James A. Miller Livres

At night, the trees whispered.Told ghost stories, their leaves trembling.Remembered the fallen.Joked.Dry laughter rustled the dark.A Small Fiction is what happens when a writer wants to tell a hundred stories but doesn't have the time to write a hundred books. Instead, he writes the seeds of them and casts them to the wind.What started as an exercise in creativity on social media has grown to become a wonderful compendium of thoughts on humanity, storytelling and finding the absurd in the everyday. Every story in the collection is distinct, and while some play on common themes each story stands on its own. Through the genre lenses of science fiction, fantasy, contemporary fiction, folklore, and humour each of these small fictions is a peephole that reveals a bigger story.

In 1916 German aerial domination, once held sway by rotary-engined Fokker and Pfalz E-type wing-warping monoplanes, had been lost to the more nimble French Nieuports and British DH 2s which not only out-flew the German fighters but were present in greater numbers. This title deals with this topic.

Spanning the centuries and crossing the globe, this engaging introduction covers everything Daoist, from the religion of the ancients to twenty-first century T'ai Chi and meditation.

"An oral history by the best-selling co-author of Those Guys Have All the Fun chronicles the revolutionary role of the forefront Hollywood talent agency through the stories of its influence on major film, television, sports, music and business ventures throughout the past half century,"--NoveList.

Offers examples of how businesspeople can use time-proven approach to meet competitive challenges. This book provides you with methods for applying game theory to various facets of business, and strategies for improving your position in negotiation. schovat popis

This leading authority in small theatre stagecraft shows and tells how professional-quality lighting can be achieved within the limitations of school auditoriums, community theatres, and churches. Part I of this stagecraft book contains a short section on stage lighting in general, plus a number of lighting solutions for specific programs and locations. Part II contains more detailed information on dimmers, lamps, spotlight types, filters, connectors, control boards, homemade equipment, and the like. This is a workshop book with many art illustrations.

Before the good life was reduced to 10 easy steps, philosophers offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and what makes for a life worth living. In this book, Jim Miller turns to this vibrant tradition with short, lively biographies of 12 famous philosophers.

Today, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic history of 1960s protest Democracy Is in the Streets, offers a lively, surprising, and urgent history of the democratic idea from its first stirrings to the present. As he shows, democracy has always been rife with inner tensions. The ancient Greeks preferred to choose leaders by lottery and regarded elections as inherently corrupt and undemocratic. The French revolutionaries sought to incarnate the popular will, but many of them came to see the people as the enemy. And in the United States, the franchise would be extended to some even as it was taken from others. Amid the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century, communists, liberals, and nationalists all sought to claim the ideals of democracy for themselves--even as they manifestly failed to realize them.

In this sweeping, fast-paced account of the Firth over the last two thousand years, James Miller explores how the great shifts in Scottish history and culture have impacted on its shores and its peoples, and how time has acted to gather disparate heritages into one.