Plague has ravaged the world. The people that remain spend their time immersed in the Games. Lost in a fantasy world that is much more than the harsh reality of everyday life. Unfortunately, someone is trapping people online, refusing to let them out. Keeping them there until their bodies whither away. Gamer extraordinaire, Tor Roberts and Miss Jenny Morgan race across a desolate world to find her father. The one man who might be able to stop this new terror.
NAMED ONE OF COSMOPOLITAN'S "15 BEST MARRIAGE BOOKS ALL COUPLES SHOULD READ." An accessible, transformative guide for couples seeking greater love, connection, and intimacy in our modern world Nate and Kaley Klemp were both successful in their careers, consulting for high-powered companies around the world. Their work as mindfulness and leadership experts, however, often fell to the wayside when they came home in the evening, only to end up fighting about fairness in their marriage. They believed in a model where each partner contributed equally and fairness ruled, but, in reality, they were finding that balance near impossible to achieve. From this frustration, they developed the idea of the 80/80 marriage, a new model for balancing career, family, and love. The 80/80 Marriage pushes couples beyond the limited idea of "fairness" toward a new model grounded on radical generosity and shared success, one that calls for each partner to contribute 80 percent to build the strongest possible relationship. Drawing from more than one hundred interviews with couples from all walks of life, stories from business and pop culture, scientific studies, and ancient philosophical insights, husband-and-wife team Nate and Kaley Klemp pinpoint exactly what's not working in modern marriage. Their 80/80 model of marriage provides practical, powerful solutions to transform your relationship and open up space for greater love and connection.
This book is for individuals who want to know more about the future of computing and the quantum computing technology. If you have heard about quantum computers but you have not understood how they will operate, this book will unearth everything that you need to know. You will also know the differences between classical computers and quantum computers in terms of how they operate. The author aims at helping the reader understand what quantum computers are, how they work and where they can be used. Currently, no functional quantum computers have been developed but a lot has been done towards achieving this. You will know why there is a need for quantum computers and some of the industries that will be revolutionized by quantum computers. The following topics have been discussed in this book: - What is a Quantum Computer?- How Quantum Computers Work- Why do we need Quantum Computers?- Will they Replace Classical Computers?- Areas to be Revolutionized by Quantum Computer
Nos encontramos actualmente en medio de una crisis. Superficialmente, parece ser una crisis protestante, pero en verdad, es m s una crisis del cristianismo. Los principios de la fe cristiana est n siendo atacados por las mismas personas que dicen defenderlos. Tristemente, muchas personas que regularmente asisten a iglesias "cristianas" creen que ir n al cielo, pero se les est ense ando un mensaje que seguramente no los llevar all . Mientras Jes s dijo: "Yo soy el camino, la verdad y la vida; nadie viene al Padre, sino por m " (Juan 14:6), a muchos feligreses se les dice que la vida eterna se logra por otros medios. Por lo tanto, esta es sin duda una crisis del evangelio. Y durante quinientos a os, ha quedado claro que Protestantes y Cat licos tienen dos interpretaciones diferentes de: Qu es el evangelio?, C mo una persona se reconcilia con Dios? y C mo llega al cielo?
Discover the 25 secrets that helped the authors take their lives and careers to the next level. Whether you're still in school, just starting your first job, or a few years into your career - this book will provide serious guidance and coaching on how YOU CAN crush it This is by no means a shortcut or "quick-fix" book. This book is designed to help you focus on key areas of your life to help ensure your success. These 25 secrets will provide serious value to you if you apply MASSIVE ACTION, stay focused, and keep consistent. With this book, the authors hope this knowledge will help shift the minds of those who are struggling or are in need of positive guidance.
The decision wasn't easy to leave Tucson. But Corben needed a fresh start. It wasn't long before he discovered a shady operation at work. Would he look the other way and ignore it? No, it wasn't in his DNA. Pretty soon he had to call in reinforcements. And found himself up against dangerous individuals. But it was hard to fault him. He was addicted to justice.
Ready to Master Vue.js? What if you could master the entire framework - with solid foundations - in less time without beating your head against a wall? Imagine how quickly you could work if you knew the best practices and the best tools? Stop wasting your time searching and have everything you need to be productive in one, well-organized place, with complete examples to get your project up without needing to resort to endless hours of research. Lots of Sample Apps and Code You will learn what you need to know to work professionally with Fullstack Vue: The Complete Guide to Vue.js You'll build: A Server-Persisted Shopping Cart Use the Flux-like library Vuex to manage data for a large shopping cart application that persists information on to a local server. A Calendar Event App Dive deeper into component based architecture by learning how simple state management works with Vue Single-file components. A Voting Application Learn how to render dynamic components and use standard Vue directives to build an interactive voting application. Forms with Validations Build powerful forms that accept user input, and give clear messaging when the input is of an invalid format. Vuex-based Routes and Authentication Build on top of the server persisted shopping cart app by creating dynamic routes and a token authentication flow with the official vue-router library. Build bullet-proof apps with Testing Use Vue's official test utility library, vue-test-utils, to create meaningful tests for a daily weather app that interacts with a third party API. What our Customers Say "Another must read from the team Going through the book's real-world apps is like growing your dev superpowers one concept at a time." -- Luis Fernando Saavedra Meza "Providing code variations for every step along the way has been really helpful, by showing how the end result should look and making it easier for me to reproduce it " -- Marina Landisberg "Hands up to Hassan for this masterpiece. In ready to follow steps and concise manner, you'll guided to master the framework of the future piece by piece. This book will make you love the frontend again and overcome the Javascript fatigue. Great job " -- Christoph Jasinksi
Bill Gates is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and principal founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. Gates led the company as chief executive officer until stepping down in January 2000, but he remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect for himself. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was established in 2000. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie. He stepped down as chairman of Microsoft in February 2014 and assumed a new post as technology adviser to support the newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella. Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive. This opinion has been upheld by numerous court rulings. Since 1987, Gates has been included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people, an index of the wealthiest documented individuals, excluding and ranking against those with wealth that is not able to be completely ascertained. From 1995 to 2017, he held the Forbes title of the richest person in the world all but four of those years, and held it consistently from March 2014 - July 2017, with an estimated net worth of US$89.9 billion as of October 2017. However, on July 27, 2017, and since October 27, 2017, he has been surpassed by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who had an estimated net worth of US$90.6 billion at the time. Later in his career and since leaving Microsoft, Gates pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors. He donated large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2009, Gates and Warren Buffett founded The Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires pledge to give at least half of their wealth to philanthropy. The foundation works to save lives and improve global health, and is working with Rotary International to eliminate polio. As of February 17, 2018, Gates had a net worth of $91.7 billion, making him the second-richest person in the world, behind Bezos.
There is nothing better than a good Hockey Book. This goes doubly for Nate Friedman's new Canadian Classic 'The Last Hockey Fight'. The story's hero, Billy 'The Bruiser' Fenton, has had a legendary career as every hockey fan's favourite player. Billy is a Hockey League enforcer for his hometown team, The Windsor Punch. Gaining momentum for his team, defending his fellow players, and entertaining the fans every game is his job and he takes that responsibility seriously.Billy has overcome a lot of things throughout his career but this season is sure to bring some big surprises. First among them is the announcement that the Hockey Commissioner has decided to take fighting out of Hockey. Will the players be able to adapt? Will 'The Bruiser' still have a place in the game he loves most? Will The Windsor Punch still have a shot at winning the prestigious Hockey Cup? Find the answers to these questions and more in... The Last Hockey Fight.
Shakespeare’s Storytelling: An Introduction to Genre, Character, and Technique is a textbook focused on specific storytelling techniques and genres that Shakespeare invented or refined. Drawing on examples from popular novels, plays, and films (such as IT, Beloved, Sex and the City, The Godfather, and Fences) the book provides an overview of how Shakespearean storytelling techniques including character flaws, conflicts, symbols, and more have been adapted by later writers and used in the modern canon. Rather than taking a historicist or theoretical approach, Nate Eastman uses recognizable references and engaging language to teach the concepts and techniques most applicable to the future study of Creative Writing, English, Theater, and Film and Media. Students will be prepared to interpret Shakespeare’s plays and understand Shakespeare as the beginning of a literary tradition. A readable introduction to Shakespeare and his significance, this book is suitable for undergraduates.
Real Life Organizing: The Necessary Guide to Get Your Life In Order, Learn Useful Methods and Tips On How You Can Get More Organized In LifeMost people think that if they become more organized in everything, they will become a better person overall. They try to make resolutions and promises to be more organized. But keeping organized can sometimes be overwhelming and some people don't even know when or how to start so they lose their resolve without even beginning to try. Getting organized does take some time and effort especially when you're starting but once you get the hang of it, it will start to feel like second nature to you and will not take too much time and effort at all.This book will teach you how you can start your journey towards a more organized life. It will teach you different strategies on how to be more organized as well as techniques on how to stay motivated to continue being organized. This book will teach you about the following topics: The Basics on OrganizationIdentify Where Your Organization Has IssuesHow Organization Affects Your LifeWhat Makes Good OrganizationWhat Makes Bad OrganizationTools for Better OrganizationThe Benefits of OrganizationStaying Motivated for Maintaining OrganizationStaying on TrackMaking Resolutions for OrganizationWhen you resolve to start being more organized in your life, you may face challenges and difficulties but once you know all the organizing basics and principles, it would help guide you to overcome the difficulties and stay on your course towards a more organized life. If you are someone who is looking to start being more organized in his life, this book is perfect for you. Scroll up and click "add to cart" now.
Un viaje privilegiado que revela c mo los maestros del riesgo moldean el mundo moderno Nate Silver es conocido por revolucionar el an lisis predictivo aplicado a los deportes, la econom a y la pol tica, pero antes de eso se ganaba la vida jugando al p ker. En su nuevo libro, Silver parte de su experiencia como jugador para investigar a una comunidad de personas con ideas afines cuyo dominio del riesgo le permite dar forma y dominar gran parte de la vida moderna. l la llama El R o. La mayor a de nosotros no tenemos los rasgos que comparten estos profesionales del riesgo: alta tolerancia a situaciones l mite, gusto por la incertidumbre, afinidad por los n meros, una desconfianza instintiva de la sabidur a convencional y un impulso competitivo tan intenso que puede rayar en lo irracional. Para ellos, la complejidad es inherente a la existencia y el trabajo consiste en saber navegarla. Lejos de tratarse de unos outsiders, este tipo de personas acumulan cada vez m s riqueza y poder en nuestras sociedades. De ah que comprender su mentalidad (y los fallos de su pensamiento) sea indispensable si queremos entender qu impulsa la tecnolog a y la econom a global. Al llevarnos tras bambalinas, desde casinos hasta firmas de capital riesgo, desde el interior de la plataforma de criptomonedas FTX hasta reuniones del movimiento de altruismo eficaz, este libro supone un viaje con acceso privilegiado a un mundo oculto pero esencial para vislumbrar la naturaleza de la incertidumbre en el siglo XXI. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Instant New York Times Bestseller "Engaging and entertaining... a glimpse of the economy of the future." --Tim Wu, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk--and the players raising the stakes. In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "the River," the community of like-minded people whose mastery of risk allows them to shape--and dominate--so much of modern life. These professional risk-takers--poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true believers and blue-chip art collectors--can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. By immersing himself in the worlds of Doyle Brunson, Peter Thiel, Sam Bankman-Fried, Sam Altman, and many others, Silver offers insight into a range of issues that affect us all, from the frontiers of finance to the future of AI. Most of us don't have traits commonly found in the River: high tolerance for risk, appreciation of uncertainty, affinity for numbers--paired with an instinctive distrust of conventional wisdom and a competitive drive so intense it can border on irrational. For those in the River, complexity is baked in, and the work is how to navigate it. People in the River have increasing amounts of wealth and power in our society, and understanding their mindset--and the flaws in their thinking-- is key to understanding what drives technology and the global economy today. Taking us behind the scenes from casinos to venture capital firms, and from the FTX inner sanctum to meetings of the effective altruism movement, On the Edge is a deeply reported, all-access journey into a hidden world of power brokers and risk-takers.
DESCUBRE LOS SECRETOS DE LA TECNOLOG A CON EL PRIMER LIBRO DEL DIVULGADOR DE INFORM TICA M S FAMOSO DE HISPANOAM RICA. DE NI O ME OBSESIONABAN DOS COSAS: LOS SUPERPODERES Y LA TECNOLOG A. AHORA S QUE ENTENDER LA TECNOLOGIA ES TENER SUPERPODERES. Pi nsalo: gracias a los avances tecnol gicos podemos hablar con alguien que est a miles de kil metros, predecir el tiempo, cruzar el planeta en cuesti n de horas, conocer nuestro estado de salud, curar enfermedades graves, acceder al instante a m s informaci n de la que nunca seremos capaces de leer... Si incluso hemos conseguido hacer que las m quinas aprendan C mo de dif cil es realmente la inform tica? Qu pas con Megaupload? Y en la etapa m s oscura de Steve Jobs? Cu l fue el ciberataque m s grande de la historia? Cu l es el origen de la inteligencia artificial y a d nde nos lleva esta revoluci n? Estas y otras muchas preguntas encuentran respuesta y explicaci n en este libro, con el que deseo acercarte mi pasi n por la tecnolog a, esa disciplina que me fascina desde peque o y que inevitablemente envuelve toda nuestra vida. T matelo como una invitaci n a descubrir un mundo tan profundo como apasionante, pero ten cuidado: quiz te explote la cabeza. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE FIRST BOOK BY LATIN AMERICA'S LEADING COMMENTATOR ON THE SUBJECT. AS A BOY, I WAS OBSESSED BY TWO THINGS: SUPERHEROES AND TECHNOLOGY. NOW I SEE THAT UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY IS A SUPERPOWER. Think about it: Thanks to technology, we can talk to someone a thousand miles away, predict the weather, cross the planet in hours, gain insights into our health, cure disease, have instant access to more information than we could ever read... We've even taught machines how to learn Is information technology really that hard to understand? What happened to Megaupload? Or in Steve Jobs darkest hours? What was the worst cyber-attack in history? What is the origin of artificial intelligence, and where will this revolution take us? These and many other questions are answered and explained in this book, which I hope will get you to share my passion for technology, a field that has always fascinated me and that permeates all aspects of our lives. Take this an invitation to discover a world as profound as it is exciting, but watch out: it could make your head explode.
Väck läslusten med Star Wars! En kraschlandning på en avlägsen ökenplanet blir startskottet på ett farofyllt och spännande uppdrag med robotar, rymdvarelser och mystiska krafter.För alla Star Wars-fans: Boken återberättar början av filmen ”Nytt hopp”, där R2-D2 och C-3PO efter att ha flytt från Darth Vader hamnar på Tatooine. Här blir de tillfångatagna av jawafolket och hamnar till slut hos Luke Skywalker. R2-D2:s uppdrag från Leia leder dem till den gamle jedimästaren Obi-Wan Kenobi, där Luke får reda på sanningen om sitt förflutna. Må Kraften vara med dig!Läs även ”Star Wars Lätt att läsa 2: Fången på Dödsstjärnan”.
