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Bringing History to Life
Teaching Fact and Fiction
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CA$41.95
ISBN: 9780776641447
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Bringing History to Life explores the school-based uses of history as cultural goods, leisure, and services to train students to better practice some of the thinking that historians must perform when they 'practice their craft.'
Bringing History to Life
Teaching Fact and Fiction
Price:
CA$71.95
ISBN: 9780776641546
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Bringing History to Life explores the school-based uses of history as cultural goods, leisure, and services to train students to better practice some of the thinking that historians must perform when they 'practice their craft.'
Ability Machines
What Video Games Mean for Disability
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CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780253070036
Pub Date: July 2024
Video games are both physically and cognitively demanding—so what does that mean for those with a disability or mental illness? Though they may seem at odds, Ability Machines illuminates just how...
Ready Reader One
The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames
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CA$94.95
ISBN: 9780807180891
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: LSU Press
Ready Reader One explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of authors included in this collection take an expansive view of ?videogame...
Ready Reader One
The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780807182307
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: LSU Press
Ready Reader One explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of authors included in this collection take an expansive view of ?videogame...
Not All Fun and Games
Videogame Labour, Project-based Workplaces, and the New Citizenship at Work
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CA$59.95
ISBN: 9781988111490
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Concordia University Press
Motivated by a goal to understand the labour conditions of workers in the videogame industry and their participatory power to create decent work, Not All Fun and Games is a critical examination of a...
Made in Asia/America
Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781478030263
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Duke University Press
The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games, Asia, and America, showing how examining games offer new ways of imagining empire, race, and coalition.
Ready Player Juan
Latinx Masculinities and Stereotypes in Video Games
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780816552290
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
This book fuses Latinx studies and video game studies to document how Latinx masculinities are portrayed in high-budget action-adventure video games. Developing an original approach to video game experiences, the author theorizes video games as border crossings, and defines a new concept-digital mestizaje-that pushes players, readers, and scholars to deploy a Latinx way of seeing constructive as well as destructive qualities.
Red Dead Redemption
History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806191850
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
In its redeployment and reinvention of the Western's myth and memes, the Red Dead franchise speaks to broader aspects of American culture-the hold of the frontier myth and the "Wild West" over the popular imagination, the role of gun culture in society, depictions of gender and ethnicity in mass media, and the increasing allure of digital escapism-all of which come in for scrutiny here, making this volume a vital, sweeping, and deeply revealing cultural intervention.
Never Alone: Video Games as Interactive Design
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CA$55.95
ISBN: 9781633451414
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
An exploration of interaction design through 35 classic examples of video games, from Space Invaders to MinecraftOur lives are increasingly lived on screens, and every one of our electronic interactions...
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Animals, Video Games, and Humanity
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CA$34.99
ISBN: 9781517910198
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
A playful reflection on animals and video games, and what each can teach us about the other Video games conjure new worlds for those who play them, human or otherwise: they've been played by cats,...
Playing as Others
Theology and Ethical Responsibility in Video Games
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781481315463
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Baylor University Press
No contemporary form of pop culture has as large a social impact as video games, an entertainment industry whose yearly revenues continue to rise. Gamergate rocked the gaming industry when isolated...
Digital Playgrounds
The Hidden Politics of Children's Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9781442615564
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Digital Playgrounds makes the argument that online games play a uniquely meaningful role in children’s lives, with profound implications for children’s culture, agency, and rights in the digital era.
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative Aesthetics in Video Games
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CA$106.90
ISBN: 9783631838051
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative Aesthetics in Video Gamesis a collection of contemporary research and interpretation that explores the narrative structures in video games and ludonarrative content design in related media
Gaming Utopia
Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media
Price:
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780253054494
Pub Date: April 2021
In Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media, Claudia Costa Pederson analyzes modernist avant-garde and contemporary video games to challenge the idea that gaming is an exclusively white,...
Simulating Good and Evil
The Morality and Politics of Videogames
Price:
CA$45.95
ISBN: 9781978818569
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Simulating Good and Evil shows that the moral panic surrounding violent videogames is deeply misguided, and often politically motivated, but that games are nevertheless morally important. Videogames should be seen as spaces in which players may experiment with moral reasoning strategies without inflicting real harm.
Bringing History to Life
Teaching Fact and Fiction
CA$41.95
ISBN: 9780776641447
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Bringing History to Life
Teaching Fact and Fiction
CA$71.95
ISBN: 9780776641546
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Ability Machines
What Video Games Mean for Disability
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780253070036
Pub Date: July 2024
Ready Reader One
The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames
CA$94.95
ISBN: 9780807180891
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: LSU Press
Ready Reader One
The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780807182307
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: LSU Press
Not All Fun and Games
Videogame Labour, Project-based Workplaces, and the New Citizenship at Work
CA$59.95
ISBN: 9781988111490
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Concordia University Press
Made in Asia/America
Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781478030263
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Duke University Press
Ready Player Juan
Latinx Masculinities and Stereotypes in Video Games
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780816552290
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Red Dead Redemption
History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806191850
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Never Alone: Video Games as Interactive Design
CA$55.95
ISBN: 9781633451414
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Game
Animals, Video Games, and Humanity
CA$34.99
ISBN: 9781517910198
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Playing as Others
Theology and Ethical Responsibility in Video Games
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781481315463
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Baylor University Press
Digital Playgrounds
The Hidden Politics of Children's Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9781442615564
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Digital Playgrounds makes the argument that online games play a uniquely meaningful role in children’s lives, with profound implications for children’s culture, agency, and rights in the digital era.
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative Aesthetics in Video Games
CA$106.90
ISBN: 9783631838051
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
Gaming Utopia
Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780253054494
Pub Date: April 2021
Simulating Good and Evil
The Morality and Politics of Videogames
CA$45.95
ISBN: 9781978818569
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: Rutgers University Press