Here Is A Game We Could Play

Author : Jenny Bitner
Publisher : Acre Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1946724408

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Here Is a Game We Could Play by Jenny Bitner Pdf

A dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in--a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking escape from tedium, loneliness, and her obsessive fear of poisoning, Claudia retreats into books. . . and into a fantasy life with her perfect lover, to whom she addresses letters about her life, all the while imagining outlandish sexual scenarios. ​In each fantasy, her lover takes a different form, ranging from a prison guard in a world where metaphor is forbidden, to a more-than-brotherly Hansel from the Grimms' fairy tale, to a tentacled mind-reading space alien. All share a desire for a deep intimacy that eludes Claudia, even as she forms new real-life relationships and reconsiders her sexual identity--building a rapport with an elderly volunteer at the library, striking up a friendship with a wily temp at her dead-end job, and embarking on a passionate affair with Rose, the town's new librarian. When paranoia threatens to ruin her relationship with Rose, Claudia is forced not only to combat her anxiety but to face the unresolved trauma in her past--the disappearance of her father on a night she has long repressed. Funny, dark, inventive, and moving, Here Is a Game We Could Play is an original debut novel recalling the work of Aimee Bender, Angela Carter, Rebecca Brown, and Margaret Atwood.

Author : Raph Koster
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781932111972

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Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster Pdf

Discusses the essential elements in creating a successful game, how playing games and learning are connected, and what makes a game boring or fun.

Author : Jimmy Breslin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781453245323

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Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? by Jimmy Breslin Pdf

A “hilarious” look back at the worst baseball team in history—the 1962 Mets—by the New York Times–bestselling author (Newark Star-Ledger). Five years after the Dodgers and Giants fled New York for California, the city’s National League fans were offered salvation in the shape of the New York Mets: an expansion team who, in the spring of 1962, attempted to play something resembling the sport of baseball. Helmed by the sagacious Casey Stengel and staffed by the league’s detritus, the new Mets played 162 games and lost 120 of them, making them statistically the worst team in the sport’s modern history. It’s possible they were even worse than that. Starring such legends as Marvin Throneberry—a first baseman so inept that his nickname had to be “Marvelous”—the Mets lost with swashbuckling panache. In an era when the fun seemed to have gone out of sports, the Mets came to life in a blaze of delightful, awe-inspiring ineptitude. They may have been losers, but a team this awful deserves to be remembered as legends. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Author : Simon Sinek
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735213524

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The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today’s ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers—only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we’re in? In this revelatory new book, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset. On one hand, none of us can resist the fleeting thrills of a promotion earned or a tournament won, yet these rewards fade quickly. In pursuit of a Just Cause, we will commit to a vision of a future world so appealing that we will build it week after week, month after month, year after year. Although we do not know the exact form this world will take, working toward it gives our work and our life meaning. Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring organizations. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead us into the future.

Author : John G. Robertson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476632889

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Too Many Men on the Ice by John G. Robertson Pdf

 Entering the 1978–1979 season, the Boston Bruins had been one of the best teams in the National Hockey League for more than a decade. Yet they could not shake the postseason jinx the Montreal Canadiens held over them—the Habs had ousted them in 13 consecutive playoff series going back to 1940s. The Bruins wanted one more shot at their nemeses, after coming up short in both the 1977 and 1978 Stanley Cup finals. They got their chance in the semifinal round. Led by the colorful but embattled coach Don Cherry, the underdog Bruins played seven heart-stopping games. Victory seemed within their grasp but was snatched away with an untimely penalty in the final minutes of game seven. The author looks back at the season from opening night at Boston Garden to the catastrophic conclusion at the Montreal Forum, with detailed accounts of the semifinal games and a post-mortem of the infamous bench penalty.

Author : Oliver Roeder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324003786

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Seven Games: A Human History by Oliver Roeder Pdf

A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Physical education and training
ISBN : HARVARD:HC3WA7

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American Physical Education Review by Anonim Pdf

Includes the proceedings of the association's annual convention.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UFL:31262095200530

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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : P.J. Night
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442420953

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You Can't Come in Here! by P.J. Night Pdf

Emily Hunter quickly made friends with Drew and Vicky, the only other young people on her street, but just before her end-of-the-year party with school friends, Emily discovers that Drew and Vicky are hiding some very frightening secrets.

Author : Bob Vorwald
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781600780448

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Cubs Forever by Bob Vorwald Pdf

Cubs Forever celebrates the 60-year romance between the team, the superstation, and the fans. It brings to life some of the great games and moments in the team's history, such as Ernie Banks' 500th home run, the first night game at Wrigley Field, and four no-hitters. Add in stories from the men who work behind the scenes at Wrigley and WGN, plus interviews with the team's many stars over this six-decade period, and you have a baseball bonanza for fans of all ages.

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663608199

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Last Lecture by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

Author : David Sirlin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 9781411666795

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Playing to Win by David Sirlin Pdf

Winning at competitive games requires a results-oriented mindset that many players are simply not willing to adopt. This book walks players through the entire process: how to choose a game and learn basic proficiency, how to break through the mental barriers that hold most players back, and how to handle the issues that top players face. It also includes a complete analysis of Sun Tzu's book The Art of War and its applications to games of today. These foundational concepts apply to virtually all competitive games, and even have some application to "real life." Trade paperback. 142 pages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1953-05-16
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
ISBN : IOWA:31858029081795

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The Saturday Evening Post by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dolores Cannon
Publisher : Ozark Mountain Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780963277671

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The Legend of Starcrash by Dolores Cannon Pdf

Through regressive hypnosis a lost legend of the history of mankind has been retrieved from the recesses of time. Did the American Indians descend from the inhabitants of an alien spacecraft that crashed in the Alaska-Canada region thousands of years ago? Starcrash indicates that aliens continued to come to Earth, some intentionally and by accident, throughout our history. In order to adjust to harsh conditions they were forced to interbreed with the local aborigines. This was the only way to insure the survival of their race. Does their blood still flow in the veins of certain American Indian tribes?

Author : Samuel Richardson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781257955862

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Glen by Samuel Richardson Pdf

Biography of Glen Orrin Richardson, son of Justin V. and Hortense Earl Richardson, compiled by Hope R. Barrowes. Cover design and book layout by Samuel Richardson, owner of Silver Storm Imaging and Printing. Contains Glen's journal entries, letters he's written and his achievements. Also contains writing to or about him by his family and friends. Included is a scrapbook of his life.