If you've ever played videogames, you'd understand the concept that these electronic amusements could be considered as just "mini-games", mere distractions within the main game that we're all playing: the one we call life.Life is the ultimate interactive experience, masterfully crafted by the Ultimate Creator.All other interactive experiences made by humans are often judged by how much they can measure up to it.Life is a complex, fully customizable, multi-faceted, ep...

Lourdes was just a typical teenager who'd recently graduated high school, until a heinous crime left her family dead and put her in a coma. Her medical condition attracted the attention of a mysterious international security agency, which took her in for an experimental medical procedure. She woke up as Rayah Reyes, a special class agent with a computer chip in her head.

On 30 Oct 2019 D. Eric Lawrence was sentenced to prison. He was innocent of the charge but 'UK justice system did not seem to matter and the press and media were only interested in peddling a false narrative with zero fact checking. Those that know D. Eric Lawrence, a shy but very hardworking human being, one that is friendly and cares for others around him were shocked. How did this happen, did his 'type of career' have anything to do with his predicaments? His is a very complicated story...

The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from antiquity to...

To access the video vignettes, please visit oup.com/RUBI Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) begins in early childhood and is characterized by impairments in social interaction and communication, restricted interests and repetitive behavior. As many as half of children with ASD between the ages of 3 and 8 also exhibit disruptive behaviors that interfere with their overall development and family functioning. This Therapist Guide, Parent Training for Disruptive Behavior, is desi...

To access the video vignettes, please visit oup.com/RUBI Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) involves difficulties in social interaction and communication, restricted interests and repetitive behavior. Approximately half of children with ASD also exhibit disruptive behaviors such as tantrums and aggression, which can be stressful for the child and family. Parent Training for Disruptive Behavior is an 11-session intervention for parents who wish to learn how to reduce disruptiv...

'Jimi's genius . . . documented by one of the few men who was there.' Joe Perry, Aerosmith'A backstage pass to Jimi's talented, tormented life, a life lived large and led at a furious pace. Eric Barrett riffs like one of the master's iconic solos.' Bob Spitz, author of The Beatles: The Biography and The Rolling Stones: The Biography'Barrett witnessed the highs and lows of Jimi Hendrix at his peak, and offers firsth...

This collection introduces readers to the philosophical interpretation of Scripture, specifically within American Philosophy. The purpose of the collection concerns starting a conversation about the practice and task of the philosophical interpretation of Scripture. Reflections on the philosophical interpretation of Scripture have been treated more as a “conversation-stopper” than a conversation-starter within the American academy. To start such a conversation, this collection offers subst...

This edited volume focuses on slow media, an approach that fosters intentional and thoughtful engagement with media of all forms. Contributors explore our individual and community relations with analog and digital media by critiquing current power structures underpinning contemporary media sensibilities, processes, and technologies. Through these critiques, the authors pose crucial questions surrounding how to slow down and be intentional within the landscape of accelerated media technolog...

Brought to you by Penguin.'In the twenty-first century, infectious disease seemed like a nuisance, not like a mortal threat'Just as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second.The story starts with the initial moments of Covid's appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph Biden's inauguration i...

A beautifully illustrated guide to the complete mammalian biodiversity of the Philippines’ largest island.Revealing the astounding mammalian diversity found on the largest Philippine island, The Mammals of Luzon Island is a unique book that functions both as a field guide and study of tropical fauna. The book features 120 fully illustrated species profiles and shows how the mammals fit into larger questions related to evolution, ecology, and biogeography. ...

This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can happen through the reframing of...