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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.
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.
Grammy Award–nominated artist Kem shares his life in this
“breathtaking” (Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times bestselling
author) and revealing memoir tracing his transformative journey
from homelessness to gold-selling artist. Known for his smooth,
affecting crooning and dapper style, Kem’s journey to the stage
is nothing short of inspiring. In Share My Life, Kem goes back to
the very beginning before his time to introduce his grandmother,
who worked as a sharecropper in the South and had thirteen
children. As Kem’s family rises from the sharecropping and
ultimately lands in Detroit, there is an unspoken mantra of “hard
things are better left unsaid,” which has devastating
consequences down the line. And so, Kem grows up in the midst of an
impenetrable silence. His mother is never without a beer in her
hand, and his relationship with his father is oddly tense.
Emotionally starved, Kem internalizes harmful feelings, eventually
spiraling to drug use in his search for relief. At nineteen, Kem is
homeless, roaming the cold Detroit streets. In the overly bright AA
halls, Kem comes across men like himself verbalizing their
feelings. The meetings helped him discover his own voice, using
music as an outlet that has since touched millions. In Share My
Life, Kem chronicles his “revelatory, moving, and
inspirational” (Lisa Cortés, Academy Award–nominated and Emmy
Award–winning producer and director) journey of self-discovery.
The young boy who struggled with feelings of worthlessness becomes
a man willing to put everything on the line for his dream.
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From "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize winner Kem Nunn and "principal
heir to the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West" ("The
Washington Post")--an intense psychological suspense novel about a
San Francisco neuropsychiatrist who becomes sexually involved with
a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder, whose
pathological ex-husband is an Oakland homicide detective.
A dark tale involving psychiatric mystery, sexual obsession,
fractured identities, and terrifyingly realistic violence--"Chance"
is set amid the back streets of California's Bay Area, far from the
cleansing breezes of the ocean. Dr. Eldon Chance, a
neuropsychiatrist, is a man primed for spectacular ruin. Into Dr.
Chance's blighted life walks Jaclyn Blackstone, the abused,
attractive wife of an Oakland homicide detective, a violent and
jealous man. Jaclyn appears to be suffering from a dissociative
identity disorder. In time, Chance will fall into bed with her--or
is it with her alter ego, the voracious and volatile Jackie Black?
The not-so-good doctor, despite his professional training, isn't
quite sure--and thereby hangs his fascination with her. Meanwhile,
Chance also meets a young man named D, a self-styled, streetwise
philosopher skilled in the art of the blade. It is around this trio
of unique and dangerous individuals that long guarded secrets begin
to unravel, obsessions grow, and the doctor's carefully arranged
life comes to the brink of implosion.
Amid San Francisco's fluid, ever-shifting fog, in the cool, gray
city of love, Dr. Chance will at last be forced to live up to his
name. "Chance" is a twisted, harrowing, and impossible-to-put-down
head trip through the fun house of fate, mesmerizing until the very
last page.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A reissue of the classic novel that inspired the movie "Point
Break "and pioneered a genre.
People go to Huntington Beach in search of the endless parties, the
ultimate highs, and the perfect waves. Ike Tucker has come to look
for his missing sister and for the three men who may have murdered
her. In that place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blonds, Ike's
search takes him on a journey through a twisted world of crazed
Vietnam vets, sadistic surfers, drug dealers, and mysterious
seducers. He looks into the shadows and finds parties that drift
toward pointless violence, joyless vacations, and highs you may
never come down from . . . and a sea of old hatreds and dreams gone
bad. And if he's not careful, his is a journey from which he will
never return.
With more species of fungi than any other region in Canada, British
Columbia is a rich playground for mushroom hunters. Now there's
Mushrooms of British Columbia, the newest handbook from the Royal
BC Museum. It's perfect for anyone wanting to know more about BC
mushrooms-whether for study, harvest, photography or appreciation.
Authors and mushroom experts Andy MacKinnon and Kem Luther bring a
practical and playful approach to helping people quickly and
confidently identify the mushrooms of British Columbia. Common
names trump technical terminology, fungi are grouped by overall
shape, and written descriptions of more than 350 common species are
reinforced with carefully curated diagnostic images. This is the
go-to guidebook for anyone, amateur or expert, who loves to study,
draw, photograph and eat BC mushrooms.
Heart Attacks is California's last secret spot - the premier mysto
surf haunt, the stuff of rumour and legend. The rumours say you
must cross Indian land to get there. They tell of hostile locals
and shark-infested waters where waves in excess of thirty feet
break a mile from shore. For down-and-out photographer Jack
Fletcher, the chance to shoot these waves in the company of surfing
legend Drew Harmon offers the promise of new beginnings. But Drew
is not alone in the northern reaches of the state. His young wife,
Kendra, lives there with him. Obsessed with the unsolved murder of
a local girl, Kendra has embarked upon a quest of her own, a search
for truth - however dark that truth may prove to be. In this
desolate wasteland the search for the perfect wave becomes a quest
for survival, as events lead inevitably to their final, tragic
climax.
Grammy Award–nominated artist Kem shares his life in this
revealing and remarkable memoir tracing his transformative journey
from homelessness to gold-selling artist. Known for his smooth
affecting crooning and dapper style, Kem’s journey to the stage
is nothing short of inspiring. In Share My Life, Kem goes
back to the very beginning before his time to introduce his
grandmother who worked as a sharecropper in the South and had
thirteen children. As Kem’s family rises from the sharecropping
and ultimately lands in Detroit, there is an unspoken mantra of
“hard things are better left unsaid,” which has devastating
consequences down the line. And so, Kem grows up in the midst of an
impenetrable silence. His mother is never without a beer in her
hand, and his relationship with his father is oddly tense.
Emotionally starved, Kem internalizes harmful feelings, eventually
spiraling to drug use in his search for relief. At nineteen, Kem is
homeless, roaming the cold Detroit streets. In the overly bright AA
halls, Kem comes across men like himself verbalizing their
feelings. The meetings helped him discover his own voice, using
music as an outlet that has since touched millions. In Share
My Life, Kem chronicles his incredible journey of self-discovery.
The young boy who struggled with feelings of worthlessness becomes
a man willing to put everything on the line for his dream.
While Active Learning Classrooms, or ALCs, offer rich new
environments for learning, they present many new challenges to
faculty because, among other things, they eliminate the room’s
central focal point and disrupt its conventional seating plan to
which faculty and students have become accustomed. The importance
of learning how to use these classrooms well and to capitalize on
their special features is paramount. The potential they represent
can be realized only when they facilitate improved learning
outcomes and engage students in the learning process in a manner
different from traditional classrooms and lecture halls. This book
provides an introduction to ALCs, briefly covering their history
and then synthesizing the research on these spaces to provide
faculty with empirically based, practical guidance on how to use
these unfamiliar spaces effectively. Among the questions this book
addresses are: How can instructors mitigate the apparent lack of a
central focal point in the space? What types of learning activities
work well in the ALCs and take advantage of the affordances of the
room? How can teachers address familiar classroom-management
challenges in these unfamiliar spaces? If assessment and rapid
feedback are critical in active learning, how do they work in a
room filled with circular tables and no central focus point? How do
instructors balance group learning with the needs of the larger
class? How can students be held accountable when many will
necessarily have their backs facing the instructor? How can
instructors evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching in these
spaces? This book is intended for faculty preparing to teach in or
already working in this new classroom environment; for
administrators planning to create ALCs or experimenting with
provisionally designed rooms; and for faculty developers helping
teachers transition to using these new spaces.
Marine organisms produce a wide array of toxins, many of which are
not only structurally unusual, but also show potent and interesting
modes of action. Since the discovery of tetrodotoxin, a pufferfish
toxin, as a potent and selective blocker of Na+ channels in 1964,
it has been widely used as a research tool in pharmacological and
physiological research. This has led to the identification of a
number of important biological functions for Na+ channels. In
recent years, much biological research has been carried out at
molecular and cellular levels, and therefore selective inhibitors
of enzymes and selective antagonist/agonists of receptors and
channels have become increasingly important research tools.
Accordingly, interest in using such compounds as reagents has
increased. Marine toxins are some of the most popular research
tools and have already contributed much to our understanding of
biological processes and disease mechanisms. Written for:
Scientists, researchers, pharmacologists
While Active Learning Classrooms, or ALCs, offer rich new
environments for learning, they present many new challenges to
faculty because, among other things, they eliminate the room's
central focal point and disrupt its conventional seating plan to
which faculty and students have become accustomed. The importance
of learning how to use these classrooms well and to capitalize on
their special features is paramount. The potential they represent
can be realized only when they facilitate improved learning
outcomes and engage students in the learning process in a manner
different from traditional classrooms and lecture halls. This book
provides an introduction to ALCs, briefly covering their history
and then synthesizing the research on these spaces to provide
faculty with empirically based, practical guidance on how to use
these unfamiliar spaces effectively. Among the questions this book
addresses are: How can instructors mitigate the apparent lack of a
central focal point in the space? What types of learning activities
work well in the ALCs and take advantage of the affordances of the
room? How can teachers address familiar classroom-management
challenges in these unfamiliar spaces? If assessment and rapid
feedback are critical in active learning, how do they work in a
room filled with circular tables and no central focus point? How do
instructors balance group learning with the needs of the larger
class? How can students be held accountable when many will
necessarily have their backs facing the instructor? How can
instructors evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching in these
spaces? This book is intended for faculty preparing to teach in or
already working in this new classroom environment; for
administrators planning to create ALCs or experimenting with
provisionally designed rooms; and for faculty developers helping
teachers transition to using these new spaces.
"User Experience in the Age of Sustainability" focuses on the
economic, sociological and environmental movement in business to
make all products including digital ones more sustainable. Not only
are businesses finding a significant ROI from these choices,
customers are demanding this responsible behaviour. The author
looks at user experience practice through the lens of
sustainability whether it be a smart phone, service - based
subscription solutions or sustainable packaging to expose the ways
in which user researchers and designers can begin to connect to the
sustainability not merely as a theoretical. This book has a
practical take on the matter providing a framework along with case
studies and personal stories from doing this work successfully.
Both hardware and software design are covered.
Learn about the fundamentals of sustainability and how it can
change the future of user experience professionals
Learn how to integrate sustainability into designs with a solid
framework using user research methodology, techniques, and
purposeful metrics
Find out how to integrate sustainability frameworks into the
software and product development cycles
Find out how sustainability applies to mobile and digital
products with discussions on user messaging, dematerialization, and
efficient design
See how companies have made it work with case studies
From Kem Nunn, the National Book Award-nominated author of Tapping
the Source and The Dogs of Winter, comes an exquisitely written
tale of loss and redemption. Nunn renders the dangerous beaches and
waters of California's borderland as only the critically acclaimed
poet laureate of surf noir can, and Tijuana Straits confirms his
reputation as a master of suspense and a novelist of the first
rank. When Fahey, once a great surfer, now a reclusive ex-con,
meets Magdalena, she is running from a pack of wild dogs along the
ragged wasteland where California and Mexico meet the Pacific Ocean
-- a spot once known to the men who rode its giant waves as the
Tijuana Straits. Magdalena has barely survived an attack that
forced her to flee Tijuana, and Fahey takes her in. That he is
willing to do so runs contrary to his every instinct, for Fahey is
done with the world, seeking little more than solitude from this
all-but-forgotten corner of the Golden State. Nor is Fahey a
stranger to the lawless ways of the border. He worries that in
sheltering this woman he may not only be inviting further
entanglements but may be placing them both at risk. In this, he is
not wrong. An environmental activist, Magdalena has become engaged
in the struggle for the health and rights of the thousands of
peasants streaming from Mexico's enervated heartland to work in the
maquilladoras -- the foreign-owned factories that line her
country's border, polluting its air and fouling its rivers. It is a
risky contest. Danger can come from many directions, from
government officials paid to preserve the status quo to thugs hired
to intimidate reformers. As Magdalena and Fahey become closer,
Magdalena tries to discover who is out to get her, attempting to
reconstruct the events that delivered her, battered and confused,
into Fahey's strange yet oddly seductive world. She examines every
lead, never guessing the truth. For into this no-man's-land between
two countries comes a trio of killers led by Armando Santoya, a man
beset by personal tragedy, an aberration born of the very
conditions Magdalena has dedicated her life to fight against, yet
who in the throes of his own drug-fueled confusions has marked her
for death. And so will Fahey be put to the test, in a final duel on
the beaches of his Tijuana Straits.
Heart Attacks is California's last secret spot--the premier mysto
surf haunt, the stuff of rumor and legend. The rumors say you must
cross Indian land to get there. They tell of hostile locals and
shark-infested waters where waves in excess of thirty feet break a
mile from shore. For down-and-out photographer Jack Fletcher, the
chance to shoot these waves in the company of surfing legend Drew
Harmon offers the promise of new beginnings. But Drew is not alone
in the northern reaches of the state. His young wife, Kendra, lives
there with him. Obsessed with the unsolved murder of a local girl,
Kendra has embarked upon a quest of her own, a search for
truth--however dark that truth may prove to be. The Dogs of Winter
is a portrait of two men and an appealing yet troubled young woman
set against an unforgettable background of stark and violent
beauty.
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