Download or read book Death s Avatar written by S. M Reine and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Avatar The Last Airbender The Search Omnibus written by Gene Luen Yang and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately following the Avatar's adventures chronicled in The Promise, this remarkable omnibus that collects parts 1-3 of The Search, from Airbender creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko! For years, fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra have burned with one question--what happened to Fire Lord Zuko's mother? Finding a clue at last, Zuko enlists the aid of Team Avatar--and the most unlikely ally of all--to help uncover the biggest secret of his life.
Download or read book Dark Age written by Pierce Brown and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold. “Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR (Best Books of the Year) He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy? In his darkening shadow, a new hero rises. Lysander au Lune, the displaced heir to the old empire, has returned to bridge the divide between the Golds of the Rim and Core. If united, their combined might may prove fatal to the fledgling Republic. On Luna, the embattled Sovereign of the Republic, Virginia au Augustus, fights to preserve her precious demokracy and her exiled husband. But one may cost her the other, and her son is not yet returned. Abducted by enemy agents, Pax au Augustus must trust in a Gray thief, Ephraim, for his salvation. Far across the void, Lyria, a Red refugee accused of treason, makes a desperate bid for freedom with the help of two unlikely new allies. Fear dims the hopes of the Rising, and as power is seized, lost, and reclaimed, the worlds spin on and on toward a new Dark Age. Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga: RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER
Download or read book The Last Airbender Prequel written by Dave Roman and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of a a mysterious boy named Aang, who is an airbender--a race of people no one has seen in a century.
Download or read book Gaming Disability written by Katie Ellis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the opportunities and challenges people with disabilities experience in the context of digital games from the perspective of three related areas: representation, access and inclusion, and community. Drawing on key concerns in disability media studies, the book brings together scholars from disability studies and game studies, alongside game developers, educators, and disability rights activists, to reflect upon the increasing visibility of disabled characters in digital games. Chapters explore the contemporary gaming environment as it relates to disability on platforms such as Twitch, Minecraft, and Tingyou, while also addressing future possibilities and pitfalls for people with disabilities within gaming given the rise of virtual reality applications, and augmented games such as Pokémon Go. The book asks how game developers can attempt to represent diverse abilities, taking games such as BlindSide and Overwatch as examples. A significant collection for scholars and students interested in the critical analysis of digital games, this volume will be of interest across several disciplines including game studies, game design and development, internet, visual, cultural, communication and media studies, as well as disability studies.
Download or read book Gaming and the Divine written by Frank G. Bosman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book formulates a new theological approach to the study of religion in gaming. Video games have become one of the most important cultural artefacts of modern society, both as mediators of cultural, social, and religious values and in terms of commercial success. This has led to a significant increase in the critical analysis of this relatively new medium, but theology as an academic discipline is noticeably behind the other humanities on this subject. The book first covers the fundamentals of cultural theology and video games. It then moves on to set out a Christian systematic theology of gaming, focussing on creational theology, Christology, anthropology, evil, moral theology, and thanatology. Each chapter introduces case studies from video games connected to the specific theme. In contrast to many studies which focus on online multiplayer games, the examples considered are largely single player games with distinct narratives and ‘end of game’ moments. The book concludes by synthesising these themes into a new theology of video games. This study addresses a significant aspect of contemporary society that has yet to be discussed in any depth by theologians. It is, therefore, a fantastic resource for any scholar engaging with the religious aspects of digital and popular culture.
Download or read book Many Deaths of Laila Starr The 3 written by Ram V and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * More years have passed when Laila Starr, the now-mortal reincarnation of the avatar of Death, once again crosses paths with the future creator of immortality. * This time at a party where the young man will have a life-altering experience that will shape him for years to come. Will Laila change his path in this one night, or the other way around?
Download or read book eGods written by William Sims Bainbridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between religion and multi-player online roleplaying games? Are such games simply a secular distraction from traditional religious practices, or do they in fact offer a different route to the sacred? In eGods, a leading scholar in the study of virtual gameworlds takes an in-depth look at the fantasy religions of 41 games and arrives at some surprising conclusions. William Sims Bainbridge investigates all aspects of the gameworlds' religious dimensions: the focus on sacred spaces; the prevalence of magic; the fostering of a tribal morality by both religion and rules programmed into the game; the rise of cults and belief systems within the gameworlds (and how this relates to cults in the real world); the predominance of polytheism; and, of course, how gameworld religions depict death. As avatars are multiple and immortal, death is merely a minor setback in most games. Nevertheless, much of the action in some gameworlds centers on the issue of mortality and the problematic nature of resurrection. Examining EverQuest II, Lord of the Rings Online, Rift, World of Warcraft, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and many others, Bainbridge contends that gameworlds offer a new perspective on the human quest, one that combines the arts, simulates many aspects of real life, and provides meaningful narratives about achieving goals by overcoming obstacles. Indeed, Bainbridge suggests that such games take us back to those ancient nights around the fire, when shadows flickered and it was easy to imagine the monsters conjured by the storyteller lurking in the forest. Arguing that gameworlds reintroduce a curvilinear model of early religion, where today as in ancient times faith is inseparable from fantasy, eGods shows how the newest secular technology returns us to the very origins of religion so that we might "arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
Download or read book The Last Avatar of Jesus the Christ written by Aden John and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greatest Thing we can ever possess in this life . . . The Greatest Joy we ever may retain in this life . . . The Most Wonderful attainment all Created mortals may yet ever know in their lifetime . . . is; To LOVE GOD! - With all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our might . . . Irrespective of the vast myriads of belief systems, the most important Truth in all existence and in subsistence is The Pure All Absorbing Love of God. Irrespective of the human nomenclature assigned to This Incomprehensibly Pure Love of God; he who indeed Loves The One True God Whom he undoubtedly regards as THE SUPREME HIGHEST; he is he who knows that human tongues, languages, and relational differences can never amount into a force strong enough to erode That same Pure Love For God Planted inside his heart by The God he regards as THE SUPREME HIGHEST. Whatever nomenclature any mortal may have assigned to be That Pure Love of Godto any indivisible or divisible fragments, if any man claims to have This same Pure Love for God; such a man in Totality can never ever deny The Truth that in Jesus The Christ alone resides The Grand Summation of All The Representations of all Gods Love. Amazingly, the human nomenclature any set of people may have assigned to their Love For God may be different from that which another set may have assigned. If, therefore, language, tribe, race, or just about anything of human affiliations and origins stand as a dividing difference between humans who claim to have That same Incomprehensibly Pure Love for God; it then becomes questionable whether That Love they claim to have for God was Genuine and homogenous or not. If a man says he Loves God, but for whatever reasons known to him, acknowledges not The Last Avatar Whom The God he claims to Love has sent; then it becomes obvious that such a man willfully chooses to understand his Love for God in ways which he freely desires and not in the Simple way which has been revealed unto him. How then would he cope when That Love of God Decisively Judges the free wills of all humans? www.yousayyouloveme.org www.rhabbonilove.org
Download or read book The Many Deaths of Laila Starr written by Ram V and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past? A powerful new graphic novel from award-winning writer Ram V (These Savage Shores, Swamp Thing) and Filipe Andrade (Captain Marvel) that explores the fine line between living and dying through the lens of magical realism. Collects The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #1-5.
Download or read book Easy Death written by Adi Da Samraj and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New talks and essays from the Avatar Adi Da on death and ultimate transcendence; accounts of profound events of yogic death in Avatar Adi Da's own life; stories of his blessing in the death transitions of his devotees" -- Cover.
Download or read book Death s Judgement written by Jeffrey Alan Henning and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The previous Avatar of Death signed a contract which requires John Ashkore, the current Avatar of Death, to provide security in a trial between Avatars. Unfortunately the Champion of Law, who presides over the trial, falls ill and cannot continue the trial. John must now find a replacement while he and his friends come under attack from unseen forces, and still being hunted by the relentless FBI Agent, Lois Kine and her partner. John Ashkore is called to be the bailiff in the court of the Champion of Law. Bound by a decree that his predecessor signed, and told to kill everyone involved by Death himself, John must make a choice. He can do as his House is bound and cross Death, or take the easy way out and kill everyone involved. With mounting pressure in the world of Avatars, he's hard pressed to decide to start a one-man war or be killed himself. Unfortunately, the Champion of Law is poisoned during the proceedings, and a new one must be chosen or everyone involved will lose their Avatar powers. Luckily, Helena Thompson, the Avatar of Luck, steps in to help John with his decision.
Download or read book The Dark Side of Game Play written by Torill Elvira Mortensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Games allow players to experiment and play with subject positions, values and moral choice. In game worlds players can take on the role of antagonists; they allow us to play with behaviour that would be offensive, illegal or immoral if it happened outside of the game sphere. While contemporary games have always handled certain problematic topics, such as war, disasters, human decay, post-apocalyptic futures, cruelty and betrayal, lately even the most playful of genres are introducing situations in which players are presented with difficult ethical and moral dilemmas. This volume is an investigation of "dark play" in video games, or game play with controversial themes as well as controversial play behaviour. It covers such questions as: Why do some games stir up political controversies? How do games invite, or even push players towards dark play through their design? Where are the boundaries for what can be presented in a games? Are these boundaries different from other media such as film and books, and if so why? What is the allure of dark play and why do players engage in these practices?
Download or read book Crowds in the 21st Century written by John Drury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crowds in the 21st Century presents the latest theory and research on crowd events and crowd behaviour from across a range of social sciences, including psychology, sociology, law, and communication studies. Whether describing the language of the crowd in protest events, measuring the ability of the crowd to empower its participants, or analysing the role of professional organizations involved in crowd safety and public order, the contributions in this volume are united in their commitment to a social scientific level of analysis. The crowd is often depicted as a source of irrationality and danger – in the form of riots and mass emergencies. By placing crowd events back in their social context – their ongoing historical and proximal relationships with other groups and social structures – this volume restores meaning to the analysis of crowd behaviour. Together, the studies described in this collection demonstrate the potential of crowd research to enhance the positive experience of crowd participants and to improve design, planning, and management around crowd events. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies written by Mark J.P. Wolf and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive guide to contemporary video game studies, this second edition has been fully revised and updated to address the ongoing theoretical and methodological development of game studies. Expertly compiled by well-known video game scholars Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, the Companion includes comprehensive and interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing video games, new perspectives on video games both as an art form and cultural phenomenon, explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of video games, and accounts of the political, social, and cultural dynamics of video games. Brand new to this second edition are chapters examining topics such as preservation; augmented, mixed, and virtual reality; eSports; disability; diversity; and identity, as well as a new section that specifically examines the industrial aspects of video games including digital distribution, game labor, triple-A games, indie games, and globalization. Each essay provides a lively and succinct summary of its target area, quickly bringing the reader up-to-date on the pertinent issues surrounding each aspect of the field, including references for further reading. A comprehensive overview of the present state of video game studies that will undoubtedly prove invaluable to students, scholars, and game designers alike.
Download or read book Digital Death written by Christopher M. Moreman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating work explores the meaning of death in the digital age, showing readers the new ways digital technology allows humans to approach, prepare for, and handle their ultimate destiny. With DeadSocialTM one can create messages to be published to social networks after death. Facebook's "If I Die" enables users to create a video or text message for posthumous publication. Twitter _LIVESON accounts will keep tweeting even after the user is gone. There is no doubt that the digital age has radically changed options related to death, dying, grieving, and remembering, allowing people to say goodbye in their own time and their own unique way. Drawing from a range of academic perspectives, this book is the only serious study to focus on the ways in which death, dying, and memorialization appear in and are influenced by digital technology. The work investigates phenomena, devices, and audiences as they affect mortality, remembrances, grieving, posthumous existence, and afterlife experience. It examines the markets to which the providers of such services are responding, and it analyzes the degree to which digital media is changing views and expectations related to death. Ultimately, the contributors seek to answer an even more important question: how digital existences affect both real-world perceptions of life's end and the way in which lives are actually lived.
Download or read book Avatars Book Three Kingdom of Twilight written by Tui T. Sutherland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a post-apocalyptic future, four teenagers, created by mythological gods and goddesses to be pawns in a game, prove once more to be unpredictable as they battle in Africa and wander through the underworlds.
