The world has changed. Asia and the West have converged, and the old borders, rules and ways of working no longer apply.

Virtual reality is quickly becoming the next medium to communicate your ideas. Once siloed in make-believe world of science fiction, virtual reality can now touch any aspect of your life. This book shows you how to create original virtual reality content using the Unity game engine and the Virtual Reality Tool Kit. By the end of the book you'll be creating your own virtual reality experience using the fundamental building blocks within.

Long recognized as perhaps the greatest non-fiction writer at work in Ireland, for his vast, polymathic accounts of nature and culture in the Aran Islands and Connemara, Tim Robinson is also an essayist of genius whose fascinations range across the globe. In Experiments on Reality, he shines the light of his intelligence on his own life, and on some of the most fascinating questions in science and culture.

A lucid explanation of the basic contours of the Theravada Abhidamma system for serious students of Buddhist thought.

A physicist's efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics.

A groundbreaking examination of human perception, reality and the evolutionary schism between the two

This book raises the question of what visuality really is and how it is possible to explain it. Virtual reality is connected to our current environment with multiple ties. It affects the everyday operation of the media and hence all of our lives. The authors connect the concepts of pictorial turn and virtual reality from different perspectives and disciplines, from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy.

Augmented reality (AR) is transforming how we work, learn, play and connect with the world, and is now being introduced to the field of medicine, where it is revolutionising healthcare as pioneering virtual elements are being added to real images to provide a more compelling and intuitive view during procedures.

The purpose of this book is to bring us back to what leadership is: The role of affecting followers to achieve the organizational goals. Leadership Tough Love introduces ideas and observations that run counter to much current thinking on leadership. Timothy Lupfer takes a sober look at what leaders are and what they aspire to do. He firmly believes the time has come to inject some tough love into the leadership conversation.