Books with author James Payn

Discover everything you need to know about Python to turn your passion of programming into a job you'll love. Fueled by fun and practical examples, this book gives high schoolers who want learn an easy programming language ideas for how to leverage them in the workforce. Start with the basics and before you know it, you'll be building your own web sites, doing white-hat hacking, finding code bugs and errors, and creating games, including using Python to roll characters for RPGs. Every chapter is relaxed and informal, like learning with a cool teacher all the time. Computers, phones and the web are your playground, and you'll be ready to join the party with your own content. Going beyond posts and uploads means learning to program, and Python is a great choice to get started. It's quick to learn, it's flexible, and if you want, it may get you a Python job that pays more than minimum wage when you're out of school. Python for Teenagers is the most fun you'll have while learning.What You'll LearnReview programming basics - you gotta start somewhereCode applications that follow directions and make decisionsUnderstand Classes and objects - when a program is a childMake games with graphics and animationWho This Book Is ForHigh schoolers who want learn an easy programming language.

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Code Version: Can two school rivals save the Western world?Like many young men, Alexis dreams of adventure and being an adventurer, a Viking or a Pirate, or maybe just your movie-style heroic action man saving the Western world. He knows that he’s going to do it by leading his new school, an offshore boarding school and university built by his grandfather and a retired engineer, to ever greater success. The only barrier he sees standing in his way is a kid called Shane. Shane is only at the school because he somehow upsets people whenever he speaks, which isn’t too surprising because while they are very ordinary, he’s extraordinarily clever. It turns out this strange island school is full of misfits like him and he quickly sees that his destiny is to lead it to world away from the people who rejected him. His only real rival for head of the Institute is a kid called Alexis.Each of them believes that only by besting the other, and by clever detective work to stop the other’s rise, will they achieve their true place and that only under their leadership will the future of the world be safe. It’s a coming-of-age, do-or-die struggle, him or me – or is it? Can they both succeed?This visionary science fiction tale begins with Paul James’s new Dystopian Young Adult Fiction novel, The Modest Proposal Institute: An Old Path to a New Future, which launches two new heroes into the world and the cosmos.Buy The Modest Proposal Institute and start your journey to the New Future

Vincent van Gogh was one of the most prolific artists of the Post impressionism era. Here are a few interesting titbits from the life of the famous painter.Though van Gogh did not live for long he produced as many as 900 works of art in a span of ten years. He did this without any formal training and while battling mental illness.It was at the age of 27 that Vincent decided to pursue a career in painting and drawing after unsuccessful stints as a missionary and art dealer.Tragedy was a part and parcel of his life. Throughout his life he barely managed to make ends meet and it was only posthumously that his works earned the deserved fame. The only painting he sold in his lifetime was 'The Red Vineyard'.Many know of the infamous incident involving van Gogh and contemporary Paul Gauguin. An argument between the two friends sent Vincent into a frenzy and apparently, he chopped off his ear lobe (contrary to popular belief that he axed his entire ear).The famous painter who was enthusiastic about painting himself, eternized the wound by painting the Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear.

No More Empires, the second book in the #1 Bestseller series The Modest Proposal Institute, starts where Alexis and Shane begin building their chosen worlds. We dive below the sea with Shane and fly into space with Alexis while, on the Earth’s surface, the institute struggles to survive amid the Western world’s collapse. Out of the turmoil, a rival emerges to challenge Alexis and Shane for the Institute's leadership. Tomas, who builds the institute’s robots, has his own ideas about how things should be done and his way doesn’t include Alexis and Shane. With the Founders seemingly enthralled by Tomas, Shane works secretly to prevent disaster right up to the moment Tomas decides to save the world from war and starvation.Who are the good guys now? And will they win?

All four books of The Modest Proposal Institute, An Old Path to a New Future, No More Empires, Rival Institutes, War of the Institutes, are here in one place. The story starts as the Western World slowly collapses after the Recession of 2020/21 and disintegrates into petty states, ruled by quarrelsome warlords. The Institute, which had been created in 2018 to stand apart from the coming collapse, is gradually drawn into the strife. It too is soon drifting into separate ‘institutes’ that become rivals and eventually opposing warring states. The end of that war separates Earth’s surface dwellers from the small number of escapees who have headed out into space and under the oceans, leaving behind a series of barriers between themselves and those left behind that they hope will keep the flame of mankind’s progress alive.

The near-future becomes horribly real in this third book of The Modest Proposal Institute dystopian sci-fi series.It’s 2029. The West’s collapse has left millions dead and millions more dying. The Institute’s Founders, Alexis, Shane, and Tomas, clash over how to save the West, and its people, and their individual initiatives lead them to fight each other. Each is sure their way is the only one and are equally sure the others’ meddling will make things worse. Each of them believes only they can save the West and, if they fail, a new thousand-year Dark Age beckons.With stakes as high as this, any violence can be justified, can’t it?

Excerpt from Glow-Worm Tales: Second SeriesIt is a terrible task; but it must be obeyed. On the one hand there is Midas with half a million, whom none of the other gentlemen, as the waiter knows, ever venture to disturb; on the other there is Simpkins, with his back to the fire and his double eye-glasses over his nose, determined to see it done. I would not be that waiter for all his perquisites, though I am told they come to a pretty penny.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Newquay inC ornwall fornierlv published under the title of AM arine Residence was written by James Payn back in the early seventies before the advent of the passenger railway to the little town, then only uvillage of some 800 souls all told. When Payn wrote, the whole bay from Newquay headland toT revose headland (near Padstow), some ten miles as the crow flies from point to point, was known as Watergate Bay, called in this story BoDDLECOMBE Bav, while Newquay is called BoD- DLECOMBE. At the present time Watergate Bay is generally understood to be the long beach lying between Trevelga (two miles from Newcjuay) and Mawgan Portli. In the story Grampound Road Station, then the nearest station toN ewcjuay (twelve miles) is called Marjoram Gate (C hap. I). The house called theL ook-out (C hap. II), on which the party set their hearts and which they eventually succeeded in obtaining is sketched from theB attery, but transposed as to site to where Quay House stands. Bellevue Terrace is A cland Terrace. situated at the northern end ofF oreS treet. The Blue Lion is now called the Central Hotel and theN ags Head (C hap. I ll) is the Red Lion. The island (C hap. IV) now carries a bungalow and is connected with the mainland by a light iron bridge. The White Tower (C hap. VTI) is the ancient Huers Hut on Towan Head.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text.

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What really happened to the gold that went missing from the mint in Pretoria two years before the end of the Boer War? Did President Paul Kruger remove it ahead of the British occupation?Is it buried somewhere en-route to Mozambique?Pretoria, May 1900British forces are advancing, Johannesburg has fallen and the Boers do not have the troops to prevent Lord Roberts from capturing Pretoria. A decision is taken not to defend Pretoria at all costs and to save her from bombardment. President Kruger however cannot be allowed to be captured nor can the Boers allow the gold from the mint to fall into British hands, for that would surely end the war.President Kruger leaves Pretoria travelling east by train towards Delagoa Bay. He is followed a few days later by Jan Smuts. The burning question is how much gold left with them? Lydenburg, present dayThe discovery of a few Kruger pounds in the town triggers a feverish gold rush.A long forgotten bible with an inscription by President Kruger and instructions for a delivery to General Ben Viljoen, to enable him to continue the war, raises questions.The idyllic life of Rick Carlson and his family is shattered when a gang invades their farm to steal the bible and a drawing thought to be a map to the gold, plunging them in the middle of the frenzy. Rick tries to dispel the myth but secretly believes that he might have stumbled onto clues that will lead to the discovery of the gold.