Author: Brian Long
Publisher: Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178711032X
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Category : Transportation
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Lexus The Challenge To Create The Finest Automobile

by Brian Long, Lexus The Challenge To Create The Finest Automobile Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Lexus The Challenge To Create The Finest Automobile books, In a bold bid to enter the prestigious luxury car market, Toyota launched its Lexus marque in 1989 with the LS400. Impeccable attention to detail, advanced engineering, sourcing of first quality materials from around the world and meticulous build quality ensured that cars wearing the Lexus badge could compete directly with the established products of Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Jaguar. Motoring journalists around the world were quick to confirm the inherent quality of the Lexus, allowing the new marque to become established amazingly quickly and to make serious inroads into the sales territories of other prestige brands. This book covers the complete year-by-year development of the Lexus line, including the equivalent models in Japan. Written by an acknowledged Toyota expert with the full co-operation of the company and its many subsidiaries worldwide, this is the definitive history of the marque.

Author: Stefan Ekman
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819573248
Size: 34.96 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
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Here Be Dragons

by Stefan Ekman, Here Be Dragons Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Here Be Dragons books, Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies (2016) Fantasy worlds are never mere backdrops. They are an integral part of the work, and refuse to remain separate from other elements. These worlds combine landscape with narrative logic by incorporating alternative rules about cause and effect or physical transformation. They become actors in the drama—interacting with the characters, offering assistance or hindrance, and making ethical demands. In Here Be Dragons, Stefan Ekman provides a wide-ranging survey of the ubiquitous fantasy map as the point of departure for an in-depth discussion of what such maps can tell us about what is important in the fictional worlds and the stories that take place there. With particular focus on J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Ekman shows how fantasy settings deserve serious attention from both readers and critics. Includes insightful readings of works by Steven Brust, Garth Nix, Robert Holdstock, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, China Miéville, Patricia McKillip, Tim Powers, Lisa Goldstein, Steven R. Donaldson, Robert Jordan, and Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess.

Author: Michael J. Tougias
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150110683X
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The Finest Hours

by Michael J. Tougias, The Finest Hours Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Finest Hours books, The 1952 Coast Guard mission to save the crews of two oil tankers that were torn in half by the force of one of New England's worst nor'easters.

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Challenge The Magazine Of Economic Affairs

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Author: Nick Iuppa
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136142770
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Category : Art
Languages : en
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Story And Simulations For Serious Games

by Nick Iuppa, Story And Simulations For Serious Games Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Story And Simulations For Serious Games books, How to create a simulation where participants have a sense of freedom and personal control while still maintaining the structure necessary for an effective story is a difficult task indeed. This book examines how to create an engaging, effective story (necessary to teach participants), while relating practical considerations of building a simulation. It also looks at stories as classic ways of teaching and gathering knowledge and considers other theories of interactive narrative design such as synthetic story creation and management and participant-generated story experiences. It also discusses enabling technologies in artificial intelligence, synthetic characters design and development, speech recognition technology, 3D modelling, and the future of story-driven games. Story Driven Simulations reviews the existing efforts in this field as well as focusing on the recent efforts of Paramount Pictures and The Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California, where this expert author team created successful simulations for the U.S. Army, Department of Defense, as well as other educational simulations.

Author: Lissa Evans
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062414941
Size: 79.49 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
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Their Finest

by Lissa Evans, Their Finest Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Their Finest books, From the author of the acclaimed Crooked Heart comes another “smart, funny, ingenious, revealing tale of London life during the Second World War” (The Independent)—longlisted for the Orange Prize upon its original publication in England. It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way and everyone must do their bit. Young copy writer Catrin Cole is drafted into the Ministry of Information to help “write women” into propaganda films—something that the men aren’t very good at. She is quickly seconded to the Ministry’s latest endeavor: a heart-warming tale of bravery and rescue at Dunkirk. It’s all completely fabricated, of course, but what does that matter when the nation’s morale is at stake? Since call-up has stripped the industry of its brightest and best, it is the callow, the jaded and the utterly unsuitable who must make up the numbers: Ambrose Hilliard, third most popular British film-star of 1924; Edith Beadmore, Madame Tussauds wardrobe assistant turned costumier; and Arthur Frith, whose peacetime job as a catering manager has not really prepared him for his sudden, unexpected elevation to Special Military Advisor. Now in a serious world, in a nation under siege, they must all swallow their mutual distaste, ill-will, and mistrust to unite for the common good, for King and Country, and—in one case—for better or worse.... “Evans displays a fine eye for detail and for the absurdities involved in filming. She also brilliantly evokes the disruption and dangers of wartime London. This funny, heart-warming and beautifully crafted novel is a must-read.”—Daily Mail (London)

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Challenge

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Author: Joel M. Stern
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471478898
Size: 47.66 MB
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Category : Business & Economics
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The Eva Challenge

by Joel M. Stern, The Eva Challenge Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Eva Challenge books, The co-founder of EVA shows how to apply it in today's new economy EVA-economic valued added-is a measure of the true financial performance of a company, and a strategy for creating corporate and shareholder wealth. It is also a method of changing corporate priorities and behavior throughout a company, right down to the "shop floor." In The EVA Challenge, the authors outline how to implement EVA-from training employees to answering the most frequently encountered implementation problems faced by companies. This detailed "how-to" guide represents the second phase in the "EVA Revolution", showing executives around the world how to customize and implement EVA at their companies. Here, EVA converts learn how to work some "EVA magic" through company-specific initiatives and case study examples. Coverage includes completely new materials on "real options", leveraged stock options, and other concepts critical to corporations in both new and old economy industry sectors.

Author: Francis Beaumont
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Beaumont And Fletcher Or The Finest Scenes And Other Beauties Of Those Two Poets Now First Selected From The Whole Of Their Works To The Exclusion Of Whatever Is Morally Objectionable With Opinions Of Distinguished Critics Notes And Preface By Leigh Hunt

by Francis Beaumont, Beaumont And Fletcher Or The Finest Scenes And Other Beauties Of Those Two Poets Now First Selected From The Whole Of Their Works To The Exclusion Of Whatever Is Morally Objectionable With Opinions Of Distinguished Critics Notes And Preface By Leigh Hunt Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Beaumont And Fletcher Or The Finest Scenes And Other Beauties Of Those Two Poets Now First Selected From The Whole Of Their Works To The Exclusion Of Whatever Is Morally Objectionable With Opinions Of Distinguished Critics Notes And Preface By Leigh Hunt books,

Author: Christine Echeverria Bender
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 0870044818
Size: 48.87 MB
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Category : Fiction
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Challenge The Wind

by Christine Echeverria Bender, Challenge The Wind Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Challenge The Wind books, "Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press" Experience the world of 1492 through the eyes of a young Basque adventurer who, born to a family of whalers, feels the calling of the sea and signs on to aid Columbus on his voyage across the vast Atlantic.a The young sailor and his fellow explorers soon learn that the New World and its inhabitants are far from what they had expected. "