Study & Teaching

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789788457855Author Obaro IkimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint BookcraftPublisher BookcraftWeight(grams) 408g

What and how to teach in the K-16 classroom history has been a perennial and, at times, heated debate. Beginning as early as 1892, the question of what knowledge is of the most worth and what should be the central function of the history curriculum...

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 book offers a historical and methodological update of founding historical themes and moments, and a methodological review more than ever necessary of current interpretations of the History of Sardinia between the Early Middle Ages and the Modernity...

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...

These are the letters received and sent by Charles Henry Brown between the years 1847 and 1864. As an aeronaut, Brown’s lifelong obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain to Australia. While his aeronautical endeavours met with...

What if researchers interested in ‘the past’ used their noses? This open access book makes the case for a more imaginatively interdisciplinary approach to sensory heritage and history, arguing that we can and should engage our noses as a research tool...

Games can act as invaluable tools for the teaching of the Middle Ages. The learning potential of physical and digital games is increasingly undeniable at every level of historical study. These games can provide a foundation of information through their...

What and how to teach in the K-16 classroom history has been a perennial and, at times, heated debate. Beginning as early as 1892, the question of what knowledge is of the most worth and what should be the central function of the history curriculum...

Performing Public History explores history-telling as a performance across a wide range of media, including theatre and film, historical re-enactments and living history performances, operas, and video games.Taking historians as storytellers, this book...

For nearly a half century, from 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union maneuvered to achieve global hegemony. Each forged political alliances, doled out foreign aid, mounted cultural campaigns, and launched covert operations. The Cold War...

Just as society has changed dramatically over the last century, so have the social sciences. This valuable reference chronicles the historical development of social studies as a discipline in elementary and secondary schools. It also assesses the current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369370235Author Freeman TildenFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 544g

How do scholarship and practices of remembrance regarding Nazi Germany benefit from digital tools and approaches? What challenges arise from "doing history digitally" in this field - and how should they best be dealt with? The eight chapters of this...

This volume presents the thinking and the activities of some of the most serious and successful practitioners of world history. The fifteen contributors are experience historians from ten countries dispersed across five continents. Their essays confirm...

American Studies has only gradually turned its attention to video games in the twenty-first century, even though the medium has grown into a cultural industry that is arguably the most important force in American and global popular culture today. There...

This volume focuses on the depiction of women in video games set in historical periods or archaeological contexts, explores the tension between historical and archaeological accuracy and authenticity, examines portrayals of women in historical periods or...

The past decades public interest in history is booming. This creates new opportunities but also challenges for professional historians. This book asks how historians deal with changing public demands for history and how these affect their professional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950051472Author Cynthia L SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Elk Lake Publishing, Inc.Publisher Elk Lake Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 349g

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...

Video game spaces have vastly expanded the built environment, offering new worlds to explore and inhabit. Like buildings, cities, and gardens before them, these virtual environments express meaning and communicate ideas and affects through the spatial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498022750Author Cuthbert BedeFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732726017Author Xavier E N SpringsFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint EpnPublisher EpnWeight(grams) 95g

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...

With respect to public issues, history matters. With the worldwide interest for historical issues related with gender, religion, race, nation, and identity, public history is becoming the strongest branch of academic history. This volume brings together...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732944152Author Bishop George W BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Lee's PressPublisher Lee's PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498053631Author Ella Adelia FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497973664Author Sir Oliver LodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 254g