Author: Sunbird
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9781409392613
Category : Plants vs. Zombies (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
There is absolutely nothing funny about the zombie invasion and end of civilization as we know it - which is why it's so important to own a good joke book! Based on the smash-hit 'Plants vs. Zombies' video game, this is a guaranteed rib-tickler - whichever side of the fence you sit on. Packed with over 250 great gags about both plants and zombies, it's enough to make even the undead giggle!Enjoy other rather frightening Plants vs. Zombies books in the series including the Plants vs. Zombies Official Guide and the Plants vs. Zombies Official Sticker Book.
Plants Vs. Zombies: Soil Your Plants Joke Book
Author: Sunbird
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9781409392613
Category : Plants vs. Zombies (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
There is absolutely nothing funny about the zombie invasion and end of civilization as we know it - which is why it's so important to own a good joke book! Based on the smash-hit 'Plants vs. Zombies' video game, this is a guaranteed rib-tickler - whichever side of the fence you sit on. Packed with over 250 great gags about both plants and zombies, it's enough to make even the undead giggle!Enjoy other rather frightening Plants vs. Zombies books in the series including the Plants vs. Zombies Official Guide and the Plants vs. Zombies Official Sticker Book.
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9781409392613
Category : Plants vs. Zombies (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
There is absolutely nothing funny about the zombie invasion and end of civilization as we know it - which is why it's so important to own a good joke book! Based on the smash-hit 'Plants vs. Zombies' video game, this is a guaranteed rib-tickler - whichever side of the fence you sit on. Packed with over 250 great gags about both plants and zombies, it's enough to make even the undead giggle!Enjoy other rather frightening Plants vs. Zombies books in the series including the Plants vs. Zombies Official Guide and the Plants vs. Zombies Official Sticker Book.
Empyre: X-Men
Author: Ed Brisson
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302522604
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Collects Empyre: X-Men (2020) #1-4. Alien plants vs. mutant zombies! Plant people from outer space have come to Earth as part of the cosmic events of EMPYRE — but wouldn’t you know it, they happen to arrive just as millions of deceased mutants rise from the grave as undead creatures hungry for human flesh! What are the odds? And can even the X-Men handle two simultaneous crises? Aliens! Plant-men! Mutants! Zombies! Demons! Explosions! This one has it all — and then some! The X-Men return to the graveyard island of Genosha in a tale so crazy, it took the entire writing crew of the Dawn of X line to tackle it!
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302522604
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Collects Empyre: X-Men (2020) #1-4. Alien plants vs. mutant zombies! Plant people from outer space have come to Earth as part of the cosmic events of EMPYRE — but wouldn’t you know it, they happen to arrive just as millions of deceased mutants rise from the grave as undead creatures hungry for human flesh! What are the odds? And can even the X-Men handle two simultaneous crises? Aliens! Plant-men! Mutants! Zombies! Demons! Explosions! This one has it all — and then some! The X-Men return to the graveyard island of Genosha in a tale so crazy, it took the entire writing crew of the Dawn of X line to tackle it!
Plants Vs. Zombies Official Sticker Book
Author: Simon Swatman
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9781409391883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Whether you side with the kind, protective, environmentally friendly plants, or the stinking, decaying, trespassing zombies, this is the book for you! Not only are there over 1,000 stickers, but it's also packed with puzzles, activities, jokes and facts (many of which are not even remotely factual!). Based on the smash-hit 'Plants vs. Zombies' video game and app, this is the ultimate zombie-killer time-killer.
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9781409391883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Whether you side with the kind, protective, environmentally friendly plants, or the stinking, decaying, trespassing zombies, this is the book for you! Not only are there over 1,000 stickers, but it's also packed with puzzles, activities, jokes and facts (many of which are not even remotely factual!). Based on the smash-hit 'Plants vs. Zombies' video game and app, this is the ultimate zombie-killer time-killer.
Seeing Like a State
Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
My Brother Ron
Author: Clayton E. Cramer
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781477667538
Category : Mental health laws
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
America started a grand experiment in the 1960s: deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. The consequences were very destructive: homelessness; a degradation of urban life; increases in violent crime rates; increasing death rates for the mentally ill. My Brother Ron tells the story of deinstitutionalization from two points of view: what happened to the author's older brother, part of the first generation of those who became mentally ill after deinstitutionalization, and a detailed history of how and why America went down this path. My Brother Ron examines the multiple strands that came together to create the perfect storm that was deinstitutionalization: a well-meaning concern about the poor conditions of many state mental hospitals; a giddy optimism by the psychiatric profession in the ability of new drugs to cure the mentally ill; a rigid ideological approach to due process that ignored that the beneficiaries would end up starving to death or dying of exposure.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781477667538
Category : Mental health laws
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
America started a grand experiment in the 1960s: deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. The consequences were very destructive: homelessness; a degradation of urban life; increases in violent crime rates; increasing death rates for the mentally ill. My Brother Ron tells the story of deinstitutionalization from two points of view: what happened to the author's older brother, part of the first generation of those who became mentally ill after deinstitutionalization, and a detailed history of how and why America went down this path. My Brother Ron examines the multiple strands that came together to create the perfect storm that was deinstitutionalization: a well-meaning concern about the poor conditions of many state mental hospitals; a giddy optimism by the psychiatric profession in the ability of new drugs to cure the mentally ill; a rigid ideological approach to due process that ignored that the beneficiaries would end up starving to death or dying of exposure.
Life Off the Label
Author: Colleen Kachmann
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9780997702408
Category : Health
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Colleen Kachmann kept a close eye on calories, was active with her four energetic children, and exercised regularly. But her best efforts were futile against midlife reality. Dieting led to weight gain. Her emotions were unstable. Her body hurt. Various medications proved ineffective. She wasn't sick, exactly, but she wasn't healthy, either. Sound familiar? Life Off the Label details Colleen's dedicated efforts to live and be well, only to discover she wasn't. She's not alone. Seventy percent of Americans are overweight and take at least one medication. Colleen did not want to be a statistic, so she deconstructed the habits and beliefs that limited her potential. What she discovered will change your life.
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9780997702408
Category : Health
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Colleen Kachmann kept a close eye on calories, was active with her four energetic children, and exercised regularly. But her best efforts were futile against midlife reality. Dieting led to weight gain. Her emotions were unstable. Her body hurt. Various medications proved ineffective. She wasn't sick, exactly, but she wasn't healthy, either. Sound familiar? Life Off the Label details Colleen's dedicated efforts to live and be well, only to discover she wasn't. She's not alone. Seventy percent of Americans are overweight and take at least one medication. Colleen did not want to be a statistic, so she deconstructed the habits and beliefs that limited her potential. What she discovered will change your life.
Blindsight
Author: Peter Watts
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Age of Em
Author: Robin Hanson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191069663
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human. Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs. In this new economic era, the world economy may double in size every few weeks. Some say we can't know the future, especially following such a disruptive new technology, but Professor Robin Hanson sets out to prove them wrong. Applying decades of expertise in physics, computer science, and economics, he uses standard theories to paint a detailed picture of a world dominated by ems. While human lives don't change greatly in the em era, em lives are as different from ours as our lives are from those of our farmer and forager ancestors. Ems make us question common assumptions of moral progress, because they reject many of the values we hold dear. Read about em mind speeds, body sizes, job training and career paths, energy use and cooling infrastructure, virtual reality, aging and retirement, death and immortality, security, wealth inequality, religion, teleportation, identity, cities, politics, law, war, status, friendship and love. This book shows you just how strange your descendants may be, though ems are no stranger than we would appear to our ancestors. To most ems, it seems good to be an em.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191069663
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human. Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs. In this new economic era, the world economy may double in size every few weeks. Some say we can't know the future, especially following such a disruptive new technology, but Professor Robin Hanson sets out to prove them wrong. Applying decades of expertise in physics, computer science, and economics, he uses standard theories to paint a detailed picture of a world dominated by ems. While human lives don't change greatly in the em era, em lives are as different from ours as our lives are from those of our farmer and forager ancestors. Ems make us question common assumptions of moral progress, because they reject many of the values we hold dear. Read about em mind speeds, body sizes, job training and career paths, energy use and cooling infrastructure, virtual reality, aging and retirement, death and immortality, security, wealth inequality, religion, teleportation, identity, cities, politics, law, war, status, friendship and love. This book shows you just how strange your descendants may be, though ems are no stranger than we would appear to our ancestors. To most ems, it seems good to be an em.
Plants Vs. Zombies Official Guide
Author: Simon Swatman
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9781409391876
Category : Plants
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Plants vs. Zombies Official Guide is the must-have book for fans of the smash-hit game!The zombies are coming! Run for your tiny lives! Thankfully, all is not lost, for the powers-that-be have brought out this handy manual for guarding your home and brains. Even better, leading zombie expert Crazy Dave has scribbled all over it. It would be better still if Dave made even the slightest bit of sense, but you can't have everything. Based on the smash-hit Plants vs ZombiesT video game, this is your essential guide to defeating the zombie horde (whilst keeping your garden nice and tidy and that).Enjoy other rather frightening Plants vs. Zombies books in the series including the Plants vs. Zombies Official Sticker Book and Soil Your Plants Joke Book.
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9781409391876
Category : Plants
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Plants vs. Zombies Official Guide is the must-have book for fans of the smash-hit game!The zombies are coming! Run for your tiny lives! Thankfully, all is not lost, for the powers-that-be have brought out this handy manual for guarding your home and brains. Even better, leading zombie expert Crazy Dave has scribbled all over it. It would be better still if Dave made even the slightest bit of sense, but you can't have everything. Based on the smash-hit Plants vs ZombiesT video game, this is your essential guide to defeating the zombie horde (whilst keeping your garden nice and tidy and that).Enjoy other rather frightening Plants vs. Zombies books in the series including the Plants vs. Zombies Official Sticker Book and Soil Your Plants Joke Book.
Feed
Author: M. T. Anderson
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763651559
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play around with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who knows something about what it’s like to live without the feed-and about resisting its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a brave new world - and a hilarious new lingo - sure to appeal to anyone who appreciates smart satire, futuristic fiction laced with humor, or any story featuring skin lesions as a fashion statement.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763651559
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play around with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who knows something about what it’s like to live without the feed-and about resisting its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a brave new world - and a hilarious new lingo - sure to appeal to anyone who appreciates smart satire, futuristic fiction laced with humor, or any story featuring skin lesions as a fashion statement.