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Author : Michael Price
Publisher : Geoffrey Young
ISBN 13 : 9780935724943
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Doombook written by Michael Price and published by Geoffrey Young. This book was released on 1998 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (472 download)
Download or read book The Legal Code of Ælfred the Great written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fabien Sanglard
Publisher : Software Wizards
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Game Engine Black Book: DOOM written by Fabien Sanglard and published by Software Wizards. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was early 1993 and id Software was at the top of the PC gaming industry. Wolfenstein 3D had established the First Person Shooter genre and sales of its sequel Spear of Destiny were skyrocketing. The technology and tools id had taken years to develop were no match for their many competitors. It would have been easy for id to coast on their success, but instead they made the audacious decision to throw away everything they had built and start from scratch. Game Engine Black Book: Doom is the story of how they did it. This is a book about history and engineering. Don’t expect much prose (the author’s English has improved since the first book but is still broken). Instead you will find inside extensive descriptions and drawings to better understand all the challenges id Software had to overcome. From the hardware -- the Intel 486 CPU, the Motorola 68040 CPU, and the NeXT workstations -- to the game engine’s revolutionary design, open up to learn how DOOM changed the gaming industry and became a legend among video games.
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593297385
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Doom written by Niall Ferguson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All disasters are in some sense man-made." Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet in 2020 the responses of many developed countries, including the United States, to a new virus from China were badly bungled. Why? Why did only a few Asian countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? While populist leaders certainly performed poorly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work--pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters. In books going back nearly twenty years, including Colossus, The Great Degeneration, and The Square and the Tower, Ferguson has studied the foibles of modern America, from imperial hubris to bureaucratic sclerosis and online fragmentation. Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics, cliodynamics, and network science, Doom offers not just a history but a general theory of disasters, showing why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are getting worse at handling them. Doom is the lesson of history that this country--indeed the West as a whole--urgently needs to learn, if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline.
Author : Connie Willis
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553562738
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Doomsday Book written by Connie Willis and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.
Author : David Kushner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588362892
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Masters of Doom written by David Kushner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. “To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams
Author : Steven Appleby
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452298660
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)
Download or read book The Coffee Table Book of Doom written by Steven Appleby and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy guide shows all the ways everyone might cease to exist. It might not be able to save, but it can make Doomsday a lot more fun.
Author : Dafydd ab Hugh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439117330
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Knee-Deep in the Dead written by Dafydd ab Hugh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two Nebula nominees—the first novel in a terrifying space epic based on the classic game featuring Marine Corporal Flynn Taggart . . . The Gates were there on Phobos when mankind first arrived. Inert, unyielding, impossibly alien constructs, for twenty years they sat lifeless, mute testaments to their long-vanished creators, their secrets hidden. Then one day, they sprang to life . . . Meet Corporal Flynn Taggart, United States Marine Corps; serial number 888-23-9912. He’s the best warrior the twenty-first century has to offer, which is a damn good thing. Because Flynn Taggart is all that’s standing between the hell that just dropped in on Mars and an unsuspecting planet Earth . . .
Author : John Shirley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141652410X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Doom written by John Shirley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-10-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far in the future...an urgent distress signal is received from a classified Union Aerospace Corporation research facility based on Olduvai, Mars -- and is suddenly silenced. Assigned to either contain or quarantine the mysterious threat, a crack strike team comprised of the most hard-bitten marines around believes that this will be another routine seek-and-destroy mission. But they will soon come face-to-face with the hellish nightmares that the researchers' unorthodox experiments have unleashed on Olduvai -- a place where doom is waiting....
Author : Dan Pinchbeck
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472028936
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book DOOM written by Dan Pinchbeck and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1993, gaming changed forever. id Software's seminal shooter DOOM was released, and it shook the foundations of the medium. Daniel Pinchbeck brings together the complete story of DOOM for the first time. This book takes a look at the early days of first-person gaming and the video game studio system. It discusses the prototypes and the groundbreaking technology that drove the game forward and offers a detailed analysis of gameplay and level design. Pinchbeck also examines DOOM's contributions to wider gaming culture, such as online multiplay and the modding community, and the first-person gaming genre, focusing on DOOM's status as a foundational title and the development of the genre since 1993. Pinchbeck draws extensively from primary data: from the game itself, from the massive fan culture surrounding the title, and from interviews with the developers who made it. This book is not only the definitive work on DOOM but a snapshot of a period of gaming history, a manifesto for a development ethos, and a celebration of game culture at its best.
Author : David Baldacci
Publisher : Scholastic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780545298445
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (984 download)
Download or read book Day of Doom written by David Baldacci and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After delivering the last ransom, Amy and Dan discover that Vesper One has a terrifying plot and they race against time to stop him from harming millions of innocent people.
Author : Troy Cummings
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545493269
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Rise of the Balloon Goons: A Branches Book (The Notebook of Doom #1) written by Troy Cummings and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters + Humor + Fun = THE NOTEBOOK OF DOOM! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Alexander has just moved to a new town where he uncovers all sorts of monsters! He finds an old notebook with the word "DOOM" inscribed on the front cover. The Notebook of Doom, which Alexander now holds, contains top-secret information about the monsters! In this first book, Alexander goes up against spooky balloon goons--unique and twisted arm-waving balloon guys! This book is full of humor, engaging black-and-white illlustrations, and of course...monsters!
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Publisher : Marvel
ISBN 13 : 9780785117049
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Fantastic Four written by and published by Marvel. This book was released on 2007-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the adventures of the Fantastic Four's battles with their enemy Von Doom.
Author : Troy Cummings
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 054555554X
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Chomp of the Meat-Eating Vegetables: A Branches Book (The Notebook of Doom #4) written by Troy Cummings and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could be more monstrous than giant vegetable monsters?! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!In this fourth book, Alexander is still on the look-out for monsters. Now he thinks they're at school.... The lunch menu is NOT normal -- instead of good-for-you meals, there's ice cream and pie every day. His whole class is crying. And his friend Rip goes missing. Alexander must battle giant meat-eating vegetables before the whole town becomes veggie dinner! Filled with humor, suspense, and zany black-and-white illustrations, this book will keep kids turning the pages!
Author : Todd Preston
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491043
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book King Alfred's Book of Laws written by Todd Preston and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early Middle Ages, King Alfred (reigned 871-99) gained fame as the ruler who brought learning back to England after decades of Viking invasion. Although analysis of Alfred's canon typically focuses on his religious and philosophical texts, his relatively overlooked law code, or Domboc, reveals much about his rule, and how he was perceived in subsequent centuries. Joining major voices in the fields of early English law and literature, this exploration of King Alfred's influential text traces its evolution from its 9th century origins to reappearances in the 11th, 12th, and 16th centuries. Alfred's use of the vernacular and representation of secular practices, this work contends, made the Domboc an ideal text for establishing a particularly "English" national identity.
Author : Richard Vague
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812296613
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Doom written by Richard Vague and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial crises happen time and again in post-industrial economies—and they are extraordinarily damaging. Building on insights gleaned from many years of work in the banking industry and drawing on a vast trove of data, Richard Vague argues that such crises follow a pattern that makes them both predictable and avoidable. A Brief History of Doom examines a series of major crises over the past 200 years in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, and China—including the Great Depression and the economic meltdown of 2008. Vague demonstrates that the over-accumulation of private debt does a better job than any other variable of explaining and predicting financial crises. In a series of clear and gripping chapters, he shows that in each case the rapid growth of loans produced widespread overcapacity, which then led to the spread of bad loans and bank failures. This cycle, according to Vague, is the essence of financial crises and the script they invariably follow. The story of financial crisis is fundamentally the story of private debt and runaway lending. Convinced that we have it within our power to break the cycle, Vague provides the tools to enable politicians, bankers, and private citizens to recognize and respond to the danger signs before it begins again.
Author : Russell Nohelty
Publisher : Wannabe Press, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Doom written by Russell Nohelty and published by Wannabe Press, LLC. This book was released on with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This boxset collects the three books of The Lobdell Chronicles. Every Planet Has a Godschurch The Horde invaded. Demons fought with us. Now, they live among us. Now, they rule us. I work for one of them as a hired assassin. I hate the work, but it's a better life than most. The only thing that keeps me going is my hatred of the gods that allows monsters to escape Hell to begin with... ...and left us to pick up the pieces. The Horde was bad, but at least they would have vaporized us quickly, not kept us as slaves. Luckily, a new contract just came across my desk. The chance to kill a god. Velaska. She deserves to die, and I'm going to put a bullet right between her purple eyes. It won't make my life any better, but at least it will give me some satisfaction, at least for a moment, and that's all you can hope for in this crazy, mixed up world. If you love mythology, space opera, and edge of your seat thrillers, then this book is for you. There's Every Reason to Fear The gods are being hunted. They are dying. The Godless are winning. I've hunted them across the galaxy, but every time I take down one Godless cell, three more take their place. They are relentless, determined, and pissed off, but they are also wrong. The gods are scared. They have never worried about death before, and now death lurks around every corner. I've protected them as best I can, but my best hasn't good enough. I must find the Godless base and destroy them before they kill every god in the universe; before they destroy the Godschurch in the process. If you love portal fantasy, subverting mythology, and magic, then you'll love this book. The End Tastes Like Pancakes The Godschurch is gone. Its members have scattered throughout the galaxy. There is no hope left. The Godless have kept us on the run since destroying our base two years ago. We've hopped from planet to planet, trying our best not to be wiped out. Now, we finally have a lead. We know where they've moved their base, and we're ready to mount an attack. We don't have enough resources. We don't have enough men. We don't have enough gods on our side. But we have to take our shot. It's the last one we might ever have. If we don't stop the Godless now, there will not be another chance. It's all or nothing, and the odds are stacked against us. If you like reinterpretations of mythology, non-stop action, and exciting battles, this is the book for you. Three books in one! Get it now.
