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An inspiring & gritty real life adventure similar to Soldier Spy & A Captain&s Duty by Captain Phillips Jordan Wylie a young man from a tough area of Blackpool where kids like him often went off the rails chose a life in the army He saw service in Iraq & learned to cope with the horrors he&d witnessed then suffered an injury that blocked any chance of climbing up the military ladder But an old army colleague suggested he join a security team on a tanker in Yemen Ex-servicemen were offered dazzling salaries & James Bond& lifestyles between jobs protecting the super-tankers carrying consumer goods to Europe & the US However for the men tempted to go the price they paid was the claustrophobia & isolation of life on board & the ever-present possibility of death skimming towards them across the vast lonely blue sea Jordan was one of these men In Citadel he writes the first account of these dangerous years from someone &at the front& A young soldier from the backstreets of Blackpool he was determined to make the most of his life but unsure of the way forward To his surprise he found his answers in the perilous waters of & Pirate Alley& ...

Plot scheme & deceive as you build fantastical cities in Citadels Bruno Faidutti’s classic game of card drafting intrigue & cunning characters In Citadels two to eight players must shrewdly draft characters & use their abilities to create the best city possible This edition

Includes:: all the content from the previous editions by Fantasy Flight Games along with nine new characters & twelve new districts developed by the original designer Updated graphic design & all-new art brings to life a vast kingdom rich in diversity & filled with possibilities Players 2-8 Ages 10 Playtime 30-60 min Complexity 2 5

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In Citadels players take on new roles each round to represent characters they hire in order to help them acquire gold & erect buildings The game ends at the close of a round in which a player erects hisher eighth building Players then tally their points & the player with the highest score wins Players start with a number of building cards in their hand; buildings come in five colors with the violet buildings typically having a special ability & the other colored buildings providing a benefit when you play particular characters At the start of each round the player who was king the previous round discards one of the eight character cards at random chooses one then passes the cards to the next player etc until each player has secretly chosen a character Each character has a special ability & the usefulness of any character depends upon your situation & that of your opponents The characters then carry out their actions in numerical order the assassin eliminating another character for the round the thief stealing all gold from another character the wizard swapping building cards with another player the warlord optionally destroys a building in play & so on On a turn a player earns two or more gold (or draws two building cards then discards one) then optionally constructs one building (or up to three if playing the architect this round) Buildings cost gold equal to the number of symbols on them & each building is worth a certain number of points In addition to points from buildings at the end of the game a player scores bonus points for having eight buildings or buildings of all five colors The expansion Citadels The Dark City was initially released as a separate item but the second edition of the game from Hans im Gluck (packaged in a tin box) & the third edition from Fantasy Flight Games included this expansion With Dark City Citadels supports a maximum of eight players Players 2-8 Playing time 20-60 minutes Ages 10 ...

This is the leading guide to referencing & avoiding plagiarism covering everything from understanding plagiarism & identifying sources to setting out"ations & creating a reference list Comprehensive & accessible it provides readers with detailed examples of print & electronic sources business government technical & legal publications works of art images & much more Packed with practical tips & example sources in both citations & reference lists it makes referencing manageable & easy to follow for everyone The tenth edition of this bestselling book is an essential resource for anyone doing original research for written assignments including students teachers authors librarians & non-academic researchers Cite Them Right is also available as an institutional subscription product Cite Them Right Online httpswwwcitethemrightonlinecom ...

In Cities in Motion explore several large European cities where you can operate your own transportation company Build a public network with a variety of over 30 vehicle types based on real-life models including buses trams & subway trains By meeting the needs of city residents you can make as much profit as possible Observing the changing & growing city as well as the different types of people in it is key to building a successful & efficient network Play throughout 4 eras spanning from 1920 to 2020 Explore 4 different cities Vienna Helsinki Berlin & Amsterdam Advance map editor for creating your own cities Engage in a campaign with 12 scenarios as well as a sandbox mode where all campaign cities are playable Experience a real-time city & traffic simulator
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The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh & critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world The Reader incorporates both early & emerging debates about the diverse trajectories of urbanization processes in the context of the restructured global alignments in the last three decades Emphasizing the historical legacies of colonialism the Reader recognizes the entanglement of conditions & concepts often understood in binary relations firstthird worlds wealthpoverty developmentunderdevelopment & inclusionexclusion By asking "whose city? whose development?" the Reader rigorously highlights the fractures along lines of class race gender & other socially & spatially constructed hierarchies in global South cities The Reader&s thematic structure where editorial introductions accompany selected texts examines the issues & concerns that urban dwellers planners & policy makers face in the contemporary world These include the urban economy housing basic services infrastructure the role of non-state civil society-based actors planned interventions & contestations the role of diaspora capital the looming problem of adapting to climate change & the increasing spectre of violence in a post 911 transnational world The Cities of the Global South Reader pulls together a diverse set of readings from scholars across the world some of which have been written specially for the volume to provide an essential resource for a broad interdisciplinary readership at undergraduate & postgraduate levels in urban geography urban sociology & urban planning as well as disciplines related to international & development studies Editorial commentaries that introduce the central issues for each theme summarize the state of the field & outline an associated bibliography They will be of particular value for lecturers students & researchers making the Cities of the Global South Reader a key text for those interested in understanding contemporary urbanization processes ...

Volume Three of the Border Trilogy In Cormac Mc Carthy's Cities of the Plain two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses & The Crossing now stand together between their vivid pasts & uncertain futures to confront a country changing beyond recognition In the fall of 1952 John Grady Cole & Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico where one of the men is drawn again & again in this story of friendships & passion to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable ...

Peter Hall s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory & practice as well as of the social & economic problems & opportunities that gave rise to it Now comprehensively revised the fourth edition offers a perceptive critical & global history of urban planning & design throughout the twentieth-century & beyond A revised & updated edition of this classic text from one of the most notable figures in the field of urban planning & design Offers an incisive insightful & unrivalled critical history of planning in theory & practice as well as of the underlying socio-economic challenges & opportunities Comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new research published over the last decade Reviews the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth-century & beyond Draws on global examples throughout & weaves the author s own fascinating experiences into the text to illustrate this authoritative story of urban growth ...

Cities Skylines – The Board Game is a co-operative game based on the popular computer game of the same name by Paradox Interactive Gameplay starts with four land boards being visible the exact number varying depending on the scenario The goal is to finish a number of milestones & to make the inhabitants of your city happy At the start of each milestone one additional board is bought flipped over from its nature side to its developed side Players have personal cards that show what they can build & ideally they discuss & plan with the other players how to best develop the city The cards show what effects the building will have on the city for example increasing the need for garbage collection decreasing crime or giving a bonus if placed next to a park Cardboard tiles represent residential commercial industrial & other buildings & they have varied base shapes that are placed on the developed boards on the grid When the players have developed the city to the next milestone they choose which new board to buy to expand the city score their current happiness & start a new milestone When the last milestone is finished the game ends then the total happiness score is summed There is only one city treasury & all players add to it when they make money for the city & take money from it for building a hospital or buying a new board Making sure you have enough money is an important aspect of the game for if you run out of money you go bankrupt & lose A series of scenarios teach the game in steps with each new step introducing new parts of the game Each step is easily varied such as for example switching out which unique buildings are used during a playing session Players 1-4 Playing time 70 mins Ages 10 ...