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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This book is the first of its kind for SUDOKU It is a substantial
exciting rethink of the way SUDOKU is played. It dramatically
changes the game from a solitary process to a collaborative
engagement where you can share "move-brilliance" with others and
even create teams. Additionally, it is now possible to "roll-back"
to find the point where a game went wrong. Become a SUDOKU Master
is enormously enjoyable. It is a basic-to-advanced strategy and
teaching guide. It is dedicated to fully disclosing solutioning
secrets for all game difficulty levels. From redefining the game
board, through specialized forms, to providing exciting new
solutioning methodologies, Become a SUDOKU Master hits the mark.
Lively move-by-move explanations are supported by intelligent
graphics, which clearly expose every aspect of every method and
strategy. Skills will quickly improve, enabling solving of not only
unsolved games but also Hard-Hard ones.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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Stass Paraskos (Paperback)
Michael Paraskos; David Haste, Norbert Lynton
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R370
R304
Discovery Miles 3 040
Save R66 (18%)
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A collection of essays to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of
the artist Stass Paraskos. Born into a peasant family in Cyprus in
1933, Paraskos went to England to work as a waiter in a Greek
restaurant. There he met a group of artists from Leeds College of
Art who persuaded him to join their college. Paraskos never looked
back, going on to be a celebrated artist and educator. He became
Head of Painting at the University for Creative Arts, and founder
of the Cyprus College of Art, the first art college in his homeland
of Cyprus. This book places Paraskos in context and deals with
major events in his life, including the notorious trial in Leeds,
in 1966, when he was prosecuted for obscenity following an
exhibition of his paintings.
Goss Rogers, returns from the DC area to his home state. His
attractive girlfriend despises "this hick haven," but sticks around
because, "the eroticism he had brought to her was as intoxicating
as anything she had ever known." Later, she begins to question his
strange behavior, including his attempt to solve a local mystery by
bunking down in a snake-infested graveyard. One night, a horribly
disfigured local breaks into their shack and attempts to rape her,
but she is saved by Goss at the last minute. Later Goss is attacked
by a viscous dog, but during the attack the dog is horribly
mutilated and killed by an unidentified creature. During Goss's
recovery, he is treated by a female doctor who takes a shine to him
and later seduces him. Afterwards, he becomes involved in a
horrific scenario in his pursuit of the "creature on the hill."
Rowing on the Waitemata to grab the latest news from incoming
ships. Rushing out a special afternoon edition to the paper boys'
cries of 'Extra! Extra!' Crime and shipping news, the arrival of
Governor Grey and the fall of Ruapekapeka Pa. From the
mid-nineteenth-century rivalry between the New Zealander and the
Southern Cross to the establishment of the New Zealand Herald and
the Auckland Star as the two papers that would dominate Auckland
newspaper life through the twentieth century, the story of
Auckland's newspapers is an engrossing battle of wits that reveals
much about the history of the people and the press in New Zealand.
In Extra! Extra! David Hastings, an accomplished journalist and
historian, has undertaken substantial research on numerous
newspapers in one period in one town in order both to tell that
story and to tackle larger questions. Was it politics or commerce,
readers' whims or something else that drove the rise and fall of
newspaper empires? Did newspapers lead or follow public opinion on
social and political issues? Were they shaped by their owners or
their editors? And was the newspaper world in 1900 driven by
different forces than that of 1845? The newspaper wars of
nineteenth-century Auckland were life or death struggles - with the
odds heavily in favour of death. Extra! Extra! tells the story of
the newspapers, the editors and reporters and owners who made them,
and the readers who decided what was news and which papers would
live or die.
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