Crysis

Crysis

Author: Peter Watts

Publisher: Del Rey

Published: 2011-03-22

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0440423597

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MANHATTAN IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. THEY’RE NOT FROM AROUND HERE. Welcome to the Big Apple, son. Welcome to the city that never sleeps: invaded by monstrous fusions of meat and machinery, defended by a private army that makes Blackwater look like the Red Cross, ravaged by a disfiguring plague that gifts its victims with religious rapture while it eats them alive. You’ve been thrown into this meat grinder without warning, without preparation, without a clue. Your whole squad was mowed down the moment they stepped onto the battlefield. And the chorus of voices whispering in your head keeps saying that all of this is on you: that you and you alone might be able to turn the whole thing around if you only knew what the hell was going on. You’d like to help. Really you would. But it’s not just the aliens that are gunning for you. Your own kind hunts you as a traitor, and your job might be a bit easier if you didn’t have the sneaking suspicion they could be right. . . .


Crysis: Escalation

Crysis: Escalation

Author: Gavin G. Smith

Publisher: Gollancz

Published: 2013-02-21

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 057511584X

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To tie in to the massive new game CRYSIS 3, coming in February 2013 from EA, Gavin Smith has been signed up to write a selection of connected short stories that will explore and expand the game world. Gavin's futuristic and punchy fiction is a perfect fit for CRYSIS, and this will be a delight for game-players and SF fans alike. With stories covering the fan favourite characters of Prophet, Psycho and Alcatraz, as well as introducing themes, enemies and weapons new to CRYSIS 3, this will be a vital part of the game experience. Punchy and kinetic, this is SF with steel at its heart.


Double Edge Magazine: Crysis Remastered

Double Edge Magazine: Crysis Remastered

Author: Derrick E Carey

Publisher: Team Double Edge Publishing Company

Published: 2022-07-08

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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This edition of our magazine is a Full-length Demo of our Comic Book and Video Game edition. which features an exclusive inside look at Call of Duty Vanguard, Call of Duty Vanguard Zombies, Assassins Creed IV Black Flag, and Fall Out New Vegas. This edition also features articles focused on comic books, video games previews, reviews, and updates.


Crysis 3 Official Strategy Guide

Crysis 3 Official Strategy Guide

Author: Michael Lummis

Publisher: BradyGames

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780744014648

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The official strategy guide to Crysis 3, from BradyGamesExplore the world of Prophet's New York with confidence thanks to the Crysis 3 Official Strategy Guide from BradyGames. This official strategy guide is your complete companion to the newest game in the Crysis series. Featuring a full campaign guide, with exclusive maps, Crysis 3 Official Strategy Guide will see you past every obstacle as you battle your way through the giant Nanodome created by the corrupt Cell Corporation.A weapon customisation menu shows you how to create the most powerful weapons imaginable; discover all playable Wonders this first-person shooter has to offer; and learn how to play in the new Hunter mode as well as hints and tips for multiplayer mode. The guide also includes official art from the games and bonus content that will transport fans of Crysis to New York in the year 2047.Whether you're playing it on the PS3, Xbox 360 or PC, dominate the world of Crysis 3 with Crysis 3 Official Strategy Guide.


Crysis

Crysis

Author: Richard K. Morgan

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781613771198

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The epic mini-series collected for the first time! Earth, 2020. United States Special Forces Major Laurence "Prophet" Barnes and the soldiers of Raptor Team thought their deployment on the Lingshan islands was a basic covert op against North Korean forces. They couldn’t have been more wrong. Archaeologists had awoken a nightmare on the island that had lain buried for millions of years — the Ceph, an alien race utterly hostile to human life. In a battle that stretches across the solar system and back, can Prophet and Raptor Team stop the aliens and save mankind?


Modern Mythology and Science

Modern Mythology and Science

Author: Dan Brasoveanu

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-03

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 0595484999

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Modern physics has degenerated into mythology. Quantum mechanics (QM) is based on the assumption that "elementary" particles are truly fundamental. This assumption has been invalidated by numerous experiments. By interaction with other particles, quarks and other components of "elementary" particles are pulled apart or squeezed together. Due to such deformations, the complex structures called "elementary" particles accumulate internal energy, which is neglected in the entire Quantum Mechanics literature. Double slit experiments do not justify the abandonment of Classical Physics and the creation of Quantum Mechanics. The interference patterns, which supposedly demonstrate the unique nature of "elementary" particles, are faithfully reproduced with common objects. Correctly applied i.e., without neglecting internal energy, Classical Physics provides a deterministic and unitary description of virtually all quantum phenomena. Classical Physics also explains relativistic effects, i.e., mass increase, length contraction and time dilation without recourse to particular hypotheses like the existence of aether. The components of "elementary" particles are bound by cohesion forces propagating through quanta. The energy of quanta increases with particle velocity according to the Doppler Effect. As a result, the relativistic energy and mass of an "elementary" particle are proportional to the Lorentz factor. This mass increase causes length contraction and time dilation.


Mondo Nano

Mondo Nano

Author: Colin Milburn

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0822376334

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In Mondo Nano Colin Milburn takes his readers on a playful expedition through the emerging landscape of nanotechnology, offering a light-hearted yet critical account of our high-tech world of fun and games. This expedition ventures into discussions of the first nanocars, the popular video games Second Life, Crysis, and BioShock, international nanosoccer tournaments, and utopian nano cities. Along the way, Milburn shows how the methods, dispositions, and goals of nanotechnology research converge with video game culture. With an emphasis on play, scientists and gamers alike are building a new world atom by atom, transforming scientific speculations and video game fantasies into reality. Milburn suggests that the closing of the gap between bits and atoms entices scientists, geeks, and gamers to dream of a completely programmable future. Welcome to the wild world of Mondo Nano.


The Fourth Turning

The Fourth Turning

Author: William Strauss

Publisher: Crown

Published: 1997-12-29

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0767900464

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.


Unsettled (Updated and Expanded Edition)

Unsettled (Updated and Expanded Edition)

Author: Steven E. Koonin

Publisher: BenBella Books

Published: 2024-06-11

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1637745818

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In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change—with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future. "Greenland’s ice loss is accelerating." "Extreme temperatures are causing more fatalities." "Rapid 'climate action' is essential to avoid a future climate disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading. With the new edition of Unsettled, Steven Koonin draws on decades of experience—including as a top science advisor to the Obama administration—to clear away the fog and explain what science really says (and doesn't say). With a new introduction, this edition now features reflections on an additional three years of eye-opening data, alternatives to unrealistic “net zero” solutions, global energy inequalities, and the energy crisis arising from the war in Ukraine. When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that “the science is settled.” In reality, the climate is changing, but the why and how aren’t as clear as you’ve probably been led to believe. Koonin takes readers behind the headlines, dispels popular myths, and unveils little-known truths: Despite rising greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures decreased from 1940 to 1970 Models currently used to predict the future do not accurately describe the climate of the past, and modelers themselves strongly doubt their regional predictions There is no compelling evidence that hurricanes are becoming more frequent—or that predictions of rapid sea level rise have any validity Unsettled is a reality check buoyed by hope, offering the truth about climate science—what we know, what we don’t, and what it all means for our future.


Public Relations Crisis Communication

Public Relations Crisis Communication

Author: Lisa Anderson-Meli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-02

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 100002931X

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This book explores the definition, nature and context of public relations crises; it also examines and defines the main elements of public relations crises and positions it in the context of the current communication sphere. Public Relations Crisis Communication: A New Model investigates existing group communication theories, including organizational culture, critical theory of organizations, media ecology, public rhetoric, and cross-cultural communication theory to establish their relevance in the context of the new model of public relations crisis. Key concepts from existing public relations crisis theory are also discussed and validated in order to establish prevailing thought. Through a case study of Malaysia Airlines MH370, involving a textual analyses of press communications on the Malaysia Airlines website, this book scrutinises prevailing theory and definitions. Most valuably, this book proposes a new definition and model of public relations crisis, alongside a suggested extension to existing crisis communication theory in the form of a hierarchy of publics to be addressed during crises. This will help to address divergent publics with differing priorities in public relations crisis communication. This book is of interest to students, teachers, researchers and practitioners of public relations, communication, media and marketing, as well as professionals in the aviation industry and international relations.