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Author: Tristan Donovan Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250082730 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 296
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“[A] timely book . . . a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history.” —The Wall Street Journal Board games have been with us even longer than the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It’s All a Game, Tristan Donovan, British journalist and author of Replay: The History of Video Games, opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from the paranoid Chicago toy genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the scientific use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan ultimately reveals why board games—from chess to Monopoly to Risk and more—have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations. “Splendid . . . A quick and breezy read, it doesn’t just tell the fascinating stories of the (often struggling) individuals who created our favorite games. It also manages to convey the entire sweep of board game history, from the earliest forms of checkers to modern-day surprise hits like Settlers of Catan.” —Mashable “Artfully weaves together culture, business, and ways games impact society.” —Booklist “A fascinating and insightful discussion not only of games past, but the socioeconomic and historical factors that contributed to their popularity.” —Chicago Review of Books
Author: Tristan Donovan Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250082730 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
“[A] timely book . . . a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history.” —The Wall Street Journal Board games have been with us even longer than the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It’s All a Game, Tristan Donovan, British journalist and author of Replay: The History of Video Games, opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from the paranoid Chicago toy genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the scientific use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan ultimately reveals why board games—from chess to Monopoly to Risk and more—have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations. “Splendid . . . A quick and breezy read, it doesn’t just tell the fascinating stories of the (often struggling) individuals who created our favorite games. It also manages to convey the entire sweep of board game history, from the earliest forms of checkers to modern-day surprise hits like Settlers of Catan.” —Mashable “Artfully weaves together culture, business, and ways games impact society.” —Booklist “A fascinating and insightful discussion not only of games past, but the socioeconomic and historical factors that contributed to their popularity.” —Chicago Review of Books
Author: Lynne Fox Publisher: M-Y Books Limited ISBN: 191287542X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 166
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Annalee Theakston likes to play games; deadly games. It's of no matter how many years it takes or who gets hurt along the way; what counts is the intellectual challenge; the ability to hide evil under the veneer of respectability. A young, beautiful and extremely intelligent woman Annalee's friendly exterior masks the coldness in her heart. People like her are everywhere.
Author: Andrew J. Mullaney Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1800464339 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 384
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If you are a mentor, wish to be mentored, or are seeking to be the very best version of yourself, then this book is for you. It cuts across the generations in the form of a handy, easy to read guide to surviving and sometimes winning at life. Using the game of snakes and ladders as a constant theme and analogy, each chapter covers many of the challenges and dilemmas that we all face on a daily basis. Andrew encourages you to take everything on with full consciousness and gives practical advice, tips, examples and experiences from his life and career as well as sharing others’ stories too. This also includes the opportunity to learn from some of the mistakes he’s made over the years, which he bravely and honestly shares throughout. At the end of every chapter, you will find a bullet point summary of ladders to climb, helping you secure quick wins, as well as the snakes - i.e. pitfalls - to avoid. This means you can take away what you feel is most relevant to you in a quick “grab” style format. This book is one that will get you questioning why things happen and how you can influence the game of life much more that you realise. Ultimately, you’ll learn how to get the best possible outcome for you as you roll the dice and make your next move.
Author: Jenn Reese Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR) ISBN: 1250243025 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 164
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A 2021 Oregon Book Award Winner An NPR Best Book of 2020 A Finalist for the 2021-22 Maine Student Book Award A 2021 Mythopoeic Awards Finalist Andre Norton Award finalist Jenn Reese explores the often thin line between magic and reality, light and darkness in her enchanting middle grade standalone. "Brings to life, viscerally, what it is like to live in fear of abuse—even after the abuse itself is over. But there is magic here too, and the promise of a better future that comes with learning to let people who care about you into your world." —Alan Gratz, New York Times-bestselling author of Refugee “A captivating and touching story... both whimsical and emotionally—sometimes frighteningly—compelling.” —Ingrid Law, Newbery Honor-winning author of Savvy "Magically creative and deeply honest, A Game of Fox & Squirrels merges games and grimness in a fantasy tale that tells the truth." —Elana K. Arnold, Printz Honor-winning author of Damsel and A Boy Called Bat After an incident shatters their family, eleven-year old Samantha and her older sister Caitlin are sent to live in rural Oregon with an aunt they've never met. Sam wants nothing more than to go back to the way things were... before she spoke up about their father's anger. When Aunt Vicky gives Sam a mysterious card game called "A Game of Fox & Squirrels," Sam falls in love with the animal characters, especially the charming trickster fox, Ashander. Then one day Ashander shows up in Sam’s room and offers her an adventure and a promise: find the Golden Acorn, and Sam can have anything she desires. But the fox is hiding rules that Sam isn't prepared for, and her new home feels more tempting than she'd ever expected. As Sam is swept up in the dangerous quest, the line between magic and reality grows thin. If she makes the wrong move, she'll lose far more than just a game. Perfect for fans of Barbara O'Connor, Lauren Wolk, and Ali Benjamin, A Game of Fox & Squirrels is a stunning, heartbreaking novel about a girl who finds the light in the darkness... and ultimately discovers the true meaning of home.
Author: Ed Stack Publisher: Scribner ISBN: 1982116927 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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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). It’s How We Play the Game 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. Ed Stack’s memoir 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).
Author: Dr. Roy Foster Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1481765000 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 428
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"It's All About Evil" Volume III, Understand the mechanism of evil within the World's Greatest Conspiracy (between ego and the evil). Destroy this evil, and destroy evil socialism and Russian PsychoPolitics and their American operators. They want the depression. Many unique discoveries. Chapters: Part I: Get What You Deserve, Not difficult for Psychopaths, AIDS epidemic, The Evil President; Part II: Danger of Secret, Friends, Marriage, Independence, Right Time and Place, Real Crazies v Accused Crazies, Father Our Corrector, Forgiveness, Responsibility, Values, Polarization, No True Love in Young Love, Never Have a Choice. Major discoveries: Word Idolization and Imagery Worship, Identity Transference, Become what you hate, Why Incorruptible, Words the medium of evil & mind control. S.O.S. S.O.S. MUST reading... Unique endless series 425 pages. Pre-designed Russian PsychoPolitics won. Is it too late? Where is Creator? Predicted in Volume I, first edition 1992...ego and “buddy” Satan. Take this final opportunity to expose “it” to We the People. Don't be in denial. Courageous author, Dr.Roy Foster, MentalGrowth.com, brings you many techniques and his personal discoveries to destroy evil socialism and its welfare bail-outs. The present growing socialism through Russian PsychoPolitics will always be suicidal and now has destroyed capitalism. Evil "words" have lied to now become over-powering in the final days. Volume II How to...Have Fun Destroying Evil And Liberal Socialism (lighter attitude) Volume III Get What You Deserve in Evil Liberal Socialism Soon...Volume IV The Great Conspiracies, in Evil Socialism (brainwashing) Soon... Volume V The Bio-Mechanism of Evil Half of America is already very angry and depressed while half is brainwashed by PsychoPolitics (brainwashing)
Author: Ivan Aramilev Publisher: CUP Archive ISBN: Category : Bilingual books Languages : en Pages : 138
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"On The Trail" magazine is a publication of Historical Enterprises in Macon, Georgia. The magazine is dedicated to the hobby of historical trekking, reenactments, and living history from 1600 to 1840. The publishers offers sample articles and details about advertising and subscriptions.
Author: Adam Drake Publisher: Adam Drake ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 704
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Here are six exciting Science Fiction novels from genre author, Adam Drake. Shadow For Hire Series: Vivian is addicted to the largest, and most immersive, MMO on the market. All she wants to do is quest and loot. But things go wrong when she's inadvertently sucked into the 'meta' story line of the game, and she is no longer just a nameless player among billions - she's now a server champion in the making. The problem? She wants nothing to do with it. Includes: Book 1 - Shadow Gambit An impossible quest for a legendary item. Book 2 - Shadow Hunting The most powerful player in the gaming universe wants me dead. Book 3 - Shadow Wars I'm a loot-hunting adventurer, not a general. Book 4 - Shadow Blade A hallowed weapon hidden in a jungle hell. The First Day (Total Collapse Book 1) And the end begins. In one fell swoop, civilization is changed forever. No one is unaffected, few are prepared. Some become survivors, others - easy prey. Only the strong, and crazy, will survive. Through the blood and chaos, civilization will be permanently transformed. And it all begins with one terrifying moment, when the lights go out and never come back on. Total Collapse! Escape to the Fringe (Fringe Outlaws Book 1) A pair of outlaws searching for riches. A stolen ship with a secret cargo. A strange alien with bizarre abilities. When Ash and Femke Quinly decide to steal a transport ship from the local criminal syndicate, their troubles have just begun. With enemies in relentless pursuit, and their options dwindling, an already dangerous situation becomes more futile. But when the universe is gunning for you, there is one insane option only the truly desperate can take: They must escape to the fringe of the galaxy! science fiction, space opera, adventure, litrpg, cyberpunk, vr, rpg, gamelit, post apocalyptic, dystopian, space ship, series, collection, bundle, emp
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