In over 180 vivid color photos, this beautiful book provides a photographic exploration of the lifestyles and landscape of Long Island's famed East End. This collection, a work of art and a documentary, epitomizes the diversity and eclectic nature of this historic locale. The varied methods of capture - film or digital, time-lapse or infrared - produce imagery that evokes a sense of nostalgia and provides a greater understanding of the Hamptons as a whole. The hamlets and villages depicted include Amagansett, Bridgehampton, East Hampton, East Marion, Greenport, Montauk, Napeague, Noyack, The Quogues, Sag Harbor, Sagaponack, Shelter Island, Southampton, Springs, Water Mill, and Westhampton. The revered past and unique history of the Hamptons carries through to the present-day East End. Rich with art and culture, still picturesque and diverse, the Hamptons are ever changing and evolving. Looking ahead, this book will become a resource of historical record, as it chronicles the contemporary community in a beautiful and truthful way.

People have always found respite at the beach. The sun, sand, and surf are an alluring cure for cabin fever, an activity as much as an escape. Using pinhole photography, art photographer Phillip Lehans captured five empty East Hampton beaches while people were isolating during the pandemic. His medium -- slow, old-school, and distant -- proved fitting for the times, and his panoramic images evoke the serenity we dream of at the beach. Using a wooden camera with a manual shutter, his prolonged exposures create an ethereal atmosphere, awash in pastels and reminiscent of watercolour paintings. Every subtlety of nature is recorded: a brisk wind pushes clouds across the sky, creating smooth streaks of white and pastel, while the tides render the ocean in creamy tranquillity. In these infinite variations we are reminded of the cycles of nature, the course of time, and the optimism of tomorrow.

This book collects the notes of the lectures given at an Advanced Course on Dynamical Systems at the Centre de Recerca Matematica (CRM) in Barcelona. The notes consist of four series of lectures. The first one, given by Andrew Toms, presents the basic properties of the Cuntz semigroup and its role in the classification program of simple, nuclear, separable C*-algebras. The second series of lectures, delivered by N. Christopher Phillips, serves as an introduction to group actions on C*-algebras and their crossed products, with emphasis on the simple case and when the crossed products are classifiable. The third one, given by David Kerr, treats various developments related to measure-theoretic and topological aspects of crossed products, focusing on internal and external approximation concepts, both for groups and C*-algebras. Finally, the last series of lectures, delivered by Thierry Giordano, is devoted to the theory of topological orbit equivalence, with particular attention to the classification of minimal actions by finitely generated abelian groups on the Cantor set.

The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order of importance according to students, faculty, and a national panel of judges. Each of the top stories is presented at length, alongside updates from the investigative reporters who broke the stories.

Resources designed to support learners of the 2010 BTEC Level 3 National IT specification*. Extensive unit coverage: Student Book 1 covers 14 units including all the mandatory units, giving learners the breadth to tailor the course to their needs and interests, when combined with Student Book 2. Functional Skills and Personal Learning and Thinking Skills are embedded in activities throughout the book. WorkSpace case studies take learners into the real world of work, showing them how they can apply their knowledge in a real-life context.

The familiars Aldwyn the cat, Skyler the blue jay, and Gilbert the tree frog are off on an all-new adventure in the series that Michael Buckley, bestselling author of The Sisters Grimm and NERDS series, says "combines the magic of Harry Potter and the adventure of Warriors." With inventive magic, laugh-out-loud humor, and a mysterious conspiracy that will take all the familiars' wits to unravel, Palace of Dreams is the familiars' most extraordinary adventure yet.

Peace has returned to the queendom of Vastia. Paksahara has been defeated, and the three familiars Aldwyn, Skyler, and Gilbert are the heroes to thank. But when a birthday celebration at the palace goes dreadfully wrong, and Queen Loranella falls victim to a curse, it seems the familiars are the prime suspects. After narrowly escaping the palace dungeons, they'll have to embark on a quest to clear their names--a quest that will lead them across Vastia and even into the magical land of dreams.

It's time. It's just the time for an irreverent collection of stories, jokes, sketches, rants, poems, and essays by libertarian activist and internationally touring storyteller phillip andrew bennett low! It's time for you to pull up a chair, down some whiskey*, laugh, get angry, and tip your servers**. He'll be sprawled out on your bookshelf as long as you let him stay. It's time for some verbosity. It's time for some rage. It's time for some Indecision Now. * whiskey not provided ** not necessarily in this order

Follow the trials and tribulations of Phillip, who at seven, was orphaned in America. From homelessness and abuse to kidnappings and war, account his experiences as he struggles to survive. You will delve into the reality of living as an American orphan. You will tiptoe through the emotional roller coaster of the foster care system, the prison system and the US military. You will struggle with him through the Iraq war and gain a unique perspective on the American dream. It will show that success, is in the eye of the beholder and dreams, do come true.

Reflections: Volume 1 is a part of me that is written to inspire those who have dreams. To understand and realize that a dream is meant to be cherished and lived out. Never give up and always keep your head up and be true to the reflection you see everyday. For the reflection you see you can't hide from.