In Advanced Game Design, pioneering game designer and instructor Michael Sellers situates game design practices in a strong theoretical framework of systems thinking, enabling designers to think more deeply and clearly about their work, so they can produce better, more engaging games for any device or platform. Sellers offers a deep unifying framework in which practical game design best practices and proven systems thinking theory reinforce each other, helping game designe...

Shattered Echoes follows Clara and Elias, two damaged souls who find each other amid loneliness and shared pasts of abuse. As Elias's buried memories and PTSD surface, their relationship becomes a study in love, burden, and the slow work of recovery. Through therapy sessions, painful setbacks, and fragile moments of tenderness, the novel traces how trauma shapes identity, erodes trust, and sometimes allows for healing when boundaries, self-care, and support take hold. Rich...

Jack Bowes' existence had been nigh on perfect; a successful career making pots, a woman he adored and planned to marry and an independent and vigorous outlook on life. Perfect until he was diagnosed with a cancer, an unexpected discovery that was to be followed by even more bizarre discoveries that cast a series of shadows over his wife to be and all his known relations. As the truth painfully unfolded; taboos exposed, incest and rape, the story was scandalised in the press. Such was the ...

SOME MEMORIES DON'T FADE.THEY SHATTER.Shattered Memories is a deeply introspective narrative chronicling the traumatic journey of Clara and her family, from a childhood shadowed by domestic abuse to the arduous path of healing and rediscovery. The story intertwines personal trauma with broader themes of resilience, survival, and the quest for autonomy, framed by physical and emotional spaces-particularly the furniture and homes that symbolize control, memory, and transforma...

La Jamaïque est une petite colonie britannique perdue au milieu des possessions de l'Empire espagnol. Port Royal, capitale de l'île, n'est pas un endroit où s'établir si l'on veut vivre centenaire : c'est un véritable coupe-gorge où se bousculent aventuriers, loups de mer, filles de mauvaise vie et autres repris de justice. Du point de vue du capitaine Edward Hunter, cependant, la vie sur l'île est riche de promesses. Il faut juste s'y entendre un peu en matière de pirat...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Marketing your shop and products is an important part of running a successful business.Even if you make the most earth shatteringly brilliant product ever invented, if no one knows about it, no one is going to buy it. Effective marketing solves this problem by raising awareness of your brand and establishing your reputation. This, in turn, helps buyers discover your products, builds buyer trust and confidence, a...

Dosant toujours à la perfection découvertes scientifiques et fiction, Crichton entraîne ses personnages dans un univers aussi effrayant que celui de Jurassic Park et aussi angoissant que celui de La Proie. Un roman posthume saisissant.Vin Drake, le puissant directeur de la société high-tech Nanigen, fabricante de robots miniaturisés, installée dans les environs d'Honolulu, attire à Hawaii sept brillants étudiants venus de Harvard. Mais il leur a caché la véritable ...

Spätestens seit der Coronapandemie sind Verschwörungstheorien ein Signum unserer Zeit. Je komplexer unsere Welt wird, desto mehr Menschen scheinen für ihre erklärenden Sinnangebote empfänglich. Elon Musk, der reichste Mensch der Welt, hat ein ganzes soziales Netzwerk in eine Schleuder für konspirationistische Erzählungen verwandelt. Donald Trump, der mächtigste Mensch der Welt, amtiert als conspiracy theorist in chief im Weißen Haus.Michael Butter, Bestsellerautor ...

Bien avant Jurassic Park, le jeune Michael Crichton, étudiant à Harvard, écrivait des romans pulp sous le nom de plume de John Lange...Quand le professeur Barnaby découvre entre les lignes de hiéroglyphes l'existence d'une tombe de pharaon – la dernière – demeurée secrète depuis des millénaires, il sait que le butin sera inimaginable. Il décide alors de mener en toute discrétion des fouilles pour retrouver le site funéraire, et le piller. Mais il lui faut u...

Marketing your shop and products is an important part of running a successful business. Even if you make the most earth shatteringly brilliant product ever invented, if no one knows about it, no one is going to buy it. Effective marketing solves this problem by raising awareness of your brand and establishing your reputation. This, in turn, helps buyers discover your products, builds buyer trust and confidence, and leads to sales and opportunities.In this b...

Bien avant Jurassic Park, le jeune Michael Crichton, étudiant à Harvard, écrivait des romans pulp sous le nom de plume de John Lange...Jeune radiologue américain, Peter Ross aspirait simplement à passer de bonnes vacances sur la Costa Brava quand il rencontre Angela Locke sur la plage. Et le voilà aussitôt devenu la cible de gangs rivaux à la recherche d'un précieux artéfact.De Barcelone aux rues de Paris, des tours de l'Alhambra aux catacombes, Pete...

A Movement of Movements charts the strategic thinking behind the mosaic of movements currently challenging neoliberal globalization. Leading theorists and activists-the Zapatistas' Subcomandante Marcos, Chittaroopa Palit from the Indian Narmada Valley dam protests, Soweto anti-privatization campaigner Trevor Ngwane, Brazilian Sem Terra leader Jo�o Pedro Stedile, and many more-discuss their personal formation as radicals, the history of their movements, their analyses of globalizat...