Bøger af Paul Davies

A lavishly illustrated introduction to the world of Rare's highly anticipated game Sea of Thieves, home to krakens, mermaids and buried treasure.

The Art of Assassin's Creed Origins collates hundreds of concept arts, including sketches, final paintings, and 3D Renders, alongside in-depth commentary from the artists and developers, representing the ultimate insight into the design processes behind the game.

With 73 million units sold worldwide, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise is established as one of the best-selling game series ever. Recognized for having some of the richest, most-engrossing art and storytelling in the industry, Assassin's Creed transcends video games, branching into other entertainment experiences including comic books, novels, short films and an impressive merchandise line-up. The recently announced Assassin's Creed Unity takes players into the heart of the French Revolution. Marrying intricately detailed environments and next-gen capabilities, Paris comes to life around you and immerses you in the grit and grime of a city in turmoil. Continuing in the footsteps of this already world-renowned franchise, Assassin's Creed Unity brings to life a time of unrest and disorder in one of the greatest cities in the world, promising to be the biggest and best experience yet. Highlights in the game, and in the book, include the different areas of Paris, each with their own identity and population, towering buildings bigger than any Assassin's Creed game so far and an amazing range of locations and action. (c) 2014 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Explore the world of all three Total War: WARHAMMER games in this stunning compendium, packed with concept art, final designs, storyboards, and artist commentary. Total War: WARHAMMER is the award-winning PC strategy game trilogy from Creative Assembly. Set in the world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, it combines grand campaigns of epic empire-building with battles of breathtaking scale, brimming with the warriors, wizards, and monsters that fans know and love. Delve into the rich lore of Games Workshop's world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, as viewed through the Total War lens. Total War: WARHAMMER - The Art of the Games offers Creative Assembly's insights into the development of the series. Pore over concept sketches, texture studies, character art, and fully rendered paintings, accompanied by commentary from the artists themselves. Featuring artwork of iconic characters and scenes from parts I and II, as well as never-before-seen art from the trilogy's thundering grand finale, this coffee-table tome is an essential collector's item for any Warhammer or Total War fan.

The Art of Tom Clancy's The Division is the ultimate behind the scenes look at making of the latest game in the critically acclaimed Tom Clancy franchise. With over 300 images including sketches and concept art, and in-depth commentary throughout from the artists and creators.

Is the universe - and our place in it - the result of random chance, or is there an ultimate meaning to existence? Where did the laws of nature come from? Were they created by a higher force, or can they be explained in some other way? This book explores how modern science is beginning to shed light on the mysteries of our existence.

Experience Lara Croft's defining moment as she becomes the Tomb Raider. The Shadow of The Tomb Raider Official Art Book features exclusive concept art and developer interviews detailing the climactic conclusion of Lara Croft's origin story.

An exclusive look at the art and creation of the PS4 exclusive videogame Marvel's Spider-Man.

This is a book about the meaning of time, what it is, when it has started, how it flows and where to. It examines the consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity and offers startling suggestions about what recent research may reveal.

In this exhilarating and sometimes mind-bending book, renowned scientist and author Paul Davies tells the gripping story of how, beginning with an iconic mathematical equation in the 1920s, a radical new theory of nature - quantum mechanics - burst upon the modern world, and how today we are on the cusp of the second great quantum technology revolution. Quantum 2.0 reveals how exotic states of matter that have no counterpart in the everyday world are being harnessed to enable forms of teleportation and 'spooky' telepathic links between remote places. Powerful new tools such as quantum computers, quantum cryptography and the quantum internet have attracted billions of dollars of investments, triggering a frantic quantum arms race. And appearing on the horizon is the most awesome and game-changing prospect of all - quantum AI. Yet underpinning this dazzling promise lies a paradox. Although quantum mechanics is the most successful scientific theory ever, quantum systems possess properties that defy intuition and shred everyday notions of reality. Albert Einstein could never quite believe it. And decades after Erwin Schrödinger introduced his famous cat paradox, scientists are still divided over how to make sense of the weird quantum realm, one where ghostly quantum particles produce tiny forces in nanotechnology, cause black holes to evaporate - and may even be making the universe expand faster and faster. Indeed, cosmologists believe, the imprint of a quantum process remains etched into the afterglow of the big bang. Quantum 2.0 takes the reader gently from the basic concepts to the cutting edge, inviting us all to peek into the new wonderland of quantum physics and glimpse its stunning implications.

This is another blockbuster from Paul Davies, creating a world in the future that exposes the trends of today, such as the extreme concentration of wealth, that will lead to amblytopia - an apparently comfortable yet aimless world, where purpose has all but been eliminated. Paul Davies introduces this world as the introduction to the book: "Post neo-liberalism, post sado-populism, the unimaginably wealthy and powerful have create a global neo-age where need has been all but eliminated - so where is the human spirit now?"The dystopian vision of Orwell's 1984 is recreated in 2084.Nation states have been subsumed into a global world controlled by seven trillionaires. That world is grey and meaningless and there is no spur for human development or aspiration - a neo-age of amblytopia. Paradoxically imagination has become highly prized and yet trivialised.How do individuals survive and live with themselves? What has become of the human spirit? Read this insight into the future and beware.

Perhaps like you, in my youth I was a poet - well, in the sense that I wrote poems and had some published in my university's literary magazine, Icarus. Then adult life - work, family, taxes, and all that - took over for several decades, and I just read some poetry from time to time. In 2019, when I was 79, a humming bird flew up to me as I was sitting in the garden, hovered, looked me in the face, and flew away. I went inside and wrote my first poem for about 55 years. I haven't stopped. All my poems to date - except those that have been torn up or deleted - are in this little book.

MY MEXICO: THE COUNTRY OF AN OLD ENGLISH IMMIGRANT Mexico is the size of Westen Europe and home to over 130 million people. Like any big country with a long history and a large population, it is very diverse and heterogeneous, so everyone who knows it has, in some sense, their own Mexico. This book presents the changing Mexico of the English author over the 57 years he has lived there. Based in Mexico City and then Puebla in the centre of the country, he has worked in and visited places from the US border in the north to the Guatemala and Belize borders in the south and from the Gulf coast in the east to the Pacific coast in the west. My Mexico is dedicated to his Mexican family, his wife, his two daughters, and his Mexican grandson and granddaughter, aged 19 and 14 at the time of publication.

From 1979 to the early 1990s a number of small, professional companies in Melbourne took theatre out of dedicated buildings into places where their audiences lived, worked, travelled and played. Deriving from independent filmmaking, 'happenings' and political street theatre, these self-described 'location plays' were performed on busses, trams, and riverboats, as well as in tents, houses, cinemas, pubs, galleries, prisons, parks and gardens. What became known through 8 iterations as "The Tram Show" was staged over a dozen years on light-rail vehicles in both Melbourne and Adelaide, trambulating a total distance that would have taken its combined nightly audiences halfway around the world. These early forms of site-specific theatre immersed spectators in their places of performance in ways that liberated a whole suite of new sensations - beyond sight and hearing - to include touch, taste, smell, balance etc. In this way they moved the 'art of theatre' into literally new territory. Here the practice broke through not only theatre's 4th wall (between stage and audience), but the 5th wall (between individual audience members) and 6th walls as well (between the play as a whole and a random outside audience sometimes looking back in). In the example of the Tram, Bus, and Boat Shows spectators could even witness the events of the play through a kind of 7th wall: that of their own reflection in the vehicle's night-time window: watching themselves watch the play as it spread from its 'really moving' stage out onto the streets beyond...

Mi México presenta la experiencia y las ideas de Paul sobre el país en que ha vivido los últimos 57 años. Basado en el centro - 9 años en la Cd. de México y 48 en Puebla - Paul ha trabajado en organizaciones privadas y públicas, viajando desde la frontera norte hasta la frontera sur y de costa a costa. Sus ideas sobre México, pasado y presente, se han formado en parte por su experiencia y sus conocimientos de otros países - Gran Bretaña, por supuesto, e Irlanda, España, Brasil, Guatemala y Estados Unidos entre otros. Este libro no es para gente que se interesa principalmente o solo en el México de playas y ciudades y pueblos pintorescos.

All Joe Deegan ever wanted was a quiet, simple life in a reasonably organic environment. So naturally he comes to HEAVEN UStraylia seeking healing, enlightenment and a little lie down on an unspoilt beach - where it finally dawns on him that, while life could be completely miraculous, time remained unbearably short. And with expensive guidance from his accountant/guru things were going really well ... until the occasion of Joe's 50th birthday. In quick succession he nearly drowns in the surf, virtually throws away an undemanding, well paid job, and almost destroys the perfect relationship. When it looks as though his modest fibro cottage is about to be swamped by dozens of pink and lilac cluster town houses, the beautiful birthday starts to go seriously pear shaped. . .

How do you celebrate a person's 200th birthday? More particularly - how do you celebrate George Eliot's 200th birthday?We thought the best way possible would be to ask distinguished writers to write short articles with one aim - to stop people saying "I really must get round to reading 'Middlemarch' and show them why they just have to pick the book up and read it today.Of course many people will imagine that this apparently serious and forbidding character - a sort of Queen Victoria with a brain - is not for them. But pick up 'Middlemarch', 'Silas Marner' or 'Daniel Deronda' and you will find how captivating and magical her stories and words are. And how relevant her themes and ideas are today.Whether it is George Eliot and her focus on the role and position of women - as relevant today as in her time of writing, or her intimations of same sex relationships in surprising depth, poor mental health and its corrosive effects, addiction not just to drugs, fraudulent bankers, self-satisfied prigs, or the pressures of society, each of the writers will enthuse you and make you want to read her novels. With other chapters on George Eliot and Brexit, the way interiors in the novels bring to life the characters and the personalities, and why we still know her as George Eliot - you will see from our enthusiasm how modern she still is and how she directly speaks to us even today. And most of all - find out how this woman, Mary Anne Evans, lived what her contemporaries saw as a totally scandalous life (one of the reasons why she chose to write under a man's name) in the most moral way. Living with a man married to another woman and dealing with the real issues that face women still today - George Eliot's novels are still the greatest - and often the most humorous - books. So celebrate her 200th birthday with us - and with this book 'Still Crazy about George Eliot 200 Years Later'.And we are: Charlotte Fiehn, Sara Håkansson, Sarah Barnette, Cathy Tempelsman, Brenda McKay, Katharine Williams, Mari Seaword, Angela Runciman, Constance Fulmer, Dr Ailsa Boyd, Akiko Higuchi, Kathleen McCormack, Bob Muscutt, Margaret D. Stetz, Shinsuke Hori, Dr Catherine Brown, David Taylor, Paul Davies, John Rignall, Shoshana Milgram Knapp, Eri Satoh and Ben Moore.

This novel follows an Irish woman from her university days in 1960s Dublin through periods of self and world discovery in Spain, Mexico and Boston back to Dublin, where she is now (2020) an old woman. After much self uncertainty, in spite of being quite headstrong, and man trouble, because of unworldliness and romanticism, she finds her true partner for a while. We all live in different worlds and worlds within worlds.

Scientists and governments are actively searching for signs of life in the universe. Will their efforts meet with success? Award-winning author Paul Davies, an eminent scientist who writes with the flair of a science fiction writer, explores the ramifications that the discovery of extraterrestrial life would have for our science, our religions, and our worldview in general.

Art of Anything Goes

Explore the hilarious, surreal, anarchic alien worlds of High on Life in this stunning compendium of concept art, final designs, storyboards, and exclusive commentary. High on Life is a hilarious, surreal adventure set in a world where alien invaders have enslaved Earth ... so they can use us as recreational drugs. Armed with a pre-loved bounty hunter suit and a bizarre arsenal of talking weaponry, it's your mission to bring down an intergalactic cartel and free humanity from its clutches - and maybe make a little money on the side. With stunning full-colour illustrations throughout, The Art of High on Life showcases the crazy creatures, weird worlds and grotesque gunplay of the game, featuring expert commentary from its creators, Squanch Games.

There need not be a long description for this.Simply know that love will always cause pain.And within pain you will always find a silver lining.Even if that silver lining is my revenge.And here it is.

Pandemic: Dedicated to the Devil is a second breath of The Pain Within.Proving that there is life after a broken heart, a second chance to those who feel a broken heart can't beat without the one they thought they loved.I survived some of the worst pain involved in love, and came out the other side a better person.The burns, and the scars are a reminder that i am now stronger, better and happier than i was back then.We all find love, we all lose love, but losing it doesn't mean it's the end.

There are basic elements of ELT wherever it is practised around the world, but ELT should also vary significantly according to students' characteristics and needs, their learning contexts, their native language, and other factors, which may vary greatly from region to region and country to country.All Latin American countries have most major factors related to ELT in common, but many are notably different from countries in Europe, Asia and Africa.This book is about ELT specifically in Latin America, past, present and future.All sales of this book support TESL-EJ's mission to provide open-source scholarship, free of subscription fees and advertising.

In 2017, the year marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Templeton, a group of scientists, scholars, and advisors who knew him personally gathered in Lyford Cay in the Bahamas. Their purpose: to discuss how the Foundation that bears his name could best extend his philanthropic vision into the twenty-first century.