Aldos Misfortunate Search of the Secret Tower

Aldos Misfortunate Search of the Secret Tower
Author: Linda Kostura
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2008
Genre: Christian life
ISBN: 1602477647

Close friends Shooner and Jampo meet for an evening adventure. When Paco enters the scene things will change. Three amigos learn that "Putting confidence in an unreliable person is like chewing with a toothache or walking on a broken foot", Proverbs 25:19 (NIV).

The Architecture of the City

The Architecture of the City
Author: Aldo Rossi
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1984-09-13
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262680431

Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students.

The Wizard and the Prophet

The Wizard and the Prophet
Author: Charles C. Mann
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307961702

From the bestselling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493—an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.

Killing Hope

Killing Hope
Author: William Blum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-07-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1350348198

In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and - in this updated edition - beyond. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global force for democracy? Killing Hope shows the answer to this question to be a resounding 'no'.

Out Of Control

Out Of Control
Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2009-04-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 078674703X

Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.

Actionable Gamification

Actionable Gamification
Author: Yu-kai Chou
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 183921077X

Learn all about implementing a good gamification design into your products, workplace, and lifestyle Key FeaturesExplore what makes a game fun and engagingGain insight into the Octalysis Framework and its applicationsDiscover the potential of the Core Drives of gamification through real-world scenariosBook Description Effective gamification is a combination of game design, game dynamics, user experience, and ROI-driving business implementations. This book explores the interplay between these disciplines and captures the core principles that contribute to a good gamification design. The book starts with an overview of the Octalysis Framework and the 8 Core Drives that can be used to build strategies around the various systems that make games engaging. As the book progresses, each chapter delves deep into a Core Drive, explaining its design and how it should be used. Finally, to apply all the concepts and techniques that you learn throughout, the book contains a brief showcase of using the Octalysis Framework to design a project experience from scratch. After reading this book, you'll have the knowledge and skills to enable the widespread adoption of good gamification and human-focused design in all types of industries. What you will learnDiscover ways to use gamification techniques in real-world situationsDesign fun, engaging, and rewarding experiences with OctalysisUnderstand what gamification means and how to categorize itLeverage the power of different Core Drives in your applicationsExplore how Left Brain and Right Brain Core Drives differ in motivation and design methodologiesExamine the fascinating intricacies of White Hat and Black Hat Core DrivesWho this book is for Anyone who wants to implement gamification principles and techniques into their products, workplace, and lifestyle will find this book useful.

The History of Terrorism

The History of Terrorism
Author: Gérard Chaliand
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2016-08-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520292502

First published in English in 2007 under title: The history of terrorism: from antiquity to al Qaeda.

Art Worlds

Art Worlds
Author: Howard Saul Becker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520043862

Brittle Power

Brittle Power
Author: Amory B. Lovins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1982
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

The Mind of the Market

The Mind of the Market
Author: Michael Shermer
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2009-01-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780805089165

Bestselling author and psychologist Shermer explains how evolution has shaped the modern economy--and why people are so irrational about money. Drawing on the new field of neuroeconomics, Shermer investigates what brain scans reveal about bargaining, snap purchases, and establishing trust in business.