Alisdair Took, resident of Knaresbridge, Knaresborough (North Yorkshire), keeps up a regular correspondence with a woman in Vermont he met only once, the escapades of his daily life seem utterly fantastical and too odd to be true, but is that really the oddest part of all of this?
Vulkan is a new generation graphics API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms. The Vulkan API brings new levels of granularity to hardware accelerated graphics and compute programming. Driven by recent advances in hardware technology, Vulkan maximizes exposure to the low level elements of modern graphics cards. Vulkan t...
Providing a counter-argument to a consumerist, fast-paced and individualistic life, this book represents the power of community and spending time with people in an unpressured and open way.
The dog is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873.
Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and ...
Journalist Butch Sands is looking for a way home to Pedro Island, Florida a day after terrorists attack on 9/11. Stranded in Key West, Butch waits at a bar, where he meets Vic Turner, a wealthy stockbroker who instigates a ?ght that lands Butch in jail for the night. But after Vic bails him out and invites him on a ?shing charter, Butch accepts, hoping the trip will help pass the time until he can ?nd a way home to his girlfriend and his job w...
Journalist Butch Sands is looking for a way home to Pedro Island, Florida a day after terrorists attack on 9/11. Stranded in Key West, Butch waits at a bar, where he meets Vic Turner, a wealthy stockbroker who instigates a ?ght that lands Butch in jail for the night. But after Vic bails him out and invites him on a ?shing charter, Butch accepts, hoping the trip will help pass the time until he can ?nd a way home to his girlfriend and his job w...
A resource for students and educators of literary fiction. It contains sections including: literary interpretation, writing style and structure, themes and focus points, characterisation, historical information, novel summary, author information, images, symbols and metaphors, and, important quotes.
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO BRASS INSTRUMENTS provides an overview of the history of brass instruments, and their technical and musical development. Much of the volume is devoted to the way brass instruments have been used in classical music, but there are also important contributions on the ancient world, non-Western music, vernacular and popular traditions, and the rise of jazz. 42 photos.
