Bøger af Joseph Carrabis

"The only rules that bind us are those we place on ourselves."Such is the great revelation which The Shaman's Gio "John Chance" Fortuna discovers during one of the most tumultuous periods of his life.In college and having spent most of his life avoiding his grandfather's trainings, he finds himself called to remember and practice his grandfather's ancient ways to save children from human monsters.But every step into The Old Ways drives a wedge between Gio and Jess, the woman he loves and wants to spend his life with. Originally relishing the idea of her own personal Superman, she grows increasingly fearful each time Gio manifests an ability beyond her comprehension.And when both he and Jess realize he can use his grandfather's teachings to force Jess' to spend her life with him without her knowing he's done so? Even though doing so violates everything he's ever been taught?Gio realizes being able to do anything doesn't mean he can do everything, and that the strongest bonds on us are those we place on ourselves.Reader Comments:"Carrabis knocks another one right out of the park!""Once again Carrabis takes us on a wild ride wondering how he'll bring it all together. Never fear, he does and in grand style.""Gio's soliloquy about the use of power is something every industrialist, every government official, every religious leader needs to read.""Carrabis pens a gritty paranormal psychological thriller that keeps you in your seat until you've turned the last page.""Go ahead, pick a genre. Carrabis covers them all: paranormal, fantasy, thriller, true crime, magic realism, ... If you know the world is more than you can see, you'll love this one.""Characters intertwine and grow in unexpected ways, especially ways that show a balance in all things; Great Gifts often bring Great Loss. It hurts you as a reader to see it happen on the page. That's good storytelling.""Much like in his The Inheritors, Carrabis poses great philosophical questions in the guise of understandable, believable characters. Amazing!""Carrabis' Search proves that power need not corrupt, and absolute power need not corrupt absolutely."Content Advisory: Search contains graphic scenes of sex and violence.

The Shaman is a metaphysical memoir, the diary of Gio Fortuna ("John Chance" in English), who embarks on a lifelong search to discover his own purpose and meaning in life, to answer "Why am I here?"Gio, misdiagnosed as mentally deficient while a babe still in diapers, is about to be institutionalized by his parents. His grandparents trained in The Practice, a collection of mystical traditions developed, secreted away, and now known only to a few since humans first gathered and learned of Fire, rescue him and, not believing what the doctors have said, begin teaching him in their ways.The novel follows Gio on a quest much like the hero in Campbell's The Hero's Journey, and is his first person account of recognizing there's more to the world than modern society recognizes, his discoveries while on that quest, and his return to the modern world to use what's he's learned wisely.

This version of Reading Virtual Minds Volume I: Science and History is full color interior. 25% of net sales goes to charities. Contact NextStage to learn what charities we're supporting with this effort. Forward by Dan Linton.This is a "How we did it" book, not a "How you can do it, too" book. It's the base book for all that NextStage does and all that Evolution Technology can do. This book deals with social networks and concepts, psycholinguistics, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, digital properties, consumer psychology, usability and design. Please email me a picture of you holding my book (you can find me on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter). We'd like to know who's reading it and where.

This version of Reading Virtual Minds Volume II: Experience and Expectation is full color interior. 25% of net sales goes to charities. Contact NextStage to learn what charities we're supporting with this effort. And send us a picture of you (or whatever) holding the book. We love that kind of stuff. Now, from Holly Buchanan's Foreword... After inhaling Reading Virtual Minds Volume I I was like an antsy 3-year old waiting for Reading Virtual Minds Volume II. It did not disappoint. I love the way Joseph Carrabis thinks. He has a unique ability to share broad rich theory with actionable specifics. Unlike many technical writers, he has a unique voice that is both approachable and humorous. It makes for an enjoyable read. But what's the main reason why you should read Reading Virtual Minds Volume II: Experiences and Expectations? Because where most companies and designers fail is on the expectation front. Humans are designed as expectation engines. This is, perhaps, the most important sentence in this book. One of the main points Joseph makes in this volume is this - Understand your audiences' whys and you'll design near perfect whats. Design failures come from getting the whys wrong. That can lead to failures on the experience side, but also on the expectation side. And that can be the bigger problem. Expectation is a top-down process. Higher-level information informs lower-level processing. Experience is a bottom-up process. Sensory information goes into higher-level processing for evaluation. Humans are designed as expectation engines. Topdown connections out number bottom-up connections by about 10:1. Why is this so important? In language, more than anywhere else, we see or hear what we expect to hear, not necessarily what is said or written. Across all cultures and languages, neurophysiologists and psychologists estimate that what we experience is as much as 85% what we expect to experience, not necessarily what is real or 'environmentally available'. And When people expect A and get B they go through a few moments of fugue. External reality is not synching up with internal reality and the mind and brain will, if allowed, burn themselves out making the two mesh. Get your consumer/visitor/user experience AND expectation right, get their why right, and you'll be exponentially more successful. Here are just a few of the goodies you'll find in this book: Privacy vs. value exchange and when to ask for what information. Joseph has some actionable specifics on this that will surprise you. Why we design for false attractors rather than the real problem. The importance of understanding convincer strategies. Convincer strategies are the internal processes people go through in order to convince themselves they should or should not do something. Companies spend a lot of time trying to convince consumers to trust them. But what may be even more important is understanding how to let consumers you know you trust them. This book has ideas on how to show your customers/users/visitors, "I believe in you". How often our own experience influence our designs. Unless you're able to throw all your experience out, and let the user's experience in, get out of the usability and design business. How to allow your visitors easy Anonymous-Expressive Identity and make them yours forever. Regarding new material, design, interface, the importance of making sure your suggestions provide a clear path to the past (thus being risk averse while providing marketable innovation). As always, Reading Virtual Minds provides specific actionable ideas. But it will also make you think and approach your work in a new way. And I think that's the best reason to treat yourself to this book and the inner workings of NextStage and Joseph Carrabis.

Can one young boy's beliefs about himself and the universe change the structure of reality?A shapeshifting monster driven by primal desires shatters concepts of intelligent design and becomes an incarnation of vengeance.A child with a strange gift is abducted from home and must learn to co-exist with beings far different from himself.A boy exposed to dark magic and demonic rituals must tread carefully or become the thing he fears.Creatures from the end of time travel through human history kidnapping children to save a bizarre future world.Physics, mysticism, biological science, and theology are woven into a dark, thought-provoking novel taking readers on a journey they could have never imagined possible, challenged to rethink everything they thought they knew about history, time, space, and the nature of life itself."Reminiscent of the works of Pynchon, Clarke, and Vonnegut,..."

Nicholas Trailer is the last of The Augmented Men.The last of nine severely abused and traumatized children biogenetically engineered into super soldiers beyond anything ever conceived throughout all of history. These children, modified into monsters and each capable of executing the most horrifying deeds without feeling remorse or regret, are loosed upon the enemy to help the US win a war rampaging far longer than anyone believed possible.The war ended with Nick's team sacrificed to the enemy as part of the truce. His team tortured and killed in front of him, Nick alone escaped, returned home, and hid deep in the northern Maine forests.Until someone said, "I love you."But Nick's never been loved, doesn't know if he can even feel love, and for the first time since Augmentation is terrified the monster he is might destroy the woman who wants to teach him about love.Desperate for a solution, Nick seeks out his handlers. But his handlers thought him dead, gone, a bad memory, and no longer their concern.Nick surfaces and is quickly recognized as a threat to the government's clandestine Augmentation Program. Those in power give Nick's creator, Major James Donaldson, explicit orders: kill it before it kills again.Find out what happens when the ultimate weapon falls in love.

Volume 1: 4th edition; volumes 2-3: 1st edition.

Volume 1: 4th edition; volumes 2-3: 1st edition.

Volume 1: 4th edition; volumes 2-3: 1st edition.