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  Mary Ellen Bute - Pioneer Animator

  Kit Smyth Basquin

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  Mary Ellen Bute: Pioneer Animator captures the personal and professional life of Mary Ellen Bute (1906–1983) one of the first American filmmakers to create abstract animated films in 1934, also one of the first Americans to use the electronic image of the oscilloscope in films starting in 1949, and the first filmmaker to interpret James Joyce's literature for the screen, Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, a live-action film for which she won a Cannes Film Festival Prize in 1965. Bute had an eye for talent and selected many creative people who would go on to be famous. She hired Norman McLaren to hand paint on film for the animation of her Spook Sport, 1939, before he left to head the animation department of the Canadian Film Board. She cast the now famous character actor Christopher Walken at age fourteen as the star of her short live-action film, The Boy Who Saw Through, 1958. Also, Bute enlisted Elliot Kaplan to compose the film score of her Finnegans Wake before he moved on to compose music for TV's Fantasy Island and Ironside. This biography drawn from interviews with Bute's family, friends, and colleagues, presents the personal and professional life of the filmmaker and her behind-the-scenes process of making animated and live action films.

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  You Are Here - Exposing the...

  Thomas M. Kostigen

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  “A passionate and heartfelt call to care.”—Bruce Feiler, New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and America’s Prophet 
   In You Are Here, Thomas Kostigen, the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Green Book, takes us to the most extreme environmental areas on the planet to show how what we do from the comfort of our own home affects people, places, and things everywhere. A timely, much-needed alarm that recalls Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth combined with a compelling travel narrative reminiscent of Anthony Bourdain with straight ahead Anderson Cooper-like reporting, You Are Here is “an intriguing and insightful account that deserves to be read by everyone” (Mark Plotkin, Time Magazine Hero for the Planet).

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  Unraveling the Wonders of Your...

  Jasper Rivers

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  Unraveling the Wonders of Your Immune System 
  ⭐⭐ A Simplified Guide with Easy Explanations ⭐⭐ 
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  String Theory - Exploring the...

  Mark Hedges

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  String theory is one of the most profound and ambitious areas of modern physics, proposing that the fundamental building blocks of the universe are not point particles, as traditionally believed, but rather tiny, vibrating strings. These strings, though incredibly small, can exist in multiple forms, each corresponding to a different type of particle. String theory has the potential to unify the four known fundamental forces of nature—gravity, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force—into a single, coherent framework. This vision of a unified theory of everything is one of the most exciting prospects in theoretical physics. 
  The roots of string theory date back to the late 1960s, when theoretical physicists began exploring the idea that the strong nuclear force, which binds quarks together in protons and neutrons, might be mediated by a one-dimensional object, a string, rather than a point-like particle. Initially, this idea was pursued primarily as a means of explaining certain aspects of quantum mechanics and particle interactions. However, as the theory evolved, it began to offer potential solutions to some of the most vexing problems in physics, including the unification of forces and the nature of gravity. 
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  Cloud Computing - The Definitive...

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  Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses and individuals interact with technology, offering vast opportunities for scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. At its core, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services over the internet, encompassing everything from servers and storage to databases and software. The concept has evolved over time, transforming from traditional IT infrastructure to highly dynamic and scalable cloud platforms that allow users to access resources on-demand. 
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  The Get to the Point! Guide to...

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  Get to the point, get what you need, & get it done! 
  Don’t waste a minute of your precious time memorizing pointless keyboard shortcuts! Most people don’t need to know how to use every obscure feature of Microsoft Word 2021 and Word for Office 365—so when you want to get up and running without having to study dozens of commands you’ll never use, the Get to the Point! Guide to Using Microsoft Word 2021 and Word for Microsoft Office 365 on Windows and Mac will show you how to do what you need to quickly, easily, and intuitively. 
  Like sitting down beside an experienced friend who'll show you the ropes with infinite patience, the Get to the Point! Guide to Using Microsoft Word 2021 and Word for Microsoft Office 365 on Windows and Mac features a plethora of expert tips and tricks designed to save you time and frustration, boiled down to the bare minimum of required information to get even the most inexperienced of readers up to speed and working like a professional in no time. 
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