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Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Rachel A. Volberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110190514
In this book, Rachel Volberg delves into the darker side of the recent growth of lotteries, casinos, and other forms of gambling in this country, arguing that problem gambling should be considered an issue of public health and addressed accordingly.
Author : Alison Gazzard
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262552028
The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses. In 1982, the British Broadcasting Corporation launched its Computer Literacy Project, intended “to introduce interested adults to the world of computers and computing.” The BBC accompanied this initiative with television programs, courses, books, and software—an early experiment in multi-platform education. The BBC, along with Acorn Computers, also introduced the BBC Microcomputer, which would be at the forefront of the campaign. The BBC Micro was designed to meet the needs of users in homes and schools, to demystify computing, and to counter the general pessimism among the media in Britain about technology. In this book, Alison Gazzard looks at the BBC Micro, examining the early capabilities of multi-platform content generation and consumption and the multiple literacies this approach enabled—not only in programming and software creation, but also in accessing information across a range of media, and in “do-it-yourself” computing. She links many of these early developments to current new-media practices. Gazzard looks at games developed for the BBC Micro, including Granny's Garden, an educational game for primary schools, and Elite, the seminal space-trading game. She considers the shift in focus from hardware to peripherals, describing the Teletext Adapter as an early model for software distribution and the Domesday Project (which combined texts, video, and still photographs) as a hypermedia-like experience. Gazzard's account shows the BBC Micro not only as a vehicle for various literacies but also as a user-oriented machine that pushed the boundaries of what could be achieved in order to produce something completely new.
Author : Don Zolidis
Publisher : Stage Partners
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
In 1951, the Red Scare is in full swing, and it migrates to a private girls’ school in New Hampshire when one teacher is suspected of being a Communist. Charged by the administration to find out the truth, Rachel, the daughter of the cafeteria manager, must challenge her own beliefs to figure out the meaning of justice. Drama One-act. 35-40 minutes 10-30 actors, gender flexible
Author : Pranay Kotasthane,Abhiram Manchi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789356402454
To the world at large, technology was synonymous with software. Within months, the subject of such conversations has changed dramatically. Today, the hardware that runs all software - semiconductors or chips - has become a subject of WhatsApp groups and international politics. The chip shortage during COVID-19 made governments take notice of this complex supply chain. The US began denying advanced semiconductors to Chinese companies. Worsening China-Taiwan relations further intensified the debate. By 2022, China, the US, India, the EU, and Japan had released plans worth billions of dollars for setting up new semiconductor facilities. This book is a comprehensive overview of this “meta-critical” technology. How are semiconductors important from a geopolitical perspective? Why did the US and Taiwan become powerhouses in this domain while Russia and India fell behind? Is China's semiconductor sector a threat to the world? What are the future trends to watch out for? These are the questions that this book answers.
Author : Anaïs Mitchell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780593182581
"Working On A Song is one of the best books about lyric writing for the theater I've read."—Lin-Manuel Miranda Anaïs Mitchell named to TIME's List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World of 2020 An illuminating book of lyrics and stories from Hadestown—the winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical—from its author, songwriter Anaïs Mitchell with a foreword by Steve Earle On Broadway, this fresh take on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has become a modern classic. Heralded as “The best new musical of the season,” by The Wall Street Journal, and “Sumptuous. Gorgeous. As good as it gets,” by The New York Times, the show was a breakout hit, with its poignant social commentary, and spellbinding music and lyrics. In this book, Anaïs Mitchell takes readers inside her more than decade’s-long process of building the musical from the ground up—detailing her inspiration, breaking down the lyrics, and opening up the process of creation that gave birth to Hadestown. Fans and newcomers alike will love this deeply thoughtful, revealing look at how the songs from “the underground” evolved, and became the songs we sing again and again.
Author : Lawrence Levy
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780544734197
An insider's never-before-told story about how a struggling computer animation company called Pixar became one of the greatest entertainment organizations of all time. ¶“Part business book and part thriller—a tale that’s every bit as compelling as the ones Pixar tells in its blockbuster movies.”—Dan Lyons, best-selling author of Disrupted¶After he was dismissed from Apple in the early 1990s, Steve Jobs turned his attention to a little-known graphics company he owned called Pixar. One day, out of the blue, Jobs called Lawrence Levy, a Harvard-trained lawyer and executive to whom he had never spoken before. He hoped to persuade Levy to help him pull Pixar back from the brink of failure. This is the extraordinary story of what happened next: how Jobs and Levy concocted and pulled off a highly improbable plan that transformed Pixar into the Hollywood powerhouse it is today. Levy offers a masterful, firsthand account of how Pixar rose from humble beginnings, what it was like to work so closely with Jobs, and how Pixar’s story offers profound lessons that can apply to many aspects of our professional and personal lives. ¶“[A] delightful book about finance, creative genius, workplace harmony, and luck.”—Fortune ¶“Enchanting.”—The New York Times ¶“I love this book! I think it is brilliant.”—Ed Catmull, cofounder and president of Pixar Animation, president of Disney Animation, and coauthor of the bestseller Creativity Inc. ¶“A natural storyteller, Levy offers an inside look at the business and a fresh, sympathetic view of Jobs.”—Success Magazine¶An Amazon Best Book of 2016 in Business & Leadership • A top pick on Fortune’s Favorite Books of 2016 • A 2017 Axiom Business Book Award winner in Memoir/Biography ¶
Author : Joginder Singh
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9788128829574
No secret of success will work unless, you do. The one thing, that matters, is the effort. All our good or bad luck, centres on it. Our past performance has determined as to where we are today. Where we will be tomorrow, determined by what we do, today. We can never have situations in life, as we want. There will always be a gap, between what we are and what want to be and where we want to be. The gap is for us to bridge. ‘It can be done’. The world salutes achievements and what you have done and not what you intend to do. Our job is to do our best. Then be sure, that like an equal and opposite reaction, the best will bounce back to you. This book is aimed at provoking you to do better than what you have done as some times, the difference between achievement and superb achievement is little more work and persistence. Keep in view that nobody in the world has drowned in his sweat.
Author : Kartik Kompella
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789352779109
When young, unemployed Drona gets knocked off his bike by advertising goddess Prachi, and then promptly asks her for a job in agency, neither of them expects Prachi to actually agree.But she does. And, just like that, Drona is thrown headfirst into the breathless world of temperamental creative directors, cunning clients and bitter rivalries. And while no one can say that Drona's way of coping isn't creative, it's certainly unconventional.Though working together is anything but easy, Prachi realizes that she might have found a staunch ally in Drona. But can she trust him when the chips are down?
Author : Ben Mezrich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743250849
The #1 national bestseller, now a major motion picture, 21—the amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Vegas—and lived to tell how. Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.’s math students and engineers take up blackjack under the guidance of an eccentric mastermind. Their small blackjack club develops from an experiment in counting cards on M.I.T.’s campus into a ring of card savants with a system for playing large and winning big. In less than two years they take some of the world’s most sophisticated casinos for more than three million dollars. But their success also brings with it the formidable ire of casino owners and launches them into the seedy underworld of corporate Vegas with its private investigators and other violent heavies.
Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780763651558
Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play around with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who knows something about what it’s like to live without the feed-and about resisting its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a brave new world - and a hilarious new lingo - sure to appeal to anyone who appreciates smart satire, futuristic fiction laced with humor, or any story featuring skin lesions as a fashion statement.
Author : Valerie Plame,Sarah Lovett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101598566
Introducing Blowback, an exhilarating new espionage thriller by former CIA ops officer Valerie Plame and thriller writer Sarah Lovett. Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capturing Bhoot, the world’s most dangerous international nuclear arms dealer. One of her assets delivers explosive intel: Bhoot will be visiting a secret underground weapons facility in Iran in just a few days. But just as Pierson is about to get the facility location, an ambush leaves her informant dead. Now Pierson has two targets: Bhoot and the asset’s sniper. When all the Agency’s resources aren’t enough to protect her assets from Bhoot’s assassin, Pierson risks going rogue and jeopardizing a fellow ops officer who is also her secret lover. With each day, the pressure of the manhunt mounts, forcing Pierson to put her cover and career—and life—at risk. With rapid-cut shifts from European capitals to Washington to the Near East, and with insider detail that only a former spy could provide, Blowback marks the explosive beginning to a thrilling new series.
Author : Brian P. Cleary
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467763035
What is alliteration? You'll find the answer inside this book--it's packed with wonderful and wacky words that start with similar sounds. Brian P. Cleary's remarkable rhymes and Martin Goneau's ingenious illustrations creatively present the concept of alliteration for young readers. For easy identification, key examples of alliteration appear in color, and comical cats reinforce each idea.
Author : Roy MacGregor,Kerry MacGregor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443452304
If you could travel through time, who would you want to meet? Lucas Finnigan eats, sleeps and breathes hockey. With his friends Edge, Swift and Crunch, Lucas plays on his hometown’s rink, dreaming of the day when he knows he’ll make the NHL. But lately money has been tight at home, and, after a major growth spurt, Lucas is forced to wear hand-me-down gear that doesn’t quite fit right. Now he’s not sure he’ll ever make it to the Hall of Fame like his hockey heroes. And that’s not the only problem. With the community arena’s chiller on the fritz, and replacement parts too tough to come by, it looks like Lucas and his friends may be doomed to a season on a plastic rink—or worse, no hockey at all! But with a magical discovery, and some help from one of hockey's greatest players (who was a kid once, too!), their final skate might turn into their first great adventure . . .
