![]() She attended Hutchison, Southwestern, Florida Southern College, Bard College and NYU. She began both writing and drawing when she was young and continued to do both her entire life. Louise Fitzhugh was born in 1928 to a prominent Memphis family. Her characters provide positive role models for any child, girl or boy, who dares to be “different.” Her books, first published in the early 1960s, depict a range of characters - from spunky girls who aspire to be writers and scientists to sensitive boys who want to be dancers rather than lawyers. For a woman whose achievements still enrich our lives:īest known to many as the author and illustrator of the well-loved children’s classic, Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh leaves a lasting legacy through her groundbreaking depictions of children that challenged sex role stereotypes long before such issues had become part of the public consciousness. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Young Dark Emu: A Truer History (Hardback) But what is the story behind this mysterious boat? How long has it been in the bay? How did it get there? And who is the man on the cliff with the binoculars? When the boat is finally raised, the adventure begins. When he shows his father, they discover it is in pristine condition and decide to take on the challenge of salvaging it. Jack cannot believe his luck when he comes across a sunken boat not far off the coast. Idyllic days are spent exploring the waters of the bay, diving, fishing and cooking up feasts on the beach - and, for Jack, daydreaming of long-gone shipwrecks and forgotten treasure. Jack, his dad Vince, sister Tanya, and mum Carla, escape to Seahorse Bay whenever they can. Written with gentle humour and a beautiful interpretation of landscape, this adventure story about Jack and his family is reminiscent of endless summers, azure seas and sandy white beaches. ![]() ![]() "The illustrations of the game are vibrant and dynamic. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing.īut things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer - a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash.Īnda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. ![]() ![]() ![]() Non-Dynamic Diegetic audio is sound that occurs within hearing distance of the user but the user has no direct involvement in the sound. Interactive Audio is sound that is reacting to gameplay but is responding to the users input.ĭiegetic Sounds are real sounds that occur within hearing distance of the user, this includes sound effects and dialogue. Adaptive Audio is sound that occurs in the game environment reacting to the gameplay rather than input from the user. ![]() ![]() Within Dynamic Audio there is Adaptive Audio and Interactive Audio. Karen Collins in her new book Glossary of Game Audio Splits Game Audio into four groups within which are several sub groups ĭynamic Audio is sound that reacts to changes in the gameplay, environment and input from the user. As game audio has become more popular and widespread several professionals and commentators involved in the gaming industry have tried to define the different elements which make up sound in games. ![]() ![]() OL16558258W Page_number_confidence 93.81 Pages 406 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201203172139 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 360 Scandate 20201202033119 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781444720808 Tts_version 4. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gortner immediately plunges the reader into intrigue with The Queen’s Vow without a formal introduction to Isabella (but it works to the novel’s benefit). Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:33:20 Boxid IA40009920 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Isabella was the notorious warrior-queen who, along with her husband Ferdinand, transformed Spain forever. Gortner explores this queen in A Queen’s Vow following her childhood to her well-documented adult years. ![]() ![]() In school, I was good at reading, writing, spelling, and social studies. The ice was just a few inches thick on the ground, so there was no danger of falling through. In winter we went sledding on a not-very-steep hill and skating on ice which the fire department made by flooding an area near the school when the temperature was below freezing. About the only time we needed to be driven anywhere was Saturday or Sunday afternoon, to go to a movie in a nearby town. ![]() We spent a lot of time playing at each other's houses. My friends and I walked or rode our bikes all over town. A few steps from our neatly mowed yard were wild strawberries, milkweed, Queen Anne's lace (wild carrot), and vast numbers of other "weeds" whose names I never knew, all changing with the seasons. ![]() This was like living in the city and the country at the same time. We had fields on both sides, and I walked to school on a well-traveled path that was a shortcut through them. ![]() Although our neighborhood was divided into city blocks with paved streets and sidewalks, there were only two houses on our street. I grew up in a very small town, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. ![]() ![]() Marked throughout by Calvocoressis characteristic erudition and elegance, it will continue to be essential reading for students of international politics and for all of those who simply wish to understand better the path the world has taken since the end of the Second World War. The book has long been a staple of bookshelves and reading lists across the world, and provides a reliable and interconnected account of the great sweeps of contemporary history. ![]() The ninth edition has been expanded and updated to take into account the developments of the last 10 years, including the ugly incursions of global terrorism the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sudan the accelerating emergence of India and China as major powers the major political developments in Latin America the march of globalisation the expansion eastwards of the European Union instability in the Middle East and the vexed question of oil and energy supplies. ![]() ![]() First published in 1968, World Politics since 1945 is a classic and authoritative study of contemporary political history that has helped to divert, educate, and inform two generations of political scientists, historians and general readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He also seems to leave open the question of Stalin's paranoia: he argues that the Georgian-born ruler was a charming man who used his people skills to get whatever he wanted. Montefiore offers little help in answering some of the unsettled questions surrounding Stalin: how involved was he in the 1934 murder of rising official Sergei Kirov, for example. The effect is paradoxical: Stalin and his cronies are humanized at the same time as their cruel misdeeds are recounted. There's also much detail about the food at parties and other meetings of Stalin's henchmen. As a result, the reader learns about sexual peccadilloes of the top Communists: Stalin's secret police chief Lavrenti Beria, for one, "craved athletic women, haunting the locker rooms of Soviet swimmers and basketball players." Stalin's own escapades after the death of his wife are also noted. ![]() In lively prose, he intersperses his mammoth account of Stalin's often-deadly political decisions with the personal lives of the Soviet dictator and those around him. ) is more interested in life at the top than at the bottom, so he includes hundreds of pages on Stalin's purges of top Communists, while devoting much less space to the forced collectivization of Soviet peasants that led to millions of deaths. Montefiore ( The Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not many question are answered along the way, even for the start of a series. Readers will recognize the character types here: Schuyler the outcast, Bliss the pretty new girl and Mimi the popular queen bee (who nurses a somewhat incestuous relationship with her equally gorgeous brother). When 15-year-olds Schuyler and Bliss find out that they are vampires, as are many of the city's elite, they learn what's behind some of their weird symptoms (such as Schuyler's blue veins, which form "an intricate pattern, visible under the skin's surface," or Bliss's cravings for raw meat), and that "nothing could kill vampires." But something is hunting them, even killing some, and Schuyler grows more determined to stop it, even as the Conclave, the vampire leaders, attempts to cover it up. De la Cruz combines American history, vampires and a crew of rich New York City kids, delivering a page-turning debut to her new series, sure to appeal to fans of her Au Pairs titles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miller put his own stamp on established cast members such as reporter Ben Urich, femme fatale Black Widow, mad assassin Bullseye, the saw-fisted Gladiator and monstrous crime boss Kingpin. ![]() Cover by FRANK MILLER.Ī classic Marvel hero redefined by one of comics' greatest visionaries!Ī Marvel Comics mainstay since 1964, Daredevil got a new lease on life in a landmark 1979-1983 run by writer-penciler Frank Miller and inker-penciler Klaus Janson, whose daring reinvention of the character quickly made Miller one of the biggest and most influential stars in the comic-book industry. Written by FRANK MILLER, BILL MANTLO, ROGER MCKENZIE and DAVID MICHELINIE. ![]() |