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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Elanor Bell Publisher: CABI ISBN: 1845938143 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 576
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From arid deserts to icy poles, outer space to the depths of the sea, this exciting new work studies the remarkable life forms that have made these inhospitable environments their home. Covering not only micro-organisms, but also higher plants and animals such as worms, fish and polar plants, this book details the ecological, biological and biogeochemical challenges these organisms face and unifying themes between environments. Equally useful for the expert, student and casual scientific reader, this book also explores the impact of climate change, rapid seasonal changes and pollution on these extraordinary creatures.
Author: Nate Garrelts Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786483474 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 268
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In recent years, computer technology has permeated all aspects of life--not just work and education, but also leisure time. Increasingly, digital games are the way we play. This volume addresses the world of digital games, with special emphasis on the role and input of the gamer. In fifteen essays, the contributors discuss the various ways the game player interacts with the game. The first half of the book considers the physical and mental aspects of digital game play. The second section concentrates on other factors that influence play. Essays cover the full range of digital gaming, including computer and video games. Topics include several detailed investigations of particular, often controversial games such as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, as well as a consideration of the ways in which game-playing crosses socioeconomic, age, gender and racial lines. The concluding essays discuss scholars' perceptions of digital media and efforts to frame them. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Francis Tsai
Author: Francis Tsai
Author: Richard Davies
Author: Joseph Melia
Author: National Intelligence Council (US)
Author: Tom Jackson
Author: Agus Pakpahan
Author: Jonathan Bennett
Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Author: Elanor Bell
Author: Nate Garrelts