Download or read book You ve Been Played written by Adrian Hon and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation—and what we can do about it Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet. Points, badges, and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. In You’ve Been Played, game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools, and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion. These are games that we often have no choice but to play, where losing has heavy penalties. You’ve Been Played is a scathing indictment of a tech-driven world that wants to convince us that misery is fun, and a call to arms for anyone who hopes to preserve their dignity and autonomy.
Download or read book The Cards You ve Been Dealt written by Edward Fields, IV and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered why women go for the bad boys and nice guys never have any success in dating and relationships? Maybe you're a woman who's been dating all the wrong men, but you can't quite seem to break the cycle. Whatever your experience is with dating, The Cards You've Been Dealt: Play the Game will help you look at your dating patterns and relationship habits in a new light. Whether you're single and always end up dating someone with children who spend your hard-earned cash, or ghosts you after the first date, this book tells it like it is: the hard truths and harsh realities you need to face to be successful in dating and relationships.With positive affirmations, teachable moments and real-life conversations and scenarios, The Cards You've Been Dealt: Play the Game is the essential dating book for anyone tired of paying dating coaches and looking online for advice that never seems to help. From tips and tricks for choosing the right partner to first date ideas and red flags to look out for, it's all here - and it will help you to experience more success in your dating life and finding love.Edward Fields IV is a military veteran who served in the United States Air Force and a graduate student in counselling at Oakland University. When he's not writing, he enjoys reading, spending time with family and friends, playing guitar, video games and practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. The Cards You've Been Dealt: Play the Game is the author's fourth book in the dating genre.
Download or read book You ve Reached Sam written by Dustin Thao and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Instant New York Times Bestseller! If I Stay meets Your Name in Dustin Thao's You've Reached Sam, a heartfelt novel about love and loss and what it means to say goodbye. Seventeen-year-old Julie Clarke has her future all planned out—move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city; spend a summer in Japan. But then Sam dies. And everything changes. Heartbroken, Julie skips his funeral, throws out his belongings, and tries everything to forget him. But a message Sam left behind in her yearbook forces memories to return. Desperate to hear him one more time, Julie calls Sam's cell phone just to listen to his voice mail recording. And Sam picks up the phone. The connection is temporary. But hearing Sam's voice makes Julie fall for him all over again and with each call, it becomes harder to let him go. What would you do if you had a second chance at goodbye? A 2021 Kids' Indie Next List Selection A Cosmo.com Best YA Book Of 2021 A Buzzfeed Best Book Of November A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book
Download or read book Fair Play Reese s Book Club written by Eve Rodsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way... It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the “shefault” parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family—and then sent that list to her husband, asking for things to change. His response was...underwhelming. Rodsky realized that simply identifying the issue of unequal labor on the home front wasn't enough: She needed a solution to this universal problem. Her sanity, identity, career, and marriage depended on it. The result is Fair Play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently. With 4 easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a series of conversation starters for you and your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what's important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore, from laundry to homework to dinner. “Winning” this game means rebalancing your home life, reigniting your relationship with your significant other, and reclaiming your Unicorn Space—the time to develop the skills and passions that keep you interested and interesting. Stop drowning in to-dos and lose some of that invisible workload that's pulling you down. Are you ready to try Fair Play? Let's deal you in.
Download or read book If He Had Been with Me written by Laura Nowlin and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...
Download or read book Peace Of Mind written by Jonathan Robinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by a Bahamian author inspired by life on the islands. Peace of Mind is sure to put a little sunshine in a rainy day.
Download or read book Silver Wood written by B T Burridge and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At eleven years of age Lily Heaths family are involved in a tragic car accident. As sole survivor, Lily is fostered to a distant Godfather; Edmond Silverwood, and sent to live on an isolated ranch. Traumatised and uncommunicative, over time Lily reinvents herself and relinquishes all ties with her former life. Following a chance encounter on the eve of her 21st birthday, the past resolves to catch up with her. What begins as a vague recollection turns into a journey of self-discovery when Lilys feelings for Edmonds son, Lucas threaten to unravel her carefully constructed identity. As obsession takes hold, Lilys life begins to derail. Plagued by reoccurring nightmares and driven by intuition she sets out to uncover what occurred on a stretch of road a decade earlier. A quest that ultimately brings her face to face with the only other person who survived.
Download or read book Writing the Nation A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present written by Amy Berke and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the Nation displays key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and modern literature. Contents: Late Romanticism (1855-1870) Realism (1865-1890) Local Color (1865-1885) Regionalism (1875-1895) William Dean Howells Ambrose Bierce Henry James Sarah Orne Jewett Kate Chopin Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Charles Waddell Chesnutt Charlotte Perkins Gilman Naturalism (1890-1914) Frank Norris Stephen Crane Turn of the Twentieth Century and the Growth of Modernism (1893 - 1914) Booker T. Washington Zane Grey Modernism (1914 - 1945) The Great War Une Generation Perdue... (a Lost Generation) A Modern Nation Technology Modernist Literature Further Reading: Additional Secondary Sources Robert Frost Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams Ezra Pound Marianne Moore T. S. Eliot Edna St. Vincent Millay E. E. Cummings F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Arthur Miller Southern Renaissance – First Wave Ellen Glasgow William Faulkner Eudora Alice Welty The Harlem Renaissance Jessie Redmon Fauset Zora Neale Hurston Nella Larsen Langston Hughes Countee Cullen Jean Toomer American Literature Since 1945 (1945 - Present) Southern Literary Renaissance - Second Wave (1945-1965) The Cold War and the Southern Literary Renaissance Economic Prosperity The Civil Rights Movement in the South New Criticism and the Rise of the MFA Program Innovation Tennessee Williams James Dickey Flannery O'Connor Postmodernism Theodore Roethke Ralph Ellison James Baldwin Allen Ginsberg Adrienne Rich Toni Morrison Donald Barthelme Sylvia Plath Don Delillo Alice Walker Leslie Marmon Silko David Foster Wallace
Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Download or read book When the Stars Collide written by Alexis Harris and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years of peace are at an end . . . In the land of Abyumo, Orion and his dragon, Saphron, live in a mountain stronghold. They’re trying their hardest to make it to the coveted training mountain, in the hopes of making names for themselves, but they can’t even beat their closest friends in a practice duel. When they inadvertently become the sole witnesses to a horrific event, it’s up to them to find a way to stop the dark rider, Dredon, and his dragon, Obsidian. Will they be able to gather an army and train enough to defeat them before the stars collide? Or will the dark dragon and his rider take over?
Download or read book Marker Stone written by Paul J. Joseph and published by Paul J. Joseph. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outstanding! Paul J. Joseph's insight is amazing. He knows his genre!" - Jonas Saul, author of the Sarah Roberts Series Where do things go when they are lost? When a Canadian mining drone disappears in the asteroid belt it’s written off. But when it comes back with samples from another asteroid belt it could be history in the making! From the mind of Paul J. Joseph, Author of the Turing Files, including Romo’s Journey and The Railas Project. The region of space is called “Kelthy,” where objects sometimes go away for a while and come back. But where do they go? The bureaucrats don’t want to know. They’re more concerned with how they’ll adjust their records to explain the mining drone’s sudden return. But Sally and Ian do want to know, and they have some inconvenient questions. They plan to go to the Kelthy region even if it means ending their careers. What’s in the Kelthy that makes things disappear? Where did the strange images come from of planets that couldn’t exist? Will Sally and Ian return from their adventure now that the station commander wants them dead? Also, purchasing this book will entitle you to a free gift of Twisted Fire, a short story anthology! And, by joining my mailing list you get new free content regularly!
Download or read book Play Anything written by Ian Bogost and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. Play Anything, reveals that games appeal to us not because they are fun, but because they set limitations. Soccer wouldn't be soccer if it wasn't composed of two teams of eleven players using only their feet, heads, and torsos to get a ball into a goal; Tetris wouldn't be Tetris without falling pieces in characteristic shapes. Such rules seem needless, arbitrary, and difficult. Yet it is the limitations that make games enjoyable, just like it's the hard things in life that give it meaning. Play is what happens when we accept these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances- like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints-as sources for meaning and joy. We can "play anything" by filling our days with attention and discipline, devotion and love for the world as it really is, beyond our desires and fears. Ranging from Internet culture to moral philosophy, ancient poetry to modern consumerism, Bogost shows us how today's chaotic world can only be tamed-and enjoyed-when we first impose boundaries on ourselves.
Download or read book The Brand of Silence written by Johnston McCulley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story" by Johnston McCulley When Sidney Prale returns home to New York after making his fortune, he finds that old friends have turned against him. Accused of murder with a hidden enemy out to get him, he relies on the help of his valet Murk and detective Jim Farland to clear his name. Written under the Pen name of Harrington Strong, this book captured hearts and earned McCulley his much-deserved spotlight as a writer.
Download or read book Murder my Darling written by Gerald Darnell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A famous author is murdered, Carson is at the scene of the crime and considered a prime suspect - but he doesn't remember anything! Missing manuscripts, a missing diary and strange stories from the past bring an unusual group of characters together in this tangled web of deceit, blackmail and murder. The mystery travels from Memphis to New Orleans, while Carson works to prove his innocence - without success. Come along for the ride and follow the clues to a strange and unforgettable ending in the adventure called: Murder My Darling
Download or read book Z Topia written by Suzanne Robb and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firm leaders are dying, being taken out by an unknown enemy. The epidemic created by greedy corporations has grown out of control and the world is now a zombie utopia. Ally Lane wakes up aboard a cargo ship dazed and confused. She has survived the explosion of the Betty Loo only to discover she's in more danger than ever. The captain has a hold full of zombies and the doctor on board is out for himself. The reality of what is happening hits her when she sees a map of the infected areas. Armed with the truth, Ally must find a way to let as many people know what is really going on. She runs into a snag when the captain betrays her, turning her over to an enemy from a past she'd rather not remember. Mark Richards, the man responsible for who she is, takes her to his compound. She ignores his attempts at talking, the anger inside bubbling over when she realizes he is the one responsible for the death of all her friends and her fiancé, Marcus, on the Betty Loo. She fights her way free, only to find herself in the middle of hell. Charlie Myers, a former friend turned enemy from her past shows up and with the help of him and his men they escape. Ally doesn’t know who to trust, but has to play the game long enough to stay alive, figure out what's happening, and get a message out to those left. Joseph Erdman is the head of the Israeli Firm, but abandons his post when the undead close in. He heads for America and the one person who can help him, Ally. In a remote location, several forces collide and Ally must side with former enemies and turn her back on friends in order to save what's left of the world. Joseph has a plan, but he doesn’t share all of the details. While Ally and a team of mercenaries try to get him to the Old House so he can claim the Presidency and give people guidance in the time of crisis, another foe is heading directly for them. Ally finds the Old House and another structure where men in uniforms are taking a stand. Joseph has gone missing and her opportunities to broadcast the truth are gone. She knows nuclear weapons were part of the plan and decides to get to them first.
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Download or read book So You ve Been Publicly Shamed written by Jon Ronson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once their transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane and the next thing they know they're being torn apart by an angry mob, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their job. A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding people's faults. We are defining the boundaries of normality by ruining the lives of those outside it. We are using shame as a form of social control. Simultaneously powerful and hilarious in the way only Jon Ronson can be, So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a deeply honest book about modern life, full of eye-opening truths about the escalating war on human flaws - and the very scary part we all play in it.
