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  • The Aesthetic of Play

    par Brian Upton ...
    A game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the relationship of play and narrative.The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre-cultural but pre-human; zoologists have identified play behaviors in turtles and in chimpanzees. Games have existed since antiquity; 5,000-year-old board games have been recovered from Egyptian tombs. And yet we still lack a ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Situational Game Design

    par Brian Upton ...
    Situational Design lays out a new methodology for designing and critiquing videogames. While most game design books focus on games as formal systems, Situational Design concentrates squarely on player experience. It looks at how playfulness is not a property of a game considered in isolation, but rather the result of the intersection of a game with an appropriate player. Starting from simple ... En savoir plus

    $92.99 CAD

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  • Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

    par Daniel C. Dennett ...
    One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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  • From Bacteria to Bach and Back

    The Evolution of Minds

    par Daniel C. Dennett ...
    "A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work." —NatureHow did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind?In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent ... En savoir plus

    $19.79 CAD

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  • Rules of Play

    Game Design Fundamentals

    par Katie Salen Tekinbas, Eric Zimmerman ...
    Gain a deeper understanding of games and game design through 18 pioneering frameworks—with examples from board games, computer games, video games, and more.As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Emotion Machine

    Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind

    par Marvin Minsky ...
    In this mind-expanding book, scientific pioneer Marvin Minsky continues his groundbreaking research, offering a fascinating new model for how our minds work. He argues persuasively that emotions, intuitions, and feelings are not distinct things, but different ways of thinking.By examining these different forms of mind activity, Minsky says, we can explain why our thought sometimes takes the form ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • What to Think About Machines That Think

    Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence

    par John Brockman ...
    Collections Livre 19 - Edge Question Series
    Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today’s most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of “machines that think.”Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Others, conversely, have trumpeted a new age of “superintelligence” in which smart devices will exponentially extend human ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Consciousness Explained

    par Daniel C. Dennett ...
    An exploration of the science behind being alive and aware, from the author of Brainstorms and Darwin's Dangerous Idea."Brilliant . . . as audacious as its title. . . . Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant, the best example I've seen of a science book aimed at both professionals and general readers." —George Johnson, New York Times Book ReviewConsciousness Explained is a full ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Things That Make Us Smart

    par Don Norman ...
    By the author of THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS.Insightful and whimsical, profoundly intelligent and easily accessible, Don Norman has been exploring the design of our world for decades, exploring this complex relationship between humans and machines. In this seminal work, fully revised and updated, Norman gives us the first steps towards demanding a person-centered redesign of the machines we use ... En savoir plus

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  • Life on the Screen

    par Sherry Turkle ...
    Life on the Screen is a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. Life on the Screen traces a set of boundary negotiations, telling the story of the changing impact of the computer ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Think Smart, Talk Smart

    How Scientists Think: a Guide to Effective Communication

    par Allan Laurence Brooks ...
    No one doubts that science underlies every tangible aspect of our lives, but few people apply its systematic style of thinking to improve their communication styles. To get the most out of science, its important to understand science as a style of thinking rather than just a forbidding collection of facts and mathematics. Individuals who learn how scientists collect evidence, evaluate facts, and ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Art of Failure

    An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

    par Jesper Juul ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $27.19 CAD