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Beer, Chicks and Wargames

Author : Gregory Spikeman
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609768645

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It is the fall of 1991 at the University of South Carolina. The world is changing. Enter Bart, a stubborn, opinionated and fiercely independent kid who goes to college to get away from his home town and push back adulthood for as long as possible. Beer, Chicks and Wargames: The 6-Year College Plan is his memoir. While getting a degree would certainly be a plus, that goal quickly becomes secondary as Bart discovers Beer, Chicks and Wargames, as well as a myriad of other temptation along the way. He also has a knack for getting into all sorts of trouble. Bart fails in almost everything, yet stubbornly refuses to adapt or mature to meet the academic, fiscal and social challenges facing him. Only desperation and sheer luck keep him afloat from one misadventure to the next until he finds his true calling. In this bitingly honest and humorous look at college life in America, Gregory Spikeman takes the reader on a nostalgic ride through the 90s - the music, culture, technology, and the dysfunctional youth of Generation X. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/gregoryspikeman

Achtung Schweinehund!

Author : Harry Pearson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780349139739

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Achtung Schweinehund! by Harry Pearson Pdf

This is a book about men and war. Not real conflict but war as it has filtered down to generations of boys and men through toys, comics, games and movies. Harry Pearson belongs to the great battalion of British men who grew up playing with toy soldiers - refighting World War II - and then stopped growing up. Inspired by the photos of the gallant pilot uncles that decorated the wall above his father's model-making table, by Sergeant Hurricane, Action Man and Escape from Colditz, dressed in Clarks' commando shoes and with the Airfix Army in support, he battled in the fields and on the beaches, in his head and on the sitting-room floor and across his bedroom ceiling. And thirty years later he still is. ACHTUNG SCHWEINEHUND! is a celebration of those glory days, a boy's own story of the urge to play, to conquer - and to adopt very bad German accents, shouting 'Donner und Blitzen' at every opportunity. This is a tale of obsession, glue and plastic kits. It is the story of one boy's imaginary war and where it led him.

At Dawn We Ate Sugar Smacks

Author : Soren Narnia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1502928205

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A lifelong board gamer, Soren Narnia decided one day to dive into the deep end of monster wargaming. This is the story of what happened next.

Dangerous Games

Author : Joseph Laycock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520284913

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The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a game. Dangerous Games explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic. Fantasy role-playing games do share several functions in common with religion. However, religionÑas a socially constructed world of shared meaningÑcan also be compared to a fantasy role-playing game. In fact, the claims of the moral entrepreneurs, in which they presented themselves as heroes battling a dark conspiracy, often resembled the very games of imagination they condemned as evil. By attacking the imagination, they preserved the taken-for-granted status of their own socially constructed reality. Interpreted in this way, the panic over fantasy-role playing games yields new insights about how humans play and together construct and maintain meaningful worlds. LaycockÕs clear and accessible writing ensures that Dangerous Games will be required reading for those with an interest in religion, popular culture, and social behavior, both in the classroom and beyond.

Fargo Rock City

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471104503

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Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

The year is 1983, and Chuck Klosterman just wants to rock. But he's got problems. For one, he's in the fifth grade. For another, he lives in rural North Dakota. Worst of all, his parents aren't exactly down with the long hairstyle which rocking requires. Luckily, his brother saves the day when he brings home a bit of manna from metal heaven, SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, Motley Crue's seminal paean to hair-band excess. And so Klosterman's twisted odyssey begins, a journey spent worshipping at the heavy metal altar of Poison, Lita Ford and Guns N' Roses. In the hilarious, young-man-growing-up-with-a-soundtrack-tradition, FARGO ROCK CITY chronicles Klosterman's formative years through the lens of heavy metal, the irony-deficient genre that, for better or worse, dominated the pop charts throughout the 1980s. For readers of Dave Eggers, Lester Bangs, and Nick Hornby, Klosterman delivers all the goods: from his first dance (with a girl) and his eye-opening trip to Mandan with the debate team; to his list of 'essential' albums; and his thoughtful analysis of the similarities between Guns 'n' Roses' 'Lies' and the gospels of the New Testament.

Out Of Control

Author : Kevin Kelly
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786747030

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Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.

Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

Author : Walter Miller
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553380798

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Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman by Walter Miller Pdf

Forty years after the classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller returns to a world struggling to transcend a terrifying legacy of darkness, as one man undertakes an odyssey of adventure and discovery that promises to alter the destiny of humankind . . . . Isolated in Leibowitz Abbey, Brother Blacktooth St. George suffers a crisis of faith, torn between his vows and his Nomad upbringing, between the Holy Virgin and visions of the Wild Horse Woman of his people. At the brink of disgrace and expulsion from his order, the young monk is championed by a powerful cardinal who has plans for him. Blacktooth sets out on a journey across a landscape still scarred by the long-ago Flame Deluge, a land divided by nature, politics, and war. He will find horrors and wonders, sins of the flesh . . . and love. As he encounters and reencounters a beautiful but forbidden mutant named Ædrea, he begins to wonder: is a she-devil, the Holy Mother, or the Wild Horse Woman herself?

The Secret Hour

Author : Scott Westerfeld
Publisher : Atom Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 0748135146

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Now in paperback--the first volume in a mesmerizing new trilogy which introduces a group of teens, who call themselves Midnighters, living in a world that is frozen in time and inhabited by dark creatures that lurk in the shadows.

On the Track

Author : Fred Karlin,Rayburn Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135948030

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On the Track by Fred Karlin,Rayburn Wright Pdf

Offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors cover everything from timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's vision with the needs of the film.

Panzer Tactics

Author : Oskar Munzel
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612009902

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Panzer Tactics by Oskar Munzel Pdf

“This is a great work on a small slice of operations on the Eastern Front during the first two years of the [second world] war.” —A Wargamers Needful Things This book discusses a number of operations undertaken by the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps in the direction of the Black Sea in 1941 and 42. It explores the tactics used and why they were successful, based on the detailed combat reports prepared by the corps staff immediately after each battle. Die Wehrmacht im Kampf is a series published in Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Written by ex-members of the German army in WWII, it provides important information not available elsewhere on the German army’s perspective of many crucial campaigns and battles. None of the volumes have previously been available in English. Each volume has a modern introduction by Professor Matthias Strohn, expert on the German army. “. . . the author is able to both instruct and mentor the reader on elements of operations that only one who has experienced the cauldron and stress of battle can truly appreciate.” —The Military Reviewer

She Who Was No More

Author : Pierre Boileau,Thomas Narcejac
Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782270812

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She Who Was No More by Pierre Boileau,Thomas Narcejac Pdf

A couple's murderous plot goes horribly awry in this French noir classic that later inspired the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece Psycho Every Saturday evening, travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille, who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover, Lucienne—an ambitious doctor—and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan. Drugging Mireille, the pair drown her in a bathtub. But before the "accidental" death can be discovered, the corpse mysteriously disappears. So begins the unraveling of Ferdinand's plot, and his sanity. This classic of French noir fiction was adapted for the screen by Henri-Georges Clouzot as Les Diaboliques (The Devils), starring Simone Signoret and Véra Clouzot, the film which in turn inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. A second movie version, Diabolique, followed in 1996, starring Sharon Stone.

The Foundation Stone of Nordic Larp

Author : Eleanor Saitta,Marie Holm-Andersen,Jon Back
Publisher : Knutpunkt
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789163745669

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Official book of Knutpunkt 2014. Published in conjunction with the Knutpunkt 2014 conference.

Narrative Mechanics

Author : Beat Suter,René Bauer,Mela Kocher
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839453452

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Narrative Mechanics by Beat Suter,René Bauer,Mela Kocher Pdf

What do stories in games have in common with political narratives? This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and social life. They have »many faces«, displays and interfaces. They occur as texts, recipes, stories, dramas in three acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of heroes, but also as rewarding stories in games and as narratives in society - such as a career from rags to riches, the concept of modernity or market economy. Below their surface, however, narrative mechanics are a particular type of motivational design - of game mechanics.

Infantry Attacks

Author : Erwin Rommel,Gary Sheffield
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784389864

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Infantry Attacks by Erwin Rommel,Gary Sheffield Pdf

Legendary German general Erwin Rommel analyzes the tactics that led to his success. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied. In this classic study of the art of war Rommel analyses the tactics that lay behind his success. First published in 1937 it quickly became a highly regarded military textbook, and also brought its author to the attention of Adolph Hitler. Rommel was to subsequently advance through the ranks to the high command in the Second World War. As a leader of a small unit in the First World War, he proved himself an aggressive and versatile commander with a reputation for using the battleground terrain to his own advantage, for gathering intelligence, and for seeking out and exploiting enemy weaknesses. Rommel graphically describes his own achievements, and those of his units, in the swift-moving battles on the Western Front, in the ensuing trench warfare, in the 1917 campaign in Romania, and in the pursuit across the Tagliamento and Piave rivers. This classic account seeks out the basis of his astonishing leadership skills, providing an indispensable guide to the art of war.

Technocreep

Author : Thomas P. Keenan
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781771641227

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Technocreep by Thomas P. Keenan Pdf

"Technology is rapidly moving into our bodies," writes cyber expert Keenan, "and this book gives a chilling look ahead into where that road may lead us - on a one way trip to the total surrender of privacy and the commoditization of intimacy." Here is the definitive dissection of privacy-eroding and life-invading technologies, coming at you from governments, corporations, and the person next door. Take, for example, "Girls Around Me": a Russian-made iPhone App that allowed anyone to scan the immediate vicinity for girls and women who checked in on Foursquare and had poorly secured Facebook profiles. It combined this information in a way never intended by the original poster. Going to a Disney theme park? Your creepy new "MagicBand" will alert Minnie Mouse that you're on the way and she'll know your kid's name when you approach her. Thinking about sending your DNA off to Ancestry.com for some "genetic genealogy"? Perhaps you should think again: your genetic information could be used against you. "This masterful weaving of the negatives and positives of technology makes for a book that is realistic about technology's perils yet optimistic about it's great potential."--Foreword Reviews