Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, heads of The Atlantic Paranormal Society, are plumbers by day and paranormal investigators by night. They are 'sensitives', people who can sense otherworldly phenomena that others can't. They combine their unique abilities with a healthy dose of skepticism in the Sci Fi Channel's #1 hit show, Ghost Hunters. Ghost ...
Bourdain, bestselling writer, chef, television host, and traveler, edits this year's collection of the finest travel writing from the past year. Contributors include Bill Buford, David Sedaris, Gary Shteyngart, Paul Theroux, Calvin Trillin, and Catherine Watson.
Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume I: Introduction to Level Design with Unreal Engine 3 is your start-to-finish guide to modding and level design with the world's hottest new gaming engine: Unreal Engine 3. Here's everything you need to know to jumpstart your skills and create stunning new content and games for consoles and PCs alike! Your ...
Edited by the inimitable Bill Bryson, this inaugural anthology of travel writing--25 multifaceted essays by writers such as P.J. O'Rourke, Dave Eggers, Mark Ross, and Patrick Symmes--represents some of America's finest wandering eyes. A New York Times Best Book in Travel for 2000.
This third volume in the series presents more exemplars of armchair reading (in this case, armchair listening), taking people away from daily routine to exotic, often remote settings.
Taken from periodicals such as Outside, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, the essays in this edition of THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING cover many varieties of the travel experience, from the quest to the expose. Celebrated novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux is the guest editor.
Taken from periodicals such as Outside, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, the essays in this edition of THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING cover many varieties of the travel experience, from the quest to the expose. Celebrated novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux is the guest editor.
Edited by the inimitable Bill Bryson, this inaugural anthology of travel writing--25 multifaceted essays by writers such as P.J. O'Rourke, Dave Eggers, Mark Ross, and Patrick Symmes--represents some of America's finest wandering eyes. A New York Times Best Book in Travel for 2000.
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Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume II: Advanced Level Design Concepts with Unreal Engine 3 is your start-to-finish guide to state-of-the-art Unreal Tournament 3 modding and level design. Here's everything you need to know to take your game design skills to the next level, creating content with breakthrough depth and interactivity! Your authors ...
A great and innovative thinker, the young Humboldt went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure and scientific research focuses on his time in Venezuela--in the Llanos and on the Orinoco River--riding and paddling, restlessly and happily noting ...
The autobiographical essay "Itinerary," an exploration of Paz's engagement with the politics of Mexico, makes up the bulk of this volume. He traces his early hope for Communism through his break with the ideology during the Stalin years, drawing a vivid portrait of his intellectual development throughout. His essay "The Labyrinth of Solitude" and ...
Born in Buenos Aires in 1899, Jorge Luis Borges has become an Argentinian icon alongside Che Guevara, Evita Peron and Maradona. Destined to be a writer and, it seems, destined to become blind, his formative years were spent reading in his father's library, with occasional myopic glimpses of a rougher life in the surrounding streets. All his early ...
This selection includes pieces by prominent and less well-known writers on the Sahara, lower Manhattan, Minorca, Israel, Cambodia, and an island in the Aegean.
Basic to learning New Testament Greek is acquiring an adequate vocabulary. The traditional methods used for vocabulary building are based on memorization of frequency lists or cognate groups. Mark Wilson introduces Greek students to a method widely used today in general language learning--semantic domains, or categories. Wilson arranges the Greek ...
This guide is for travelers who want to increase their appreciation for each country, and for those who simply love learning about a country through its rich literature. Each volume is packed with scholarly and entertaining historical, geographical, political, and literary information. Includes an informative introduction for each country, concise ...
In his thought-provoking and witty introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2004, Pico Iyer explores American travel writing from the viewpoint of a non-American. He writes, "For many Americans, living in a country that borders few others and at a time when only one in three fellow citizens holds a passport, travel is the only way to get a ...
One of the most important figures in Canadian history, Frederick Arthur Stanley's most enduring legacy is not his term as the country's sixth Governor General but the trophy cup that bears his name. Here, Lord Stanley's political legacy -- his diplomacy in dealing with the United States, his embrace of Canada's West, and his nimble handling of ...
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