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Book One: the Tower of Fire

By: Alex Bygrave

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Book One: the Tower of Fire

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Within a universe with eleven dimensions, most people cannot see or travel through the invisible divide that separates the numerous worlds. But Tony Goldsman is not most people: he is a Seer for Earth who can see the unseen with help from Seers in other worlds. As Tony attempts to maintain a normal life as a nerdy high school student while training as a Seer, he accepts his destiny and grows accustomed to balancing the mundane and the astounding. But when Tony witnesses a group of Insectasoids kidnapping Istan Bullion, the famous scientist from the Krangorians, even he is shocked. As an ancient, god-like being reemerges from its prison and forces Tony into a war for possession of the universe, Tony must work with another Seer and humans from his own world in order to protect Earth. But what Tony does not know is that fulfilling his destiny will be more complicated and dangerous than he ever imagined. In this action-packed fantasy novel, a teenager must rely on his special abilities to battle a nemesis with an evil mission that can only be achieved by unleashing an otherworldly war.

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Archway Publishing

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1480832200

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Political Torture in Popular Culture

The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate

By: Alex Adams

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Political Torture in Popular Culture

The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate

By: Alex Adams

Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the defining dimensions of the torture debate that has taken place in the course of the post-9/11 global war on terrorism. The book argues that cultural representations provide a vital arena in which political meaning is generated, negotiated, and contested. Adams explores whether liberal democracies can ever legitimately perpetrate torture, contrasting assertions that torture can function as a legitimate counterterrorism measure with human rights-based arguments that torture is never morally permissible. He examines the philosophical foundations of pro- and anti-torture positions, looking at their manifestations in a range of literary, filmic and popular cultural texts, and assesses the material effects of these representations. Literary novels, televisual texts, films, and critical theoretical discourse are all covered, focusing on the ways that aesthetic and textual strategies are mobilised to create specific political effects. This book is the first sustained analysis of the torture debate and the role that cultural narratives and representations play within it. It will be of great use to scholars interested in the emerging canon of post-9/11 cultural texts about torture, as well as scholars and students working in politics, history, geography, human rights, international relations, and terrorism studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and film studies.

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218

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Routledge

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1317289390

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9781317289395

The Venture Mindset

How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth

By: Ilya Strebulaev,Alex Dang

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How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth

By: Ilya Strebulaev,Alex Dang

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER & FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTH "Full of powerful, practical lessons on changing how we think and act." –Eric Schmidt, former CEO and Chairman of Google "A must-read for board members, executives, and investors.” – Amy Bance, investor and Fortune 500 Board Member The Venture Mindset is a playbook on how to adapt to a rapidly changing world, make smarter bets, launch new ventures, and transform traditional organizations into hubs for innovation, from a top Stanford professor and a technology executive. Venture capitalists are known for their extraordinary ability to spot opportunities. They know how to identify emerging trends, how to bring new industries into being, and when to hold them and when to fold. Their unique mindset has made them the force behind world-changing companies such as Amazon, Google, Moderna, SpaceX, and Zoom. Stanford Professor Ilya Strebulaev has devoted two decades to studying VCs’ counterintuitive approaches to decision-making and the reasons behind the successes and failures of corporate innovations. Alex Dang has witnessed up close how VCs’ thinking and mechanisms can create successful businesses at companies like Amazon and McKinsey. Combining their insight and extensive experience, they present nine distinct principles that will help you make better decisions, transform your business, and achieve remarkable results, no matter your industry. In The Venture Mindset, you’ll learn: • One question VCs ask that will change the way you evaluate opportunities • Why you should encourage dissent and be wary of consensus • The number one killer of innovation in traditional corporate environments • Why it’s crucial to learn when to ‘pull the plug’ on initiatives • Why failure is not just an option, but a necessity Packed with entertaining stories and scientific precision, The Venture Mindset is a must-read for anyone who wants to be better equipped for the era of uncertainty when industry, company, and career can be disrupted overnight. The Venture Mindset will teach you more than how to simply survive. It’ll teach you how to win big.

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369

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Penguin

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0593714237

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9780593714232

Entrepreneurship for Deprived Communities

Developing Opportunities, Capabilities and Enterprise Culture

By: Nikolai Mouraviev,Alex Avramenko

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Entrepreneurship for Deprived Communities

Developing Opportunities, Capabilities and Enterprise Culture

By: Nikolai Mouraviev,Alex Avramenko

Using case studies and research-based narratives to investigate the barriers facing developing enterprises in deprived communities, this book provides a toolkit for small business professionals and local authorities to revitalise a community-centered enterprise culture and reinvigorate disadvantaged groups.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1789739853

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Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947

By: Alex Tickell

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Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947

By: Alex Tickell

This book is an interdisciplinary study of representations of terrorism and political violence in the fiction and journalism of colonial India. Focusing on key historical episodes such as the Calcutta "Black Hole," the anti-thuggee campaigns of the 1830s, the 1857 rebellion, and anti-colonial terrorism in Edwardian London, it argues that exceptional violence was integral to colonial sovereignty and that the threat of violence mutually defined discursive relations between colonizer and colonized. Moving beyond previous studies of colonial discourse, and drawing on contemporary analyses of terrorism, Tickell examines texts by both colonial and Indian authors, tracing their contending engagements with terrorizing violence in selected newspapers, journals, novels and short stories. The study includes readings of several significant early Indian-English works for the first time, from dissident periodicals like Hurrish Chunder Mookerjis Hindoo Patriot (1856-66) and Shyamji Krishnavarmas Indian Sociologist (1905-9) to neglected fictions such as Kylas Dutts parable of anti-colonial rebellion "Forty-Eight Hours of the Year 1945" (1845) and Sarath Kumar Ghoshs The Prince of Destiny (1909). These are examined alongside works by better-known Anglo-Indian authors such as Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug (1838), Flora Annie Steel's On the Face of the Waters (1897), Rudyard Kiplings short fictions and novels by Edmund Candler and E.M. Forster. The study concludes with an analysis of Indian-English fiction of the 1930s, notably Mulk Raj Anands Untouchable (1935), and goes on to read Gandhis philosophy of ahimsa (non-violence) as a strategic response to a colonial and nationalist terror-politics.

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1136618414

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9781136618413

Powers of Possibility

Experimental American Writing Since the 1960s

By: Alex Houen

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Powers of Possibility

Experimental American Writing Since the 1960s

By: Alex Houen

By outlining a novel concept of literary practice 'potentialism', this text shows how opening up literary possibilities enabled writers such as Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker, and Lyn Hejinian to tackle matters of power and politics.

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Oxford University Press

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0199609292

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Accelerator Applications in Industry and the Environment

By: Alex Chao

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Accelerator Applications in Industry and the Environment

By: Alex Chao

Since their debut in the late 1920s, particle accelerators have evolved into a backbone for the development of science and technology in modern society. Of about 30,000 accelerators at work in the world today, a majority is for applications in industry (about 20,000 systems worldwide). There are two major categories of industrial applications: materials processing and treatment, and materials analysis. Materials processing and treatment includes ion implantation (semi-conductor materials, metals, ceramics, etc.) and electron beam irradiation (sterilization of medical devices, food pasteurization, treatment of carcasses and tires, cross-linking of polymers, cutting and welding, curing of composites, etc.). Materials analysis covers ion beam analysis (IBA), non-destructive detection using photons and neutrons, as well as accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). All the products that are processed, treated and inspected using beams from particle accelerators are estimated to have a collective value of US$500 billion per annum worldwide. Accelerators are also applied for environment protection, such as purifying drinking water, treating waste water, disinfecting sewage sludge and removing pollutants from flue gases. Industrial accelerators continue to evolve, in terms of new applications, qualities and capabilities, and reduction of their costs. Breakthroughs are encountered whenever a new product is made, or an existing product becomes more cost effective. Their impact on our society continues to grow with the potential to address key issues in economics or the society of today. This volume contains fourteen articles, all authored by renowned scientists in their respective fields.

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World Scientific

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9814383996

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9789814383998

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Political Torture in Popular Culture

Political Torture in Popular Culture

The Venture Mindset

The Venture Mindset

Entrepreneurship for Deprived Communities

Entrepreneurship for Deprived Communities

Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947

Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947

Powers of Possibility

Powers of Possibility

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Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology

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