Download or read book Computer Gaming World written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds written by P. Lacasa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children's video games can cultivate learning. Lacasa takes several commercial video games and shows how they can be used both in and out of the classroom to teach initiative and problem-solving, encourage creativity, promote literacy, and develop reasoning skills.

Download or read book Popular Revenants written by Andrew Cusack and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing interest in the internationality of the literary Gothic, which is well established in English Studies. Gothic fiction is seen as transgressive, especially in the way it crosses borders, often illicitly. In the 1790s, when the English Gothic novel was emerging, the real or ostensible source of many of these uncanny texts was Germany. This first book in English dedicated to the German Gothic in over thirty years redresses deficiencies in existing English-language sources, which are outdated, piecemeal, or not sufficiently grounded in German Studies.

Download or read book Visualising Worlds written by Martyn Hudson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social production of our world, of the worlds of the past and of the worlds of the future, considering the ways in which worlds are created in both actuality and imagination. Bringing together central concepts of classical sociology, including social change, transformation, individuation, collectivisation and human imagination and practice, it draws lessons from the collapse of Graeco-Roman antiquity for our own world of virus and ecological disasters, considers the genesis of capitalism and intimates its ending. Rooted in classical sociology yet challenging its traditions and objects of study, Visualising Worlds: World-Making and Social Theory adopts new ways of thinking about visuality, aesthetics and how we ‘see’ social worlds, and how we then begin to build them. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory, historical sociology, cultural studies, critical theory, archaeology, and the emergence, change and collapse of civilisations.

Download or read book Secretly Yours written by Vikrant Khanna and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has secrets . . . but is hers the most shocking? Orphaned at birth, seventeen-year-old Sahil has always blamed himself for his parents' death. He has little interest in life until he meets the enigmatic Anya in a chance encounter during the Shimla fest. Soon he falls head over heels in love with her, but Anya doesn't reciprocate his feelings. An accident leaves him in a coma and when he wakes up he makes a startling discovery-he can read minds! Now he can find out what goes on in Anya's mind and maybe, just maybe, make her fall in love with him. But is Anya all she seems? Or is she hiding something? Deliciously plotted, full of morbid secrets and startling revelations, Secretly Yours will make you question what you see and who you trust.

Download or read book Winged Worlds written by Olga Petri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores our often-surprising modes of co-inhabiting the cultural and aerial worlds of birds. It focuses on our encounters with non-captive birds and the cultural geographies of feathered flight. This book offers a timely contribution to the more-than-human geographies of flight, space and territory. The chapters support an ethics of attention as a new basis for the conservation and cultivation of aerial habitats. Contributions adopt an interdisciplinary approach to the patterns of intrusion and escape that shape our encounters with birds and unsettle our traditionally terrestrial concepts of space. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of our shared lives with birds, ranging from scientific observation to the social media-enabled spectacle of co-habitation and spatial competition. Written in a thought-provoking style, this book seeks to address a dearth of critical perspectives on the cultural geographies of flight and its implications for the ways in which we understand common spaces around and above us in the context of any effort at conservation.

Download or read book Revenant s Call written by Rain Oxford and published by Rain Oxford. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devon Sanders, a private investigator known for his efficiency and discretion, has proven himself to be a formidable wizard in the paranormal world. This time, however, his reputation could be his downfall. Devon takes a job at a paranormal children’s school, thinking it will be easy. With danger, treason, and enemies at every turn, he soon learns that the stakes are higher than ever. His priorities will be tested when dark magic appears to be the only chance for survival. Magic is elemental.

Download or read book Revenants of the German Empire written by Sean Andrew Wempe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles stripped Germany of its overseas colonies. This sudden transition to a post-colonial nation left the men and women invested in German imperialism to rebuild their status on the international stage. Remnants of an earlier era, these Kolonialdeutsche (Colonial Germans) exploited any opportunities they could to recover, renovate, and market their understandings of German and European colonial aims in order to reestablish themselves as "experts" and "fellow civilizers" in discourses on nationalism and imperialism. Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations tracks the difficulties this diverse group of Colonial Germans encountered while they adjusted to their new circumstances, as repatriates to Weimar Germany or as subjects of the War's victors in the new African Mandates. Faced with novel systems of international law, Colonial Germans re-situated their notions of imperial power and group identity to fit in a world of colonial empires that were not their own. The book examines how former colonial officials, settlers, and colonial lobbies made use of the League of Nations framework to influence diplomatic flashpoints including the Naturalization Controversy in Southwest Africa, the Locarno Conference, and the Permanent Mandates Commission from 1927-1933. Sean Wempe revises standard historical portrayals of the League of Nations' form of international governance, German participation in the League, the role of interest groups in international organizations and diplomacy, and liberal imperialism. In analyzing Colonial German investment and participation in interwar liberal internationalism, the project challenges the idea of a direct continuity between Germany's colonial period and the Nazi era.

Download or read book The World s Greatest Escape Stories written by Lamar Underwood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are a prisoner of war, a prisoner of nature’s fury, or a prisoner of society, one word smashes your thoughts against a blockade of desperation: Escape! The stakes are higher than freedom itself—chains unshackled, steel doors opened, gunfire avoided. At stake is life itself, and the odds against winning the struggle are immense. The stories in this collection are pulse-pounding accounts of escape attempts of soldiers trapped on battlefields, outdoor adventurers facing nature’s darkest hours, and POWs of all nationalities. The pain of wounds, loneliness, and defeat are captured in prose that makes these stories come alive.

Download or read book World s Best Science Fiction written by Terry Carr and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Afterlife written by Naomi Clark and published by Damnation Books. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yasmin Stoker is a ghost tour guide who spends her days showing tourists around Shoregrave's haunted hotspots. She also happens to be a wraith who spends her nights hunting Revenants, newly-risen flesh-eating vampires. On one of her regular hunts, she witnesses a mysterious ghostly girl pulling the body of a teenage boy underground. Who and what is this girl, and why is she attacking men around the city? Yasmin investigates, but it quickly becomes clear that somebody wants to keep her from finding the killer and they'll do anything-including ambushing her with ghouls and cacodaemons-to stop her. With only a persistent private eye and a taciturn vampire (one of the Immaculate, no less) to help her, Yasmin must deal with fanatical necromancers, crazed ghosts, and a sexy history teacher in her quest to solve the mystery. And along the way she uncovers some heartbreaking truths about her own existence.

Download or read book Revenant World written by Jason Weaver and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gods are dead, the New World Order is up and running, and trans-dimensional portals are interrupting morning commutes. Welcome to the city of Polis. Revenant World is a tabletop role-playing game where you and a group of friends will take on the roles of Vagabonds-- rebellious adolescents from Polis just doing their best to navigate the treacherous halls of high school as well as the alien worlds of the Microcosmic Plane. Boasting a robust, fast-paced combat system, freeform crafting mechanics, and a unique two-part Class and magic system that gives rise to 1,920 unique abilities, Revenant World is your portal to a vibrant science fantasy world filled with undead gods, uptight law enforcement, fearsome monsters, and teen angst in outer space. What could go wrong? Revenant World uses a conflict-resolution system inspired by the Powered by the Apocalypse family of games, where players roll all the dice and the GM makes reactionary moves, keeping the flow of gameplay fast-paced and dynamic. Players have lots of control over how to make their character, with 8 races, 10 Jobs (Fighter, Thief, Witch, etc.) and 12 Arcana (Heat, Storm, Soul, etc.). Jobs and Arcana combine to make 48 unique character Classes, each with their own list of magical abilities that allow them to shape the world in unpredictable ways by combining a magical effect from your Job with an elemental supply from your Arcana. Leveling up offers a lot of freedom as well. When you've earned the requisite XP, you can choose to spend it on an upgrade to health or stamina, or on a new ability of your choice. You can also save XP to use during gameplay for a variety of effects. Players also have access to the open-ended Synthesis mechanic, a crafting system that allows them to fuse mundane objects into useful tools and weapons, prioritizing the combat Manuevers they want to favor. Do you want to be better at hitting one enemy really hard, or hitting all the enemies at once? Grappling or disarming? Dodging or blocking? Whatever skills you prioritize when crafting your gear, the GM will choose which other skills you have to sacrifice in return. To play, you'll need this manual, 3-5 people, a set of polyhedral dice, some pencils, and a set of playbooks, which can be found on Twitter @RevenantWorld and on Reddit at r/RevenantWorld and downloaded for free. The 227 page manual contains rules and tips for players and GMs, dozens of full-color illustrations, and 2 sample scenarios to get you started.

Download or read book The Balance Everything Has A Beginning written by Daniel Odom and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short read that takes place in a wild and savage fantasy world. It shows us a world ruled by overwhelming evil. Yet in this dark time there is a light that begins to shine through. The world has vivid characters that enter amazing battles to cast away the evil. The only question is; will the light overcome the darkness?

Download or read book Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South written by Professor Claire Raymond and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers and Zora Neale Hurston, Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence in American women's literature and photography. Raymond explores the idea that a femininity constructed by the positioning of the feminine character as witness to sadistic acts is a phenomenon distinctly of the American South that is linked to the culture's history of racism.

Download or read book World s Edge written by David Hair and published by Jo Fletcher Books. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renegade sorcerer Raythe Vyre went off the edge of the map, seeking riches and redemption . . . but he has found the impossible: a vanished civilisation - and the threat of eternal damnation! Chasing a dream of wealth and freedom, Raythe Vyre's ragtag caravan of refugees from imperial oppression went off the map, into the frozen wastes of the north. What they found there was beyond all their expectations: Rath Argentium, the legendary city of the long-vanished Aldar, complete with its fabled floating citadel. Even more unexpectedly, they encountered the Tangato, the remnants of the people who served the Aldar, who are shocked to learn that they're not alone in the world - and hostile to Raythe's interlopers. What awaits Raythe's people in the haunted castle that floats above them, the lair of the last Aldar King? Everlasting wealth - or eternal damnation?

Download or read book The Bible in Folklore Worldwide written by Eric Ziolkowski and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the Handbooks of the Bible and Its Reception (HBR) provide comprehensive introductions to individual topics in biblical reception history. They address a wide range of academic fields and interdisciplinary matters, including reception of the Bible in various contexts and historical periods; in diverse geographic areas; in particular cultural, social, and political contexts; and in relation to important biblical themes, topics, and figures.

Download or read book Fire and Snow written by Marc DiPaolo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fellow Inklings J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis may have belonged to different branches of Christianity, but they both made use of a faith-based environmentalist ethic to counter the mid-twentieth-century's triple threats of fascism, utilitarianism, and industrial capitalism. In Fire and Snow, Marc DiPaolo explores how the apocalyptic fantasy tropes and Christian environmental ethics of the Middle-earth and Narnia sagas have been adapted by a variety of recent writers and filmmakers of "climate fiction," a growing literary and cinematic genre that grapples with the real-world concerns of climate change, endless wars, and fascism, as well as the role religion plays in easing or escalating these apocalyptic-level crises. Among the many other well-known climate fiction narratives examined in these pages are Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games, The Handmaid's Tale, Mad Max, and Doctor Who. Although the authors of these works stake out ideological territory that differs from Tolkien's and Lewis's, DiPaolo argues that they nevertheless mirror their predecessors' ecological concerns. The Christians, Jews, atheists, and agnostics who penned these works agree that we all need to put aside our cultural differences and transcend our personal, socioeconomic circumstances to work together to save the environment. Taken together, these works of climate fiction model various ways in which a deep ecological solidarity might be achieved across a broad ideological and cultural spectrum. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched—an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7137 .