Robert Brooks

Overwatch #1

The evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks explores the latest research on intimacy and desire to consider how new technologies and fundamental human behaviors interact. He details how existing artificial intelligences can already learn and exploit human social needs--and are getting better at what they do.

Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers

Artificial Intimacy

A Good War

Blizzard Entertainment

The Art of Hearthstone

Death From Above

Anduin

Highmountain

Various

Micky Neilson

Matt Burns

Michael Chu

"Explore the backstories and motivations behind Overwatch's most popular heroes"--

Overwatch Anthology: Expanded Edition

The Year of the Raven reaches new heights on dark wings! With a few years under its collective belt, the Hearthstone team needed to find an edge: sharper and more striking than a corvid's beak. In The Art of Hearthstone, Volume IV: Year of the Raven, the designers, engineers, and artists of the smash-hit digital card game pour their cunning into innovative design changes, remarkable animated art, and all-new transmedia content. From the haunted lands of Gilneas in The Witchwood soaring to the laboratories of Outland in The Boomsday Project and touching down to the lively arena of Rastakhan's Rumble, the Year of the Raven has something unique for everyone. Fly alongside the Hearthstone team's creative genius (or madness?) to learn how it was done!

The Art of Hearthstone: Year of the Raven

The second volume of this series dives deep into the depths of the Year of the Kraken, the first year of the game's standard format. Consisting of hundreds of illustrations, this volume goes into detail about the Hearthstone team's artistic process for card art, game boards, and other visual designs.

Year of the Kraken

Sam Goldstein

Two renowned child psychologists draw on a vast body of scientific literature and real-life anecdotes from their own practices to explain why some children are able to overcome overwhelming obstacles while others easily become victims of experience and environment.

Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child

Raising Resilient Children

"Hands-on, caring advice to make your child gratifyingly, skillfully independent." --Kirkus Reviews Learn to raise a self-disciplined child is confident, independent . . . and happy. Raising a Self-Disciplined Child is the groundbreaking book parents have been waiting for--a remarkably positive approach to a style of discipline that builds children up-from the acclaimed authors of Raising Resilient Children. Filled with realistic, practical strategies and sample scenarios, it shows you how to teach your child, ages 6 through 16, the value of self-control, self-reliance, and self-assurance: the all-important skills that will last him a lifetime. Praise for Raising Resilient Children “Practical and clear in its suggestions, direct and supportive in its tone, Raising Resilient Children is the perfect book for parents searching for a caring method to help their children grow into healthy, loving, and mature adults.” --William Pollack, Ph.D., author of Real Boys “Brooks and Goldstein help mothers and fathers focus on their child's strengths, not on his or her weaknesses. The result is a happier, more resilient child.” --Michael Thompson, Ph.D., author of Raising Cain

Raising a Self-Disciplined Child

Jake Gerli

The Art of Diablo features more than twenty years worth of stunning concept art from Diablo, Diablo II and Diablo III, plus never-before-seen concept, development, and environmental art. Explore new and familiar nightmares, discover monsters and demons, and descend into the hellish depths of the best-selling action role-playing game series.

The Art of Diablo

As the Burning Legion advances across the land, tauren chieftains gather for a momentous summit. An ancient artifact, the mystic Hammer of Khazêgoroth, may hold the power to protect their territory, but will its magic corrupt all who touch it?

World of Warcraft: Legion #3 (Korean)

Sharon Weiss

Acknowledging that anger in children is an emotion that cannot be entirely avoided, this guide for parents outlines a seven-step program to promote healthy anger management in children aged 4 to 14. The advice and experiences of mental health professionals and clinicians who are parents themselves are disclosed, with attention given to the anxiety that many parents feel when their child exhibits angry behaviour. Parents learn techniques to help their child deal with stress and anger, build confidence and resilience, and use effective coping behaviours to avoid dysfunctional behaviour.

Seven Steps to Help Families Manage Anger

Angry Children, Worried Parents

Carolyn Gordon

Peter A. Perry

Spectral geometry runs through much of contemporary mathematics, drawing on and stimulating developments in such diverse areas as Lie algebras, graph theory, group representation theory, and Riemannian geometry. The aim is to relate the spectrum of the Laplace operator or its graph-theoretic analogue, the adjacency matrix, to underlying geometric and topological data. This volume brings together papers presented at the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Spectral Geometry, held in July 1993 at the University of Washington in Seattle. With contributions from some of the top experts in the field, this book presents an excellent overview of current developments in spectral geometry.

1993 Joint Summer Research Conference on Spectral Geometry, July 17-23, 1993, University of Washington, Seattle

Geometry of the Spectrum

Yehuda Pinchover

Michael Entov

Michah Sageev

This volume contains articles based on talks given at the Robert Brooks Memorial Conference on Geometry and Spectral Theory and the Workshop on Groups, Geometry and Dynamics held at Technion - the Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa). Robert Brooks' (1952-2002) broad range of mathematical interests is represented in the volume, which is devoted to various aspects of global analysis, spectral theory, the theory of Riemann surfaces, Riemannian and discrete geometry, and number theory. A survey of Brooks' work has been written by his close colleague, Peter Buser. Also included in the volume are articles on analytic topics, such as Szegos theorem, and on geometric topics, such as isoperimetric inequalities and symmetries of manifolds. The book is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in various aspects of geometry and global analysis.

Proceedings in Memory of Robert Brooks, December 29, 2003-January 2, 2004 [and] January 5-9, 2004, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Geometry, Spectral Theory, Groups, and Dynamics

The Cinematic Art of Starcraft

Choose your faction, pick your weapon, and prepare for an astonishing vision of the world of Azeroth like you've never seen before! Built by best-selling paper engineer Matthew Reinhardt, the World of Warcraft Pop- Up Book brings the bemost well-loved locations of Warcraft to life, from the classic faction hubs of Orgrimmar and Stormwind, to the battle-scarred lands of Lordaeron and Teldrassil, and even the new capital cities of Kul Tiras and Zandalar! Each page unfolds into an eye-popping treat, showing depicting iconic locationssites inwith brand-new art and interactive piecesways that you've never seen before. Unfold each individual spread to form a map of Azeroth!

The World of Warcraft Pop-Up Book

Learn to raise a self-disciplined child who is confident, independent . . . and happy. Raising a Self-Disciplined Child is the groundbreaking book parents have been waiting for--a remarkably positive approach to a style of discipline that builds children up-from the acclaimed authors of Raising Resilient Children. Filled with realistic, practical strategies and sample scenarios, it shows you ways to teach children of any age, from preschool to adolescence, the value of self-control, self-reliance, and self-assurance--the all-important skills that will last a lifetime. Praise for Raising Resilient Children “Practical and clear in its suggestions, direct and supportive in its tone, Raising Resilient Children is the perfect book for parents searching for a caring method to help their children grow into healthy, loving, and mature adults.” --William Pollack, Ph.D., author of Real Boys “Brooks and Goldstein help mothers and fathers focus on their child's strengths, not on his or her weaknesses. The result is a happier, more resilient child.” --Michael Thompson, Ph.D., author of i>Raising Cain

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