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Experimental Games Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification
ISBN: PB: 9780226629971, ISBN: HB: 9780226629834, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones
In our unprecedentedly networked world, games have come to occupy an important space in many of our everyday lives. Digital games alone engage an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide as of 2020, and other forms of gaming, such as board games, role...
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£22,00
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£72,00
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Mescaline A Global History of the First Psychedelic
ISBN: HB: 9780300231076, Yale University Press, May 2019
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.
Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's "The Doors of Perception", after which the word "psychedelic" was coined to describe it. Its story, however, extends deep into prehistory: the earliest Andean c...
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£18,99
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Palaces of Pleasure From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment
ISBN: HB: 9780300224634, Yale University Press, April 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 colour illus.
The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their desires were satiated by determined entrepreneurs building new venues for po...
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£20,00
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Lived Practice
ISBN: PB: 9780982879887, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, August 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
"A Lived Practice" examines the reciprocal relationship of art and life: Artist-practitioners are shaped by their experiences, and they in turn create and enhance the experience of others. Based on a symposium held at the School of the Art Institute...
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£15,00
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Great Indian Phone Book How Cheap Mobile Phones Change Business, Politics and Daily Life
ISBN: PB: 9781849043137, Hurst Publishers, June 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The cheap mobile phone is arguably the most significant personal communications device in history. In India, where caste hierarchy has reinforced power for generations, the disruptive potential of the mobile phone is even more...
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£14,99
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Encyclopedia of New York City Second Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780300114652, Yale University Press, January 2011
1600 pp., 27.7x21.8 cm, 752 black&white illus.
Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of "The Encyclopedia of New York City" was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its f...
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£45,00
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Thug Life Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop
ISBN: PB: 9780226395852, ISBN: HB: 9780226395845, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones
Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States,...
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£22,50
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£58,50
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Hamburg A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955757, Signal Books, January 2011
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! It is a popular misconception that Hamburg is a coastal city. In fact, despite possessing Europe's second-busiest port, this "amphibious city" lies some 65 miles from the North Sea. Its long-standing image as a 'city without cu...
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£12,00
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Letters from London
ISBN: PB: 9781902669618, Signal Books, May 2003
140 pp., 19x11.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1932 the young writer and political activist CLR James arrived in London from his native Trinidad. During his first weeks in the city he wrote a series of essays about his impressions and experiences for publication back hom...
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£10,99
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