New To The Game

Author : Mark Schoedl
Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1644249219
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New to the Game written by Mark Schoedl and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There appears to be a distance between the person one presents and the real person hidden beneath the veneer. Many more people from all walks of life have surrendered to their image to achieve recognition, to make ends meet, or to live the quiet life away from all the hullabaloo. One cannot escape one's fate no matter how hard one tries. So perhaps the impossible is possible, "just be yourself." Many laugh behind their breath at this supposition. However, does winning a game or holding onto fractured relationships make your world a flawed yet wholesome endeavor that you can rest your hat on? These are questions we all ask ourselves in our own private lives away from the hardened world around us. Since we only have now, perhaps it is time to feel the disparate sorrows and pitfalls we have created and to walk out into the world anew without all those pent-up preconceived notions that we cannot seem to shed. After all, our egos are as fractured and sullen as everyone around us. It's a new day. Who knows what today will bring? I too fall within this conundrum. My stories reach into what I have seen and experienced throughout my life. I cannot make sense of what the game of life has offered me. Even in America, things are quite bleak when I cannot seem to muster the effort to confront them just because I need to survive like everybody else. It is hard for all of us. So let us drop the supposition that "just go along to get along" is our calling card in this world. After all, it is only a world that we have accepted as the best of all possible worlds (Voltaire). I refuse to accept this as my path. Path? Is not this world a pathless land? My sixteen stories from my new book, New to the Game, run over the same conflicts and escapism that many have held onto over the generations, and yet some daring persons see their own masked reality, feel its searing anguish, and let it fall to touch and feel new worlds—worlds they had no idea existed until they have had enough of their own biased and contrived ideals.

Author : Oliver Roeder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324003782
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Games: A Human History written by Oliver Roeder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.

Author : David Shippy
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806533706
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Race for a New Game Machine written by David Shippy and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Packard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698154797
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Rules of the Game written by Susan Packard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business is a team sport. Learn how to win. Where would your career be if you could understand how your colleagues--especially men--succeed and win at work? And if, in understanding and applying the rules, you could win, too? In New Rules of the Game, business leader Susan Packard shows you how to cultivate gamesmanship--a strategic way of thinking regularly seen in the video game and sports worlds, and most often among men--that develops creativity, focus, optimism, teamwork, and competitiveness. You'll learn the Ten Rules of Gamesmenship and how to use them effectively to: · Compete outwardly in a healthy, rewarding way · Build support groups to help you advance · Step up with more grit to get the next win · Approach your workplace with more lightness and insight · Take loss in stride and provide the emotional distance needed to win at work Packard shares her career story with humor and candor, including the successes and the mistakes, the triumphs and some personal and career setbacks, and presents them as teachable moments for you. But the book is much bigger that one person’s experience. Packard also shares the stories of other presidents and CEOs who have become great gamers in their own fields, providing you with the insight and inspiration to play the business game smarter, stronger, and more successfully. You will also be better able to coach others, inspiring your team to perform at higher levels as you drive them toward the next win.

Author : Florence Scovel Shinn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1582703744
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Game of Life and How to Play It written by Florence Scovel Shinn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a modern interpretation of Florence Scovel Shinn's text on prosperity and fulfillment.

Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807842201
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Whole New Ball Game written by Allen Guttmann and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of modern collegiate and professional sports, explains how they reflect American culture, and looks at the role sports have played in Americanizing immigrants

Author : Shotaro Tokuno
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1626927766
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Game! Vol. 1 written by Shotaro Tokuno and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GAMER GIRL’S DREAM JOB! Suzukaze Aoba may look like a middle schooler, but she’s actually fresh out of high school and starting a new job on the character team of a game company. Not only is she working for the company that put out one of her favorite games, she also gets to spend her days modeling and creating characters. Follow her adorable shenanigans in this 4-panel slice of life as she learns the ropes of the industry and gets to know her co-workers.

Author : John P. Rossi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786481560
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Whole New Game written by John P. Rossi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bismarck once said that God looked after drunkards, children and the U.S. of A. Some say that baseball should be added to the list. It must have been divine intervention that led the sport through a series of transformative challenges from the end of World War II to the game's first expansion in 1961. During this period baseball was forced to make a number of painful choices. From 1949 to 1954, attendance dropped more than 30 percent, as once loyal fans turned to other activities, started going to see more football, and began watching television. Also, the sport had to wrestle with racial integration, franchise shifts and unionization while trying to keep a firm hold on the minds and emotions of the public. This work chronicles how baseball, with imagination and some foresight, survived postwar challenges. Some of the solutions came about intelligently, some clumsily, but by 1960 baseball was a stronger, healthier and better balanced institution than ever before.

Author : Eric Hill
Publisher : Ladybird Books
ISBN 13 : 9781844224067
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spot's New Game written by Eric Hill and published by Ladybird Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spot and his friends are playing hide-and-seek. "One, two, three . . ." Spot counts, but when he opens his eyes, he can't find his friends anywhere. Where can they be?

Author : Matthew Sadler
Publisher : New In Chess,Csi
ISBN 13 : 9789056918187
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Changer written by Matthew Sadler and published by New In Chess,Csi. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story behind the self-learning artificial intelligence system with its stunning chess skills