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Desperate Games
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Author : Pierre Boulle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07
Desperate Games written by Pierre Boulle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07 with Fiction categories.
A group of scientists dissatisfied with world conditions establish a global government that speedily banishes the world's ills, but other ills take their place.
Desperate Games
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Author : Pierre Boulle
language : en
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Release Date : 2015-01-01
Desperate Games written by Pierre Boulle and has been published by Hesperus Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Long before Battle Royale or The Hunger Games, the author of The Planet of the Apes imagined a world governed by science and brutality gone mad in this long-neglected, dystopian sci-fi classic, now in a new translation Despairing at the state of world degeneration, a group of the world's most renowned intellectuals form the new Scientific World Government, aiming to put the world to rights. Elected into power, they quickly start making changes for the better, eliminating world hunger and cancer, encouraging scientific thought, and banning frivolous entertainment. But while congratulating themselves on a job well done, they fail to notice that actually, people are not happy. The suicide rate has sky-rocketed and, strangely, it turns out the public wants a little risk and conflict in their lives. So to cater to the masses, the Department of Psychology forms a plan: they will stage an entertainment show the likes of which the world has never seen before. It starts with gladiatorial style battles, bloodthirsty and brutal, where the victors become celebrities of unseen proportions, and quickly escalates into entire historical battle re-enactments involving chemical warfare and mass destruction. The Scientific World Government has unleashed a monster. What has the world let itself in for?
Desperate Storytelling
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Author : Roger B. Salomon
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2008-07-01
Desperate Storytelling written by Roger B. Salomon and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Desperate Storytelling demonstrates how writers from Byron to Saul Bellow have embraced Cervantes's vision of the artist as creative exile, born to tell tales of valor and nobility yet doomed to recognize the world's banal reality. Forced to portray adventure in a reductive voice, these writers have immersed heroism in madness and narrative in mockery. Their fictions reflect an awareness of life's absurdities, yet a refusal to forsake the ideal. Reassessing the post-Romantic literary consciousness, Roger B. Salomon explores the many permutations of the mock-heroic mode, the complex aesthetic instrument brought into being by Cervantes, one by which a writer takes on a dual role as both nostalgic creator and ironic critic. The mock hero is almost by definition an outdated one, aligning his deepest emotional attachments to dead mythologies and forgotten codes of ethics; he is an alienated figure in a landscape hostile to the possibility of any kind of attainment. Just as Don Quixote's noble madness in an ignoble age invites both sympathy and derision, so later incarnations of the mock hero immerse the reader in a dialogue between the real and a faded ideal, between the sensible and the admirable. Describing a literary mode that joins heroic endeavor with its deflating results, Desperate Storytelling traces the adventures of literature's misplaced heroes from Nabokov's Berlin to Saul Bellow's Chicago, from James Joyce's Dublin to Mark Twain's Mississippi.
A Desperate Game
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Author : John Maddison Morton
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2015-03-03
A Desperate Game written by John Maddison Morton and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-03 with Fiction categories.
"[...]diamonds in desk) MRS. S. (aside, and smiling) To do the wretch justice he has a certain mode of expressing himself—— POS. I hope he don't mean to keep on fumbling that writing desk about much longer, because the bottom of the cane chair has just given way. Surely, Cousin Somerton never could have been such a simpleton as to lock all her money up there. RAT. Ah, at last—(taking the pocket book out of the desk, and advancing to MRS. SOMERTON)—the pocket book. POS. She's a ruined woman and so am I! (dropping his head against the side[...]".
The Games In The Steinitz Lasker Championship Match With Copious Notes And Critical Remarks By Gunsberg Hoffer Lasker Steinitz
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Author : William Steinitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
The Games In The Steinitz Lasker Championship Match With Copious Notes And Critical Remarks By Gunsberg Hoffer Lasker Steinitz written by William Steinitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.
The Desperate Game
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Author : Jayne Castle
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-07-10
The Desperate Game written by Jayne Castle and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-10 with Fiction categories.
AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME Meet Guinevere Jones—a woman with a talent for love and trouble—from New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz writing as Jayne Castle. It’s hard to keep a small business afloat, just ask Guinevere Jones, owner of a struggling temp agency. And security consultant Zac Justis isn’t making her life any easier. After he blackmails Gwen into helping him solve a computer crime, she finds herself caught in a web of suspense, danger—and love.
A Desperate Game
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Author : Florence Warden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
A Desperate Game written by Florence Warden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with categories.
Game Theory Evolving
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Author : Herbert Gintis
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-26
Game Theory Evolving written by Herbert Gintis and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-26 with Business & Economics categories.
Since its original publication in 2000, Game Theory Evolving has been considered the best textbook on evolutionary game theory. This completely revised and updated second edition of Game Theory Evolving contains new material and shows students how to apply game theory to model human behavior in ways that reflect the special nature of sociality and individuality. The textbook continues its in-depth look at cooperation in teams, agent-based simulations, experimental economics, the evolution and diffusion of preferences, and the connection between biology and economics. Recognizing that students learn by doing, the textbook introduces principles through practice. Herbert Gintis exposes students to the techniques and applications of game theory through a wealth of sophisticated and surprisingly fun-to-solve problems involving human and animal behavior. The second edition includes solutions to the problems presented and information related to agent-based modeling. In addition, the textbook incorporates instruction in using mathematical software to solve complex problems. Game Theory Evolving is perfect for graduate and upper-level undergraduate economics students, and is a terrific introduction for ambitious do-it-yourselfers throughout the behavioral sciences. Revised and updated edition relevant for courses across disciplines Perfect for graduate and upper-level undergraduate economics courses Solutions to problems presented throughout Incorporates instruction in using computational software for complex problem solving Includes in-depth discussions of agent-based modeling
Mean Girls Desperate Women The Modern Epidemic Of Unhappiness
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Author : Melissa Daggett
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Mean Girls Desperate Women The Modern Epidemic Of Unhappiness written by Melissa Daggett and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Self-Help categories.
Bullying has become a social epidemic that is killing our youth, and scarring some of its victims for life. Girls who have grown up to be mean women are guilty of adult bullying, in the form of gossip exclusion games, and other subtle maneuvers. This is a social evil and it will only be eradicated when people stand up and fight for social transformation. If freedom from slavery, racism and women's lack of equality were fought for and won, this is a battle worth fighting as well. Discrimination in any form is wrong. When thousands of children no longer want to go to school because of social bullying, the game has gone too far. Fight for the next generation and those to come. Begin the discussion with this book.
The Works Of Charles Dickens Tale Of Two Cities
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
The Works Of Charles Dickens Tale Of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with categories.