The Power Game

Author : Hedrick Smith
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 030782957X
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Power Game written by Hedrick Smith and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington, D.C. The one city that affects all our lives. The one city where the game has only one name: Power. Hedrick Smith, the Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, takes us inside the beltway to show who wields the most power—and for what ends. The Power Game explains how some members of Congress have built personal fortunes on PAC money, how Michael Deaver was just the tip of the influence-peddling iceberg, how “dissidents” in the Pentagon work to keep the generals honest, how insiders and “leakers” use the Times and The Washington Post and their personal bulletin boards. Congressional staffers more powerful than their bosses, media advisors more powerful than the media, money that not only talks but intimidated and threatens. That’s Washington. That’s The Power Game. Praise for Power Game “The Power Game may be the most sweeping and in many ways the most impressive portrait of the culture of the federal government to appear in a single work in many decades. . . . Knowledgeable and informative.”—The New York Times Book Review “There are oodles of good yarns in this book about the nature of power and the eccentricities that accompany it. . . . Delightfully fresh . . . [Hedrick] Smith is a superb writer.”—The Washington Post “Not only the inside stuff, but the insightful stuff—an original view of the power playing.”—William Safire

Author : Christine Feehan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399583920
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Power Game written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sizzling and suspenseful GhostWalker novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Spider Game, two lovers discover there’s no telling who will come out on top. When radical terrorists take hostages in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government experiment, Zeke is a supersoldier with enhanced abilities. He can see better and run faster than the enemy, disappear when necessary and hunt along any terrain. There are those in the world willing to do anything for power like that... A formidable spy genetically engineered to hide in plain sight, Bellisia rarely meets a man who doesn’t want to control her or kill her. But Zeke is different. His gaze, his touch—they awaken feelings inside her that she never thought possible. He’s the kind of man she could settle down with—if she can keep him alive...

Author : Marion Knaths
Publisher : eBook Berlin Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3827080398
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Game of Power! written by Marion Knaths and published by eBook Berlin Verlag. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The organizational structures prevailing in companies are still strongly influenced by men. How to behave successfully as a woman in this environment without having to bend over backwards is described by renowned leadership trainer Marion Knaths. Having been a senior executive in a corporate group herself, she passes on her many years of experience with esprit and verve, using many examples from everyday working life. Always with a sense of humor and always with the aim of increasing women's influence on the rules of the game.

Author : Stephen Rodrigues
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Power Game (Playbook of the Powerful) written by Stephen Rodrigues and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most powerful book available in the market today. This book talks about the different forms of power which exist in our society. It acts as a guide for those who want to reach a higher level in their life. As we know power is distributed among the 1% of the human population that controls the rest of the99%. We see around ourselves how powerful some people are; just a word from the leader is enough to make others complete the work. One phone call and you are set for life. What is this power? who are these leaders? What makes them so influential? What makes them eligible to acquire that power? Every source of knowledge towards gaining power has been burnt, destroyed, or kept encrypted within some ancient scriptures. This book is the most practical manuscript which will help you to decide your next step in your life. This book is specially designed to sharpen your brain and help you to connect your mind with your heart. This book is clearly a mixture of processes to achieve different types of powers. It gives you a bigger picture and forces you to see it and feel it by yourself by adding value to your life. The author of this book has gathered all this information from powerful resources to empower the coming generation by sharing this secret of life. enjoy and make use of this treasure of knowledge wisely. By doing so we will make this world a better place. Welcome to THE POWER GAME!!!!

Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501167235
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Power Game written by Thomas Keneally and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final novel in a fast-paced and gripping historical crime trilogy from the legendary Thomas Keneally and his eldest daughter, Meg Keneally. Set in 1825 during Australia's colonial period at the notorious Port Macquarie penal colony, The Power Game is the thrilling conclusion to the whip-smart mystery series from the "greatest living practitioner of historical fiction" (Christian Science Monitor).

Author : Asi Burak
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250089344
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Power Play written by Asi Burak and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenal growth of gaming has inspired plenty of hand-wringing since its inception--from the press, politicians, parents, and everyone else concerned with its effect on our brains, bodies, and hearts. But what if games could be good, not only for individuals but for the world? In Power Play, Asi Burak and Laura Parker explore how video games are now pioneering innovative social change around the world. As the former executive director and now chairman of Games for Change, Asi Burak has spent the last ten years supporting and promoting the use of video games for social good, in collaboration with leading organizations like the White House, NASA, World Bank, and The United Nations. The games for change movement has introduced millions of players to meaningful experiences around everything from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the US Constitution. Power Play looks to the future of games as a global movement. Asi Burak and Laura Parker profile the luminaries behind some of the movement's most iconic games, including former Supreme Court judge Sandra Day O’Connor and Pulitzer-Prize winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. They also explore the promise of virtual reality to address social and political issues with unprecedented immersion, and see what the next generation of game makers have in store for the future.

Author : James Allan Evans
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441140786
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Power Game in Byzantium written by James Allan Evans and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Author : Jason Fox
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0730307662
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Game Changer written by Jason Fox and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use the science of motivation with the power of game design to unlock motivation and drive progress in your organisation. There are two conventional ways to approach motivation: set goals and try to change attitudes and beliefs (which takes a lot of personalised effort); or develop incentives and rewards to inspire effort (which takes a lot of money). This book shows you how to take a third new approach – designing the work itself to be inherently motivating. Combining the best elements of three distinct fields—motivational science, game design, and agile management—this book shows you how to positively influence behaviour through better work and project design. This game changing book: Gives you a refreshing science-based approach to the classic challenge of motivation in the workplace Is ideal for any leader or manager looking to take their workplace culture in a new direction Includes practical advice for creating highly productive, motivated and innovative teams Is written by a motivation strategy and design expert who consults on leadership and change management to a wide range of clients – from the executives of multinational organisations, through to the directors of switched-on startups. The Game Changer will show you how to unlock creative, productive and collaborative work. It is the perfect resource for forward-thinking leaders in organisations and teams focused on crafting a work culture that gets the best out of their people.

Author : Ken S. McAllister
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817314180
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Game Work written by Ken S. McAllister and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video and computer games in their cultural contexts. As the popularity of computer games has exploded over the past decade, both scholars and game industry professionals have recognized the necessity of treating games less as frivolous entertainment and more as artifacts of culture worthy of political, social, economic, rhetorical, and aesthetic analysis. Ken McAllister notes in his introduction to Game Work that, even though games are essentially impractical, they are nevertheless important mediating agents for the broad exercise of socio-political power. In considering how the languages, images, gestures, and sounds of video games influence those who play them, McAllister highlights the ways in which ideology is coded into games. Computer games, he argues, have transformative effects on the consciousness of players, like poetry, fiction, journalism, and film, but the implications of these transformations are not always clear. Games can work to maintain the status quo or celebrate liberation or tolerate enslavement, and they can conjure feelings of hope or despair, assent or dissent, clarity or confusion. Overall, by making and managing meanings, computer games—and the work they involve and the industry they spring from—are also negotiating power. This book sets out a method for "recollecting" some of the diverse and copious influences on computer games and the industry they have spawned. Specifically written for use in computer game theory classes, advanced media studies, and communications courses, Game Work will also be welcome by computer gamers and designers. Ken S. McAllister is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona and Co-Director of the Learning Games Initiative, a research collective that studies, teaches with, and builds computer games.

Author : Steve Fuller
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783086955
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Post-Truth written by Steve Fuller and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Post-truth’ was Oxford Dictionaries 2016 word of the year. While the term was coined by its disparagers in the light of the Brexit and US presidential campaigns, the roots of post-truth lie deep in the history of Western social and political theory. Post-Truth reaches back to Plato, ranging across theology and philosophy, to focus on the Machiavellian tradition in classical sociology, as exemplified by Vilfredo Pareto, who offered the original modern account of post-truth in terms of the ‘circulation of elites’. The defining feature of ‘post-truth’ is a strong distinction between appearance and reality which is never quite resolved and so the strongest appearance ends up passing for reality. The only question is whether more is gained by rapid changes in appearance or by stabilizing one such appearance. Post-Truth plays out what this means for both politics and science.