1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die
10 best books like 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die (Tony Mott): Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World, Monster, Melmoth, Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, Spelunky, Super Mario Adventures, The Way of Life: A Theology of Christian Vocation
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier...
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
| Author | David Kushner |
| ISBN | 0812972155 |
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream,...
| Author | Steven L. Kent |
| ISBN | 0761536434 |
Inside the Games You Grew Up with but Never Forgot
With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade. The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0064407314 |
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. Monster.
Fade In: Interior Court. A guard sits at a desk behind Steve....
For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters—and now, in Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction.
It...
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
| Author | Anne Harrington |
| ISBN | 0393071227 |
In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry’s repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist,...
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
| Author | Tom Bissell |
| ISBN | 0307378705 |
Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, and Oblivion for, literally, days....
| Author | Derek Yu |
| ISBN | 1940535115 |
When Derek Yu released Spelunky for free in 2008, his roguelike-inspired platformer took the indie game community by storm with its combination of classic platform mechanics, extreme difficulty, and random level generation. Four years later, Spelunky's HD remake went on to become PC Gamer's Game...
The first 12 comic episodes presented in this book originally ran as a series in Nintendo Power magazine, beginning in January, 1992, (Volume 32) and running through December, 1992. The final episode, which was printed in the first issue of 1993, introduced Mario's alter ego and tormented childhood...
The Way of Life: A Theology of Christian Vocation
| Author | Gary D. Badcock |
| ISBN | 0802844901 |
The concept of vocation is often at the heart of religious experience, yet surprisingly few serious theological studies have been written about it. The Way of Life seeks to remedy this oversight and to outline a sane alternative to the more questionable versions of the idea of vocation found at the popular...
1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them
| Author | Toby Creswell |
| ISBN | 1560259159 |
The fascinating stories behind more than a thousand best-loved songs from the last 50 years are explored in this entertaining collection. Intriguing background and biographical information on each song and its artist — from Elvis and Fatboy Slim to Leonard Cohen and Pulp — is included alongside...
Schema Therapy in Practice: An Introductory Guide to the Schema Mode Approach
| Author | Arnoud Arntz |
| ISBN | 1119962862 |
Schema Therapy in Practice presents a comprehensive introduction to schema therapy for non-specialist practitioners wishing to incorporate it into their clinical practice.
Focuses on the current schema mode model, within which cases can be more easily conceptualized and emotional...
Silver Surfer Epic Collection: Inner Demons
| Author | J.M. DeMatteis |
| ISBN | 1302918133 |
A new beginning...back on Earth! But the world the Silver Surfer has returned to is not the same one he left. The Fantastic Four and Avengers have fallen to Onslaught - and with the Surfer cut off from his memories and emotions, can he grieve for them? Perhaps with the aid of the first Earth woman who taught...
Marvel Firsts: The 1990s Vol. 1
| Author | Howard Mackie |
| ISBN | 0785198334 |
Marvel's journey into history reaches comics' most debated decade: the 1990s! Ghost Rider, Deathlok and Foolkiller are reinvented for a grim and gritty era! Mutants go extreme with X-Force and an all-new X-Factor! The New Warriors on the block arrive! Nomad goes solo, Silver Sable shuffles her Wild...
| Author | Jennifer Storm |
| ISBN | 1894778391 |
Deadly Loyalties is set in an urban lieu that is rife with young gangs who recruit their members as fresh as they can get them. Blaise, a 14-year-old girl and the narrator of Deadly Loyalties, is in the centre of this urban gang setting. An innocent bystander she witnesses the brutal murder of her good friend...
Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories
| Author | Drew Hayden Taylor |
| ISBN | 1771621311 |
A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs. Drawing...
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
| Author | Darby Penney |
| ISBN | 1934137073 |
The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum--the sort of community in which, for better and for worse, hundreds...
| Author | Fid & Sue Blackhouse |
| ISBN | 0753728583 |
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