Distant Flickers
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Distant Flickers
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Author : Multiple Contributors
language : en
Publisher: Paul Stream Press, LLC
Release Date : 2022-10-01
Distant Flickers written by Multiple Contributors and has been published by Paul Stream Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-01 with Fiction categories.
~ 8 Accomplished Authors ~10 Memorable Stories ~ Compelling Characters at a Crossroads ~ What Choices Will They Make? The emotive stories in this anthology take readers to the streets of New York and San Francisco, to warm east coast beaches, rural Idaho, and Italy, from the early 1900s, through the 1970s, and into present day. A sinister woman accustomed to getting everything she wants. A down-on-his luck cook who stumbles on goodness. A young mother who hides $10 she received from a stranger. The boy who collects secrets. A young woman stuck between youth and adulthood. Children who can’t understand why their mother disappears. The distinct and varied characters in Distant Flickers stand at a juncture. The loss of a spouse, a parent, a child, one’s self. Whether they arrived at this place through self-reflection, unexpected change, or new revelations—each one has a choice to make.
Flicker
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Author : Jeffrey M. Zacks
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
Flicker written by Jeffrey M. Zacks and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Performing Arts categories.
How is it that a patch of flickering light on a wall can produce experiences that engage our imaginations and can feel totally real? From the vertigo of a skydive to the emotional charge of an unexpected victory or defeat, movies give us some of our most vivid experiences and most lasting memories. They reshape our emotions and worldviews--but why? In Flicker, Jeff Zacks delves into the history of cinema and the latest research to explain what happens between your ears when you sit down in the theatre and the lights go out. Some of the questions Flicker answers: Why do we flinch when Rocky takes a punch in Sylvester Stallone's movies, duck when the jet careens towards the tower in Airplane, and tap our toes to the dance numbers in Chicago or Moulin Rouge? Why do so many of us cry at the movies? What's the difference between remembering what happened in a movie and what happened in real life--and can we always tell the difference? To answer these questions and more, Flicker gives us an engaging, fast-paced look at what happens in your head when you watch a movie.
The Flickering Mind
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Author : Todd Oppenheimer
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2007-12-18
The Flickering Mind written by Todd Oppenheimer and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Education categories.
The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works. American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten down by a series of curriculum fads, empty crusades for reform, and stingy funding. Now education and political leaders have offered their biggest and most expensive promise ever—the miracle of computers and the Internet—at a cost of approximately $70 billion just during the decade of the 1990s. Computer technology has become so prevalent that it is transforming nearly every corner of the academic world, from our efforts to close the gap between rich and poor, to our hopes for school reform, to our basic methods of developing the human imagination. Technology is also recasting the relationships that schools strike with the business community, changing public beliefs about the demands of tomorrow’s working world, and reframing the nation’s systems for researching, testing, and evaluating achievement. All this change has led to a culture of the flickering mind, and a generation teetering between two possible futures. In one, youngsters have a chance to become confident masters of the tools of their day, to better address the problems of tomorrow. Alternatively, they can become victims of commercial novelties and narrow measures of ability, underscored by misplaced faith in standardized testing. At this point, America’s students can’t even make a fair choice. They are an increasingly distracted lot. Their ability to reason, to listen, to feel empathy, is quite literally flickering. Computers and their attendant technologies did not cause all these problems, but they are quietly accelerating them. In this authoritative and impassioned account of the state of education in America, Todd Oppenheimer shows why it does not have to be this way. Oppenheimer visited dozens of schools nationwide—public and private, urban and rural—to present the compelling tales that frame this book. He consulted with experts, read volumes of studies, and came to strong and persuasive conclusions: that the essentials of learning have been gradually forgotten and that they matter much more than the novelties of technology. He argues that every time we computerize a science class or shut down a music program to pay for new hardware, we lose sight of what our priority should be: “enlightened basics.” Broad in scope and investigative in treatment, The Flickering Mind will not only contribute to a vital public conversation about what our schools can and should be—it will define the debate.
Outback Assault
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Author : Don Pendleton
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2014-02-28
Outback Assault written by Don Pendleton and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-28 with Fiction categories.
Be Just or Be Dead When a paid assassin starts killing innocent people, it's time to take him out. But while eliminating one killer, Mack Bolan stumbles onto a deadly drug pipeline that takes him deep into the Australian Outback–and into the heart of the Asian mob.
A Flickering Mindlight
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Author : Dean Vyas
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-11-30
A Flickering Mindlight written by Dean Vyas and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-30 with Fiction categories.
Decisions, decisions.. Kieran Nichol, a thirty-three-year-old graphic designer, has an interview at Candlelight Ltd. this particular Monday morning. Kieran is a cynical, pessimistic, money-driven individual with health problems, but sees Candlelight Ltd. as his golden ticket to relative success and fortune. Its just a pity that his ex, Alice, wont be around to benefit from his upgraded status, as his partner. Meanwhile, Satan, no less, is making preparations in Hell for a new arrival he will soon have in his possession. At Candlelight Ltd., Kieran meets with Gabriella, HR manager, and her staff but Ms. Lock, the company director, is away at the parent organization, of which Candlelight Ltd. is a subsidiary. Kieran believes with the angelic Gabriella taking his interview, hes bound to be employed. She introduces him to members of the staff but the coffee she and they have given him, along with the striking and mysterious clock in the meeting room, are altering his perception, and he falls into a trance. Kieran is transported into the other worlds of unscrupulous individuals, who eventually end up in Hellliterally. Kierans foray into the world of these doomed characters is a precursor to the doom he faces himself. But will he choose to embrace this future to satisfy his lust and greedor make the necessary changes to escape this outcome? Its a race against time and dark forces as ruination chases on the heels of Kieran Nichol, in these critical moments during which he himself decides his material and spiritual destiny. A Flickering Mindlight is the story of a mans spiritual choices and consequential direction, catalyzed by paranormal phenomena and the imminent threat of material disaster.
Flickering Pixels
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Author : Shane Hipps
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009
Flickering Pixels written by Shane Hipps and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Religion categories.
"The methods change, but the message stays the same." This saying is the guiding light for faithful Christians in a changing world. But author Shane Hipps reveals the error in this thinking. Instead he demonstrates how changing the methods always changes the message. He shows us the hidden power of technology to shape our faith in unexpected ways.
The Candle Still Flickers In My Heart
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Author : Edy Elfring
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2013-10-01
The Candle Still Flickers In My Heart written by Edy Elfring and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This sequel, The Candle Still Flickersin My Heart, tells about why I had to leave my island at the age of 15 and all I ever knew, I took Ola, our island, witch with me in my heart and tried hard to find a way go to college to become a veterinarian and help all the hurting animals in the world. Being poor was one strike against me, but I did not let that end my dream. There is a lot to learn, weird things happen as Ola tried to protect me from far away. Finding ghost in the castles undergrounds was fun. Winding up in jail in East Germany and about to be transported to Siberia was no fun.
An Annotated Bibliography Of Flicker Fusion Phenomena Covering The Period 1740 1952
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Author : Carney Landis
language : en
Publisher: National Academies
Release Date : 1953
An Annotated Bibliography Of Flicker Fusion Phenomena Covering The Period 1740 1952 written by Carney Landis and has been published by National Academies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Flicker fusion categories.
Crucible Of Time
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Author : Jeffrey A. Carver
language : en
Publisher: Starstream Publications / Book View Cafe
Release Date : 2019-09-10
Crucible Of Time written by Jeffrey A. Carver and has been published by Starstream Publications / Book View Cafe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Fiction categories.
A galaxy in peril . . . The story begun in The Reefs of Time continues. The time-tides caused by Karellia’s defenses have brought the malicious Mindaru AI out of the deep past into the present, threatening Bandicut and Li-Jared, who have arrived at the backwater planet—Li-Jared’s homeworld—to find it on the brink of interplanetary war. Somehow they must forge a peace between Karellia and its neighboring world if the Mindaru threat is to be broken. Back on Shipworld, Ik and Julie Stone risk their lives a second time to stop the Mindaru at their source: a planet near the galactic core, a billion years in the past. Can Antares, the beautiful humanoid who also loves Bandicut, help them? What of Bria the gokat? And Amaduse, the most influential librarian in Shipworld? And in the deep time of the galaxy’s early history, by the light of a million suns, the Mindaru do hideous things to an innocent species. The Mindaru plan for the altered creatures bears momentous possibilities even the deadly AI cannot predict. Time is critical. Time is elastic. And time is running out. Conclusion of the unmissable two-part “Out of Time” sequence begun in The Reefs of Time, from Jeffrey A. Carver, Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End. PRAISE FOR THE REEFS OF TIME / CRUCIBLE OF TIME: “Classic science fiction with engaging characters and richly imagined worlds!” —Greg Bear; author of The Unfinished Land and The War Dogs Trilogy “Jeffrey A. Carver’s remarkable long-awaited duology The Reefs of Time / Crucible of Time is a welcome addition to The Chaos Chronicles, certifying his continuing mastery of action and adventure at the boundaries of space opera and hard SF.” —Steve Miller, co-author of The Liaden Universe PRAISE FOR THE CHAOS CHRONICLES: “Carver does his usual outstanding job of juggling multiple viewpoints and plot threads while casting his protagonists’ adventures against a sweeping, intergalactic backdrop. Yet Bandicut’s story is ultimately a very human one about determination, seat-of-the-pants ingenuity, and courage in the face of overwhelming danger.” —Booklist “Another splendid adventure, with intriguing puzzles, first-rate problem-solving, and an impressive array of alien characters, motives, and methods.” — Kirkus (starred review) “Reveals an alien encounter brushing hard against a soul, and takes us from there to the far reaches of the cosmos, all with the sure touch of a writer who knows his science. Jeff Carver has done it again!” —David Brin “Remarkably expansive vision.” —Analog “A dazzling, thrilling, innovative space opera.” —Kirkus “Fertile imagination and... a host of engagingly sympathetic characters.” —Library Journal
Distant Horizons
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Author : Carl Shreve
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940
Distant Horizons written by Carl Shreve and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940 with East Asia categories.