The Wizard S Dilemma

Author : Diane Duane
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547546827

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The Wizard's Dilemma by Diane Duane Pdf

A novel “filled with very credible teen angst, morality, and an intriguing blend of science fiction and fantasy” from the author of A Wizard Abroad (School Library Journal). Still recovering from an overly eventful vacation in Ireland, teenage wizard Nita Callahan is looking forward to some peace and quiet in her suburban New York home. Instead, her close friend Kit seems to be acting a little weird, and Nita keeps running into problems for which wizardry either isn’t the answer or else it’s the wrong one. How do you fix what can’t be fixed? Only the Transcendent Pig knows, and it’s not telling. But Nita needs to find out—and soon. Her wizardly partnership with Kit starts to fall apart. Much worse, her mother gets sick . . . so sick she may never leave the hospital.Only one person can help Nita—the One she’s devoted her life to fighting. “Powerful and satisfying.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A gripping and dynamic fantasy . . . Fans of the author will flock to this new adventure, which likely will bring new readers to the series.”—VOYA Praise for the Young Wizards series “Duane is tops in the high adventure business . . . This rollicking yarn will delight readers.”—Publishers Weekly “High Wizardry is . . . high entertainment.”—Locus “Recommend this series to young teens who devour books about magic and wizards . . . or kids looking for ‘Harry Potter’ read-alikes.”—School Library Journal “Stands between the works of Diana Wynne Jones . . . and Madeleine L’Engle . . . An outstanding, original work.”—The Horn Book

Author : Diane Duane
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0606256547

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Wizard's Dilemma by Diane Duane Pdf

Teenage wizard Nita travels to other universes to find a cure for her mother who has brain cancer.

Author : Sherryl Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Children's literature, New Zealand
ISBN : 1869431839

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Denzil's Dilemma by Sherryl Jordan Pdf

The apprentice wizard Denzil manages to transport his twentieth century friend, Sam back to his own time in medieval England.

Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307961709

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The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann Pdf

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.

Author : Mayfair Games Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0912771852

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Wizard's Dilemma by Mayfair Games Staff Pdf

Author : Diane Duane
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547545110

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So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane Pdf

A mysterious library book opens the door to a world of magic and danger in the first book in the beloved Young Wizards series. Bullied by her classmates, Nita Callahan is miserable at school. So when she finds a mysterious book in the library that promises her the chance to become a wizard, she jumps at the opportunity to escape her unhappy reality. But taking the Wizard's Oath is no easy thing, and Nita soon finds herself paired with fellow wizard-in-training Kit Rodriguez on a dangerous mission. The only way to become a full wizard is to face the Lone Power, the being that created death and is the mortal enemy of all wizards. As Nita and Kit battle their way through a deadly alternate version of New York controlled by the Lone Power, they must rely on each other and their newfound wizarding skills to survive--and save the world from the Lone One's grasp.

Author : Matt Mason
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781416532200

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The Pirate's Dilemma by Matt Mason Pdf

Explores the influence of youth culture on transforming mainstream society through innovative cooperative venues and modern "do-it-yourself" values, in a report that reveals what can be learned through the indirect social experiments being performed by today's young artists and entrepreneurs. Reprint.

Author : M.I. Franklin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199982691

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Digital Dilemmas by M.I. Franklin Pdf

Digital Dilemmas is a groundbreaking ethnographic, mixed method approach to understanding dynamics of power and resistance as they are played out around the future of the internet. M. I. Franklin looks at the way that publics, governments, and multilateral institutions are being redefined and reinvented in digital settings that are ubiquitous and yet controlled by a relative few. Franklin does this through three original and wide-ranging case studies that get at the way that computer-mediated power relations play out "on the ground" through a mixture of overlapping online and offline activity, at personal, community, and transnational levels. Case studies include online activities around homelessness and street papers in the U.S. and around the world, digital and human rights activism carried out though the United Nations, and the ongoing battle between proprietary and free and open source software proponents. The result is a thought-provoking and seminal work on the way that the new paradigms of power and resistance forged online reshape localized and traditional power structures offline.

Author : John R. Garland
Publisher : John R. Garland
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781541057623

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Endor The Wizard by John R. Garland Pdf

Endor the Wizard shows the beginning of our hero's adventure. It lays out the foundations of the inner workings of Greysmire and its people. Endor shows his true colors as the head wizard in a land where problems are simply an opportunity to use his craft to do good for the sake of others. Troubles lurk all over, but our heroes know what to do.

Author : Nancy R. Rosenberger
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824882471

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Dilemmas of Adulthood by Nancy R. Rosenberger Pdf

In Dilemmas of Adulthood, Nancy Rosenberger investigates the nature of long-term resistance in a longitudinal study of more than fifty Japanese women over two decades. Between 25 and 35 years of age when first interviewed in 1993, the women represent a generation straddling the stable roles of post-war modernity and the risky but exciting possibilities of late modernity. By exploring the challenges they pose to cultural codes, Rosenberger builds a conceptual framework of long-term resistance that undergirds the struggles and successes of modern Japanese women. Her findings resonate with broader anthropological questions about how change happens in our global-local era and suggests a useful model with which to analyze ordinary lives in the late modern world. Rosenberger’s analysis establishes long-term resistance as a vital type of social change in late modernity where the sway of media, global ideas, and friends vies strongly with the influence of family, school, and work. Women are at the nexus of these contradictions, dissatisfied with post-war normative roles in family, work, and leisure and yet—in Japan as elsewhere—committed to a search for self that shifts uneasily between self-actualization and selfishness. The women’s rich narratives and conversations recount their ambivalent defiance of social norms and attempts to live diverse lives as acceptable adults. In an epilogue, their experiences are framed by the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which is already shaping the future of their long-term resistance. Drawing on such theorists as Ortner, Ueno, the Comaroffs, Melucci, and Bourdieu, Rosenberger posits that long-term resistance is a process of tense, irregular, but insistent change that is characteristic of our era, hammered out in the in-between of local and global, past and future, the old virtues of womanhood and the new virtues of self-actualization. Her book is essential for anyone wishing to understand how Japanese women have maneuvered their lives in the economic decline and pushed for individuation in the 1990s and 2000s.

Author : Roman Kolkowicz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0714632368

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Dilemmas of Nuclear Strategy by Roman Kolkowicz Pdf

Nuclear strategy and deterrence in their golden age -a nostalgically defined period sometime in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s - promised to harness and control the nuclear Moloch; hopes were high that the civilian strategists flooding into Washington would succeed in designing a new science of war that would safeguard national security, provide a stable international environment, and develop a rational decision-making process for the management of national interests in a hostile nuclear world. Three decades later, it is a commonplace that the erstwhile promises and pretensions of the nuclear whiz kids and the wizards of Armageddon have not lived up to expectations.

Author : Luppicini, Rocci
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466629325

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Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology: Theories and Practice by Luppicini, Rocci Pdf

Our social, educational, professional, and political ethics play a significant role in every aspect of our life. As technology continues to influence our society, these principles needs to be valued. Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology: Theories and Practice highlights the innovations and developments in the ethical features of technology in society. This comprehensive collection brings together research in the areas of computer, engineering, and biotechnical ethics. These theoretical studies and innovative methodologies are essential for researchers, practitioners and philosophers.

Author : Ann Belford Ulanov
Publisher : Daimon
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783856309930

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Knots and their Untying: Essays on Psychological Dilemmas by Ann Belford Ulanov Pdf

Using the image of knots that are hard, and sometimes impossible, to untie, Ann Ulanov circles around the psychic dilemmas that entangle us, sometimes for decades. These can be heartrending to us and destructive to others, even to those we love. Yet these knots, so peculiarly our own, also open onto human problems we share with others, even across the ages. Hence working on our knots takes us far down to taproots of energy and far up and out to bring that vital aliveness into shared existence with others. Knots thus comprise a ladder, offering footholds and handholds, for descending and ascending between what Jung calls Below and Above, human and divine. What are such knots? What to do when forgiveness does not happen? What to do with the inferiority of the inferior function? With the question of how much lightning can we stand? With the perils of individuation? These are just a few examples from the essays in this book. The reader is invited to browse the essays according to personal interest or to read straight through. The surprise is that these vexing knots that tie us up and hold us down also give us a mooring; they bind us to a path that is uniquely our own that can bear the fruit of our service to others and to the surrounding whole.

Author : Harriet Pyne Grove
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547628316

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The S. P. Mystery by Harriet Pyne Grove Pdf

"The S. P. Mystery" by Harriet Pyne Grove. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Tamler Sommers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135108434

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A Very Bad Wizard by Tamler Sommers Pdf

In the first edition of A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain – Nine Conversations, philosopher Tamler Sommers talked with an interdisciplinary group of the world’s leading researchers—from the fields of social psychology, moral philosophy, cognitive science, and primatology—all working on the same issue: the origins and workings of morality. Together, these nine interviews pulled back some of the curtain, not only on our moral lives but—through Sommers’ probing, entertaining, and well informed questions—on the way morality traditionally has been studied. This Second Edition increases the subject matter, adding eight additional interviews and offering features that will make A Very Bad Wizard more useful in undergraduate classrooms. These features include structuring all chapters around sections and themes familiar in a course in ethics or moral psychology; providing follow-up podcasts for some of the interviews, which will delve into certain issues from the conversations in a more informal manner; including an expanded and annotated reading list with relevant primary sources at the end of each interview; presenting instructor and student resources online in a companion website. The resulting new publication promises to synthesize and make accessible the latest interdisciplinary research to offer a brand new way to teach philosophical ethics and moral psychology.