1,337 Spot Illustrations of the Twenties and Thirties (Dover Pictorial Archive)
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Over 1,300 distinctive, well-designed royalty-free cuts in a wide variety of categories: men engaged in athletic and social activities; women as homemakers, models, femme fatales; animals as fantasy figures and in realistic poses; transportation, many other topics. Add period flavor to almost any graphic project.

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5 out of 5 stars The Best Available.......2000-04-21

The spots in this book are amazing. What' more, there are over 1,330 of them. They cover everything: fruit, aircraft, people, animals, buildings, products, oysters, J.D. Salinger, industry, the decline of Western Civilization, sports and women's shoes. The spots chosen are of the highest quality and will definitely satisfy. Good book.
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              Director MX 2004 Games: Game Development with Director
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              Nik Lever guides designers, animators and web developers through the art, animation and programming skills needed to produce games in Director for Internet, CD or DVD distribution. He moves from the introductory coverage of Lingo with explanations of how easily Director's programming language can be mastered, on to more advanced tips and tricks, including coverage of the Havok physics simulation system and 3D maths. All of this is presented in a non-technical language from the artist's viewpoint, written by a professional who makes his living designing successful games with this versatile package.

              The free CD-Rom includes all the code and files you need to try out the tutorials and see exactly how each game was created. The website that accompanies the book www.niklever.net provides even more information to ensure you stay up to date with the latest technologies in this field.

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              That's right. If you are looking for step by step learning in this text, forget it. What the author does is present several game models on the CD. You examine the game and the code. He does some explanation at a high level of what the code does. There is some basic treatment of explaining what function, variable, and other programming elements are. But not enough for a novis. This may be a good reference text that shows project examples, but it is far from a solid instructional work. If you learn from picking apart examples, then this book is for you. If you want step-by-step explanation with support, then I can not recommend this book.
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                5 out of 5 stars Deftones OWN.......2003-09-27

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                New rules for running a d20 Modern or d20 Future campaign with a cyberpunk twist.


                This new rules supplement provides everything players and Gamemasters need to create and run campaigns featuring cybernetics in the post-modern realm of cyberpunk fiction. Building on the d20 Future cybernetic rules, d20 Cyberscape includes rules for installing cybernetics and playing cyborgs, as well as new advanced classes and enhancements. d20 Cyberscape also features rules for magical and psionic cybernetics and virtual reality networks.

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                2 out of 5 stars d20 Future Cyberscape.......2007-01-04

                This book has a lot of great new cybernetic stuff in it (new classes, a gadget system for cybernetic attachments, new hardware,etc.), but it creates a system that doesn't mesh well with the original d20 Future chapter on cybernetics. I like my rules cut-and-dried and ready to go, but this supplement isn't readily compatable with the original d20 Future rules. If you want cybernetics to play a major role in your world you will definitely want to buy this supplement, but be prepared to make some decisions.

                5 out of 5 stars We can rebuild them; we have the technology..........2006-03-12

                As a general fan of the cyberpunk genre I really must applaud this book. Cyberpunk 2020 fans and Shadowrun fans will both have bits of this book to smile about. I have bought books from both games and while Cyberspace in actually trumps neither, this is a great volume to convert either or both those systems to D20 rules. The section on alternative cybertech is actually quite intrigueing. It's almost converting cybernetics to other time periods by allowing for magic to provide for some of the technology involved. Basically it's all the computer and cybernetic rules that they couldn't squeeze into Future. Still it's a worthwhile addition to any D20 Future libary.

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                5 out of 5 stars LoneTygr.......2005-10-19

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                    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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                    Beacons in the Night: With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia
                    Franklin Lindsay
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                    4 out of 5 stars pretty good BUT!!!.......2003-09-19

                    The author does not really spend his time with Tito's Partizans which weere mainly based in Bosnia. He is posted in Solvenia, which experienced a no less bloody and brutal but very different conflict. Slovenia had a very unique experence during the Balkan war. Slovene Partizans were heavily influenced by, but not entirly controled by Tito until later in the war. Slovenia was, and still is, an ethnically homogenous area it did not experience civil war to the degree that was seen in Bosnia or Croatia. Here the Partizans were hell bent on their chief goal of expeling the occupying fascist powers of Italy/Germany and all assosiated with them.

                    5 out of 5 stars A Preview of 21st Century Warfare.......2002-02-24

                    I read this book specifically because I wanted to see what I could learn about partisan warfare from the military liaison point of view. I specifically wanted to see how many lessons might be applied to the situation in Afghanistan.

                    While I realize that one can not simply substitute the name "Afghanistan" for "Yugoslavia," I wanted to know if one could draw some more general lessons from our past experience - and who better to write about our past experience in such warfare than Franklin Lindsay!

                    Certainly the American news media is at a loss to explain not only the current dynamics but more significantly what tasks must yet be completed before we can hope for a stable, prosperous and free Afghanistan. By in large, the American media has not been able to get over the significant cultural differences. They simply aren't equipped.

                    And so I read Lindsay's book looking for far more than a ripping good adventure - and found it! While I can't claim to "understand" what to expect next from Afghanistan next, that is due more to the lack of good information. What I have now is a list of questions I believe critical to the overall success American foreign policy. I have a starting point. I have a framework, and I credit "Beacons in the Night" with helping identify for me the various key dynamics associated with fighting a numerically superior enemy and securing effective control over a large and diverse population.

                    America look out! The ground we trod has been crossed before. Listen and learn - the pitfalls are huge, but we can indeed succeed. Yugoslavia stands to serve as a beacon toward success - and a stark warning against failure.

                    What research! What an education! What a great introduction to the topic! What solid and enjoyable writing! This book was everything I'd hoped it would be - and more.

                    I recommend this book to anyone who wants a glimpse at the light at the end of the current terrorist-tunnel. This book isn't just history - it's an unflinching preview of 21st century warfare. ~Robert

                    4 out of 5 stars Fascinating - True Adventures.......2001-05-28

                    Lindsay was an OSS military advisor who fought with Tito's partisans in Slovenia against the Nazis in World War II. His account is a highly-readable thrilling adventure story - climbing snowy mountains with the Germans in pursuit, crossing streams in the night, directing parachute drops, organizing Allied supplies to the Partisans. Lindsay's matter-of-fact prose is effective and adds credibility. He disdains the frequent Allied advisors who are overly pro-Partisan, never losing his distrust of communism. But he clearly has a lot of respect for the Partisans' organizational skills, intelligence, courier lines, and tactics.

                    Some of the most interesting material discusses the inability of the US, UK, or Soviets to either create or find or support any indigenous resistance groups in Austria. Why? Several reasons, including the inescapable fact that Austrians were not so dissatisfied with the Nazi government, were less courageous than their counterparts in Yugoslavia, and were far more willing to lay low and wait for liberation rather than risk anything at all to hasten it.

                    The strongest chapters are the early ones, with Lindsay in the mountains of Slovenia, where he participates in the events he discusses. The book becomes noticeably weaker as the war winds down and Lindsay moves to Belgrade and is kept isolated by Tito and is unable to witness much of what he reports on. He does a game job of reconstructing events from other sources, but much of the immediacy and some of the credibility of the early material is lost.

                    The postwar political struggle for the (now-Italian) city of Trieste is fascinating. Tito coveted the city and its Adriatic access. The Yugoslavs were dogged, single-minded, and happily willing to engage in deceit to seize the city in the postwar settlements. Finally, Lindsay is entirely plausible in presenting the view that only the U.S.'s 1950 intervention in Korea prevented Stalin from attacking and subjugating Yugoslavia in the wake of Tito's break with the Soviet Union.

                    This is a strong book, not without flaws, but certainly enlightening and useful to scholars of the Balkans and World War II as well as to those who just enjoy a fascinating war adventure.

                    4 out of 5 stars Well-written, informative.......2000-09-12

                    One of those books that demonstrates how reality is usually more interesting than fiction. Lindsay's account of his activities as an OSS operative in the former Yugoslavia during World War II is a much better read than most Cold War spy fiction. The text is very readable and hightly informative - not only about wartime events in Yugosalvia but also about the policies of the Allied governments and military in dealing with them. The book also provides a good deal of information on a topic that is covered very little in the English language: the struggle of the Slovenian Partisans against the Nazis. Lindsay points out that some of the first territories liberated within the Third Reich itself were in fact in the Slovenian provinces. Linday's observations of Tito and his senior staff just after the end of the war are also quite revealing. The text is, however, weaker where Lindsay does not speak about events he did not directly witness or take part in. Thus, he often cites rather uncritically a number of secondary sources on specific events in wartime Yugoslavia. Even so, the book as a whole is an excellent read and a valuable source of information on the subject and period that it covers.

                    4 out of 5 stars Required reading to better understand today's balkans.......1999-12-17

                    This book is required reading for people who want a better understanding of today's Balkans and the nature of Guerrilla warfare. Mr. Lindsay's book educates on several topics. The effectiveness or ineffectiveness of Partisan warfare and countermeasures. The political nature of Partisan warfare. The effects of such warfare in the Balkans and the difficulties that military advisers have in influencing Partisan leaders who's interests quite often are different from the adviser's country.

                    This well written book should be on every Military Adviser's shelf. Politicians, beltway bureaucrats and Military critics need to read this book and take to heed it's lessons on the limited effectiveness on Military advisors being able to control the heated passions of people fighting in far off lands.

                    Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
                    Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
                    • Logically unsound neo con ranting
                    • oops---history is not ended
                    • Letting the Genes Out of the Bottle
                    • Some merit, but overall flawed
                    • Bush position regarding biotechnology written by somebody else...
                    Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
                    Francis Fukuyama
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                    Maybe we have a future after all: Our Posthuman Future is political historian Francis Fukuyama's reconsideration of his 1989 announcement that history had reached an end. He claims that science, particularly genome studies, offers radical changes, possibly more profound than anything since the development of language, in the way we think about human nature. He makes his case thoroughly and eloquently, rarely dipping into philosophical or critical jargon and consistently maintaining an informal tone.

                    Fukuyama is deeply concerned about the erosion of the foundations of liberal democracy under pressure from new concepts of humans and human rights, and most readers will find some room for agreement. Ultimately, he argues for strong international regulation of human biotechnology and thoughtfully disposes of the most compelling counterarguments. While readers might not agree that we're at risk of creating Huxley's Brave New World, it's hard to deny that things are changing quickly and that perhaps we ought to consider the changes before they're irrevocable. --Rob Lightner

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                    A decade after his now-famous pronouncement of 'the end of history,' Francis Fukuyama argues that as a result of biomedical advances, we are facing the possibility of a future in which our humanity itself will be altered beyond recognition. Fukuyama sketches a brief history of man's changing understanding of human nature: from Plato and Aristotle to the modernity's utopians and dictators who sought to remake mankind for ideological ends. Fukuyama argues that the ability to manipulate the DNA of all of one person's descendants will have profound, and potentially terrible, consequences for our political order, even if undertaken with the best of intentions. In Our Posthuman Future, one of our greatest social philosophers begins to describe the potential effects of genetic exploration on the foundation of liberal democracy: the belief that human beings are equal by nature.

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                    Fukuyama, our greatest social philosopher, weaves a captivating argument centered around an essential question: how the ability to modify human behavior will affect liberal democracy.

                    Customer Reviews:

                    1 out of 5 stars Logically unsound neo con ranting.......2007-07-31

                    This book is full of things like "human dignity" that the author can't define properly. Building an argument on vague terms is not convincing. It pains me that this man thinks he is a bioethicist... He's a fundamentalist neocon who is not interested in logic. A waste of time.

                    4 out of 5 stars oops---history is not ended.......2007-01-18

                    About fifteen years ago Francis Fukuyama, professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, published a controversial book in which he argued that humanity had made no significant political progress since the French Revolution and that the collapse of communism in 1989 signaled the "end" of history. By "end" Fukuyama meant that western, liberal democracy had triumphed over all political options.

                    Now he has revised his thesis, not because he thinks it was wrong, but because he failed to factor in the role of science as perhaps the chief engine that drives human history. Science drives any number of interests---technological, economic, ethical, social, and so on, but Fukuyama's concern is that it is increasingly driving our political life. If biotechnology alters human nature, then it will alter our political discourse and options.

                    How so? Consider the political ramifications of scientific conclusions about the heritability of intelligence, crime, sexuality, and aging. Are some races born more or less intelligent simply due to their genetics? If scientists discover a genetic marker for aggression, should society do anything about it (recall the movie Minority Report)? Already we have experienced the political fallout of the debate whether sexual orientation is the result of genetics or choice. Finally, if science continues to extend the average lifespan of people, what are the implications for increasingly scarce resources? To be sure, when science identifies what it thinks is a causative factor in any of these four examples, it will try to manipulate those same factors for what it thinks is the good.

                    Fukuyama most fears that when biotechnology alters human nature it alters our commonly accepted notions of human rights, justice and morality. Both human rights and human dignity are at stake. He rejects alarmist views that would over regulate or passively ignore biotechnology. He encourages political institutions to keep a wary eye on ostensible threats and benefits, and cautions about the commercial interests inherent for business and science. Finally, Fukuyama argues with a sense of urgency, saying we need to move now from talking to acting, from recommending to legislating.

                    5 out of 5 stars Letting the Genes Out of the Bottle.......2006-12-19

                    Fukuyama says that 1984 presaged the information society, but it has not lead to tyranny of surveillance and propaganda, but rather a decentralized political process in which the individual is empowered to hold the government more accountable. Brave New World presaged the biotech revolution and this concerns him more because it can change the very essence of human nature. The brave new world seeks to seduce us to give up our humanity as we know it for happiness and healthiness that can be brought about supposedly by biotechnology.

                    Fukuyama examines what will be the consequences of the biotech revolution. Drugs like Prozac and Ritalin can alter our moods to achieve better behavior, but there can also be unwanted side effects. Life extension technologies may lead to gray-haired societies in which older people rigidly rule over the younger ones with their outdated world view. What will happen to the concept of equality, if some are able to breed children with higher intelligence than others? Fukuyama thinks that international rules need to be made to ensure that biotechnology is implemented in an ethical way.

                    Changes in and explanations of human nature have been attempted or debated over throughout history, even before the biotech revolution. Governments with extreme ideological agendas have sought to modify human nature, but these were crude attempts to do so, considering what may be done with biotechnology in the future. Genetic explanations for human nature, ability, and differences have resurged in recent years, much to the chagrin of those who think that differences and inequality can be explained by environmental factors.

                    Fukuyama goes on to discuss the book The Bell Curve in which the authors used IQ tests scores to explain differences in average IQ among different races in one of the sections of the book. They also argued that intelligence is largely inherited and stable by adulthood. The book was approved by some conservatives because it explained social hierarchies and contradicted the liberals' belief that equality could be achieved by social engineering. Liberals tend to maintain that intelligence is difficult to measure; conservatives tend to think that intelligence can be objectively measured. Fukuyama says that just because the findings are political incorrect, it doesn't mean they are flawed, and they cannot be dismissed as pseudoscience. Liberals have accused Cyril Burt, a researcher of IQ of falsifying data on twin studies to make it look like that intelligence is largely inherited. In Cyril Burt's case, it was proven that his research was solid, and not falsified. Other researchers in the field have reached a consensus that intelligence is 40 to 50 percent inherited with the rest being influenced by environmental factors such as good nutrition. They disagree with Burt, Hernstein, and Murray that the inheritable percentage is as high as 70 percent. Fukuyama warns us that the IQ and genes issues will not go away in the future as scientists learn more about the subject. Although Fukuyama claims that no one since the bad old days of scientific racism has claimed that blacks are genetically prone to crime, I think Hernstein and Murray argued this indirectly by saying that people with low IQ are more impulsive, less future-oriented, and cannot think out the consequences of their criminal actions as well. Then they claim their research shows that blacks are on the lower end of bell intelligence curve.

                    Genetic research has also stirred up more controversies about what causes other human differences. The left has argued that sex differences are totally socially constructed, but the research into genetics proves that there is biological differences between males and females. On homosexuality, the tables turn, the right claims it is a matter of lifestyle choice, and the left claims that there is gay gene that makes homosexuals gay. This shows that people will use or not use scientific research to bolster their arguments according to whether it confirms their political or religious beliefs.

                    Fukuyama describes how drugs to alter moods and behaviors are being pushed by pharmaceutical companies for profit and schools for ideological agendas. Drug companies like Eli Lily have spent millions trying to fend off bad stories about Prozac. ADHD is a problem for the students that is both biological and a controllable behavior problem. Teachers would rather subscribe Ritalin for hyperactive kids rather than discipline them the old fashioned way. Perhaps since corporeal punishment is out of fashion in the schools, medication has become the last resort to replace ineffective discipline. Prozac and Ritalin serve the purposes of androgyny: the former gives more confidence to girls and the latter makes boys more passive. Fukuyama worries about drugs being used to achieve political correct behaviors such these androgynous ones. But people seem to want some sort of happy pill to make them feel better whether it be legal like Prozac or illegal like Ecstasy. Drugs are being used to manipulate behavior just like the soma in Huxley's Brave New World.

                    Fukuyama looks at the demographics of aging and sees that populations in countries of the south are remaining young, while populations in countries of the north are shrinking in number, growing older, and have a large number of older females. He wonders how this will affect politics for the northern countries. Will they be willing to go to war as much with a shrinking population of youths for fighting and a growing population of peace-minded older females? Fukuyama is worried that by extending life, we will run into problems of quantity over quality of life and the chances of diseases such as Alzheimer's increasing as people get older. There is also political correctness about age that suggests that makes people not want to criticize any problems with the aged or with aging. He brings up the problem of how much do we want to spend on prolonging people's lives after they have finished their careers and raised their kids.

                    2 out of 5 stars Some merit, but overall flawed.......2006-08-25

                    By arguing that human rights comes from some vague concept of "dignity" and "familiarity" rather than sentience and feeling, Fukuyama brings to mind the European colonists who considered Africans no more than "common beasts." His philosophy, although argued in a tone that seems reasonable, is at turns startingly narrow-minded and genetically-racist. Not reccomended: readers should look otherwheres for a more balanced and less judgemental review of biotechnology and ethics.

                    4 out of 5 stars Bush position regarding biotechnology written by somebody else..........2006-05-29

                    In this book Fukuyama gives us his thoughts on biotechnology. Basically, he opposes human clonation and any intervention on the design of animals and human beings. Not surprisingly, he was chosen as a member of the President's Council on Bioethics.
                    Even if the book can be read as a communiqué by the American government, its academic quality remains high. Instead of grounding his argument on religious terms (as the American politicians opposed to biolotechnology do) he uses Kant's and other philosophers arguments.
                    Since the writting of Trust, Fukuyama has basically written books that set a political position based on academic terms instead of academic works that derive in a political idea. Because of his approaching to power, Fukuyama is losing among the academical community
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