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Broadening Horizon - Essays On Environment, Culture, Identity And Myth In The Game Franchise

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 Increasingly, digital games center their narratives during or after the apocalypse. In 2017, the action role-playing game Horizon Zero Dawn offered a new take on society after the end of the world. Horizon has since become a multimedia franchise, with a second video game released in 2022, in addition to comic books, a board game, and other adaptations in development. This collection analyzes the Horizon franchise and its presentation of the apocalypse, ecology, gender, history and more. Game story and game mechanics are fundamental to each essay and contributors offer a close reading--or close playing--of the games from perspectives as diverse as hauntology, postcolonialism, contemporary feminism, and historiography. This first collection on the Horizon franchise argues that we now live in an Apocalyptic period in the same way previous periods were known as Romantic, Modernist or Realist Periods, and makes the case that Horizon belongs at the crest of this new Apocalyptic Period and at the center of contemporary gaming and of game studies.
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New Virtual Ethics - Interconnectedness And Interrelationality In Videogames

by Schallegger Rene Reinhold Schallegger

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 We are witnessing the collapse of the postwar consensus, the implosion of the caring society. In times of social, economic, and political insecurity, egotism spreads. Many popular videogames follow a logic of consumerist self-gratification and self-empowerment. Deeply political, videogames contribute to the transformation of players, causing a need for change in what game designers do and how and why they do it. Awareness of the socio-political and cultural contexts can be promoted by the mainstream videogame market for critical active participation. This book focuses on the need for individual self-realization in Western societies and how it manifests in the various dimensions of videogames. Videogames remind us that we can never be isolated in a world defined by complexity and interlaced systems. Connecting videogames and new Neo-Kantian virtual ethics builds upon notions of agency, mutual respect, and obligation. This addresses humans in their entirety as thinking, acting, and feeling agents through engagement, immersion, and involvement.
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Beyond The Deck - Critical Essays On Magic: The Gathering And Its Influence

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 Since its debut in 1993, Magic the Gathering has grown to be an influential collectible card game. These essays focus on Magic from a variety of disciplinary approaches. Authors explore the innovative game design of Magic, the ludic differences between analog and digital play, and how players interact with the MTG market and one another.
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Hey! Listen! - Hypertext Rhetoric And The Legend Of Zelda

by Latham Andrew S. Latham

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 How does analysing video games as hypertexts expand the landscape of research for video game rhetoricians and games studies scholars? This is the first book to focus on how hypertext rhetoric impacts the five canons of rhetoric, and to apply that hypertext rhetoric to the study of video games.
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Hey! Listen! - Hypertext Rhetoric And The Legend Of Zelda

by Andrew S. Latham

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 How does analysing video games as hypertexts expand the landscape of research for video game rhetoricians and games studies scholars? This is the first book to focus on how hypertext rhetoric impacts the five canons of rhetoric, and to apply that hypertext rhetoric to the study of video games.
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Tabletop Revolution - Gaming Reimagined In The 21st Century

by Arnaudo Marco Arnaudo

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 Provides the first book-length, scholarly overview of the ongoing revolution in tabletop gaming design and culture. This revolution started in the late 20th century and it exploded to unprecedented levels of vitality in the 21st, leading to new ways of creating, marketing, and experiencing a game.
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Beyond The Deck - Critical Essays On Magic: The Gathering And Its Influence

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 Since its debut in 1993, Magic the Gathering has grown to be an influential collectible card game. These essays focus on Magic from a variety of disciplinary approaches. Authors explore the innovative game design of Magic, the ludic differences between analog and digital play, and how players interact with the MTG market and one another.
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The Tabletop Revolution - Gaming Reimagined In The 21st Century

by Marco Arnaudo

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 Provides the first book-length, scholarly overview of the ongoing revolution in tabletop gaming design and culture. This revolution started in the late 20th century and it exploded to unprecedented levels of vitality in the 21st, leading to new ways of creating, marketing, and experiencing a game.
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Dance, Technology And Social Justice - Individual And Collective Emancipation Through Embodied Techniques

by Kaustavi Sarkar

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 Theorizes dance technique as the Greek techne translated as art, and shows how movement can inspire epistemic, philosophical and cultural conversations in technology studies. Combining dance, religious and technology studies, the book argues that dance can be a technology of social justice bringing equanimity, liberation and resistance.
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Minds Behind Playstation 2 Games - Interviews With Creators And Developers

by Jr., Hickey Patrick Hickey

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 Featuring interviews with the creators of 37 popular video games, including SOCOM, Shadow of the Colossus, Tekken Tag Tournament and Sly Cooper, this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of some of the most influential and iconic (and sometimes forgotten) games of the original PlayStation 2 era.
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World Of Final Fantasy Vii - Essays On The Game And Its Legacy

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 The first edited collection of essays devoted only to the world of Final Fantasy VII, this book blends scholarly rigour with fan passion in order to identify the elements that keep Final Fantasy VII current and exciting for players.
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Performance Of Video Games - Enacting Identity, History And Culture Through Play

by Aliano Kelly I. Aliano

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 Conceptualizes video gaming as a virtual medium for performance, scrutinizing the ways in which a playerâ€™s interaction with the narrative informs personal, historical, social and cultural understanding. Centering the authorâ€™s experiences as video game player and performance scholar, the book applies concepts from theatre and performance studies.
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Minds Behind Playstation Games - Interviews With Creators And Developers

by Jr., Hickey Patrick Hickey

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 Featuring interviews with the creators of 43 popular video games, this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most influential (and sometimes forgotten) titles of the original PlayStation era.
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Plants Go To War - A Botanical History Of World War Ii

by Judith Sumner

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 As first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science. From victory gardens to drugs, timber, rubber, and fibres, plants supplied materials with key roles in victory. This botanical history of World War II is a fascinating story - both the historian and plant enthusiast.
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Adapting Stephen King - Volume 2, Night Shift From Short Stories To Screenplays

by Joseph Maddrey

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 The second in a series, this book examines the various film adaptations of Kingâ€™s Night Shift anthology. This volume critically examines and contextualizes adaptations of the Night Shift short stories, illuminating how each film is a uniquely and intricately collaborative endeavour.
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Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games - Interviews With Creators And Developers

by Jr., Hickey Patrick Hickey

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 Featuring interviews with the creators of over 40 games on the Sega Genesis console, this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of some of the influential, iconic, and sometimes forgotten games on Segaâ€™s most important contribution to the game industry.
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The Performance Of Video Games - Enacting Identity, History And Culture Through Play

by Kelly I. Aliano

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 Conceptualizes video gaming as a virtual medium for performance, scrutinizing the ways in which a playerâ€™s interaction with the narrative informs personal, historical, social and cultural understanding. Centering the authorâ€™s experiences as video game player and performance scholar, the book applies concepts from theatre and performance studies.
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Gun Safety And America'S Cities - Current Perspectives And Practices

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 Combining a wide range of perspectives, this book is divided into three parts that each tackle a unique but essential facet of gun legislation in the US. With the goal of connecting government workers of all ranks, this volume extensively details the many new gun safety regulations that have been enacted across the United States.
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Axis Prisoners Of War In Tennessee - Coerced Labor And The Captive Enemy On The Home Front, 1941-1946

by Antonio S. Thompson

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 Examines for the first time Tennesseeâ€™s role in the World War II POW program, and how the influx of prisoners affected communities. Towns like Tullahoma transformed into military metropolises. Memphis received millions in defense spending. The Crossville camp housed German and Italian officers.
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The Artist As Murderer - An Enduring Legend From Ancient Greece To The Modern Day

by Norman E. Land

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 Challenging the archetype of the artist as a sympathetic lover of nature, this book examines the artist as cruel and murderous in service of art and ambition, and indirectly addresses a different understanding of the relationship between art and life.
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Nonprofit Work Is Killin' Me - Mitigating Chronic Stress And Vicarious Trauma In Social Service Organizations

by Morghan Velez Young

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 Starts a public and transparent conversation about nonprofit community-based social services professionals, their important work, their suffering and the need to mitigate workplace chronic stress and vicarious trauma (CSVT). The book contextualizes why CSVT is left primarily unmitigated and unacknowledged in community-based organisations.
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U.S. Navy Minecraft - A History And Directory From World War I To Today

by Ken W. Sayers

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 With more than 200 photos, this book details the histories and specifications of more than 2,200 vessels that have served as minelayers and minesweepers, from World War I to today. Rare examples include the US Navyâ€™s only purpose-built mine-laying submarines, and the remarkable 36-foot â€˜mini minesweeperâ€™.
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The World Of Final Fantasy Vii - Essays On The Game And Its Legacy

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 The first edited collection of essays devoted only to the world of Final Fantasy VII, this book blends scholarly rigour with fan passion in order to identify the elements that keep Final Fantasy VII current and exciting for players.
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The Transcendent Vision Of Mythopoeic Fantasy

by David S. Hogsette

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 An ever-expanding critical library on fantasy fiction requires an analysis of why the genre is so ubiquitous, enduring and beloved. This work analyses the mythic elements in foundational fantasy texts, arguing that mythopoeic fantasy reveals timeless truths that link human cultures past and present.
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