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Author: Amy B. Zegart Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 080474131X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 336
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Challenging the belief that national security agencies work well, this book asks what forces shaped the initial design of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council in ways that meant they were handicapped from birth.
Author: Amy B. Zegart Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 080474131X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 336
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Challenging the belief that national security agencies work well, this book asks what forces shaped the initial design of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council in ways that meant they were handicapped from birth.
Author: Alan Lee Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781986760829 Category : Languages : en Pages : 254
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Book Three of the Mackenzie August mystery series! Dr. Everett Owens knocks on the door of professional sleuth, Mackenzie August, with a tale of woe-Roanoke City's premiere residents are being burglarized and Everetts' been framed for the crime. To investigate, Mackenzie must unearth dirty secrets buried by Roanoke's royalty. As the plot thickens, Mackenzie's carefully ordered world is struck by tragedy and he comes ever closer to Veronica Summer's final secret... Amazon Reviews "I love these books and this author. The writing is crisp, the characters well written, and the storylines are not run of the mill." "Excellent book. A very worthy successor to Robert Parker and his Spenser books." "So glad to find this author! Mr Lee writes with great humor, makes his characters real, and tells a good story! Similar to Lee Child, his main character makes you want more and more!"
Author: Ian Schreiber Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1498799582 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 806
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Within the field of game design, game balance can best be described as a black art. It is the process by which game designers make a game simultaneously fair for players while providing them just the right amount of difficulty to be both exciting and challenging without making the game entirely predictable. This involves a combination of mathematics, psychology, and occasionally other fields such as economics and game theory. Game Balance offers readers a dynamic look into game design and player theory. Throughout the book, relevant topics on the use of spreadsheet programs will be included in each chapter. This book therefore doubles as a useful reference on Microsoft Excel, Google Spreadsheets, and other spreadsheet programs and their uses for game designers. FEATURES The first and only book to explore game balance as a topic in depth Topics range from intermediate to advanced, while written in an accessible style that demystifies even the most challenging mathematical concepts to the point where a novice student of game design can understand and apply them Contains powerful spreadsheet techniques which have been tested with all major spreadsheet programs and battle-tested with real-world game design tasks Provides short-form exercises at the end of each chapter to allow for practice of the techniques discussed therein along with three long-term projects divided into parts throughout the book that involve their creation Written by award-winning designers with decades of experience in the field Ian Schreiber has been in the industry since 2000, first as a programmer and then as a game designer. He has worked on eight published game titles, training/simulation games for three Fortune 500 companies, and has advised countless student projects. He is the co-founder of Global Game Jam, the largest in-person game jam event in the world. Ian has taught game design and development courses at a variety of colleges and universities since 2006. Brenda Romero is a BAFTA award-winning game director, entrepreneur, artist, and Fulbright award recipient and is presently game director and creator of the Empire of Sin franchise. As a game director, she has worked on 50 games and contributed to many seminal titles, including the Wizardry and Jagged Alliance series and titles in the Ghost Recon, Dungeons & Dragons, and Def Jam franchises.
Author: Bill Pennington Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0544022092 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 565
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From an award-winning New York Times sports columnist, the definitive biography of one of baseball's most celebrated, mercurial, and misunderstood figures--legendary manager and baseball genius, Billy Martin
Author: Ed Willes Publisher: Harbour Publishing ISBN: 1990776906 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 218
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Veteran hockey writer Ed Willes takes an irreverent look back at the sometimes thrilling, often infuriating and always fascinating history of the Vancouver Canucks. Cheering for the National Hockey League’s Vancouver Canucks over the last half century has required patience, commitment and a forgiving nature. It’s not that the Canucks have been uniformly awful or drearily predictable. Far from it (as this past season would attest). But every time they seemed close to delivering the ultimate prize to their fan base—the indomitable faithful—they slipped on a banana peel and tumbled straight into the abyss. Most of their failings were self-inflicted. The franchise’s ownership history is as uneven as its won-loss record. But some have been so random and so accidental, the faithful can legitimately wonder what they did to anger the hockey gods. It started in 1970 with a spin of the carnival wheel, which gifted Hall of Fame centre Gilbert Perreault to the Buffalo Sabres and left the Canucks with Dale Tallon. And it’s continued uninterrupted for over 50 years. For decades, veteran Vancouver hockey writer Ed Willes has had his own vantage point on this team that has, in his words, “been haunted by dark and unnatural forces since its inception.” And Willes’s knowledge extends far beyond the most infamous chapters of the story. As this irreverent, often bitterly funny chronicle shows, the litany of woe stretches back farther and runs deeper than many Canucks fans realize, and stars several of the biggest names in hockey history. Willes’s account tells the story of a uniquely confounded franchise and its obsessive followers, who have thus far been denied the thrill of a Stanley Cup championship. Their consolation has been the dubious comfort of wallowing in collective misery.
Author: Hank Lancet Publisher: Hank Lancet ISBN: 1310637946 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 100
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Most books about poker are written either by experts or from an expert's point of view. The rest of the books are written for beginners on how to survive and compete against grinders at the $1-$2 or similarly low stakes no-limit (NL) tables. This book fits in neither category, for I am no expert, and this book doesn't aim to teach you to become a consistent winner at the low stakes tables. Rather, it's a book geared to give insight into one of the most frustrating types of players to have at your table: the JackAce. Some call him a maniac. Some call him a donkey. He's loose and his chips go all over the place. Often, he seems like a luckbox fish. You can't get a read on him. Since he seems to win big but also lose big with no sense of consistency, his style is largely ignored. Rather, he is discussed as a player to "be careful" around. I am a JackAce, and this book will give you insight into my style of play not because it's so awesome, but rather because it will clue you in on how to deal with someone like me at your table. It only costs a big blind or two, well worth it if you can take advantage of the advice within.
Author: Clare Wilson Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1438900228 Category : Languages : en Pages : 181
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In this book Poetic Pete(tm), AKA Peter Karplus(tm), author of Dancing with Fear, Rejection, Doubt, and Hope, and A Potpourri of Poems, uses free verse, haiku, iambic pentameter, and rhyme and an amazingly sensitive understanding dipped in his own brand of humor as he explores nature and its brilliance, and covers subjects of family and friends, making dedications to those people in his life who have held special meaning to him as well as illuminating the many shades of love and the range of emotions that are its bedfellows. Then, he follows with a selection of religion tenured poems ranging from the obtuse to the obvious. He goes on to show us a look inward into his life and people's reactions, to his speech impediments and bent body, that he has had to enlighten and change with his lifelong-learned teachings, and amazing understanding. He, then, continues with a selection of assorted poems that range from the comical to the serious aspects of life, followed by a few poems that take a surreal look at the world. Poetic Pete then welcomes us with several of his latest lyrics spanning subjects such as love, heartbreak, and even politics. And in conclusion, he ends the book with a couple short stories
Author: Shi Davidi Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 1770904247 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 193
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A one of a kind look at the Toronto Blue Jays 2013 season, two seasoned sports journalists provide readers with all they need to know as the team attempts to end their 20-year playoff drought. Beginning with a full look at General Manager Alex Anthopoulos’s busy offseason in the wake of a disappointing 2012 season—from the acquisition of Cy Young winner R. A. Dickey, a sexual abuse survivor who is the only active knuckleballer in the majors, to the blockbuster trade that brought in the electric shortstop José Reyes and aces Josh Johnson and Mark Buehrle—Great Expectations is replete with details on the team’s newly overhauled roster. The book also highlights other members of the team, including Brett Lawrie, the team’s lone Canadian, whose kinetic style of play is a double-edged sword; José Bautista, the two-time home-run champion bidding to revive his power following wrist surgery; and Melky Cabrera, whose 50-game drug suspension in 2012 forced him to sign a free-agent contract with a new team for half the money he might otherwise have realized. Packed with insightful content, game-by-game analysis, and a bevy of photos, this is the only book Blue Jays fans need to commemorate the team’s 2013 season.
Author: Amy B. Zegart
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