How and why books matter, Watts, James

Автор: Watts Peter
Название: Firefall
ISBN: 178669610X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786696106
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: After an unexplained moment of surveillance by an alien intelligence no further contact has been made for twenty-five years. But all this is about to change. For a man hiding in the Oregon desert is about to play a key role in the next stage of human evolution.

Автор: Watts Peter
Название: Blindsight
ISBN: 1250237483 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250237484
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Hugo and Shirly Jackason 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.

Автор: Watts Peter
Название: Maelstrom
ISBN: 0765320533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765320537
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Описание: An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed millions. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world, who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America. Is she a monster or a goddess?

Автор: Watts, Alan W
Название: Wisdom Of Insecurity
ISBN: 1846047013 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846047015
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 'A revelatory classic' Maria Popova 'A spiritual polymath, the first and possibly greatest' Deepak ChopraWhat we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriouslyToo often we fall into the trap of anticipating the future while lamenting the past and in the midst of this negative loop we forget how to live in the now. In this iconic and prescient text, pioneering Zen scholar Alan Watts shows us how, in an age of unprecedented anxiety, we must embrace the present in order to live a fulfilling life.

Автор: Cuccia-Watts Julie
Название: The MAAT Tarot
ISBN: 1716848474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781716848476
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Описание: This book describes version 4 of CATS CM(R). This methodology for contract managementcan be used in both private and public sector organizations, and is valid for both demandand supply side.Contract management is the realization of intended contract objectives by proactivelymonitoring the fulfillment of all contractually established responsibilities, obligations,procedures, agreements, conditions and rates, resolving all ambiguities, contradictions andwhite spaces, managing all contract-related risks, and implementing all desired changes tothe contract, during the execution phase.CATS CM(R) offers a methodical and scalable approach to contract management. Itprovides a description of the principles, roles, and main issues for the contract managerand the best way of working. In addition to a description of the methodology, CATS CM(R)version 4 also offers specific tools for implementing contract management, for policy aswell as for processes.Increasingly, organizations recognize the importance of being in control of their businessecosystem. CATS CM(R) assists organizations to increase control of their joint responsibilityboth from a procurement and delivery point of view. A large number of organizations havechosen CATS CM(R) as the standard for their contract management processes.This new version of CATS CM(R) has been developed with these various practices in mind.CATS CM(R) version 4 is based on the principle that the management of a contract in execution has strong similarities on both sides of the contract, i.e. demand and supply; both can best be described as working in conjunction with each other.This book is intended for all who are responsible for, or deal with the execution ofcontracts: contract managers, business managers, delivery managers, project managers,service managers, facility managers, buyers, procurement managers, compliance managers,risk managers, account managers, sales managers and HR managers, along with theirdirectors and board members on both sides of the contract.

Автор: Cuccia-watts, Julie
Название: Maat tarot guide book
ISBN: 1716755409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781716755408
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Автор: Watts, Peter
Название: Starfish
ISBN: 0765315963 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765315960
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Описание: When civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometres below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters program. It recruits those whose histories have pre-adapted them to dangerous environments, people used to broken bodies and chronic stress.

Автор: Watts, Alan
Название: Tao: the watercourse way
ISBN: 1788164466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788164467
Издательство: Profile
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Описание: The last work by Alan Watts, Tao is the culmination of a lifetime`s study and thought.

Автор: Watts, Franklin
Название: Reading champion: the giant snowball mystery
ISBN: 1445162253 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781445162256
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)

Автор: Howell Izzi
Название: Why Do We Remember?: The Great Fire of London
ISBN: 1445148250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781445148250
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: A first history series that looks at some key events and personalities through history and explains why we remember them today.

Автор: Watts, Alan W.
Название: The Way of Zen
ISBN: 0375705104 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375705106
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts ("the perfect guide for a course correction in life" --Deepak Chopra), explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion.

With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible clarity. Watts saw Zen as "one of the most precious gifts of Asia to the world," and in The Way of Zen he gives this gift to readers everywhere.

"Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Watts had the rare gift of 'writing beautifully the unwritable.'"
--Los Angeles Times

Автор: Hubbard, Ben
Название: Time Travel Guides: The Stone Age and Skara Brae
ISBN: 1445156989 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781445156989
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Explore the past and discover history with a time travel guidebook