Raised Stakes
Raised Stakes

Author: Gary Bradshaw

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-03-05

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1326583913

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Officer Collins life has been troubled somewhat, to say the least. When Miller, An unknown wanted criminal, invites four strangers to a winner takes all poker game, They are unaware of his real intentions until the night unfolds with deadly consequences. As the night passes, each of them receives hints of their past. Which they would rather have kept secret and stay locked away in a memory forever. With tempers rising to boiling point and the stakes getting higher there can be only one winning hand that will win and survive the night. Five individuals pulled together unknowingly to discover their lives entwined. The backdrop to this story is a winner takes all poker game. The guests seated around the table are unaware of their fate. Over the evening, all five will relive past events that they would rather forget. The memory recalls induced upon them by the unknown criminal drug lord who sent them the invitations and whose sole purpose is to seek revenge. Come the morning, there will be only one winner.

Raising the Stakes
Raising the Stakes

Author: Peter Coaldrake

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0702258458

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This fully revised new edition probes the state of Australian higher education and its future. Peter Coaldrake and Lawrence Stedman's seminal and comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced by the higher education sector has been updated with revisions and a new chapter that addresses current policy and proposed reforms. They argue that neither the market nor central government will be able to shape higher education in an optimal way. Facing greater competition and reduced prospects for public funding, universities themselves must provide the impetus and take responsibility for change as they adapt to complex and uncertain futures.

Make Your Movie
Make Your Movie

Author: Barbara Freedman Doyle

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0240821556

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This book is about how to work with people in the film industry, about who they are, what they do, and what they need. Most importantly for you, it is also about how to become one of them. Make Your Movie is a straightforward and comprehensive must-read for any aspiring filmmaker with an ounce or two of determination. With a down-to-earth, tell it like it is approach, the author offers insight through relatable, real-world experience and one-on-one interviews with working professionals who are already at the top of their game. Having an insider's understanding of the entire filmmaking process from start to finish, fundraising to distribution, is imperative and will allow you to anticipate and navigate avoidable setbacks. This clear and concise guide candidly describes what you need to know about both, the business and the politics of the industry to get your movie made.

All the Impossible Things
All the Impossible Things

Author: Lindsay Lackey

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 125020285X

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A bit of magic, a sprinkling of adventure, and a whole lot of heart collide in All the Impossible Things, Lindsay Lackey's extraordinary middle-grade novel about a young girl navigating the foster care system in search of where she belongs. "Wise and wondrous, this is truly a novel to cherish.” —Katherine Applegate, New York Times–bestselling author of Wishtree An Indies Introduce Selection Red’s inexplicable power over the wind comes from her mother. Whenever Ruby “Red” Byrd is scared or angry, the wind picks up. And being placed in foster care, moving from family to family, tends to keep her skies stormy. Red knows she has to learn to control it, but can’t figure out how. This time, the wind blows Red into the home of the Grooves, a quirky couple who run a petting zoo, complete with a dancing donkey and a giant tortoise. With their own curious gifts, Celine and Jackson Groove seem to fit like a puzzle piece into Red’s heart. But just when Red starts to settle into her new life, a fresh storm rolls in, one she knows all too well: her mother. For so long, Red has longed to have her mom back in her life, and she’s quickly swept up in the vortex of her mother’s chaos. Now Red must discover the possible in the impossible if she wants to overcome her own tornadoes and find the family she needs.

High Stakes, No Prisoners
High Stakes, No Prisoners

Author: Charles Ferguson

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9781587990656

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Charles Ferguson's hilarious, hard-boiled journey into the heart of high-tech darkness has become the signal book of the start-up generation. Charles Ferguson started Vermeer Technologies and turned his very big idea into FrontPage, the first software product for creating and managing a website. Ferguson took a good idea, started a company, and sold it to Microsoft for $133 million -- all in less than two years. High Stakes, No Prisoners is both a blistering inside account of how he did it and a brilliant tour of the brutally competitive and utterly unique world of Silicon Valley. - Publisher.

Small Stakes Hold 'em
Small Stakes Hold 'em

Author: David Sklansky

Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781880685327

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For today's poker players, Texas hold 'em is the game. Every day, tens of thousands of small stakes hold 'em games are played all over the world in homes, card rooms, and on the Internet. These games can be very profitable -- if you play well. But most people don't play well and end up leaving their money on the table. Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big with Expert Play explains everything you need to be a big winner. Unlike many other books about small stakes games, it teaches the aggressive and attacking style used by all professional players. However, it does not simply tell you to play aggressively; it shows you exactly how to make expert decisions through numerous clear and detailed examples. Small Stakes Hold 'em teaches you to think like a professional player. Topics include implied odds, pot equity, speculative hands, position, the importance of being suited, hand categories, counting outs, evaluating the flop, large pots versus small pots, protecting your hand, betting for value on the river, and playing overcards. In addition, after you learn the winning concepts, test your skills with over fifty hand quizzes that present you with common and critical hold 'em decisions. Choose your action, then compare it to the authors' play and reasoning. This text presents cutting-edge ideas in straightforward language. It is the most thorough and accurate discussion of small stakes hold 'em available. Your opponents will read this book; make sure you do, too!

Dosage
Dosage

Author: Steven A. Roman

Publisher: The Russell Meerdink Company Ltd.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0929346734

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The Case for Contextualism
The Case for Contextualism

Author: Keith DeRose

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2011-05-05

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0191619744

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It's an obvious enough observation that the standards that govern whether ordinary speakers will say that someone knows something vary with context: What we are happy to call "knowledge" in some ("low-standards") contexts we'll deny is "knowledge" in other ("high-standards") contexts. But do these varying standards for when ordinary speakers will attribute knowledge, and for when they are in some important sense warranted in attributing knowledge, reflect varying standards for when it is or would be true for them to attribute knowledge? Or are the standards that govern whether such claims are true always the same? And what are the implications for epistemology if these truth-conditions for knowledge claims shift with context? Contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards a subject must meet in order for a claim attributing "knowledge" to her to be true do vary with context, has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of language during the last few decades. In The Case for Contextualism Keith DeRose offers a sustained state-of-the-art exposition and defense of the contextualist position, presenting and advancing the most powerful arguments in favor of the view and against its "invariantist" rivals, and responding to the most pressing objections facing contextualism.

Small Teaching
Small Teaching

Author: James M. Lang

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-02-16

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 111894450X

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Employ cognitive theory in the classroom every day Research into how we learn has opened the door for utilizing cognitive theory to facilitate better student learning. But that's easier said than done. Many books about cognitive theory introduce radical but impractical theories, failing to make the connection to the classroom. In Small Teaching, James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful changes that make a big difference—many of which can be put into practice in a single class period. These strategies are designed to bridge the chasm between primary research and the classroom environment in a way that can be implemented by any faculty in any discipline, and even integrated into pre-existing teaching techniques. Learn, for example: How does one become good at retrieving knowledge from memory? How does making predictions now help us learn in the future? How do instructors instill fixed or growth mindsets in their students? Each chapter introduces a basic concept in cognitive theory, explains when and how it should be employed, and provides firm examples of how the intervention has been or could be used in a variety of disciplines. Small teaching techniques include brief classroom or online learning activities, one-time interventions, and small modifications in course design or communication with students.