Author: Eric Y.F. Lim Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore ISBN: 1543746225 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 129
Book Description
This book expounds on the various ways and means to expand such physical and social environments, just like a hypercubea multidimensional and many-faceted cube. Its an expanded version of the normal cube, a form with three dimensions only.
Author: Vince Flynn Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1847395767 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 371
Book Description
THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism operative, is sent on his final mission, to eliminate a European industrialist who has been selling sensitive equipment to one of terrorism's most notorious sponsors. But he doesn't know that the ultimate target of this mission is himself. Set up by forces within the US who do not want the next Director-elect of the CIA to take over, and therefore need a disaster for the present regime, Mitch refuses to die ... the conspirators have made an awful miscalculation. They have enraged one of the most lethal and efficient killers the CIA has ever produced. Now they will pay. AMERICAN ASSASSIN, book one in the series, is soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Dylan O'Brien (Maze Runner), Taylor Kitsch (True Detective) and Michael Keaton. Praise for the Mitch Rapp series 'Sizzles with inside information and CIA secrets' Dan Brown 'A cracking, uncompromising yarn that literally takes no prisoners' The Times 'Vince Flynn clearly has one eye on Lee Child's action thriller throne with this twist-laden story. . . instantly gripping' Shortlist 'Action-packed, in-your-face, adrenalin-pumped super-hero macho escapist fiction that does exactly what it says on the label' Irish Independent
Author: Marcus Sedgwick Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1429987006 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 159
Book Description
A LOADED GUN. STOLEN GOLD. And a menacing stranger. A taut frontier survivor story, set at the time of the Alaska gold rush. In an isolated cabin, fourteen-year-old Sig is alone with a corpse: his father, who has fallen through the ice and frozen to death only hours earlier. Then comes a stranger claiming that Sig's father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold. Sig's only protection is a loaded Colt revolver hidden in the cabin's storeroom. The question is, will Sig use the gun, and why? Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. This title has Common Core connections.
Author: Barry Schwartz Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061748994 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.
Author: Louis M. Houston Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1481743511 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 111
Book Description
In this day and age, people are challenged by an information-rich environment that is filled with erratic and inconsistent concepts. Added to the pre-existing struggle to adhere to societal and physical laws, we must struggle to control our own physical, emotional, and intellectual systems. By projecting the basic structure of physics into a psychological framework, we model disorganized behavior as a product of entropy or disorder. As heat energy is highly entropic, we propose that the exclusion of heat energy from our intellectual system reduces the intrinsic entropy in our thinking and promotes mental harmony. We refer to this method as the third way. Along with the exclusion of heat, it includes a balance between positive and negative mental energy that is fundamentally related to meaning and abstraction. This produces a still point and from the equilibrium of this still point emerges a positive overtone that we refer to as meta-positivity. The third way is so named in reference to the first way and the the second way. Essentially, the first way produces control of the physical system. The second way produces control of the emotional system, and the third way produces control of the intellectual system.
Author: Sarah Hale Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526137887 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 215
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This collections brings together expert contributions to dissect the key political concept of the Third Way in theory and practice, assessing its development and legacy and suggesting criticisms and alternatives.
Author: Anthony Giddens Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0745666604 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is the third way? Supporters of the notion haven't been able to agree, and critics deny the possibility altogether. Anthony Giddens shows that developing a third way is not only a possibility but a necessity in modern politics.
Author: Carson Brannan Publisher: Tate Publishing ISBN: 1615664157 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 72
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Jack Sloan was living a comfortable life with his new wife, Susan until the unexpected happened: a yacht belonging to a couple with some striking similarities and some undeniable dissimilarities to Jack and Susan floats close to shore with no passengers on board. Jack and Susan are immediately thrown into a whirlwind of events and choices that may lead to friendship and happiness or culminate in total disaster. Between searching the Caribbean for billionaire Guy Atkins and uncovering a conspiracy that could lead To The destruction of the earth, Jack learns that life is fraught with decisions, and that there is always an alternative option that is the right course to follow. Join new author Carson Brannan as he chronicles Jack's adventures and discovers the Third Option. Carson Brannan has been an avid sailor since his childhood spent in Florida, and enjoys all manner of water sports, As well as extensive travel. He is married and has a blended family consisting of five children, nine grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. He and his wife live in east Tennessee in a beautiful house with inspiring vistas all around. The Third Option Series is his first literary effort.
Author: Jordan, Bill Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1847426581 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 233
Book Description
In the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass. This book explains why the Third Way's combination of market-friendly and abstract, value-led principles has failed, and shows what is needed for an adequate replacement as a political and moral project. It criticises the economic analysis on which the Third Way approach to policy was founded and suggests an alternative to its legalistic and managerial basis for the regulation of social relations.
Author: Cyrille J.C.F. Fijnaut Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004293191 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 238
Book Description
What is sensible when it comes to developing and implementing a policy with regard to products which in the case of regular use are harmful, but which at the same time exert a strong attraction, even so strong that people (may) become dependent on or addicted to them? This question relates to many illicit drugs, but these days it is, both nationally and internationally, mainly related to the policy regarding the production, distribution and consumption of cannabis. Generally speaking, the legalization of cannabis in Uruguay and in some states of the United States of America, in particular Colorado and Washington State, has given a powerful impetus to the discussion about the cannabis policy. In the Netherlands, that discussion has become increasingly relevant over the past years because of the struggle of coffeeshop owners and political parties. This volume offers the first English-language analysis of the situation in the Netherlands in order to make a contribution to the international debate on this heated topic. Since the 1960s, the Dutch cannabis policy has been an important point of reference in the international discussion about the policy that should be pursued regarding the use of cannabis. However, in international and foreign literature about cannabis policy the developments in the Netherlands are often depicted in an incomplete or one-sided manner, which has a negative impact on the quality of the international debate about what has happened and what should happen now. This volume seeks to redress that imbalance.
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