A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames (Keogh Brendan)(Pevná vazba)

Catching the Impossible (Bowler Martin)(Pevná vazba)

Angling with a rod and line is a gift as old as history itself. Regardless of how we perceive it, angling takes us to another world. This book tells the story of just such a journey through angling beautiful places, amazing fish, the highs and lows, the triumphs and disasters, the friendships and

The Last Lecture (Pausch Randy)(Pevná vazba)

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.---Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled The Last Lecture. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same

Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet (Jacobs Laura)(Pevná vazba)

A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of ballet As much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad--in Russia, Italy, and

Transgression in Games and Play (Jorgensen Kristine)(Pevná vazba)

Contributors from a range of disciplines explore boundary-crossing in videogames, examining both transgressive game content and transgressive player actions.Video gameplay can include transgressive play practices in which players act in ways meant to annoy, punish, or harass other players

We Play Ourselves (Silverman Jen (author))(Pevná vazba)

Reading like a cross between Shelia Heti's How Should A Person Be? and Lily King's Writers & Lovers, We Play Ourselves is a wildly entertaining debut novel of female rage, self-sabotage, the pursuit of fame and the costs of artistic

Why We Kneel How We Rise (Holding Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A powerful look at the history of racism through the prism of sport, showing how we can change things through education and

How to Play the Piano (Rhodes James)(Pevná vazba)

Reissue of the bestselling 2015

The Wealth of Virtual Nations: Videogame Currencies (Crowley Adam)(Pevná vazba)

This book considers representations of wealth and the wealthy in videogames. The introduction explores the estrangement of wealth from everyday life in the contemporary west, and argues that videogames have contributed to modern life by dramatizing the economic anxieties of our age -- in

Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism (Goff Brendan)(Pevná vazba)

A new history of Rotary International shows how the organization reinforced capitalist values and cultural practices at home and tried to remake the world in the idealized image of Main Street America. Rotary International was born in Chicago in 1905. By the time World War II was over, the

Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations - Shall We Play Ball?(Pevná vazba)

How to Play Chess (Summerscale Claire)(Pevná vazba)

Child's Play (Peralta Ramiro Jos)(Pevná vazba)

A poignant story about how children's play and creativity help children overcome the hardship of moving and changing country and heal one's soulDanny, Molly and Marcus are three sparkling creative siblings, although each one expresses himself differently. Danny likes music and by singing and

Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect (Anable Aubrey)(Paperback)

How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code Why do we so compulsively play video games? Might it have something to do with how gaming affects our emotions? In Playing with Feelings, scholar Aubrey Anable applies affect theory to game studies, arguing that video games let us

Are We Bodies or Souls? (Swinburne Richard)(Pevná vazba)

What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and presents new philosophical arguments that are supported

How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything (Seidman Dov)(Pevná vazba)

The flood of information, unprecedented transparency, increasinginterconnectedness-and our global interdependence-aredramatically reshaping today's world, the world of business, andour lives. We are in the Era of Behavior and the rules of the gamehave fundamentally changed. It is no longer what you

Play and Creativity in Psychotherapy (Marks-Tarlow Terry)(Pevná vazba)

Through play, as children, we learn the rules and relationships of culture and expand our tolerance of emotions--areas of life 'training' that overlap with psychotherapy. Here leading writers illuminate what play and creativity mean for the healing process at any stage of life.Contributors include:

How We Are Translated - a novel (Gaitan Johannesson Jessica)(Pevná vazba)

Britain by Numbers: A Visual Exploration of People and Place (Newman Stuart)(Pevná vazba)

How much more do we drink than we should? Why do immigrants come here? How have house prices changed in the past decade? What do we spend our money on? Britain by Numbers answers all these questions and more, vividly bringing our nation to life in new and unexpected ways by showing who lives here,

We Know It When We See It - What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think (Masland Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Definitive pop science from a world

This Is a Book about Dumplings (Pang Brendan)(Pevná vazba)

Make Your Dumpling Dreams Come True For Brendan Pang, MasterChef Australia alum and founder of Bumplings restaurant, it all started in his grandmother's kitchen, where one bite of Grandm re's Fried Shrimp Wontons sparked his lifelong dumpling obsession. Now he's sharing the recipe that started it

The Reset: Ideas to Change How We Work and Live (Uviebinen Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

It's time to reset how we work - and

Even If We Break (Nijkamp Marieke)(Pevná vazba)

A shocking thriller about a group of friends who go to a cabin to play a murder mystery game...only to have the game turned against them, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends.FIVE friends go to a cabin.FOUR of them are hiding secrets.THREE years of history bind

Rethink - How We Can Make a Better World (Rajan Amol)(Pevná vazba)

Phoenix IV: The History of the Videogame Industry (Herman Leonard)(Pevná vazba)

Since its debut in 1994 as the first serious book about videogame history, Phoenix has been regarded worldwide as the Bible of videogame history by professionals and fans alike. Now in its fourth edition, the text of this deluxe hardcover volume has been completely rewritten and updated to include