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Designing with Light

An Introduction to Stage Lighting

by J. Michael Gillette, Michael McNamara ...

Now in its eighth edition, Designing with Light introduces readers to the art, craft, and technology of stage lighting to help them create designs that shape the audience’s emotional reaction to—and understanding of—a stage production.This new edition is fully updated to include current information on the technology and equipment of stage lighting: lighting fixtures, lamps, cabling, dimmers, ... Read more

$100.30 CAD

Now in its eighth edition, Designing with Light introduces readers to the art, craft, and technology of stage lighting to help them create designs that shape the audience’s emotional reaction to—and understanding of—a stage production.This new edition is fully updated to include current information on the technology and equipment of stage lighting: lighting fixtures, lamps, cabling, dimmers,
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Lady Bird Johnson

An Oral History

by Michael L. Gillette ...

Series series Oxford Oral History Series
Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation into one of America's most effective and admired First Ladies. Lady Bird Johnson's odyssey is one of ... Read more

$19.19 CAD

Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation into one of America's most effective and admired First Ladies. Lady Bird Johnson's odyssey is one of
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The Collection of Jacqueline Melrose - Remember

by Michael Gillett ...

The second and final chapter of The Collection of Jacqueline Melrose.The killer of Jacqueline's father has been dealt with, but the situation is far from over. Booth, fallen Ba of OtherWhere and instigator of the murder, roams the streets of London seeking answers to a question he cannot ask.Joanne Melrose has been sucked away, landing alone and lost in a dimension of her own creation. In her ... Read more

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The second and final chapter of The Collection of Jacqueline Melrose.The killer of Jacqueline's father has been dealt with, but the situation is far from over. Booth, fallen Ba of OtherWhere and instigator of the murder, roams the streets of London seeking answers to a question he cannot ask.Joanne Melrose has been sucked away, landing alone and lost in a dimension of her own creation. In her
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The Collection of Jacqueline Melrose - Revenge

by Michael Gillett ...

This extraordinary debut novel offers a genre-bending journey through spaces that are both familiar and strange, comforting and horrifying, historical and fantastical...Jeanne Melrose is barely coping with her awkward status of well-to-do Widow in 1920 London. Her twin daughters, while gifted with very odd talents, are incorrigible - Jacqueline obsessed with rooting out their father's killer, ... Read more

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This extraordinary debut novel offers a genre-bending journey through spaces that are both familiar and strange, comforting and horrifying, historical and fantastical...Jeanne Melrose is barely coping with her awkward status of well-to-do Widow in 1920 London. Her twin daughters, while gifted with very odd talents, are incorrigible - Jacqueline obsessed with rooting out their father's killer,
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Feature Management with LaunchDarkly

Discover safe ways to make live changes in your systems and master testing in production

by Michael Gillett ...

Make code deployments completely safe and change your application in production in real time with LaunchDarkly using percentage-based rollouts, kill switches, and A/B and multi-variant testingKey FeaturesLearn how to work with LaunchDarkly to turn features on and off within your production applicationsExplore the ways in which feature management can change how software is built and how teams ... Read more

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Make code deployments completely safe and change your application in production in real time with LaunchDarkly using percentage-based rollouts, kill switches, and A/B and multi-variant testingKey FeaturesLearn how to work with LaunchDarkly to turn features on and off within your production applicationsExplore the ways in which feature management can change how software is built and how teams
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The Machines That Make Us

by Chris Patrick Carolan, Robert J. Sawyer, Al Onia, Brent Nichols, Ron S. Friedman, R.E. Baird, Renée Bennett, Kevin Weir, Marc Watson, Jim Sheasby, Mark Phillip Ross, Celeste A. Peters, Dale McShannock, Dan M. Hampton, Fernando Girotto, Michael Gillett, Robert W. Easton, Ellen A. Easton, Ed Buchan, Adriaan Brae ...

Series Book 6 - Enigma Front
The word “robot” was coined a little over a century ago, but humankind has always told stories of constructed lifeforms. From the earliest myths to the latest blockbuster, stories of artificial life have always held our attention. But what do the stories we tell about the machines we make reveal about how we see ourselves?One person risks everything for one good shot. Absolution is dispensed at ... Read more

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The word “robot” was coined a little over a century ago, but humankind has always told stories of constructed lifeforms. From the earliest myths to the latest blockbuster, stories of artificial life have always held our attention. But what do the stories we tell about the machines we make reveal about how we see ourselves?One person risks everything for one good shot. Absolution is dispensed at
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The End in 13 Stories

by Stefan Lear, Valerie Lioudis, Jack Kelly, Robert W. Easton, Ellen A. Easton, T. D. Ricketts, Derek Shupert, William Stuart, Austin James, L. Douglas Hogan, Veronica Smith, Michael Gillett ...

THE END!The world as we know has come to an end. There is destruction and chaos as far as the eye can see. Are you prepared?THE END COMES IN MANY FORMS, WHICH ONE SPEAKS TO YOU?Author Valerie Lioudis has assembled an original anthology of stories from a group of today’s hottest writers. Inside there are tales of extinction level events, survival in a broken wasteland, a bar at the end of it all, ... Read more

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THE END!The world as we know has come to an end. There is destruction and chaos as far as the eye can see. Are you prepared?THE END COMES IN MANY FORMS, WHICH ONE SPEAKS TO YOU?Author Valerie Lioudis has assembled an original anthology of stories from a group of today’s hottest writers. Inside there are tales of extinction level events, survival in a broken wasteland, a bar at the end of it all,
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Launching the War on Poverty

An Oral History

by Michael L. Gillette ...

Series series Oxford Oral History Series
Head Start, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, College Work-Study, VISTA, Community Action, and the Legal Services Corporation are familiar programs, but their tumultuous beginning has been largely forgotten. Conceived amid the daring idealism of the 1960s, these programs originated as weapons in Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, an offensive spearheaded by a controversial new government agency. ... Read more

$38.39 CAD

Head Start, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, College Work-Study, VISTA, Community Action, and the Legal Services Corporation are familiar programs, but their tumultuous beginning has been largely forgotten. Conceived amid the daring idealism of the 1960s, these programs originated as weapons in Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, an offensive spearheaded by a controversial new government agency.
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Knight Life [Dramatized Adaptation]

Modern Arthur Trilogy 1

by Peter David ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Matthew Keenan, Amanda Forstrom, Nanna Ingvarrson, Kimberly Gilbert, Ken Jackson, Chris Genebach, Scott McCormick, David Jourdan, Eva Wilhelm, Nick DePinto, Eric Messner, Bradley Smith, Christopher Walker, Lincoln Zada, Laura C. Harris, Bill Gillett, Michael Glenn, Yasmin Tuazon, Jeff Allin, Bob Payne, Michael John Casey, Nanette Savard, Bruce Alan Rauscher, Todd Scofield, Evan Casey, Danny Gavigan, James Lewis, Chris Davenport, Tim Getman, Dani Stoller, Thomas Keegan, Patrick Bussink, Chris Scheeren, Nora Achrati, Jonathan Feuer, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby, Karen Novack, Steve Wannall, Jonathon Church ...

Series series Modern Arthur
Unabridged

8 hours

More than 1,500 years after his disappearance into the mists of Avalon, King Arthur has returned. This time, he's prepared to rule the Camelot of a new millennium: New York City. Handsome, charismatic Arthur Penn is running for mayor on a platform of common sense, humor, and knightly virtues. His advisors include a gifted ten-year-old named Merlin; Percival, an immortal accountant; and Gwen, a ... Read more

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More than 1,500 years after his disappearance into the mists of Avalon, King Arthur has returned. This time, he's prepared to rule the Camelot of a new millennium: New York City. Handsome, charismatic Arthur Penn is running for mayor on a platform of common sense, humor, and knightly virtues. His advisors include a gifted ten-year-old named Merlin; Percival, an immortal accountant; and Gwen, a
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California Prehistory

Colonization, Culture, and Complexity

by Ivano Aiello, Mark W. Allen, R Scott Anderson, Mark E. Basgall, Viviana Bellefemine, David G. Bieling, Brian F. Byrd, Robert Cartier, Jim Cassidy, Joseph L. Chartkoff, Jon M. Erlandson, Jason A. Eshleman, Richard T. Fitzgerald, David A. Fredrickson, LynnH Gamble, Jill K. Gardner, Donna Gillette, Amy J. Gilreath, Michael A. Glassow, Victor Golla, Andrew Gottsfield, Randy G. Groza, William R. Hildebrandt, Richard E. Hughes, Kathleen L. Hull, Mark G. Hylkema, Deborah A. Jones, Don Laylander, Alan Leventhal, Patricia M. Masters, Kelly R. McGuire, Randall Milliken, Michael J. Moratto, Tom Origer, Jennifer E. Perry, Judith F. Porcasi, L Mark Raab, Torben C. Rick, Michael F. Rondeau, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Glenn S. Russell, Jerry Schaefer, David Glenn Smith, Nathan E. Stevens, Eric Strother, Mark Q. Sutton, James A. Wanket, G James West, Gregory G. White, Randy Wiberg, Wallace Woolfenden ...

Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is the most extensive study of California's prehistory undertaken in the past 20 years. An essential resource for any scholar of California prehistory ... Read more

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Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is the most extensive study of California's prehistory undertaken in the past 20 years. An essential resource for any scholar of California prehistory
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Sir Apropos of Nothing (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

Sir Apropos of Nothing 1

by Peter David ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Scott McCormick, Eric Messner, Terence Aselford, Michael John Casey, Dawn Ursula, Marni Penning, Nick DePinto, Jeff Allin, Elizabeth Jernigan, Doug Brown, Dani Stoller, Casie Platt, Colleen Delany, Bill Gillett, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh, Michael Glenn, Evan Casey, Helen Pafumi, Nanette Savard, Jonathon Church, Ken Jackson, Tony Nam, Sasha Olinick, Chris Genebach, Christopher Graybill, Matthew Bassett, Jonathan Feuer, Richard Rohan ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Sir Apropos of Nothing
Unabridged

7 hours 24 min

In the grand tradition of Blackadder and Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the story of an anti-hero who can't help but find his way to greatness whether he likes it or not.Apropos is a rogue, a rascal, a scoundrel, a cheat...and those are his good points. Lame of leg but fast of wit, the only reason Apropos doesn't consider chivalry dead is because he's not yet through with it. An orphan with a ... Read more

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In the grand tradition of Blackadder and Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the story of an anti-hero who can't help but find his way to greatness whether he likes it or not.Apropos is a rogue, a rascal, a scoundrel, a cheat...and those are his good points. Lame of leg but fast of wit, the only reason Apropos doesn't consider chivalry dead is because he's not yet through with it. An orphan with a
... Read more
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Ripper [Dramatized Adaptation]

by Stefan Petrucha ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Scott McCormick, Chris Stinson, Christopher Walker, Dani Stoller, Paul Reisman, Jonathon Church, Matthew Schleigh, Matthew Bassett, Carolyn Kashner, Nick DePinto, Marni Penning, Steven Carpenter, Faith Potts, Gary Telles, Scott Graham, Andy Brownstein, Lynette Rathnam, David Jourdan, Todd Scofield, Michael John Casey, Bill Gillett, Yasmin Tuazon, Ken Jackson, Jessica Lauren Ball, Colleen Delany, Sasha Olinick, Tia Shearer, Terence Aselford ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

You thought you knew him. You were dead wrong.Carver Young dreams of becoming a detective, despite growing up in an orphanage with only crime novels to encourage him. But when he is adopted by Detective Hawking of the world famous Pinkerton Agency, Carver is given not only the chance to find his biological father, he finds himself smack in the middle of a real life investigation: tracking down a ... Read more

$32.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

You thought you knew him. You were dead wrong.Carver Young dreams of becoming a detective, despite growing up in an orphanage with only crime novels to encourage him. But when he is adopted by Detective Hawking of the world famous Pinkerton Agency, Carver is given not only the chance to find his biological father, he finds himself smack in the middle of a real life investigation: tracking down a
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