Yours Truly, 2095

Yours Truly, 2095
Author: Brian Paone
Publisher: Scout Media
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0991309170

Is it a love triangle if time travel is involved? Jeff Blue made important decisions every day—what clothes to wear, what to eat for breakfast, and what book to teach his high school English class. What he never expected was needing to make a choice between repairing his failing marriage in 1981 or start anew with J0—an unexpected and flawless copy of his wife in 2095. 114 years in the future is nothing like he imagined and waking up there comes with its own list of questions. But while getting back to his time should be at the top of his list, it's hard to resist the new-and-improved version of his wife. J0's a clean slate. A chance to have things just the way he wants, to have things as they were before their daughter’s “accident.” However, staring at J0 reminds him of the woman he left back in 1981, whom he had vowed for better or worse. Armed with a one-way ticket to the moon, it's a race against the clock to seize his last chance to return home to his time. A time without hover cars, Justice Computers, TeleSkins—a time without J0. Is that what he really wants?


Yours Truly, 2095

Yours Truly, 2095
Author: Brian Paone
Publisher: Scout Media
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0991309162

Is it a love triangle if time travel is involved? Jeff Blue made important decisions every day—what clothes to wear, what to eat for breakfast, and what book to teach his high school English class. What he never expected was needing to make a choice between repairing his failing marriage in 1981 or start anew with J0—an unexpected and flawless copy of his wife in 2095. 114 years in the future is nothing like he imagined and waking up there comes with its own list of questions. But while getting back to his time should be at the top of his list, it's hard to resist the new-and-improved version of his wife. J0's a clean slate. A chance to have things just the way he wants, to have things as they were before their daughter’s “accident.” However, staring at J0 reminds him of the woman he had left back in 1981, whom he had vowed for better or worse. Armed with a one-way ticket to the moon, it's a race against the clock to seize his last chance to return home to his time. A time without hover cars, Justice Computers, TeleSkins—a time without J0. Is that what he really wants?


The Gods

The Gods
Author: Dave Jeanes
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1326807927

Some people didn't believe in Spaceships; until they saw a Spaceship. Some people didn't believe in Time-travel; until they travelled in time. Some people were prepared to believe in anything - even parallel universes! Some people believed in something they couldn't even see. Some people didn't believe in anything. Fortunately, The Gods believed in them all... Watch this Space. Watch this Time. Watch yourself...


How to Wreck a Nice Beach

How to Wreck a Nice Beach
Author: Dave Tompkins
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011-11-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1612190936

The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the ubiquitous voice of popular music. In How to Wreck a Nice Beach—from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase “how to recognize speech”—music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin’s gulags, from the 1939 World’s Fair to Hiroshima, from artificial larynges to Auto-Tune. We see the vocoder brush up against FDR, JFK, Stanley Kubrick, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Kraftwerk, the Cylons, Henry Kissinger, and Winston Churchill, who boomed, when vocoderized on V-E Day, “We must go off!” And now vocoder technology is a cell phone standard, allowing a digital replica of your voice to sound human. From T-Mobile to T-Pain, How to Wreck a Nice Beach is a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of music’s most provocative innovators.


Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery

Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery
Author: Richard York
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2011-02-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1118059506

This book covers the jQuery JavaScript framework and the jQuery UI JavaScript framework to get more results faster out of JavaScript programming. The author covers each method exposed by jQuerys API, which contains methods to resolve common, redundant tasks in less code. You will also learn how jQuery eliminates certain cross-browser, cross-platform development headaches like the event model. In addition to giving you the ability to simulate events, this book also helps simplify your work with events by reducing the amount of code that you need to write to attach events.


Robots in American Popular Culture

Robots in American Popular Culture
Author: Steve Carper
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1476635056

 They are invincible warriors of steel, silky-skinned enticers, stealers of jobs and lovable goofball sidekicks. Legions of robots and androids star in the dream factories of Hollywood and leer on pulp magazine covers, instantly recognizable icons of American popular culture. For two centuries, we have been told tales of encounters with creatures stronger, faster and smarter than ourselves, making us wonder who would win in a battle between machine and human. This book examines society's introduction to robots and androids such as Robby and Rosie, Elektro and Sparko, Data, WALL-E, C-3PO and the Terminator, particularly before and after World War II when the power of technology exploded. Learn how robots evolved with the times and then eventually caught up with and surpassed them.


Moonlight City Drive 3

Moonlight City Drive 3
Author: Brian Paone
Publisher: Scout Media
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2021-08-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 173688672X

Family. The Job. The Thrill of a Trilogy. It’ll Take a Miracle to Survive. The black-veiled witch Anya and her army of ghouls aren’t used to being hunted—especially by her prodigies. In the final installment of the Moonlight City Drive trilogy, all the players are forced into a final showdown. Killers vs Detectives. Warlocks vs Vultures. Teenagers vs Witches. Psychics vs Ghouls. Everyone knows it’s the end of the road, and the city is certainly alive tonight. Melissa Smith, the granddaughter of the infamous Wharf Killer, wrestles with either following in her grandfather’s footsteps and continue to eradicate the dames of the night or redeem herself and use her powers for good. Returning to Las Vegas to revisit where the beginning of her family’s involvement in the witch’s mission occurred, Melissa will have to kill or relinquish her prominent status within the Mushroom Cult. Whichever her decision, she will need the help of innocent bystanders and invested mystics and commit to her destiny or finally end Anya’s reign. Who will get out alive?


Science Fiction in Classic Rock

Science Fiction in Classic Rock
Author: Robert McParland
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2017-11-29
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1476664706

As technology advances, society retains its mythical roots--a tendency evident in rock music and its enduring relationship with myth and science fiction. This study explores the mythical and fantastic themes of artists from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, including David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, Blue Oyster Cult, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Drawing on insights from Joseph Campbell, J.G. Frazer, Carl Jung and Mircea Eliade, the author examines how performers have incorporated mythic archetypes and science fiction imagery into songs that illustrate societal concerns and futuristic fantasies.


Jeff Lynne

Jeff Lynne
Author: John Van der Kiste
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2017-01-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: