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60second Recap is an educational video project launched in September 2009 to provide 60-second video summaries and analysis of classic literature.The site provides one-minute video commentaries on plot, themes, characters, symbols, motifs, and other aspects of books commonly studied in secondary schools in North America.
Transcription is a spy novel by British novelist Kate Atkinson, published in September 2018. [1] The novel focuses on the activities of British orphan Juliet Armstrong throughout World War II and afterwards. She begins a career as a low-level transcriptionist for MI5, before rising through the ranks. After the war she moves to the BBC.
See You in the Cosmos is a 2017 epistolary Bildungsroman novel by Chinese-American author Jack Cheng. It is his second book, and his first for children.Written as transcription, the story follows astronomy-loving pre-teen Alex Petroski as he embarks on a journey to understand the life of his late father and records the journey in notes on his iPod to launch into space.
Two 'dialect' sentences were read by each speaker, as well as another 8 sentences selected from a larger set [3] Each sentence averages 3 seconds long and is spoken by 630 different speakers. [4] It was the first notable attempt in creating and distributing a speech corpus and the overall project has produced costs of 1.5 million US$.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is a book of teachings by Shunryu Suzuki, a compilation of talks given at his satellite Zen center in Los Altos, California.Published in 1970 by Weatherhill, the book contains transcriptions of Suzuki's talks recorded by his student Marian Derby. [1]
In 291 brisk, fact-stuffed but engaging, thought-provoking pages, “A Day in September” by Stephen Budiansky examines how ill-prepared we as a nation were for war, but more significantly, what ...
The third book in the trilogy, The Final Day: A John Matherson Novel, was released on January 3, 2017. In this book, it is revealed that only 30 million Americans survived up to this time. A fourth book in the series, ‘’Five Years After: A John Matherson Novel’’, was released on August 22, 2023. [8]
Seconds is a graphic novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Published on July 15, 2014, by Ballantine Books , the novel tells the story of Katie Clay, head chef at a prospering restaurant named Seconds, who obtains the ability to fix her past mistakes by writing them down in a notebook, eating a mushroom, and falling asleep.