Smith, Martin Cruz:ROSE **HAMMETT AWARD WINNER**
- gesigneerd exemplaar 2009, ISBN: 9780679426615
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RowanI'm in the business of creating fairy tales.Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels.Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland.My initial idea of hiring Zahra … Meer...
RowanI'm in the business of creating fairy tales.Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels.Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland.My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her.Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias.By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late.People like me don't get happy endings.Not when we're destined to ruin them.ZahraAfter submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland's most expensive ride, I should have been fired.Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job.The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss I'd ever met.Rowan was rude and completely off-limits, but my heart didn't care.At least not until I discovered his secret.It was time to teach the billionaire that money couldn't fix everything.Especially not us.Dreamland Billionaires is the first book in a series of interconnected standalones following three billionaire brothers.About the AuthorPlagued with an overactive imagination, Lauren spends her free time reading and writing. Her dream is to travel to all the places she writes about. She enjoys writing about flawed yet relatable characters you can't help loving. She likes sharing fast-paced stories with angst, steam, and the emotional spectrum.Her extra-curricular activities include watching YouTube, binging old episodes of Parks and Rec, and searching Yelp for new restaurants before choosing her trusted favorite. She works best after her morning coffee and will never deny a nap., 6, . Box N 13 The Way I See It, Dr. Temple Grandin gets to the REAL issues of autismthe ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day.\n\nTemple offers helpful dos and donts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips all based on her insider perspective and a great deal of research. Revised and updated chapters include:\n\n \n\n Alternative Vs. Conventional Medicine\n\n\n\n\n \n\n Do Not Get Trapped By Labels\n\n\n\n\n \n\n The Importance of Early Educational Intervention\n\n\n\n\n \n\n Too Much Video Gaming and Screen Time\n\n\n\n\n \n\n Try On Careers, and many more!\n\n\n\nTemple has packed a wealth of knowledge into this book, which serves as an excellent reference resource for a multitude of topics related to ASD. Whether youre searching for something specific or reading cover-to-cover, The Way I See It is required reading for everyone whose life has been touched by autism. Editorial Reviews\n\nReview\n"Temple has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and is a world-renowned animal scientist and author. She also entrances audiences with her insights and explanations of autism, based on her personal experiences and knowledge of the research literature. She is a very forthright person, and I can hear her voice on every page of The Way I See It. Temple is a hero of mine, and I have great respect for her understanding of the vast and diversified spectrum of autism." -Tony Attwood, PhD\nAbout the Author\nTemple Grandin earned her Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois and is currently a Professor at Colorado State University. Dr. Grandin is one of the most respected individuals with high-functioning autism in the world. She presents at conferences nationwide, helping thousands of parents and professionals understand how to help individuals with autism, Aspergers syndrome, and PDD. She is the author of Emergence: Labeled Autistic, Thinking in Pictures, Animals in Translation (which spent many weeks on The New York Times Best-Seller List), The Autistic Brain, and The Loving Push, co-written with Debra Moore, Ph.D. One of the most celebrated -- and effective -- animal advocates on the planet, Dr. Grandin revolutionized animal movement systems and spearheaded reform of the quality of life for the world's agricultural animals.\n \n\n\n--\n\n , 0, Electronic Meditations, 29. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is in fine condition, with sound binding, clean and bright interior. xxxv/298 pages."In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have become major sites of corporate exploitation and military recruitment. In "Games of Empire," Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter offer a radical political critique of such video games and virtual environments as "Second Life," "World of Warcraft," and "Grand Theft Auto," analyzing them as the exemplary media of Empire, the twenty-first-century hypercapitalist complex theorized by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. The authors trace the ascent of virtual gaming, assess its impact on creators and players alike, and delineate the relationships between games and reality, body and avatar, screen and street. "Games of Empire" forcefully connects video games to real-world concerns about globalization, militarism, and exploitation, from the horrors of African mines and Indian e-waste sites that underlie the entire industry, the role of labor in commercial game development, and the synergy between military simulation software and the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan exemplified by "Full Spectrum Warrior" to the substantial virtual economies surrounding "World of Warcraft," the urban neoliberalism made playable in "Grand Theft Auto," and the emergence of an alternative game culture through activist games and open-source game development. Rejecting both moral panic and glib enthusiasm, "Games of Empire" demonstrates how virtual games crystallize the cultural, political, and economic forces of global capital, while also providing a means of resisting them.", University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 5, N.Y.: Random House, 1996. 1st trade edition, so stated. [A signed first edition of the book has been privately printed by the Franklin Library]. Fine in dust jacket. A HAMMETT AWARD WINNER. Another great tale by Award Winner Smith. "Though Arkady Renko is absent from Smith's latest novel, the author of Red Square (1992), etc., has created instead a new protagonist, Jonathan Blair, a 19th-century man in the best muscular detective tradition. Until 1872, Blair was an avid explorer of Africa's Gold Coast, but now he has been exiled by his employer, Bishop Hannay, to the Lancashire mining town of Wigan. Blair's ostensible mission is to find John Rowland, the missing curate who was engaged to Hannay's daughter, but he quickly learns that he'll need all his bush survival skills just to stay alive in Wigan, where no one seems to want the curate found. Much of Blair's gritty charm lies in his hatred of all things English, just as he is hated in turn by the aristocratic Hannays, their peer relations, the Rowlands-and the miners. On the first day of his investigation, Blair steps on nearly every toe in a very touchy town, including those of Bill Jaxon, a miner skilled at a blood sport in which naked men fight with brass-studded clogs. Blair ends up on the wrong end of a clog more than once when he intuits that Jaxon's "pit girl" (a woman who sorts coal) may have lured the curate to his doom. Smith molds a spirited, sexy mystery and fires it with his characteristic love of atmosphere. But his real treat for readers is Blair, whose spicy observations imbue even this gray landscape with prismatic color, and whose verbal sparring matches with the Hannays and Rowlands are equal to Waugh in their hilarious, scathing send-up of English upper-class incivility. Smith's extravagant talent runs the spectrum here from sparkling dialogue and tantalizing mystery to grim, graphic depictions of mining life that sear both the conscience and the imagination". -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 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