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  • Playing War

    Military Video Games After 9/11

    by Matthew Thomas Payne ...
    Explores the culture that made military shooter video games popular, and key in understanding the War on TerrorNo video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the “military shooter.” Franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and those bearing Tom Clancy’s name turn over billions of dollars annually by promising to immerse players in historic and near-future ... Read more

    Free

  • Understanding English Grammar

    A Linguistic Introduction

    by Thomas E. Payne ...
    Language is primarily a tool for communication, yet many textbooks still treat English grammar as simply a set of rules and facts to be memorised by rote. This new textbook is made for students who are frustrated with this approach and would like instead to understand grammar and how it works. Why are there two future tenses in English? What are auxiliaries and why are they so confusing? Why are ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Minecraft Building Guide: House Ideas

    by Thomas Payne ...
    Learn how to build all of your favorite houses in this all-new guide for Minecraft. Houses included in this guide are a mushroom hut, a tree house, a floating house, a cobblestone and glass home, a rustic countryside house, a medieval style house, and a lighthouse!Conquer Minecraft with your very own tree house! ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Exploring Language Structure

    A Student's Guide

    by Thomas Payne ...
    Designed for those beginning to study linguistics, this is a lively introduction to two key aspects of the structure of language: syntax (the structure of sentences) and morphology (the structure of words). It shows students in a step-by-step fashion how to analyze the syntax and morphology of any language, by clearly describing the basic methods and techniques, and providing almost 100 practical ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Trouble With Fate [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Mystwalker 1

    by Leigh Evans ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Colleen Delany, Jonathan Feuer, Scott McCormick, Patrick Bussink, Nanette Savard, Gregory Linington, Dawn Ursula, Kimberly Gilbert, Joel David Santner, Eva Wilhelm, Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey, Eric Messner, Michael John Casey, Thomas Keegan, Bob Payne, Laura C. Harris, Elizabeth Jernigan, Christopher Graybill, Drew Kopas, Rebecca Sheir, Matthew Bassett, Terence Aselford, Yasmin Tuazon ...
    Series series Mystwalker

    Unabridged

    7 hours 2 min

    My name is Hedi Peacock and I have a secret. I'm not human, and I have the pointy Fae ears and Were inner-bitch to prove it. As fairy tales go, my childhood was damn near perfect, all fur and magic until a werewolf killed my father and the Fae executed my mother. I've never forgiven either side. Especially Robson Trowbridge. He was a part-time werewolf, a full-time bastard, and the first and only ... Read more

    $31.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Joystick Soldiers

    The Politics of Play in Military Video Games

    Edited by Nina B. Huntemann, Matthew Thomas Payne ...
    Joystick 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 first video game, Spacewar! in 1962.While war video games began as entertainment, military organizations soon saw their potential as combat simulation and recruitment tools. A profitable and popular ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • How to Play Video Games

    Edited by Matthew Thomas Payne, Nina B. Huntemann ...
    Series Book 1 - User's Guides to Popular Culture
    Forty original contributions on games and gaming cultureWhat does Pokémon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? How does BioShock Infinite help us navigate world-building?From arcades to Atari, and phone apps to virtual reality headsets, video games have been at the epicenter of our ever-evolving ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Revenge

    by Thomas D. Payne Sr. ...
    A woman and her two sons seek revenge on a man and his family that were responsible for the death of her husband and father of the boys by falsely having him convicted of a crime of embezzlement. She marries a man who is a master of illusions who devises a plan to kidnap the fourteen-year-old grandson of the accuser that leads to an intriguing ending. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Eugene Jarvis

    King of the Arcade

    by Dr Matthew Thomas Payne ...
    Series series Influential Video Game Designers
    This book explores the influential work of Eugene Jarvis, designer of the wildly-successful arcade games Defender, Robotron: 2084, NARC, Smash TV, and Cruis'n USA, among others.Embracing a variety of genres across decades, the video games of Eugene Jarvis offer a series of design lessons in how to craft coin-operated game machines that can survive and thrive even as the arcade was disappearing ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Practical Guide to Clinical Computing Systems

    Design, Operations, and Infrastructure

    Edited by Thomas Payne ...
    Although informatics trainees and practitioners who assume operational computing roles in their organization may have reasonably advanced understanding of theoretical informatics, many are unfamiliar with the practical topics - such as downtime procedures, interface engines, user support, JCAHO compliance, and budgets - which will become the mainstay of their working lives. Practical Guide to ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Flow TV

    Television in the Age of Media Convergence

    Edited by Michael Kackman, Marnie Binfield, Matthew Thomas Payne, Allison Perlman, Bryan Sebok ...
    From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries. If Raymond Williams' concept of flow challenges the idea of a discrete television text, then convergence destabilizes the notion of television as a discrete object.Flow TV examines television in an age of technological, economic, and cultural convergence. Seeking to frame a new set of ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • A Living Hell

    by "Thomas ""Tuch""" Payne ...
    David a young soldier home on the fi rst day of his fi rst furlough and planning to marry his love Nell, was accused of murdering her sister. He was tried and convicted on the evidence that pointed only to him by the cleverness of another. He was to spend twenty years in prison before his strong faith and a quirk of remembering a strange secret by his once bride to be that led him to be a free man ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD