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The Geek's Chihuahua: Living with Apple by Prof. Ian Bogost
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.12At dinnertime: check. At a traffic light: check. In bed at the end of the day: check. In line at the coffee shop: check. In The Geek's Chihuahua, Ian Bogost addresses the modern love affair of... -
How to Talk about Videogames by Prof. Ian Bogost
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Videogames! Aren't they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new cinema? The apotheosis of art and entertainment, the realization of Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk? The final victory of interaction... -
How to Do Things with Videogames by Prof. Ian Bogost
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers now regularly appear in the New York Times and the... -
Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing by Prof. Ian Bogost
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Humanity has sat at the center of philosophical thinking for too long. The recent advent of environmental philosophy and posthuman studies has widened our scope of inquiry to include ecosystems,... -
Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames by Prof. Ian Bogost 9780262514880
Booksplease Price: £39.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262514880Author Ian BogostFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism by Prof. Ian Bogost 9780262524872
Booksplease Price: £36.87In Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary theory and computation, proposing a literary-technical theory that can be used to analyze particular videogames... -
Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games Ian Bogost 9780415996600
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.94Joystick Soldiers is the first anthology to examine the reciprocal relationship between militarism and video games. War has been an integral theme of the games industry since the invention of the... -
Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games by Prof. Ian Bogost
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Play Anything is nothing short of brilliant... I will be recommending this provocative and entertaining book to everyone I know." u- Jane McGonigal, bestselling author of Reality is Broken and ... -
The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life by Ian Bogost 9781668062630
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The End of Phenomenology: Metaphysics and the New Realism by Tom Sparrow
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68In the 20th century, phenomenology promised a method that would get philosophy "back to the things themselves". But phenomenology has always been haunted by the spectre of an anthropocentric... -
Dear Incomprehension: On American Speculative Fiction by Stéphane Vanderhaeghe 9780817321871
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £70.50A poetic meditation on the challenges and pleasures of contemporary speculative fictionWinner of the Elizabeth Agree Prize in American Literary StudiesDear Incomprehension: On American Speculative... -
Thinking about Video Games: Interviews with the Experts by David S. Heineman 9780253017109
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £57.56The growth in popularity and complexity of video games has spurred new interest in how games are developed and in the research and technology behind them. David Heineman brings together some of the... -
Thinking about Video Games: Interviews with the Experts by David S. Heineman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.56The growth in popularity and complexity of video games has spurred new interest in how games are developed and in the research and technology behind them. David Heineman brings together some of the... -
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing by Ed Finn
Booksplease Price: £36.87The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek. We depend on-we believe in-algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy,... -
Persuasive Gaming in Context by DR. Teresa De La Hera 9789463728805
RRP: £118.00Booksplease Price: £114.69The rapid developments in new communication technologies have facilitated the popularization of digital games, which has translated into an exponential growth of the game industry in recent decades... -
Persuasive Gaming in Context Teresa La Hera 9781041184102
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39The rapid developments in new communication technologies have facilitated the popularization of digital games, which has translated into an exponential growth of the game industry in recent decades... -
Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political Graham Harman 9780745333991
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30Bruno Latour, the French sociologist, anthropologist and long-established superstar in the social sciences is revisited in this pioneering account of his ever-evolving political philosophy. Breaking... -
News Online: Transformations and Continuities by Graham Meikle 9780230233454
Booksplease Price: £37.42News matters. It is still the main forum for discussion of issues of public importance. It is where we come together to inform, persuade, influence, endorse or reject one another in a collaborative... -
Computer Games as a Sociocultural Phenomenon: Games Without Frontiers - War Without Tears by Andreas Jahn-Sudmann 9780230545441
Booksplease Price: £108.78Internationally renowned media and literature scholars, social scientists, game designers and artists explore the cultural potential of computer games in this rich anthology, which introduces the... -
King PONG: How Atari Bounced Across Markets to Make Millions Raiford Guins 9780262051330
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.97Why and how Atari s first video game Pong established an industry that shapes consumers relationships to technology to this day. Pong is one of the longest, most consistently circulating video games... -
The Nonhuman Turn by Richard Grusin
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Edited by Richard Grusin of the Center for 21st Century Studies, this is the first book to name and characterize-and therefore consolidate-a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and... -
Adventure: An Argument for Limits by Dr. Christopher Schaberg 9798765101452
Booksplease Price: £61.05What is the meaning of "adventure" as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, after a global pandemic, social and geopolitical calamities, and accelerating environmental catastrophes? What... -
Killer Cities by Nigel Thrift
Booksplease Price: £76.95Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, hasten the... -
Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games: Reshaping Theory and Practice of Writing by Richard Colby 9781349455621
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.38An edited collection whose contributors analyze the relationship between writing, learning, and video games/videogaming, these essays consist of academic essays from writing and rhetoric... -
Literature, Videogames and Learning by Andrew Burn 9781032024523
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66This innovative book explores links between literature and videogames, and how designing and playing games can transform our understanding of literature. It shows how studying literature through the... -
Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games: Reshaping Theory and Practice of Writing by R. Colby 9781137307668
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.78An edited collection whose contributors analyze the relationship between writing, learning, and video games/videogaming, these essays consist of academic essays from writing and rhetoric... -
Things Worth Keeping: The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World by Christine Harold
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste Rampant consumerism has inundated our planet with pollution and waste. Yet attempts to create... -
The Virtual Ninja Manifesto: Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism by Chris Goto-Jones 9781783489817
Booksplease Price: £113.11Navigating between society's moral panics about the influence of violent videogames and philosophical texts about self-cultivation in the martial arts, The Virtual Ninja Manifesto asks whether the... -
The Virtual Ninja Manifesto: Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism by Chris Goto-Jones 9781783489824
Booksplease Price: £38.80Navigating between society's moral panics about the influence of violent videogames and philosophical texts about self-cultivation in the martial arts, The Virtual Ninja Manifesto asks whether the... -
Pedagogy of the Depressed Dr. Christopher Schaberg (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) 9781501364570
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.17This book is one English professor's assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warnings to learning management systems and the COVID... -
Every Game is an Island: Endings and Extremities in Video Games by Riccardo Fassone 9781501343995
Booksplease Price: £39.13Despite the pervasive rhetorics of immersion and embodiment found in industrial and social discourses, playing a video game is an exercise in non-linearity. The pervasiveness of trial and error... -
Knowledge Games: How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change by Karen Schrier 9781421419206
Booksplease Price: £35.52Imagine if new knowledge and insights came not just from research centers, think tanks, and universities but also from games, of all things. Video games have been viewed as causing social problems,... -
Debates in the Digital Humanities by Matthew K. Gold
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Encompassing new technologies, research methods, and opportunities for collaborative scholarship and open-source peer review, as well as innovative ways of sharing knowledge and teaching, the digital... -
Airportness: The Nature of Flight by Dr. Christopher Schaberg
Booksplease Price: £21.84Airportness takes the reader on a single day's journey through all the routines and stages of an ordinary flight. From curbside to baggage, and pondering the minutes and hours of sitting in between,... -
Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification by Professor Patrick Jagoda
Booksplease Price: £25.10In 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,... -
Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification by Professor Patrick Jagoda 9780226629834
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.85In 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,... -
The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight by Dr. Christopher Schaberg 9781441189684
Booksplease Price: £30.48This is a book about airport stories. It is about common narratives of airports that circulate in everyday life, and about the secret stories of airports-the strange or hidden narratives that do not... -
Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People who Play Them by Jamie Madigan
Booksplease Price: £19.71Video games are big business. They can be addicting. They are available almost anywhere you go and are appealing to people of all ages. They can eat up our time, cost us money, even kill our...