Stardust And Shadows

A Hollywood insider brings together the stories of 18 Canadians who were celebrities during Hollywoods formative years.

For more than a decade, Janelle Taylor has been sharing the treasures of her imagination with romance readers the world over. She opened our eyes to the excitement and adventure of the American frontier with her tales of Indian romance. Now she returns to her most thrilling love story of all-the passion of Jana Greyson and Commander Varian Saar. First ignited in the bestselling MOONDUST AND MADNESS, it continues to blaze in a universe of STARDUST AND SHADOWS Doctor Jana Greysen didn't know what to believe. The last thing she remembered was lying safely in the arms of her beloved, Commander Varian Saar, aboard the starship Wanderlust. But she'd awakened from a deep, drugged sleep to find herself again the captive bride of Varian's evil half-brother, the handsome Prince Ryker Triloni, who was not even supposed to be alive! Even worse, Ryker insisted that Varian was about to wed another. Could Jana have given her love to the wrong man? Was Ryker really the one who deserved her passion? Well-skilled at pleasing a woman's heart as well as her body, he seemed everything his brother had been-and more. In a universe cloaked in stardust and shadows, could Jana ever hope to know the truth?

"You have all the power you need to do good in this world."Nora Gregory is twelve and even she knows she's not old enough to hold the fate of the entire town in her hands. But still, she hears a message in her mind To save your home, you must save the woods. No wonder she thinks she may be losing her mind. It's not like she can do anything to change the destructive storms wreaking havoc on her town. After a fierce thunderstorm traps her and her best friend Ben in the woods overnight she finds out that she has magical powers and the message to save the forest becomes stronger. It turns out that the storms ravaging her town and the mountainside forests caused supernatural attacks-a Penumbra is feeding off chaos and destruction. Nora is forced to decide whether to fight the creature or run and hide. It feels like an impossible decision because her magic is no stronger than a sparkler, and the Penumbra was in the habit of draining magic and life from protectors like her. In order to survive, Nora must rely on her little ragtag group of buddies and join forces with the magic of the woods. She will have to find a connection to her past to face the chaos and destruction threatening everyone's future.

A wonderful mix of a magical stardust world and the everyday dilemmas that face every young girl. Lucy has gone on holiday with her best friend Allegra so that they can practise their magical stardust powers. Lucy's have become incredibly strong for such a young stardust spirit. But when they arrive Lucy senses something is wrong � there are dark stardust spirits at work. And Lucy's powers haven't gone unnoticed . . .

This book incorporates three genres--essays, poetry, and a novella--with the unifying theme of discovering and creating enchantment and intrigue in daily life. The author's writing style is succinct, clear, poetic, and fast-moving, and the book offers sparkling images, expansive ideas, fanciful entertainment, sober social commentary, practical suggestions, and referrals to additional resources. The poetry is exquisitely joyful, and the novella is about a young nature-lover who discovers a mysterious carnival in a Massachusetts forest and, because of this discovery, ends up accidentally transforming her hometown. Basically a work of magical realism, the story includes elements of scientific research and science fiction.

Award-winning author David L. Pike offers a unique focus on the crucial quarter-century in Canadian filmmaking when the industry became a viable force on the international stage. Pike provides a lively, personal, and accessible history of the most influential filmmakers and movements of both Anglo-Canadian and Quebecois cinema, from popular movies to art film and everything in between. Along with in-depth studies of key directors, including David Cronenberg, Patricia Rozema and Denys Arcand, Jean-Claude Lauzon, Robert Lepage, Léa Pool, Atom Egoyan, and Guy Maddin, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s reflects on major themes and genres and explores the regional and cultural diversity of the period. Pike positions Canadian filmmaking at the frontlines of a profound cinematic transformation in the age of global media and presents fresh perspectives on both its local and international contexts. Making a significant advance in the study of the film industry of the period, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s is also an ideal text for students, researchers, and Canadian film enthusiasts.

During Hollywoods Golden Age, a bevy of talented Canadians earned important roles in the motion picture industry.

How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. In The Visual World of Shadows, Roberto Casati and Patrick Cavanagh examine how the perception of shadows, as studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. Shadows are at once a massive problem for vision—which must distinguish them from objects or material features of objects—and a resource, signaling the presence, location, shape, and size of objects. Casati and Cavanagh draw up an inventory of information retrievable from shadows, showing their amazing variety. They present an overview of the visual system, distinguishing between measurement and inference. They discuss the shadow mission, the work done by the visual brain to parse, and perhaps discard, the information from shadows; shadow ownership, the association of a shadow with the object that casts it; shadow labeling, the visual system's ability to tell shadows from nonshadows; and the shadow concept, our knowledge about shadows as a category. Casati and Cavanagh then apply the theoretical apparatus they have developed for shadows to other phenomena: illumination, reflection, and transparency. Finally, they examine the art of the shadow, paying tribute to artists' exploration of shadow, analyzing a series of artworks (reproduced in color) from a rich and fascinating art historical corpus.