Author: Lawrence Wright
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: vintage, road, qaeda, tower, looming
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2007-08-21
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1400030846
ISBN-13: 9781400030842

National Book Award FinalistA Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times Book Review Best Book of the YearA gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in history. He follo

Author: Lawrence Wright
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd
Keywords: perspective
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 1983-09
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0710007914
ISBN-13: 9780710007919

Author: Lawrence Wright
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: road, qaeda, tower, looming
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-08-08
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 037541486X
ISBN-13: 9780375414862

A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright’s remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda,

Author: Lawrence Wright (NFGMan)
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: devices, mobile, design, character
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0240808088
ISBN-13: 9780240808086

Mobile gaming on cell phones and portable consoles is a huge business, and many characters have become design icons. However, the physical limitations of these small screens, and the technological challenges of different gaming platforms, mean that designers have had to become experts at creating characters with just a few points of light. Creating art for these devices is a completely different process than used when creating art for highly sophisticated 3D games. The difference between pixel art and art created for 3D games is two-fold: there are practical considerations that must be address

Authors:Richard D. Wright, Lawrence M. Ward,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: attention, orienting
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-04-16
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0195130499
ISBN-13: 9780195130492

This superb new book describes the covert orienting literature in a clear and concise way with many high-quality, purpose-drawn illustrations designed to make challenging theoretical concepts accessible to the reader. The book begins with an historical introduction that provides a great deal of new information about orienting, even to the scholar in this area. It then systematically describes the development of the various experimental paradigms devised to study covert orienting, and the theoretical issues raised by this research. One such issue, analyzed in detail, is the progression from rel

Authors:Benjamin G. Wright, Lawrence M. Wills,
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Keywords: society, biblical, literature, series, symposium, boundaries, wisdom, apocalypticism, conflicted
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-10-31
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1589831845
ISBN-13: 9781589831841

The notion that wisdom and apocalypticism represent fundamentally different and mutually exclusive categories of genre and worldview in early Jewish and Christian literature persists in current scholarship. The essays in this volume, the work of the Wisdom and Apocalypticism Group of the Society of Biblical Literature, challenge that generally held view as they explore the social locations and scholarly constructions of these literatures and discover an ancient reality of more porous categories and complex interrelationships. The volume draws on a broad range of Jewish and Christian texts, inc

Authors:Orville Wright, Fred C. Kelly, Wilbur Wright,
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: orville, wright, wilbur, letters, kitty, hawk, miracle
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2002-12-03
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0306812037
ISBN-13: 9780306812033

With little formal education and even fewer business skills, Wilbur and Orville Wright solved the scientific mystery that defeated the greatest minds of their day. This collection of six hundred letters between the two brothers traces the genesis of their flying machine, from their initial frustration to their bursts of discovery and the thrill of ultimate success. Witness the resourcefulness, good humor, and sheer pluck of America’s most famous brothers.