Author: Steven Levy
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504042131
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The true story of Ira Einhorn, the Philadelphia antiwar crusader, environmental activist, and New Age guru with a murderous dark side. During the cultural shockwaves of the 1960s and ’70s, Ira Einhorn—nicknamed the “Unicorn”—was the leading radical voice for the antiwar movement at the University of Pennsylvania. At his side were such noted activists as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. A brilliantly articulate advocate for peace in a turbulent era, he rallied followers toward the growing antiestablishment causes of free love, drugs, and radical ecological reform. In 1979, when the mummified remains of his girlfriend, Holly Maddux, a Bryn Mawr flower child from Tyler, Texas, were found in a trunk in his apartment, Einhorn claimed a CIA frame-up. Incredibly, the network of influential friends, socialites, and powerful politicians he’d charmed and manipulated over the years supported him. Represented by renowned district attorney and future senator Arlen Specter, Einhorn was released on bail. But before trial, he fled the country to an idyllic town in the French wine region and disappeared. It would take more than twenty years—and two trials—to finally bring Einhorn to justice. Based on more than two years of research and 250 interviews, as well as the chilling private journals of Einhorn and Maddux, prize-winning journalist Steven Levy paints an astonishing and complicated portrait of a man motivated by both genius and rage. The basis for 1998 NBC television miniseries The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer, The Unicorn’s Secret is a “spellbinding sociological/true crime study,” revealing the dark and tragic dimensions of a man who defined an era, only to shatter its ideals (Publishers Weekly).
The Well of the Unicorn
Author: Fletcher Pratt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780575072671
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
When young Alvar Alvarson is evicted from his farm for non-payment of taxes, he sets out to make his own way in the world. Charged by the sinister old enchanter Doctor Meliboe with delivering a message to a secret band of conspirators, he finds himself caught up in a plot against the ruling military caste. His life becomes a whirlwind of action, colour and conflict as he first falls for the passionate girl-soldier, Evadne, and then is forced to head up a desperate rebellion against the country¿s rulers. Colourful characters and swashbuckling adventures abound as Alvar makes his way from adolescence to manhood.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780575072671
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
When young Alvar Alvarson is evicted from his farm for non-payment of taxes, he sets out to make his own way in the world. Charged by the sinister old enchanter Doctor Meliboe with delivering a message to a secret band of conspirators, he finds himself caught up in a plot against the ruling military caste. His life becomes a whirlwind of action, colour and conflict as he first falls for the passionate girl-soldier, Evadne, and then is forced to head up a desperate rebellion against the country¿s rulers. Colourful characters and swashbuckling adventures abound as Alvar makes his way from adolescence to manhood.
The Unicorn Project
Author: Gene Kim
Publisher: IT Revolution
ISBN: 1942788770
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
The Phoenix Project wowed over a half-million readers. Now comes the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Wall Street Journal bestselling The Unicorn Project! “The Unicorn Project is amazing, and I loved it 100 times more than The Phoenix Project…”—FERNANDO CORNAGO, Senior Director Platform Engineering, Adidas “Gene Kim does a masterful job of showing how … the efforts of many create lasting business advantages for all.”—DR. STEVEN SPEAR, author of The High-Velocity Edge, Sr. Lecturer at MIT, and principal of HVE LLC. “The Unicorn Project is so clever, so good, so crazy enlightening!”––CORNELIA DAVIS, Vice President Of Technology at Pivotal Software, Inc., Author of Cloud Native Patterns This highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling title The Phoenix Project takes another look at Parts Unlimited, this time from the perspective of software development. In The Unicorn Project, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage. She tries to survive in what feels like a heartless and uncaring bureaucracy and to work within a system where no one can get anything done without endless committees, paperwork, and approvals. One day, she is approached by a ragtag bunch of misfits who say they want to overthrow the existing order, to liberate developers, to bring joy back to technology work, and to enable the business to win in a time of digital disruption. To her surprise, she finds herself drawn ever further into this movement, eventually becoming one of the leaders of the Rebellion, which puts her in the crosshairs of some familiar and very dangerous enemies. The Age of Software is here, and another mass extinction event looms—this is a story about rebel developers and business leaders working together, racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty...and opportunity. “The Unicorn Project provides insanely useful insights on how to improve your technology business.”—DOMINICA DEGRANDIS, author of Making Work Visible and Director of Digital Transformation at Tasktop ——— “My goal in writing The Unicorn Project was to explore and reveal the necessary but invisible structures required to make developers (and all engineers) productive, and reveal the devastating effects of technical debt and complexity. I hope this book can create common ground for technology and business leaders to leave the past behind, and co-create a better future together.”—Gene Kim, November 2019
Publisher: IT Revolution
ISBN: 1942788770
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
The Phoenix Project wowed over a half-million readers. Now comes the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Wall Street Journal bestselling The Unicorn Project! “The Unicorn Project is amazing, and I loved it 100 times more than The Phoenix Project…”—FERNANDO CORNAGO, Senior Director Platform Engineering, Adidas “Gene Kim does a masterful job of showing how … the efforts of many create lasting business advantages for all.”—DR. STEVEN SPEAR, author of The High-Velocity Edge, Sr. Lecturer at MIT, and principal of HVE LLC. “The Unicorn Project is so clever, so good, so crazy enlightening!”––CORNELIA DAVIS, Vice President Of Technology at Pivotal Software, Inc., Author of Cloud Native Patterns This highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling title The Phoenix Project takes another look at Parts Unlimited, this time from the perspective of software development. In The Unicorn Project, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage. She tries to survive in what feels like a heartless and uncaring bureaucracy and to work within a system where no one can get anything done without endless committees, paperwork, and approvals. One day, she is approached by a ragtag bunch of misfits who say they want to overthrow the existing order, to liberate developers, to bring joy back to technology work, and to enable the business to win in a time of digital disruption. To her surprise, she finds herself drawn ever further into this movement, eventually becoming one of the leaders of the Rebellion, which puts her in the crosshairs of some familiar and very dangerous enemies. The Age of Software is here, and another mass extinction event looms—this is a story about rebel developers and business leaders working together, racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty...and opportunity. “The Unicorn Project provides insanely useful insights on how to improve your technology business.”—DOMINICA DEGRANDIS, author of Making Work Visible and Director of Digital Transformation at Tasktop ——— “My goal in writing The Unicorn Project was to explore and reveal the necessary but invisible structures required to make developers (and all engineers) productive, and reveal the devastating effects of technical debt and complexity. I hope this book can create common ground for technology and business leaders to leave the past behind, and co-create a better future together.”—Gene Kim, November 2019
Sign of the Unicorn
Author: Roger Zelazny
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780722194225
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780722194225
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Unicorn Thief
Author: R. R. Russell
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402279930
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Readers who fell in love with Twig, Ben, and the fierce, wild unicorns of misty Lonehorn Island better get ready for an even more action-packed, heart-wrenching sequel. In the land of the unicorns a thief is at work. One so skilled and so bold, he's even taken the queen's prized unicorn. Now all of the captive unicorns are in danger and only Ben and Twig, the last unicorn riders, can save them. Twig and Ben are unicorn riders—guardians whose job it is to keep the last free unicorn herd safe. But a new danger is threatening the beautiful, mysterious creatures of Lonehorn Island. A thief from Terracornus has snuck onto the misty island and stolen Ben's loyal unicorn, Indy. There's only one path for Ben and Twig—straight into the secret, shadowy heart of the island and through the passage to Terracornus. But their rescue mission is unexpectedly complicated by a secret Ben has been hiding. A secret about the Queen of Terracornus who has enslaved all the unicorns of Ben's homeland. A secret that could save them all—or start a war.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402279930
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Readers who fell in love with Twig, Ben, and the fierce, wild unicorns of misty Lonehorn Island better get ready for an even more action-packed, heart-wrenching sequel. In the land of the unicorns a thief is at work. One so skilled and so bold, he's even taken the queen's prized unicorn. Now all of the captive unicorns are in danger and only Ben and Twig, the last unicorn riders, can save them. Twig and Ben are unicorn riders—guardians whose job it is to keep the last free unicorn herd safe. But a new danger is threatening the beautiful, mysterious creatures of Lonehorn Island. A thief from Terracornus has snuck onto the misty island and stolen Ben's loyal unicorn, Indy. There's only one path for Ben and Twig—straight into the secret, shadowy heart of the island and through the passage to Terracornus. But their rescue mission is unexpectedly complicated by a secret Ben has been hiding. A secret about the Queen of Terracornus who has enslaved all the unicorns of Ben's homeland. A secret that could save them all—or start a war.
The Flying Unicorn Family
Author: Denise Seymour & Ginny Cadle
Publisher: Liber Publishing House
ISBN: 9781950425310
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This story is about PurrAngel and Little Powwow, and how PurrAngel learned to fly and how they made families. As the story goes on, a friend named Denise always gets caught by a dinosaur named Dennis the Dinosaur. As the story continues, Dennis the Dinosaur keeps getting himself into trouble with everyone. Meanwhile, Jamie Lynn and Caleb, Melody's and Big Hoss's children fall into a well. Keith comes back just in time to go help Jamie Lynn and Caleb out of the well. Meanwhile, BigHoss was trying to help Jamie Lynn and Caleb up the well and then Jamie Lynn let go of the rope and fell into the sewer again. Unfortunately, when Jamie Lynn let go of the rope, not only did Jamie Lynn fall back in but BigHoss fell into the well, too. Finally, there was the reunion in Chapter 10 and everyone was going to the reunion. Everyone was cheering on while Little Powwow and Keith, both ask their favorite ladies to marry them and they all lived happily ever after.
Publisher: Liber Publishing House
ISBN: 9781950425310
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This story is about PurrAngel and Little Powwow, and how PurrAngel learned to fly and how they made families. As the story goes on, a friend named Denise always gets caught by a dinosaur named Dennis the Dinosaur. As the story continues, Dennis the Dinosaur keeps getting himself into trouble with everyone. Meanwhile, Jamie Lynn and Caleb, Melody's and Big Hoss's children fall into a well. Keith comes back just in time to go help Jamie Lynn and Caleb out of the well. Meanwhile, BigHoss was trying to help Jamie Lynn and Caleb up the well and then Jamie Lynn let go of the rope and fell into the sewer again. Unfortunately, when Jamie Lynn let go of the rope, not only did Jamie Lynn fall back in but BigHoss fell into the well, too. Finally, there was the reunion in Chapter 10 and everyone was going to the reunion. Everyone was cheering on while Little Powwow and Keith, both ask their favorite ladies to marry them and they all lived happily ever after.
The Unicorn's Secret
Author: Steven Levy
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504042131
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The true story of Ira Einhorn, the Philadelphia antiwar crusader, environmental activist, and New Age guru with a murderous dark side. During the cultural shockwaves of the 1960s and ’70s, Ira Einhorn—nicknamed the “Unicorn”—was the leading radical voice for the antiwar movement at the University of Pennsylvania. At his side were such noted activists as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. A brilliantly articulate advocate for peace in a turbulent era, he rallied followers toward the growing antiestablishment causes of free love, drugs, and radical ecological reform. In 1979, when the mummified remains of his girlfriend, Holly Maddux, a Bryn Mawr flower child from Tyler, Texas, were found in a trunk in his apartment, Einhorn claimed a CIA frame-up. Incredibly, the network of influential friends, socialites, and powerful politicians he’d charmed and manipulated over the years supported him. Represented by renowned district attorney and future senator Arlen Specter, Einhorn was released on bail. But before trial, he fled the country to an idyllic town in the French wine region and disappeared. It would take more than twenty years—and two trials—to finally bring Einhorn to justice. Based on more than two years of research and 250 interviews, as well as the chilling private journals of Einhorn and Maddux, prize-winning journalist Steven Levy paints an astonishing and complicated portrait of a man motivated by both genius and rage. The basis for 1998 NBC television miniseries The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer, The Unicorn’s Secret is a “spellbinding sociological/true crime study,” revealing the dark and tragic dimensions of a man who defined an era, only to shatter its ideals (Publishers Weekly).
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504042131
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The true story of Ira Einhorn, the Philadelphia antiwar crusader, environmental activist, and New Age guru with a murderous dark side. During the cultural shockwaves of the 1960s and ’70s, Ira Einhorn—nicknamed the “Unicorn”—was the leading radical voice for the antiwar movement at the University of Pennsylvania. At his side were such noted activists as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. A brilliantly articulate advocate for peace in a turbulent era, he rallied followers toward the growing antiestablishment causes of free love, drugs, and radical ecological reform. In 1979, when the mummified remains of his girlfriend, Holly Maddux, a Bryn Mawr flower child from Tyler, Texas, were found in a trunk in his apartment, Einhorn claimed a CIA frame-up. Incredibly, the network of influential friends, socialites, and powerful politicians he’d charmed and manipulated over the years supported him. Represented by renowned district attorney and future senator Arlen Specter, Einhorn was released on bail. But before trial, he fled the country to an idyllic town in the French wine region and disappeared. It would take more than twenty years—and two trials—to finally bring Einhorn to justice. Based on more than two years of research and 250 interviews, as well as the chilling private journals of Einhorn and Maddux, prize-winning journalist Steven Levy paints an astonishing and complicated portrait of a man motivated by both genius and rage. The basis for 1998 NBC television miniseries The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer, The Unicorn’s Secret is a “spellbinding sociological/true crime study,” revealing the dark and tragic dimensions of a man who defined an era, only to shatter its ideals (Publishers Weekly).
Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn
Author: Timothy S. Miller
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031534255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031534255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Bad Unicorn
Author: Ellis Michaels
Publisher: Infinite Summer Publishing
ISBN: 1733324003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Who said all unicorns have to be good? Xavier isn't like other unicorns. He's got attitude and the tongue to match. But that attitude gets him kicked out of Unicaria, the secret part of the forest where all the unicorns live. With nowhere to go, Xavier wanders for days until he is befriended by a young man and woman from a nearby village. Together, they accidentally uncover an evil wizard's plot to invade Unicaria and kill all the unicorns. When no one believes their story, they take matters into their own hands and embark on a quest to save the unicorns - and unknowingly, the world. Bad Unicorn is a standalone fantasy novel that tries not to take itself too seriously. Follow Xavier as he adjusts to the humanoid world while trying to save everyone he's ever known. Filled with fun and adventure, humor and horror, this book will change the way you look at unicorns forever.
Publisher: Infinite Summer Publishing
ISBN: 1733324003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Who said all unicorns have to be good? Xavier isn't like other unicorns. He's got attitude and the tongue to match. But that attitude gets him kicked out of Unicaria, the secret part of the forest where all the unicorns live. With nowhere to go, Xavier wanders for days until he is befriended by a young man and woman from a nearby village. Together, they accidentally uncover an evil wizard's plot to invade Unicaria and kill all the unicorns. When no one believes their story, they take matters into their own hands and embark on a quest to save the unicorns - and unknowingly, the world. Bad Unicorn is a standalone fantasy novel that tries not to take itself too seriously. Follow Xavier as he adjusts to the humanoid world while trying to save everyone he's ever known. Filled with fun and adventure, humor and horror, this book will change the way you look at unicorns forever.
Dragons and Unicorns
Author: Paul Johnsgard
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312084998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Describes the physical features and behaviors of dragons and unicorns
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312084998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Describes the physical features and behaviors of dragons and unicorns
The Evolution of Modern Fantasy
Author: Jamie Williamson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137515791
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In this comprehensive study, Williamson traces the literary history of the fantasy genre from the eighteenth century to its coalescence following the success of Tolkien's work in the 1960s. While some studies have engaged with related material, there has been no extended study specifically exploring the roots of this now beloved genre.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137515791
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In this comprehensive study, Williamson traces the literary history of the fantasy genre from the eighteenth century to its coalescence following the success of Tolkien's work in the 1960s. While some studies have engaged with related material, there has been no extended study specifically exploring the roots of this now beloved genre.