Books with author Robert Duncan

Only one woman can stop the world from descending into endless war, in the thrilling new series in the world of the Gas-Lit EmpireThe year is 2012. The nations of the world are bound together in an alliance of collective security, overseen by the International Patent Office, and its ruthless stranglehold on technology.When airships start disappearing in the middle of the Atlantic, the Patent Office is desperate to discover what has happened. Forbidden to operate beyond the territorial waters of member nations, they send spies to investigate in secret.One of those spies is Elizabeth Barnabus. She must overcome her dislike of the controlling Patent Office, disguise herself as a man, and take to the sea in search of the floating nation of pirates who threaten the world order.File Under: Fantasy [ A Lost Airship | On the Sargasso| Stowaway Bay | The Crow Queen ]

Only one woman can stop the world from descending into endless war, in the thrilling new series in the world of the Gas-Lit EmpireThe year is 2012. The nations of the world are bound together in an alliance of collective security, overseen by the International Patent Office, and its ruthless stranglehold on technology.When airships start disappearing in the middle of the Atlantic, the Patent Office is desperate to discover what has happened. Forbidden to operate beyond the territorial waters of member nations, they send spies to investigate in secret.One of those spies is Elizabeth Barnabus. She must overcome her dislike of the controlling Patent Office, disguise herself as a man, and take to the sea in search of the floating nation of pirates who threaten the world order.File Under: Fantasy [ A Lost Airship | On the Sargasso| Stowaway Bay | The Crow Queen ]

Windows® 64-bit Assembly Language Programming Quick Start is a complete tutorial using the free Community Edition of Microsoft® Visual Studio 17 to introduce the novice to the Intel® X86-64 architecture and the Windows X64 Calling Convention.With Microsoft® Visual Studio 17, assembly language programs can be built using either its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or using its ML64 assembler directly in a traditional command line approach. Both techniques are presented in this book, and each has its own merits for gaining a deeper understanding of computer software and hardware. The assistance provided by Visual Studio’s interactive debugger is immense not only for developing real programs but also learning how the CPU instructions work. Programmers learn by example and develop their skills by examining and modifying working programs. Every sample program is complete, but leaves room for enhancements and experimentation encouraged by the questions at the end of each chapter. All are available for download through GitHub.The sample programs, ranging from five to over one hundred lines of code, are extensively documented in both flowcharts and comments. Over seventy illustrations are included to explain programming techniques as well as X86, SSE, and AVX instructions. CPU instructions are introduced as needed to achieve programming goals as the projects in each chapter progress to the next.This is not a book that has been modified or migrates from a 32-bit or 16-bit perspective, but starts right in with 64-bit programming and only refers to past approaches when necessary to explain seemingly unnatural conventions and names.Topics like binary and hexadecimal are introduced through programming examples as well as appearing in appendices.The examples in this book have been “classroom tested” with students having very little, if any, previous programming experience. The information is complete, allowing it to be used as an independent study.Learning computer hardware and software architectures through hands-on assembly language programming experience helps develop well-rounded programmers and computer engineers.

“On the first day the world had ever known, God had a busy week in front of Him..."So begins Once Upon A World, a delightful series of Bible stories for children. With stories selected from the Old and New Testaments, the fresh clear style of writer and illustrator Robert Duncan gives this eBook a widespread appeal. Once Upon A World presents a happy combination of faith and humour that will appeal to families both remote from and close to the Christian faith.

Windows® 64-bit Assembly Language Programming Quick Start is a complete tutorial using the free Community Edition of Microsoft® Visual Studio 17 to introduce the novice to the Intel® X86-64 architecture and the Windows X64 Calling Convention. With Microsoft® Visual Studio 17, assembly language programs can be built using either its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or using its ML64 assembler directly in a traditional command line approach. Both techniques are presented in this book, and each has its own merits for gaining a deeper understanding of computer software and hardware. The assistance provided by Visual Studio’s interactive debugger is immense not only for developing real programs but also learning how the CPU instructions work. Programmers learn by example and develop their skills by examining and modifying working programs. Every sample program is complete, but leaves room for enhancements and experimentation encouraged by the questions at the end of each chapter. All are available for download through GitHub. The sample programs, ranging from five to over one hundred lines of code, are extensively documented in both flowcharts and comments. Over seventy illustrations are included to explain programming techniques as well as X86, SSE, and AVX instructions. CPU instructions are introduced as needed to achieve programming goals as the projects in each chapter progress to the next. This is not a book that has been modified or migrates from a 32-bit or 16-bit perspective, but starts right in with 64-bit programming and only refers to past approaches when necessary to explain seemingly unnatural conventions and names. Topics like binary and hexadecimal are introduced through programming examples as well as appearing in appendices. The examples in this book have been “classroom tested” with students having very little, if any, previous programming experience. The information is complete, allowing it to be used as an independent study. Learning computer hardware and software architectures through hands-on assembly language programming experience helps develop well-rounded programmers and computer engineers.

“On the first day the world had ever known, God had a busy week in front of Him..."So begins Once Upon A World, a delightful series of Bible stories for children. With stories selected from the Old and New Testaments, the fresh clear style of writer and illustrator Robert Duncan gives this eBook a widespread appeal. Once Upon A World presents a happy combination of faith and humour that will appeal to families both remote from and close to the Christian faith.This eBook contains Robert Duncan's retellings of stories from the Old Testament.

Once Upon A World is a delightful series of Bible stories for children. The fresh clear style of writer and illustrator Robert Duncan gives this eBook a widespread appeal. Once Upon A World presents a happy combination of faith and humour that will appeal to families both remote from and close to the Christian faith.This eBook contains Robert Duncan's retellings of stories from the New Testament.

Robert Steed Dunn's classic tale of his early attempt to summit Denali (Mt. McKinley) in Alaska is far from the run-of-the-mill heroic mountaineering book. Through all of his years of exploration and work as a war correspondent, his writing was typified by raw honesty and a keen eye toward the foibles and follies of man.Make no mistake, this account is thrilling. But it's also at times hilarious. The 1903 expedition was small and throughout, Dunn exposes the reality of living with and sharing danger with men who become all too familiar. It reads like a modern Krakauer book.Dunn had already been on one very dangerous expedition in 1898. He would go on to explore the Kamchatka River, cover the front lines in World War I for the New York Post, serve as an intelligence officer, and ride with General John "Black Jack" Pershing into Mexico after Pancho Villa.Review"A classic on exploration. Dunn...alone of them all was an artist for art’s sake"--Lincoln Steffens"[Dunn was] a man bent on adventure and ready to face the dangers and hardships that adventure brings."--The New York Times Book ReviewAmazon.com ReviewMore adventure books should be like this. In a genre rife with overbearing machismo and braggadocio, this book, originally published in 1907, is a refreshing and at times hilarious take on exploration. Robert Dunn reveals the bickering and frayed nerves, petty insecurities and trivial jealousies that existed alongside the courage, discipline, and determination exhibited by each member of the 1903 expedition that attempted the first ascent of Alaska's Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. Without downplaying the difficulty of the task, Dunn's honest assessments of the men involved reveals the complex motivations for undertaking arduous exploration and the human weaknesses that are revealed in the process.--Shawn Carkonen

Harvard graduate Robert Dunn (1877-1955) was an author, adventurer, explorer, and newspaper writer-like his pal Jack London. Thanks to editor Lincoln Steffens, 26-year-old Dunn was able to obtain a position as geologist on arctic explorer Frederick Cook's climbing expedition to Mount McKinley (whose summit had not been reached at that time).In 1907 Dunn wrote of his experiences on the McKinley expedition in his book "The Shameless Diary of an Explorer." In the words of the author "this is the story of a failure. I think that success would have made it no more worth telling. It is about an exploring party, the sort that so often fails." In this book Dunn writes of "how the outer waste and the ego of each companion uplifted or scarred his own . . . and I hope that in reporting any inherent vanity in my fellows, I have hit off hardest my own insufferable egotism." Professor Cook and "Simon" come in for a good deal of criticism and disparagement. Yet no one who has once begun the book is likely to lay it aside before he has reached the last page. The author knows how to paint a vivid picture with a few strokes. You will never read more realistic descriptions of the Alaskan tundra, or of difficulties encountered with pack animals in fording rivers and crossing glaciers. At these points the author's ability rises to the level of genius. There are not a few disfiguring crudities of language and taste, and some things that had better been left unwritten. But when all is said the book is one that will have to be reckoned with by future explorers of the Alaskan wilds. In reading books of adventure and exploration, one might often wonder about the unmentioned details. What the men thought of it all, if their shoes hurt them, if they were or were not congenial to each other, whether they got mad or indeed acted like ordinary human beings under more usual conditions. Robert Dunn in this diary gives us all these minute and very interesting details. In the opening of the book he speaks of Mount McKinley as the objective point, but adds that a dozen other lands could have served the purport of this diary quite as well. He is right, and has discovered something more famous explorers have overlooked, that a touch of human interest in the account of your vacation in the woods. If a man were to get no vacation at all, it would be positive cruelty to put this volume in his way. Unlike most guide books, it is written in narrative form, most interesting to read. If you have been in the woods the descriptions call you to return with compelling force. If you never have been, then you begin to wonder why you have wasted your opportunities so long. There is nothing pedantic or patronizing about the advice. One might almost imagine it was an old Maine guide talking, while he sat on a log and puffed an inverted corncob pipe. The author is emphatic in his opinions, and we believe those that follow his advice will not come to grief.ContentsI. THE MASTER MOTIVEII. GEOGRAPHICALIII. THE OUTFIT, HUMAN AND MATERIALIV. THE CAYUSE GAMEV. THE FORBIDDEN TUNDRAVI. THE VANISHING FORDVII. LAST STRAWSVIII. DISASTER AND THE STOIC PROFESSORIX. I BREAK LOOSE TWICEX. PLEURISY AND THE PASSXI. RED FLESH FOR KINGS OF FRANCEXII. UNDER THE SMILING SNOWXIII. BUTTING BLINDLY INTO STORMXIV. REMORSE AND SALTXV. KICKS, DISCOVERIES, AND A DREAMXVI. WHAT IS COURAGE?XVII. PUTTING YOUR HOUSE IN ORDERXVIII. RAVENS AND DOOMED HORSESXIX. WILLOW BUSHES TO AQUATICSXX. SWIFT WATER INTO GREAT GLACIERSXXI. HUMANITY AND HAPPINESS

Robert Steed Dunn's classic tale of his early attempt to summit Denali (Mt. McKinley) in Alaska is far from the run-of-the-mill heroic mountaineering book. Through all of his years of exploration and work as a war correspondent, his writing was typified by raw honesty and a keen eye toward the foibles and follies of man. Make no mistake, this account is thrilling. But it's also at times hilarious. The 1903 expedition was small and throughout, Dunn exposes the reality of living with and sharing danger with men who become all too familiar. It reads like a modern Krakauer book. Dunn had already been on one very dangerous expedition in 1898. He would go on to explore the Kamchatka River, cover the front lines in World War I for the New York Post, serve as an intelligence officer, and ride with General John "Black Jack" Pershing into Mexico after Pancho Villa. Review "A classic on exploration. Dunn...alone of them all was an artist for art’s sake" --Lincoln Steffens "[Dunn was] a man bent on adventure and ready to face the dangers and hardships that adventure brings." --The New York Times Book Review Amazon.com Review More adventure books should be like this. In a genre rife with overbearing machismo and braggadocio, this book, originally published in 1907, is a refreshing and at times hilarious take on exploration. Robert Dunn reveals the bickering and frayed nerves, petty insecurities and trivial jealousies that existed alongside the courage, discipline, and determination exhibited by each member of the 1903 expedition that attempted the first ascent of Alaska's Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. Without downplaying the difficulty of the task, Dunn's honest assessments of the men involved reveals the complex motivations for undertaking arduous exploration and the human weaknesses that are revealed in the process.--Shawn Carkonen