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A witty and insightful deep-dive into the most beloved videogame franchise of all time.Mario may be the most recognizable game character in the world, but no series is more beloved nor has inspired more devoted fans than The Legend of Zelda. For four decades, Zelda games have pushed and perfected what is possible in the medium, becoming lodestars for generations of players. In Legendary, journalist and lifelong fan Eric Betts traces the franchise across eighteen core insta...

"God Didn't Push Me: Seven Ways I Let Go" by Rev. Eric N. Betts is an inspiring and spirituality-based book that helps readers understand the unknown impact of the seven deadly sins in their lives.The author, through his inspiring and honest narration, helps readers understand how struggles like pride, greed, lust, envy, and others affect their lives unknowingly.The book teaches people that for them to start living, they have to learn to "let go." It is a powerful guide for...

One violent moment takes everything from Darrion Brown-his love, his future, and the God he trusted.Left alone with crushing grief and deafening silence from heaven, Darrion spirals into a dangerous place where prayer feels empty, belief feels dishonest, and walking away from faith feels like the only truth left.When comforting words sound hollow and easy answers feel like insults, he faces the question most believers are afraid to ask:What do you do when faith stops working?Spiritual Suic...

"What A Wonderful Shame" is a novelette about one man’s journey in finding the Truth of God in real-life practical circumstances—with the ebb and flow of life while simultaneously searching and cementing oneself in the truth of Jesus Christ and the work he has deposited into each of us and how our thoughts can shape our reality.

What if the greatest lie of your life is that you still have time? The Sound of ONLY is not a comfort read. It is a wake up call. Rooted in Revelation 1:3, this book confronts the two illusions quietly ruling our lives: that we are in control, and that tomorrow is guaranteed.It asks one brutal, unavoidable question. Are you actually ready right now if the trumpet sounds?This is not theology for spectators or religion as performance. It is a surgical dismant...

What if the greatest lie of your life is that you still have time? The Sound of ONLY is not a comfort read. It is a wake up call. Rooted in Revelation 1:3, this book confronts the two illusions quietly ruling our lives: that we are in control, and that tomorrow is guaranteed.It asks one brutal, unavoidable question. Are you actually ready right now if the trumpet sounds?This is not theology for spectators or religion as performance. It is a surgical dismant...

Au fil des vingt et quelques chapitres que compte cet ouvrage, les auteurs explorent le passé, le présent et l’avenir de la recherche, de l’enseignement et de l’expérimentation en sciences humaines numériques au Canada. Ce recueil, qui rassemble les travaux de chercheuses et de chercheurs établis et émergents, présente des initiatives contemporaines dans le domaine des sciences humaines numériques. Celles-ci sont conjuguées à un réexamen de l’héritage légué par ce domaine jusqu’à ce jour e...

Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are endless, and all encountered through a computer screen. At the time of its initial publication...

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, whether that means noting a long history of “new media,” or tracing how...

Media and Information Literacy: An Integrated Approach for the 21st Century provides a novel rationale for the integration of media and information literacy and gives direction to contemporary media and information literacy education. The book takes a synthetic approach to these two areas, presenting critical histories of both. The book explores the influence of political forces and educational practice on media literacy and the contemporary media environment, focusing on computing and mob...

Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies also show participation’s close connection to power, identity, organization, technology...

This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and theoretical dimensions are increasingly intertwined.Digital ethnography is central to our understanding of the social world; it can shape methodology and methods, and provides the technological tools needed to research society. Th...