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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893580297Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892961301Author Ahoy PublicationsFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Legerum ABPublisher Legerum ABWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467568203Author Tony WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Tony WatkinsPublisher Tony WatkinsWeight(grams) 172g

Disputes between states and conflicts regarding the past are among the key sources of serious international rows. Such controversies may be defined as a situation of political and social stress connected with active, serious disparities of judgments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892961257Author Ahoy PublicationsFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Legerum ABPublisher Legerum ABWeight(grams) 200g

Video games are a relative late arrival on the cultural stage. While the academic discipline of game studies has evolved quickly since the nineties of the last century, the academia is only beginning to grasp the intellectual, philosophical, aesthetical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951231248Author Shem FleenorFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint 1848 PublishingPublisher 1848 PublishingWeight(grams) 195g

What are the humanities? As the cluster of disciplines historically grouped together as "humanities" has grown and diversified to include media studies and digital studies alongside philosophy, art history and musicology to name a few, the need...

Ylva Grufstedt investigates the role of counterfactuals in uses of history through game designers and through digital strategy games. It discusses the content, form and perspectives that define different types of counterfactuals in the context of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119201136Author Arijit GoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint FictionPublisher FictionWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460288672Author Curtis R McManusFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This work looks at the gendered nature of the US video gaming industry. Although there were attempts to incorporate women into development roles and market towards them as players, the creation of video games and the industry began in a world strongly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039135574Author Harley RothsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 660Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 953g

The visual turn recovers new pasts. With education as its theme, this book seeks to present a body of reflections that questions a certain historicism and renovates historiographical debate about how to conceptualize and use images and artifacts in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426913556Author John FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 862g

During the progressive education movement, laboratory high schools evolved from model schools that were part of the core teacher training curriculum at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). These laboratory schools were at the vanguard of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684860746Author Alton NorwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Urlink Print & Media, LLCPublisher Urlink Print & Media, LLCWeight(grams) 122g

The 6th book of the International Review of History Education Series, Contemporary public debates over history education, presents public debates on history education as they appear in 14 different areas of the world, in Asia, Europe, North and South...

The story of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk epitomizes one of the most important and dramatic clashes in the European culture of memory and public history in last decades. The museum became the arch-enemy for the nationalist right-wing as...

The book is entitled History Wars in the Classroom: Global Perspectives and examines how ten separate countries have experienced debates and disputes over the contested nature of the subject, for example the 'Black Armband' and 'Whitewash' factions in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893580334Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 318g

The book is entitled History Wars in the Classroom: Global Perspectives and examines how ten separate countries have experienced debates and disputes over the contested nature of the subject, for example the 'Black Armband' and 'Whitewash' factions in...

Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games introduces critical food studies to game scholarship, showing the unique ways in which food is utilized in both video game gameplay and narrative to show that food is never just food but rather a complex means of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649495853Author Cynthia L SimmonsFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Elk Lake Publishing IncPublisher Elk Lake Publishing IncWeight(grams) 626g

While video games have blossomed into the foremost expression of contemporary popular culture over the past decades, their critical study occupies a fringe position in American Studies. In its engagement with video games, this book contributes to their...

The analysis of UNESCO's audio-visual archives for their digitization has brought to light a forgotten album of 38 contact sheets and accompanying texts by Magnum photographer, David "Chim" Seymour - a reportage made in 1950 for UNESCO on the...

The heightened resonance of identity-driven politics in many states across twenty first century Europe emphasizes the critical role of history in shaping public contestation of the idea of the nation, and accordant manifestations of nationalism and...

The World is Born From Zero is an investigation into the relationship between video games and science fiction through the philosophy of speculation. Cameron Kunzelman argues that the video game medium is centered on the evaluation and production of...

In 1940, Estonia was first occupied and then annexed by the Soviet Union. The process of Sovietization started immediately and was accompanied by a thorough reconstruction of the economy. This monograph looks in detail at the different stages of economic...

The rationale for the present text, Hollywood or History? An Inquiry-Based Strategy for Using Film to Teach About Inequality and Inequity Throughout History stems from two main things. First and foremost is the fact that the reviews of the first two...

In Take the Journey: Teaching American History Through Place-Based Learning, author, historian, and educator James Percoco invites you and your students to the places where many events in American history happened.The Journey Through Hallowed Ground is a...

The pages of this book illustrate that as instruments of socialization and sites of ideological discourse textbooks are powerful artefacts in introducing young people to a specific historical, cultural and socioeconomic order. Crucially, exploring the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647485290Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 74Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893580501Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 426g

What role computers can play in historical research is continuously debated. The different facets of digital research, such as computer technology, data management and historical inquiry, call for collaborations across disciplines. Historians collaborate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227049087Author Dr HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Ched EdPublisher Ched EdWeight(grams) 145g

This volume discusses a broad range of themes and methodological issues around images, photography and film. Its about sharing a fascination about the visual history of education and how images became the most influential (circulating) media within the...

If historical culture is the specific and particular ways that a society engages with its past, this book aims to situate the professional practice of public history, now emerging across the world, within that framework. It links the increasingly varied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223828884Author Du PhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Du PhanPublisher Du PhanWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545618967Author Jerry ManionFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Mill City Press, Inc.Publisher Mill City Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 216g