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  • The Counterfeit Coin

    Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment

    The Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric—an internal mental image expressing the fulfillment of some wish—fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Placebo Effects in Neurologic Disease

    Series Book 153 - International Review of Neurobiology
    Placebo Effects in Neurologic Disease, Volume 153, the latest release in the International Review of Neurobiology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Background and Methods in Placebo, Better than Nothing: A Historical Account of Placebos and Placebo Effects from Modern to Contemporary Medicine, Determinants of PE, Strategies for ... Read more

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  • The Evolutionary Roots of Human Brain Diseases

    Richly illustrated with figures and examples and supplemented with a glossary of terms, The Evolutionary Roots of Human Brain Diseases assembles recent findings in clinical neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and cellular biology to elucidate the origins of human brain diseases and how evolution has given rise to exclusive impacts on brain health only in humans. The book is succinct, ... Read more

    $233.99 CAD

  • Flow Cytometry Basics for the Non-Expert

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This first edition volume demystifies the complex topic of flow cytometry by providing detailed explanations and nearly 120 figures to help novice flow cytometry users learn and understand the bedrock principles necessary to perform basic flow cytometry experiments correctly.The book divides the topic of flow cytometry into easy to understand sections and covers topics such as the physics behind ... Read more

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    Game Design Fundamentals

    Gain a deeper understanding of games and game design through 18 pioneering frameworks—with examples from board games, computer games, video games, and more.As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field ... Read more

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  • Life on the Screen

    by Sherry Turkle ...
    Life on the Screen is a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. Life on the Screen traces a set of boundary negotiations, telling the story of the changing impact of the computer ... Read more

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  • Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind

    Brought together for the first time in a single volume, these eight important and fascinating essays by Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist Eric Kandel provide a breakthrough perspective on how biology has influenced modern psychiatric thought. Complete with commentaries by experts in the field, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind reflects the author's evolving view of how biology ... Read more

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  • Death by Landscape

    by Elvia Wilk ...
    From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of “fan nonfiction” about living and writing in the age of extinctionIn this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narratives will help us rethink our human perspective toward Earth. The book begins as an exploration of the role of fiction today and becomes a deep interrogation of the writing process and the self.Wilk ... Read more

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  • Otaku

    Japan's Database Animals

    by Hiroki Azuma ...
    Translated by Jonathan E. Abel, Shion Kono ...
    In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.Hiroki Azuma’s Otaku ... Read more

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  • e-Pedia: Asperger Syndrome

    Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's, is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests

    Series series e-Pedia
    This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's, is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. As a milder autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it ... Read more

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  • Westworld and Philosophy

    If You Go Looking for the Truth, Get the Whole Thing

    by William Irwin ...
    Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    “We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next.”—Dr. Robert Ford, WestworldHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality? HBO’s Westworld, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Epigenetics

    Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution

    Illuminating the processes and patterns that link genotype to phenotype, epigenetics seeks to explain features, characters, and developmental mechanisms that can only be understood in terms of interactions that arise above the level of the gene. With chapters written by leading authorities, this volume offers a broad integrative survey of epigenetics. Approaching this complex subject from a ... Read more

    $112.99 CAD