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Chris Price

    The Old Church on Walnut Street: A Story of Immigrants and Evangelicals
    Live Fast, Die Young
    Brief Lives
    Beside Herself
    The Blind Singer
    Husk: Poems by Chris Price
    • Husk: Poems by Chris Price

      • 80 stránok
      • 3 hodiny čítania

      Chris Price's debut poetry collection showcases her polished and mature writing style, marked by witty surprises and unexpected shifts in imagery. The poems reflect a broad spectrum of interests and themes, infused with a sense of alertness and delight. With her extensive background in literary journals, Price employs various forms of wordplay, creating an engaging and enjoyable reading experience that highlights her unique voice in the New Zealand literary scene.

      Husk: Poems by Chris Price
    • The Blind Singer

      • 96 stránok
      • 4 hodiny čítania

      Musical elements play a central role in this vibrant narrative, weaving together bells, nursery rhymes, and traditional ballads with unique characters like Chaplin and Einstein engaged in string quartets. The story explores the interconnectedness of music and life, creating a rich tapestry that lingers in the mind of the reader long after the final page. The Blind Singer offers a profound and resonant experience, celebrating the power of music in shaping human connections and memories.

      The Blind Singer
    • Beside Herself

      • 120 stránok
      • 5 hodin čítania

      'All of my best lines are accidents', Chris Price writes in this book, and proceeds to prove that she has the knack of putting herself in harm's way and the skill to build from there. A selection of beautifully crafted, riddling poems of persons and personae, truths and falsehoods, frank identities and masked selves, Beside Herself is a playful, shape-shifting performance.

      Beside Herself
    • Brief Lives

      • 128 stránok
      • 5 hodin čítania

      Exploring the intersection of mortality and creativity, this genre-defying collection blends poetry and prose through a unique structure of discontinuous narrative and alphabetical order. It features a series of vignettes that intertwine biography, autobiography, and intriguing insights, offering meditations on life as performance. With clarity and wit, the author presents a captivating array of fragments that provoke thought and evoke emotion, reflecting on the complexities of life, art, and the mysteries that lie beyond.

      Brief Lives
    • Disappointed to learn that Hotel California isn't actually in the phone book, radio producers Chris and Joe resolve to seek out the true spirit of rock and roll America. Roof down and stereo up, they drive coast to coast on a mission to `live the music'. It's a tale of friendship tested to the limit, great melodies, and noble myths.

      Live Fast, Die Young
    • Set in the late 1800s, the narrative explores the journey of Norwegian immigrants to the Red River Valley, particularly in Grand Forks, where they established a Lutheran sanctuary reflecting their cultural heritage. The building, significant for its simple worship style, later transitioned to the Grand Forks Church of God after merging with two other congregations. This account chronicles the evolution of this church structure and the distinct communities it served over a century, highlighting the intertwining of faith and cultural identity.

      The Old Church on Walnut Street: A Story of Immigrants and Evangelicals
    • The Lobster's Tale

      • 96 stránok
      • 4 hodiny čítania

      Exploring the intersection of artistic intelligence, this installment in the kåorero series showcases innovative collaborations focused on a shared theme. It invites readers into a creative dialogue that merges diverse artistic perspectives, enriching the narrative and expanding the boundaries of storytelling.

      The Lobster's Tale
    • The Curiosity Shoppe Coloring Book

      • 80 stránok
      • 3 hodiny čítania

      A magical and mad exploration of a most amusing and unexpected assemblage of novelties and oddities

      The Curiosity Shoppe Coloring Book
    • Computer-based diagnostic systems are among the most successful applications of knowledge-based systems (KBS) technology. Chris Price shows the best way to build effective diagnostic systems for different types of diagnostic problems by: - giving examples of different solutions to the problem of building effective diagnostic systems - helping you to decide on an appropriate strategy for building a diagnostic system to aid troubleshooting of that diagnostic problem - showing how to use diagnostic fault trees as a common representation for discussing different ways of approaching diagnosis. Computer-Based Diagnostic Systems is written in such a way as to make the material easy to understand even when you do not have easy access to the commercial tools.

      Computer based diagnostic systems
    • Von R. Thomson/C. Price. - Das Leben der nordamerikanischen Prärie-Indianer, dargestellt in Bild und Wort; mit Spiel- und Bastelanleitungen. (ab 9).

      Indianer