Here are eleven exuberant essays on the pleasures of writing from one of the most creative, imaginative, and prolific artists of the twentieth century - an author who truly enjoys his craft and tells you why and how. Bradbury shares his wisdom and enthusiasm for writing as he examines a lifetime of creating and composing scores of stories, novels, plays, poems, films, television programs, and musicals. Refreshingly direct, each essay shares a single compelling theme: writing is a celebration, not a chore. Unlike so many books on writing, this one does not belabor the technical or become obsessed with the how-to aspects of the craft. What Bradbury does bring to every discussion of writing is the fever, the ardor, the delight that he has discovered and which can be yours.
Energy Scavenging for Wireless Sensor Networks: With Special Focus on Vibrations
The vast reduction in size and power consumption of CMOScircuitry has led to a large research effort based around the visionof ubiquitous networks of wireless communication nodes. The wirelessdevices are usually designed to run on batteries. However, as thenetworks increase in number and the devices decrease in size, thereplacement of depleted batteries is not practical. Furthermore, abattery that is large enough to last the lifetime of the device woulddominate the overall system size, and thus is not very attractive.There is clearly a need to explore alternative methods of poweringthese small communication nodes. This book, therefore, focuses onpotential "ambient" sources of power that can be scavenged orharvested and subsequently used to run low power electronics andwireless transceivers.A wide range of potential power sources are briefly explored. Based ona comparison of these many potential sources, commonly occurringvibrations was chosen as an attractive, and little explored, powersource....
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Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers by Jacques Barzun, ISBN 0060937238
A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written word clear and agreeable to read. Exercises, model passages both literary and casual, and hundreds of amusing examples of usage gone wrong show how to choose the right path to self-expression in forceful and distinctive words.
Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers by Jacques Barzun, ISBN 0060937238
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Mary Shelley by Joanna M. Smith, ISBN 0805770453
Mary Shelley - renowned author of Frankenstein and the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley - has often been considered solely in light of these two facts. While scholarly interest in Mary Shelley's life and work has intensified in recent years, the critical understanding of this seminal author has been marked by its constricted focus. Shelley was by no means the author of a single work produced under the influence of her husband. She had an active literary career that spanned many genres, including poetry, drama, travel writing, and essays as well as the novels and stories of science fiction for which she is best known. Johanna M. Smith, in Mary Shelley Revisited, examines the complete works of Mary Shelley. Her comprehensive study focuses on the various genres that constitute Shelley's oeuvre. This approach not only reveals the diversity and depth of Shelley's literary career but also provides an insightful inquiry into the construction of genres themselves. And rather than focusing on the autobiographical...
Mary Shelley by Joanna M. Smith, ISBN 0805770453
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