Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984
10 best books like Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984 (Van Burnham): Replay: The History of Video Games, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World, 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture, Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881, Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern, Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy
| Author | Tristan Donovan |
| ISBN | 0956507204 |
A riveting account of the strange birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. Based on extensive research and over 140 exclusive interviews with key movers and shakers from gaming's past, Replay...
| Author | Rusel DeMaria |
| ISBN | 0072224282 |
From pinball to PlayStation, this photo-packed volume chronicles the history of electronic games--which has become both a billion dollar industry as well as a cultural phenomenon. Featuring hundreds of interviews with game creators and thousands of never-before-seen photos from the early days,...
| 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 | Tony Mott |
| ISBN | 0789320908 |
For devoted gamers as well as those interested in groundbreaking graphic design, this is the first, most comprehensive, and only critical guide ever published to video games. The video game has arrived as entertainment and as an art form. This is the first serious critical evaluation ever published...
| Author | Harold Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0307463559 |
Through the stories of gaming's greatest innovations and most beloved creations, journalist Harold Goldberg captures the creativity, controversy--and passion--behind the videogame's meteoric rise to the top of the pop-culture pantheon.
Over the last fifty years, video games have...
| Author | Joseph Frank |
| ISBN | 0691115699 |
This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote A Raw Youth, Diary of a Writer, and his crowning triumph: The Brothers Karamazov.
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| Author | John N. Gray |
| ISBN | 1565849876 |
While many Americans view the September 11th terrorist attack as the act of an anachronistic and dangerous sect, one that champions medieval and outmoded ideals, John Gray here argues that in fact the ideology of Al Qaeda is both Western and modern, a by-product of globalization’s transnational...
| Author | David Weinberger |
| ISBN | 0738208507 |
In this insightful social commentary, David Weinberger goes beyond misdirected hype to reveal what is truly revolutionary about the Web. Just as Marshall McLuhan forever altered our view of broadcast media, Weinberger shows that the Web is transforming not only social institutions but also bedrock...
From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games
| Author | Justine Cassell |
| ISBN | 0262531682 |
Girls and computer games--and the movement to overcome the stereotyping that dominates the toy aisles.
Many parents worry about the influence of video games on their children's lives. The game console may help to prepare children for participation in the digital world, but at the same time...
| Author | Robert B. Reich |
| ISBN | 0375725121 |
If you think it’s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.
With...
| Author | Michael Langford |
| ISBN | 0240520351 |
Langford's Basic Photography has informed the work and career of many of the world's leading photographers. It is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of photography, from pre-capture to output, written for photographers who want to understand the principles behind photography and how to create...
| Author | Richard V. Reeves |
| ISBN | 1843546434 |
The definitive life of John Stuart Mill, one of the heroic giants of Victorian England
Richard Reeves' sparkling new biography can be read as an attempt to do justice to this eminent thinker, and it succeeds triumphantly. He reveals Mill as a man of action—a philosopher and radical MP...
| Author | Nick Montfort |
| ISBN | 0262633183 |
A critical approach to interactive fiction, as literature and game.
Interactive fiction--the best-known form of which is the text game or text adventure--has not received as much critical attention as have such other forms of electronic literature as hypertext fiction and the conversational...
| Author | Paul Collins |
| ISBN | 0312300336 |
The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's...
| Author | Paul Johnson |
| ISBN | 0060530758 |
In Art: A New History, Paul Johnson turns his great gifts as a world historian to a subject that has enthralled him all his life: the history of art. This narrative account, from the earliest cave paintings up to the present day, has new things to say about almost every period of art. Taking account of changing...
| Author | Thomas Boswell |
| ISBN | 0140076611 |
It is the time for my annual re-read of the classic baseball book - in my view the best baseball book ever written - Why Time Begins on Opening Day by Thomas Boswell. Now out of print, this book is like a warm pair of slippers or a hot tub...you can just slide into this book and be warmed with the magic of the game...
| Author | Robert D. Richardson Jr. |
| ISBN | 0618433252 |
The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion -- on modernism itself
Pivotal member of the Metaphysical Club, author of The Varieties of Religious Experience, eldest sibling...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1593760558 |
In these six essays, award-winning author Wendell Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever widening cleft between words and their referents mirrors the increasing...
The Photographer's Handbook
| Author | John Hedgecoe |
| ISBN | 0679742042 |
Every so often a book comes along that totally reinvents the way you have been doing things. This is one of those books. I no longer take pictures. Rather, I make them. Hard to do when you specialize in longer exposures.
John Hedgecoe revised and updated this book so anyone with an interest in photography...
| Author | John Keats |
| ISBN | 0192819313 |
I felt so 'unfinished' to touch the last page (the last poem, to be more exact) of this bittersweet book. Love and longing, expectation and disappointment, hope and enlightenment, all of which blend in these beautifully written poems. Here is my favorite part in Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn':
"Ah,...
| Author | Richard M. Rorty |
| ISBN | 0140262881 |
Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent essays, articles and lectures, Rorty gives...
| Author | Thomas Frank |
| ISBN | 0385495048 |
In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone.
Frank's target is "market populism"--the widely held belief that markets are a more democratic...
