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  • Demystifying Game Studies

    by Michael Heron ...
    This book is an introduction to game studies, written in an approachable way that outlines useful perspectives that readers can use to interrogate games as a primary text. It provides the reader with a toolset that can “level up” their own critical perspectives.This book is organized around several evaluative lenses, each supported with case studies. These lenses approach the analysis of games ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Songs for the Dead Vol. 1

    by Michael Christopher Heron ...
    Series series Songs for the Dead
    Bethany is a minstrel, a wanderer, and a would-be hero seeking adventure. She's also a reviled necromancer, hated and hunted by all. To prove her magic isn't evil, Bethany needs help from a murderous mercenary, in other words, a friend. FRIENDS. MAGIC. SWORDS. DEATH. AND LIFE (AGAIN). Bethany is a minstrel with a heart full of adventure, a would-be hero determined to find a missing boy from the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Tabletop Game Accessibility

    Meeple Centred Design

    by Michael James Heron ...
    This foundational resource on the topic of tabletop game accessibility provides actionable guidelines on how to make games accessible for people with disabilities. This book contextualises this practical guidance within a philosophical framework of how the relatively abled can ethically address accessibility issues within game design.This book helps readers to build understanding and empathy ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • A Case Study for Computer Ethics in Context

    The Scandal in Academia

    by Michael James Heron, Pauline Helen Belford ...
    Aimed at addressing the difficulties associated with teaching often abstract elements of technical ethics, this book is an extended fictional case study into the complexities of technology and social structures in complex organizations. Within this case study, an accidental discovery reveals that the algorithms of Professor John Blackbriar are not quite what they were purported to be. Over the ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Songs for the Dead Vol. 2

    The Necromancer's Map

    by Michael Christopher Heron ...
    Series series Songs for the Dead
    A standalone Songs for the Dead Story: Bethany—the necromancer with a heart of gold—and Elissar—her violent companion are following a map that makes no sense, to a place that might not exist, with the help of a wizard who might be cursed. FRIENDS. MAGIC. SWORDS. DEATH. AND LIFE (AGAIN). A new standalone Songs for the Dead story: Bethany, the necromancer with a heart of gold, and Elissar, her prone ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Three Rings

    The History of the Spanish Jews

    by Poul Borchsenius ...
    Translated by Michael Heron ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1963, this book covers one of the least known parts of Jewish history: the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain with the interaction of Jewish, Muslim and Christian cultures, the horrors of the Inquisition and the final banishment of the race from the Iberian peninsula. In the Middle Ages there were large numbers of Jews in most Spanish cities: financiers and statesmen, ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • The Chains Are Broken

    The Story of Jewish Emancipation

    by Poul Borchsenius ...
    Translated by Michael Heron ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1964, this further volume in Poul Borchsenius’ history of the Jewish people, is the story of the emancipation from the time when the Jews lived a segregated life in the ghetto, until the Age of Enlightenment they achieved equality. This was the time of Moses Mendelssohn, the famous philosopher and of the poet Heinrich Heine who gave expression to contemporary thought in his ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games

    by KC Collins ...
    An examination of the player's experience of sound in video games and the many ways that players interact with the sonic elements in games.In Playing with Sound, Karen Collins examines video game sound from the player's perspective. She explores the many ways that players interact with a game's sonic aspects—which include not only music but also sound effects, ambient sound, dialogue, and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • In-Game

    From Immersion to Incorporation

    by Gordon Calleja ...
    An investigation of what makes digital games engaging to players and a reexamination of the concept of immersion.Digital games offer a vast range of engaging experiences, from the serene exploration of beautifully rendered landscapes to the deeply cognitive challenges presented by strategic simulations to the adrenaline rush of competitive team-based shoot-outs. Digital games enable experiences ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Designing Virtual Worlds

    Volume I

    by Richard A. Bartle ...
    Designing Virtual Worlds, authored by a true pioneer, stands as the most comprehensive examination of virtual-world design ever written. This seminal work is a tour de force, remarkable for its intellectual breadth, encompassing the literary, economic, sociological, psychological, physical, technological, and ethical foundations of virtual worlds. It provides readers with a profound, well-grounded ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Everything Bad is Good for You

    How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

    by Steven Johnson ...
    **Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification cultureFrom the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted**In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue that the pop ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Heart of the Machine

    Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence

    by Richard Yonck ...
    For Readers of Ray Kurzweil and Michio Kaku, a New Look at the Cutting Edge of Artificial IntelligenceImagine a robotic stuffed animal that can read and respond to a child’s emotional state, a commercial that can recognize and change based on a customer’s facial expression, or a company that can actually create feelings as though a person were experiencing them naturally. Heart of the Machine ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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