The book Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon noted Mewtwo as popular with older male children who tend to be drawn to " tough or scary " characters ; Mew in contrast was described as a polar opposite, a character popular with young girls who tend to be drawn to " cute " characters.

The book Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon described Jigglypuff as popular with a young, female audience across the franchise as a whole, attributing said popularity to both the immediate attraction of children to its pink color and its contrast to Pokémon species more popular with young males, such as Squirtle or Charmander.

The book Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon cited him as a heavily popular character in the United States, with boys identifying themselves with the character, expressing a desire to be " friends with characters that are known to be good or considerate friends ".

The book Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon cited Gengar as popular with older male children who tend to be drawn to " tough or scary " characters.

In the chapter on climate change in his 2001 book A Skeptical Environmentalist he states ; " This chapter accepts the reality of man-made global warming but questions the way in which future scenarios have been arrived at and finds that forecasts of climate change of 6 degrees by the end of the century are not plausible.

Susan J. Napier argues, in her book Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, that anime increasingly " exists at a nexus point in global culture … an amorphous new media territory that crosses and intermingles national boundaries ".

Richard M. Steers and Luciara Nardon in their book about global economy use the " two cows " metaphor to illustrate the concept of cultural differences.

Keys explores what he believes to be the radical and far-ranging global effects of just such a putative 6th-century eruption in his book Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World.

In this book, Stephenson returns with a thriller set in the present with a plot that involves a medley of game developers, Chinese cyber-criminals, Russian mafia, and other stranger inhabitants of the new global village.

A 2012 book by Marcus Ruiz Evans entitled California's Next Century details an overhauling of California's statehood via a plan to embrace its unique global role and form itself as an independent republic, uniquely poised to become the Switzerland of the 21st century, a global nerve center of international diplomacy, technology and finance.

Cato Institute fellow Patrick J. Michaels said the attacks came because the book " threatens billions of taxpayer dollars that go into the global change kitty every year.

In I, Robot, by the end of the book, there are " Machines ", brains of power sufficient to calculate human actions and give recommendation on global scale, and a humanoid robot is stated to be indistinguishable from a human being by any external examination, even by a high quality robopsychologist.

* The Automatists and the Book by Michel Brisebois on Le Refus global as a printed book.

He has stated ( LCI French TV channel, September 12, 2005 and book Le monde n ' est pas une marchandise ) that he is not against the existence of WTO and global rules.

On the subject Bishop writes: The greatest obstacle to our comprehension of Finnegans Wake been ... the failure on the part of readers to believe that Joyce really meant what he said when he spoke of the book as a " reconstruction of the nocturnal life " and an " imitation of the dream-state "; and as a consequence readers have perhaps too easily exercised on the text an unyielding literalism bent on finding a kind of meaning in every way antithetical to the kind of meaning purveyed in dreams Bishop has also somewhat brought back into fashion the theory that the Wake is about a single sleeper ; arguing that it is not " the ' universal dream ' of some disembodied global everyman, but a reconstruction of the night – and a single night – as experienced by ' one stable somebody ' whose ' earwitness ' on the real world is coherently chronological.

In 2005, Cho released her second book, I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight, a compilation of essays and prose about global politics, human rights, and other topical issues.

The book ends on a major event which is a sudden, catastrophic rise in Earth's global sea levels not caused primarily by any greenhouse effect but by the eruption of a chain of volcanoes underneath the ice of west Antarctica, disintegrating the ice sheet and displacing the fragments into the ocean.

Richard M. Steers and Luciara Nardon in their book about global economy use the " You have two cows " joke to illustrate the concept of cultural differences.

The FT is owned by Pearson PLC, the global media company who also own Pearson, the world's largest education publishing and technology group and Penguin Books, the book publishing group.

Going farther, in his book Kicking Away the Ladder, Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang also argues, based on economic history, that all major developed countries, including the United Kingdom, used interventionist economic policies to promote industrialization and protected national companies until they had reached a level of development in which they were able to compete in the global market, after which those countries adopted free market discourses directed at other countries to obtain two objectives: open their markets to local products and prevent them from adopting the same development strategies that led to the developed nations ' industrialization.

Clarke describes in great detail throughout the book a personal communications device called a ' minisec ' combining mobile video phone and PDA with global data connectivity.

Although the term has come to prominence through its use by participants in the global justice / anti-globalization movement of the 1990s onwards, the word has been used for at least 60 years ; for instance Martin Buber's 1949 book ' Paths in Utopia ' includes the line ' Power abdicates only under counter-power '.

During the interwar period, he opposed the rise of radical Islam in Chechnya and co-authored a book entitled Wahhabism-the Kremlin's remedy against national liberation movements, alleging an association between Islamist extremism and Soviet global " pro-terrorist " policy and support for dictatorships in the Muslim world.

In the canonical comic book continuation of the series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, the Scooby Gang has expanded into a global organization, training approximately five hundred Slayers spread over ten squads.

As the series was already a global phenomenon, the book forged new pre-order records, with thousands of people queuing outside book stores on 20 June 2003 to secure their copy at midnight.

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal ( 2002 ) is a book by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser that examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry.

In a Fresh Dialogues interview, Friedman described his motivations for writing the book: “ My concern is about America .... Demand for clean energy, clean fuel and energy efficiency is clearly going to explode ; it ’ s going to be the next great global industry.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

At the very beginning of the book Erich Maria Remarque says " This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it.

His book Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic adventure, and inspired many others to take to the seas.

The game includes rules, three adventures and four adventure outlines, a wargame by Matthew Hartley, a long section on the ' science ' of Flatland which attempts to explain aspects of the world and its natives, and the original book.

The adventure allowed Hergé to confront his nightmares by filling the book with austere alpine landscapes, giving the adventure a powerfully spacious setting.

The book was extremely popular among children worldwide up until the 1970s, mostly for its themes of adventure and gripping storyline.

Even though it was independent from the surface for a very short duration, the Rouquayrol-Denayrouze apparatus reached worldwide celebrity after having been mentioned by Jules Verne in his adventure book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ; but Jules Verne wildly exaggerated its dive duration without external air supply.

Rather than cover art each rule book, supplement, and adventure had a black cover with the title Book X, Supplement Y or Adventure Z each in a distinct color, numbered in the order in which they were produced.

The book describes the scientific discovery, scenic tropical vistas, and exotic flora and fauna experienced during the adventure.

Typee ( 1846 ; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life ) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva ( which Melville spelled as Nukuheva ) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842.

Four years after the adventure booklet was published, the setting of the first adventure was used as the basis of a Villains and Vigilantes comic book mini-series by Dee and Herman published by Eclipse Comics.

Andrew Chapman and Martin Allen also wrote a two book, two-player adventure titled the Clash of the Princes ( 1986 ).

Shortly after the release of the adventure book Wizards of the Coast announced they would not be releasing any further products for the game.

* WGR3 Rary the Traitor by Anthony Pryor was both an adventure module as well as a source book about the Bright Lands, the new home of Rary and Robilar following their murder of Tenser and Otiluke.

Kuntz had to withdraw due to other projects, although he continued to work on an adventure module that would be published at the same time as the first book.

In 1998, TSR published Faction War, an adventure that effectively closed the book on Planescape as it was then ending the product line.

This book is traditionally the first authentic text assigned to students of Latin, as Xenophon's Anabasis is for students of Ancient Greek ; they are both autobiographical tales of military adventure told in the third person.

Welsh's third book ( and second novel ), Marabou Stork Nightmares, alternates between a typically grim tale of thugs and schemes in sub-working class Scotland and a hallucinatory adventure tale set in South Africa.

A new boxed set was released shortly thereafter containing the combined Arms Law / Claw Law, the updated Spell Law and the combined Character Law / Campaign Law book, as well as The Cloudlords of Tanara, a detailed setting and adventure supplement which introduced ICE's original Loremaster setting, which would later develop into the more sophisticated Shadow World.

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 American adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown.