Gary Pennycroft designed a board game about ownership—and then used it to design a city.He called the game Mondello.Every rule rewarded wealth. Every move punished the poor.Winning meant taking until there was nothing left to take.Then Pennycroft took the logic off the board and into the streets.Neighborhoods were renamed. Housing became "assets."Entire communities erased beneath the promise of progress.A hacker...

You are only a few remaining skeletons after the invasion of East Asia for the past few centuries and are pitiful victims. We will build the railroad if we have to {build} it over the white man's body. If you want anything, you will have to come through me. . . . and there will be many of you who will not see your homes again. Work cheerfully at my command.-Lt. Col. Y. Nagatomo, Chief, No. 3 Branch, Thailand POW Administration, Nippon Expeditionary ForceWith these words, th...

This graduate textbook provides a basic introduction to experimental philosophy (x-phi). In nine chapters, different methods and tools used in X-Phi are explained, spanning quantitative vignette studies, interactive experiments, corpus analysis, psycholinguistic experiments as well as qualitative interview studies. Each chapter introduces a specific experimental method by means of a case study in an easily accessible way and covers the whole research process from the development of a resea...

A heartwarming tale of friendship, courage, and the magic that happens when we help others along the way.When a playful gust of wind sweeps away Melody's precious chocolate chip cookie recipe, the tiny painted bunting and her best friend Stephanie embark on an unforgettable journey through the enchanted forest. What begins as a simple search becomes an adventure filled with new friends, important lessons, and unexpected joy.A Forest Full of Friends ...

He only cares about money. She’s fighting for history. Will a surprise delivery unite two opponents in love?Property developer Kyle Hicks’s playboy lifestyle couldn’t be better. He’s overcome his impoverished past, his new resort is under construction, and he’s free of any ties. But when he’s given custody of a baby he didn’t know he fathered, he has no choice but to turn for help to the one person who hates him.Single mother Violet Ellis can’t seem to catch a break. Between the failure of...

Harlequin® Blaze brings you four new red—hot reads for one great price, available now! This Harlequin® Blaze bundle includes:A COWBOY UNDER THE MISTLETOE Vicki Lewis Thompsonby Vicki Lewis ThompsonWhitney Jones and Ty Slater are about to give in to red—hot temptation. When she can’t get home for the holidays, at least she can make it to the sexy cowboy’s bed…and into his heart.A TASTE OF PARADISE Unrated!

An up-to-date reference book on phylogenetic methods and applications for evolutionary biologistsThe increasingly widespread availability of genomic data is transforming how biologists estimate evolutionary relationships among organisms and broadening the range of questions that researchers can test in a phylogenetic framework. Species Tree Inference brings together many of today’s leading scholars in the field to provide an incisive guide to the latest pr...

Harlequin Blaze brings you four new red-hot reads for one great price, available now!This Harlequin Blaze bundle includes:MIDNIGHT THUNDER (Thunder Mountain Brotherhood)by Vicki Lewis ThompsonAn emergency may have brought wandering cowboy Cade Gallagher home, but the heat between him and former flame Lexi Simmons is enough to keep him there. Lexi isn't sure she trusts him, but she can't help give in to the intense attraction…

We are people of desire.In The Soul of Desire, psychiatrist Curt Thompson suggests that underneath all our longings is the desire to be known—and what's more, that this fundamental yearning manifests itself in our deep need to make things of beauty, revealing who we are to others. Desire and beauty go hand in hand.But both our craving to be known and our ability to create beauty have been marred by trauma and shame, collapsing our imagination for w...

Harlequin® Blaze brings you four new redhot reads for one great price, available now! This Harlequin® Blaze bundle includes:COWBOY ALL NIGHT (Thunder Mountain Brotherhood)by Vicki Lewis ThompsonWhen Aria Danes hires a legendary horse trainer to work with her new foal, she isn’t expecting sexy, easygoing Brant Ellison. But when they’re together, it’s too hot for either to maintain their cool!A SEAL’S DESIRE (Unifor...

Bridging the gap between genome and phenotype, the transcriptome is a molecular-level snapshot of the act of living. Transcriptomics shows which genes are expressed into proteins in a specific tissue of a specific organism at a specific time and condition. This book gives an account of the extraordinary diversity of ways transcriptomics has been and can be utilised in basic and applied entomological research. It encompasses a vast range of disciplines within entomology, applying transcript...

A charity anthology of dark fiction and poetry exploring the life, death, and regenerative forces of Nature, with all proceeds donated to Defenders of Wildlife. . Ranging in mood from macabre to mystical, these works evoke the sentient lives of animals and plants, their emotions, impulses, conflicts, and interrelationships. Their struggles to survive, often violent, demonstrate the tenacity and resilience of Nature in all its forms.Contributing Authors: Alison Armstrong, Pixie Brun...