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Book From Sun Tzu to XBox

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ed Halter
  • Publisher : Public Affairs
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781560256816
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book From Sun Tzu to XBox written by Ed Halter and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the relationship between games and military culture traces gaming's origins in ancient civilizations and rise in the modern world, in an account that covers such topics as nineteenth-century Kriegspiel, the development of computers during World War II, and the invention of video games by Department of Defense-funded scientists. Original.

Book Playing to Win

Download or read book Playing to Win written by David Sirlin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning at competitive games requires a results-oriented mindset that many players are simply not willing to adopt. This book walks players through the entire process: how to choose a game and learn basic proficiency, how to break through the mental barriers that hold most players back, and how to handle the issues that top players face. It also includes a complete analysis of Sun Tzu's book The Art of War and its applications to games of today. These foundational concepts apply to virtually all competitive games, and even have some application to "real life." Trade paperback. 142 pages.

Book Electronic Superhighway

Download or read book Electronic Superhighway written by Omar Kholeif and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying a landmark exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, this catalogue explores the impact of computer and networked technologies on artists from the mid-1960s to the present day.

Book Tom Clancy s Ghost Recon

Download or read book Tom Clancy s Ghost Recon written by David Michaels and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army’s Special Forces are known for their highly specialized training and courage behind enemy lines. But there’s a group that’s even more stealthy and deadly. It’s comprised of the most feared operators on the face of the earth—the soldiers of Ghost Recon.

Book Brave NUI World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Wigdor
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 2011-04-05
  • ISBN : 0123822327
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Brave NUI World written by Daniel Wigdor and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brave NUI World is the first practical guide for designing touch- and gesture-based user interfaces. Written by the team from Microsoft that developed the multi-touch, multi-user Surface® tabletop product, it introduces the reader to natural user interfaces (NUI). It gives readers the necessary tools and information to integrate touch and gesture practices into daily work, presenting scenarios, problem solving, metaphors, and techniques intended to avoid making mistakes. This book considers diverse user needs and context, real world successes and failures, and the future of NUI. It presents thirty scenarios, giving practitioners a multitude of considerations for making informed design decisions and helping to ensure that missteps are never made again. The book will be of value to game designers as well as practitioners, researchers, and students interested in learning about user experience design, user interface design, interaction design, software design, human computer interaction, human factors, information design, and information architecture. - Provides easy-to-apply design guidance for the unique challenge of creating touch- and gesture-based user interfaces - Considers diverse user needs and context, real world successes and failures, and a look into the future of NUI - Presents thirty scenarios, giving practitioners a multitude of considerations for making informed design decisions and helping to ensure that missteps are never made again

Book War Play

    Book Details:
  • Author : Corey Mead
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0544031563
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book War Play written by Corey Mead and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert on military innovation reveals how video games are revolutionizing warfare from the battlefield to the highest echelons of the Pentagon.

Book Deterioration  They Said

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raphael Gygax
  • Publisher : Jrp Ringier
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Deterioration They Said written by Raphael Gygax and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American artists Cory Arcangel, Jessica Ciocci & Jacob Ciocci / Paper Rad, Shana Moulton, and Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, have been brought together in this publication. In their works the artists create an overwhelming, colour-charged aesthetic with an excessive density of content, reacting to the consumer-oriented condition of Western society. In their image-spaces the four collaborations address a culture of excess, constructing their critique via a form of appropriation, which simultaneously releases a veritable deluge of images. In the tradition of experimental film and Scatter art they probe potential unconventional narrative patterns and test for the disintegration of stereotypes. As a result, the video works are often shown in sculptural settings, in which fragments of pop culture and handcrafted forms are amalgamated into an multimedia Gesamtkunstwerk. Published with the migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich.

Book Gamer Theory

    Book Details:
  • Author : McKenzie Wark
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674044835
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Gamer Theory written by McKenzie Wark and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides? Welcome to gamespace, the world in which we live. Where others argue obsessively over violence in games, Wark contends that digital computer games are our society's emergent cultural form, a utopian version of the world as it is. Gamer Theory uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the imperfect gamespace of everyday life in the rat race of free-market society.

Book Gaming Rhythms

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Apperley
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2011-06-16
  • ISBN : 908160211X
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Gaming Rhythms written by Tom Apperley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Global gaming networks are heterogenous collectives of localized practices, not unified commercial products. Shifting the analysis of digital games to local specificities that build and perform the global and general, Gaming Rhythms employs ethnographic work conducted in Venezuela and Australia to account for the material experiences of actual game players. This book explores the materiality of digital play across diverse locations and argues that the dynamic relation between the everyday life of the player and the experience of digital game play can only be understood by examining play-practices in their specific situations." -- Website.

Book Mass Effect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lauren Cornell
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2015-10-23
  • ISBN : 0262330687
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book Mass Effect written by Lauren Cornell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, discussions, and image portfolios map the evolution of art forms engaged with the Internet. Since the turn of the millennium, the Internet has evolved from what was merely a new medium to a true mass medium—with a deeper and wider cultural reach, greater opportunities for distribution and collaboration, and more complex corporate and political realities. Mapping a loosely chronological series of formative arguments, developments, and happenings, Mass Effect provides an essential guide to understanding the dynamic and ongoing relationship between art and new technologies. Mass Effect brings together nearly forty contributions, including newly commissioned essays and reprints, image portfolios, and transcribed discussion panels and lectures that offer insights and reflections from a wide range of artists, curators, art historians, and bloggers. Among the topics examined are the use of commercial platforms for art practice, what art means in an age of increasing surveillance, and questions surrounding such recent concepts as “postinternet.” Other contributions analyze and document particular works by the artists of And/Or Gallery, Cory Arcangel, DIS, Cao Fei, the Radical Software Group, and others. Mass Effect relaunches a publication series initiated by the MIT Press and the New Museum in 1984, which produced six defining volumes for the field of contemporary art. These new volumes will build on this historic partnership and reinvigorate the conversation around contemporary culture once again. Copublished with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images found in the physical edition. Contributors Cory Arcangel, Karen Archey, Michael Bell-Smith, Claire Bishop, Dora Budor, Johanna Burton, Paul Chan, Ian Cheng, Michael Connor, Lauren Cornell, Petra Cortright, Jesse Darling, Anne de Vries, DIS, Aleksandra Domanović, Harm van den Dorpel, Dragan Espenschied, Rózsa Zita Farkas, Azin Feizabadi, Alexander R. Galloway, Boris Groys, Ed Halter, Alice Ming Wai Jim, Jogging, Caitlin Jones, David Joselit, Dina Kafafi, John Kelsey, Alex Kitnick, Tina Kukielski, Oliver Laric, Mark Leckey, David Levine, Olia Lialina, Guthrie Lonergan, Jordan Lord, Jens Maier-Rothe, Shawn Maximo, Jennifer McCoy, Kevin McCoy, Gene McHugh, Tom Moody, Ceci Moss, Katja Novitskova, Marisa Olson, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Alexander Provan, Morgan Quaintance, Domenico Quaranta, Raqs Media Collective, Alix Rule, Timur Si-Qin, Josephine Berry Slater, Paul Slocum, Rebecca Solnit, Wolfgang Staehle, Hito Steyerl, Martine Syms, Ben Vickers, Michael Wang, Tim Whidden, Anicka Yi, and Damon Zucconi

Book SUN TZU 360     REVEALING THE SECRETS

Download or read book SUN TZU 360 REVEALING THE SECRETS written by James Sonhill DBA and published by Sonhill Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun Tzu 360™: Revealing The Secrets has 360 proven strategy principles that are timeless and universal. This book reveals powerful ideas and concepts and amazing secrets that are hidden in each strategy principle. The information in this book will be the powerful knowledge for your success in business and in life. Reading it will give you inspiration and power as well as clarity and certainty which you need in order to solve any challenging problems and take on any business opportunities so that you can win more and succeed more as well as achieve more and accomplish more. For more information on our business strategy books, business strategy planners, business strategy courses, and business strategy certification programs, visit our websites: www.JamesSonhill.com and www.SunTzuStore.com.

Book SUN TZU 360

Download or read book SUN TZU 360 written by James Sonhill DBA and published by Sonhill Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The translation of Sun Tzu The Art of War™ in this book is the only translation in the world that has 360 strategy principles. These principles are timeless, universal, proven, and practical. They strategically form a comprehensive strategy system that can be used in any businesses and any competing industries. This book reveals main ideas and hidden secrets in each strategy principle. Understanding these ideas and secrets will grant you realism to this powerful philosophy of victory. Mastering and applying Sun Tzu The Art of War™ will give you upper hand and competitive edge you need in order to compete and succeed both in business and in life. WHAT THIS BOOK CAN DO FOR YOU: SUN TZU 360™ can truly give you access to the power knowledge of Sun Tzu The Art of War™ which you can use to empower yourself and improve your competing skills for decisive leadership and effective decision making as a business leader and business decision maker. As an entrepreneur, a businessperson, a business leader, an executive or a manager, your team and organization depend your ability to lead them and make effective decisions that will turn weaknesses and disadvantages into strengths and advantages and will bring them outstanding results. This is why SUN TZU 360™ is critical for your leadership and decision making skills. In this business strategy book, you will discover 360 proven strategy principles and their ideas and secrets which you can apply to lead your team and business organization and even outmaneuver your competitors. These 360 proven strategy principles will help you build your business strengths and competitive advantages which you need in order to survive and succeed in the rapidly changing and highly competitive business world of today. SUN TZU 360™ is the foundation of business survival and business success. This business strategy book is the only book in the world that has 360 timeless and universal strategy principles of Sun Tzu The Art of War™. These 360 proven strategy principles help form a comprehensive strategy system which you can apply in all aspects of your business so that you can win and succeed in your competing industry. SUN TZU 360™ was written by James Sonhill DBA who is the world leading authority on Sun Tzu The Art of War™ and competitive business strategy, the international bestselling author of more than 90 classic and modern business strategy books, and the founder of Strategy Institute of America™ that is currently offering 32 business strategy courses and 12 business strategy certification programs worldwide. SUN TZU 360™ is one of his nine Sun Tzu Branding™ books which include SUN TZU AOW™, SUN TZU PRO™, SUN TZU 1OX™, SUN TZU BIZ™, SUN TZU CEO™, SUN TZU ONE™, SUN TZU USA™, and SUN TZU MBA™. For this reason, SUN TZU 360™ should be your No.1 business book of choice when it comes to your strategic planning, your business strategy, and your victory over your business competition. Give this book a try and you will discover how its 360 practical strategy principles can help you improve your skills for decisive leadership and effective decision making. For more information on our business strategy books, business strategy planners, business strategy courses, and business strategy certification programs, visit our websites: www.JamesSonhill.com and www.SunTzuStore.com.

Book Dead Flowers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lia Gangitano
  • Publisher : Vox Populi Publishers, LLC
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780980232424
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dead Flowers written by Lia Gangitano and published by Vox Populi Publishers, LLC. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vox Populi and PARTICIPANT INC are pleased to present Dead Flowers, a group exhibition based on the work of actor/director Timothy Carey. Carey became known as a pioneer of underground film due to his rarely seen 1962 film, 'The World's Greatest Sinner'. Screenings of this and other unreleased films by Carey, as well as a presentation of his ephemera and artifacts, will be organized in cooperation with Romeo Carey, the artist's son and Executor of the Timothy Carey Estate. The exhibition draws themes from Carey's unique correlation between his life and work, which sought to define what it means to be an artist through an uncompromising understanding of the meaning of success ... Dead Flowers brings together an intergenerational group of artists to address such shifting methodologies, ideals, aesthetics, and working models, as expressed by works from the late 60s and 70s (by Alvin Baltrop, Paul Thek, and Cynthia Plaster Caster), and contemporary works by subsequent generations of artists (including Kembra Pfahler, Scott Ewalt, Marti Domination, Georg Gatsas, and Johanna Constantine) and of course, both, as many of the artists' work spans this entire period. The exhibition aims to address the relationship between alternative and mass culture by bringing together a small group of artists who have consistently aligned themselves with communities outside the mainstream, and entered the dominant fields of art and film, sporadically and to critical effect, as uncompromising proof that other ways of working are possible - inside and outside traditional expectations of the artist - to rewrite rules of artistic production through conscious economic and critical efficiency.--http://voxpopuligallery.org.

Book The Military Entertainment Complex

Download or read book The Military Entertainment Complex written by Tim Lenoir and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise of drones and computer-controlled weapons, the line between war and video games continues to blur. In this book, the authors trace how the realities of war are deeply inflected by their representation in popular entertainment. War games and other media, in turn, feature an increasing number of weapons, tactics, and threat scenarios from the War on Terror. While past analyses have emphasized top-down circulation of pro-military ideologies through government public relations efforts and a cooperative media industry, The Military-Entertainment Complex argues for a nonlinear relationship, defined largely by market and institutional pressures. Tim Lenoir and Luke Caldwell explore the history of the early days of the video game industry, when personnel and expertise flowed from military contractors to game companies; to a middle period when the military drew on the booming game industry to train troops; to a present in which media corporations and the military influence one another cyclically to predict the future of warfare. In addition to obvious military-entertainment titles like AmericaÕs Army, Lenoir and Caldwell investigate the rise of best-selling franchise games such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, Medal of Honor, and Ghost Recon. The narratives and aesthetics of these video games permeate other media, including films and television programs. This commodification and marketing of the future of combat has shaped the publicÕs imagination of war in the post-9/11 era and naturalized the U.S. PentagonÕs vision of a new way of war.

Book The Art of War Plus the Art of Politics  Strategy for Campaigns

Download or read book The Art of War Plus the Art of Politics Strategy for Campaigns written by MR Gary J. Gagliardi and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two books in one. This book contains the complete award-winning translation of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" plus its line-by-line adaptation, "The Art of Politics," applying Sun Tzu's proven principles to winning campaigns. The two versions, the original text and its application to politics, are shown side-by-side, line-by-line. The purpose of this book is to introduce those involved in political campaigns to the strategic principles of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and their use in politics. In Sun Tzu's view, success goes not to the most aggressive but to those who best understand their situation and what their alternatives really are. When you have mastered Sun Tzu's system of strategy, you will be able to almost instantly analyze political situations, spot political opportunities, and make the appropriate decisions. This book addresses a range of challenges, including evaluating your supporters and voters, planning a campaign, adjusting to the local voters' specific needs, diagnosing a voter's behavior, and so on. Sample Text (Chapter One, Stanzas 1-2) "Sun Tzu said: This is war. It is the most important skill in the nation. It is the basis of life and death. It is the philosophy of survival or destruction. You must know it well." The campaigner hears: This is politics. It is the most valuable skill in any nation. It is the source of a nation's wealth or poverty. It is a course to success or disaster. You must study politics seriously. "Your skill comes from five factors. Study these factors when you plan war. You must insist on knowing your situation. 1. Discuss philosophy. 2. Discuss the climate. 3. Discuss the ground. 4. Discuss leadership. 5. Discuss military methods." Using five factors determines your political success. Consider all these factors when you analyze a given political race. You use them to know your political position: 1. Talk about your political philosophy. 2. Talk about the changing political trends. 3. Talk about the politics of the geographical area. 4. Talk about each politician's talents. 5. And talk about your campaign process. Table of Contents Art of War Art of Politics Foreword: Using Strategy in Politics 9 Introduction: Sun Tzu's Basic Concepts 17 1 Analysis 24 Your Political Position 26 2 Going to War 38 Picking a Campaign 40 3 Planning an Attack 50 Your Political Ground 52 4 Positioning 62 Positions on Issues 64 5 Momentum 74 Creative Campaigning 76 6 Weakness and Strength 86 Your Voters' Needs 88 7 Armed Conflict 102 Contacting Voters 104 8 Adaptability 116 Campaign Adjustments 118 9 Armed March 126 Moving the Campaign Forward 128 10 Field Position 146 Campaign Positions 148 11 Types of Terrain 164 Campaign Stages 166 12 Attacking with Fire 190 Firestorms of Controversy 192 13 Using Spies 202 Political Intelligence 204 Glossary of Terms in The Art of War 216 Index of Topics in The Art of War 220 About the Authors

Book SUN TZU 360     COMPLETE TRANSLATION

Download or read book SUN TZU 360 COMPLETE TRANSLATION written by James Sonhill DBA and published by Sonhill Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun Tzu 360™: Complete Translation has 360 proven strategy principles that are timeless and universal as well as practical and effective in any situation. This book is adapted directly from comprehensive translation of Sun Tzu AOW™ conducted by James Sonhill DBA in 2013. The knowledge in this book will serve as a crucial foundation for your success in business and in life. Reading 360 Sun Tzu AOW™ principles will inspire you and give you strength and power as well as clarity and certainty which you need in order to win and succeed in today’s highly competitive and rapidly changing globalized world. For more information on our business strategy books, business strategy planners, business strategy courses, and business strategy certification programs, visit our websites: www.JamesSonhill.com and www.SunTzuStore.com.

Book Deadpool s Art of War

Download or read book Deadpool s Art of War written by Peter David and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Deadpool's Art of War #1-4.