It's 1976. Bud Salem, 18-years-old, is fleeing his mother's TV church and meets a woman pitching oranges in the Mojave. She's Sylvia Cushman, a 45 year-old housewife, who loves driving alone through the desert. They traverse through western motels and Apache gas stations where Sylvia gives long lectures about Emily Dickinson and drags Bud up into the mesas to search for petroglyphs. After continuing adventures in Detroit, New York, and Amherst, the travelers part... In many ways Let the Dog Drive is an askew detective novel - when a character dies under strange circumstances in Texas, Bud goes to the Panhandle to uncover what happened. His strange narration does contain pleasures of the genre: a shootout inside an aquarium; a faked death; another shootout on a chicken farm in Texas . . . But Let the Dog Drive is also a freewheeling merging of many other genres and concerns - Hollywood, hardboiled novels of the 1930's, Emily Dickinson's white dress, hallucinatory cacti, the Book of Luke... And dogs. Sylvia is married to an auto engineer in Detroit, and this man studies auto accidents by letting dogs drive the cars. Literally. The drivers are often Dalmatians . .

Maths but not as you know it; a fresh take that develops problem-solving skills with new and innovative resources that place contemporary contexts at the centre of learning to maximise student potential. - Supports a wide ability range with challenges for all levels. - Provides assessment practice and guidance with practice questions and worked examples to help each student to reach their potential by boosting the skills they need to understand the demands of the new AQA Level 3 Certificate in Mathematical Studies specification. - Saves you time with a variety of new ideas for use in the classroom and at home. - Places mathematical problems into real life contexts helping your students to apply their knowledge across subjects. - Supports the non-specialist or less-confident teacher.

This entry in the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, born out of the April 2017 BEA Research Symposium, takes a look at video games, outlining the characteristics of them as cognitive, emotional, physical, and social demanding technologies, and introduces readers to current research on video games. The diverse array of contributors in this volume offer bleeding-edge perspectives on both current and emerging scholarship. The chapters here contain radical approaches that add to the literature on electronic media studies generally and video game studies specifically. By taking such a forward-looking approach, this volume aims to collect foundational writings for the future of gaming studies.

Set in the 1950's, this epic, Warholian novel presents a brilliant and wholly original take on the years leading up to the Kennedy assassination. Where were you when you first heard President Kennedy had been shot? This is a question most people can answer, even if the answer is "I wasn't born yet." In this epic novel, David Bowman makes the strong case that the shooting on November 22nd, 1963 was the major, defining turning point that catapulted the world into an entirely new stratosphere. It was the second big bang. In this hilarious, lightning-fast historical novel, Bowman follows the most famous couples of the decade as their lives are torn apart by post-war's new normal. We see Lucille Ball's bizarre interrogation by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and Jackie Onassis' moonlight cruise with Frank Sinatra . We follow Norman Mailer and Arthur Miller as they attempt to get quickie divorces together at a loophole resort in Nevada and watch a young Howard Hunt snoop around South America with the newly founded CIA. A young Jimi Hendrix, now the epitome of counterculture cool, tries his luck as a clean cut army recruit. Written with an almost documentary film like intensity, BIG BANG is a posthumous work from the award-winning author of Let the Dog Drive. A riotous account of a country, perhaps, at the beginning of the end.

This entry in the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, born out of the April 2017 BEA Research Symposium, takes a look at video games, outlining the characteristics of them as cognitive, emotional, physical, and social demanding technologies, and introduces readers to current research on video games. The diverse array of contributors in this volume offer bleeding-edge perspectives on both current and emerging scholarship. The chapters here contain radical approaches that add to the literature on electronic media studies generally and video game studies specifically. By taking such a forward-looking approach, this volume aims to collect foundational writings for the future of gaming studies.

Thousands of musical terms are defined in Volume 1 (the Dictionary), illustrated with 274 specially prepared scores in Volume 2 (the Music Examples), and, in Volume 3, 274 recorded extracts on three compact disks. Every definition is followed by reference to at least one score and recording. Additional cross-references to eight chapters on the elements of music place the definitions in broader musical and historical contexts. This unique publication brings music terminology to life through sound and is aimed at enthusiastic listeners, students, teachers and professional musicians.

Prior to the recent financial crisis, one of the most prominent examples of unconventional monetary stimulus was Japan's "quantitative easing policy" (QEP). Most analysts agree that QEP did not succeed in stimulating aggregate demand sufficiently to overcome persistent deflation. However, it remains unclear whether QEP simply provided little stimulus, or whether its positive effects were overwhelmed by the contractionary forces in Japan's post-bubble economy. In the spirit of Kashyap and Stein (2000) and Hosono (2006), this paper uses bank-level data from 2000 to 2009 to examine the effectiveness in promoting bank lending of a key element of QEP, the Bank of Japan's injections of liquidity into the interbank market. We identify a robust, positive, and statistically significant effect of bank liquidity positions on lending, suggesting that the expansion of reserves associated with QEP likely boosted the flow of credit. However, the overall size of that boost was probably quite small. First, the estimated response of lending to liquidity positions in our regressions is small. Second, much of the effect of the BOJ's reserve injections on bank liquidity was offset as banks reduced their lending to each other. Finally, the effect of liquidity on lending appears to have held only during the initial years of QEP, when the banking system was at its weakest; by 2005, even before QEP was abandoned, the relationship between liquidity and lending had evaporated.

"Five stars well deserved." Commas are confusing. Unlike other types of punctuation, they are used in many ways. If you want to write clearly and professionally, you need to use commas correctly. Zen Comma will show you how. Zen Comma uses examples, instructions, and anecdotes to teach you the 14 major uses for commas and the most common errors. It also contains exercises to help pinpoint the comma rules you need to learn. Each chapter begins with correct examples, explains the rules for correct usage, covers common errors, and discusses special considerations so you can use commas correctly, intelligently, and conscientiously. Topics include: Commas in Series Commas when Joining Sentences Commas after Introductory Descriptions Commas with Interjections Commas with Appositives Commas with Side Comments Commas with Names Commas with Therefore, Too, and Other Conjunctive Adverbs Commas with Adjective Pairs Commas with Which and Who Commas with Final Descriptions Commas with Parenthetical Expressions and Absolute Phrases Commas with Dates, Addresses, Ages, and Titles Commas with Quotations Commas with Either...Or and Other Correlative Pairs Commas between Subjects and Predicates Commas between Compound Predicates

Technical and academic writing share one thing in common: they present focused information to a targeted audience to accomplish a specific purpose. Technical and academic writing can be, and need to be, good writing. By presenting the principles of good writing, strategies for clear technical and academic writing, and essentials of writing mechanics, this concise guide shows you how to write clear, engaging, and straightforward documents that achieve your purpose and meet the readers' needs. Concise Guide to Technical and Academic Writing is for people who write project reports, white papers, instructional texts, position papers, annual reports, dissertations and theses, grant proposals, expository essays, book and article reviews, research findings, and other types of technical and academic documents.

"Raymond Chandler merges with Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez," said the New York Times Book Review of David Bowman's first novel, Let the Dog Drive. "Now that David Bowman has emerged, it will be interesting to see where his surrealistic, hard-boiled intelligentsia style takes him next."

Where it has taken him is Bunny Modern-a hard-boiled comedy about love, abduction, and child care, set in a future where electricity has disappeared and fertility is on the wane, but human passions are as messy as ever.

This is the story of Clare, a nanny who packs a Glock and guards babies from childless kidnappers. Clare has undergone the standard aversion therapy to keep her from bonding with the infants she protects. But despite all her training, Clare finds herself helpless to resist the big eyes and droolly charms of her latest charge, an ineffably lovable baby named Soda.

Bunny Modern is the strange saga of Clare and Soda, as told by Dylan, an investigator who's fallen in love with Clare while looking into a connection between Soda's parents and the disappearance of electricity years earlier. First admiring Clare from afar and then joining her in a series of adventures on Manhattan's gaslit streets, Dylan unfolds a tale in which Lit Wear (Melville trousers, Jane Eyre blouses), carrier pigeons, fertility monuments, a drug called Vengeance, and the Jersey Bounce Dance Studio all figure with mysterious coherence.

Seamlessly interweaving elements of the noir thriller with hallucinogenic flourishes that are all his own, David Bowman has written a novel that is mesmerizing, hilarious, and utterly captivating.

This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has established a prominent and promising foothold in the larger sports ecology. Often considered an isolated activity for the hardcore sports fan, fantasy sports play have since been incorporated into sports broadcasting and editorial coverage, sports marketing and promotions, and even into the very sports themselves with athletes and teams using the activities to draw fans further into the sports experience. This edited collection invites leading scholars and sports professionals from several different fields to share historical and emerging perspectives on the importance of fantasy sports as an artifact of theoretical and empirical importance to larger issues of sport and society. \