The Battle for Evov

The Battle for Evov
Author: Laurie Bowler
Publisher: Laurie Bowler
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2024-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

According to ancient laws, mythical beings and humans can't be together. Still, Ezekiel, a human, meets Jenilia, a mythical being, and their fate becomes tied together by many unfortunate events. Farah, the second born of the sovereign of Evov, has slowly been implementing her evil plans; she has succeeded in killing her mother, the monarch of Evov and has taken the throne, and it's up to her sister, Jenilia and her partner, Ezekiel, to put an end to Queen Farah's tyrannical and sadistic reign. Together Jenilia and Ezekiel lead their army through the lands of Evov to Farah's lair to defeat her and her Dark Army. This is their only chance for peace. Farah, who has been weakened from the battle, still refuses to relent and sends her Dark Army to kill all those who oppose her, including Jenilia and Ezekiel, the leaders of the uprising. The breathtaking sequel to Mythical.

Learning War

Learning War
Author: Trent Hone
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2018-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1682472949

Learning War examines the U.S. Navy’s doctrinal development from 1898–1945 and explains why the Navy in that era was so successful as an organization at fostering innovation. A revolutionary study of one of history’s greatest success stories, this book draws profoundly important conclusions that give new insight, not only into how the Navy succeeded in becoming the best naval force in the world, but also into how modern organizations can exploit today’s rapid technological and social changes in their pursuit of success. Trent Hone argues that the Navy created a sophisticated learning system in the early years of the twentieth century that led to repeated innovations in the development of surface warfare tactics and doctrine. The conditions that allowed these innovations to emerge are analyzed through a consideration of the Navy as a complex adaptive system. Learning War is the first major work to apply this complex learning approach to military history. This approach permits a richer understanding of the mechanisms that enable human organizations to evolve, innovate, and learn, and it offers new insights into the history of the United States Navy.

Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms

Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms
Author: Michael Berkman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-09-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139489984

Who should decide what children are taught in school? This question lies at the heart of the evolution-creation wars that have become a regular feature of the US political landscape. Ever since the 1925 Scopes 'monkey trial' many have argued that the people should decide by majority rule and through political institutions; others variously point to the federal courts, educational experts, or scientists as the ideal arbiter. Berkman and Plutzer illuminate who really controls the nation's classrooms. Based on their innovative survey of 926 high school biology teachers they show that the real power lies with individual educators who make critical decisions in their own classrooms. Broad teacher discretion sometimes leads to excellent instruction in evolution. But the authors also find evidence of strong creationist tendencies in America's public high schools. More generally, they find evidence of a systematic undermining of science and the scientific method in many classrooms.

Strategy, Evolution, and War

Strategy, Evolution, and War
Author: Kenneth Payne
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2018
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1626165807

Humans have always made decisions about war, but now machines are close to changing things - with implications for international affairs. Payne explores the origins of human strategy, and makes the argument that Artificial Intelligence will radically transform the nature of war by changing the psychological basis of decision-making about violence.

The Battle of Tassafaronga

The Battle of Tassafaronga
Author: Estate of R S Crenshaw
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2010-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1612515517

The Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942, was the fifth and last major night surface action fought off Savo Island during World War II’s Guadalcanal campaign. It ended a string of Japanese victories, but it was also a horrible embarrassment to the U.S. Navy, which had three heavy cruisers damaged and one sunk to enemy torpedoes. After the battle, American commanders erroneously reported that multiple enemy ships had been sunk or seriously damaged, leading Admiral Nimitz to focus on training as the missing ingredient. Not until more than half a century later did Captain Russell S. Crenshaw, Jr., the destroyer Maury’s gunnery officer during the battle, discover that the outcome hinged instead on critical shortcomings that had been built into the U.S. Navy before the war—defective torpedoes, poor intelligence, blinding gunfire, over-confidence, and a tendency to equate volume of fire with effectiveness of fire—factors that turned the battle into “a crucible in which the very nature of the U.S. Navy and its weapons was tested [and] a miniature of what might have been, under other circumstances, a truly devastating defeat.”

Animal Weapons

Animal Weapons
Author: Douglas J. Emlen
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0805094504

Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons. As singular and strange as some of the weapons we encounter on these pages are, we learn that similar factors set their evolution in motion. Emlen uses these patterns to draw parallels to the way we humans develop and employ our own weapons, and have since battle began.

Pokémon Sun & Moon - Strategy Guide

Pokémon Sun & Moon - Strategy Guide
Author: GamerGuides.com
Publisher: GamerGuides.com
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-12-13
Genre: Games
ISBN: 1631028472

Welcome to Alola, a region of tropical islands, filled with gorgeous natural beauty and Pokemon never seen before. Having recently moved to Alola, your journey begins soon afterwards. Your adventures will be filled with fascinating and colorful people with quirky island traditions and of course Pokémon. Delight in the mysteries of the brand new Alola region as your travels take you the length and breadth of the region and the secrets of the legendary Pokémon Solgaleo and Lunala are finally unveiled. Our massive and comprehensive guide includes the following: - A full route and trial battle guide covering your journey from Pokémon novice to eventual Champion. - All dungeons and Rite of the Island challenges covered. - Detailed breeding and capture guide, including locations for every Pokémon as well as information on the new Alolan forms. - Gameplay strategies to maximise your team potential as well as details on Hyper Training. - Minigames and secrets uncovered. - An explanation of the brand new Rotom Pokédex and loads more!

Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2023

Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2023
Author: Paolo Ciancarini
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2023-12-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9819982480

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2023, which was held in Bologna, Italy, during November 15–17, 2023. The 13 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. They cover a large range of topics in the following thematic areas: Game Experience; Player Engagement and Analysis; Serious Gameplay; Entertainment Methods and Tools; Extended Reality; Game Design; Interactive Entertainment; Student Game Competition; Workshops and Tutorials; and Aesthetics and Empowerment. .

The Struggle for Your Mind

The Struggle for Your Mind
Author: Kingsley L. Dennis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2012-03-26
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1594777047

A revolutionary call to overthrow society’s mental controls and expand consciousness for the greater good of humanity • Explores the tactics used to control consciousness, such as misinformation, debt systems, fear conditioning, and the distraction of entertainment and technology • Reveals the emerging mechanisms for neurogenetic evolution within our brains that will enable us to throw off the shackles of mental control • Explains how to break through the barriers inhibiting conscious evolution and restore our connection with Nature and the Divine Within society there exists a silent war. The battlefield is our everyday lives: our education, our work, our leisure, our emotional and spiritual well-being, and our thinking and perceptions. Our very sense of “reality” is deliberately engineered to work against conscious evolution and preserve social norms. In short, we are all part of a war of consciousness. And the opportunity is at hand for us to win. Assessing the ways modern societies limit consciousness and keep humanity obedient and distracted from their inner lives, Kingsley Dennis presents an eye-opening investigation of the way our minds have been programmed to preserve incumbent power structures and their rules. He exposes the tactics employed for thousands of years by the elite to control our minds, including misinformation and propaganda, debt systems, consumerism, religious doctrine, scientific authority, economic “uncertainties,” fear of terrorist attacks and armageddon, distraction through entertainment and technology, as well as the false belief that we are separate from Nature and the Divine. Despite these obstacles, humanity is awakening to culture’s imposed limits on perception through an accelerating rise in collective empathy and awareness. Exploring the biology of consciousness, Dennis reveals the emerging mechanisms for neurogenetic evolution within the brains of gifted individuals, psychics, and visionaries and the coming increases in solar and magnetic energies that will activate them within all of us. Explaining how we can free up mental and emotional energy to break through the barriers inhibiting conscious evolution, he shows that by taking back our minds and changing the way we think, we can restore our connection with Nature and the Divine and lead humanity into a new age of harmony and awareness.

Evolution's Purpose

Evolution's Purpose
Author: Steve McIntosh
Publisher: SelectBooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2012-10
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1590792483

"Presents the author's view of the scientific story of our evolutionary origins to show how evolution's progressive generation of emergent value reveals a larger purpose within the process. He demonstrates how this purpose can be felt within each of us as the evolutionary impulse to make things better--to grow toward ever-widening realizations of beauty, truth, and goodness"--Provided by publisher