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GameStop - $25.00 gift card $22.5 GameStop |
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Values $22.95 Values |
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Indian Trade Relics Identification & Values $22.46 This book is in New - Excellent condition |
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Report Of Experiments Undertaken By Order Of The Board Of Trade To Determine The Relative Values Of Unmalted And Malted Barley As Food For Stock $16.68 Report Of Experiments Undertaken By Order Of The Board Of Trade To Determine The Relative Values Of Unmalted And Malted Barley As Food For Stock |
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Real Family Values $12.99 This rerelease of the popular original edition continues to speak to parents in a society where "family values" no longer seem to exist. If anything, today's community standards threaten the family. Airwaves and movie theaters are drenched with obscenities; perversion is glorified; divorce is cheap and easy; "safe sex" is promoted instead of abstinence; parental authority is undermined; sex roles are confused. For children, such cultural chaos is crippling. But in Real Family Values, parents will learn how to sort through today's moral confusion, remove it from their homes, and change the world by zeroing in on the part they love most: their families. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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Trade In $21.24 Trade In |
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When Core Values Are Strategic $27.99 This is the eBook version of the printed book. What do legendary leaders from Disney, GE, GM, Johnson & Johnson, Boeing, eBay, Microsoft, Time Warner, LensCrafters, Chiquita, Walmart, Pepsi, and Saatchi+Saatchi have in common? They all learned the critical importance of values as managers at Procter & Gamble. And, since departing for leadership roles elsewhere, many have remained members of the P&G Alumni Network. Now you can share the powerful lessons learned at P&G. The P&G Alumni Network's When Core Values Are Strategic offers no-nonsense insights into why values really are so important, and practical ways to propagate, strengthen, and act on them. Bringing together contributions from influential P&G alumni worldwide, it offers a legacy to future leaders across organizations of every type and size. Discover why core values are timely, universal, and the secret to long term success on both financial and other metrics… how top executives were shaped at P&G to make historic change in energy, aviation, technology, government, transportation, entertainment, healthcare, consumer packaged goods, and other industries… how to build a learning culture that increases shareholder value…why values and marketing initiatives are inseparable, and much more. This book will be an inspiration and practical resource to emerging leaders in organizations of every size and type, in every field or industry. Procter & Gamble and P&G are trade names of The Procter & Gamble Company and are used pursuant to an agreement with The Procter & Gamble Company. P&G Alumni Network is an independent organization apart from The Procter & Gamble Company. |
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Capitalism, Slavery, and Republican Values $28.95 In the troubled days before the American Civil War, both Northern protectionists and Southern free trade economists saw political economy as the key to understanding the natural laws on which ... |
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New Trade Union Activism $80 The past decade has seen the emergence of new types of trade union representatives attracting new and more diverse activists; this book explores their motivations and values, drawing upon the voices of the activists themselves and capturing the relationship between work, social identity and class consciousness. |
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The Law and Theory of Trade Secrecy $40 This timely Handbook marks a major shift in innovation studies, moving the focus of attention from the standard intellectual property regimes of copyright, patent, and trademark, to an exploration of trade secrecy and the laws governing know-how, tacit knowledge, and confidential relationships. The editors introduce the long tradition of trade secrecy protection and its emerging importance as a focus of scholarly inquiry. The book then presents theoretical, doctrinal, and comparative considerations of the foundations of trade secrecy, before moving on to study the impact of trade secrecy regimes on innovation and on other social values. Coverage includes topics such as sharing norms, expressive interests, culture, politics, competition, health, and the environment. This important Handbook offers the first modern exploration of trade secrecy law and will strongly appeal to intellectual property academics, and to students and lawyers practicing in the intellectual property area. Professors in competition law, constitutional law and environmental law will also find much to interest them in this book, as will innovation theorists. |
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Human Rights And Free Trade In Mexico $109 This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade under the banners of state duty and law enforcement with ... |
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Democracy, Asian Values, and Hong Kong $112 On July 1, 1997, China took control over Hong Kong, where Britain had begun a process of introducing democracy. Beatty examines the process of democratization in Hong Kong, with the argument that democratic development will continue, despite being under Chinese rule. Through a series of 128 interviews with 89 Hong Kong elites from 1997-2002, including legislators and party leaders as well as participant and direct observation of 15 campaigns for the Legislative Council in 1998, Beatty analyzed political leaders beliefs and commitment towards democratic development and institutions and put them into the context of the post-handover environment. Evidence from the interviews is used to test the proposition that adherence to Asian values undermines democracy and Beatty probed Hong Kong elites about their beliefs regarding the rule of law, freedom of the press, civil liberties, and the possible trade-offs between economic development and democratization. A major finding from the in-depth interviews is that while Hong Kong political elites reject the Sinapore model and the Asian Values argument, many do believe in trade-offs between economic development and democratization. Beatty also offers sharp insight into the thinking of Hong Kong political elites and transcends the particular politics of Hong Kong and delves in the broader subject of elite beliefs and attitudes. An important analysis for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with China, Hong Kong, Asian politics and political values, and political development in general. |
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Double Values by Hayhoe, Roy [Hardcover] $60.59 Double Values exposes certain international companies, who, whilst conducting a legitimate business, display complete disregard of all legal and moral convention by drugs trafficking and illicit arms dealing. Recognized trade routes from the Pakistan/Afghanistan border regions, to the U.K are exploited. By Government intervention, Lord Trafford is designated to lead investigations into suspect companies, using unlimited resources to obtain safe evidence leading to the prosecution of offenders. Under code name Operation Hemlock Major Ian MacLeod was seconded from MI6. MacLeod retraces the drugs route from boardroom to source, making an eventful return passage to the Port of Felixstowe, concluding their assignment in London. Double Values portrays the natural beauty of Pakistan, giving the reader a travel experience, with a realistic appreciation of the dangers facing nameless men and women working to eradicate the international scourge of drugs trafficking. Author: Hayhoe, Roy Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 308 Publication Date: 2008/04/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inches |
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Human Rights and Free Trade in Mexico $90 This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses. |
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Relative Values $6.99 Relative Values |
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New Values $6.49 New Values |
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The Values Of Belonging $33.19 The Values Of Belonging |
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The Place Of Values $14.4 The Place Of Values |
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Technology & Values $47.5 Technology & Values |
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The Value of Values $18.5 The Value of Values |
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Viable Values $35.95 Viable Values |
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Timeless Values $17.95 Timeless Values |
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Gender Values $36.95 Gender Values |
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Appalachian Values $15.92 Appalachian Values |
Online Games for Pokémon MMO - Is it possible?
It's no secret that in Nintendo's eyes, "Pokémon" is synonymous with "money". The series has been going strong for over 12 years now, and every time a new main entry in the series comes out it eventually ranks up there with the best-selling titles on the system. The single-player experience, the great Pokémon adventure is beloved by children and adults alike (as long as the adults played Pokémon when they were younger, that is). And with the imminent Pokémon Black and White, the Pokémon craze is going to occur all over again.
All good things, however, can become stale if they go too long without being updated. Pokémon manages to mostly avoid this, but every so often a complaint about this will arise; I know that IGN was a bit unhappy with Pearl's lack of gameplay innovation, at least. But I believe there's a way to add a whole new dimension to the game without significantly altering the core mechanics that make the game great: what we need is a Pokémon MMO.
I first had this thought during a discussion with a friend of mine a few months back, and the more I think about it the more I think this is the best idea in the history of ideas. I can't think of a single game franchise that is more suited to a MMO than Pokémon. If you consider many standard MMO elements, Pokémon has nearly all of them.
Naturally, Pokémon comes equipped with a nice lengthy solo adventure. Travel the region, collect gym badges, conquer Victory Road and defeat the Elite Four to become champion. Then work to complete your Pokédex by locating or catching them all – a trying task, one that can take dozens upon dozens of hours, which is perfect for a MMO. Plus, you'd be exploring a lush, expansive world as you did so. You can't say that Pokémon regions don't have some vastness to them; you've got big cities here, forests there, large labyrinthian caves, ruins of an old civilization, a wide sea, islands… a Pokémon MMO would allow this world to be rendered in bright color and in a real 3D perspective. Getting a proper view of the world of Pokémon for the first time would make plenty of people curious right away.
A standard class system is easily replaced by Pokémon types. You might even say this works out better than a class system, since you don't have to start over with a new character if you want to incorporate a new type; you just need to raise a Pokémon from scratch, or whatever level you found it at. You can specialize in one thing or be a generalist if you like; one of Pokémon's greatest strengths is how it lets you play however you like and still maintain balance. You can customize your party with items and more, even.
Possibly the most compelling aspect is that of PVP. Battling other trainers on your journey is half the game already; the logical next step is to switch from CPU trainers to other players. You could add in a filter or something that only lets you see trainers around your level, perhaps, but this has to be the part of the game with the most potential. It might raise the difficulty somewhat, since all battles would have to be lost by somebody, but for MMOs or online games you'd need a nice long adventure anyhow. Plus, you can still battle Pokémon in the wild grass, and who knows, maybe one of those random encounters will be a Latios, or a Suicine, or something.
Then there's co-op play. Let's ignore the obvious awesomeness of trading Pokémon en masse (or auctioning them at an auction house, as horrible as that sounds now that I think about it). In recent iterations, Nintendo has taken to double- and even triple-Pokémon battles with Black and White; this naturally lends itself to co-op PVP, which is a phrase that makes me happy when used in conjunction with Pokémon. Besides that, the game could have challenges that scale up with the number of players present, and the "pick your opponent" style of multi-Pokémon battles would still offer an advantage to those who travel in groups, while preventing people from steamrolling through the game in two days' time like they did with Everquest.
Not that raid-based dungeons couldn't still exist. Even from the very first Pokémon game, we had these: Power Plant and Zapdos, Cerulean Cave and Mewtwo, Turnback Cave and Giratina, etc. This is exactly the sort of thing people team up for and conquer in games like World of Warcraft, and frankly it'd be more realistic to require a team of people to take down an allegedly legendary Pokémon, especially the ones with ridiculous psychic powers. There could even be story integration with some of them, if Game Freak is clever enough about it.
Making Pokémon into a MMO would also increase the socializing options. There are already plenty of social aspects that are inherent to the game. Trading with other players, battling, contests, etc. But something Nintendo has always tried to push in their games is "do fun stuff with your Pokémon". Take them for walks, dress them up, earn them ribbons; people put a lot of pride into their Pokémon. What better way to show off your party than in a MMO? Thousands would see your battling/dress-up prowess.
There's also the possibility for time- and date-specific events. There are certain Pokémon you can only catch during the day or night, obviously, but then there are the other, date-specific events. As I write this, Gamestop is doing a weeklong event where they're giving away free Celebis (or Victinis, I can't remember exactly which); before that, they gave away the Legendary Trio, and before THAT Nintendo was offering up Mews to anyone who popped online. And besides that, what if you suddenly received word that Team Rocket had taken over Saffron City, and they were extracting a large quantity of rare item that you might get your hands on if you joined the good fight in the next two days?
And besides that, there's just a huge bunch of random stuff you can do. Fishing, casinos, ribbons, poffins, Safari Zone, Pokéathlon… seriously, do I need to go on? There is so much random stuff to do in a Pokémon game, and that works out perfectly for a MMO as well. God knows how many hours I wasted playing Voltorb Flip alone in SoulSilver. If you want, you could totally dedicate yourself to achieving something entirely separate from the main quest; there could even be leaderboards for some things.
A single Pokémon adventure can take you 30 hours or more as it is, from starting out to defeating the Champion. A Pokémon MMO would be a property ripe for expansion on top of that. Right now, Nintendo has five regions and quests that they can roll out periodically, and they're fine with making more, I'm sure. And we're at how many Pokémon now? I think it's well over 500, which just illustrates the immense replay value. You gotta catch ‘em all. Additionally, see "random stuff to do" above.
There are a few other elements in major MMOs, like a place where you go to get random smaller quests; almost all of them could be integrated with little to no trouble. There'd be a few bugs to iron out, of course (chat might have to be eliminated entirely, if Nintendo were responsible) but I feel that this is the foundation of something very solid and entertaining. With the number of people who play World of Warcraft, there's certainly no shortage of MMO fans out there, and then you have the overlap that comes from the Pokémon fanbase as well. The thought alone of an epic, huge realization of the Pokémon experience would attract many people even without the multiplayer aspects.
Some people might think of the game as too "kiddy" for them, but I know that plenty of 20-year-olds out there, or even older, are still playing Pokémon and would stand in line for days to get their hands on this. You could even put it on the Wii, or whatever next-generation console Nintendo has in mind, so long as the online service isn't terrible. I don't care how you do it, Nintendo, just make this happen! You guys are sitting on a gold mine, and countless console sales, if I know anything about video games. Plus, my inner child needs to beat down a 10-year-old's level 50 Pikachu with my Ho-Oh.
http://www.nintendogal.com/2011/03/03/why-is-there-no-pokemon-mmo/5767/
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