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Stephen Elliott

Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 16 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1998–2018, suosituimpiin kuuluu Sometimes I Think about It: Essays. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.

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Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1998–2018.

The Box Topped Bandit

The Box Topped Bandit

Stephen Elliott

Outskirts Press
2018
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This concise yet exciting novel shall invariably remain unique within the realm of cult classics. There are many contributing factors to employing this distinctively out-side-of-the-box thinking found within the scope of this novel's adept ability to never apply any regular names to the characters. Instead, your author has chosen to assign a name to each person, or either by some other mentally flash-frozen character facet. This affords the readers the opportunity to expand their imaginations to fit every character, and could further prove to be employed as a powerful teaching tool. Further, the novel's main character of the Box Topped Bandit and his small black accomplice (the Kid) set out to slice open as many Pillsbury Cake mix boxes as possible to find a golden ticket that will permit the Bandit an airfare to anywhere in the world. Of course, all of this has to be done with great stealth, as the Bandit is already a known figure and on the run. But, this comic caper combines the elements of crime, constant calamities, a clash between the titans of power (the Suits), a spectacular food fight involving (the Yellar Checked Fellar), an overall power-to-the-people struggle, and even a damsel in distress. Yes, a comic classic that should go down in the annals as a one-of-a-kind novel, all written from the refreshing perspective of a young black kid that told this entire tale. Truly a remarkable read and well worth every cent spent on such a distinctly devised adventure.
Sometimes I Think about It: Essays

Sometimes I Think about It: Essays

Stephen Elliott

GRAYWOLF PRESS
2017
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An essay collection by a writer who "may be writing under . . . the influence of genius" (Vanity Fair) In Sometimes I Think About It, Stephen Elliott gathers personal essays, reportage, and profiles written over fifteen years to tell a powerful story about outsiders and underdogs. Moving from the self to the civic, the book begins with a series of essays that trace Elliott's childhood with an abusive and erratic father, his life on the streets as a teenager, and his growing interest in cross-dressing and masochism. These stories, which range from a comic portrait of a week spent hosting his younger brother to a brutal depiction of depression, provide a context for the essays that follow. Stepping out into the world, Elliott tells of a man who loses his family in a rock slide in Southern California, explores the vexing realities of life in Palestine, and paints a chilling picture of a young man caught in the prison-industrial complex. The last section, "The Business of America Is Business," shows Elliott's abiding interest in the spectacle of money in America, from pop music to pornography to publishing, and it concludes with an off-kilter account of the tech industry's assault on West Los Angeles. Building on the extraordinary storytelling that characterized his breakout book, The Adderall Diaries, Elliott's search for dignity and happiness leads him to tell with great sympathy the stories of those who are broken and seek to be whole.
Restauración de bosques tropicales

Restauración de bosques tropicales

Stephen Elliott; David Blakesley; Kate Hardwick

Kew Publishing
2013
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Restoring Tropical Forests is a user-friendly guide to restoring forests throughout the tropics. Based on the concepts, knowledge and innovative techniques developed at Chiang Mai University’s Forest Restoration Research Unit, this book will enable improvements in existing forest restoration projects and provide a key resource for new ones. The book presents three aspects of the restoration of tropical forest ecosystems: the concepts of tropical forest dynamics and regeneration that are relevant to tropical forest restoration, proven restoration techniques and case studies of their successful application, and research methods to refine such techniques and adapt them to local ecological and socio-economic conditions.
Restauration des forêts tropicales

Restauration des forêts tropicales

Stephen Elliott; David Blakesley; Kate Hardwick

Kew Publishing
2013
nidottu
Restoring Tropical Forests is a user-friendly guide to restoring forests throughout the tropics. Based on the concepts, knowledge and innovative techniques developed at Chiang Mai University’s Forest Restoration Research Unit, this book will enable improvements in existing forest restoration projects and provide a key resource for new ones. The book presents three aspects of the restoration of tropical forest ecosystems: the concepts of tropical forest dynamics and regeneration that are relevant to tropical forest restoration, proven restoration techniques and case studies of their successful application, and research methods to refine such techniques and adapt them to local ecological and socio-economic conditions.
Restoring Tropical Forests

Restoring Tropical Forests

Stephen Elliott; David Blakesley; Kate Hardwick

Kew Publishing
2013
nidottu
Restoring Tropical Forests is a user-friendly guide to restoring forests throughout the tropics. Based on the concepts, knowledge and innovative techniques developed at Chiang Mai University’s Forest Restoration Research Unit, this book will enable improvements in existing forest restoration projects and provide a key resource for new ones. The book presents three aspects of the restoration of tropical forest ecosystems: the concepts of tropical forest dynamics and regeneration that are relevant to tropical forest restoration, proven restoration techniques and case studies of their successful application, and research methods to refine such techniques and adapt them to local ecological and socio-economic conditions.
Happy Baby

Happy Baby

Stephen Elliott

Picador
2012
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Happy Baby is surely the most intelligent and beautiful book ever written about juvenile detention centers, sadomasochism and drugs . . . Heartbreaking' New York Times Book Review HAPPY BABY is the story of Theo, once the eponymous happy baby, but later an orphan in foster care and now a grown man living in California. Haunted by memories of neglect, abandonment and abuse, Theo returns to Chicago where he lived as a troubled adolescent, to track down an old girlfriend. Told in reverse order, this is an edgy and powerful novel, chilling in its portrayal of a life slowly yet systematically disintegrating. 'Telling his story backward . . . is a graceful strategy that gives Happy Baby its unique veracity and humane edge. It also allows the narrative to transcend the shocking details of Theo's life, which Elliott reveals in quick verbal jabs that pepper his otherwise tightly wound prose' Village Voice
Donald

Donald

Eric Martin; Stephen Elliott

McSweeney's Publishing
2011
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As America's most infamous former Secretary of Defense lies poised to unleash his wistful recollections and rewriting of the war on terror, authors Eric Martin and Stephen Elliott humbly submit their take to the historical record: Donald. What would happen if Donald Rumsfeld, former defense secretary and architect of the war on terror, was abducted at night from his Maryland home, held without charges in his own prison system, denied a trial, and kept in a place where no one could find him, beyond the reach of the law? Donald is a high-wire allegory that answers this question, in equal parts breakneck thriller and gradual descent into madness. But it is also a novel rooted in the harrowing stories of real people caught in America's military campaigns. And while there are those who would try to convince us that war is full of uncertainty--of knowns and unknowns--Donald reminds us that there remain things we know to be wrong.
Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica

Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica

Stephen Elliott

HARPER PERENNIAL
2008
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Sex for America takes us to the intersection of our desires and our political beliefs. These provocative stories by some of today's best writers, including Anthony Swofford, Jerry Stahl, Rick Moody, and Jonathan Ames, will inspire new discussions of sexual freedom and fascination. A surprising encounter between a lesbian and a young man shipping off to war, a liberal Hill staffer falling for the wife of a Republican senator, and Dick Cheney's duck hunt accident as jilted lover's revenge. See your government--and your most recent sex partners--as you've never seen them before.
Looking Forward to It

Looking Forward to It

Stephen Elliott

St. Martins Press-3PL
2004
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Stephen Elliott does not know what to think of American voters, this year's desperate and heated run for presidency, or the legitimacy of the political system. He doesn't know whether to love John Kerry or try to love Howard Dean or try, simply, to get excited about Politics. But what he does know is that most Americans are as confused, taxed and broken-hearted as he is. "Looking Forward To It" is the chronicle of one ordinary fellow's skeptical -- and hilarious -- journey through the election process. It is on the campaign trail that he will meet washed-out campaign managers, idealistic publicists, corrupt journalists, world-weary auditorium janitors, recovering drug addicts, and, of course, politicians. His report documents a journey into the center of "the thing," our country, where Americans high and low come together to participate in the most profound gesture of democracy: the election.
Signal Processing for Active Control

Signal Processing for Active Control

Stephen Elliott

Academic Press Inc
2000
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Signal Processing for Active Control sets out the signal processing and automatic control techniques that are used in the analysis and implementation of active systems for the control of sound and vibration. After reviewing the performance limitations introduced by physical aspects of active control, Stephen Elliott presents the calculation of the optimal performance and the implementation of adaptive real time controllers for a wide variety of active control systems. Active sound and vibration control are technologically important problems with many applications. 'Active control' means controlling disturbance by superimposing a second disturbance on the original source of disturbance. Put simply, initial noise + other specially-generated noise or vibration = silence [or controlled noise]. This book presents a unified approach to techniques that are used in the analysis and implementation of different control systems. It includes practical examples at the end of each chapter to illustrate the use of various approaches. This book is intended for researchers, engineers, and students in the field of acoustics, active control, signal processing, and electrical engineering.
The Physics and Chemistry of Solids

The Physics and Chemistry of Solids

Stephen Elliott

John Wiley Sons Inc
1998
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The Physics and Chemistry of Solids is one of the first textbooks to discuss the physics, chemistry and materials aspects of solids from a unified viewpoint. Coverage includes both fundamental principles along with the very latest developments, such as combinatorial library synthesis, mesoporous materials, fullerenes and nanotubules, optical localization and the experimental observation of fractional electronic charge. Lucidly written and richly illustrated, this book will appeal to physicists, chemists, material scientists and engineers studying the solid state. The Physics and Chemistry of Solids features:*A unique integrated approach to the solid state.*A carefully structured text, with the first four chapters covering the properties of atoms in solids, whilst the remaining four concentrate on the behaviour of electrons in materials.*Relatively self-contained chapters allowing for flexibility in the order in which they can be used.*Many references, examples and applications, along with over 200 problems, carefully selected to test and refresh the reader’s knowledge and extend their understanding. This book is one of the first attempts to lift the artificial boundary between solid state physics and chemistry. This book is well structured and written in a clear style. Professor Tjipke Hibma, University of Gröningen. …this is an excellent book. Dr Paul Monk, Manchester Metropolitan University. There has been a real need for a text to cover this area. I must admit my deepest admiration for the way the author has put the text together. Dr Mike Morris, University College Cork. …this promises to be an excellent text. Dr Anthony Powell, Heriot-Watt University.