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Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : Black Irish Entertainment LLC
ISBN 13 : 1936891077
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Authentic Swing written by Steven Pressfield and published by Black Irish Entertainment LLC. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story Behind THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE If you've read his books THE WAR OF ART and TURNING PRO, you know that for thirty years Steven Pressfield (GATES OF FIRE, THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGN etc.) wrote spec novel after spec novel before any publisher took him seriously. How did he finally break through? Ignoring just about every rule of commercial book publishing, Pressfield's "first" novel not only became a major bestseller (over 250,000 copies sold), it was adapted into a feature film directed by Robert Redford and starring Matt Damon, Will Smith, and Charlize Theron. Where did he get the idea? What magical something did THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE have that his previous manuscripts lacked? Why did Pressfield decide to write a novel when he already had a well established screenwriting career? How does writing a publishable novel really work? Taking a page from John Steinbeck's classic JOURNAL OF A NOVEL, Steven Pressfield offers answers for these and scores of other practical writing questions in THE AUTHENTIC SWING.

Author : Hilda Conkling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems by a Little Girl written by Hilda Conkling and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alec Greven
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007316992
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Talk to Girls written by Alec Greven and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How To Talk To Girls is the US smash hit bestseller from nine year old dating guru, Alec Greven.

Author : Andrew Lane
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1785651854
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Netherspace written by Andrew Lane and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aliens came to Earth forty years ago. Their anatomy proved unfathomable and all attempts at communication failed. But through trade, humanity gained technology that allowed them to colonise the stars. The price: live humans for every alien faster-than-light drive. Kara’s sister was one of hundreds exchanged for this technology, and Kara has little love for aliens. So when she is drafted by GalDiv – the organisation that oversees alien trades – it is under duress. A group of colonists have been kidnapped by aliens and taken to an uncharted planet, and an unusual team is to be sent to negotiate. As an ex-army sniper, Kara’s role is clear. But artist Marc has no combat experience, although the team’s pre-cog Tse is adamant that he has a part to play. All three know that success is unlikely. For how will they negotiate with aliens when communication between the species is impossible?

Author : Martin Kleppmann
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1491903104
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing Data-Intensive Applications written by Martin Kleppmann and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords? In this practical and comprehensive guide, author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate this diverse landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications. Peer under the hood of the systems you already use, and learn how to use and operate them more effectively Make informed decisions by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of different tools Navigate the trade-offs around consistency, scalability, fault tolerance, and complexity Understand the distributed systems research upon which modern databases are built Peek behind the scenes of major online services, and learn from their architectures

Author : Amy Shearn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597093675
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unseen City written by Amy Shearn and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unseen City is a multi-generational portrait of New York and the unexpected connections between a lonely Brooklyn librarian, a widower returning to his roots, and a ghost still lingering in a home that was once part of an activist-founded farming settlement.

Author : Nic Schuck
Publisher : Panhandle Books
ISBN 13 : 1087936136
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Moments written by Nic Schuck and published by Panhandle Books. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of other great ex-patriot stories like The Sun Also Rises or All the Pretty Horses, Native Moments is a coming-of-age adventure set among the lush landscape of Costa Rica. After the death of his brother, Sanch Murray leaves for a surf trip as a way to cope and sets out on a quixotic search for an alternative to the American Dream. Set in 1999 Costa Rica, Sanch and his friend Jake Higdon wander the dirt roads of Tamarindo and surrounding areas chasing waves as a way to live out the romantic fantasy lifestyle of traveling surfers. Jake Higdon, six years Sanch's senior, takes on the role of the wise leader and Sanch as his young apprentice. Sanch's adventure leads to encounters with people who share world views he had never considered and could potentially shape his own changing perceptions about life. Through sometimes humorous episodes such as trying his hand as a matador at a roadside rodeo or in his not so humorous battle with dysentery, Sanch explores life's beauty and wonder alongside the darker undercurrents of humanity. Along his journey, Sanch befriends a shamanic traveler named Rob, young revolutionaries from Venezuela, numerous expatriates from around the world trying to escape whatever it is that keeps chasing them, and a beautiful local girl named Andrea, who Sanch suspects is a prostitute but can't help falling for.

Author : Alistair MacLeod
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 1551995476
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Great Mischief written by Alistair MacLeod and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, No Great Mischief is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, exile, and of the blood ties that bind us, generations later, to the land from which our ancestors came.

Author : Atua Mo'e
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481065702
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NY Zombie Run written by Atua Mo'e and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Atua's childhood didn't consist of video games, television shows, or computer time. He grew up on the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica and spent his days playing outdoors, participating in surfing competitions, and learning how to grow food. Now, as the rainy season drenches Costa Rica, Atua is off to visit his Grandpa Art in Upstate New York. But the flight attendants don't look well, and the other passengers on Atua's plane are acting strange. A fight breaks out, and the next thing he knows, Atua's waking up in the wreckage of the aircraft, miles from his final destination. And as if things weren't bad enough, the downed plane is surrounded by the flesh-eating living-dead! Tammy, a rugged girl of thirteen, has seen the plane go down and is determined to find and aid any survivors. Now Atua and Tammy team up in a race to Syracuse to find Atua's Grandpa, desperate to out-run hunger, exhaustion, and hordes of crazed, bloodthirsty Zombies.

Author : Verlyn Klinkenborg
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307279413
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Several Short Sentences About Writing written by Verlyn Klinkenborg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable and distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it means for them to be writing, from widely admired writer and teacher Verlyn Klinkenborg. Klinkenborg believes that most of our received wisdom about how writing works is not only wrong but an obstacle to our ability to write. In Several Short Sentences About Writing, he sets out to help us unlearn that “wisdom”—about genius, about creativity, about writer’s block, topic sentences, and outline—and understand that writing is just as much about thinking, noticing, and learning what it means to be involved in the act of writing. There is no gospel, no orthodoxy, no dogma in this book. Instead it is a gathering of starting points in a journey toward lively, lucid, satisfying self-expression.