Silent Shot

Silent Shot
Author: Cait Morrigan
Publisher: Booktango
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2016-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468970720

One shot. As it pierced the humid air of the Port City, the neighbors didn't even hear the glass shatter as a bullet ripped into the chest of Katie Harris, a young college student. Despite living in a building of about a hundred tenants, the only witnesses at the scene are her guinea pigs, Rocky and Radar. So, what's Detective Wallis to do? She sets out to find the perp. Most likely, he's one of Wilmington's weekend residents from one of the surrounding military bases. But, how will she find the seasoned killer with so little evidence?

THE SILENT SHOT

THE SILENT SHOT
Author: Harshvardhan Rao
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2021-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1637146922

Kabir, Madhav, and Lieutenant Colonel Arjun are childhood friends. Lieutenant Colonel Arjun finds an issue with the new assault rifles the army wants to introduce: RMcar. He gets injured by terrorists in an encounter due to the rifle and wants to present a solid case to the higher authorities to stop the RMcar arms deal from going through. Kabir is behind this deal and wants it to happen because a huge incentive is attached to it. After an unfortunate incident, Kabir realizes that the deal should be stopped, but he finds himself helpless. Madhav, who has worked with politicians, comes to know about RMcar. Kabir and Arjun try to convince Madhav to aid them in stopping this deal. Madhav is adamant that he will not help Arjun and Kabir. Can they come together and stop this deal from happening? Does the army use these weapons and face more causality?

Coding and Decoding: Seismic Data

Coding and Decoding: Seismic Data
Author: Luc T. Ikelle
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 619
Release: 2010-03-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080914454

Currently, the acquisition of seismic surveys is performed as a sequential operation in which shots are computed separately, one after the other. This approach is similar to that of multiple-access technology, which is widely used in cellular communications to allow several subscribers to share the same telephone line. The cost of performing various shots simultaneously is almost identical to that of one shot; thus, the savings in time and money expected from using the multishooting approach for computing seismic surveys compared to the current approach are enormous. By using this approach, the long-standing problem of simulating a three-dimensional seismic survey can be reduced to a matter of weeks and not years, as is currently the case. - Investigates how to collect, stimulate, and process multishooting data - Addresses the improvements in seismic characterization and resolution one can expect from multishooting data - Aims to educate the oil and gas exploration and production business of the benefits of multishooting data, and to influence their day-to-day surveying techniques

Durational Cinema

Durational Cinema
Author: Michael Walsh
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-12-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3030760928

This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the years after 1968, and the international cinema of gallery spaces as well as film festivals since the 1990s. Figures studied include Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, Claude Lanzmann, James Benning, Kevin Jerome Everson, Lav Diaz, and Wang Bing.Durational cinema is predominantly minimal, but has from the beginning also included a more encompassing or encyclopedic kind of filmmaking. Durational cinema is characteristically representational, and converges on certain topics (the Holocaust, deindustrialization, the experience of the working class and other marginalized people), but has no one meaning, signifying differently at different moments and in different hands. Warhol’s durational cinema of subtraction is quite different from Jacobs’s durational cinema of social disgust, while Lav Diaz’ durational sublime is quite different from Kevin Jerome Everson’s unblinking studies of African-American working people.

Flickering Empire

Flickering Empire
Author: Michael Glover Smith
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0231850794

Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907–1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (principally Essanay and Selig Polyscope). Colorful, larger-than-life historical figures, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles, are major players in the narrative—in addition to important though forgotten industry titans, such as "Colonel" William Selig, George Spoor, and Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson.

Kaivalya

Kaivalya
Author: Ekta Saigal Pandit
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2020-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1636067468

You killed a nation to build your frivolous empire. You murdered your wife and orphaned countless children. You killed for a living and yet, you loved with a passion. You loved with passion and you hated with a fire bellowing inside you. You are yourself an orphaned child and a cheated husband. You are a mother who witnesses the killing of your own children. You have played all the roles. And more. Mansi Aryan unveils shocking truths about her past incarnations, as she journeys through the deserts and wild jungles of India. Bewildered and bombarded with visions from her past lives, she pieces together the bits. She starts to discover answers to the array of questions that she has asked. Every deceit and every pain that she has inflicted is recorded inside her, and she will reap what she has sown. The energy will be balanced. Somehow. But will she be able to stop the Karmic wheel that she has set in motion? Will she be able to find her way out of the web of her own making? Will she ever find the freedom that she is desperate for?

Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two

Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two
Author: Philip A. Greasley
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 1074
Release: 2016-08-08
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0253021162

The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.

David Busch's Sony Alpha a7C Guide to Digital Photography

David Busch's Sony Alpha a7C Guide to Digital Photography
Author: David D. Busch
Publisher: Rocky Nook, Inc.
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2021-01-06
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 168198749X

David Busch's Sony Alpha a7C Guide to Digital Photography is the most comprehensive resource and reference for Sony’s ultra-compact 24-megapixel full frame mirrorless camera. The a7C packs large sensor image quality and low light performance into the world’s smallest full-frame camera with in-body five-axis image stabilization. The perfect companion for travel photography under the most demanding conditions, it’s also fast enough for 10 frames-per-second action photography bursts, and delivers the resolution the most demanding landscape or fine-art photographer require.

With fast, sensor-based 693-point phase detect autofocus (with real-time face and eye tracking), and 4K and full HD video capabilities, the a7C has all the tools needed to take incredible still images and capture compelling movies and video blogs. This book will show you how to master those features as you explore the world of digital photography and hone your creativity with your a7C.

Filled with detailed how-to steps and full-color illustrations, David Busch's Sony Alpha a7C Guide to Digital Photography covers every feature of this camera in depth, from taking your first photos through advanced details of setup, exposure, lens selection, lighting, and more, and relates each feature to specific photographic techniques and situations. Also included is the handy camera "roadmap" chapter, an easy-to-use visual guide to the camera's features and controls. Learn when to use every option and, more importantly, when not to use them, by following the author’s recommended settings for each menu entry. With best-selling photographer and mentor David Busch as your guide, you'll quickly have full creative mastery of your camera’s capabilities, whether you're shooting on the job, as an advanced enthusiast exploring full frame photography for the first time, or are just out for fun. Start building your knowledge and confidence, while bringing your vision to light with the Sony a7C.