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Scott Rigby, Richard M. Ryan

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New Directions in Media

This book offers a practical yet powerful way to understand the psychological appeal and strong motivation to play video games.With video game sales in the billions and anxious concerns about their long-term effects growing louder, Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw Us In and Hold Us Spellbound brings something new to the discussion. It is the first truly balanced research-based analysis on the games and gamers, addressing both the positive and negative ...

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Routledge Environmental Humanities

This timely collection of essays by leading international scholars across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances a lively discussion on materialism in its many forms. While there is little agreement on what ‘materialism’ means, it is evident that there is a resurgence in thinking about matter in more animated and active ways.The volume explores how debates concerning the new materialisms impinge on religious traditions and the extent to which religions, with th...

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Scott Matthews

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Shawn Rigby

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The Adam Drake Series

Radicalized in prisons, recruited and trained to be deadly assassins, they’re invisible, working menial jobs no one notices.A silent army is assembled to avenge the martyrs killed by US drones. The plan is to publicly kill a long list of VIPs, starting with someone close to the American president.Before the killing begins, Adam Drake, an attorney and former Delta Force Tier 1 operator, is assigned to a CEO of a defense contractor, whose assistant was murdered in his office....

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Scott Matthews

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Shawn Rigby

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The Adam Drake Series

A nuclear device slips across the U.S. border, Adam Drake races to prevent a catastrophe.The lawyer and former Special Forces Tier 1 operator pursues a terrorist mastermind from Oregon to Mexico, suspecting he's involved when radiation is detected in California.Convinced the threat is heading to the Pacific Northwest, Drake must unravel the mastermind's plans and locate the nuke before it's too late. Countless lives are at stake and time is running out.If you like a...

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Scott Matthews

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Shawn Rigby

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The Adam Drake Series

Airliners are falling out of the sky. The United States is on lockdown. The President is about to punish the country behind the atrocities.But Adam Drake knows they're making a terrible error.A lawyer and former Special Forces Tier 1 operator, Drake has evidence that it’s a false flag operation to disguise the real party behind the attacks…terrorists operating from training camps in America with ties to a traitor in the White House.If you like a fast-paced action-pa...

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Scott Matthews

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Shawn Rigby

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The Adam Drake Series

A deadly EMP attack is planned for the United States with catastrophic consequences.Anarchy, looting and the ultimate breakdown of law & order will surely follow the mass disruption of electronic systems.Russia and Iran have joined forces, training Hezbollah to launch the offensive from an unlikely location in the Southern Hemisphere. Adam Drake stumbles upon the plot while negotiating a contract in Nicaragua.Spotting suspicious missile launchers disguised as cargo ...

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Scott Matthews

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Shawn Rigby

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The Adam Drake Series

America's electricity network is under attack, with catastrophic consequences.Domestic terrorists have the grid in their sights and they've already planted their malware.What they don't know, is their operation is being offered to the highest bidder. And America's enemies will pay almost anything to bring the infidels to their knees.Adam Drake, a former Special Forces Tier One operator is on the case, but it looks like he's too late.A fast-paced action thrill...

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Raph Koster

Now in full color, the 10th anniversary edition of this classic book takes you deep into the influences that underlie modern video games, and examines the elements they share with traditional games such as checkers. At the heart of his exploration, veteran game designer Raph Koster takes a close look at the concept of fun and why it’s the most vital element in any game.Why do some games become boring quickly, while others remain fun for years? How do games serve as fundamental and ...

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Timothy Morton

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The Wellek Library Lectures

Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are.The logistics of agricultural society resu...

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María Puig de la Bellacasa

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Posthumanities

To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and naturecultures.Matters of Care contests the view that care is something only humans do, a...

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David DeSteno

“This one’s worth reading. Trust me.” —Daniel Gilbert, PhD, bestselling author of Stumbling on HappinessIssues of trust come attached to almost every human interaction, yet few people realize how powerfully their ability to determine trustworthiness predicts future success. David DeSteno’s cutting-edge research on reading trust cues with humanoid robots has already excited widespread media interest. In The Truth About Trust, the renowned psychologist shares his fin...

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Florian Coulmas

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Very Short Introductions

Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common features, so often the term is used without a definition of what, exactly, is meant by it. This...