Play Fighting

Author : Owen Aldis
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483261119

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Play Fighting by Owen Aldis Pdf

Play Fighting considers the possible benefits of play for humans and animals. This book is divided into two main topics—animal play and human play. In these topics, this text specifically discusses the definition, evolution, and function of play; criteria of chasing and play fighting; function of laughter in human play; and spurious correlation between exploratory and playful species. The surplus energy and catharsis theories of play; vestibular stimulation acting as a reinforcer; function of mother-infant play; and properties of play-fear and serious-fear stimuli are also elaborated. This compilation likewise covers the puzzling blind spots of child psychology; play and child rearing; and play fear of “monsters . This publication is a good source for students and individuals interested in the survival value of play for animals and healthy development of children.

Author : Eri Ejima
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781685792848

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Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games Vol. 2 by Eri Ejima Pdf

Aya and "Shirayuri-sama" are a lot of things: Gamers, rivals...and now friends. They turn the school upside-down looking for the perfect place to game in secret, but just when they think they've found the solution, their cover is blown by two members of the Dormitory Affairs Committee. Video games are strictly prohibited at their prim-and-proper school, and being caught with a fight stick carries dire penalties. Threatened with expulsion, they propose a wild challenge that might just be crazy enough to work!!

Author : Eri Ejima
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9798891607965

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Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games Vol. 6 by Eri Ejima Pdf

Aya, Mio, and friends attend a prim-and-proper academy where video games are banned and the punishment for playing them is severe. Now, they're duking it out at Japan's biggest fighting game tournament! After defeating a pro gamer in the losers bracket, Mio's scheduled for a grudge match against Arisa, the tiny spitfire. What follows is the culmination of their tempestuous tourney relationship and a no-holds-barred fight to the death! (And maybe, in the heat of battle, a little personal growth?)

Author : Eri Ejima
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9798888436950

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Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games Vol. 5 by Eri Ejima Pdf

Aya and Mio attend a prim-and-proper academy for young ladies, one where video games are outright banned. That hasn't stopped them from following their secret gaming passion all the way to Japan's biggest fighting game tournament! Now, both of them face a high-stakes battle against oddball pro gamers. Aya plays head-to-head against an intimidating biker hooligan, while Mio faces a cute, diminutive girl whose tiny frame hides a truly vicious spirit. Just how far will their love for gaming take them at an arena full of the world's strongest?

Author : Eri Ejima
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781685794378

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Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games Vol. 4 by Eri Ejima Pdf

Aya, Mio, Yuu, and Tamaki are all students at a prim-and-proper academy for young ladies, one where video games are outright banned. That hasn't stopped them from following their fighting game passions all the way to EX Japan, one of the biggest e-sports championships in the world! But to have a spot in the main event, you've got to prove your worth in the preliminary qualifiers. Each young lady will have to prevail in a do-or-die battle in the qualifying pools, against a whole set of oddball fighting game aficionados.

Author : Eri Ejima
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781685792855

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Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games Vol. 3 by Eri Ejima Pdf

Aya, Mio, and their new friends Yuu and Tamaki are prim-and-proper young ladies by day, but when night falls, they turn to bloodthirsty hardcore gaming! They've set their sights on a huge fighting game tournament called EX Japan, where pros and amateurs alike gather for the ultimate test of skill. With so many experienced fighters out for blood, can the girls hope to get the results they want? From qualifying pools to grand finals, it's bound to be a wild ride!

Author : Eri Ejima
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781638584872

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Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games Vol. 1 by Eri Ejima Pdf

Kuromi Girls' Academy is a refined, elegant school that expects the very best in deportment from its young ladies. Aya got into this peerless rich-girls' institution on a scholarship, and hopes to grow as lovely as her fellow student and idol, the so-called "Shirayuri-sama." But Shirayuri hides a terrible secret: she's a trash-talking, combo-chaining, newbie-stomping, ruthless hardcore gamer! Could a mutual indulgence in no-holds-barred video game combat grow into a deeper rapport between these two girls?

Author : Keith Ducklin,John Waller
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106011395560

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Sword Fighting by Keith Ducklin,John Waller Pdf

SWORD FIGHTING: A MANUAL FOR ACTORS & DIRECTORS

Author : Ian Livingstone
Publisher : Wizard Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : 1848310773

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Deathtrap Dungeon by Ian Livingstone Pdf

Baron Sukumvit's devilish labyrinth of Fang is riddled with fiendish traps and bloodthirsty monsters.

Author : Ian Livingstone
Publisher : Wizard Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1840465654

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Freeway Fighter by Ian Livingstone Pdf

Life is lawless and dangerous. Survivors like you either live in scattered, fortified towns or roam outside as bandits. YOUR mission is to cross the wilderness to the far-distant oil-refinery at San Anglo and bring vital supplies back to the peaceful town of New Hope. Even in the armed Dodge Interceptor you are given, the journey will be wild and perilous. Will YOU survive?

Author : David Sirlin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Games & Activities
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 : Eileen Kennedy-Moore,Christine McLaughlin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781582705880

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Growing Friendships by Eileen Kennedy-Moore,Christine McLaughlin Pdf

From psychologist and children's friendships expert Eileen Kennedy-Moore and parenting and health writer Christine McLaughlin comes a social development primer that gives kids the answers they need to make and keep friends. Friendship is complicated for kids. Almost every child struggles socially at some time, in some way. Having an argument with a friend, getting teased, or even trying to find a buddy in a new classroom...although these are typical problems, they can be very painful. And friendships are never about just one thing. With research-based practical solutions and plenty of true-to-life examples--presented in more than 200 lighthearted cartoons--Growing Friendships is a toolkit for both girls and boys as they make sense of the social order around them. Children everywhere want to fit in with a group, resist peer pressure, and be good sports--but even the most socially adept children struggle at times. But after reading this highly illustrated guide on their own or with a caring adult, kids everywhere will be well equipped to face any friendship challenges that come their way.

Author : Steve Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Adventure games
ISBN : OCLC:1280706065

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Bloodbones by Steve Jackson Pdf

Author : Anthony Chaney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781469631745

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Runaway by Anthony Chaney Pdf

The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was among the group of mathematicians, engineers, and social scientists who laid the theoretical foundations of the information age. In Palo Alto in 1956, he introduced the double-bind theory of schizophrenia. By the sixties, he was in Hawaii studying dolphin communication. Bateson's discipline hopping made established experts wary, but he found an audience open to his ideas in a generation of rebellious youth. To a gathering of counterculturalists and revolutionaries in 1967 London, Bateson was the first to warn of a "greenhouse effect" that could lead to runaway climate change. Blending intellectual biography with an ambitious reappraisal of the 1960s, Anthony Chaney uses Bateson's life and work to explore the idea that a postmodern ecological consciousness is the true legacy of the decade. Surrounded by voices calling for liberation of all kinds, Bateson spoke of limitation and dependence. But he also offered an affirming new picture of human beings and their place in the world—as ecologies knit together in a fabric of meaning that, said Bateson, "we might as well call Mind."

Author : Graham Music
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317326540

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Nurturing Natures by Graham Music Pdf

This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children’s emotional development. Integrating a wealth of both up-to-date and classical research from areas such as attachment theory, neuroscience developmental psychology and cross-cultural studies, it weaves these into an accessible enjoyable text which always keeps in mind children recognisable to academics, practitioners and parents. It unpacks the most significant influences on the developing child, including the family and social context. It looks at key developmental stages from life in the womb to the pre-school years and right up until adolescence, covering important topics such as genes and environment, trauma, neglect or resilience. It also examines how children develop language, play and memory and, new to this edition, moral and prosocial capacities. Issues of nature and nurture are addressed and the effects of different kinds of early experiences are unpicked, creating a coherent and balanced view of the developing child in context. Nurturing Natures is written by an experienced child therapist who has used a wide array of research from different disciplines to create a highly readable and scientifically trustworthy text. This book should be essential reading for childcare students, for teachers, social workers, health visitors, early years practitioners and those training or working in child counselling, psychiatry and mental health. Full of fascinating findings, it provides answers to many of the questions people really want to ask about the human journey from conception into adulthood. .