Invitation to the Game

Invitation to the Game
Author: Monica Hughes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1993-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0671866923

Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their "Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game.

The Game

The Game
Author: Monica Hughes
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781442409392

The Game is just the beginning… It’s the year 2154. Lisse and her friends have been deemed unemployable in the eyes of society. Now they must scavenge the disintegrating city for food and shelter, just to make ends meet. But their dismal existence starts to look up when Lisse and her friends are invited to participate in The Game, an experience highly regarded in their society. The Game is a virtual reality experience where they are challenged to survive. But as they spend more time in The Game, the line between reality and fantasy starts to blur. What started as a simple exercise quickly becomes a test of endurance, trust, and their will to live.

Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy

Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy
Author: Jon Sundbo
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1848444001

Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy focuses on the creation of experience from a business perspective. In doing so, the book establishes a more solid foundation for making better and more complex analyses of experience creation, paving the way for the development of analytically based and innovative experiences in experience firms and institutions. The contributors emphasise that experience creation is not an easy task with a straightforward formula and examine how marketed experiences are constructed, developed and innovated. Presenting diverse and innovative perspectives, the contributors discuss and present models for how experiences are designed, produced and distributed. With its cross-disciplinary approach to experience creation, this fascinating study will appeal to researchers and academics of business administration, services, culture and tourism.

Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers

Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers
Author: Gale W. Sherman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 175
Release: 1993-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313080003

Selected for their high interest, appealing formats, appropriate reading levels, outstanding writing, and popularity, these contemporary, spellbinding titles (20 for grades 5-8 and 20 for grades 9-12) reflect a variety of genres and themes that will encourage lifelong literacy. Given for each title are genre and themes, review citations, author information, plot summary, reading and interest rankings, booktalks, literature extensions, alternative book report suggestions, and reproducible bookmarks that suggest further reading.

Invitation to Sociology

Invitation to Sociology
Author: Peter L. Berger
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1453215409

DIVThe most popularly read, adapted, anthologized, and incorporated primer on sociology ever written for modern readers/divDIV /divDIVAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger lays the groundwork for a clear understanding of sociology in his straightforward introduction to the field, much loved by students, professors, and general readers. Berger aligns sociology in the humanist tradition—revealing its relationship to the humanities and philosophy—and establishes its importance in thinking critically about the modern world./divDIV /divDIVThroughout, Berger presents the contributions of some of the most important sociologists of the time, including Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Vilfredo Pareto, and Thorstein Veblen./div

The Game of Triumphs

The Game of Triumphs
Author: Laura Powell
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375865659

Fifteen-year-old Cat and three other London teens are drawn into a dangerous game in which Tarot cards open doorways into a different dimension, and while there is everything to win, losing can be fatal.

Invitation to The North

Invitation to The North
Author: Hermann Tietgen
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 295
Release:
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1039142249

A man with a recent degree in Agriculture from the University of Berlin, Hermann came to Canada in 1930 to escape inflation and lack of jobs in Germany. A chance encounter led him to the North and a job prospecting for gold. He fell in love with the North like so many others had done before him. In 1939 the declaration of war against Germany stopped all searches for gold in the North. Suddenly other minerals were more important. This brought all the gold prospectors to Edmonton from the North and there were many more men than jobs. Hermann, his wife, and little daughter moved ‘back’ to Montreal where he was hoping to find a job. Fortunately, through a friend of a friend, he did land a job at an alloy-producing plant in Beauharnois, Quebec near Montreal. The first job was as a ‘stoker’ on a platform above the huge vats of molten metal, stirring the mass which would be used to make armoured steel for vehicles and tanks, for the Canadian Armed Forces. He worked at St. Lawrence Alloys as a Stores Keeper and then as the Purchasing Agent, until he retired in 1968. He died in 1970, never having returned to the North which he loved so well. This is his story in his own words.

Scenes from the Epic Life of a Total Genius

Scenes from the Epic Life of a Total Genius
Author: Stacey Matson
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1443133892

After spending the summer at an arts camp, Arthur and Robbie return to school and their odd sort of friendship is blossoming despite Arthurs constant worry about hiding the video camera that Robbie borrowed from camp in his closet. They even join the AV club together (the only members, most of the time) so that they can get their zombie action movie scripted and rolling. Arthurs love life on the is also proving hard to handle. His new girlfriend, Anila, keeps wanting more and more from Arthur, but he cant seem to stop thinking about Kennedy! Told in the same unique style of emails, doodles, texts, newspaper articles and now AV Club rules (which Arthur and Robbie usually ignore), the story picks up with even more energy from A Year in the Life of a Total and Complete Genius.

Working Together

Working Together
Author: Mr Chris Davidson
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1409486672

Organizational Transactional Analysis is a discipline whose focus is on enabling effective communication at all levels of the organization. It looks at development and change from the individual, team, department and organizational levels. This book, and Organizational TA as a whole, operates from an assumption of health – this is a very different approach from other communication methodologies which tend to focus on the problems. TA focuses on building on what is already working, rather than what isn't. From their many years of experience, Anita Mountain and Chris Davidson are convinced that TA offers everyone within the workforce different options on how to relate. Working Together offers up-to-date theory developed by the authors through their extensive knowledge of TA and of the business world. The clear explanations and diagrams in the book outline how you can develop and maintain effective communication and be aware of the processes involved in carrying out decisions and strategies. With chapters on how to apply TA in the workplace Working Together is a down-to-earth yet intelligent read and an important resource for those who wish to improve the quality of relationships and improve productivity. It will be of value to individuals, leaders and managers at all levels. Whether the issue is emotional intelligence, stress, poor communication or different departmental/regional perspectives, this book offers a toolkit of resources to support the people processes aspects of the business.