Penny Arcade 6: The Halls Below
Title | Penny Arcade 6: The Halls Below PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry Holkins |
Publisher | Random House Worlds |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2010-07-20 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 0345512278 |
FROM UNTOLD STYGIAN DEPTHS, IT RISES Gaze, if you dare, in benumbed awe upon its unfathomably cyclopean dimensions of obsidian impossibility. Cower before its undulating, multitendriled tales of unutterable horror. Receive into trembling hands that which the nameless ancients foretold in dread whispers that echo still across the black and terrible chasm whence forgotten time disgorges its haunted secrets, etc. Behold—the sixth tome of the Penny Arcade cycle! Peer within and find • 2005’s full-color Penny Arcade strips in their behemoth entirety! • The soul-chilling ramblings of its warped, only partially human creators! • And more, which no coherent mind could fathom nor human tongue repeat!
Penny Arcade: Attack of the bacon robots!
Title | Penny Arcade: Attack of the bacon robots! PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry Holkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
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Collects the first two years of the most popular webcomic of all time, about two friends, Tycho and Gabe, who spend most of their time gaming.
The Back Chamber
Title | The Back Chamber PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Hall |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 101 |
Release | 2011-09-13 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0547646453 |
The former US poet laureate has crafted poems full of “unexpected insights, charms, droll observations, self-mockery, and well-earned wisdom” (Rain Taxi). In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory—a cowbell, a white stone perfectly round, a three-legged milking stool—that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through this remarkable collection. While Hall’s devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations—baseball, the family farm, love, sex, and friendship—what will strike them as new is the fierce, pitiless poignancy he reveals as his own life’s end comes into view. The Back Chamber is far from being death-haunted, but rather is lively, irreverent, erotic, hilarious, ironic, and sly—full of the life-affirming energy that has made Donald Hall one of America’s most popular and enduring poets. “For the reader boiling in triple-digit SoCal heat at the end of the summer, Donald Hall’s The Back Chamber: Poems arrives like a sudden cloudburst and shower of cooling rain . . . A former U.S. poet laureate, Hall has always had this elemental power—to vividly evoke his particular New England climate and geography so that it can’t be mistaken for any other—but what is more unexpected in this new collection of poems, his 16th, is passion.” —Los Angeles Times “The former U.S. poet laureate reaches his 20th book in unmistakably honest form, aggressively plain and unfailingly open about sex, old age, suicide, recovery, the friendship of poets, the business of poetry, dogs, New Hampshire, and baseball.” —Publishers Weekly
Sixty Feet, Six Inches
Title | Sixty Feet, Six Inches PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Gibson |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2009-09-22 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0385532164 |
Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective. Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored. Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now, in Sixty Feet, Six Inches, these two legends open up in fascinating detail about the game they love and how it was, is, and should be played. Their one-of-a-kind insider stories recall a who's who of baseball nobility, including Willie Mays, Alex Rodriguez, Hank Aaron, Albert Pujols, Billy Martin, and Joe Torre. This is an unforgettable baseball history by two of its most influential superstars. Bonus Material: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Reggie Jackson's Becoming Mr. October.
Penny Arcade Vol. 9
Title | Penny Arcade Vol. 9 PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry Holkins |
Publisher | Oni Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-03-26 |
Genre | Blogs |
ISBN | 9781620100073 |
Jonathan Gabriel: Supreme Lycar of the secretive, xenophobic, and insular Wildfur clan. Tycho Brahe: the "fresh meat" in an elite, Top Secret werewolf-killing squad known only as "The Werewolf Killers." But there is a thirst beyond thirst—a thirstening Jonathan Gabriel knows only too well. Tycho feels it, too; to be drunk on moonlight, entwined in the super hairy arms of some kind of man/wolf type dude. PASSION'S HOWL, or whatever. Listen! This is just solicit copy. Everything inside is Penny Arcade comics. Specifically, all the Penny Arcade comics from 2009.
Bury Your Dead
Title | Bury Your Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Penny |
Publisher | Minotaur Books |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2011-08-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429945524 |
Bury Your Dead is a novel about life and death—and all the mystery that remains—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is on break from duty in Three Pines to attend the famed Winter Carnival up north. He has arrived in this beautiful, freezing city not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. Still, violent death is inescapable—even here, in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society, where one obsessive academic’s quest for answers will lead Gamache down a dark path. . . Meanwhile, Gamache is receiving disturbing news from his hometown village. Beloved bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder but everyone—including Gamache—believes that he is innocent. Who is behind this sinister plot? Now it’s up to Gamache to solve this killer case. . .and relive a terrible event from his own past before he can begin to bury his dead. “Few writers in any genre can match Penny’s ability to combine heartbreak and hope.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Introduction to Probability
Title | Introduction to Probability PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph K. Blitzstein |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 599 |
Release | 2014-07-24 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 1466575573 |
Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and tools for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory. The print book version includes a code that provides free access to an eBook version. The authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use stories to uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and conditioning to reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces. The book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment.