Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games, Hardcover - Ian Bogost

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 imp...

An exploration of the way videogames mount arguments and make expressive statements about the world that analyzes their unique persuasive power in ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressIllustration(s): 2 halftones, 5 tablesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 2...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressIllustration(s): 2 halftones, 5 tablesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 230 x 2...

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No one likes to be bored. Two leading psychologists explain what causes boredom and how to listen to what it is telling you, so you can live a more...

In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers n...

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The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

A gorgeous nonfiction book for kids from bestselling artist and author Lisa Congdon The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Elements leads young reader...

Contributor(s): Author: Marie FordacqIllustrator: Marion PuechIt's all fun and games with this innovative and portable game book. With eight colorf...

What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of histo...

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

Reducere. How Games Get Made: The Stories of the People Who Make and Play the Games We Love is your all-in-one comprehensive deep dive into the lives of deve...

Publisher: Redstone PressIllustration(s): 94Number of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 175 x 244 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEdi...

In The Pleasure of the Text, Sami Alwani weaves together themes of art induced dissociation, queer intergenerational polyamory, racial capitalism a...

Marketing theory is often developed in isolation not collaboration; theoretical perspectives sometimes are ignorant of the diversity of marketing p...

Spice up your love life with this little book of sensual games. Would you dare do it in a museum? In the office? Have you tried beads? Or spanking?...

This edition comprises Austin's best known works; "The Province of Jurisprudence Determined", a classic work of moral, legal and political philosop...

Examines the manners in which modern artists use boredom as a form of aesthetic resistance that, at its most positive, is the will to boredom.

The Games Climbers Play is a best-selling anthology of climbing writing, punctuated by contemporary commentaries and hilarious cartoons. It collect...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Reducere. In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are ch...

Reducere. "Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the rig...

Reducere. This collection of four books by metaphysical writer and teacher Florence Scovel Shinn explores the power of thought and word to change your life. ...

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Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Florence Scovel ShinnFlorence Scovel Shinn was an American artist and book illustrator who became a New Thought spiritual t...

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The Pleasure of Research delves into topics such as knowledge production, artistic thinking and medium-specificity. The publication begins with a s...

}Significant Figures{ author Ian Stewart explores the development and the limits of the mathematics that delineate areas of uncertainty, looking in...

DescriptionTabletop and board games aren't just for rainy days or awkward family events anymore. As the game industry grows, people of all ages are...

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