Reference
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

Alan Kay (1940– ) at Xerox PARC in 1974. Kay’s 1972 sketch for a Dynabook. Lee Felsenstein (1945– ). The first issue, October 1972. By keeping children (of all ages) ...
( Category: Hacking October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-19 | Author:Petrine Day Mitchum & Audrey Pavia [Mitchum, Petrine Day & Pavia, Audrey]

Cinematographer Roger Deakins focuses on actress Hailee Steinfeld as she swims the river on a mechanical horse in the Coen brothers’ version of True Grit. Cut to: Hailee Steinfeld’s stunt ...
( Category: Reference October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Seymour Reit

9 May 20, 1862 The moon was curtained with thick clouds. Wind rustled the willow trees along the Chickahominy. Now and then came the faint grumble of far-off cannon fire. ...
( Category: American Civil War October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Harper Paris

“ ‘Dragons equal good luck. Elephants equal strength. Tigers equal courage. Rabbits equal hope.’ And ‘grasshoppers equal wisdom,’ ” she read out loud. Ethan noticed a whole row of bird ...
( Category: Chapter Books October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:James Redfield

I heard the music before I was completely conscious. It was a classic Chinese composer I had heard before. I jerked awake and realized I was in an elaborate, Chinese-style ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:Jussi Adler-Olsen

21 “What’s Rose going to say when we go to see Malene Kristoffersen without her?” Carl cast a glance up at the imposing gates of Vestre prison as they drove ...
( Category: Police Procedurals October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:James Redfield

After a moment of dizziness and a sense of rapid movement, I looked around and saw Wil beside me. He glanced my way, then gazed out at the dark gray ...
( Category: Short Stories October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

It was raining again when we reached Gleawecestre. Water was puddling in the fields, pouring down the road’s stone-choked gutters, and turning the stone of the Roman walls dark. We ...
( Category: Military October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-05 | Author:Meir Shalev [SHALEV, MEIR]

4 WE ENTERED the village. “Lovely” Tirzah said. “Pitch-black streets, huge potholes, and of course they don’t sell anchovies in the local grocery” “What’s so lovely about that?” “It means ...
( Category: Religious October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jane O'Connor

At dinner that evening, Nancy’s dad said, “My, my. Just the other day you were complaining about the lack of crime around here.” He paused to spoon some carrots onto ...
( Category: Chapter Books October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-10-26 | Author:Margaret Clark

Well, Ally didn’t move in under my bed because Menzel went off to school camp and things calmed down. But worse. Parents can be an embarrassment too: This is part ...
( Category: Reference October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-31 | Author:James Redfield [REDFIELD, JAMES]

CLEARING THE PAST Ahead the road narrowed and bent sharply around the sheer rock face of the mountain. The truck bounced over several large rocks and slowly proceeded through the ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eve Bunting [Bunting, Eve]

"Attend your lessons, do not sit and dream," the teacher says. "You want to be dumb Indian all your life?" I toss my head. The bugle calls us in to ...
( Category: Native North & South Americans October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Fiona McDonald

3. Consider adding a tiny house between the box bushes. 4. Take a Popsicle stick picket fence (instructions given in chapter 15) and balance it across from pot to pot ...
( Category: Gardening October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Edward Craig

10. Every subject talks its own talk. In a rough and ready way we all make a distinction between perceiving and thinking. It is one thing to see the objects ...
( Category: History & Surveys October 27,2014 )