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The Politics of Hunger The Global Food System

The Politics of Hunger The Global Food System

Originally published in 1987. This important and provocative book explains the persistence of hunger poverty and the lack of balanced development in many countries and the central role of agriculture in economic development. Most theories of agricultural development are based on the experiences of western Europe and the United States while the two models for successful late development have been Japan and the Soviet Union. This book surveys the evolution of agriculture under colonialism in Latin America Africa and Asia and concludes that this long period distorted the development prospects for these areas and retarded the production of food. Under strong state capitalist governments a few underdeveloped countries have broken the colonial patterns of development. However other post-revolutionary societies are having far less success because of economic blockades and outside military intervention. While the primary focus of the book is on the short-run problems of inequality the author examines the long-run ecological and resource constraints to a sustainable food system and raising the standard of living in the underdeveloped world. | The Politics of Hunger The Global Food System

GBP 32.99
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Struggling With Development The Politics Of Hunger And Gender In The Philippines

Struggling With Development The Politics Of Hunger And Gender In The Philippines

Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development hunger and gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development which has among its main goals the alleviation of hunger in women and children and the raising | Struggling With Development The Politics Of Hunger And Gender In The Philippines

GBP 130.00
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The Psychology of Video Games

The Psychology of Video Games

What impact can video games have on us as players? How does psychology influence video game creation? Why do some games become cultural phenomena? The Psychology of Video Games introduces the curious reader to the relationship between psychology and video games from the perspective of both game makers and players. Assuming no specialist knowledge this concise approachable guide is a starter book for anyone intrigued by what makes video games engaging and what is their psychological impact on gamers. It digests the research exploring the benefits gaming can have on players in relation to education and healthcare considers the concerns over potential negative impacts such as pathological gaming and concludes with some ethics considerations. With gaming being one of the most popular forms of entertainment today The Psychology of Video Games shows the importance of understanding the human brain and its mental processes to foster ethical and inclusive video games.

GBP 12.99
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Disability the Media and the Paralympic Games

Disability the Media and the Paralympic Games

This book focuses on the ground-breaking coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by the UK’s publicly owned but commercially funded Channel 4 network coverage which seemed to deliver a transformational shift in attitudes towards people with disabilities. It sheds important new light on our understanding of media production and its complex interactions with sport and wider society. Drawing on political economy and cultural studies the book explores why and how a marginalised group was brought into the mainstream by the media and the key influencing factors and decision-making processes. Featuring interviews with key people involved in the television and digital production structures as well as organisational archives it helps us to understand the interplay between creativity and commerce between editorial and marketing workflows and about the making of meaning. The book also looks at coverage of the Rio Paralympics and ahead to the Tokyo Games and at changing global perceptions of disability through sport. This is fascinating reading for any advanced students researchers or sport management or media professionals looking to better understand the media production process or the significance of sport and disability in wider society. | Disability the Media and the Paralympic Games

GBP 38.99
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Simulations in the Political Science Classroom Games without Frontiers

Simulations in the Political Science Classroom Games without Frontiers

This book is premised on the assumption that games and simulations provide welcome alternatives and supplements to traditional lectures and class discussions—especially in political science classrooms where real-world circumstances provide ideal applications of theory and policy prescriptions. Implementing such an active learning program however is sometimes daunting to overburdened professors and teaching assistants. This book addresses the challenges of using games and simulations in the political science classroom both online and in person. Each chapter offers a game or simulation that politics teachers can use to teach course concepts and explains ways to execute it effectively. In addition the authors in this volume make a proactive case for games and simulations. Each chapter offers research to evaluate the effectiveness of the activity and pedagogical design best practices. Thus the book not only serves as a game design resource but also offers demonstrable support for using games and simulations in the political science classroom. Aimed at teachers at all levels from high school through college the book may be especially appealing to graduate students entering teaching for the first time and open to new teaching and learning approaches. | Simulations in the Political Science Classroom Games without Frontiers

GBP 35.99
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Meaningful Game Design The Methodology and Psychology of Tabletop Games

Meaningful Game Design The Methodology and Psychology of Tabletop Games

This book provides readers with the tools and methods with which to create effective tabletop games. It covers the design and development process thoroughly guiding readers through the necessary mechanics messages and motivations of games that must be understood in order to build successful tabletop games including serious educational games for teaching or training. Through a range of learning activities and methodologies readers will develop an understanding of games and an appreciation for the creating and testing of game play whilst critically exploring the relationship between games motivation and learning. It includes chapters on design methodology narrative accessibility playtesting and more. This book will be of great interest to students of game design and serious game design courses. It will also appeal to designers educators and hobbyists interested in designing and developing their own tabletop games educational or otherwise. | Meaningful Game Design The Methodology and Psychology of Tabletop Games

GBP 44.99
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The Business of Indie Games Everything You Need to Know to Conquer the Indie Games Industry

The Business of Indie Games Everything You Need to Know to Conquer the Indie Games Industry

The Business of Indie Games provides exceptional insight into how the video games industry works. It shares valuable information on how to successfully self-publish and secure publisher support. Whether you’re making your first game or tenth this book is a must read. – Paul Baldwin Curve Digital The video game industry is a tough business and anyone looking to succeed in indie development should give The Business of Indie Games a read. – Graham Smith Co-Founder of DrinkBox Studios This book is a fast track to success for anyone managing a game launch and looking to raise funding for their projects. It shares knowledge that you only learn after years of triumphs and failures within this industry. – Scott Drader Co-Founder of Metalhead Software There’s nothing like The Business of Indie Games taught in school. You learn how to make a game but not how to conduct business market and launch a game. This book dives into topics that every indie developer should know. – Yukon Wainczak Founder of Snoozy Kazoo I’ve seen no better guide for understanding how the video game industry really works. An important read for anyone whose work touches games including those of us looking to engage the community. – Carla Warner Director of STREAM for No Kid Hungry The Business of Indie Games explores what many universities forget to cover: how to sell and market your own indie game to potential publishers and developers. While many classes help students on their way to designing and programming their own games there are few classes that equip students with the skills to sell their own product. In essence this means future indie game developers are not equipped to talk to investors negotiate with publishers and engage with major platforms like Steam and Nintendo. Authors Alex Josef Alex Van Lepp and Marshal D. Carper are looking to rectify this problem by helping indie game developers and companies level up their business acumen. With detailed chapters and sections that deal with different engines negotiation tactics and marketing The Business of Indie Games is the perfect omnibus for up-and-coming indie game developers. The future of gaming curriculums is not just in teaching students how to create games but also in preparing them for the business of games. | The Business of Indie Games Everything You Need to Know to Conquer the Indie Games Industry

GBP 46.99
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Black Book Epic Games Account

Black Book Epic Games Account

A fusion of card-based RPGs and Adventure games, “Black Book” is a haunting tale of a young sorceress, who gave her life to serve the dark forces. Dive into the cold, yet alluring world of Slavic folktales - and reveal the secrets that hide in the darkness. A young girl named Vasilisa, destined to become a witch, decides to throw her fate away and marry her beloved - but that dream is shattered when her betrothed dies under enigmatic circumstances. Aching for her lost love, Vasilisa seeks out the Black Book - a demonic artifact, said to be strong enough to grant any wish to the one who uncovers all 7 of its seals. Join Vasilisa in her adventures across the rural countryside, as she solves the woes of common folk by confronting demons and performing exorcisms. Unleash hellish spells on your enemies! Collect spell cards and new skills as you progress. Unravel riddles and complete side-quests as you learn more about life in the Slavic countryside. Send demons to do your bidding, but be careful - idle demons will torture you if you don’t find them something to do! Explore a world based on Northern Slavic mythology. Learn from an in-game encyclopedia, created with the help of expert anthropologists - and find all folk tales hidden within the game!

GBP 1.72
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Vintage Games An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto Super Mario and the Most Influential Games of All Time

Vintage Games An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto Super Mario and the Most Influential Games of All Time

Vintage Games explores the most influential videogames of all time including Super Mario Bros. Grand Theft Auto III Doom The Sims and many more. Drawing on interviews as well as the authors' own lifelong experience with videogames the book discusses each game's development predecessors critical reception and influence on the industry. It also features hundreds of full-color screenshots and images including rare photos of game boxes and other materials. Vintage Games is the ideal book for game enthusiasts and professionals who desire a broader understanding of the history of videogames and their evolution from a niche to a global market. | Vintage Games An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto Super Mario and the Most Influential Games of All Time

GBP 175.00
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Hunger for Connection Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders

Hunger for Connection Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders

Who develops which eating disorder and why? When do eating disorders begin and what fuels them? In Hunger for Connection psychoanalyst and eating-disorder specialist Alitta Kullman expands on the body/mind personality organization she calls the perseverant personality illustrating how food and thought are linked from infancy and for some can become the primary source of nurturance and thought-processing for a lifetime—leading to what we call an eating disorder. Writing in a highly accessible style Kullman brings humor and gentleness to her interactions with patients offering health professionals and mainstream readers alike an essential guide to understanding and/or working with cyclical eating disorders of all types. From psychoanalysts psychotherapists and counsellors to eating disorder specialists researchers and students Hunger for Connection not only provides guidelines for therapists of varying theoretical orientations and levels of expertise but help and hope to people suffering with eating disorders and those who care for and about them. | Hunger for Connection Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders

GBP 18.99
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The Video Game Debate 2 Revisiting the Physical Social and Psychological Effects of Video Games

The Video Game Debate 2 Revisiting the Physical Social and Psychological Effects of Video Games

This student-friendly book provides an accessible overview of the primary debates about the effects of video games. It expands on the original The Video Game Debate to address the new technologies that have emerged within the field of game studies over the last few years. Debates about the negative effects of video game play have been evident since their introduction in the 1970s but the advent of online and mobile gaming has revived these concerns reinvigorating old debates and generating brand new ones. The Video Game Debate 2 draws from the latest research findings from the top scholars of digital games research to address these concerns. The book explores key developments such as virtual and augmented reality the use of micro-transactions the integration of loot boxes and the growth of mobile gaming and games for change (serious games). Furthermore several new chapters explore contemporary debates around e-sports gamification sex and gender discrimination in games and the use of games in therapy. This book offers students and scholars of games studies and digital media as well as policymakers the essential information they need to participate in the debate. | The Video Game Debate 2 Revisiting the Physical Social and Psychological Effects of Video Games

GBP 36.99
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The Golden Age of Video Games The Birth of a Multibillion Dollar Industry

The Golden Age of Video Games The Birth of a Multibillion Dollar Industry

This book focuses on the history of video games consoles and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties which started a new era in digital entertainment. The text features the most innovative games and introduces the pioneers who developed them. It offers brief analyses of the most relevant games from each time period. An epilogue covers the events and systems that followed this golden age while the appendices include a history of handheld games and an overview of the retro-gaming scene. | The Golden Age of Video Games The Birth of a Multibillion Dollar Industry

GBP 175.00
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Dungeons and Desktops The History of Computer Role-Playing Games 2e

Dungeons and Desktops The History of Computer Role-Playing Games 2e

Computer role-playing games (CRPGs) are a special genre of computer games that bring the tabletop role-playing experience of games such as Dungeons & Dragons to the computer screen. Thisnew edition inlcudes two new chapters: The Modern Age and a chapter on Indies and Mobile CRPGs. The new modern age chapter will cover among other topics Kickstarter/FIG crowdfunded projects such as Torment: Tides of Numenera and Pillars of Eternity. It'll also bring the book up to date with major games such as Dragon Age Witcher Skyrim. Expanded info in first chapter about educational potential of CRPGs. Color figures will be introduced for the first time. Key Features gives reviews of hundreds of games across many platforms. comprehensive book covering the history of computer RPGs. comprehensive index at the back letting you quickly look up your favourite titles | Dungeons and Desktops The History of Computer Role-Playing Games 2e

GBP 48.99
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Tourism at the Olympic Games Visiting the World

Tourism at the Olympic Games Visiting the World

Going far beyond being just a mega sport event the Olympic Games are and have been in the past important settings for tourism and cultural change. Hosting the Olympic Games presents a unique opportunity for countries to promote regenerate and develop cities and regions and to firmly locate them within an increasingly competitive global tourism marketplace. From Athens to Rio de Janeiro Olympic landmark buildings ‘districts’ and ‘parks’ have permanently transformed cities and regions and gained tremendous material and symbolic value as tourist attractions. On another level the Olympic Games produce a kaleidoscopic range of intangible and quasi-religious engagements with place and spectacle. They have a tremendous impact on the image of the host country while invoking collective memories and touching on emotions such as suspense compassion togetherness and pride. Tourism has also become a major watchword in ongoing debates on the ‘legacy’ of the Olympic Games and it deeply penetrates discourses on social justice and cultural change on a local national and global scale. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. | Tourism at the Olympic Games Visiting the World

GBP 46.99
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Games of History Games and Gaming as Historical Sources

Games of History Games and Gaming as Historical Sources

Games of History provides an understanding of how games as artefacts textual and visual sources on games and gaming as a pastime or a “serious” activity can be used as sources for the study of history. From the vast world of games the book’s focus is on board and card games with reference to physical games sports and digital games as well. Considering culture society politics and metaphysics the author uses examples from various places around the world and from ancient times to the present to demonstrate how games and gaming can offer the historian an alternative often very valuable and sometimes unique path to the past. The book offers a thorough discussion of conceptual and material approaches to games as sources while also providing the reader with a theoretical starting point for further study within specific thematic chapters. The book concludes with three case studies of different types of games and how they can be considered as historical sources: the gladiatorial games chess and the digital game Civilization. Offering an alternative approach to the study of history through its focus on games and gaming as historical sources this is the ideal volume for students considering different types of sources and how they can be used for historical study as well as students who study games as primary or secondary sources in their history projects. | Games of History Games and Gaming as Historical Sources

GBP 35.99
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Digital Games as History How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice

Digital Games as History How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice

This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding historical video games: simulation and epistemology time space narrative and affordance. Through these methods of analysis he explores what these games uniquely offer as a new form of history and how they produce representations of the past. By taking an inter-disciplinary and accessible approach the book provides a specific and firm first foundation upon which to build further examination of the potential of video games as a historical form. | Digital Games as History How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice

GBP 42.99
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Games and Play in the Creative Smart and Ecological City

Games and Play in the Creative Smart and Ecological City

This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city. Games and Play in the Creative Smart and Ecological City is a collection of chapters written by an interdisciplinary group of scholars from game studies media studies play studies architecture landscape architecture and urban planning. It situates the historical evolution of play and games in the urban landscape and outlines the scope of the various ways games and play contribute to the city’s economy cultural life and environmental concerns. In connecting games and play more concretely to urban discourses and design strategies this book urges scholars to consider their growing contribution to three overarching sets of discourses that dominate urban planning and policy today: the creative and cultural economies of cities; the smart and playable city; and ecological cities. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to students and scholars of game studies play studies landscape architecture (and allied design fields) urban geography and art history. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/9781003007760

GBP 36.99
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Routledge Handbook of the Olympic and Paralympic Games

Routledge Handbook of the Olympic and Paralympic Games

This handbook offers an important and timely contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Olympic studies. It brings together for the first time in a single volume a complete analysis of current and future economic commercial socio-political cultural and governance challenges facing both the Olympic and Paralympic Games their athletes and institutions. The book presents new research and broad surveys exploring pressing debates challenges and possible solutions surrounding the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games across diverse socioeconomic and political contexts. Featuring chapters written by leading scholars athletes and administrators from a range of disciplines and backgrounds the handbook is divided into four main areas: athletes business governance and socio-cultural issues within the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Examining key themes theories and new emerging issues within the field the book offers expert insights into every major topic related to the Olympic and Paralympic Games including doping integrity athletes’ rights culture nationality sponsorship branding governance sports policy and law marketing social media technology e-sports politics ethics international relations legacy and impact. The only up-to-date handbook to reflect the true breadth and depth of this international field of research the Routledge Handbook of the Olympic and Paralympic Games is a landmark publication for all students and scholars of sport studies as well as those working in sport business media event management and administration economics marketing management politics Olympic studies and cultural studies. It is also an important resource for sport management practitioners and sports officials.

GBP 42.99
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