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Author : Tim Powers
language : en
Publisher: Baen Books
Release Date : 2018-08-07
Alternate Routes written by Tim Powers and has been published by Baen Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-07 with Fiction categories.
A New Novel From Award-Winning Master of Fantasy and Science Fiction Tim Powers. A modern ghost story as only Tim Powers can write it. Something weird is happening to the Los Angeles freeways—phantom cars, lanes from nowhere, and sometimes unmarked offramps that give glimpses of a desolate desert highway—and Sebastian Vickery, disgraced ex-Secret Service agent, is a driver for a covert supernatural-evasion car service. But another government agency is using and perhaps causing the freeway anomalies, and their chief is determined to have Vickery killed because of something he learned years ago at a halted Presidential motorcade. Reluctantly aided by Ingrid Castine, a member of that agency, and a homeless Mexican boy, and a woman who makes her living costumed as Supergirl on the sidewalk in front of the Chinese Theater, Vickery learns what legendary hell it is that the desert highway leads to—and when Castine deliberately drives into it to save him from capture, he must enter it himself to get her out. Alternate Routes is a fast-paced supernatural adventure story that sweeps from the sun-blinded streets and labyrinthine freeways of Los Angeles to a horrifying other world out of Greek mythology, and Vickery and Castine must learn to abandon old loyalties and learn loyalty to each other in order to survive as the world goes mad around them. About Alternate Routes: “Powers continues his run of smashing expectations and then playing with the pieces in this entertaining urban fantasy. . . . this calculated, frenetic novel ends with hope for redemption born from chaos. Powers’ work is recommended for urban fantasy fans who enjoy more than a dash of the bizarre.”—Publishers Weekly About Tim Powers: "Powers writes in a clean, elegant style that illuminates without slowing down the tale. . . . [He] promises marvels and horrors, and delivers them all."—Orson Scott Card "Other writers tell tales of magic in the twentieth century, but no one does it like Powers."—The Orlando Sentinel ". . . immensely clever stuff.... Powers' prose is often vivid and arresting . . . All in all, Powers' unique voice in science fiction continues to grow stronger.”—Washington Post Book World “Powers is at heart a storyteller, and ruthlessly shapes his material into narrative form.”—The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction “On Stranger Tides . . . immediately hooks you and drags you along in sympathy with one central character's appalling misfortunes on the Spanish Main, [and] escalates from there to closing mega-thrills so determinedly spiced that your palate is left almost jaded."—David Langford "On Stranger Tides . . . was the inspiration for Monkey Island. If you read this book you can really see where Guybrush and LeChuck were -plagiarized- derived from, plus the heavy influence of voodoo in the game. . . . [the book] had a lot of what made fantasy interesting . . .”—legendary game designer Ron Gilbert “Powers's strengths [are] his originality, his action-crammed plots, and his ventures into the mysterious, dark, and supernatural.” Los Angeles Times Book Review "[Powers’ work delivers] an intense and intimate sense of period or realization of milieu; taut plotting, with human development and destiny . . . and, looming above all, an awareness of history itself as a merciless turning of supernatural wheels. . . . Powers' descriptions . . . are breathtaking, sublimely precise . . . his status as one of fantasy's major stylists can no longer be in doubt.”—SF Site "Powers creates a mystical, magical otherworld superimposed on our own and takes us on a marvelous, guided tour of his vision."—Science Fiction Chronicle "The fantasy novels of Tim Powers are nothing if not ambitious . . . Meticulously researched and intellectually adventurous, his novels rarely fail to be strange and wholly original."—San Francisco Chronicle **
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Author : David Barudin
language : en
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Release Date : 2021-01-14
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Alternate Routes is a true-life picaresque tale of a couple's on-the-road adventures in the dubious pursuit of finding themselves during the social upheaval of mid-1970's America. It's a romantic story told with humor and striving for insights on coming of age in any generation.Alternate Routes doesn't presume to define a generation as much as it does the decision by two people to uproot from their conventional lives and career arc and set out to travel in a truck and camper with two cats and a parrot. James Walker Trumbull III, an Ivy Leaguer who refuses to accept what life has put in front of him after graduation, leaves New York City. He meets Kyla, an off-the-farm girl from southern Utah, struggling with a fierce need for independence. A tender relationship propels their journey of self-discovery as they crisscross the American landscape on the black squiggly alternate routes of roadmaps and, eventually, off the grid.The trip is a Treasure Hunt defined by surprises and unexpected encounters with colorful fellow travelers. But neither Walker nor Kyla could have imagined a trip so different, and themselves so changed from who they were, when it began.
Alternate Route
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Author : Clifford Winston
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2010-12-01
Alternate Route written by Clifford Winston and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-01 with Political Science categories.
Urban transportation problems abound across America, including jammed highways during rush-hours, deteriorating bus service, and strong pressures to build new rail systems. Most solutions attempt either to increase transportation capacity (by building more roads and expanding mass transit) or to manage existing capacity (through HOV restrictions, exclusive bus lanes, and employer-based policies such as flexible work hours). This book develops an alternative solution to urban transportation problems based on economic analysis, but well aware of the political constraints on policymakers. The authors estimate that efficient pricing and service policies could save more than $10 billion in annual net benefits over current practices, but argue that powerful, entrenched political and institutional forces will continue to thwart efficient economic solutions to improve urban transportation. They believe, however, that some form of privatization would likely improve social welfare more than an efficient public sector system. Facing fewer operating restrictions, greater economic incentives, and stronger competitive pressures, private suppliers could substantially improve the efficiency of urban operations and offer services that are more responsive to the needs of all types of travelers. The authors conclude that policymakers have bestowed huge benefits on the public by allowing the private sector to play a leading and unencumbered role in the provision of intercity transportation. Public officials should take the next step and allow the private sector to play a leading role in the provision of urban transportation.
Alternate Route To School Effectiveness And Student Achievement
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Author : Patrick Chudi Okafor
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2012-07
Alternate Route To School Effectiveness And Student Achievement written by Patrick Chudi Okafor and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07 with Education categories.
While socioeconomic status does affects students' success, both in academics and in future status in adult life, it does not have to be the only deciding factor. In his study, Alternate Route to School Effectiveness and Student Achievement, Dr. Patrick Chudi Okafor discusses the need to enhance school climate as an alternate to socioeconomic status in promoting students' success. He also investigates the climate in New York City public schools as the means of schools' survival, development, and growth, as it affects both school effectiveness and student academic achievement. He further considers schools, teachers, parents, communities, and governments with respect to their roles in students' academic development and growth.These considerations, among others, led Dr. Okafor to offer solutions to the issue of failure associated with low socioeconomic status at a time when more children are falling within this bracket and the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen. A quality learning environment presents a strong stimulus for societal change, development, and growth. By basing the overarching framework of his study on openness of the school and family systems, Dr. Okafor builds on the idea behind the saying, "It takes a village to raise a child". The academic relationship between the home and the school must be improved to guarantee sustainable student academic performance and "the home climate" is a major contributor to what children bring to school, just as "the school climate" is a major determinant to how it is transformed.
Alternative Routes To Teaching
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Author : Pam Grossman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Release Date : 2021-02-25
Alternative Routes To Teaching written by Pam Grossman and has been published by Harvard Education Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-25 with Education categories.
Over the past 20 years, alternative certification for teachers has emerged as a major avenue of teacher preparation. The proliferation of new pathways has spurred heated debate over how best to recruit, prepare, and support qualified teachers. Alternative Routes to Teaching provides a thorough and dispassionate review of the research evidence on alternative certification. It takes readers beyond the simple dichotomies that have characterized the debate over alternative certification, encourages them to look carefully at the trade-offs implicit in any route into teaching, and suggests ways to “marry” the proven strengths of both traditional and alternative approaches.
Alternate Routes Of Antiepileptic Drug Administration
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Author : Pamela Lynn Clemens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Alternate Routes Of Antiepileptic Drug Administration written by Pamela Lynn Clemens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Anticonvulsants categories.
I 93 Franconia Notch And Alternate Routes Grafton County
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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Alternative Routes To Teacher Certification
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Alternative Routes To Teacher Certification written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Educational innovations categories.
Alternative Routes To The Sustainable City
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Author : Steven A. Moore
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2007
Alternative Routes To The Sustainable City written by Steven A. Moore and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Architecture categories.
A tale of three cities -- The springs of Austin -- The miracle of Curitiba -- The banks of Frankfurt -- Story versus space -- Sustainability and democracy -- Alternative paths to the sustainable city.
I 15 Alternative Routes Butte Boulder
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
I 15 Alternative Routes Butte Boulder written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.