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You Ve Been Played
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Author : Adrian Hon
language : en
Publisher: Swift Press
Release Date : 2022-09-15
You Ve Been Played written by Adrian Hon and has been published by Swift Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Games & Activities categories.
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.
Play Anything
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Author : Ian Bogost
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2016-09-13
Play Anything written by Ian Bogost and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Science categories.
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.
The Book Of The Play
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Author : Marta Straznicky
language : en
Publisher: Massachusetts Studies in Early
Release Date : 2006
The Book Of The Play written by Marta Straznicky and has been published by Massachusetts Studies in Early this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
This collection of essays examines early modern drama in the context of book history, and focuses on the readership of plays that opens different perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance.
Play Or Be Played
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Author : Tariq "K-Flex" Nasheed
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-11-24
Play Or Be Played written by Tariq "K-Flex" Nasheed and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-24 with Family & Relationships categories.
Got Game? It's a fact. Every woman needs game. Take Oprah, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Beyoncé Knowles. All three of these women have the one intangible quality that every mack, male or female, must possess: they all have game. In other words, they have intelligence, hustle, and common sense that they apply to every aspect of their lives -- especially in their relationships. Play or Be Played is an instruction manual for women who are tired of being played by men and who want to be players themselves. Though women may not want to play games, the truth is men often do. So women who hope to win in the game of love must first learn the rules. Bestselling author and true mack, Tariq "K-Flex" Nasheed shares: ways to spot a scrub what it takes to get with a baller why men cheat how men really judge women the top three mistakes women make in relationships Street-smart and straightforward, Play or Be Played will help you get with a king without being a hoochie, groupie, or a chickenhead.
Michael Rosen S Book Of Play
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Author : Michael Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2019-10-10
Michael Rosen S Book Of Play written by Michael Rosen and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-10 with Psychology categories.
Today, we don't get nearly enough play in our lives. At school, kids are drilled on exams, while at home we're all glued to our phones and screens. Former children's laureate and bestselling author, Michael Rosen, is here to show us how to put this right - and why it matters so much for creativity, resilience and much more. Packed with silliness, activities and prompts for creative indoor and outdoor play for all ages - with specially illustrated pages for everything from doodling to word play and after-dinner games.
Well Played
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Author : Jen DeLuca
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-11-17
Well Played written by Jen DeLuca and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-17 with Fiction categories.
Fall in love with the glorious Renaissance Faire romance that has TikTok swooning! 'A book worth losing sleep over' 5***** Reader Review 'Favourite romance series hands down' 5***** Reader Review 'I devoured it' 5***** Reader Review _________ Stacey's had her life on hold for years since moving to Willow Creek to care for her sick mother. Deciding enough is enough, she vows to have her life - and love life - figured out by next summer's Faire . . . Dex MacLean, her summertime Faire fling, does not fit the bill. Yes, he's easy on the eye with his band The Dueling Kilts, but Stacey doesn't love him. Until a tender email from her monosyllabic hunk makes her wonder whether she got him wrong . . . So when Faire finally returns, Stacey is excited to reunite with the man she's exchanged hundreds of loving messages with. But to her shock, that man wasn't Dex . . . So who has she been falling for? _________ 'DeLuca writes stories that are the book form of a duvet day, warm and comfortable and just what you want' 5***** Reader Review Readers are obsessed with the Willow Creak series! 'A pure joy to read. Utterly delightful. I didn't want it to end' 5***** Reader Review 'THIS is how you write modern romance!' 5***** Reader Review 'This gave me all the butterflies, all the feels, all the heart skipping beats' 5***** Reader Review 'Completely in love with this book! A must read' 5***** Reader Review 'A gorgeous enemies-to-lovers romance' 5***** Reader Review 'Well Met left me swooning' 5***** Reader Review
The Well Played Game
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Author : Bernard De Koven
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2013-08-23
The Well Played Game written by Bernard De Koven and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-23 with Games & Activities categories.
The return of the classic book on games and play that illuminates the relationship between the well-played game and the well-lived life. In The Well-Played Game, games guru Bernard De Koven explores the interaction of play and games, offering players—as well as game designers, educators, and scholars—a guide to how games work. De Koven’s classic treatise on how human beings play together, first published in 1978, investigates many issues newly resonant in the era of video and computer games, including social gameplay and player modification. The digital game industry, now moving beyond its emphasis on graphic techniques to focus on player interaction, has much to learn from The Well-Played Game. De Koven explains that when players congratulate each other on a “well-played” game, they are expressing a unique and profound synthesis that combines the concepts of play (with its associations of playfulness and fun) and game (with its associations of rule-following). This, he tells us, yields a larger concept: the experience and expression of excellence. De Koven—affectionately and appreciatively hailed by Eric Zimmerman as “our shaman of play”—explores the experience of a well-played game, how we share it, and how we can experience it again; issues of cheating, fairness, keeping score, changing old games (why not change the rules in pursuit of new ways to play?), and making up new games; playing for keeps; and winning. His book belongs on the bookshelves of players who want to find a game in which they can play well, who are looking for others with whom they can play well, and who have discovered the relationship between the well-played game and the well-lived life.
A Short Treatise On The Game Of Whist
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Author : Edmond Hoyle
language : en
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-08-07
A Short Treatise On The Game Of Whist written by Edmond Hoyle and has been published by Literary Licensing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with categories.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1743 Edition.
Every Note Played
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Author : Lisa Genova
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-03-20
Every Note Played written by Lisa Genova and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-20 with Fiction categories.
“Unsparing in her depiction of the disease’s harrowing effects, neuroscientist Genova also celebrates humanity.” —People “Sometimes it’s easier to tell truth in fiction…And she tells it with heart and hope.” —NPR “Her juxtaposition of scientific detail with compassionate, heartfelt storytelling is unparalleled.” —Bookreporter “Every Note Played will grip and gut you.” —The Boston Globe From neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice comes a powerful exploration of regret, forgiveness, freedom, and what it means to be alive. An accomplished concert pianist, Richard received standing ovations from audiences all over the world in awe of his rare combination of emotional resonance and flawless technique. Every finger of his hands was a finely calibrated instrument, dancing across the keys and striking each note with exacting precision. That was eight months ago. Richard now has ALS, and his entire right arm is paralyzed. His fingers are impotent, still, devoid of possibility. The loss of his hand feels like a death, a loss of true love, a divorce—his divorce. He knows his left arm will go next. Three years ago, Karina removed their framed wedding picture from the living room wall and hung a mirror there instead. But she still hasn’t moved on. Karina is paralyzed by excuses and fear, stuck in an unfulfilling life as a piano teacher, afraid to pursue the path she abandoned as a young woman, blaming Richard and their failed marriage for all of it. When Richard becomes increasingly paralyzed and is no longer able to live on his own, Karina becomes his reluctant caretaker. As Richard’s muscles, voice, and breath fade, both he and Karina try to reconcile their past before it’s too late. Poignant and powerful, Every Note Played is a masterful exploration of redemption and what it means to find peace inside of forgiveness.
Play This Book
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Author : Jessica Young
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-05-22
Play This Book written by Jessica Young and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-22 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
For fans of Press Here, this new interactive picture book invites readers to touch and move and "play" with the book. To start our show we need a band--maybe you can lend a hand! There are lots of ways little hands can make music. Each page of this interactive book invites readers to strum the guitar, slide the trombone, crash the cymbals, and more--no instruments required! With a delightful rhyming text and engaging illustrations, this book is full of instruments waiting to share their sounds. The only thing this band needs is YOU! Just use your imagination, turn the pages, and Play This Book! Pair with Pet This Book, another title by author Jessica Young and illustrator Daniel Wiseman that comes printed on heavy-duty card stock pages to stand up to all kinds of play!