After Iris

Author : Natasha Farrant
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780571297962

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After Iris by Natasha Farrant Pdf

Being a combination of conventional diary entries and transcripts of videos shot by the author on the camera she was given for her 13th birthday, and beginning at the end of summer. Bluebell Gadsby is 13 but that's the least of her problems. Both her parents seem more interested in their careers than the family, leaving Blue and her three siblings in the care of Zoran the au pair, as well as their three pet rats (who may or may not be pregnant). The enigmatic Joss moves in next door and Blue thinks she might be falling in love, until he takes out her older sister Flora instead (who, incidentally, is trying to make a statement by dying her hair bright pink but no one takes the blindest bit of notice). Blue thinks and feels very deeply about life but can't really talk to anyone about it, because no one in the Gadsby family wants to address the real problem - that Blue's twin sister, Iris, died a year ago, and they are all just trying to hide their grief in busyness... So Blue turns to her diary and her unique way of seeing the world through her camcorder to express herself. A tender, funny, smart and ultimately heartwarming story.

Author : Natasha Farrant
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101611005

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After Iris by Natasha Farrant Pdf

An unforgettable middle-grade debut that will steal your heart Blue Gadsby’s twin sister, Iris, died three years ago and her family has never been the same. Her histrionic older sister, Flora, changes her hair color daily; her younger siblings, Jasmine and Twig, are completely obsessed with their pet rats; and both of her parents spend weeks away from home–and each other. Enter Zoran the Bosnian male au pair and Joss the troublemaking boy next door, and life for the Gadsby family takes a turn for the even more chaotic. Blue poignantly captures her family’s trials and tribulations from fragmented to fully dysfunctional to ultimately reunited, in a sequence of film transcripts and diary entries that will make you cry, laugh, and give thanks for the gift of families. With the charm of The Penderwicks and the poignancy of When You Reach Me, Natasha Farrant's After Iris is a story that will stay with readers long after the last page.

Author : Iris Owens
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590174104

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After Claude by Iris Owens Pdf

Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, “the French rat.” That at least is how Harriet sees things, even if it’s Claude who has just asked Harriet to leave his Greenwich Village apartment. Well, one way or another she has no intention of leaving. To the contrary, she will stay and exact revenge—or would have if Claude had not had her unceremoniously evicted. Still, though moved out, Harriet is not about to move on. Not in any way. Girlfriends circle around to patronize and advise, but Harriet only takes offense, and it’s easy to understand why. Because mad and maddening as she may be, Harriet sees past the polite platitudes that everyone else is content to spout and live by. She is an unblinkered, unbuttoned, unrelenting, and above all bitingly funny prophetess of all that is wrong with women’s lives and hearts—until, in a surprise twist, she finds a savior in a dark room at the Chelsea Hotel.

Author : Iris Moon
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271093093

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Luxury After the Terror by Iris Moon Pdf

When Louis XVI was guillotined on January 21, 1793, vast networks of production that had provided splendor and sophistication to the royal court were severed. Although the king’s royal possessions—from drapery and tableware to clocks and furniture suites—were scattered and destroyed, many of the artists who made them found ways to survive. This book explores the fabrication, circulation, and survival of French luxury after the death of the king. Spanning the final years of the ancien régime from the 1790s to the first two decades of the nineteenth century, this richly illustrated book positions luxury within the turbulent politics of dispersal, disinheritance, and dispossession. Exploring exceptional works created from silver, silk, wood, and porcelain as well as unrealized architectural projects, Iris Moon presents new perspectives on the changing meanings of luxury in the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods, a time when artists were forced into hiding, exile, or emigration. Moon draws on her expertise as a curator to revise conventional accounts of the so-called Louis XVI style, arguing that it was only after the revolutionary auctions liquidated the king’s collections that their provenance accrued deeper cultural meanings as objects with both a royal imprimatur and a threatening reactionary potential. Lively and accessible, this thought-provoking study will be of interest to curators, art historians, scholars, and students of the decorative arts as well as specialists in the French Revolution.

Author : United States. Agricultural Research Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Irises (Plants)
ISBN : UVA:X001754169

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Growing iris in the home garden by United States. Agricultural Research Service Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Irises (Plants)
ISBN : UVA:X001754298

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Growing Iris in the Home Garden by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Marc Cathey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Irises (Plants)
ISBN : MINN:31951002832085F

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Growing Iris in the Home Garden by Henry Marc Cathey Pdf

Author : United States. Agricultural Research Service. Crops Research Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Irises (Plants)
ISBN : MINN:319510028161853

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Growing Iris in the Home Garden by United States. Agricultural Research Service. Crops Research Division Pdf

Author : Iris Krasnow
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780698148581

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Sex After . . . by Iris Krasnow Pdf

The bestselling author of The Secret Lives of Wives offers a refreshingly straightforward guide to enjoying a long, satisfying sex life. Women of the baby boomer generation know and trust Iris Krasnow as a writer who speaks candidly to the issues that concern them most. In the months following the publication of her most recent book, The Secret Lives of Wives, Krasnow addressed thousands of women, and she discovered that two subjects dominated her audiences’ conversations: sex and change. Whether women are worried about marriage and divorce or illness and death, they’re all asking: “How do I handle the shifts in my sexuality caused by these events?” Sex After . . . holds the answers to everything from regaining sexual confidence after childbirth and breast cancer to navigating the dating scene in senior communities. As with all of Krasnow’s books since her New York Times bestseller Surrendering to Marriage, the narrative is driven by real women’s stories: raw, intimate, and, most importantly, true. Prescriptive, emancipating, and insightful, Sex After . . . addresses a range of circumstances, including what happens: When you or your spouse doesn’t want sex anymore After cancer, amputation, PTSD, or another illness maims the body If you come out of the closet at middle age When your marriage is damaged by adultery If you’re dating again after twenty-five years with the same sexual partner When your husband is addicted to Viagra Filled with edgy and honest stories of carnal challenge and triumph from women of all backgrounds and life stages, Sex After . . . is Krasnow’s signature take on Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask—during all of life’s passages. Krasnow is a media and lecture tour favorite, and readers—whether in the heat of an initial can’t-eat-can’t-sleep attraction or rounding the corner to their sixtieth anniversary—will applaud her eye-opening perspectives on the one issue that can change lives for better or worse like nothing else.

Author : Morgan T. Hickman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781669801955

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The End of Iris by Morgan T. Hickman Pdf

Iris has the perfect life from the outside, but a long line of family history of depression holds her hostage. She wakes up on her twenty-fourth birthday with plans to end her life. After her death, she wakes in what she finds to be called the In-Between, which turns out to be more like a personal hell. Iris must watch as her family grieves and comes to realize that the pain she’d suffered on earth didn’t leave when she died, it just clung to all who knew her. Does she find peace? Or does she grieve the life she once had?

Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780749016616

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Iris Origo by Caroline Moorehead Pdf

Iris Origo was one of the twentieth century's most attractive and intriguing women, a brilliantly perceptive historian and biographer whose works remain widely admired. Iris grew up in Italy where she became part of the colourful and privileged Anglo-Florentine set that included Edith Wharton, Harold Acton and the Berensons. When Iris married Antonio Origo, they bought and revived La Foce, a derelict stretch of the beautiful Val d'Orcia valley in Tuscany and created an estate that thrives to this day. During World War II they sided firmly with the Allies, taking considerable risks in protecting children and sheltering partisans and Iris's diary from that time, War in Val d'Orcia, is now considered a modern classic. Caroline Moorehead has drawn on many previously unpublished letters, diaries, and papers to write the definitive biography of a very remarkable woman.

Author : Iris Johansen
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553898255

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Long After Midnight by Iris Johansen Pdf

She wanted to save lives. The killer wanted to end hers. The first warning was triggered hundreds of miles away. The second warning exploded only yards from where she and her son stood. Now Kate Denby realizes the frightening truth: She is somebody's target. Danger has arrived in Kate's backyard with a vengeance. And the gifted scientist is awakening to a nightmare world where a ruthless killer is stalking her...where her innocent son is considered expendable...and where the medical research to which she has devoted her life is the same research that could get her killed. Her only hope of protecting her family and making that medical breakthrough is to elude her enemy until she can face him on her own ground, on her own terms—and destroy him.

Author : Zaheera Zainal Abidin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000508192

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Swarm Intelligence for Iris Recognition by Zaheera Zainal Abidin Pdf

Iris recognition is one of the highest accuracy techniques used in biometric systems. The accuracy of the iris recognition system is measured by False Reject Rate (FRR), which measures the authenticity of a user who is incorrectly rejected by the system due to changes in iris features (such as aging and health condition) and external factors that affect iris image, for instance, high noise rate. External factors such as technical fault, occlusion, and source of lighting that causes the image acquisition to produce distorted iris images create error, hence are incorrectly rejected by the biometric system. FRR can be reduced using wavelets and Gabor filters, cascaded classifiers, ordinal measures, multiple biometric modalities, and a selection of unique iris features. Nonetheless, in the long duration of the matching process, existing methods were unable to identify the authenticity of the user since the iris structure itself produces a template changed due to aging. In fact, the iris consists of unique features such as crypts, furrows, collarette, pigment blotches, freckles, and pupils that are distinguishable among humans. Earlier research was done by selecting unique iris features. However, these had low accuracy levels. A new way of identifying and matching the iris template using the nature-inspired algorithm is described in this book. It provides an overview of iris recognition that is based on nature-inspired environment technology. The book is useful for students from universities, polytechnics, community colleges; practitioners; and industry practitioners.

Author : Derek Challis,Gloria Rawlinson
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1869402677

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The Book of Iris by Derek Challis,Gloria Rawlinson Pdf

"Brilliant, beautiful, difficult and doomed, Iris Wilkinson (known as the writer Robin Hyde) led a short, tumultuous and incredibly productive life. Here her story is told for the first time in a dramatic and deeply moving narrative. Researched by both authors from 1965 to 1971, it was written in a first draft by Iris Wilkinson's friend, Gloria Rawlinson; since Rawlinson's death in 1995 it has been revised and completed by Derek Challis, Wilkinson's son. It includes appalling accounts of hidden pregnancies, harsh experience as a solo mother, dependence on drugs, intimate acquaintance with sexism and poverty, mental breakdown, and a perilous trip to China in wartime. There are deep friendships and hurtful betrayals. Always there is a dedicated and determined commitment to writing. ..."--Jacket.

Author : Kamel Ghanem Ghalem,Fatiha Hendel
Publisher : Infinite Study
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dual iris authentication system using Dezert-Smarandache theory by Kamel Ghanem Ghalem,Fatiha Hendel Pdf

In this paper, a dual iris authentication using Dezert-Smarandache theory is presented. The proposed method consists of three main steps: In the first one, the iris images are segmented in order to extract only half iris disc that contains relevant information and is less affected by noise. For that, a Hough transform is used. The segmented images are normalized by Daugman rubber sheet model. In the second step, the normalized images are analyzed by a bench of two 1D Log-Gabor filters to extract the texture characteristics. The encoding is realized with a phase of quantization developed by J. Daugman to generate the binary iris template. For the authentication and the similarity measurement between both binary irises templates, the hamming distances are used with a previously calculated threshold. The score fusion is applied using DSmC combination rule. The proposed method has been tested on a subset of iris database CASIA-IrisV3-Interval. The obtained results give a satisfactory performance with accuracy of 99.96%, FAR of 0%, FRR of 3.89%, EER of 2% and processing time for one iris image of 12.36 s.