05
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1481715240

Script the Strong Ant is about a young ant cool in his own way teaching the world about himself through singing.

No Game No Life Practical War Game

No Game No Life Practical War Game
Author: Yuu Kamiya
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1975319680

YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT’S IN THE CARDS… ​Before the creation of Disboard, a world where everything is decided by games, there raged a terrible war among the various races. The Immanity weren’t the only ones fighting to end that war, though—one Elf had her own plans: Whoever’s left standing after the world is destroyed is the winner! What tricks did Think Nirvalen have up her sleeve all those years ago? Who was actually pulling the strings behind the Great War? And did Nina Clive, Think’s overworked assistant, even make it out alive?!

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke
Author: Harry Eiss
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2013-01-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443844888

Richard Dadd is a trickster, a pre-post-modern enigma wrapped in a Shakespearean Midsummer Night’s Dream; an Elizabethan Puck living in a smothering Victorian insane asylum, foreshadowing and, in brilliant, Mad Hatter conundrums, entering the fragmented shards of today’s nightmarish oxymorons long before the artists currently trying to give them the joker’s ephemeral maps of discourse. The author thinks of Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man,” that cryptic refusal to reduce the warped mirrors of reality to prosaic lies, or, perhaps “All Along the Watchtower” or “Mr Tambourine Man.” Even more than Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which curiously enough comes off as overly esoteric, too studied, too conscious, Dadd’s entire existence foreshadows the forbidden entrance into the numinous, the realization of the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, that wonderfully rich Marcel Duchamp landscape of puns and satiric paradigms, that surrealistic parallax of the brilliant gamester Salvador Dali, that smirking irony of the works of Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Robert Indiana; that fragmented, meta-fictional struggle of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. John Lennon certainly sensed it and couldn’t help but push into meta-real worlds in his own lyrics. Think of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” “I Am the Walrus,” and the more self-conscious “Revolution Number 9.” In “Yer Blues,” he even refers to Dylan’s main character, Mr Jones from “Ballad of a Thin Man.” If Lennon’s song is taken seriously, literally, then it is a dark crying out by a suicidal man, “Lord, I’m lonely, wanna die”; or, if taken as a metaphor for a lover’s lost feelings about his unfulfilled love, it falls into the romantic rant of a typical blues or teenage rock-and-roll song. However, even on this level, it has an irony about it, a sense of laughing at itself and at Dylan’s Mr Jones, who knows something is going on but just not what it is, and then, by extension, all of us who have awakened to the fact that the studied Western world doesn’t make sense, all of us who struggle to find meaning in the nonsense images, characters, and happenings in the song, and perhaps, coming to a conclusion that the nonsense is the sense.

The Trial

The Trial
Author: Robert Whitlow
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2006-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1418512494

A lawyer ready to die takes one final case...the trial of his life. Attorney Kent "Mac" MacClain has nothing left to live for. Nine years after the horrific accident that claimed the life of his wife and two sons, he's finally given up. His empty house is a mirror for his empty soul, it seems suicide is his only escape. And then the phone rings. Angela Hightower, the beautiful heiress and daughter of the most powerful man in Dennison Springs, has been found dead at the bottom of a ravine. The accused killer, Peter Thomason, needs a lawyer. But Mac has come up against the Hightowers and their ruthless, high-powered lawyers before -- an encounter that left his practice and reputation reeling. The evidence pointing to Thomason's guilt seems insurmountable. Is Mac defending an ingenious psychopath, or has Thomason been framed--possibly by a member of the victim's family? It comes down to one last trial. For Thomason, the opponent is the electric chair. For Mac, it is his own tormented past--a foe that will prove every bit as deadly.

Social Justice, the Common Core, and Closing the Instructional Gap

Social Justice, the Common Core, and Closing the Instructional Gap
Author: Janet C. Richards
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1681232324

There is little doubt that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a controversial entity. They are provocative for the way in which they have been developed, for the ways they are being implemented and evaluated, for their content, and for their failure to explicitly consider the needs, interests, and histories of diverse populations. While the CCSS continue to be problematized by critics around the country—including the editors of this volume—it is evident our nation is moving toward (some would argue we have arrived at) a national set of standards and/or a national curriculum. This text will be an important volume for multiple audiences, in large part because it will bring together critical perspectives on the CCSS and the notion of national standards/curricula. It will simultaneously provide a social justice orientation as a way to interpret the CCSS and respond to their limits, while presenting practical examples of social justice?oriented, CCSS?focused curricula that empower diverse learners and their teachers. Social Justice, the Common Core, and Closing the Instructional Gap will consist of chapters by classroom teachers and university scholars who portray honest, engaging, first?person accounts of their successes and challenges connecting a social justice pedagogical orientation to the Common Core State Standards. These authors candidly and passionately share the challenges of navigating between a social justice curriculum and high stakes standards? and test?driven environments. They highlight their accomplishments that include effectively supporting students to consider social injustices and devise plans to work toward a more equitable world.

Insanity and Genius

Insanity and Genius
Author: Harry Eiss
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2014-06-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1443860867

In his book about the discovery of the structure of DNA, James Watson wrote, “So we had lunch, telling ourselves that a structure this beautiful just had to exist.” Indeed, the quest most often asked by scientists about a scientific theory is “Is it beautiful?” Yes, beauty equals truth. Scientists know, mathematicians know. But the beauties, the truths of mathematics and science were not the truths that inspired the author as a child, and he intuitively knew that the truths he needed come from a different way of knowing, a way of knowing not of the world of logic and reason and explanation (though they have a value), but rather a way of knowing that is of the world expression, a world that enters the truths beyond the grasp of logic. That is what this book is all about. It is an exploration of the greatest minds of human existence struggling to understand the deepest truths of the human condition. This second edition updates the previous one, incorporating new publications on Van Gogh, recent discoveries in neurology, psychology, and the rapid developments in understanding DNA and biotechnology. We’ve come a long way already from that original discovery by Watson and his coauthor Francis Crick.

Where We Are

Where We Are
Author: Annie McDonald
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1635555809

Cassidy (Sid) Harris is an uncompromising art gallery curator, blindsided and thrust into the midst of a career-ending deal involving a powerful celebrity art collector. Making matters worse, when called back to her family’s ranch to help end a mysterious series of cattle thefts, she’s faced with memories she thought she’d left behind long ago. Mia Jarvis, a herding dog trainer who has set up camp adjacent to Sid’s family ranch, is emerging after years from the desolate fog of grief. Mia and her canine companions can’t seem to stop running afoul of the decidedly prickly rancher. Where We Are is a sensual account of two women who discover a way to walk on the same path together and—with the help of an Indigenous tale, a Canadian art movement, and the mysterious appearance of dimes—also discover the gift of staying in one spot, in time, in space, and in love.