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How to Create a Portfolio and Get Hired: A Guide for Graphic Designers and Illustrators by Fig TaylorWorkbook for aspiring graphic designers entering the workforce.
How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy, Stefan Sagmeister
Includes tips on how to present and design portfolios
keyword death mask
Death MaskThe Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by EAP
- In the story the Masque of Red Death, the harbinger of death and disease wears a red mask.
Pushkin House by Andrei Bitov
- Near the conclusion of the novel, one of the characters dances around with Alexander Pushkin's death mask.
Keyword: Masquerade
City of Masks by Mary HoffmanProtagonist time travels to fictionalized Venice during carnival season, where people parade around wearing masks.
One Night With You by Sophie Jordan
Heroine goes to a masquerade ball arranged by an infamous courtesan
keyword cubism
CubismCubism and Culture by Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten
- Offers a comprehensive analysis and history of the Cubism movement.
Picasso and Braque Pioneering Cubism by William Rubin
- Highlights the works of two of the most famous cubists.
Keyword: Amanuensis
Breaking News!I missed five posts for last week pala (these are mga last minute posts kasi). I've added them to the last tally of last week.
For week 1, Monique is our top scorer! :-D
Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNealA woman looking for a job as a typist ends up taking dictation for Winston Churchill and solving crimes, as one does.
The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
A woman is hired for dictation during a psychic's trances.
keyword backgammon
BackgammonMoonfleet by by J. Meade Falkner - A feature of the narrative is a continuing reference to the boardgame of backgammon
Backgammon by Paul Magriel - the first book to lucidly explain the inner workings and advanced positional play of the game.
Next: life insurance
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainMurder plotted by wife due to a her husband's life insurance policy. Gets a man in love with her to pull the trigger.
A Killer Among Us by Charles Bosworth Jr.
True crime about a man suspected of killing his wife for a $100,000 life insurance policy
keyword philately
PhilatelyThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon - Gengis Cohen, one of the characters, is an eminent philatelist. The novel also deals with a huge philatelic mystery.
Illustrated Guide to Stamp Collecting by James A. Mackay - This book provides the must-have reference for every stamp collector, with over 500 images of collectable stamps.
Next: glass blowers
Shattered by Dick FrancisMurder victim has a glassblowing workshop, and procedures for glassblowing is discussed in the story.
Elena's Serenade by Campbell Geeslin, Ana Juan
Picture book about a girl glass blower
keyword shogun
ShogunSamurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton - This is supposed to be more of the true story Shogun is based upon.
Shimabara by Douglass Bailey - the Shogunate in this novel laid siege during the Shimabara Revolt and finally succeeded in storming the castle in April 1638 with the aid of Dutch ships shelling the castle from the sea.
Next: soap operas
Soap Opera : The Inside Story of Procter & Gamble by Alecia SwasyHistory the discusses how Procter and Gamble's advertisers invented a tv genre.
Death in Daytime by Eileen Davidson
Mystery series set at a soap opera production
keyword keystone
KeystoneThe Pipeline and The Paradigm by Samuel Avery
- Investigates the economic, ecological, political, and psychological issues behind the Keystone XL pipeline.
Keystone & Beyond by John H. Cushman Jr.
- provides the definitive account of the Keystone XL saga.
Keyword: Fracking
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the Worldby Russell Gold
Investigative journalism on the fracking industry and its effect on the American economy.
The Fracking Truth: America’s Energy Revolution: the Inside, Untold Story by Chris Faulkner
Another expose on the oil industry's fracking practices
keyword indigo
IndigoIndigo: The Color that Changed the World by Catherine Legarde
- this colorful book takes the reader on an international tour of indigo-colored textiles, presenting a huge swathe of remarkable clothing, people, and fabric.
Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
- Brimming with rich, electrifying tales of the precious dye and its ancient heritage, Indigo is also the story of a personal quest.
Keyword: Oulipo
OulipoExercices in Style by Raymond Queneau - is the recounting ninety-nine times of the same inconsequential episode, in which a man witnesses a minor altercation on a bus trip; each account is unique in terms of tone and style.
A Void by Georges Perec - is a 300-page novel written without the letter "e," an example of a lipogram.
(These are examples of Oulipian writing.)
Next: September
SeptemberBleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
- One of the major themes in the novel is the effects of the September 11 attacks on America.
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
- Chronicles the life of a man during and after the September 11 attacks.
Keyword: Manifest Destiny
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice MillardHistory about the intersection between the push west (manifest destiny doctrine) and the adminstration of President McKinley
Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race by Laura E. Gómez
How the US landgrab of Mexican territories in the 19th Century created the Mexican-American identity
Keyword sickle cell anemia
PAUSE MUNA...
Imma post today's score tally kasi. :-D
Here's today's scores (actually, these are the posts from Monday until now ):Total accepted points for today's round
Each accepted posts is supposed to correspond to 5 points. Deductions not included pa.
Ycel: 2 accepted posts
Aaron: 3 accepted posts
Angus: 23 accepted posts
Tin: accepted posts
Monique: 11 accepted posts
Bennard: 18 accepted posts
Mawi: 7 accepted posts
Kristel: 22 accepted posts
Elaine (new playa!): 2 accepted posts
Deductions in today's round:
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TALLY OF POINTS as of 10:41pm, August 25, 2015
Angus: 275+(23x5)= 390 points (The new top scorer!)
Bennard: 285+((18x5)-15)= 380 points
Monique: 290+((11x5)-5)= 340 points
Kristel: 192.5+((22x5)-2.5)= 300 points
Beatrice: 127.5 points
Ycel: 110+((2x5)-2.5)= 117.5 points
Tin: 105 points
Aaron: 70+((3x5)-5)= 80 points
Ingrid: 40 points
Mawi: 5+((7x5)-2.5)= 37.5 points
Blue: 35 points
Meliza: 27.5 points
Tina: 10 points
Elaine: 2x5= 10 points
Wow, tumatambling ang rankings ah. Stay tuned & let the games continue! :-D
Sickle cell anemiaThe Politics of Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia by Elizabeth N. Anionwu, Karl Atkin - examines the politics of sickle cell and thalassaemia and offers a detailed evaluation of the services available.
The Enculturated Gene by Duana Fullwiley - reveals how the notion of an advantageous form of sickle cell in West Africa has defined--and obscured--the nature of this illness in Senegal today.
Next: Geomancy
The Feng Shui Detective by Nury VittachiProtagonist is a feng shui consultant sidelining as a detective.
The Geomancer by Clay Griffith and Susan Griffith
Fantasy novel about a character with geomantic abilities
keyword sovereignty
Parang Jeopardy na ang negative points.
^Kaya nga I requested to have the deductions applied today na lang.
Okay, sige na nga.I'll revert the deductions back to the ones from last week for the last score tally. So pa-check na lang ulit yung tally above for the changes/edits.
Pero yung next tally ko (meaning
SovereigntyLeviathan by Thomas Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign.
Sovereignty as a Social Construct: A Literature Review of Indigenous Peoples’ Perspectives by Jennifer L. Archer argues that the concept of sovereignty is both culturally and historically dependent.
Keyword: Synchronicity
Synchronicity There Are No Accidents by Robert H. Hopcke - explores the nature of the human consciousness and the role of synchronicity—teaching us to examine our own stories, and tap into its power to strengthen our work, love, and spiritual lives.
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield - The narrator is in a transitional period of his life and begins to notice instances of synchronicity, which is the belief that coincidences have a meaning personal to those who experience them.
Keyword: divination
DivinationThe Secret Circle: The Initiation by LJ Smith
- villain used divination to prevent the circle from coming together
Hounded by Kevin Hearne
- Atticus, an iron druid, asks Hecate for information
Keyword: Entrapment
EntrapmentA Predicament by Edgar Allan Poe is a story of enclosure and decapitation in the clock tower of a Gothic cathedral.
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe is a story of a character entombed in a wall.
Keyword: determinism
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, Robin Campbell (Translator)One of the main thinkers in Stoicism, a philosophy that codified western notions of determinism.
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Important work of political theory that posits economic determinism
keyword puppetry
PuppetryThe Puppet Theatre in America by Paul McPharlin records that by the late 19th century American puppetry had become very sophisticated.
Puppets and Popular Culture by Shershow links puppetry with carnival
Keyword: hegemony
Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley by John Gaventa-Explains to outsiders the conflicts between the financial interests of the coal and land companies, and the moral rights of the vulnerable mountaineers.
The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung
- Terrifying methods of cunning, deception and terror are unveiled by the truth-seekers in a thriller-expose of the Communist Party's stranglehold on China today
Keyword: Minaret
MinaretDistant View of a Minaret by Alifa Rifaat uses the figure of a lone minaret to represent the solitude that the female protagonist experiences having resigned to her role.
Minaret by Aboulela where the novel’s title appears to endorse the power of orientation that the MC sees in the structure of the Regent’s Park mosque.
Keyword: Schrödinger's cat
Schrödinger's catDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams - the concept plays a part in helping Dirk determine Richard's mental state, Richard producing clear and rational arguments for why the experiment proposed in the theory cannot be carried out in reality.
Going Bovine by Libba Bray - three stoners argue whether the cat is alive or dead, or whether the person who opens the box creates the possibilities. There are constant references to a band called Copenhagen Interpretation, who disappear into thin air in the middle of a benefit concert
Keyword: locked-in syndrome
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy LeggattMemoir of a man who suffered locked in syndrome
Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham
Villain attempts to induce locked in coma on his victim
keyword diplomatic immunity
I thought we wait six hours for others to answer? #confused
So if anyone can post multiple times, then Benny could have posted all night long.Marie, please clarify, hahah.
Hi Ycel, I don't get your question about answering your own keyword? I answered Mawi's.
KRISTEL: Fail. Naka-minimize ang window. Huhu. I'm sorry.
Nagmu-multi-tasking while doing kid's exam reviewers. Thousand apologies!
No worries! Nagdelete kasi ako ng entry for Minarets kanina. I was wondering if that was the source of your question.
Diplomatic ImmunityDiplomatic Immunity: Principles, Practices, Problems by Grant V. McClanahan – all about diplomatic immunity.
Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujol. The MC, a diplomatic spy military tactical strategist is called away from his honeymoon to prevent a war.
Keyword: Pythagorean theorem
What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure by Julie Ellis, Phyllis HornungFictionalized picture book about a young Pythagoras discovering his famous theorem.
Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
by Robert M. Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan
Manifestation of the Pythagoran Theorem throughout history.
keyword
francophilia
FrancophiliaBreathless by Nancy K. Miller
- Nancy who traded Barnard for the Sorbonne, possessed the standard weakness for all things French, but was especially enamored of New Wave films, right down to the heroines’ bad boyfriends—it was the dawn of second-wave feminism, and Miller hoped experience would beget happiness. Breathless (Seal) recounts her relationships with a series of ill-chosen men, including a domineering fellow expat forever insistent on a full cheese course, and an emerging worldliness, epitomized by such stylish touches as a striped Dior shirtwaist dress.
Inside A Pearl: My Year in Paris by Edmund White
When Edmund White moved to Paris on a Guggenheim Fellowship in the early eighties, he wasn’t seeking a rose-colored vision of Left Bank bohemianism, but a holiday from AIDS. Unfortunately, the city provided no such respite. Still, as he demonstrates in Inside a Pearl (Bloomsbury), White lead a full, culturally saturated life there, teaching himself French and attending salons hosted by Marie-Claude de Brunhoff, the former wife of the creator of Babar the Elephant. Like The Flâneur before it, White’s latest meanders from one brush with greatness to the next—a chat with Milan Kundera, a soiree with Peggy Guggenheim—as White, a self-described archeologist of gossip, administers tart-tongued pronouncements on art, class, and the endless, if subtle, differences between the French and les Américains: “Only the French change their minds.”
Keyword: Etymology
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language.Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson de-mythologizes his native land, explaining how a dusty hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up, etc.
Keyword: reverse chronology
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-About Christine Bacon,a veteran hypochondriac and her near-death experiences.
The Hypochondriac by Yitzhak Rubin
- Saul, a young Israeli man with severe anxiety issues, has an anxiety attack. He is positive that he is experiencing a heart failure and the episode occurs just as he is about to fulfill his dream and travel to Wisconsin and study film.A thorough medical examination shows he is 100% healthy, but he continues to experience a range of ailing symptoms.
Keyword: Portfolio