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  • Homo Ludens

    A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

    by Johan Huizinga ...
    An essential reference for all game designers, this 1938 classic is “a fascinating account of ‘man the player’ and the contribution of play to civilization” (Harper’s).In this classic evaluation of play that has become a “must-read” for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Waning of the Middle Ages

    by Johan Huizinga, Steppenwolf Press ...
    Steppenwolf Press presents Johan Huizinga’s The Waning of the Middle Ages, a seminal exploration of the cultural and intellectual life of late medieval Europe. With unparalleled insight and eloquence, Huizinga transports readers to the twilight of the Middle Ages, where the vivid pageantry of chivalry and courtly life begins to give way to the complexities of modernity.Drawing on art, literature, ... Read more

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  • The Autumn of the Middle Ages

    by Johan Huizinga ...
    Translated by Rodney J. Payton, Ulrich Mammmitzch ...
    "Here is the first full translation into English of one of the twentieth century's few undoubted classics of history." — The Washington Post Book WorldThe Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga's classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the ... Read more

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  • The Waning of the Middle Ages

    by Johan Huizinga ...
    "The Waning of the Middle Ages," Huizinga explores the cultural, social, and intellectual aspects of the late medieval period in Europe. He focuses on the 14th and 15th centuries, a time of significant change and transformation in European society.Huizinga's central thesis is that the late Middle Ages witnessed a shift in the prevailing worldview and cultural sensibilities. He argues that the ... Read more

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  • Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

    by Johan Huizinga ...
    In this book, Huizinga delves into Erasmus's early life, education, and the development of his humanist thought. He highlights Erasmus's commitment to the ideals of Renaissance humanism, emphasizing his belief in education, critical scholarship, and the importance of returning to the original texts of Christianity. Huizinga also examines Erasmus's famous works, such as The Praise of Folly and his ... Read more

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  • The Waning of the Middle Ages

    A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and The Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth Centuries

    by J. Huizinga ...
    "To the world when it was half a thousand years younger," Huizinga begins, "the outline of all things seemed more clearly marked than to us." Life seemed to consist in extremes—a fierce religious asceticism and an unrestrained licentiousness, ferocious judicial punishments and great popular waves of pity and mercy, the most horrible crimes and the most extravagant acts of saintliness—and ... Read more

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  • Courage

    Become a gutsy badass

    by Nicoline Huizinga ...
    Series Book 1 - Flick the F*ck It Switch
    Procrastinating because you’re a perfectionist? Discover your own way to overcome fears that hold you back to be awesome!Feeling disheartened because others are more successful than you? Listening to that little voice in your head that says you may not be good enough? Putting off the things you long to do because you’re waiting for perfection?Nicoline Huizinga spent way too much time not doing the ... Read more

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  • Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

    by Johan Huizinga ...
    In "Homo Ludens," the classic evaluation of play that has become a "must-read" for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting with Plato, Huizinga traces the contribution of "Homo Ludens," or "Man the player" through ... Read more

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  • Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

    by Johan Huizinga ...
    "Erasmus and the Age of Reformation". In this very readable biography, a noted scholar traces Erasmus's youth, his years as an itinerant scholar, sojourns in England, France, Switzerland, and Italy, friendship with Sir Thomas More, and disputes with Martin Luther. The author also probes Erasmus's mind and character and discusses his writings. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Good Son

    by Carolyn Huizinga Mills ...
    Zoe Emmerson has a secret, one she’s kept for years. Her quiet world is shaken when her past finally catches up with her: the investigation into the murder of a six-year-old neighbour is re-opened thirty years after the fact, threatening to destroy her and everyone she’s fought so hard to protect.She was just a child when it happened, scared and confused, and she’s never been entirely sure what ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Sins of the Daughter

    by Carolyn Huizinga Mills ...
    Danah Calsely was only nine when her mother abandoned her. Years later, as a promising Sociology PhD candidate, Danah appears largely unaffected by this traumatic loss — until she finds a letter that she’s convinced is from her missing mother. The truth about Jane Lily and her disappearance is wrapped in a long history of silence, and Danah’s grandmother, Edith, has no interest in rehashing the ... Read more

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  • The Wanning of Middle Ages

    Chivalry, Courtly Love, Ritual, and Religious Imagination in Late Medieval France and Burgundy

    by Johan Huizinga ...
    Translated by Frederik Jan Hopman ...
    Johan Huizinga's *The Waning of the Middle Ages* is a brilliant cultural history of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Burgundy, France, and the Low Countries, an era poised between medieval forms and Renaissance transformations. Rather than narrating political events alone, Huizinga reconstructs the period's sensibility through religious devotion, chivalry, courtly love, violence, symbolism, art, ... Read more

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