[PDF] Sliding On The Edge eBook

Author : C. Lee Mckenzie
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781482022780

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Scarred. Scared. Alone. Can sixteen-year-old Shawna Stone overcome her inner suffering and transcend the past? Shawna has spent the first sixteen years of her life in Las Vegas and learned to handle anything from a Las Vegas hustle to skipping out on the rent. Damaged inside and out, she's survived with a tough, hardened attitude. When her mother abandons her, with only a bus ticket and the name and number of stranger to call, this troubled , desperate teen finds herself on a California horse ranch with Kay Stone, the steely, youngish grandmother she's never known. Kay overwhelms Shawna with rules and daily barn chores, and Shawna baffles Kay with her foul-mouthed anger and shrugging indifference to everything--except the maltreated horse on the ranch next door. But it's worse than even Kay suspects: Shawna's driven to cut herself by Monster, that strange voice inside her head. Kay struggles to keep the ranch going and fears that unless she helps this girl, she could lose her last living family member.As this unlikely pair struggles to co-exist, will they overcome their suffering and transcend the past? Blurbs from authors:"Sliding on the Edge is the compelling, courageous chronicle of one girl-destined to be a no one-who fights back against her secret grief and pain and finds her life." Judy Gregerson, author of Bad Girls Club"C. Lee McKenzie's extraordinarily moving novel accomplishes a rare feat: It manages to be a coming -of-age story for both its troubled teen protagonist and the grandmother who takes her in. But Sliding on the Edge's beating heart is Shawna Stone: a girl you can't help rooting for, even when she doesn't see much point in rooting for herself. Readers won't likely forget her."Dan Ehrenhaft, author of The Afterlife and Tell It to Naomi

Author : Jeff Olson
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1626340463

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Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success & Happiness

Author : Oliver Villar
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0134665155

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This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Master the Newest Blender Techniques for Creating Amazing 3D Characters: From Design and Modeling to Video Compositing Now fully updated for Blender 2.78b and beyond, Learning Blender, Second Edition, walks you through every step of creating an outstanding 3D animated character with Blender, and then compositing it in a real video using a professional workflow. This edition covers the powerful new selection and modeling tools, as well as high-efficiency improvements related to other parts of the project such as texture painting, shading, rigging, rendering, and compositing. Still the only Blender tutorial to take you from preproduction to final result, this guide is perfect for both novices and those moving from other software to Blender (open source and free software). Author Oliver Villar provides full-color, hands-on chapters that cover every aspect of character creation: design, modeling, unwrapping, texturing, shading, rigging, animation, and rendering. He also walks you through integrating your animated character into a real-world video, using professional camera tracking, lighting, and compositing techniques. The rich companion website (blendtuts.com/learning-blender-files) will help you quickly master even the most complex techniques with bonus contents like video tutorials. By the time you’re done, you’ll be ready to create outstanding characters for all media–and you’ll have up-to-date skills for any 3D project, whether it involves characters or not. Learn Blender’s updated user interface, navigation, and selection techniques Create your first scene with Blender and the Blender Render and Cycles render engines Organize an efficient, step-by-step pipeline to streamline workflow in any project Master modeling, unwrapping, and texturing Bring your character to life with materials and shading Create your character’s skeleton and make it walk Use Camera Tracking to mix 3D objects into a real-world video Transform a raw rendered scene into the final result using Blender’s compositing nodes Register your product at informit.com/register for convenient access to downloads, updates, and corrections as they become available.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Patents
ISBN :

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Includes list of replacement pages.

Author : Li Tian
Publisher : Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Page : 3956 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3038261564

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Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Building Materials (3rd CEABM2013), May 24-26, 2013, Jinan, China. The 724 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Geotechnical Engineering; Chapter 2: Geological Engineering; Chapter 3: Tunnel, Subway and Underground Facilities; Chapter 4: Seismic Engineering; Chapter 5: Disaster Prevention and Mitigation; Chapter 6: Hydraulic Engineering and Hydrology; Chapter 7: Coastal Engineering; Chapter 8: Construction Technology; Chapter 9: Water Supply and Drainage Engineering; Chapter 10: Heating, Gas Supply, Ventilation, Air Conditioning Works and Daylighting Design; Chapter 11: Computational Mechanics; Chapter 12: Surveying Engineering; Chapter 13: Cartography and Geographic Information System; Chapter 14: CAD/CAE/Computer Technology.