Author: Mike Shel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781601257048
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The heroes of Numeria must brave a remote canyonland known as the Scar of the Spider. Clues found in the Choking Tower revealed that a mysterious prophet left her legacy behind in this valley long ago... a legacy that could reveal methods to defeat the Iron God of the Silver Mount. But the heroes are neither the only, nor the first visitors to the Scar of the Spider, and as they explore, they realize that alien monstrosities have colonized the canyon and have horrific agendas of their own. Can the heroes escape with their brains intact, or will they become merely the latest addition to an otherworldly collection? A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 10th-level characters, Valley of the Brain Collectors continues the Iron Gods Adventure Path, an exploration of the lands of Numeria, where savage barbarism clashes with the wonders and horrors of superscience. Several new monsters, an exploration of the mysterious alien empire known as the Dominion of the Black, rules for several strange types of alien technology, and Amber E. Scott's Pathfinder Journal round out this volume of the Pathfinder Adventure Path.
Author: Ron Lundeen
Publisher: Pathfinder Adventure Path. Iro
ISBN: 9781601256881
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Another, more powerful Iron God is rising in power in the enigmatic Silver Mount, but before it can be confronted, the legacy of this strange deity's first worshiper must be recovered. Clues lead to the technophobic town of Iadenveigh, a farming community with its own need for heroes. This guide to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is for 7th-level characters. Discover details of quests, character strengths and weaknesses, the location of hidden clues and traps, and the secrets of each room.
Author: Nicolas Logue
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781601256782
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Lords of Rust dominate Scrapwall, and their swiftly rising power threatens more than the town of Torch. For they have the support of one of the Iron Gods of Numeria, and what slumbers fitfully beneath the wreckage of Scrapwall could catapult the Lords of Rust into a new level of power if they're not stopped! A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 4th-level characters, Lords of Rust continues the Iron Gods Adventure Path, an exploration of the lands of Numeria, where savage barbarism clashes with the wonders and horrors of superscience.
Author: Robert Kolker
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385543778
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 427
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. "Reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness." —Oprah Winfrey Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amid profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family's unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope.
Author: James Jacobs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781601253613
Category : Pathfinder (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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When the Licktoad Goblins of Brinestump Marsh get ahold of a crate of fireworks, adventurers are needed to handle the explosive and annoying situation. But in vanquishing the pyromaniac goblins, the heroes uncover a secret that has been hidden in the marsh for nearly a quarter of a century -- a secret that sends them north to the mysterious ruins of Brinewall Castle, where a powerful legacy waits to be rediscovered. A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 1st-level characters, The Brinewall Legacy launches the Jade Regent Adventure Path, a sweeping quest that takes the heroes from familiar territory in Varisia all the way across the ice fields of the Crown of the World to distant Tian Xia, the land of the Dragon Empires. This volume also includes details on oni -- wicked, shape-changing spirits -- in the Pathfinder world, a detailed look at the village of Sandpoint and its environs, as well as an overview of the entire pulse-pounding Jade Regent campaign! Plus, five terrifying new monsters in the Pathfinder Bestiary, new adventures of Varian Jeggare and Radovan (stars of the Pathfinder Tales novels Prince of Wolves and Master of Devils) in the Pathfinder's Journal, and much more!
Author: Po Bronson
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 153873432X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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Find out where our world is headed with this dazzling first-hand account of inventing the future from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Should I Do With My Life? and the founder of science accelerator IndieBio. Decoding the World is a buddy adventure about the quest to live meaningfully in a world with such uncertainty. It starts with Po Bronson coming to IndieBio. Arvind Gupta created IndieBio as a laboratory for early biotech startups trying to solve major world problems. Glaciers melting. Dying bees. Infertility. Cancer. Ocean plastic. Pandemics. Arvind is the fearless one, a radical experimentalist. Po is the studious detective, patiently synthesizing clues others have missed. Their styles mix and create a quadratic speedup of creativity. Yin and Yang crystallized. As they travel around the world, finding scientists to join their cause, the authors bring their firsthand experience to the great mysteries that haunt our future. Natural resource depletion. Job-taking robots. China's global influence. Arvind feels he needs to leave IndieBio to help startups do more than just get started. But as his departure draws near, he struggles to leave the sanctum he created. While Po has to prove he can keep the "indie" in IndieBio after Arvind is gone. After looking through their lens, you'll never see the world the same.
Author: Paizo Publishing Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781601256539
Category : Pathfinder (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Discover the secrets of Numeria, a land of savagery and super science, where barbarians seek to master the technology of an ancient alien empire. From the robot-ravaged badlands of the Felldales to the lands of the Black Sovereign, Numeria provides endless opportunity for post-apocalyptic, science fiction-themed fantasy adventure. Perfect for use with the Iron Gods Adventure Path campaign, this invaluable gazetteer sheds new light on one of the mysterious kingdoms in the Pathfinder world, and includes new environmental hazards and over a dozen new monsters that meld magic with fantastic technology.
Author: David Eagleman
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307907503
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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"Eagleman renders the secrets of the brain’s adaptability into a truly compelling page-turner.” —Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner “Livewired reads wonderfully like what a book would be if it were written by Oliver Sacks and William Gibson, sitting on Carl Sagan’s front lawn.” —The Wall Street Journal What does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why is the enemy of memory not time but other memories? How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue, or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? Why did many people in the 1980s mistakenly perceive book pages to be slightly red in color? Why is the world’s best archer armless? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts, just as we do our fingers and toes? Why do we dream at night, and what does that have to do with the rotation of the Earth? The answers to these questions are right behind our eyes. The greatest technology we have ever discovered on our planet is the three-pound organ carried in the vault of the skull. This book is not simply about what the brain is; it is about what it does. The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it’s made of but in the way those parts unceasingly reweave themselves in an electric, living fabric. In Livewired, you will surf the leading edge of neuroscience atop the anecdotes and metaphors that have made David Eagleman one of the best scientific translators of our generation. Covering decades of research to the present day, Livewired also presents new discoveries from Eagleman’s own laboratory, from synesthesia to dreaming to wearable neurotech devices that revolutionize how we think about the senses.
Author: AnnaLee Saxenian
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674025660
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Like the Greeks who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece, the new Argonauts--foreign-born, technically skilled entrepreneurs who travel back and forth between Silicon Valley and their home countries--seek their fortune in distant lands by launching companies far from established centers of skill and technology. Their story illuminates profound transformations in the global economy. Economic geographer AnnaLee Saxenian has followed this transformation, exploring one of its great paradoxes: how the "brain drain" has become "brain circulation," a powerful economic force for development of formerly peripheral regions. The new Argonauts--armed with Silicon Valley experience and relationships and the ability to operate in two countries simultaneously--quickly identify market opportunities, locate foreign partners, and manage cross-border business operations. The New Argonauts extends Saxenian's pioneering research into the dynamics of competition in Silicon Valley. The book brings a fresh perspective to the way that technology entrepreneurs build regional advantage in order to compete in global markets. Scholars, policymakers, and business leaders will benefit from Saxenian's firsthand research into the investors and entrepreneurs who return home to start new companies while remaining tied to powerful economic and professional communities in the United States. For Americans accustomed to unchallenged economic domination, the fast-growing capabilities of China and India may seem threatening. But as Saxenian convincingly displays in this pathbreaking book, the Argonauts have made America richer, not poorer.
Author: Zhixin Lin
Publisher: Zhixin Lin
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1145
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