Author: CHACHA KIM
Publisher: Tappytoon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In the magnificent empire of Ortega, Cárcel Escalante’s fate was sealed at the tender age of six when Inés Valeztena, an equally young girl, chose him as her future husband. With the clock ticking on his bachelorhood, Cárcel, a man of striking looks adorned in the finery of a navy uniform, indulges in the pleasures of his fleeting single status. Unbeknownst to him, Inés eagerly anticipates the day she can dissolve their impending union. She delights in Cárcel’s licentious exploits, seeking nothing more than a partner willing to part ways when the time comes. When Cárcel discovers Inés’s nonchalance toward his promiscuity, confusion gives way to intrigue, prompting him to see Inés in a new light and reevaluate his priorities. Now, determined to prove his worthiness as her husband, Cárcel embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Meanwhile, Inés is resolute in executing her plans for divorce. In this enchanting romance set against the tapestry of a bygone era, they must navigate the complexities of love and redemption, confronting unexpected truths that lie beneath the surface. Will Cárcel succeed in changing Inés’s mind, or is their destiny already written in the stars? Volume 1 contains Parts 1 – 5 of the original serialization. You can find subsequent chapters on the Tappytoon app. Enjoy the official webcomic of The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway on Tappytoon app.
The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway Volume 1
Author: CHACHA KIM
Publisher: Tappytoon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In the magnificent empire of Ortega, Cárcel Escalante’s fate was sealed at the tender age of six when Inés Valeztena, an equally young girl, chose him as her future husband. With the clock ticking on his bachelorhood, Cárcel, a man of striking looks adorned in the finery of a navy uniform, indulges in the pleasures of his fleeting single status. Unbeknownst to him, Inés eagerly anticipates the day she can dissolve their impending union. She delights in Cárcel’s licentious exploits, seeking nothing more than a partner willing to part ways when the time comes. When Cárcel discovers Inés’s nonchalance toward his promiscuity, confusion gives way to intrigue, prompting him to see Inés in a new light and reevaluate his priorities. Now, determined to prove his worthiness as her husband, Cárcel embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Meanwhile, Inés is resolute in executing her plans for divorce. In this enchanting romance set against the tapestry of a bygone era, they must navigate the complexities of love and redemption, confronting unexpected truths that lie beneath the surface. Will Cárcel succeed in changing Inés’s mind, or is their destiny already written in the stars? Volume 1 contains Parts 1 – 5 of the original serialization. You can find subsequent chapters on the Tappytoon app. Enjoy the official webcomic of The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway on Tappytoon app.
Publisher: Tappytoon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In the magnificent empire of Ortega, Cárcel Escalante’s fate was sealed at the tender age of six when Inés Valeztena, an equally young girl, chose him as her future husband. With the clock ticking on his bachelorhood, Cárcel, a man of striking looks adorned in the finery of a navy uniform, indulges in the pleasures of his fleeting single status. Unbeknownst to him, Inés eagerly anticipates the day she can dissolve their impending union. She delights in Cárcel’s licentious exploits, seeking nothing more than a partner willing to part ways when the time comes. When Cárcel discovers Inés’s nonchalance toward his promiscuity, confusion gives way to intrigue, prompting him to see Inés in a new light and reevaluate his priorities. Now, determined to prove his worthiness as her husband, Cárcel embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Meanwhile, Inés is resolute in executing her plans for divorce. In this enchanting romance set against the tapestry of a bygone era, they must navigate the complexities of love and redemption, confronting unexpected truths that lie beneath the surface. Will Cárcel succeed in changing Inés’s mind, or is their destiny already written in the stars? Volume 1 contains Parts 1 – 5 of the original serialization. You can find subsequent chapters on the Tappytoon app. Enjoy the official webcomic of The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway on Tappytoon app.
Successful Failure
Author: Herve Varenne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429965605
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In this controversial work, Herv Varenne and Ray McDermott explore education as cultural phenomenona construct of artifice and reality we impose upon ourselves. Questioning how the American education system defines and measures success and failure, Successful Failure is a must-read for anyone interested in educational reform, the American educational system, and the anthropology of education. }In this controversial work, Herv Varenne and Ray McDermott explore education as cultural phenomenona construct of artifice and reality we impose upon ourselves. The authors discuss in five case studies how the American education system defines and measures success and failure, why there is polarization between suburban schools and urban schools, and what about our system leads us to focus on the negative. Their exploration focuses not on the people or the activities of the system, but on the institutions themselves: who decided what was a success or failure? How was the identification done, and with what consequences?This important and timely book is a must-read for anyone interested in educational reform, the American educational system, and the anthropology of education.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429965605
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In this controversial work, Herv Varenne and Ray McDermott explore education as cultural phenomenona construct of artifice and reality we impose upon ourselves. Questioning how the American education system defines and measures success and failure, Successful Failure is a must-read for anyone interested in educational reform, the American educational system, and the anthropology of education. }In this controversial work, Herv Varenne and Ray McDermott explore education as cultural phenomenona construct of artifice and reality we impose upon ourselves. The authors discuss in five case studies how the American education system defines and measures success and failure, why there is polarization between suburban schools and urban schools, and what about our system leads us to focus on the negative. Their exploration focuses not on the people or the activities of the system, but on the institutions themselves: who decided what was a success or failure? How was the identification done, and with what consequences?This important and timely book is a must-read for anyone interested in educational reform, the American educational system, and the anthropology of education.
The Great Wall in Ruins
Author: Godwin C. Chu
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 079149909X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book presents a survey of rural and urban Chinese people examining the dramatic changes in traditional culture that have taken place, and documenting the nature of contemporary Chinese culture. Chu and Ju examine attitudes about family relations, social relations, job preferences and work ethic, organizational relations, community life, and belief systems. Although there remains some limited continuity with the past, mainly in family stability, the book shows how lifestyle and values in post-Mao China today reveal a radical departure from traditional Chinese culture. The authors discover that Chinese people no longer endorse the Confucian precepts of harmony and tolerance, nor do they submit compliantly to authority as previous generations did. They now demonstrate, in an environment of rising aspirations and mounting frustration, a new assertiveness, as seen in the tragic outburst in the Tiananmen demonstrations.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 079149909X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book presents a survey of rural and urban Chinese people examining the dramatic changes in traditional culture that have taken place, and documenting the nature of contemporary Chinese culture. Chu and Ju examine attitudes about family relations, social relations, job preferences and work ethic, organizational relations, community life, and belief systems. Although there remains some limited continuity with the past, mainly in family stability, the book shows how lifestyle and values in post-Mao China today reveal a radical departure from traditional Chinese culture. The authors discover that Chinese people no longer endorse the Confucian precepts of harmony and tolerance, nor do they submit compliantly to authority as previous generations did. They now demonstrate, in an environment of rising aspirations and mounting frustration, a new assertiveness, as seen in the tragic outburst in the Tiananmen demonstrations.
Why Nations Fail
Author: Daron Acemoglu
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0307719227
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York Times FINALIST: Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As Why Nations Fail shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Drawing on fifteen years of original research, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is our man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it). Korea, to take just one example, is a remarkably homogenous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created those two different institutional trajectories. Acemoglu and Robinson marshal extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, among them: • Will China’s economy continue to grow at such a high speed and ultimately overwhelm the West? • Are America’s best days behind it? Are we creating a vicious cycle that enriches and empowers a small minority? “This book will change the way people think about the wealth and poverty of nations . . . as ambitious as Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel.”—BusinessWeek
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0307719227
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York Times FINALIST: Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As Why Nations Fail shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Drawing on fifteen years of original research, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is our man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it). Korea, to take just one example, is a remarkably homogenous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created those two different institutional trajectories. Acemoglu and Robinson marshal extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, among them: • Will China’s economy continue to grow at such a high speed and ultimately overwhelm the West? • Are America’s best days behind it? Are we creating a vicious cycle that enriches and empowers a small minority? “This book will change the way people think about the wealth and poverty of nations . . . as ambitious as Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel.”—BusinessWeek
Tragic Failures
Author: Evina Sistakou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110482320
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This is the first study considering the reception of Greek tragedy and the transformation of the tragic idea in Hellenistic poetry. The focus is on third-century Alexandria, where the Ptolemies fostered tragedy as a theatrical form for public entertainment and as an official genre cultivated by the Pleiad, whereas the scholars of the Museum were commissioned to edit and comment on the classical tragic texts. More importantly, the notion of the tragic was adapted to the literary trends of the era. Released from the strict rules established by Aristotle about what makes a good tragedy, the major poets of the Alexandrian avant-garde struggled to transform the tragic idea and integrate it into non-dramatic genres. Tragic Failures traces the incorporation of the tragic idea in the poetry of Callimachus and Theocritus, in Apollonius’ epic Argonautica, in the iambic Alexandra, in late Hellenistic poetry and in Parthenius’ Erotika Pathemata. It offers a fascinating insight into the new conception of the tragic dilemmas in the context of Alexandrian aesthetics.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110482320
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This is the first study considering the reception of Greek tragedy and the transformation of the tragic idea in Hellenistic poetry. The focus is on third-century Alexandria, where the Ptolemies fostered tragedy as a theatrical form for public entertainment and as an official genre cultivated by the Pleiad, whereas the scholars of the Museum were commissioned to edit and comment on the classical tragic texts. More importantly, the notion of the tragic was adapted to the literary trends of the era. Released from the strict rules established by Aristotle about what makes a good tragedy, the major poets of the Alexandrian avant-garde struggled to transform the tragic idea and integrate it into non-dramatic genres. Tragic Failures traces the incorporation of the tragic idea in the poetry of Callimachus and Theocritus, in Apollonius’ epic Argonautica, in the iambic Alexandra, in late Hellenistic poetry and in Parthenius’ Erotika Pathemata. It offers a fascinating insight into the new conception of the tragic dilemmas in the context of Alexandrian aesthetics.
The Spellweaver Base Class
Author: Steven Trustrum
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0987910663
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
This version is for distribution. The Spellweaver presents an alternate, skill-based magic system that transforms arcane magic into something more than just level climbing. Includes: - Instructions for integrating spellweaving into your game - Spellweaver Base Class & 4 Archetypes - 4 Prestige Classes: the Battle Weaver, Cartomancer, Fated, and Weave Dancer - 30+ new feats concerning this new magic system and notes on how existing feats relate to Spellweaving - A new race of natural spellweavers, the spider-like Ardekh - A new, Spellweaving-based goddess, a new cleric domain, new spells, and new magic items related to Spellweaving - 5 new creatures, a new hazard, the Weave creature subtype, and a new creature template - Rules for lands where the Weave acts abnormally - All PSSRD spells converted to Spellweaving DC to save you time
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0987910663
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
This version is for distribution. The Spellweaver presents an alternate, skill-based magic system that transforms arcane magic into something more than just level climbing. Includes: - Instructions for integrating spellweaving into your game - Spellweaver Base Class & 4 Archetypes - 4 Prestige Classes: the Battle Weaver, Cartomancer, Fated, and Weave Dancer - 30+ new feats concerning this new magic system and notes on how existing feats relate to Spellweaving - A new race of natural spellweavers, the spider-like Ardekh - A new, Spellweaving-based goddess, a new cleric domain, new spells, and new magic items related to Spellweaving - 5 new creatures, a new hazard, the Weave creature subtype, and a new creature template - Rules for lands where the Weave acts abnormally - All PSSRD spells converted to Spellweaving DC to save you time
Demon Hunters RPG
Author: Cam Banks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944217242
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944217242
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Human Adaptation and Its Failures
Author: Leslie Phillips
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483263495
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Human Adaptation and its Failures focuses on the nature of psychopathology and its relation to normal behavior. The book first offers information on key concepts, including environmental factors in adaptation, nonadaptive behavior patterns, and a critique of approaches to normal and psychiatrically impaired behaviors. The text then surveys the development from biological organism to adult social being; social competence and societal expectations; and measurement of social competence. Topics include early experience and psychological development, social status as a way of life, social, moral, and intellectual development, and sex differences in social competence. The manuscript takes a look at social competence, adaptive potential, and psychological development and adaptive potential and adaptive failure. The publication also examines the definition and measurement of adaptive failure, conceptual issues in adaptive failure, and pathological behavior style and life-style. The text is a dependable reference for readers wanting to study human adaptation and its failures.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483263495
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Human Adaptation and its Failures focuses on the nature of psychopathology and its relation to normal behavior. The book first offers information on key concepts, including environmental factors in adaptation, nonadaptive behavior patterns, and a critique of approaches to normal and psychiatrically impaired behaviors. The text then surveys the development from biological organism to adult social being; social competence and societal expectations; and measurement of social competence. Topics include early experience and psychological development, social status as a way of life, social, moral, and intellectual development, and sex differences in social competence. The manuscript takes a look at social competence, adaptive potential, and psychological development and adaptive potential and adaptive failure. The publication also examines the definition and measurement of adaptive failure, conceptual issues in adaptive failure, and pathological behavior style and life-style. The text is a dependable reference for readers wanting to study human adaptation and its failures.
The Spellweaver Base Class Deluxe
Author: Steven Trustrum
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0987910655
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
This version is for distribution. The Spellweaver presents an alternate, skill-based magic system that transforms arcane magic into something more than just level climbing. Includes: - Instructions for integrating spellweaving into your game - Spellweaver Base Class & 4 Archetypes - 4 Prestige Classes: the Battle Weaver, Cartomancer, Fated, and Weave Dancer - 30+ new feats concerning this new magic system and notes on how existing feats relate to Spellweaving - A new race of natural spellweavers, the spider-like Ardekh - A new, Spellweaving-based goddess, a new cleric domain, new spells, and new magic items related to Spellweaving - 5 new creatures, a new hazard, the Weave creature subtype, and a new creature template - Rules for lands where the Weave acts abnormally - All PSSRD spells converted to Spellweaving DC to save you time
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0987910655
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
This version is for distribution. The Spellweaver presents an alternate, skill-based magic system that transforms arcane magic into something more than just level climbing. Includes: - Instructions for integrating spellweaving into your game - Spellweaver Base Class & 4 Archetypes - 4 Prestige Classes: the Battle Weaver, Cartomancer, Fated, and Weave Dancer - 30+ new feats concerning this new magic system and notes on how existing feats relate to Spellweaving - A new race of natural spellweavers, the spider-like Ardekh - A new, Spellweaving-based goddess, a new cleric domain, new spells, and new magic items related to Spellweaving - 5 new creatures, a new hazard, the Weave creature subtype, and a new creature template - Rules for lands where the Weave acts abnormally - All PSSRD spells converted to Spellweaving DC to save you time
The Game Designer's Playbook
Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019884591X
Category : Video games
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Video games have captivated us for over 50 years, giving us entire worlds to explore, new ways to connect with friends, thought-provoking stories, or just a fun way to pass the time. Creating games is a dream for many, but making great games is challenging. The Game Designer's Playbook is about meeting that challenge. More specifically, it's a book about game interaction design; in other words, shaping what players can do and how they do it to make a game satisfying and memorable. Our time with a game is built on interaction, from basic things like pushing buttons on a controller, to making complicated strategic decisions and engaging with the narrative. If you've ever felt the adrenaline rush from beating a perfectly tuned boss fight or been delighted by the fanfare of picking up that last collectible, you've experienced good interaction design firsthand. The Game Designer's Playbook is about learning what makes for great (or terrible!) interaction design in games, exploring things like controls, feedback, story, and tutorial design by analyzing existing games. It also looks at how newer and still-developing tech like VR and streaming are changing the ways we play, and how you can bring great interaction design to your own games.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019884591X
Category : Video games
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Video games have captivated us for over 50 years, giving us entire worlds to explore, new ways to connect with friends, thought-provoking stories, or just a fun way to pass the time. Creating games is a dream for many, but making great games is challenging. The Game Designer's Playbook is about meeting that challenge. More specifically, it's a book about game interaction design; in other words, shaping what players can do and how they do it to make a game satisfying and memorable. Our time with a game is built on interaction, from basic things like pushing buttons on a controller, to making complicated strategic decisions and engaging with the narrative. If you've ever felt the adrenaline rush from beating a perfectly tuned boss fight or been delighted by the fanfare of picking up that last collectible, you've experienced good interaction design firsthand. The Game Designer's Playbook is about learning what makes for great (or terrible!) interaction design in games, exploring things like controls, feedback, story, and tutorial design by analyzing existing games. It also looks at how newer and still-developing tech like VR and streaming are changing the ways we play, and how you can bring great interaction design to your own games.