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Finding Me
  • Language: en

Finding Me

I had it all! A beautiful wife...three vivacious little girls...the proverbial house with a fence...a new career...even a miniature schnauzer. I was living the picture perfect American Dream. Yet I found myself in a perpetual free fall. With the world collapsing around me, a deep darkness infiltrated my soul. As my wife walked out the door of the Stress Center, I knew that nothing would ever be the same. I heard the door lock behind her. Silence filled the room, except for the constant tick, tick, ticking of the clock. And so began an extraordinary adventure that would shake the very foundations I had built my life upon. This was going to be an incredible journey. This journey to find who I was really meant to be. "A sobering personal reflection of a life and death tug-of-war, reminding every Christian that we are not pawns on a gameboard, but embattled warriors-whose only hope of victory lies in heeding the voice of our Commander, daily." -S.M. Calhoun- Swiss City Monthly

Outliers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Outliers

Outliers is the story of a physician assistant's (Kyle Sanderson PA-C) and his supervising physician's (Lucas Moses, M.D.) quest to discover how and why their patients insured by Americare are dying inexplicably, to bring this to an end, and to bring those responsible to justice. It is also the story of conflicted love between Kyle and an Americare administrator, and then between Kyle and Luke, with Kyle, eventually realizing the Luke is the true love of his life. “Find out who did this to all of us, and why,” the ghost of 17-year-old Sean MacDonald implores Kyle Sanderson, PA-C as he sits bolt upright on the autopsy table, gazing deeply into Kyle’s eyes. Sean’s earthly remains lay s...

Animation in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Animation in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-11-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite this, and unlike American blockbuster productions and the diverse genres of Japanese anime, much animation from the PRC remains relatively unknown. This book is an historical and theoretical study of animation in the PRC. Although the Wan Brothers produced the first feature length animated film in 1941, the industry as we know it today truly began in the 1950s at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS), which remained the sole animation studio until the 1980s. Considering animation in China as a convergence of the institutions of education, fine ar...

Animation in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

Animation in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-11-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite this, and unlike American blockbuster productions and the diverse genres of Japanese anime, much animation from the PRC remains relatively unknown. This book is an historical and theoretical study of animation in the PRC. Although the Wan Brothers produced the first feature length animated film in 1941, the industry as we know it today truly began in the 1950s at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS), which remained the sole animation studio until the 1980s. Considering animation in China as a convergence of the institutions of education, fine ar...

Green Rushes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Green Rushes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-08-16
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  • Publisher: DigiCat

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Green Rushes" by Maurice Walsh. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Luke's Gold
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Luke's Gold

A Braunach who jumps to the future to save his uncle A Pixie who will do anything to heal her sister Will he find a way to save them both? Or will he have to choose between his family’s gold and his heart’s treasure? Luke MacDonald, a charming Braunach from nineteenth century Ireland, uses his uncle’s enchanted amber to time jump to the future. His family’s gold was stolen and he must recover it to save his uncle’s failing mind. Brianna Wellbrook, a Cornish Pixie, has no choice but to use the gold her ancestor stole two centuries earlier. Her little sister is very ill, and no magic will heal her. She was warned that someone will come to retrieve it but she never expected such a strong and handsome Braunach. A dark presence followed Luke on his jump, and he wants the gold. Will Luke find a way to save the treasure and their loved ones before all is lost?

Chinese Animated Film and Ideology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Chinese Animated Film and Ideology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-22
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

This book presents a contextualized overview of the history of Chinese animated film, pointing out the most influential self-definitions of Chinese culture employed in animation art of Mao Zedong’s rule (1949–1976) but largely focusing on the representation strategies created in the times of reforms and opening-up under Deng Xiaoping (1978–1989/1992). Deeply grounded in cultural studies, the book employs an interdisciplinary approach, interlacing the reflection with the perspectives of political science, film studies, and film festival studies. It focuses on phenomena anchored to the paradigms of nationalization, reform, and internationalization: among them, nuanced understanding of the minzu (national) category (including the classic style of Chinese animation); invention of wash-and-ink painting animation (shuimo donghua); renewal of film theory and animated film language; soft power and cultural diplomacy; and regular access and co-creation of the international industry (festival distribution). This book will be of great interest to those in the fields of animation studies, film studies, political science, Chinese area studies, and Chinese philology.

The Tern Schooner
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 493

The Tern Schooner

Devastated by the loss of his family, Gideon Markham has retreated to his ship and the life of the sea. Heir to a privateering tradition, he brings his schooner into the Gulf of Mexico to wage unremitting war on the British who threaten America’s freedom. But the puritanical Gideon finds the Gulf a strange and threatening place, and soon he must face Jean Laffite’s pirates, a mutiny, an attack by Red Stick Creeks, and a British invasion . . . none of which he finds as baffling and alarming as Maria-Anna de Suarez, an attractive widow who gambles at cards, brandishes a pair of pistols, and plans to lead an expedition into the heart of enemy territory, with Gideon as her guide and pawn. Originally published as The Yankee, this is one of the action-packed historical novels with which Walter Jon Williams began his career.

Chinese Animation and Socialism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Chinese Animation and Socialism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-10-05
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This is the first book in English on Chinese animation and socialism that introduces the insider viewpoints of socialist animators at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. A timely and useful reference book for researchers, students, animators, and fans interested in Chinese and even world animation.

Chinese Animated Film and Ideology, 1940s-1970s
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 197

Chinese Animated Film and Ideology, 1940s-1970s

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-10-24
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

This book examines animated propaganda produced in mainland China from the 1940s to the 1970s. The analyses of four puppet films demonstrate how animation and Maoist doctrine became tightly but dynamically entangled. The book firstly contextualizes the production conditions and ideological contents of The Emperor’s Dream (1947), the first puppet film made at the Northeast Film Studio in Changchun. It then examines the artistic, intellectual, and ideological backbone of the puppet film Wanderings of Sanmao (1958). The book presents the means and methods applied in puppet animation filmmaking that complied with the ideological principles established by the radical supporters of Mao Zedong in the first half of the 1960s, discussing Rooster Crows at Midnight (1964). The final chapter discusses The Little 8th Route Army (1973), created by You Lei in the midst of the Cultural Revolution. This book will be of great interest to those in the fields of animation studies, film studies, political science, Chinese area studies, and Chinese philology.