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Author: Francis Tsai Publisher: IMPACT ISBN: 9781600613418 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 128
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This is a highly practical guide for budding artists who want to create their own extreme sci-fi worlds. Core elements of sci-fi art are taught through ingenious exercises and eleven detailed step by step projects. Subjects covered include aliens, robots, space ships, weapons, space stations and strange planets.
Author: Francis Tsai Publisher: IMPACT ISBN: 9781600613418 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
This is a highly practical guide for budding artists who want to create their own extreme sci-fi worlds. Core elements of sci-fi art are taught through ingenious exercises and eleven detailed step by step projects. Subjects covered include aliens, robots, space ships, weapons, space stations and strange planets.
Author: National Intelligence Council (US) Publisher: Government Printing Office ISBN: 0160920647 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 166
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Global megatrends for the next 20 years and how they will affect the United States. This is the fifth installment in the National Intelligence Council’s series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about possible futures and their implications. The report is intended to stimulate strategic thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes characterizing the world today and possible global trajectories during the next 15-20 years by identifying critical trends and potential discontinuities. The authors distinguish between megatrends, those factors that will likely occur under any scenario, and game-changers, critical variables whose trajectories are far less certain. NIC 2012-001. Appropriate for anyone, from business to banks, government to start-ups, technology to teachers and more, this publication hellps anticipate where the world will be socially, politically, technically and culturally over the next few decades. Several innovations are included in Global Trends 2030, including: a review of the four previous Global Trends reports, input from academic and other experts around the world, coverage of disruptive technologies, and a chapter on the potential trajectories for the US role in the international system and the possible the impact on future international relations.
Author: Richard Davies Publisher: ISBN: 9781784163259 Category : Economics Languages : en Pages : 416
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To predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy and beyond. These extreme economies illustrate the forces that test human resilience, drive societies to failure, and promise to shape our collective future. Reviving a foundational idea from the medical sciences, Extreme Economies turns the logic of modern economics on its head by arguing that these outlier societies can teach us more about our own than we might imagine. By adapting to circumstances unimaginable to most of us, the people in these societies are pioneering the economic infrastructure of the future.
Author: Joseph Melia Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317489683 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 199
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This introduction to modality places the emphasis on the metaphysics of modality rather than on the formal semetics of quantified modal logic. The text begins by introducing students to the "de re/de dicto" distinction, conventionalist and conceptualist theories of modality and some of the key problems in modality, particularly Quine's criticisms. It then moves on to explain how possible worlds provide a solution to many of the problems in modality and how possible worlds themselves have been used to analyse notions outside modality such as properties and propositions. Possible worlds introduce problems of their own and the book argues that to make progress with these problems a theory of possible worlds is required. The pros and cons of various theories of possible worlds are then examined in turn, including those of Lewis, Kripke, Adams, Stalnaker and Plantinga.
Author: Cass R. Sunstein Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199754128 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 208
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"In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism."--Inside jacket.
Author: Tom Jackson Publisher: Hungry Tomato ® ISBN: 1541533135 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 35
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Travel to Africa to meet the longest snake on the continent, the black mamba, which is also one of the fastest in the world. A dangerous cast of characters with comic-style illustrated spreads and dramatic photos will keep young readers turning the page to learn more about these deadly reptiles.
Author: Jonathan Bennett Publisher: Clarendon Press ISBN: 019153174X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 402
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Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language: analysis of their meaning and function has important implications for, and uses in, many areas of philosophy. Jonathan Bennett, one of the world's leading experts, distils many years' work and teaching into this Philosophical Guide to Conditionals, the fullest and most authoritative treatment of the subject. The literature on conditionals is difficult - needlessly so. Bennett's treatment is meticulously careful and luminously clear. He presents and evaluates in detail various approaches to the understanding of 'indicative' conditionals (like 'If Shakespeare didn't write Hamlet, some aristocrat did') and 'subjunctive' conditionals (like 'If rabbits had not been deliberately introduced into New Zealand, there would be none there today'); and he offers his own view, which will be recognized as a major original contribution to the subject. Journeying through this intellectual territory brings one into contact with the metaphysics of possible worlds, probability and belief-change, probability and logic, the pragmatics of conversation, determinism, ambiguity, vagueness, the law of excluded middle, facts versus events, and more. One might perhaps learn more philosophy from a thorough study of conditionals than from any other kind of work. Bennett's Guide is an ideal introduction for undergraduates with a philosophical grounding, and will also be a rich source of illumination and stimulation for graduate students and professional philosophers.
Author: W. E. A. van Beek Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd ISBN: 1847010490 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 354
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Africa is a 'theme park' for Western tourists to experience untouched wilderness, untamed nature, and truly 'authentic' cultures, where the hosts, too, are part of a discourse about the 'other' and ourselves, about wildness, danger and roots. Tourism is important for Africa: international tourist arrivals to Africa continue to grow, income from tourism is crucial to national economies, and tourism investments are considered among the most profitable. This edited volumedeals with the interaction of local communities with tourists coming into their areas and villages. Based upon a common theoretical approach, fourteen cases of African tourism are discussed which involve direct contact between 'hosts' and 'guests'. The viewpoint throughout is from the side of the locals, establishing how the processes of interaction shape each small scale destination. Crucial in Africa is the fact that the large majority of tourism is game oriented and the interaction between locals and visitors is very much 'tainted' by this fact. Central is the notion of the tourist bubble - the infrastructure that is generated locally (and internationally) for hosting tourists, as it is this institutional interface that tends to impact on the local society and culture, not the tourists themselves directly. The examples come from all over Africa, from the Sahara to the Eastern Cape, and from Kenyato Ghana. All contributions are based upon original fieldwork. Walter van Beek is professor of anthropology at Tilburg University and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden; Annette Schmidt is curatorof the African department at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, and is an archaeologist with a long experience in cultural management projects.
Author: Agus Pakpahan Publisher: Balai Pustaka (Persero), PT ISBN: 602260348X Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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Alexander-X is a deep self-conversation which echoes the author’s life experiences. The author’s reflections about the past and the possible future are quite intriguing. The idea for building a bridge to connect the past with the future is brilliant, yet it opens for questions. In fact, Alexander-X is presented in a conversation way which might confuse the reader at the beginning. Moreover, the person involve in the story show up in a spiritual way which is difficult to logically comprehend. However, along the chapters we might read while mirror our own life. Indeed, Alexander-X is a philosophy book that requires some effort to swallow. Nevertheless, it’s a worth book to try. The story presented in Alexander-X will train the reader to be a thinker. Thinking of our life, particularly what we want to be in the future. Undeniably, the ideas in this book fit for the present and the future. As not many people get a chance to live in such journey, the book will fill the holes in our life that we have missed.
Author: Ana María Rodríguez Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC ISBN: 1464604665 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 50
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The ocean is one of the most extreme environments on Earth. The deepest ocean zones challenge animal survival in unique ways. When light and warmth totally disappear, when pressure can crush most bodies, and when food is extremely rare, how do deep-sea animals cope? Scientists have sent remotely operated vehicles to the sea floor to capture images and videos of these amazing creatures in hopes of answering these questions. Their expeditions have revealed amazing information about extreme deep-sea animals.
Author: Francis Tsai
Author: Francis Tsai
Author: National Intelligence Council (US)
Author: Richard Davies
Author: Joseph Melia
Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Author: Tom Jackson
Author: Jonathan Bennett
Author: W. E. A. van Beek
Author: Agus Pakpahan
Author: Ana María Rodríguez