Noted expert’s clearly written discussions of essential ideas of highly useful mathematical approach to human behavior and decision-making. Lucid, accessible treatment of such concepts as "utility," "strategy," and the difference between "non-zero" and "zero-sum" games. Minimum of mathematical prerequisites makes it accessible to non-mathematicians.
Universal Bodybuilding: 12-week Body Building Course for Men and Women
A 12-week body shaping program for men and women of all ages. Once you start getting in good shape you will feel like a million bucks! You will look forward to each exciting day. This is what a new healthy body will give you. Although you may not see it right away at the beginning a wonderful change is taking place! Everyone improves, perhaps at a difference pace, but everyone does improve!
Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training
Making decisions about how and when to apply sound processing effects and recording techniques can make or break your song mix. The decisions you make come down to your listening skills - what you hear and how you perceive it. Your ability to properly discern sound, identify a problem, and act accordingly - especially when the decision often needs to be made quickly - makes all the difference to the success of the final track.
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Temeraire 2 - The Throne of Jade
This is the second volume of the Temeraire series.
If you haven’t read the first, you may say yet another “cute dragon” book
However, the combination of military history, sympathetic characters, and engaging style makes this series great, intelligent fun. Stephen King describes it as a cross between Susanna Clarke and Patrick O'Brian, and he's spot on—after charting the Napoleonic Wars, with a difference- dragons as Air Corps, an epic journey to Imperial China follows...
The Difference Engine (by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling)
The Difference Engine is an alternate history and a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre (of science fiction). It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer (actually his analytical engine rather than the difference engine).