Poker and Pop Culture: Telling the story of America's favourite card game (Harris Martin)(Paperback)

Poker and Pop Culture: Telling the story of America's favourite card game (Harris Martin)(Paperback)

Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how the game's portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker's relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the game and its

Hoyle's Modern Encyclopedia of Card Games: Rules of All the Basic Games and Popular Variations (Gibson Walter B.)(Paperback)

From All Fours to Zebra Poker, this is the definitive, A-to-Z guide to contemporary card games. Shuffle your deck and get ready to discover your new favorite card game! Hoyle's Modern Encyclopedia of Card Games explains the rules of all the most popular and timeless card games clearly and simply,

Back to the Future: Telling Time with Marty McFly: (Pop Culture Board Books, Teaching Telling Time, Books about Telling Time) (Insight)(Board Books)

Learn how to tell the time with Marty McFly and Doc Brown in this interactive board book with fun surprises on every page. Great Scott! Marty McFly is always late. It's almost like he doesn't know how to tell time. Sometimes he's in bed when he should be at school. Other times he's back at school

Poker for Dummies (Harroch Richard D.)(Paperback)

Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'emPoker is America's national card game, and its popularity continues to grow. Nationwide, you can find a game in progress everywhere. If you want to play, you can find poker games on replicas of 19th century riverboats or on Native American tribal lands

The Card Games Bible: Over 150 Games and Tricks (Hamlyn)(Paperback)

Over 100 of the world's most famous and fascinating card games and tricks The ultimate card-player's companion, crammed with over 300 pages of games to provide hours of engrossing entertainment playing in groups or by yourself. A tricks section provides ways to astound your friends and family with

Rebranding Precarity: Pop-up Culture as the Seductive New Normal (Harris Ella)(Paperback)

'Pop-up' is a fully-fledged, new urbanism. Celebrated as a flexible and exciting new form of place making, pop-up culture includes temporary or nomadic sites such as cinemas, container malls, supper clubs, even pop-up housing and is now ubiquitous in cities across the world. But what are the stakes

Lsu Bowl Games: A Complete History (Golden Neal)(Paperback)

Telling the story of LSU football through coverage of each of the Tigers' 50 bowl games--from 1907 through 2019--this book provides summaries of the team's regular season, and their opponents' season, along with quarter-by-quarter game highlights, important stats, and quotes from players and

Gears of War: The Slab (Traviss Karen)(Paperback / softback)

The fifth tie-in novel to this hugely successful game: high-octane, all-action and telling the story of beleagued humanity, facing a powerful alien species bent on their

Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska and Swing (Partridge Kenneth)(Pevná vazba)

Examines the ska and swing music of the late 1990s as a pop-culture movement, telling the stories behind some of the era's most important bands

Crystal of Storms (Pratchett Rhianna)(Paperback / softback)

PART STORY, PART GAME - PURE ADVENTURE!'A new way of telling stories and in many ways the birthof modern gaming, these books captured the imaginations of a generationof kids - it's great to think that a new generation aregoing to be similarly captivated' bestselling author CharlieHigsonYou, the

Written World - How Literature Shapes History (Puchner Martin)(Paperback / softback)

The true story of literature -- of how writing changed civilizations, cultures and the history of the

Land Beyond the Sea (Penman Sharon)(Paperback / softback)

An epic novel telling the story of a clash of cultures from New York Times bestselling author Sharon

Half-Drowned King (Hartsuyker Linnea)(Paperback / softback)

A Viking Game of Thrones packed with fantastic story-telling, intrigue and a vivid evocation of another time and

Molly's Game: The True Story of the 26-Year-Old Woman Behind the Most Exclusive, High-Stakes Underground Poker Game in the World (Bloom Molly)(Paperback)

Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place (Oh Youjeong)(Paperback)

Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon of Korean pop culture, Youjeong Oh argues that pop culture-featured place selling mediates two separate domains: political decentralization and the

War in the Woods: Combating the Marijuana Cartels on America's Public Lands (Nores John)(Paperback)

The inside story of the drug cartels on our public lands - and the game wardens taking them on Americans may disagree over the legalization of marijuana, but not when it comes to the pot plantations fast turning once-pristine corners of our public lands into environmentally ravageed war zones

Dangerous Games (Steel Danielle)(Paperback / softback)

Dangerous Games is a thrilling tale of suspense, scandal and corruption by the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle

The Comic Book Story of Baseball: The Heroes, Hustlers, and History-Making Swings (and Misses) of America's National Pastime (Irvine Alex)(Paperback)

A graphic novel-style history of baseball, providing an illustrated look at the major games, players, and rule changes that shaped the sport. This graphic novel steps up to the plate and covers all the bases in illustrating the origin of America's national pastime, presenting a complete look at the

Understanding Games and Game Cultures (Richardson Ingrid)(Paperback)

Digital games are one of the most significant media interfaces of contemporary life. Games today interweave with the social, economic, material, and political complexities of living in a digital age. But who makes games, who plays them, and what, how and where do we play? This book explores the

My Life: It's a Long Story (Nelson Willie)(Paperback / softback)

The unvarnished and complete story of the life of one of America's greatest ever

Masters Of Doom - How two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture (Kushner David)(Paperback / softback)

Masters of Doom' is the true inside story of John Carmack and John Romero, co-creators of the most innovative and notoriously successful video games in history - Doom and

Gears Of War: Aspho Fields (Traviss Karen)(Paperback / softback)

The first games tie-in novel to this hugely successful game: high-octane, all-action and telling the story of beleagued humanity, facing a powerful alien species bent on their

Behaviour Matters: Hippo Owns Up - A book about telling the truth (Graves Sue)(Paperback / softback)

Picture book story which offers a gentle introduction to the importance of honesty and telling the truth for young

The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture (Schilling Mark)(Paperback)

In the West, Japanese culture comes in the form of Power Rangers, Godzilla movies, and Sanrio products, but of course the indigenous pop culture is much richer. Rather than focus on what the rest of the world has already encountered, Mark Schilling provides an encyclopedic compendium of books,