![]() ![]() ![]() Kohler provides emulation techniques, complete with instructions for hacking a classic joystick that's compatible with a contemporary computer. Rather adapt today's equipment to run retro games? Want to game on an original system? Kohler shows you how to hack ancient hardware, and includes a primer for home-brewing classic software. "Retro Gaming Hacks" serves up 85 hard-nosed hacks for reviving the classic games. Kohler has complied tons of how-to information on retro gaming that used to take days or weeks of Web surfing to track down and sort through, and he presents it in the popular and highly readable Hacks style. Whether you've just been attacked by Space Invaders for the first time or you've been a Pong junkie since puberty, Chris Kohler's "Retro Gaming Hacks" is the indispensable new guide to playing and hacking classic games. ![]() But whatever is driving the current retro gaming craze, one thing is certain: classic games are back for a big second act, and they're being played in both old and new ways. Every Game Boy must ponder his roots from time to time. Maybe it was the recent Atari 2600 milestone anniversary that fueled nostalgia for the golden days of computer and console gaming. The author aims to locate the convergence of classic games and contemporary software, revealing not only how to retrofit classic games for systems, but how to find the golden oldies hidden in contemporary programs as well. Providing how-to information on retro gaming, this is a guide to playing and hacking classic games. ![]()
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Back from a place from which he thought there was no return. When Ellis Earnshaw and Heathan James met as children, they couldnt have been more different. Until they were ripped apart by the sick cruelty of others, separated for years, both locked in a perpetual hell.Eleven years later, Heathan is back for his girl. Heathan was dark and brooding, and obsessed with watching things die.The pair forged an unlikely friendship, unique and strange. Ellis was loud and beautiful - all blond hair, bright laughs and smiles. When Ellis Earnshaw and Heathan James met as children, they couldn't have been more different. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But salary and position alone are less likely to make a job seem “worth it” to women who have other choices. Don’t get me wrong: salary and position matter to women––if they feel underpaid or under-recognized they will not be happy. Quality in this case means they need to maintain some control over their schedule, have time able to build strong relationships with colleagues, clients and customers, and feel as if their work is making a difference in the world. The most important is that men tend to take chief satisfaction in financial reward and position, whereas women also want to enjoy the quality of their days - not every day, but in general. Sally Helgesen: A study I ran a few years ago with Harris Interactive about differences in how men and women define satisfaction at work showed many similarities but a few clear differences. Henna Inam: What have you learned about how men and women define success differently? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mother Jones: Was the topic of PTSD on your radar at all before the first Haiti trip? Was it something you thought about a lot? I recently spoke by phone with McClelland about how our knowledge of post-traumatic stress is evolving, what shocked her most about dealing with trauma, and how to define a badass: McClelland weaves these details into the telling of her own unexpected love story, the charming and jagged particulars of which left me, by the book’s end, expectedly exhausted. She unsparingly recounts her struggles to cope with the lingering effects of trauma: nightmares, sobbing fits, alcoholism. In her second book, Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story (out February 24), McClelland returns to terrain she has covered before to great acclaim and great criticism: herself-specifically, her battle with PTSD following a reporting trip to post-earthquake Haiti in 2010. They often wore me out, grammatically and emotionally, in the way that only intense work on difficult subjects can. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Īs Mother Jones‘ copy editor, I used to read the long, narrative features written by our former human rights reporter, Mac McClelland, many times over before they appeared in the magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some say they are an extended adolescence. ![]() Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter. Revised and reissued for a new generation, let it change how you think about you and yours. The Defining Decade has changed the way millions of twentysomethings think about their twenties-and themselves. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.
![]() An intellectually astute but autocratic scientist, Kinyoun lacked the diplomatic skill to manage the public health crisis successfully. Initially in charge of the government's response was Quarantine Officer Dr. Two months later, the first human case of bubonic plague surfaced in Chinatown. ![]() Though the ship passed inspection, some of her stowaways-infected rats-escaped detection and made their way into the city's sewer system. ![]() Uphill they scurried, insinuating themselves into the heart of the city."The plague first sailed into San Francisco on the steamer Australia, on the day after New Year's in 1900. The rats slipped out of their shadowy holds, scuttled down the rigging, and alighted on the wharf. Sailing from China and Hawaii into the unbridged arms of the Golden Gate, it arrived aboard vessels bearing rich cargoes, hopeful immigrants, and infected vermin. Across the Pacific came an unexpected import, bubonic plague. But the harbor would not be safe for long. The wharf bristled with masts and smokestacks from as many as a thousand sailing ships and steamers arriving each year. It had a pompous new skyline with skyscrapers nearly twenty stories tall, grand hotels, and Victorian mansions on Nob Hill. "San Francisco in 1900 was a Gold Rush boomtown settling into a gaudy middle age. ![]() ![]() ![]() Don't miss the powerful companion novels in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet: Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son. ![]() The Giver has become one of the most influential novels of our time. "This extraordinary novel is remarkable for its fully realized characters, gripping plot, and Lowry's singular vision of a future." -VOYA Once again Lois Lowry brings readers on a provocative journey that inspires contemplation long after the last page is turned. On her quest for truth, Kira discovers things that will change her life and world forever.Ī compelling examination of a future society, Gathering Blue challenges readers to think about community, creativity, and the values that they have learned to accept. ![]() Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive, the young girl faces new responsibilities and a set of mysteries deep within the only world she has ever known. When she is summoned to judgment by The Council of Guardians, Kira prepares to fight for her life.īut the Council, to her surprise, has plans for her. Her neighbors are hostile, and no one but a small boy offers to help. Left orphaned and physically flawed in a civilization that shuns and discards the weak, Kira faces a frighteningly uncertain future. The second book in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet, which began with the bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning The Giver. The second book in Lois Lowrys Giver Quartet, which began with the bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning The Giver. ![]() ![]() I teared up a couple of times while listening to this book, and I am not a person who cries easily. Sometimes watching (hearing) a person maintain a stiff upper lip through tragedy can be the most heartbreaking thing of all. You could feel her biting back her emotions and her ironclad steadiness broke my heart even more, as I could still feel her pain through her stoicism. At first I felt it wasn't as personal, but in the end, it actually made the narration even more personal. McCracken keeps a firm grip on her emotions, even as she reads about the most horrible days of her life. Unlike Magical, where the narrator's voice occasionally trembled with so much emotion, in Replica, Ms. I had previously listened to The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, and she had a different narrator (although a brilliant one). I was initially impressed that the author was narrating this audiobook herself. From my point of view as a bystander to a similar situation, this rang extraordinarily true. ![]() ![]() Rarely has anyone so eloquent written about something so tremendously sad. This book is visceral, not just heart-wrenching but like going into your chest with a dull knife, ripping out your heart, jumping up and down on it for a bit, and then pouring salt on it. She does tell you right off the bat that she does successfully have a second child, but of course he will never replace her first child. Novelist Elizabeth McCracken's first son was stillborn. ![]() ![]() ![]() In only a matter of weeks, they will deliver to the Roman Empire its greatest defeat in a thousand-year history. Lying in wait, drawn together by a charismatic Roman officer of German loyalty, are some twenty thousand warriors of diverse tribes. ![]() Summer is ending, and a tenth of his army will soon be making their way to winter quarters. Do you, Tullus? Will you follow me, even unto death? Will you protect me at all costs?Īugustus is years from dying, but his Empire’s hopes in greater Germany have a much shorter life expectancy. I know my purpose, and what I represent, it seemed to say. Its open beak and piercing stare gave off a real sense of arrogance. A golden wreath encircled its almost-touching wings, which were raised straight up behind its body. ![]() Cast from solid gold, and larger than a man could hold in both hands, the eagle was depicted lying forward on its breast. ![]() |