This book targets game developers, publishers, journalists, and any person who makes computer and video games their passion. The book analyses the best-selling games of 2001 by examining what made them commercial and critical successes. Computer game industry inside information, advice from well-known gaming sages, and interviews from notable developers provide tips on what makes games fun and great. Includes CD.

Our world is in crisis mode, but God is still on the throne in this powerful and prophetic book from New York Times bestselling author and pastor John Hagee. Bible prophecy clearly reveals that immediately prior to the rapture of the Church, four powerful kings will race onto the stage of world history. Pastor Hagee reveals who they are, where they come from, and what they signify. Learn why Hagee believes that we are in the beginning stages of World War III, and how this will eventually take us to the Battle of Armageddon. Pastor Hagee vividly describes the key players that signify the King is coming!

Between Earth and Empire focuses on the crucial position of humanity at the present moment in Earth History. We have left the Cenozoic, the "new period of life," and are now in the midst of the Necrocene, a period of mass extinction and reversal. It is argued that an effective response to global crisis requires attention to all major spheres of social determination, including the social institutional structure, the social ideology, the social imaginary, and the social ethos. In this wide-ranging and ruthlessly compassionate critique, John P. Clark explores examples of significant progress in this direction, including the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, the Democratic Autonomy Movement in Rojava, indigenous movements in defense of the commons, the solidarity economy movement, and efforts to create liberated base communities and affinity groups within anarchism and other radical social movements. In the end, the book presents a vision of hope for social and ecological regeneration through the rebirth of a libertarian and communitarian social imaginary, and the flourishing of a free cooperative community globally.

Sci fi tale about earth in the future becomes a ruthless empire ruling over the Galaxy with Technology and the struggle of the rebels who are also humans. Empire Earth treaty was signed in 2279. It merged earth with several human colonies across the milky way. I was dispatched to The Malta Colony Via the Imperial Frigate Manifest Destiny. I sat there in the VIP class Cabin studying the nine zettabyte data file detailing the unrest in Malta. My job was to pacify the citizens of Malta Colony by any means at my disposal. The citizens of the Colonies where Referred to by The Vip's as Peasants. They Depended on the support services of the home world, Including food, water and even man power to maintain there colony since the majority where uneducated. As I sat there watching the distortions shift color through the electromagnetic spectrum I thought my mothers words to me as a kid. “The politicians must listen to the will of the people”. She was speaking of the old system a democratic government which failed to solve the worlds problems. It was system where the majority always got what they wanted and the minority where just forced to live with it. The Majority voted for government aid programs which forced wealthy people to pay for the peasants. The new system was much better it isn't done by majority vote and the economy is now resource based so they can't bitch about being poor. The peasants or common people have the guaranty they want but are required by law to generate some resource the benefits the community. But the Malta Colony peasants where on the verge of rioting because there work is not as valuable as the executors. The executors being the people that distribute the resources. Sci Fans empire

Although the issues addressed in The Great Turning are global and universal, I have chosen to focus my analysis on the United States. It is the nation among all others that is most challenged by the imperatives of the Great Turning. Few other nations are so accustomed to living beyond their own means, so imbued with a sense of special virtue and entitlement, or so burdened by a political leadership as out of touch with global reality and as incapable of accepting responsibility for the consequences of its actions. Because of its global presence, whether the United States responds to the imperatives with the logic of Empire or the logic of Earth Community is likely to have far-reaching consequences for all nations. Furthermore, the United States is the nation of my birth, the nation I know best and love most, and the nation for whose role in the world I feel most responsible.