The Beauty of Games
By: Frank Lantz
4.10
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.A…
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1. Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Polly Perks joins the Discworld army to find her brother Paul. "Ozzer" cuts off blonde braids, dons… read more
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2. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
3. The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)
By: Gene Wolfe
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. … read more
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4. Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
By: Jane McGonigal
3.93
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers. The average young person in the UK will spend 10,… read more
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5. Uncertainty in Games
By: Greg Costikyan
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In life, uncertainty surrounds us. Things that we thought were good for us turn out to be bad for u… read more
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6. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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- nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
7. Pienen hauen pyydystys
By: Juhani Karila
4.35
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Elina Ylijaako palaa kotiseudulleen Itä-Lappiin saattamaan loppuun sen, mikä on pantu alulle vuosia… read more
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"- Tiiäkkö sinä että sulla on peijooni takapenkillä. - Tiedän. - Ei sitte mittään."-Juhani Karila, Pienen hauen pyydystys
"Néha úgy tűnik nekem, hogy a világ nem süllyed bele a tengerbe, nem is sivatagosodik el, csak egyszerűen elmocsarasodik. A mezőket elnyelik a mocsarak. Az útjelzőket, a körforgalmakat, a felhőkarcoló…"-Juhani Karila, Pienen hauen pyydystys
8. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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- philosophy
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
9. Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.20
Format: 596 pages, ebook
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extr… read more
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10. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Crossed Over: A coming out story (Bruised Hearts Duet Book 1)
By: Santana Knox
4.58
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
From international best-selling author Santana Knox, comes an LGBTQ, women’s fiction, coming out st… read more
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12. Wonder Woman: Dead Earth
By: Daniel Warren Johnson
4.06
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Wonder Woman like you've never seen her before--fighting monsters in a postapocalyptic Earth, as br… read more
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13. Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more
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- nonfiction
"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
14. Cat + Gamer, Volume 2
By: Wataru Nadatani
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
THE LIVES OF A HARDCORE GAMER AND HER CAT! A quiet office worker embraces her new role as a cat … read more
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15. Witch Hazel
By: Molly Idle
4.29
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Something magical happens when Hazel and Hilda are together. As the seasons pass, Hazel’s broom whi… read more
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16. Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (Game Histories)
By: Jon Peterson
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running le… read more
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- game design
- gaming
- games
- nonfiction
17. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
By: James Bridle
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
18. Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's Legendary CEO
By: Sam Bett
4.15
Format: 154 pages, Hardcover
"On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my hear… read more
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- game design
- video games
- nonfiction
- gaming
- games
19. Peaces
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark … read more
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"lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"We both know nothing's all right, but when I tell you it will be, you take it. If you don't, it's because you're holding out for another outcome altogether."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"I'm sure almost no one deludes themselves that all their ancestors were decent. Pick a vein, any vein: mud mixed with lightning flows through, an unruly fusion of bad blood and good."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"You run the romantic gauntlet for decades without knowing who exactly it is you're giving and taking such a battering in order to reach. You run the gauntlet without knowing whether the person whose …"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
20. The Beauty of Games
By: Frank Lantz
4.10
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.A… read more
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- game design
- art
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- gaming
- games
21. The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy (Mit Press)
By: Bernie DeKoven
4.03
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
The return of the classic book on games and play that illuminates the relationship between the well… read more
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- game design
- video games
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- gaming
- games
"It is neither work nor play, purpose nor purposelessness that satisfies us. It is the dance between."-Bernie DeKoven, The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy (Mit Press)
"Once again we return to the heart-warming realization that games are not life. Games are throwaway items. We play them only because we feel like playing them. They don't mean anything for real, and n…"-Bernie DeKoven, The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy (Mit Press)
"On the one hand we have the playing mind—innovative, magical, boundless. On the other is the gaming mind—concentrated, determined, intelligent. And on the hand that holds them both together we have t…"-Bernie DeKoven, The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy (Mit Press)
