Mega Book of Fighting Ships

Mega Book of Fighting Ships

Author: Lynne Gibbs

Publisher: Pavilion Children's Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781844583980

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Provides a general overview of the subject as well as highlighting the most intriguing and amazing examples of fighting ships. Explores the history, highlights the biggest and the best and discusses future trends. 7-10 yrs.


Mega Rescuers

Mega Rescuers

Author: Christiane Gunzi

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781741690897

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With stunning photographs and simple, easy-to-read text, Mega Rescuers encourages young readers to discover and explore the exciting world of rescue vehicles of all types. Developed in conjunction with educational specialists, this encourages young children, especially boys, to take an interest in reading and enjoying books. Will help build communication, comprehension and cognitive skills and give children confidence for their first encounters in the classroom environment.


The Mega Book of Useless Information

The Mega Book of Useless Information

Author: Noel Botham

Publisher: Kings Road Publishing

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1857829271

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Continuing the sensational success of the Useless Information Series, the Official Useless Information Society bring you another essential compendium of everything you never needed but always wanted to know. If you are a lover of the wonderfully pointless, then this is the book for you.


Mega-city Redux

Mega-city Redux

Author: Alyse Knorr

Publisher: Green Mountains Review Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780996334228

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Poetry. Alyse Knorr's MEGA-CITY REDUX is a marvel. In 1405, Christine de Pizan, the world's first female professional writer, published an allegorical work called The Book of the City of Ladies, in which she imagined constructing (with the help of her fairy godmothers Reason, Rectitude, and Justice) a walled city where women could live safe from sexism, misogyny, and gendered violence. Six hundred years later, women across the world still find themselves in need of such a city. MEGA-CITY REDUX, a novel in verse remix of Pizan's allegory, charts a modern-day road-trip search for the mythical city, with the help of 21st- century feminist heroes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena Warrior Princess, and Dana Scully from The X-Files.


Mega Man 3

Mega Man 3

Author: Salvatore Pane

Publisher: Boss Fight Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 194053514X

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Capcom's Keiji Inafune followed the unexpected success of Mega Man 2 with a "kitchen sink" sequel that included eight new robot masters, a canine companion, a mysterious new frenemy, and a melancholy tone that runs through the game from its soft opening notes. Mega Man 3 was the biggest, messiest, and most ambitious Mega Man game yet. But why do we hunger for twitchy, difficult platformers like Mega Man 3 decades later when the developers, the franchise, and the Blue Bomber himself have all moved on? Investigating the development of the Mega Man series alongside the rise of video game emulation, the YouTube retrogaming scene, and the soaring price of NES carts, novelist Salvatore Pane takes a close and compelling look at the lost power-ups of our youth that we collect in our attempts to become complete again.


Mega-Events and Mega-Ambitions: South Korea’s Rise and the Strategic Use of the Big Four Events

Mega-Events and Mega-Ambitions: South Korea’s Rise and the Strategic Use of the Big Four Events

Author: Yu-Min Joo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-04

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1137531134

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This book provides a holistic analysis of South Korea’s strategic use of mega-events in its modern development. It examines the Summer Olympics (1988), the World Expo (1993), the FIFA World Cup (2002), and the Winter Olympics (2018) over the past 30 years of the country’s rapid growth, and across varying stages of economic and political development. It explains how mega-events helped to secure South Korea’s position on the international stage, boost nationalism, propel economic growth in export-oriented national companies, and build cities that accommodate – as well as represent – South Korea’s progress. It thereby highlights the broader implications for today’s global phenomenon of increasing reliance on mega-events as a catalyst for development, while the criticism that mega-events do more harm than good proliferates. The book is ideal for academics, policymakers, and those with an interest in mega-events and their role in the development of non-western countries.


Policing Sport Mega-Events

Policing Sport Mega-Events

Author: Dennis Pauschinger

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-01-16

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0192664018

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Security has become one of the most important aspects of sport mega-event organisation. This book explores how Rio de Janeiro was imagined and transformed into a security fortress when the 2014 Men's World Cup and the 2016 Olympics came to the city and how the fortress was nonetheless permeable and porous. Dennis Pauschinger experienced exceptional backstage access at high level in the Brazilian mega-event security architecture as well as at street level with the local public security sphere. His ethnographic account takes us from the hidden world of surveillance and control centres, to the security perimeters around stadiums, and to the mundane routine of police officers during day and night shifts at local police stations or at the Special Forces' headquarters. This book shows how police officers' emotions and Special Forces' war narratives impact the static and technology-based security models at mega-events and how traditional patterns of police work, along lines of class and racial inequalities, still prevail and shape the city's public security. The book argues against the common narrative of the positive impacts of mega-event security legacies upon host cities by advancing towards a general understanding of how security governance is carried out in places where the use of digital security technologies co-exists with overly lethal and repressive forms of policing.


Managing Sport Mega-Events

Managing Sport Mega-Events

Author: Stephen Frawley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-17

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1317633792

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Managing Sport Mega-Events explores global developments in the management of sport mega-events. Sport mega-events such as the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup have been examined from a number of academic perspectives including history, sociology, politics, urban planning and economics. What is lacking, however, is a book which identifies and evaluates the current issues and complexities faced by those charged with the responsibility of managing these sport mega-events. This book fills the gap. The book addresses three broad but interconnected themes. First, strategic matters are explored focusing on the rise of sport mega-events, the management of stakeholders and governance issues. Second, how organisers can best ensure the sustainable management of sport mega-events is considered. Third, operational matters and related issues are examined including media management, broadcast management, venue management, risk management, marketing and sponsorship management. The book draws on leading international sport management scholars, each of whom has expertise in the organisation of sport mega-events. It makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature.


Trypillia Mega-Sites and European Prehistory

Trypillia Mega-Sites and European Prehistory

Author: Johannes Müller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-01-22

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1317247922

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In European prehistory population agglomerations of more than 10,000 inhabitants per site are a seldom phenomenon. A big surprise to the archaeological community was the discovery of Trypillia mega-sites of more than 250 hectares and with remains of more than 2000 houses by a multidisciplinary approach of Soviet and Ukrainian archaeology, including aerial photography, geophysical prospection and excavations nearly 50 years ago. The extraordinary development took place at the border of the North Pontic Forest Steppe and Steppe zone ca. 4100–3400 BCE. Since then many questions arose which are of main relevance: Why, how and under which environmental conditions did Trypillia mega-sites develop? How long did they last? Were social and/or ecological reasons responsible for this social experiment? Are Trypillia and the similar sized settlement of Uruk two different concepts of social behaviour? Paradigm change in fieldwork and excavation strategies enabled research teams during the last decade to analyse the mega-sites in their spatial and social complexity. High precision geophysics, target excavations and a new design of systematic field strategies deliver empirical data representative for the large sites. Archaeological research contributed immensely to aspects of anthropogenic induced steppe development and subsistence concepts that did not reach the carrying capacities. Probabilistic models based on 14C-dates made the contemporaneity of the mega-site house structures most probable. In consequence, Trypillia mega-sites are an independent European phenomenon that contrasts both concepts of urbanism and social stratification that is seen with similar demographic figures in Mesopotamia. The new Trypillia research can be read as the methodological progress in European archaeology.


Mega Man #47

Mega Man #47

Author: Ian Flynn

Publisher: Archie Comic Publications, Inc.

Published: 2015-03-25

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1627386211

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The penultimate chapter to the ultimate Mega Man epic is here! "The Ultimate Betrayal" Part Three: Mega Man must brave the many difficult challenges of Dr. Wily’s newest castle! Awaiting Mega Man in the trapped-filled halls of the ferocious fortress is the vicious and super-powerful Doc Robot! After seeing the pure destruction from this ferocious machine at Light Labs, does our hero even stand a chance? Or is the dreaded Doc Robot truly unstoppable?! The answers to these questions and more, plus cover art from the legendary Patrick "SPAZ" Spaziante!