Download or read book It s How We Play the Game written by Ed Stack and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porchlight’s Best Leadership & Strategy Book of The Year An inspiring memoir from the CEO of DICK’s Sporting Goods that is “not only entertaining but will be of great value to any entrepreneur” (Phil Knight, New York Times bestselling author of Shoe Dog), this book shows how a trailblazing business was created by giving back to the community and by taking principled, and sometimes controversial, stands—including against the type of weapons that are too often used in mass shootings and other tragedies. It’s How We Play the Game tells the story of a complicated founder and an ambitious son—one who transformed a business by making it about more than business, conceiving it as a force for good in the communities it serves. In 1948, Ed Stack’s father started Dick’s Bait and Tackle in Binghamton, New York. Ed Stack bought the business from his father in 1984, and grew it into the largest sporting goods retailer in the country, with 800 locations and close to $9 billion in sales. The transformation Ed wrought wasn’t easy: economic headwinds nearly toppled the chain twice. But DICK’s support for embattled youth sports programs earned the stores surprising loyalty, and the company won even more attention when, in the wake of yet another school shooting—at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida—it chose to become the first major retailer to pull all semi-automatic weapons from its shelves, raise the age of gun purchase to twenty-one, and, most strikingly, destroy the assault-style-type rifles then in its inventory. With vital lessons for anyone running a business and eye-opening reflections about what a company owes the people it serves, It’s How We Play the Game is “a compelling narrative…In a genre that can frequently be staid, Mr. Stack’s corporate biography is deeply personal…[Features] surprising openness [and] interesting and humorous anecdotes” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Download or read book We Play a Game written by Duy Doan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 112th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores the Vietnamese-American experience
Download or read book Lost in a Good Game written by Pete Etchells and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Etchells writes eloquently ... A heartfelt defence of a demonised pastime' The Times 'Once in an age, a piece of culture comes along that feels like it was specifically created for you, the beats and words and ideas are there because it is your life the creator is describing. Lost In A Good Game is exactly that. It will touch your heart and mind. And even if Bowser, Chun-li or Q-Bert weren't crucial parts of your youth, this is a flawless victory for everyone' Adam Rutherford When Pete Etchells was 14, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later to try to understand what had happened. Etchells is now a researcher into the psychological effects of video games, and was co-author on a recent paper explaining why WHO plans to classify 'game addiction' as a danger to public health are based on bad science and (he thinks) are a bad idea. In this, his first book, he journeys through the history and development of video games - from Turing's chess machine to mass multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft- via scientific study, to investigate the highs and lows of playing and get to the bottom of our relationship with games - why we do it, and what they really mean to us. At the same time, Lost in a Good Game is a very unusual memoir of a writer coming to terms with his grief via virtual worlds, as he tries to work out what area of popular culture we should classify games (a relatively new technology) under.
Download or read book Rules of Play written by Katie Salen Tekinbas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date. As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games, from board games and sports to computer and video games. As active participants in game culture, the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation, filled with new concepts, strategies, and methodologies for creating and understanding games. Building an aesthetics of interactive systems, Salen and Zimmerman define core concepts like "play," "design," and "interactivity." They look at games through a series of eighteen "game design schemas," or conceptual frameworks, including games as systems of emergence and information, as contexts for social play, as a storytelling medium, and as sites of cultural resistance. Written for game scholars, game developers, and interactive designers, Rules of Play is a textbook, reference book, and theoretical guide. It is the first comprehensive attempt to establish a solid theoretical framework for the emerging discipline of game design.
Download or read book The Game of Life and how to Play it written by Florence Scovel Shinn and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Games People Play written by Eric Berne and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Game We Play written by Simona Vinci and published by Random House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of children use an abandoned shed in the fields near their apartment block as a summer hang-out. Three boys and two ten-year-old girls. Lazily, in the stifling heat, they listen to their REM tapes and explore each other's bodies. Away from parental eyes and in imitation of their older brothers and sisters, they start to take things too far, but it is only when the ringleader and wild card, 14yr old Mirko, introduces the adult world of pornography into their games that irreparable damage is done.An intelligent and deeply disturbing first novel that bravely confronts the sexuality of children.
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 Games we Play written by Pam Holden and published by Flying Start Books. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing games is good fun. What game do you like to play most of all? Who plays games with you? Where do you play your games?
Download or read book Games we Play Readaloud written by Pam Holden and published by Flying Start Books. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing games is good fun. What game do you like to play most of all? Who plays games with you? Where do you play your games?
Download or read book This Game We Play written by Brittany R. Harris and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young and successful, Alexandria Witt, has found herself in a world full of drama. Heartbroken and lost from her previous relationship with Brandon Taylor, she only has her friends to look to for guidance. Yet her friends may be leading her down the wrong path. Even though she has her doubts, she attempts to piece together her heart with the charming Nicholas Bennett, hoping this time she hasn't made a mistake. But Brandon refuses to give up on Alexandria. Of course they’ve had their ups and downs but, what relationship hasn’t? Is what he has done really that unforgivable? He feels he has no choice but to show Alexandria they belong together no matter the risk. Despite what his homeboy, Vonte Johnson, thinks he has to win her love back. However, Brandon has no limits and even wonders to himself just how far he will go. When Vonte sees how ridiculous his homeboy is being, he feels the need to protect Alexandria...after all, the way he sees it Alexandria should belong to him. Soon he befriends her and warns her of Brandon's crazy way in hopes to get Brandon out of the picture and take his rightful place and have his chance at love.
Download or read book SHALL WE PLAY A GAME written by Michael J Beck and published by Areeb Irshad. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As I grew up in my hometown of Rock Falls, Illinois, listening to the radio, I often heard advertisements for a videogame retail store called Video Games ETC! The commercials were quite typical. They frequently detailed how they had "the latest and greatest video games and consoles!" And like any good business they had a tagline at the end of every commercial. Amidst a flurry of distorted rock guitar chords I heard, "Video games ETC! Just a game? I DON'T THINK SO!" As a child I agreed with this statement, but as an adult I feel compelled to defend it. This simple commercial tagline effectively responds to the prevailing negative attitudes toward playing videogames as a meaningful endeavor. This tagline conveys the attitudes of gamers in U.S. culture by claiming implicitly that videogames are more than just games, and the extent to which we are willing to take videogames "seriously." In this chapter, I provide an overview of my thesis performance project and the ideas that caused me to link videogames and performance together. Second, I examine a literal and performative understanding of videogames. Third, I discuss the ways videogames function as a method of performing self through my own narratives. Then, I emphasize how videogames are connected with and through culture by means of technological performance. Finally, I preview and discuss the specific research questions I answer in later chapters.
Download or read book What Game Shall We Play written by Pat Hutchins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-03-29 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duck, Frog, and their friends, stars of the classic The Surprise Party, return in this story of a double game of hide-and-seek. "Illustrations are as crisp, decorative, and full of appeal as ever." -- Kirkus Reviews. "Likely to become a perennial story-time favorite." -- School Library Journal.
Download or read book Games We Play written by Rita Faelli and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonfiction books that foster understanding, inclusion, tolerance and respect for the multicultural experience. 8 yrs+
Download or read book Games We Play written by Sue Davis and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2001 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to be used by children in their first six months of school PM Starters One and Two
Download or read book What Game Shall We Play written by HBJ and published by . This book was released on 1993-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The animals ask each other what game they should play, but only Owl has an answer.
Download or read book This Game We Play 3 written by Brittany R. Harris and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to get away from the drama at home, Alexandria escapes to Jamaica but her worries get the best of her and her relaxation is short-lived. Soon, Jewel resurfaces spilling secrets about Nick's past and present, creating a new world of chaos for Alex. But Alexandria has a few tricks up her sleeve and she will no longer be toyed with. Tired of putting others before herself, Alexandria finally decides to follow her heart. Jobless, Tori moves back in with her parents. Of course, she blames Alexandria for yet another downfall in her life. Unable to ignore her zeal for revenge, she continues to plot; this time inviting a surprise guest. Will her plan once again backfire or will she get the salvation she's been desperately hoping for and be able to move on with her life? With all the frustration Alexandria has put him through he still has faith in her. But no one can be loyal to neglect forever. He just needs to hear her say ""I love you"". Time is ticking. But Love never fails, so if it does, it wasn't love. Vonte won't let his fight for Alexandria's love consume him as he also pushes forward with his dream of owning a gym, hoping his success will help Alexandria realize his eyes is never off the prize. Will his affection account for something or will he be friend-zoned yet again? No longer wanting to hide from his problems, Brandon has vowed to do better, but finds himself in double trouble. If having one kid on the way wasn't enough he may now have two. Brandon takes his problems to church knowing only a higher power can help him. He prays to get back into the good graces of his family and friends. Can he finally be able to get his priorities straight or be distracted by lust when a new woman enters his life?
