Download or read book Take Your Place in Game History written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Status Game written by Will Storr and published by William Collins. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Science of Storytelling comes a bold and ambitious investigation of status that will redefine human culture for our times There's something humans desire even more than gold. It's a fundamental drive that's common to all humanity, cutting across race, gender, age and culture. Our need for it is such that exactly how much of it we possess dramatically effects not only our happiness and well-being but also our physical health. It'sstatus, argues Will Storr. You can't understand human behaviour without understanding The Status Game. This game, which we are all playing, is not only the secret of our success, but also of our most evil behaviour. Everything is subordinate to status, and humans aren't unique in our complicity with it. By reflecting on the various ways humans negotiate this game - through status hierarchies, values, myths and sacred markers, Storr gives readers a master class in this most malevolent of social mysteries.
Download or read book Step out and Take Your Place written by Krista Dunk and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your journey to discover Gods calling for your life starts today! The expression of your gift is an act of worship to God. Krista Dunk You've probably heard that God has a special plan for your life, right? However, you may not have any idea what that plan is or how to discover it. Or maybe you have discovered a Sunday morning calling, but Monday to Saturday feels dry and unsatisfying. Unfortunately, that is a familiar story for too many of us - Gods people. Step Out and Take Your Place gives you the practical, how-to information you need to find out what gifts God has equipped you with and what they're for. Action steps, assessment tools, advice, biblical references, compelling real-life stories, how to seek God for His plan, and much more is includedall designed to help you Step Out and Take Your Place. It's time to step out. Are you ready? In one of the most authentic voices I have ever encountered, Krista delivers the encouragement, inspiration and tools for anyone who has ever struggled with finding purpose, asked what now or whats next, or trembled over the question, Who, me? If you have wondered about your gifts or how to honor them with your life, this is your book. It is a blessing, beginning with page 1. Dondi Scumaci, Author of the Designed for Success book series
Download or read book Story of My Life written by Hank Greenberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once in a great while there appears a baseball player who transcends the game and earns universal admiration from his fellow players, from fans, and from the American people. Such a man was Hank Greenberg, whose dynamic life and legendary career are among baseball's most inspiring stories. The Story of My Life tells the story of this extraordinary man in his own words, describing his childhood as the son of Eastern European immigrants in New York; his spectacular baseball career as one of the greatest home-run hitters of all time and later as a manager and owner; his heroic service in World War II; and his courageous struggle with cancer. Tall, handsome, and uncommonly good-natured, Greenberg was a secular Jew who, during a time of widespread religious bigotry in America, stood up for his beliefs. Throughout a lifetime of anti-Semitic abuse he maintained his dignity, becoming in the process a hero for Jews throughout America and the first Jewish ballplayer elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Download or read book Debugging Game History written by Henry Lowood and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been fact-by-fact chronicles; fundamental terms of game design and development, technology, and play have rarely been examined in the context of their historical, etymological, and conceptual underpinnings. This volume attempts to “debug” the flawed historiography of video games. It offers original essays on key concepts in game studies, arranged as in a lexicon—from “Amusement Arcade” to “Embodiment” and “Game Art” to “Simulation” and “World Building.” Written by scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines, including game development, curatorship, media archaeology, cultural studies, and technology studies, the essays offer a series of distinctive critical “takes” on historical topics. The majority of essays look at game history from the outside in; some take deep dives into the histories of play and simulation to provide context for the development of electronic and digital games; others take on such technological components of games as code and audio. Not all essays are history or historical etymology—there is an analysis of game design, and a discussion of intellectual property—but they nonetheless raise questions for historians to consider. Taken together, the essays offer a foundation for the emerging study of game history. Contributors Marcelo Aranda, Brooke Belisle, Caetlin Benson-Allott, Stephanie Boluk, Jennifer deWinter, J. P. Dyson, Kate Edwards, Mary Flanagan, Jacob Gaboury, William Gibbons, Raiford Guins, Erkki Huhtamo, Don Ihde, Jon Ippolito, Katherine Isbister, Mikael Jakobsson, Steven E. Jones, Jesper Juul, Eric Kaltman, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Carly A. Kocurek, Peter Krapp, Patrick LeMieux, Henry Lowood, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Ken S. McAllister, Nick Monfort, David Myers, James Newman, Jenna Ng, Michael Nitsche, Laine Nooney, Hector Postigo, Jas Purewal, Reneé H. Reynolds, Judd Ethan Ruggill, Marie-Laure Ryan, Katie Salen Tekinbaş, Anastasia Salter, Mark Sample, Bobby Schweizer, John Sharp, Miguel Sicart, Rebecca Elisabeth Skinner, Melanie Swalwell, David Thomas, Samuel Tobin, Emma Witkowski, Mark J.P. Wolf
Download or read book High Score The Players and People Behind the Games written by Kaitlyn Duling and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Features: • Ages 8-14, Grades 3-8 • 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches • Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures • Includes pre- and post-reading activities • Reading/teaching tips and glossary included Gaming and eSports: In High Score: The Players and People Behind the Games, 3rd—8th graders enter an exciting world with the most famous gamers, eSports celebrities, and well-known video game designers! Paving The Way: Young readers learn about top record-holders, highest earners, and other video game “greats” from across the country. Your child will discover interesting facts about their favorite gamers, eSport celebrities, designers, and more! Build Reading Skills: This engaging 32-page children’s book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided pre- and post-reading questions and fun activities. Leveled Books: Part of the Gaming and Esports series, the lower reading level text and full-color pictures make this children’s book an engaging read with fun and interesting facts about your child’s favorite gamers. Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.
Download or read book Seven Games A Human History written by Oliver Roeder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.
Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1958-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
Download or read book How We Played written by Caroline Goodfellow and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2008-04-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Games make up a huge part of childhood, and memories of specific games stay with us throughout our lives. They form an integral part of growing up and stimulate imagination and creativity. From hide and seek to complex card and board games, street games that require no equipment to elaborate rainy day amusements, we all have experience of entertaining ourselves as children. In this fascinating trip down memory lane Caroline Goodfellow explores the history of childhood games and how they have changed throughout the ages. From ancient board games to childhood pastimes of the Middle Ages through to the street games of the 1950s and ’60s and the experiences of children in the current decade, she delves into the differences between games over time and region. Bound to awaken pleasant memories, Games of Childhood Past transports the reader to another time, providing a nostalgic look at how we played.
Download or read book Kingsley House Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kindergarten and First Grade written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dream of the Dead written by Valentin Matcas and published by Valentin Leonard Matcas. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are you still alive, at the end of the world? What determines you so hard to survive, at the very end of the world? Can it be raw instinct, along with greed and revenge? Or can it be love, the sweet feeling of love to have emerged right now, right at the end, as an irony of life, to overwhelm you now in powerful feelings of joy and temptation, at the very end of the world? The Culling unfolds now in death, chaos, loss, and destruction, and throughout these incredible events, Dickens, a young and highly aspiring poet, has to live his life moment by moment throughout the ever-present loss and exasperation of these atrocious times, while he is forced to experience it all through the intense feelings of his tender, sensitive soul. Carried throughout chains of unexpected events, Dickens discovers the incredible meanings and circumstances of the world at its end, not only through the brute need for survival present in everyone around, but he arrives to discover the consistent, true nature of life all around, perspective that he gains directly through his inquiring nature, perspective that he would have never achieved in a normal life. How far can Dickens hold on throughout his extraordinary encounters at the very end of the world and at the very threshold between life and death? You would never believe!
Download or read book Mining and Scientific Press written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breaking Hell s Economy written by Joseph Z and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thriving in God's Supernatural Economy There's a war being fought over you! The Kingdom of God offers you divine provision while the Kingdom of Hell fights for territory in your life as a crisis looms on the world's horizon. Will you break free of Hell’s economy? International prophet and Bible teacher Joseph Z say it’s urgent to break free now as we rapidly plunge into global difficulties involving worldwide market collapse, bank closures, a digital one-world currency, power grids failing, cyber war, medical deception, natural catastrophes, and unprecedented international conflict. In Breaking Hell’s Economy, Joseph makes it clear that we’re at a destination in history that requires a revelation of God’s supernatural economy—your ultimate defense against rising darkness. Arm yourself with revelation empowering you to... Operate in God’s last days economy Understand the ultimate end-time wealth transfer Engage the 30-,60-, 100-fold return to break Hell’s yoke off your life Discover your ultimate secret weapon: the wealth of Jesus Debunk religious myths about Jesus and wealth Release the same miracle power of a widow’s jar, desert manna, coin in a fish’s mouth, food multiplication, and floating ax heads. God is ready to do it all again for you! Lay hold of this revelation, defy Hell, and live your life knowing you are destined to thrive in the last days!
Download or read book Normal Instructor and Teachers World written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kindergarten and First Grade written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subjectivities written by Regenia Gagnier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-02-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative analysis draws on working-class autobiography, public and boarding school memoirs, and the canonical autobiographies by women and men in the United Kingdom to define subjectivity and value within social class and gender in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Gagnier reconsiders traditional distinctions between mind and body, private desire and public good, aesthetics and utility, and fact and value in the context of everyday life.
