Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds
By: Jesper Juul
3.89
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
A video game is we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the game i…
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1. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.01
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungr… read more
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"Master, I go hunting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"Bu bir taş. Gerçek Lisan’da ise “tolk"-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra..."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
2. Pinocchio
By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi
3.85
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more
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"Hunger is the best cook."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
3. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
By: Janet H. Murray
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Stories define how we think, play, and understand our lives. In this comprehensive and readable boo… read more
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- game design
- video games
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- design
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4. Stories of Your Life and Others
By: Ted Chiang
4.26
Format: 281 pages, ebook
What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more
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- philosophy
"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
5. Inherent Vice
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.31
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally… read more
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6. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
By: Johan Huizinga
3.80
Format: None pages,
Discusses the cultural phenomenon of the human play instincts and play acting in modern western soc… read more
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- game design
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- nonfiction
7. Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture
By: T.L. Taylor
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Play Between Worlds, T. L. Taylor examines multiplayer gaming life as it is lived on the borders… read more
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- game design
- social science
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- nonfiction
- gaming
- games
8. Cloud Atlas
By: David Mitchell
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more
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9. Man, Play and Games
By: Roger Caillois , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it… read more
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10. The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia
By: Bernard Suits , Thomas Hurka
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
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11. The City & the City
By: China Miéville
3.90
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more
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"shit, shit, shit."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Same weather over here as back home," I said."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"-China Miéville, The City & the City
"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."-China Miéville, The City & the City
12. The Incal
By: Brian Michael Bendis , Alejandro Jodorowsky , Mœbius , Justin Kelly , None
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside do… read more
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13. Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games
By: Nick Dyer-Witheford , None
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media c… read more
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14. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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15. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
By: None
3.78
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Can computer games be great literature? Do the rapidly evolving and culturally expanding genres of … read more
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16. Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames
By: Ian Bogost
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined … read more
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17. How to Do Things with Videogames
By: Ian Bogost
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Revie… read more
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18. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: None pages,
Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Ne… read more
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19. The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world … read more
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20. Critical Play: Radical Game Design
By: Mary Flanagan
4.19
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
Here, the author provides a lively historical context for critical play through 20th-century art mo… read more
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21. 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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22. 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
23. First Person Singular: Stories
By: Haruki Murakami
3.54
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Mura… read more
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"Hätte ich auf dem Jupiter umsteigen sollen?"-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"It’s important in life to get used to losing."-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"A circle that has many centers but no circumference"-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"Nichts, was leicht zu haben ist, besitzt einen Wert."-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
24. The Boys Omnibus Vol. 4
By: Garth Ennis
3.93
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Includes both volumes 7 & 8 of this acclaimed series in one volume. So where are the real superher… read more
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25. How Do You Live?
By: Genzaburo Yoshino
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Anime master Hayao Miyazaki’s favorite childhood book, in English for the first time. First pub… read more
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"you can't become a great man without having great thoughts."-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
"We must not forget to make a habit of modesty and restraint in our lives."-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
"You take many things from the world, but I wonder what you will give back in return?"-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
"There is nothing more beautiful than people nurturing goodwill toward their fellow beings."-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
26. If It Bleeds
By: Stephen King
3.99
Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition
If it Bleeds is a collection of four new novellas —Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, an… read more
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27. In Plain Sight: A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition for 2023
By: Ross Coulthart
4.33
Format: 471 pages, Kindle Edition
An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right ther… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds
By: Jesper Juul
3.89
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
A video game is we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the game i… read more
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- video games
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- research
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- design
- gaming
- games
29. Achievement Relocked: Loss Aversion and Game Design
By: Geoffrey Engelstein
4.26
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
How game designers can use the psychological phenomenon of loss aversion to shape player experience… read more
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30. Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect
By: Aubrey Anable
3.91
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code Why do we so compulsively play v… read more
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31. Ready Player Two: Women Gamers and Designed Identity
By: Shira Chess
3.75
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Cultural stereotypes to the contrary, approximately half of all video game players are now women. A… read more
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- video games
