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Book Synopsis Elements of Surprise by : Vera Tobin
Download or read book Elements of Surprise written by Vera Tobin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elements of Surprise opens with an novel but narrow focus: how a particular cognitive bias, the "curse of knowledge," underwrites stories that rely on what it calls "well-made surprise," as seen in (for example) classic detective fiction--that is, surprises in novels, films, television, and plays that set us up to be fooled in ways we find pleasing and satisfying. But from there, the book expands its reach. At its core, "cursed" thinking underlies almost everything people write, say, and think about both other people and our own pasts. The more information we have about something, and the more experience we have with it, the harder it is to step outside that experience. What unfolds is both a fresh approach to mental heuristics and biases and an ambitious work of cognitive literary criticism. Elements of Surprise provides a new and exciting way of thinking about the mechanics of narrative, explored through thoughtful readings of classic, popular, and obscure texts.--
Download or read book Element of Surprise written by Mr. Ish and published by Mr. Ish. This book was released on 2019-03-09 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: โฅAddictive, Humorous, Romance, Mystery, Action packed Urban Fiction Drama โฅ Known for his loyalty and commitment to those that he holds close to his heart, thirty-year-old Adonis Davis proves that being authentic in nature isn't always recognized. After the Newark, New Jersey native is betrayed by his childhood best friend, Mustaheem, Adonis finds out that it was the deceitful actions of Mustaheem that ultimately led to the nationwide manhunt of his little sister Chaz. Chaz is a sexy twenty-eight-year-old female that had lost everything When her brother Adonis went to prison five years ago. However, it was the promise to Adonis that Mustaheem failed to make good on, in terms of looking out for Chaz which pushed her to migrate to Atlanta, Georgia. Which eventually put her in a predicament that leads to her being on the run for a triple homicide. The unknown elements of a crime that took place fifteen years ago prior, connects Adonis and Chaz in a way that no one could have ever imagined, Things get grittier in grimier than the mind could fathom. - Element of Surprise Author's Note: โ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ง ๐ ๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฌ๐ ๐ญ๐๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ.โ
Book Synopsis The Element of Surprise by : Darryl Young
Download or read book The Element of Surprise written by Darryl Young and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It used to be said that the night belonged to Charlie. But that wasn't true where SEALs patrolled. For six months in 1970, fourteen men in Juliett Platoon of the Navy's SEAL Team One--incuding the author--carried out over a hundred missions in the Mekong Delta without a single platoon fatality. Their primary mission: kidnap enemy soldiers--alive--for interrogation.
Book Synopsis The Power of Surprise by : Michael Rousell, PhD
Download or read book The Power of Surprise written by Michael Rousell, PhD and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rousell examines the rich and complex nuances of the science of surprise and shows us how we can use it strategically to enrich lives. Random events transform us. After studying formative events, moments that define us, for over three decades, Michael Rousell discovered that most of them took place during a spark of surprise. This breakthrough launched a fascinating journey from neuroscience to stand-up comedy. Rousell draws on research from a wide variety of brain science disciplines (cognition, motivation, neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, persuasion, evolution, and learning), then examines those who already use surprise strategically (comedians, film directors, entertainers, magicians, and novelists). This examination illustrates the hidden, yet critical features inherent in surprise, while demystifying the complexities. Surprise evolved as a mechanism to instantly change our beliefs. Rousell shows how surprising events produce invisible influence because they open a window to spontaneous belief change with no warning or conscious awareness. Youโll see how seemingly minor features of surprise create profound differences and can be used to strategically enrich lives, create positive mindsets, and maximize influence.
Download or read book Element of Surprise written by Derek Hart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Travis Kelland was 20 years old when Germany invaded Poland to start World War II. Travis was also the only son and heir to Sir Charles Kelland, a wealthy and powerful businessman whose vast holdings stretched across many provinces of Canada. Sir Charles was grooming young Travis to eventually take the reins of the Kelland empire. However, Travis had other plans. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy and set forth on a grand adventure to fight the Nazis. Of course, Travis was in for a rude awakening. He joined the MTB's (Motor Torpedo Boats) squadrons fighting in the Channel and the North Sea and was immediately faced with death and destruction, winning the DSO from the King himself. Yet Travis was a survivor too. After proving himself in combat, he is transferred to the Mediterranean and took command of his own MTB based out of Alexandria, Egypt. In this theatre of operations, his crew fight Germans and Italians, constantly faced with overwhelming odds and the constant threat of Rommel. These are the adventures of MTB 545, from 1940?1945, spanning the desperate years to the days just prior to the D-Day invasion.
Book Synopsis The Element of Surprise by : Darryl Young
Download or read book The Element of Surprise written by Darryl Young and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1990-03-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It used to be said that the night belonged to Charlie. But that wasn't true where SEALs patrolled. For six months in 1970, fourteen men in Juliett Platoon of the Navy's SEAL Team One--incuding the author--carried out over a hundred missions in the Mekong Delta without a single platoon fatality. Their primary mission: kidnap enemy soldiers--alive--for interrogation.
Book Synopsis Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise by : David Ezra Stein
Download or read book Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise written by David Ezra Stein and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprise! The little red chicken is back โ and as endearingly silly as ever โ in David Ezra Steinโs follow-up to the Caldecott Honorโwinning Interrupting Chicken. Itโs homework time for the little red chicken, who has just learned about something every good story should have: an elephant of surprise. Or could it be an element of surprise (as her amused papa explains)? As they dive in to story after story, looking for the part that makes a reader say โWhoa! I didnโt know that was going to happen,โ Papa is sure he can convince Chicken heโs right. After all, there are definitely no elephants in โThe Ugly Duckling,โ โRapunzel,โ or โThe Little Mermaidโ โ or are there? Elephant or element, something unexpected awaits Papa in every story, but a surprise may be in store for the little red chicken as well. Full of the same boisterous charm that made Interrupting Chicken so beloved by readers, this gleeful follow-up is sure to delight fans of stories, surprises, and elephants alike.
Download or read book Dazzle Ships written by Chris Barton and published by Millbrook Press TM. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audiseeยฎ eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! A visually stunning look at innovative and eye-popping measures used to protect ships during World War I. During World War I, British and American ships were painted with bold colors and crazy patterns from bow to stern. Why would anyone put such eye-catching designs on ships? Desperate to protect ships from German torpedo attacks, British lieutenant-commander Norman Wilkinson proposed what became known as dazzle. These stunning patterns and colors were meant to confuse the enemy about a ship's speed and direction. By the end of the war, more than four thousand ships had been painted with these mesmerizing designs. Author Chris Barton and illustrator Victo Ngai vividly bring to life this little-known story of how the unlikely and the improbable became just plain dazzling. "[A] conversational, compelling, and visually arresting story . . ."โstarred, Publishers Weekly "Barton's lively text is matched by Ngai's engrossing artwork, which employs dazzle techniques throughout her inventive spreads."โThe Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books New York Public Library Best Books for Kids Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
Book Synopsis Elements of Surprise by : Vera Tobin
Download or read book Elements of Surprise written by Vera Tobin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some surprises delightโthe endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pipโs benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the intersection of cognitive science and narrative pleasure, Vera Tobin explains how our brains conspire with stories to produce those revelatory plots that define a โwell-made surprise.โ By tracing the prevalence of surprise endings in both literary fiction and popular literature and showing how they exploit our mental limits, Tobin upends two common beliefs. The first is cognitive scienceโs tendency to consider biases a form of moral weakness and failure. The second is certain criticsโ presumption that surprise endings are mere shallow gimmicks. The latter is simply not true, and the former tells at best half the story. Tobin shows that building a good plot twist is a complex art that reflects a sophisticated understanding of the human mind. Reading classic, popular, and obscure literature alongside the latest research in cognitive science, Tobin argues that a good surprise works by taking advantage of our mental limits. Elements of Surprise describes how cognitive biases, mental shortcuts, and quirks of memory conspire with stories to produce wondrous illusions, and also provides a sophisticated how-to guide for writers. In Tobinโs hands, the interactions of plot and cognition reveal the interdependencies of surprise, sympathy, and sense-making. The result is a new appreciation of the pleasures of being had.
Book Synopsis The Book of Elemental Powers (LEGO Ninjago) by : Random House
Download or read book The Book of Elemental Powers (LEGO Ninjago) written by Random House and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the action-packed world of LEGOยฎ NINJAGOยฎ: Spinjitzu and learn everything there is to know about mastering the art of Spinjitzu in the ancient full-color tome known as The Book of Elemental Powers! Do you have what it takes to become a Spinjitzu Master? If you think so, The Book of Elementals is packed with all the knowledge you will need to master all the elements and become a ninja hero . . . or perhaps villain! This full-color book features big glossy pages with art and exciting information about the world of LEGO NINJAGO! LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick and Knob configurations, the Minifigure and NINJAGO are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ยฉ2021 The LEGO Group. Manufactured by AMEET Sp. z o.o. under license from the LEGO Group.
Book Synopsis The Elephant of Surprise by : Brent Hartinger
Download or read book The Elephant of Surprise written by Brent Hartinger and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, openly gay high school junior Russel Middlebrook finds the adventure he is looking for when he falls for an anti-consumerist freegan who pops out of the school dumpster. Through Wade, Russel is exposed to new experiences (like eating roadkill) and challenging ideas ("When you don't spend your whole life looking at a television or a computer screen, you can't help but take a good look at the world"). But just as their relationship turns romantic, Russel's friend Gunnar suspects that Wade and his freegan friends may be taking their beliefs to a dangerous extreme.
Download or read book Surprise written by Tania Luna and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprise: Embrace the Unpredictable and Engineer the Unexpected is a fascinating look at how we can handle and harness surprise in our work, relationships, and everyday lives. Pop Quiz! Do you prefer when: A) Things go according to plan? B) When the unexpected happens? Most of us pick control and predictability. Yet research reveals a counterintuitive truth: surprise is the key that unlocks growth, innovation, and connection. It is also the secret ingredient in our best memories. Through colorful narratives and compelling scientific findings, authors Tania Luna and Dr. LeeAnn Renninger shine a light on the world's least understood and most intriguing emotion. They reveal how shifting our perception of surprise lets us thrive in the face of uncertainty. And they show us how surprise acts as a shortcut that turns a typical product into a meaningful experience, a good idea into a viral one, awkward small talk into engaging conversation, and daily life into an adventure.
Book Synopsis Structure & Surprise by : Michael Theune
Download or read book Structure & Surprise written by Michael Theune and published by Teachers & Writers Collaborative. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns offers a road map for analyzing poetry through examination of poems' structure, rather than their forms or genres. Michael Theune's breakthrough concept encourages students, teachers, and writers to use structure as a tool to see the fundamental affinities between strikingly different kinds of poetry and radically different literary eras. The book includes examination of the mid-course turn and the elegy, as well as the ironic, concessional, emblem, and retrospective-prospective structures, among others. In addition, 14 contemporary poets provide an example of and commentary on their own work.
Book Synopsis Nature's Building Blocks by : John Emsley
Download or read book Nature's Building Blocks written by John Emsley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A readable, informative, fascinating entry on each one of the 100-odd chemical elements, arranged alphabetically from actinium to zirconium. Each entry comprises an explanation of where the element's name comes from, followed by Body element (the role it plays in living things), Element ofhistory (how and when it was discovered), Economic element (what it is used for), Environmental element (where it occurs, how much), Chemical element (facts, figures and narrative), and Element of surprise (an amazing, little-known fact about it). A wonderful 'dipping into' source for the familyreference shelf and for students.
Book Synopsis The Temporal Logic of Reactive and Concurrent Systems by : Zohar Manna
Download or read book The Temporal Logic of Reactive and Concurrent Systems written by Zohar Manna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reactive systems are computing systems which are interactive, such as real-time systems, operating systems, concurrent systems, control systems, etc. They are among the most difficult computing systems to program. Temporal logic is a formal tool/language which yields excellent results in specifying reactive systems. This volume, the first of two, subtitled Specification, has a self-contained introduction to temporal logic and, more important, an introduction to the computational model for reactive programs, developed by Zohar Manna and Amir Pnueli of Stanford University and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, respectively.
Book Synopsis Ignorance and Surprise by : Matthias Gross
Download or read book Ignorance and Surprise written by Matthias Gross and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects. Ignorance and surprise belong together: surprises can make people aware of their own ignorance. And yet, perhaps paradoxically, a surprising event in scientific researchโone that defies prediction or risk assessmentโis often a window to new and unexpected knowledge. In this book, Matthias Gross examines the relationship between ignorance and surprise, proposing a conceptual framework for handling the unexpected and offering case studies of ecological design that demonstrate the advantages of allowing for surprises and including ignorance in the design and negotiation processes. Gross draws on classical and contemporary sociological accounts of ignorance and surprise in science and ecology and integrates these with the idea of experiment in society. He develops a notion of how unexpected occurrences can be incorporated into a model of scientific and technological development that includes the experimental handling of surprises. Gross discusses different projects in ecological design, including Chicago's restoration of the shoreline of Lake Michigan and Germany's revitalization of brownfields near Leipzig. These cases show how ignorance and surprise can successfully play out in ecological design projects, and how the acknowledgment of the unknown can become a part of decision making. The appropriation of surprises can lead to robust design strategies. Ecological design, Gross argues, is neither a linear process of master planning nor a process of trial and error but a carefully coordinated process of dealing with unexpected turns by means of experimental practice.
Book Synopsis The 46 Rules of Genius by : Marty Neumeier
Download or read book The 46 Rules of Genius written by Marty Neumeier and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares forty-six tips for achieving creative brilliance in any professional field, discussing how to innovate, work, learn, and matter.
