We Like It Wild

We Like It Wild
Author: Bradford Angier
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2020-10-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0486848477

This 1947 account of moving to a frontier town in British Columbia abounds in beautiful descriptions of a fierce yet beguiling landscape. It's also packed with practical survival tips.

Key Exchange

Key Exchange
Author: Kevin Wade
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1982
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822206095

The love lives of two cyclists are contrasted as one fights to save his marriage while the other avoids commitment. Background music. 9 scenes, 2 men, 1 woman, 1 exterior.

Imagine

Imagine
Author: Marianne Williamson
Publisher: Rodale
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2000
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781579543020

More than thirty distinguished contributors share their thoughts, beliefs, and concrete suggestions on how to create a brighter, more enriching America in the twenty-first century, covering such topics as health, the environment, education, politics, and technology in essays by Gloria Steinem, Thomas Moore, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Deepak Chopra, and other notables. 100,000 first printing.

Eyestandia

Eyestandia
Author: Lynn Shroll
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2014-01-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1783062053

What would happen if the descendants of the last survivors from Earth, looking for sanctuary, finally reach another civilised planet? You may remember terms such as CDOs (from the world of finance) and WMDs (from the world of politics) flying around in the news over the last decade. If you don’t, it doesn’t matter because they don’t appear in this book, although something like them does... For years, the inhabitants of Eyestandia have been studying the Earth’s civilisation from radio waves they have been receiving. The ‘other people’ of this new utopian-like world have a naïve understanding of the modern workings of our planet. The people of Eyestandia ask questions about Earth’s society, in particular about the deference which is paid to all things money-related, and what is meant by the word equality. This leads to a head-on clash of ideals about money, ambition and profit, which are all non-existent in this new world. Eyestandia or… The way other people might see us is a fictional satire. It is a social, economic and political fantasy intended to amuse and entertain. It reflects the fact that in this modern world we are constantly subjected to being told what is ‘correct thinking’, but the smallest glance into history will show that this alters with the passage of time. Using a ‘what if?’ scenario to imagine a civilized society on a different planet, Eyestandia will appeal not just to fans of science fiction, but those who are interested in comparing a completely different set of ideals to their own.

Reading Elizabeth Bishop

Reading Elizabeth Bishop
Author: Ellis Jonathan Ellis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474421350

A comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fictionCelebrating Elizabeth Bishop as an international writer with allegiances to various countries and national traditions, this collection of essays explores how Bishop moves between literal geographies like Nova Scotia, New England, Key West and Brazil and more philosophical categories like home and elsewhere, human and animal, insider and outsider. The book covers all aspects and periods of the author's career, from her early writing in the 1930s to the late poems finished after Geography III and those works published after her death. It also examines how Bishop's work has been read and reinterpreted by contemporary writers. Key FeaturesProvides a companion to Bishop's entire artistic oeuvre, including letter writing, literary criticism and short story writingOffers a sustained consideration of Bishop's identity politics, including the role of raceStudies Bishop's influence on contemporary culture

Worldmakers

Worldmakers
Author: Gardner Dozois
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2001-12-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312275709

When mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field, including: Poul Anderson * Stephen Baxter * Gregory Benford * Arthur C. Clarke * Greg Egan * Joe Haldeman * Philip Jennings * William H. Kieth * Geoffrey A. Landis * Ian McDonald * Richard McKenna * Laura Mixon * G. David Nordley * Robert Reed * Kim Stanley Robinson * Pamela Sargent * Cordwainer Smith * Bruce Sterling * John Varley * Roger Zelazny These are the stories of the explorers and pioneers who transform their destinations in the image of their distant home--exciting tales of alien landscapes and the struggle to make them suit human desires.

The Case of the Seven Whistlers

The Case of the Seven Whistlers
Author: George Bellairs
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2014-12-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1497690714

A body in a trunk draws Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard to a peculiar English village On a cobblestoned street almost too quaint to be believed, two antique dealers named Grossman and Small have set up shop. Grossman is short and meek, while Small is large and brutish, but their partnership seems happy enough until the day when old Miss Adlestrop purchases the large oak chest in the window and finds Mr. Grossman stuffed inside it—stone dead. The cozy English hamlet is thrown into an uproar, overwhelming the local constabulary and requiring the services of Detective-Inspector Thomas Littlejohn. Cool-headed and never in a hurry, Littlejohn has solved his fair share of village murder cases. But when the key to the fatal chest goes missing, Littlejohn discovers the community to be so infested with jealousies and secrets that he begins to envy the dead man.

Distributions

Distributions
Author: Jacques Simon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2022-09-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1786305259

This book presents a simple and original theory of distributions, both real and vector, adapted to the study of partial differential equations. It deals with value distributions in a Neumann space, that is, in which any Cauchy suite converges, which encompasses the Banach and Fréchet spaces and the same “weak” spaces. Alongside the usual operations – derivation, product, variable change, variable separation, restriction, extension and regularization – Distributions presents a new operation: weighting. This operation produces properties similar to those of convolution for distributions defined in any open space. Emphasis is placed on the extraction of convergent sub-sequences, the existence and study of primitives and the representation by gradient or by derivatives of continuous functions. Constructive methods are used to make these tools accessible to students and engineers.

Zombie Bake-Off

Zombie Bake-Off
Author: Stephen Graham Jones
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2024-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504096258

“[The] tale of a zombie horde reigning terror on the few humans left inside a building . . . a refreshing nod to the George Romero movies of old.” —Mourning Goats There’s not much rumbling during the Recipe Days show at the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum—except for stomachs, that is—until the professional wrestlers arrive early for their Saturday night matches. Chaos ensues when the home cooks are overrun by Xombie, the Hellbillies, and Jersey Devil Jill. They’re not everyone’s idea of family fun . . . especially when the rowdy wrestlers descend on the free donuts brought for the security team—and are turned into brain-eating zombies. The night’s main event starts early with undead wrestlers squaring off against kitchen divas and soccer moms. And as the contagion spreads, the few survivors, armed with mixers, booth poles, and a Zamboni, must fight to keep their heads on straight—and off the menu. “Zombie specialist Stephen Graham Jones shows how to put a fresh spin on a classic dish.” —The Denver Post “Zombie Bake-Off is fast, witty, original and ridiculously entertaining. Stephen Graham Jones has created an action-packed literary pastry that packs a sugar rush you just have to experience.” —HorrorTalk

Perfect Design

Perfect Design
Author: Richard G. Starshak
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2022-01-15
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1638441774

Designing by mathematics (numbers, order, quantities, and measures) and geometry (points, lines, angles, and shapes) is a totally different approach to create any and all visual design! The combination of these two related, but very different areas, form the foundation of perfect visual design. We will show in detail how to use simple mathematics and geometry to create perfect order, balance, and emphasis in the landscape design!