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  • Playing with the Guys

    Masculinity and Relationships in Video Games

    by Marc A. Ouellette ...
    Series series Studies in Gaming
    A lot of work has been done talking about what masculinity is and what it does within video games, but less has been given to considering how and why this happens, and the processes involved. This book considers the array of daily relationships involved in producing masculinity and how those actions and relationships translate to video games. Moreover, it examines the ways the actual play of the ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • The Post-9/11 Video Game

    A Critical Examination

    by Marc A. Ouellette, Jason C. Thompson ...
    This critical study of video games since 9/11 shows how a distinct genre emerged following the terrorist attacks and their aftermath. Comparisons of pre and post-9/11 titles of popular game franchises--Call of Duty, Battlefield, Medal of Honor, Grand Theft Auto and Syphon Filter--reveal reshaped notions of identity, urban and suburban spaces and the citizen's role as both a producer and consumer ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Being Dragonborn

    Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    Edited by Mike Piero, Marc A. Ouellette ...
    Series series Studies in Gaming
    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the bestselling and most influential video games of the past decade. From the return of world-threatening dragons to an ongoing civil war, the province of Skyrim is rich with adventure, lore, magic, history, and stunning vistas. Beyond its visual spectacle alone, Skyrim is an exemplary gameworld that reproduces out-of-game realities, controversies, and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Antimicrobial Drug Resistance

    Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects, Volume 2

    Edited by Douglas L. Mayers, Jack D. Sobel, Marc Ouellette, Keith S. Kaye, Dror Marchaim ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The two volumes included in Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Second Edition is an updated, comprehensive and multidisciplinary reference covering the area of antimicrobial drug resistance in bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites from basic science, clinical, and epidemiological perspectives. This newly revised compendium reviews the most current research and development on drug resistance while ... Read more

    $344.59 CAD

  • Antimicrobial Drug Resistance

    Mechanisms of Drug Resistance, Volume 1

    Edited by Douglas L. Mayers, Jack D. Sobel, Marc Ouellette, Keith S. Kaye, Dror Marchaim ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The two volumes included in Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Second Edition is an updated, comprehensive and multidisciplinary reference covering the area of antimicrobial drug resistance in bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites from basic science, clinical, and epidemiological perspectives. This newly revised compendium reviews the most current research and development on drug resistance while ... Read more

    $447.09 CAD

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  • The Art of Failure

    An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

    by Jesper Juul ...
    Series series Playful Thinking
    A gaming academic offers a “fascinating” exploration of why we play video games—despite the unhappiness we feel when we fail at them (Boston Globe)We may think of video games as being “fun,” but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. Instead, we frown, grimace, and ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Sound Play

    Video Games and the Musical Imagination

    by William Cheng ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Nate Garrelts ...
    The immensely popular Grand Theft Auto game series has inspired a range of reactions among players and commentators, and a hot debate in the popular media. These essays from diverse theoretical perspectives expand the discussion by focusing scholarly analysis on the games, particularly Grand Theft Auto III (GTA3), Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (GTA:VC), and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA:SA) ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • The Play Versus Story Divide in Game Studies

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell ...
    Series series Studies in Gaming
    Since the emergence of digital game studies, a number of debates have engaged scholars. The debate between ludic (play) and narrative (story) paradigms remains the one that famously "never happened."This collection of new essays critically frames that debate and urges game scholars to consider it central to the field. The essayists examine various digital games, assessing the applicability of play ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Philosophy Through Video Games

    by Jon Cogburn, Mark Silcox ...
    How can Wii Sports teach us about metaphysics?Can playing World of Warcraft lead to greater self-consciousness?How can we learn about aesthetics, ethics and divine attributes fromZork, Grand Theft Auto, and Civilization?A variety of increasingly sophisticated video games are rapidly overtaking books, films, and television as America's most popular form of media entertainment. It is estimated that ... Read more

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  • On Video Games

    The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space

    by Soraya Murray ...
    Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. In this book, Soraya Murray moves past the technical discussions of games and offers a fresh and incisive look at their cultural dimensions. She critically explores blockbusters likeThe Last of Us, Metal Gear Solid, Spec Ops: The Line, Tomb Raider and ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Gaming Matters

    Art, Science, Magic, and the Computer Game Medium

    by Judd Ethan Ruggill, Prof Ken S. McAllister ...
    Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4In his 2004 book Game Work, Ken S. McAllister proposed a rigorous critical methodology for the discussion of the “video game complex”—the games themselves, their players, the industry that produces them, and those who review and market them. Games, McAllister demonstrated, are viewed and discussed very differently by different factions: as an ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD