Beyond Tells

Author : Randy Burgess,Carl Baldassarre
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781572438071

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Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells by Randy Burgess,Carl Baldassarre Pdf

A treasure trove of behavioral information to give a huge edge over the competition, this guide teaches how to read tells--the subtle ways in which opponents betray themselves through body language, table talk, chip moves, eye contact, and more--in order to increase chances of winning in poker. Tells are rarely obvious and it takes concentration to find them, but this book shows how to identify them and use them to an advantage to exploit others' weaknesses and win pots by betting or raising at just the right time.

Author : Christopher Coker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190237998

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Men At War: What Fiction Tells us About Conflict, From The Iliad to Catch-22 by Christopher Coker Pdf

Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at War, Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on our understanding of war and masculinity. Grouped into five archetypes-warriors, heroes, villains, survivors and victims-these characters range across 3000 years of history, through epic poems, the modern novel and one of the twentieth century's most famous film scripts. Great authors like Homer and Tolstoy show us aspects of reality invisible except through a literary lens, while fictional characters such as Achilles and Falstaff, Robert Jordan and Jack Aubrey, are not just larger than life; they are life's largeness-and this is why we seek them out. Although the Greeks knew that the lovers, wives and mothers of soldiers are the chief victims of battle, for the combatants, war is a masculine pursuit. Each of Coker's chapters explores what fiction tells us about war's appeal to young men and the way it makes- and breaks-them. The existential appeal of war too is perhaps best conveyed in fictional accounts, and these too are scrutinized by the author.

Author : J. David Velleman
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783741670

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Beyond Price by J. David Velleman Pdf

In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, Velleman champions a morality of valuing personhood over happiness in making end-of-life decisions, and respecting the personhood of future children in making decisions about procreation. These controversial views are defended with philosophical rigor while remaining accessible to the general reader. Written over Velleman's 30 years of undergraduate teaching in bioethics, the essays have never before been collected and made available to a non-academic audience. They will open new lines of debate on issues of intense public interest.

Author : James A. McKenna
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0818406488

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Beyond Tells by James A. McKenna Pdf

A psychotherapist and poker columnist offers tips on anticipating players' behavior by analyzing their mental and physical approaches to the game.

Author : Bruce Peabody,Gloria Pastorino
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476642628

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Beyond the Living Dead by Bruce Peabody,Gloria Pastorino Pdf

In 1968, George Romero's film Night of the Living Dead premiered, launching a growing preoccupation with zombies within mass and literary fiction, film, television, and video games. Romero's creativity and enduring influence make him a worthy object of inquiry in his own right, and his long career helps us take stock of the shifting interest in zombies since the 1960s. Examining his work promotes a better understanding of the current state of the zombie and where it is going amidst the political and social turmoil of the twenty-first century. These new essays document, interpret, and explain the meaning of the still-budding Romero legacy, drawing cross-disciplinary perspectives from such fields as literature, political science, philosophy, and comparative film studies. Essays consider some of the sources of Romero's inspiration (including comics, science fiction, and Westerns), chart his influence as a storyteller and a social critic, and consider the legacy he leaves for viewers, artists, and those studying the living dead.

Author : Antonio Blanco-González,Tobias L. Kienlin
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789254891

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Current Approaches to Tells in the Prehistoric Old World by Antonio Blanco-González,Tobias L. Kienlin Pdf

Deeply stratified settlements are a distinctive site type featuring prominently in diverse later prehistoric landscapes of the Old World. Their massive materiality has attracted the curiosity of lay people and archaeologists alike. Nowadays a wide variety of archaeological projects are tracking the lifestyles and social practices that led to the building-up of such superimposed artificial hills. However, prehistoric tell-dwelling communities are too often approached from narrow local perspectives or discussed within strict time- and culture-specific debates. There is a great potential to learn from such ubiquitous archaeological manifestations as the physical outcome of cross-cutting dynamics and comparable underlying forces irrespective of time and space. This volume tackles tells and tell-like sites as a transversal phenomenon whose commonalities and divergences are poorly understood yet may benefit from cross-cultural comparison. Thus, the book intends to assemble a representative range of ongoing theory – and science –based fieldwork projects targeting this kind of sites. With the aim of encompassing a variety of social and material dynamics, the volume’s scope is diachronic – from the Earliest Neolithic up to the Iron Age–, and covers a very large region, from Iberia in Western Europe to Syria in the Middle East. The core of the volume comprises a selection of the most remarkable contributions to the session with a similar title celebrated in the European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting held at Barcelona in 2018. In addition, the book includes invited chapters to round out underrepresented areas and periods in the EAA session with relevant research programmes in the Old World. To accomplish such a cross-cultural course, the book takes a case-based approach, with contributions disparate both in their theoretical foundations – from household archaeology, social agency and formation theory – and their research strategies – including geophysical survey, microarchaeology and high-resolution excavation and dating.

Author : Robert Freke Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112041480762

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A Library of Freemasonry by Robert Freke Gould Pdf

Author : Mark Pendergrast
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781771640473

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Beyond Fair Trade by Mark Pendergrast Pdf

In 2006, prominent businessman John Darch met with a man named Wicha Promyong. That meeting led to the establishment of an equal partnership business venturea partnership that goes beyond fair trade and shows that capitalism can have a human side. Today the Doi Chaang Coffee Company's coffee can be found across the world. Mark Pendergrast takes the reader on a journey through time and place as he leads us through the history of the ancient, persecuted hill tribe, the Akha, from their very roots to their current status as makers of one of the world's top coffees. Along the way he explains the history of cash crops ranging from opium to coffee, the latter being the crop that has saved the Akha and restored a sense of pride in the Akha people. He tells the story of John Darch and Wicha Promyong and acknowledges their primary role in this story, but he also tells the story of the many people without whom this venture may never have succeeded. This is not a story about charity; it is the story about a real partnership based on a groundbreaking approach to international business practices.

Author : S. Daniel Breslauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317555988

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Martin Buber on Myth (RLE Myth) by S. Daniel Breslauer Pdf

This book, first published in 1990, summarizes and evaluates the contribution of Martin Buber as a theorist of myth. Buber provides explicit guidelines for understanding and evaluating myths. He describes reality as twofold: people live either in a world of things, to which they relate as a subject controlling its objects, or in a world of self-conscious others, with whom one relates as fellow subjects. Human beings require both types of reality, but also a means of moving from one to the other. Buber understands myths as one such means by which people pass from I-It reality to I-You meeting. In studying myths, he focuses on the myths in the traditions he knows best, but offers his advice and interpretation of mythology and scholarship about mythology generally.

Author : Tansen Sen,Brian Tsui
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190992125

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Beyond Pan-Asianism by Tansen Sen,Brian Tsui Pdf

Within Asia, the period from 1840s to 1960s had witnessed the rise and decline of Pax Britannica, the growth of multiple and often competing anti-colonial movements, and the entrenchment of the nation-state system. Beyond Pan-Asianism seeks to demonstrate the complex interactions between China, India, and their neighbouring societies against this background of imperialism and nationalist resistance. The contributors to this volume, from India, the West, and the Chinese-speaking world, cover a tremendous breadth of figures, including novelists, soldiers, intelligence officers, archivists, among others, by deploying published and archival materials in multiple Asian and Western languages. This volume also attempts to answer the question of how China-India connectedness in the modern period should be narrated. Instead of providing one definite answer, it engages with prevailing and past frameworks—notably 'Pan-Asianism' and 'China/India as Method'—with an aim to provoke further discussions on how histories of China-India and, by extension the non-Western world, can be conceptualized.

Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher : BenBella Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781932100556

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The War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells Pdf

** COMPLETELY UNAUTHORIZED ** One of the great classics of literature, this ominous tale warns of a Martian invasion and their bloodsucking vengeance on humans. This essay collection from scientists, science fiction writers, and social commentators offers a literary critique of the famous tale, discusses the book's social and historical influences, and admires its continuing relevance in the literary and pop culture spheres. Contributors include Stephen Baxter, David Gerrold, Mike Resnick, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Mercedes Lackey. A complete and unabridged edition of The War of the Worlds also accompanies the essays.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Scotland
ISBN : UOM:39015028027319

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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555024894

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The Institute by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Theology
ISBN : OXFORD:555008300

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The British and Foreign Evangelical Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Gregg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Presbyterian Church
ISBN : UVA:X000429587

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Facts that Call for Faith by David Gregg Pdf