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CGCookie – Creating Realistic Fire FX with Sprite Sheets

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Explore an experimental tool by Unity to create sprite sheets from a series of images in this comprehensive course. Learn how to export explosion and fireball simulations from Blender, convert them into sprite sheets, and use Unity’s Shuriken particle system to craft realistic fire effects. Additionally, discover how to utilize realistic video references, such as a campfire video, to enhance your particle effects.

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A Man on Fire The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson


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English | January 7th, 2025 | ISBN: 0197554059 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 11.49 MB
Few Americans covered as much ground as Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 to a family descended from Boston’s Puritan founders, he attended Harvard, like all the men in his family, and prepared for the settled life of a minister. Instead, he rejected both privilege and convention, and embraced radical causes, attaching himself to nearly every major reform movement of the day, from women’s rights to abolitionism. More than merely a fellow traveler, Higginson became a proponent of direct action. Wounded during an altercation with the police over an enslaved man who -in defiance of the Fugitive Slave Act-was fighting extradition to the South, Higginson wore the scar with pride. He became a member of Boston’s Secret Six, supporting John Brown’s raid and going to Bleeding Kansas with his rifle, prepared to put his life on the line. During the Civil War Higginson went to South Carolina and led one of the first Black regiments, the 1st Carolina Volunteers, into battle.

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Fire in the Classroom Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and the Craft of Teaching


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2022 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 1475867654 | PDF | 1 MB
Fire in the Classroom: Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and the Craft of Teaching explores important avenues for teachers to become better at the craft of teaching by improving their skills and understanding in areas such as utilizing experiential learning, becoming more adept at improvisation, addressing all learning styles of students, recognizing and acting upon the teachable moment, developing and delivering engaging lectures, and effectively incorporating outside speakers in their courses. This book emphasizes the necessity for teachers to create classrooms that ignite a desire to learn and a willingness to be taught amongst all their students.Fire in the Classroom ultimately shows teachers and their students how to think more creatively and act more entrepreneurially. It provides the know-how, techniques, and activities that enable teachers to enhance their teaching abilities and renew their joy in teaching. With insightful observations, compelling stories, and specific curriculum recommendations, this book serves as a guide to make the learning process for both teachers and their students more engaging, interactive, and exciting.

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Pillars of Fire The Battle of Messines Ridge June 1917


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English | ISBN: 0752476645 | 2012 | 256 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
"Gentleman, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography," so said General Plumer the day before 600 tons of explosives were detonated under the German position on Messines Ridge. The explosion was heard by Lloyd George in Downing Street and as far away as Dublin. Until 1918, Messines was the only clear cut Allied victory on the Western Front, coming at a time when Britain and her allies needed it most: boosting Allied morale and shattering that of the Germans. Precisely orchestrated, Messines was the first true all-arms modern battle which brought together artillery, engineers, infantry, tanks, aircraft and administrative units from a commonwealth of nations to defeat the common enemy. So why is its name not as familiar as the Somme, Passchendaele or Verdun? This book examines the battle for the Messines-Wytschaete Ridge from the British, ANZAC and German perspectives. Illustrated with archive photographs and maps, it is a major contribution to our understanding of one of the seminal battles of the First World War.

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FXPHD: Liam Whitehouse – Rendering Fire and Smoke Simulations in Houdini

FXPHD – Liam Whitehouse – Rendering Fire and Smoke Simulations in Houdini

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Dive into the world of high-resolution Axiom pyro simulations with this comprehensive course by Liam Whitehouse. Learn how to creatively adjust fire and smoke elements, enhancing their visual impact using Houdini’s powerful tools.

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Vulcan God of Fire


Free Download Tim McLelland, "Vulcan: God of Fire"
English | ISBN: 0752463799 | 2012 | 216 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
The definitive work on the Vulcan bomber, containing new, previously unpublished, and rarely seen images

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The State of Fire Why California Burns


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English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 159714651X | 256 pages | PDF | 75 Mb
How do we live with fire? From the creator of The California Field Atlas, a book of stewardship, resilience, and hope.

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Men Under Fire Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914-1918


Free Download Jiří Hutečka, "Men Under Fire: Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914-1918 "
English | ISBN: 1789205417 | 2019 | 300 pages | PDF | 8 MB
In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the question of these soldiers’ imperial loyalties has dominated the historical literature to the exclusion of any debate on their identities and experiences. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings to explore experiences of exhaustion, sex, loyalty, authority, and combat itself. It combines methods from history, gender studies, and military science to reveal the extent to which the Great War challenged these men’s senses of masculinity, and to which the resulting dynamics influenced their attitudes and loyalties.

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