When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Become a master in solving different sizes of Minesweeper. You get the perfect mix of different sizes of Minesweeper to keep you entertained for weeks. After solving all the puzzles in this book, you will be a Minesweeper Pro. You start with easy Minesweeper puzzles, which keep getting bigger and bigger and you gradually build your way up to extremely difficult Minesweeper puzzles. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it back down. You have been warned! Minesweeper Mixed Grids Deluxe - Easy to Hard is a collection of 255 puzzles: 24 easy Minesweeper puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 easy puzzles 24 medium Minesweeper puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 medium puzzles 24 hard Minesweeper puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 hard puzzles 39 extra logic puzzles The task of Minesweeper is to place mines into empty cells in the grid. The numbers in the grid represent the number of mines in the neighboring cells, including diagonal ones. I guarantee that every logic puzzle in this Minesweeper puzzle book has been carefully checked to ensure that each puzzle has only 1 solution. None of the puzzles in this book will appear in any of the other English PuzzleBooks.net books.

When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Become a master in solving different sizes of Minesweeper. You get the perfect mix of different sizes of Minesweeper to keep you entertained for weeks. After solving all the puzzles in this book, you will be a Minesweeper Pro. You start with easy Minesweeper puzzles, which keep getting bigger and bigger and you gradually build your way up to extremely difficult Minesweeper puzzles. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it back down. You have been warned! Minesweeper Mixed Grids Deluxe - Easy to Hard is a collection of 255 puzzles: 24 easy Minesweeper puzzles per grid size (20x20, 25x25, 30x30), totaling 72 easy puzzles 24 medium Minesweeper puzzles per grid size (20x20, 25x25, 30x30), totaling 72 medium puzzles 24 hard Minesweeper puzzles per grid size (20x20, 25x25, 30x30), totaling 72 hard puzzles 39 extra logic puzzles The task of Minesweeper is to place mines into empty cells in the grid. The numbers in the grid represent the number of mines in the neighboring cells, including diagonal ones. I guarantee that every logic puzzle in this Minesweeper puzzle book has been carefully checked to ensure that each puzzle has only 1 solution. None of the puzzles in this book will appear in any of the other English PuzzleBooks.net books.

When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Become a master in solving different sizes of Shikaku. You get the perfect mix of different sizes of Shikaku to keep you entertained for weeks. After solving all the puzzles in this book, you will be a Shikaku Pro. You start with easy Shikaku puzzles, which keep getting bigger and bigger and you gradually build your way up to extremely difficult Shikaku puzzles. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it back down. You have been warned! Shikaku Mixed Grids Deluxe - Easy to Hard is a collection of 255 puzzles: 24 easy Shikaku puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 easy puzzles 24 medium Shikaku puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 medium puzzles 24 hard Shikaku puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 hard puzzles 39 extra logic puzzles The goal of Shikaku is to divide the grid into rectangular and square pieces such that each piece contains exactly one number, and that number represents the area of the rectangle. I guarantee that every logic puzzle in this Shikaku puzzle book has been carefully checked to ensure that each puzzle has only 1 solution. None of the puzzles in this book will appear in any of the other English PuzzleBooks.net books. Shikaku is also known as Divide by Squares, Divide by Box, Number Area.

When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Become a master in solving Hidoku. You will experience Hidoku 20x20, Hidoku 25x25 and Hidoku 30x30. You get the perfect mix of different sizes of Hidoku to keep you entertained for weeks. After solving all the puzzles in this book, you will be a Hidoku Pro. You start with easy Hidoku puzzles, which keep getting bigger and bigger and you gradually build your way up to extremely difficult and colossal Hidoku puzzles. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it back down. You have been warned! Only 1 Hidoku puzzle per page, with lots of white space for scribbling. Hidoku Mixed Grids Deluxe - Easy to Hard is a collection of 255 puzzles: 24 easy Hidoku puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 easy puzzles 24 medium Hidoku puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 medium puzzles 24 hard Hidoku puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 hard puzzles 39 extra logic puzzles The goal of Hidoku is to fill the grid with consecutive numbers that connect horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. In every Hidoku puzzle, the smallest and the highest number are presented in the grid. I guarantee that every logic puzzle in this Hidoku puzzle book has been carefully checked to ensure that each puzzle has only 1 solution. None of the puzzles in this book will appear in any of the other PuzzleBooks.net books. Hidoku is also known as Number Snake.

This is the first textbook dedicated to explaining how artificial intelligence (AI) techniques can be used in and for games. After introductory chapters that explain the background and key techniques in AI and games, the authors explain how to use AI to play games, to generate content for games and to model players. The book will be suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in games, artificial intelligence, design, human-computer interaction, and computational intelligence, and also for self-study by industrial game developers and practitioners. The authors have developed a website (http://www.gameaibook.org) that complements the material covered in the book with up-to-date exercises, lecture slides and reading.

From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.

By the start of the 20th century, the U.S. Navy had developed a fledgling salvage capability. Today, under the aegis of the Supervisor of Salvage, the Navy routinely handles assignments around the world, guarding U.S. naval and maritime interests and responding to requests for assistance from our allies. Mud, Muscle, and Miracles takes its reader on a journey through the evolution of salvage--from the construction of a cofferdam to reveal battleship Maineat the bottom of Havana harbor in 1911 to the use of side-scan sonar and remotely operated vehicles to recover aircraft debris and complete vessels from the depths. The story is one of masterful seamanship, incomparable engineering, and absolute ingenuity and courage. It is also the history of one of our nation's longest-lasting public-private partnerships--that of the commercial salvage industry and the U.S. Navy. The second edition updates U.S. Navy salvage history through the beginning of the 21st century and chronicles 18 additional, precedent-setting marine salvage and deep-ocean recovery operations.

This book is a guide to the expanding world of indie gaming. It helps readers to understand why indie games are so important to so many people in the entertainment industry. The book covers puzzlers, platformers, beat 'em ups, shoot 'em ups, role-playing, and strategy.

What's it like to start a revolution? How do you build the biggest tech company in the world? And why do you walk away from it all? Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft. Together he and Bill Gates turned an idea - writing software - into a company and then an entire industry. This is the story of how it came about: two young mavericks who turned technology on its head, the bitter battles as each tried to stamp his vision on the future and the ruthless brilliance and fierce commitment.