Passion for the Game


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For the notorious Lady Winter, seduction and duplicity are required to survive. Cunning and precision are the tools of pirate Christopher St. John. Pitted against one another, they are a surprise waiting to happen.




A Passion for Him


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In this Georgian-era romance by the #1 bestselling author of the Crossfire Series, a woman meant for another man succumbs to temptation. STRANGER He wears a mask . . . and he is following her. Staring at her like no other man since Colin. But Colin is dead and Amelia believes she will never again shiver with pleasure, never again sigh his name. LOVER Until her masked pursuer lures her into a moonlit garden and offers a single, reckless kiss. Now she is obsessed with discovering his identity. Perfectly attuned to his every desire, his every thought, she will not stop until she knows his every secret. Praise for A Passion for Him “Terrific. Readers will have a passion for Sylvia Day’s fine historicals.” —Midwest Book Review “Brilliantly blends danger and desire into an intrigue-rich, lushly sensual love story.” —Booklist




A Passion for the Game


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A Passion for the Game


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Passion for the Game


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For the notorious Lady Winter, seduction and duplicity are required to survive. Cunning and precision are the tools of pirate Christopher St. John. Pitted against one another, they are a surprise waiting to happen.




The Big Passion Game


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A Passion for Purpose


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This delightful, challenging, insightful devotional will renew your passion to meet with God each day!—Dr. Richard Blackaby, coauthor of Experiencing God Let God’s Love Blossom Through You As a woman who wants to be on mission with God daily, you live a vibrant life, fertile for growing His kingdom. Let these 365 devotions nurture, equip, and encourage you to let God’s love thrive in and through you—in noticeably beautiful ways that impact the world. Each week, a new bouquet of 7 devotions focuses on God using your passion to spread His kingdom: - Spirituality - Scripture study - Worldview - Relationships - Communication - Ministry - Leadership As you greet your days, use these short readings—inspiring Scripture, story, outlook, prompt, and prayer. Then go share your passion for Jesus Christ.




The Game of Power and Passion: When Politics met Ambition in the corridors of IIT


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Abhimanyu has done it! He has made it to IIT Delhi. He walks into the premier institution, ready to compete in academics with the brightest minds of the country, and create a name for himself. But what he experiences in his hostel surprises him, shocks him, and unlocks his untested potential and aspirations. Join Abhimanyu as he learns to passionately compete for a group, a team, and an institution. As he builds up friendships and connections that will shape him for the rest of his life. As he prepares to unravel his hidden dreams and aspirations. The Game of Power and Passion is a rollercoaster ride through the hallowed halls of IIT. Giving a sneak peek into that part of an IITian’s life that has never been shared before. Witness the world of power and politics helping Abhimanyu discover his ultimate ambition.




A Passion for Living


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Our lives are precious. Never more so than for 19-year-old Alexander Stobbs who has been a cystic fibrosis sufferer from birth. For him, each day could be his last. But as he says in the BAFTA-nominated documentary - A Boy Called Alex - 'you can't do stuff if you're afraid'.A truly inspiring story of a young musician determined to live his dreams, Alex takes us on his journey to survive a daily round of drugs and treatments as he also prepares for his yearning ambition to conduct Bach's three-hour-long St Matthew Passion. Everything we take for granted is a struggle for Alex - eating, sleeping, even breathing. His determination to live life to the full, constantly striving for perfection in his musical performance, is set against the exhausting every day rigours of medication and treatment simply to keep him alive. Yet he has already achieved some extraordinary goals. An Eton scholar, he has now won a further music scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. Introduced here by his mother Suzanne, Alex's account of living with no certainty about his future is a spur to all of us to make every day count.




Making Great Games


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Join videogame industry veteran Michael Thornton Wyman on a series of detailed, behind-the-scenes tours with the teams that have made some of the most popular and critically acclaimed videogames of the modern era. Drawing on insider's perspectives from a wide variety of teams, learn about the creation of a tiny, independent game project (World of Goo), casual game classics (Diner Dash, Bejeweled Twist), the world's most popular social game (FarmVille) as well as the world's most popular MMORPG (World of Warcraft), PC titles (Half Life 2) to AAA console games (Madden NFL 10), and modern-day masterpieces (Little Big Planet, Rock Band, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves). Hear directly from the creators about how these games were made, and learn from their stories from the trenches of videogames production. This book is an excellent resource for those working directly on game design or production, for those aspiring to work in the field, or for anyone who has wondered how the world's greatest videogames get made.