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  • An Analysis of Carole Hillenbrand's The Crusades

    Islamic Perspectives

    by Robert Houghton, Damien Peters ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    For many centuries, the history of the crusades, as written by Western historians, was based solidly on Western sources. Evidence from the Islamic societies that the crusaders attacked was used only sparingly – in part because it was hard for most westerners to read, and in part because much of it was inaccessible even for historians who did speak Arabic.Carole Hillenbrand set out to re-evaluate ... Read more

    $12.30 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Video Games and History

    Edited by Kate Cook, Robert Houghton, Chris Kempshall ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Video Games and History explores the dynamic intersection between video games and historical scholarship.This comprehensive handbook delves into the ways video games present, interpret, and engage with history, moving beyond questions of accuracy to examine their potential as tools for education, research, and cultural critique. With contributions from international ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

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  • Conflict and Violence in Medieval Italy 568-1154

    Edited by Christopher Heath, Robert Houghton ...
    Series series Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
    This collection of essays from both established and emerging scholars analyses the dynamic connections between conflict and violence in medieval Italy. The contributors present a new critique of power that sustained both kingship and locally based elite networks throughout the Italian peninsula. A broad temporal range, covering the sixth to the twelfth centuries, allows this book to cross a number ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Macat Analysis of Carole Hillenbrand's The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives

    by Robert Houghton ...
    Narrated by Laurence Bouvard ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 3 min

    The story of the crusades has been told and retold in Western histories—but invariable from Western perspectives. Carole Hillenbrand’s fresh interpretation drew on Islamic sources that describe the crusades from a Muslim point of view. For the first time, a multitude of the era’s Islamic voices are fully heard, and their accounts challenge narratives that have been accepted in both the West and ... Read more

    $15.37 CAD

  • Playing the Middle Ages

    Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games

    Edited by Robert Houghton ...
    Series series New Directions in Medieval Studies
    The Middle Ages have provided rich source material for physical and digital games from Dungeons and Dragons to Assassin's Creed. This volume addresses the many ways in which different formats and genre of games represent the period. It considers the restrictions placed on these representations by the mechanical and gameplay requirements of the medium and by audience expectations of these products ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Playing the Crusades

    Engaging the Crusades, Volume Five

    Edited by Robert Houghton ...
    Series series Engaging the Crusades
    Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes which offer windows into a newly emerging field of historical study: the memory and legacy of the crusades. Together these volumes examine the reasons behind the enduring resonance of the crusades and present the memory of crusading in the modern period as a productive, exciting, and much needed area of investigation.This volume considers the appearance ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Molecularly Targeted Therapy for Childhood Cancer

    Edited by Peter J. Houghton, Robert J. Arceci ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Each chapter will focus on the known molecular characteristics of specific childhood cancers, focusing on how the molecular ‘drivers’ can be exploited from a therapeutic standpoint with currently available targeted agents. Where applicable, integration of targeted therapies with conventional cytotoxic agents will be considered.This volume will provide a comprehensive summary of molecular ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

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    by James Raven ...
    Series series What is History?
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    $23.99 CAD

  • Player vs. Monster

    The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity

    by Jaroslav Svelch ...
    Series series Playful Thinking
    An ode to the gruesome game characters we love to beat—from the monsters of D&D to the mutants of The Last of Us—and what they tell us about ourselves.Since the early days of video games, monsters have played pivotal roles as dangers to be avoided, level bosses to be defeated, or targets to be destroyed for extra points. But why is the figure of the monster so important in gaming, and how have ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Race and Popular Fantasy Literature

    Habits of Whiteness

    by Helen Young ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and representation. Approaching Fantasy as a significant element of popular culture, ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Playing with the Past

    Digital Games and the Simulation of History

    Edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Andrew B.R. Elliott ...
    Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on more general issues. With Playing with the Past, game studies is taken to the next level by offering a specific and detailed analysis of one area of digital game play -- the representation of history. The collection focuses on the ways in which gamers engage with, play with, recreate ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

  • Global Medievalism

    An Introduction

    by Helen Young, Kavita Mudan Finn ...
    Series series Elements in the Global Middle Ages
    The typical vision of the Middle Ages western popular culture represents to its global audience is deeply Eurocentric. The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones imagined entire medievalist worlds, but we see only a fraction of them through the stories and travels of the characters. Organised around the theme of mobility, this Element seeks to deconstruct the Eurocentric orientations of western ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD