Author: Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783956794537
Category : String figures
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Following a thread, from string figures though algorithms.

Author: Carla Hoch
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440300739
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Whether a side-street skirmish or an all-out war, fight scenes bring action to the pages of every kind of fiction. But a poorly done or unbelievable fight scene can ruin a great book in an instant. In Fight Write you'll learn practical tips, terminology, and the science behind crafting realistic fight scenes for your fiction. Broken up into "Rounds," trained fighter and writer Carla Hoch guides you through the many factors you'll need to consider when developing battles and brawls. • In Round 1, you will consider how the Who, When, Where, and Why questions affect what type of fight scene you want to craft. • Round 2 delves into the human factors of biology (think fight or flight and adrenaline) and psychology (aggression and response to injuring or killing another person). • Round 3 explores different fighting styles that are appropriate for different situations: How would a character fight from a prone position versus being attacked in the street? What is the vocabulary used to describe these styles? • Round 4 considers weaponry and will guide you to select the best weapon for your characters, including nontraditional weapons of opportunity, while also thinking about the nitty-gritty details of using them. • In Round 5, you'll learn how to accurately describe realistic injuries sustained from the fights and certain weapons, and what kind of injuries will kill a character or render them unable to fight further. By taking into account where your character is in the world, when in history the fight is happening, what the character's motivation for fighting is, and much more, you'll be able write fight scenes unique to your plot and characters, all while satisfying your reader's discerning eye.

Author: Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781955702102
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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James R. Murphy, a math teacher in La Guardia, New York, regarded mathematics as the most powerful and manipulable abstract language available to humans. To acquaint students who don't "like" math with abstract and systematical thinking, he put a piece of string in their hands and taught them to make string figures.How to spell the fight follows a thread that has been running through our fingers from centuries past till the present day, morphing from the tangible string figures that join our hands in childhood to the more elusive computational algorithms that engage our fingers today. Following this line of inquiry through various twists and turns, a conversation about collective agency emerges with the aim of rethinking current paradigms of cognition, education, and power.

Author: Sirona Knight
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806526904
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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In Wiccan Spell a Day, renowned Wiccan author and high priestess Sirona Knight enables readers to experience new heights of love, passion, and romance, and take control of their love lives every day of the year. With over 365 ways to bewitch, seduce and cherish, Wiccan Spell a Day shows how to spice up a tired love life as well as how to attract and enthrall a brand-new dream lover. Each page of this user-friendly book provides how-to information guaranteed to have readers casting spells and making charms throughout the calendar year. Readers can celebrate January 1st with a New Year's Love Charm or ensure that they have a date for July 4th with the Fireworks Romance Spell. The lovelorn can cast spells on Halloween. Thanksgiving and Christmas using common foods, flowers, spices, scented oils and herbs that have long been valued for their aphrodisiac qualities. Wiccan Spell a Day makes it easy to inject a little magic into life--and find positive new ways to make dreams come true.

Author: C. J. Busby
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 1848771495
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83

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Max Pendragon is probably the worst squire in King Arthur's kingdom - he'd much rather train to be a wizard instead. So when he accidentally invents a spell that turns people into frogs, it seems his wish might come true. But events take an unexpected turn when Max enters the Novices' Spell-Making Competition and finds himself helping Merlin fight an evil sorceress. There's no way Max's unpredictable frogspell could be of any use. Or is there?

Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019158746X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Lynne Truss's 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' injected new life into the long-standing arguments over rights and wrongs in English usage. Now David Crystal brings together his own distinctive style and unique expertise to provide the first thorough-going assessment of the ongoing debate. With a lively, humorous, and accessible approach, Crystal charts the battles past and present, illustrating the characters and attitudes involved from a wide range of written sources. He combines a chronological survey of key influences in the area of usage with discussion of particular themes such as punctuation, spelling, and pronunciation. And he looks ahead to the future in the context of recent education policy shifts. A positive and compelling case is made for variation in usage of English based on appropriateness of situation, arguing that 'zero tolerance' in relation to language is a profoundly flawed approach. Crystal offers an original and authoritative counter-argument to the prescriptivist agenda that has been expounded in many accounts of English usage over the years. The Fight for English is the book that everyone concerned with English usage has been eagerly awaiting.

Author: NarLeo
Publisher: Narender Durga
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Jayce Clark has always been haunted by his nightmares—dark, vivid dreams that feel more like memories than mere fantasies. But when he starts experiencing blackouts, leaving him with no recollection of what transpired, Jayce's world begins to unravel. As the blackouts become more frequent, Jayce grows restless, desperate for answers. With each step toward the truth, something ancient and powerful awakens within him—something long dormant, waiting to be unleashed. Caught between the waking world and the terrifying echoes of his dreams, Jayce must confront the darkness rising within him before it consumes everything he holds dear. But as he uncovers more about his mysterious abilities, he realizes that the nightmares were only the beginning. The Archaic Spell is a gripping tale of self-discovery, power, and the thin line between dreams and reality. Join Jayce as he embarks on a thrilling adventure, where ancient forces clash with the modern world, and one young man’s destiny could reshape everything.

Author: Cunningham
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN: 1604184868
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Facilitate fun and functional phonics instruction using Prefixes and Suffixes for grades 3 and up. This 192-page resource features hands-on, minds-on manipulative activities in which students learn to decode words and properly use common prefixes, suffixes, and spelling changes. The book supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model and includes 120 dynamic lessons that encourage students to learn phonics and spelling through the Word Wall and Making Words activities. This book also includes review and extension activities, reproducibles, take-home word walls, and word lists.

Author: Robé, Chris
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 1629633313
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Breaking the Spell offers the first full-length study that charts the historical trajectory of anarchist-inflected video activism from the late 1960s to the present. Two predominant trends emerge from this social movement-based video activism: 1) anarchist-inflected processes increasingly structure its production, distribution, and exhibition practices; and 2) video does not simply represent collective actions and events, but also serves as a form of activist practice in and of itself from the moment of recording to its later distribution and exhibition. Video plays an increasingly important role among activists in the growing global resistance against neoliberal capitalism. As various radical theorists have pointed out, subjectivity itself becomes a key terrain of struggle as capitalism increasingly structures and mines it through social media sites, cell phone technology, and new “flexible” work and living patterns. As a result, alternative media production becomes a central location where new collective forms of subjectivity can be created to challenge aspects of neoliberalism. Chris Robé’s book fills in historical gaps by bringing to light unexplored video activist groups like the Cascadia Forest Defenders, eco-video activists from Eugene, Oregon; Mobile Voices, Latino day laborers harnessing cell phone technology to combat racism and police harassment in Los Angeles; and Outta Your Backpack Media, indigenous youth from the Southwest who use video to celebrate their culture and fight against marginalization. This groundbreaking study also deepens our understanding of more well-researched movements like AIDS video activism, Paper Tiger Television, and Indymedia by situating them within a longer history and wider context of radical video activism.

Author: Piers Anthony
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345536444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Piers Anthony’s bestselling Xanth series is one of the cornerstones of fantasy, a lively and whimsical interpretation of a genre often criticized for taking itself too seriously. Anthony’s first Xanth novel, A Spell for Chameleon, was initially edited to target a more traditional audience. Now, in an eBook exclusive, A Spell for Chameleon has been reworked line by line—its language matching the simpler, playful way with words that made Piers Anthony an enduring fan favorite. Xanth is an enchanted land where magic rules, a land of centaurs and dragons and basilisks where every citizen has a unique spell to call their own. For Bink of North Village, however, Xanth is no fairy tale. He alone has no magic. And unless he gets some—and fast!—he will be exiled. Forever. But the Good Magician Humfrey is convinced that Bink does indeed have magic. In fact, both Beauregard the genie and the magic wall chart insist that Bink has magic as powerful as any possessed by the King, the Good Magician Humfrey, or even the Evil Magician Trent. Be that as it may, no one can fathom the nature of Bink’s very special magic. This is even worse than having no magic at all . . . and he still faces exile!