Gateway To Xanadu

Author : Sharon Green
Publisher : Sharon Green Books
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780886770891

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Gateway to Xanadu by Sharon Green Pdf

Author : North Carolina Elementary School Children
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:179170889

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Xanadu: The Imaginary Place by North Carolina Elementary School Children Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Oleander Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780900891939

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The Xanadu Manuscript by Anonim Pdf

Cambridge in June is full of visitors and you have to be quite extraordinary to attract attention; and yet John Dunham knew as soon as he set eyes on the strangers that there was something indefinably mysterious about them. There were three of them: a man, a woman and a girl, each unusually tall, unusually handsome, and carrying a suitcase. What was it that marked them out as being different from other tourists and that aroused in John not only curiosity but a faint unease and disquiet? First published in 1977, The Xanadu Manuscript by Edgar Award-winning author John Rowe Townsend quickly became a favourite of Young Adult literature and, matching our perennial fascination with time travel itself, continues to remain relevant today.

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Quercus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Asia
ISBN : 1847247679

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Marco Polo by Laurence Bergreen Pdf

In September 1298, the rival Italian republics of Genoa and Venice fought a fierce sea battle at Curzola off the rocky coast of southern Dalmatia. Against the odds the Venetians, led by Admiral Andrea Dandolo, son of the Doge, were defeated. Among the thousands of Venetians captives was one Marco Polo, gentleman, merchant of Venice, and sometime traveller to East Asia. Incarcerated in a Ligurian fastness, he told his story to a fellow-prisoner, a writer of romances named Rustichello of Pisa. The account of his travels that Marco Polo dictated to Rustichello in captivity - Il Milione - would be exceptionally widely read and would stimulate European interest in the East and its riches. Marco Polo: from Venice to Xanadu is Laurence Bergreen's thrilling and masterly reconstruction of the life and wanderings of one the great adventurers of world history. Between 1271 and 1275 Marco Polo accompanied his father Niccolò and uncle Maffeo on a journey east from Acre into central Asia along the Silk Route, eventually reaching China and the court of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, Kublai Khan. Entering the service of the Khan, he travelled extensively in the Mongol Empire. The three Venetians returned home by sea in 1292-5, calling at Sumatra and southern India before reaching Persia, and making the last part of their journey to Venice overland. Three years later came that fateful encounter with the Genoese fleet in the Adriatic...

Author : Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838909676

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Sequels by Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband Pdf

A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Author : Rufus Credle,Sue Bayliss,Leigh Compton,Robert Jones,Manuela Mandelli,Richard Mercadante,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738439730

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The Complete Guide to CICS Transaction Gateway Volume 1 Configuration and Administration by Rufus Credle,Sue Bayliss,Leigh Compton,Robert Jones,Manuela Mandelli,Richard Mercadante,IBM Redbooks Pdf

In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, you will gain an appreciation of the IBM CICS® Transaction Gateway (CICS TG) product suite, based on key criteria, such as capabilities, scalability, platform, CICS server support, application language support, and licensing model. Matching the requirements to available infrastructure and hardware choices requires an appreciation of the choices available. In this book, you will gain an understanding of those choices, and will be capable of choosing the appropriate CICS connection protocol, APIs for the applications, and security options. You will understand the services available to the application developer when using a chosen protocol. You will then learn about how to implement CICS TG solutions, taking advantage of the latest capabilities, such as IPIC connectivity, high availability, and Dynamic Server Selection. Specific scenarios illustrate the usage of CICS TG for IBM z/OS®, and CICS TG for Multiplatforms, with CICS Transaction Server for z/OS and IBM WebSphere® Application Server, including connections in CICS, configuring simple end-to-end connectivity (all platforms) with verification for remote and local mode applications, and adding security, XA support, and high availability.

Author : Sheldon Jaffery
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781557420022

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Future and Fantastic Worlds by Sheldon Jaffery Pdf

Future and Fantastic Worlds embodies an unusual approach to the field of bibliographic research, including over 700 annotations of every DAW book published through mid-1987, with indexes by author, artist, and title, providing a massive guide to modern SF writers and their works, with much background data. Interspersed throughout the book are numerous wry, irreverent, and amusing observations offered by the late and highly respected researcher in this extremely valuable genre tool.

Author : Nathaniel Benchley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Readers
ISBN : OCLC:221670027

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Welcome to Xanadu by Nathaniel Benchley Pdf

Author : Tim Cottrill,Martin Harry Greenberg,Charles Gordon Waugh
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fantastic fiction
ISBN : 0824086716

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Series and Sequels: Books by Tim Cottrill,Martin Harry Greenberg,Charles Gordon Waugh Pdf

Author : Keith J. Holyoak
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262551472

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The Spider's Thread by Keith J. Holyoak Pdf

An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity. In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the perspectives of thinkers from the humanities—poets, philosophers, and critics—and from the sciences—psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, and computer scientists. He begins each chapter with a poem—by poets including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Du Fu, William Butler Yeats, and Pablo Neruda—and then widens the discussion to broader notions of metaphor and mind. Holyoak uses Whitman's poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider” to illustrate the process of interpreting a poem, and explains the relevance of two psychological mechanisms, analogy and conceptual combination, to metaphor. He outlines ideas first sketched by Coleridge—who called poetry “the best words in their best order”—and links them to modern research on the interplay between cognition and emotion, controlled and associative thinking, memory and creativity. Building on Emily Dickinson's declaration “the brain is wider than the sky,” Holyoak suggests that the control and default networks in the brain may combine to support creativity. He also considers, among other things, the interplay of sound and meaning in poetry; symbolism in the work of Yeats, Jung, and others; indirect communication in poems; the mixture of active and passive processes in creativity; and whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity. Guided by Holyoak, we can begin to trace the outlines of creativity through the mechanisms of metaphor.

Author : David Weber,Steve White
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618241054

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Insurrection by David Weber,Steve White Pdf

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death In the end, the only political systems that seem to work are those based on freedom. The Inner World leaders of the Terran Federation seem to have forgotten this simple truth. After fighting the Khanate¾with the Fringe Worlds to supply the raw material and the fighting men¾the Inner Worlds found it hard to give up the powers they had seized during the war. So they decided not to¾rather than allow the rapidly expanding Fringe Worlds representation in the Federation, they are inviting the Khanate in, to keep the colonial upstarts in their place. The Fringers have only one answer to that: INSURRECTION At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Nancy J. Polette
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610694247

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Gateway to Reading by Nancy J. Polette Pdf

Get young readers hooked on some of the best titles in juvenile literature, ranging from humor to mystery to fantasy, with unusual and effective methods like games. Getting students to want to read is one of the greatest challenges facing middle school teachers and librarians. Determining which are the "right books" that can spark a child's mental awakening is also difficult. This book from prolific author Nancy Polette furnishes interesting and fun games to pique students' interest in junior novels that are worth reading—carefully selected titles that will contribute to their educational and emotional growth. Gateway to Reading: 250+ Author Games and Booktalks to Motivate Middle Readers is a powerful tool for luring middle-school students away from the distractions of 21st-century media and introducing them to junior or 'tween novels that they won't be able to put down. By presenting children with a challenge to engage their minds—racing to decode book titles, or using their creativity to come up with titles of their own, for example—students are naturally drawn towards reading these books from well-known children's authors.

Author : Meredith Oda
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226592749

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The Gateway to the Pacific by Meredith Oda Pdf

In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco’s identity as the “Gateway to the Pacific,” using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newfound celebration of its Japanese and other Asian American residents, its economy linked with Asia, and its favorable location for transpacific partnerships. The most conspicuous testament to San Francisco’s postwar transpacific connections is the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in the city’s redeveloped Japanese-American enclave. Focusing on the development of the Center, Meredith Oda shows how this multilayered story was embedded within a larger story of the changing institutions and ideas that were shaping the city. During these formative decades, Oda argues, San Francisco’s relations with and ideas about Japan were being forged within the intimate, local sites of civic and community life. This shift took many forms, including changes in city leadership, new municipal institutions, and especially transformations in the built environment. Newly friendly relations between Japan and the United States also meant that Japanese Americans found fresh, if highly constrained, job and community prospects just as the city’s African Americans struggled against rising barriers. San Francisco’s story is an inherently local one, but it also a broader story of a city collectively, if not cooperatively, reimagining its place in a global economy.

Author : Mathew Wilson
Publisher : Nomad Press (VT)
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0965925862

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The Bahamas Cruising Guide by Mathew Wilson Pdf

A thorough explanation of local geography, climate, weather, and navigation techniques for sailors is offered in this comprehensive guide to the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands. Tips for planning a cruise, detailed descriptions of the wildlife history of the area, and practical advice for sailing such as entry requirements, currency exchange, and search-and-rescue services are included. Each important area of the Bahamas is reviewed with routes, headings, distances, and full waypoint lists provided. Also noted are things-to-do lists, an easy-to-use reference index, and shore-side information with accompanying street maps for each destination.

Author : Samuel Coleridge
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781443442213

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Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge Pdf

Though left uncompleted, “Kubla Khan” is one of the most famous examples of Romantic era poetry. In it, Samuel Coleridge provides a stunning and detailed example of the power of the poet’s imagination through his whimsical description of Xanadu, the capital city of Kublai Khan’s empire. Samuel Coleridge penned “Kubla Khan” after waking up from an opium-induced dream in which he experienced and imagined the realities of the great Mongol ruler’s capital city. Coleridge began writing what he remembered of his dream immediately upon waking from it, and intended to write two to three hundred lines. However, Coleridge was interrupted soon after and, his memory of the dream dimming, was ultimately unable to complete the poem. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.