Blue Wizard Is About To Die

Author : Seth Flynn Barkan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974100005
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Wizard is about to Die! written by Seth Flynn Barkan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of poetry about video games ever published, BWIATD takes its readers on a psychotic and hilarious tour through the arcade and console games of the Eighties (and beyond). Funny, approachable, and beautifully illustrated by Warren Wucinich, BWIATD is sure to delight and thrill anyone who enjoys (or has enjoyed) playing video games.

Author : Stephen Jenkinson
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583949739
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Die Wise written by Stephen Jenkinson and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places death at the center of the page and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty. Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well. Die Wise is for those who will fail to live forever. Dying well, Jenkinson writes, is a right and responsibility of everyone. It is not a lifestyle option. It is a moral, political, and spiritual obligation each person owes their ancestors and their heirs. Die Wise dreams such a dream, and plots such an uprising. How we die, how we care for dying people, and how we carry our dead: this work makes our capacity for a village-mindedness, or breaks it. Table of Contents The Ordeal of a Managed Death Stealing Meaning from Dying The Tyrant Hope The Quality of Life Yes, But Not Like This The Work So Who Are the Dying to You? Dying Facing Home What Dying Asks of Us All Kids Ah, My Friend the Enemy

Author : J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007269722
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of the King written by J. R. R. Tolkien and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy fiction. The first ever illustrated paperback of part three of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring 15 colour paintings by Alan Lee.

Author : Matthew Thomas Payne
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479848565
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing War written by Matthew Thomas Payne and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the culture that made military shooter video games popular, and key in understanding the War on Terror No video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the “military shooter.” Franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and those bearing Tom Clancy’s name turn over billions of dollars annually by promising to immerse players in historic and near-future battles, converting the reality of contemporary conflicts into playable, experiences. In the aftermath of 9/11, these games transformed a national crisis into fantastic and profitable adventures, where seemingly powerless spectators became solutions to these virtual Wars on Terror. Playing War provides a cultural framework for understanding the popularity of military-themed video games and their significance in the ongoing War on Terror. Matthew Payne examines post-9/11 shooter-style game design as well as gaming strategies to expose how these practices perpetuate and challenge reigning political beliefs about America’s military prowess and combat policies. Far from offering simplistic escapist pleasures, these post-9/11 shooters draw on a range of nationalist mythologies, positioning the player as the virtual hero at every level. Through close readings of key games, analyses of marketing materials, and participant observations of the war gaming community, Playing War examines an industry mobilizing anxieties about terrorism and invasion to craft immersive titles that transform international strife into interactive fun.

Author : B. L. Phillips
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463419058
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Search for the Red Wizard written by B. L. Phillips and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book trailer: Search for the Red Wizard at: http://youtu.be/uK7hyOPo-zA or under title Search for the Red Wizard "Romance, Adventure, and Danger provide the reader with a delightful romp as teh Space Darlings encounter Fun, Fear and Perilous situations. When tghe Best Laid Plans go astray the Space Darlings are in the thick of the action"---Alva Underwood, autor of Star Trek Reader's Reference to the novels. Troubles start for Major Lori and Captain Gladriel when the Heroines in the hit video series 'The Space Darlings' look like them. The Galactic Council orders them to go undercover as entertainers to search for missing reports in the far reaches of the galaxy.

Author : D.S. MacLEOD
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452088802
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle Times written by D.S. MacLEOD and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling underground through an icy tunnel system into an unknown mysterious realm seeking out the Gavel of Elrahon, our Grenelf family and friends stumble into a land of ice. According to dwarven traveling companion Sir Timlikdam, it be the very lands of the hairy horned monsters from his childhood tales. Following closely behind the Grenelf family and friends in the ice tunnels, a garrison of goblins sent by the Goblin King Nifere pursues them relentlessly. Back within their home lands of the west, Lord Eltr of Lavon murders his ruling brother King Edrain and seizes the throne of the Lavon kingdom for launching an invasion against neighboring Nhora. Unknown to Eltr, the diabolical Nifere wishes also to claim the lands of Nhora. The two evils clash and only one of the evil leaders shall survive, but not by the actions of the other. Within the ice lands, the quest for the Gavel of Elrahon becomes a task of survival as hidden treacheries from the past explode changing the course of destiny. The race to save the westerly lands against something much worse than the wrath of the Lord of Darkness and Shadow emerges unleashing an ultimate evil force from the depths of the underwolde. Hold onto your bows and axes, this action-packed concluding story for the two part epic may only be the beginning.

Author : Eliza Bent
Publisher : Samuel French , Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780573704963
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Wizard written by Eliza Bent and published by Samuel French , Limited. This book was released on 2018 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ancient ideals and modern musings rub up against each other in Blue Wizard / Black Wizard, a philosophical musical fantasia. Two referees adjudicate the proceedings as the Black and Blue Wizards battle to save themselves and humanity from the Great Mediocrity. Warping the conventions of musical theatre and classical art song to intersect with the sensibilities of electronic music, Blue Wizard / Black Wizard is a pop culture smash-up of fantasy language and contemporary parlance. What unfolds is a ritualistic sporting event, the likes of which audiences have never seen"-- Back cover.

Author : Ken S. McAllister
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817314180
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Work written by Ken S. McAllister and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video and computer games in their cultural contexts. As the popularity of computer games has exploded over the past decade, both scholars and game industry professionals have recognized the necessity of treating games less as frivolous entertainment and more as artifacts of culture worthy of political, social, economic, rhetorical, and aesthetic analysis. Ken McAllister notes in his introduction to Game Work that, even though games are essentially impractical, they are nevertheless important mediating agents for the broad exercise of socio-political power. In considering how the languages, images, gestures, and sounds of video games influence those who play them, McAllister highlights the ways in which ideology is coded into games. Computer games, he argues, have transformative effects on the consciousness of players, like poetry, fiction, journalism, and film, but the implications of these transformations are not always clear. Games can work to maintain the status quo or celebrate liberation or tolerate enslavement, and they can conjure feelings of hope or despair, assent or dissent, clarity or confusion. Overall, by making and managing meanings, computer games—and the work they involve and the industry they spring from—are also negotiating power. This book sets out a method for "recollecting" some of the diverse and copious influences on computer games and the industry they have spawned. Specifically written for use in computer game theory classes, advanced media studies, and communications courses, Game Work will also be welcome by computer gamers and designers. Ken S. McAllister is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona and Co-Director of the Learning Games Initiative, a research collective that studies, teaches with, and builds computer games.

Author : Eleanor Putnam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.CB/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prince Vance written by Eleanor Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stirling Davenport
Publisher : Jigsaw Press
ISBN 13 : 1934340340
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nightwing's Quest written by Stirling Davenport and published by Jigsaw Press. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dark elven matriarchy of Alvarra, the Nightwing's beautiful daughter, Tiala, must lead a mismatched cadre of champions to save her people from the machinations of her evil brother turned assassin. Can a tormented wizard, a fledgling shape-changer, a novice monk and two bitter enemies help Tiala secure the peace in Alvarra? At what cost?