Video games set the world on fire, and Atari lit the match. This is an intimate view into the dramatic rise and fall of the early video game industry, as seen through the eyes of one of its most iconic pioneers. This book offers eye-opening details and insights, laying bare the issues and dynamics still taking place in modern software companies. A must read for anyone in high tech production, delivered in a compelling narrative, with a fresh voice and unorthodox style.How much fun ...

Los videojuegos prendieron el fuego en todo el mundo, y fue Atari quien encendió la llama. En este libro se narra la historia del despegue y la caída de la industria de los videojuegos desde la perspectiva de uno de sus pioneros más destacados. El libro ofrece detalles y puntos de vista reveladores, que ponen al descubierto los problemas y dinámicas que continúan afectando a las empresas de software modernas. Es una publicación imprescindible para todo aquel que trabaje en la industria de ...

Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott.Léa is a teacher. She does not believe in silence and secrecy, and this is what she always tells her pupils. Silence isn’t a large part of the inheritance she received from her Téta, her beloved Armenian grandmother, who has just died at the age of one hundred and seven. Regularly over the years her large Armenian family would gather around Téta, and she would tell stories. But there is one story that she refused to tell. A...

Inspired Therapist is a refreshing look at the multitude of challenges faced by mental health professionals. It shares the insights, wisdom and inspirational tidbits accumulated over thousands of sessions. This is a thoughtful examination of what it takes to be (and become) a healer, and Warshaw's unique blend of humor and insight make it enjoyable as well as enlightening. Inspired Therapist gets long time practitioners back in touch with their passion for the work, and provides sustenance...

Translated from French by Howard ScottIn this, her third volume of poetry, this Aboriginal writer from Quebec again confronts the loss of her landscape and language.On my left hipa faceI walkI walk uprightlike a shadowa people on my hipa boatload of fruitand the dream insidewomen and children first"A cry rises in me and transfigures me. The world waits for woman to come back as she was born: woman standing, w...

Seven summers. Two families. One beach house. And a diary that holds all the secrets.Thirty years ago, two families shared seven magical summers together, vacationing in a shared beach house on the white sands of Destin, Florida. For three months every year, they basked in laughter, love, and endless beachside memories... until a mysterious falling out ended those sun-soaked summers, leaving the families estranged for decades.When that very house—newly reno...

In this poetry collection, Michel Pleau uses simple and moving images that go straight to the heart. He shapes words with painstaking care to give us moments of pure beauty and flashes of luminous landscape. He evokes the nostalgia of childhood in language as refreshing and bracing as the wind. With this book Michel Pleau invites us to a celebration of the marvellous. Attentive to his worlds, he invites us to go back to the essentials, to natural elements, innocence and light, in order to mag...

Is an artist born, or rather, created by experience? From the moment in childhood when he is forced to take drastic action to defend his adoptive mother from a violent assault – the only maternal figure that he has ever known – it is evident that the life of Joseph Sully-Jacques is to be no ordinary life, and one marked by sorrow and adversity.Unable to cope with or even recognize the residual effects of his trauma in adolescence, Joseph retreats into an increasingly abstract world...

Seven summers. Two families. One beach house. And a diary that holds all the secrets.As the sun burns bright on the white sands of Destin, Vivien's love life takes an unexpected turn. She finds herself torn between two very different men, both offering something she thought she'd lost—security, excitement, and the chance to finally choose herself.Maggie and Jo Ellen, best friends turned bitter enemies, become unlikely allies. When they discover the last pie...

À l’est, la vallée a vingt ans d’avance. À l’ouest, elle en a vingt de retard. Dans une séquence temporelle infinie à travers la nature sauvage, les villes se répètent ainsi. S’il est interdit de voyager de l’une à l’autre, des exceptions existent. Et Odile, seize ans, brigue justement un siège au Conseil, l’institution chargée de déterminer qui peut franchir les frontières de sa vallée. Un jour, lors d’une balade, la jeune femme reconnaît deux visiteurs du futur et comprend rapidement que...

When the Chambers sisters receive an invitation from their jet-setting aunt to spend the entire month of December at the family's cabin in Asheville, North Carolina, they have one question—why?The retreat, tucked into the Blue Ridge Mountains, may be the site of many happy childhood holidays and summers, but it also holds sad memories. The sisters and their aunt have spent twenty-five years avoiding the cabin and renting it to strangers. Why would Aunt Elizabeth wa...

When the Chambers sisters receive an invitation from their jet-setting aunt to spend the entire month of December at the family's cabin in Asheville, North Carolina, they have one question—why?The retreat, tucked into the Blue Ridge Mountains, may be the site of many happy childhood holidays and summers, but it also holds sad memories. The sisters and their aunt have spent twenty-five years avoiding the cabin and renting it to strangers. Why would Aunt Elizabeth wa...