Sand

2009-01-15 Nature

Author : Michael Welland
Release : 2009-01-15
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 000/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sand written by Michael Welland. This book was released on 2009-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials. Told by a geologist with a novelist's sense of language and narrative, Sand examines the science—sand forensics, the physics of granular materials, sedimentology, paleontology and archaeology, planetary exploration—and at the same time explores the rich human context of sand. Interwoven with tales of artists, mathematicians, explorers, and even a vampire, the story of sand is an epic of environmental construction and destruction, an adventure in staggering scales of time and distance, yet a tale that encompasses the ordinary and everyday. Sand, in fact, is all around us—it has made possible our computers, buildings and windows, toothpaste, cosmetics, and paper, and it has played dramatic roles in human history, commerce, and imagination. In this luminous, kinetic, revelatory account, we do indeed find the world in a grain of sand.

The Night of Wishes

2017-10-03 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Michael Ende
Release : 2017-10-03
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 487/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Night of Wishes written by Michael Ende. This book was released on 2017-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thrilling New Year’s Eve tale of sorcery and suspense is like a “goofy Paradise Lost for middle schoolers” (New York Times Book Review). Comic fantasy, clever wordplay, and slapstick shenanigans from the bestselling children’s author of The Neverending Story and Momo! It's New Year’s Eve at the Villa Nightmare but Beelzebub Preposteror is in no mood for celebration. As the Shadow Sorcery Minister, Preposteror has a duty to perform a certain number of evil deeds in service to the Minister of Pitch Darkness. But this year, to his horror, he’s nowhere near meeting that quota. Preposteror has all but given up when who should make an unexpected visit but his aunt, the witch Tyrannia Vampirella. She has come with a diabolical proposal that just might be the solution to Preposterer’s dilemma: together they will brew the fabled Notion Potion, “one of the most ancient and powerful evil spells in the universe,” and their every evil wish will be granted. The only thing that stands in their way is a most unlikely team—a cat named Mauricio di Mauro and a raven known as Jacob Scribble, who have just hours to thwart the plans of their sorcerer masters and save the world from destruction.

Neverending Stories

2022-12-29 Social Science

Author : R. Lyle Skains
Release : 2022-12-29
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 928/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Neverending Stories written by R. Lyle Skains. This book was released on 2022-12-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital fiction has long been perceived as an experimental niche of electronic literature. Yet born-digital narratives thrive in mainstream culture, as communities of practice create and share digital fiction, filling in the gaps between the media they are given and the stories they seek. Neverending Stories explores the influences of literature and computing on digital fiction and how the practices and cultures of each have impacted who makes and plays digital fiction. Popular creativity emerges from subordinated groups often excluded from producing cultural resources, accepting the materials of capitalism and inverting them for their own carnivalesque uses. Popular digital fiction goes by many different names: webnovels, adventure games, visual novels, Twitter fiction, webcomics, Twine games, walking sims, alternate reality games, virtual reality films, interactive movies, enhanced books, transmedia universes, and many more. The book establishes digital fiction in a foundation of innovation, tracing its emergence in various guises around the world. It examines Infocom, whose commercial success with interactive fiction crumbled, in no small part, because of its failure to consider women as creators or consumers. It takes note of the brief flourish of commercial book apps and literary games. It connects practices of cognitive and conceptual interactivity, and textual multiplicity-dating to the origins of the print novel-to the feminine. It pushes into the technological future of narrative in immersive and mixed realities. It posits the transmedia franchises and the practices of fanfiction as examples of digital fiction that will continue indefinitely, regardless of academic notice or approval.

The Neverending Story

2006 Folklore

Author : Ashwini Bhat
Release : 2006
Genre : Folklore
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Book Rating : 473/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Neverending Story written by Ashwini Bhat. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Little Girl Wants A Story That Never Ends. Grandmother Starts Off A Chain Story Typical Of Folk Tales The World Over. The Old Man From Madikere Comes To Bengaluru, The Old Man S Wife, Her Daughter, The Daughter S Doll, The Doll S Dog . . . And Then In A Clever Twist, Again Typical Of The Genre, It Fuses Into Another Story And Comes Full Circle - So It Can Never End! Bold, Stylised Illustrations Zoom Into The Story From Unusual Perspectives.

InkShard

2019-06-16

Author : Eric Muss-Barnes
Release : 2019-06-16
Genre :
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Book Rating : 886/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book InkShard written by Eric Muss-Barnes. This book was released on 2019-06-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: InkShard is a compendium of articles and social commentary, written by author Eric Muss-Barnes, between 2004 and 2018. Revised and expanded, this volume assembles various topics culled from posts on social media websites to the scripts of video essays. Carefully compiled from the finest of his journalistic work, InkShard represents the definitive collection of Eric's most compelling dissertations and beloved editorials.

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