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Tortured Cardboard

Author : Philip E. Orbanes
Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 : 1682618544
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Tortured Cardboard written by Philip E. Orbanes and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “tortured cardboard” sums up what happens to cardboard when making a board game (bound, cut, folded, punched). And, as you’ll learn, great board games often reflect whatever “tortures” culture. Each gained immortality after a chaotic beginning and a chance survival. Why? Because—be it chess, backgammon, Clue®, Monopoly®, Scrabble®, Settlers of Catan®, or one of ten others featured in this book—each is replete with “lessons” applicable to achievement in your life. As the twenty-first century gathers momentum, our love affair with board games continues to strengthen. They involve us, they refine social skills, and they teach great lessons applicable in real life. “Tortuous” is the journey of every great board game, from birth in chaotic times, through survival by mere chance, to raging popularity and eventual immortality. Tortured Cardboard reveals how the great ones came to endure and—all fun aside—how each teaches us something about our own behavior while providing “rules” that can work in your life.

Monopoly

Author : Philip E. Orbanes
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306815923
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Monopoly written by Philip E. Orbanes and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Orbanes, master of all things Monopoliana, traces the remarkable story of the world’s most famous board game, from its origins as a collegiate teaching tool in the early twentieth century through Monopoly’s explosive growth in the postwar decades, to the game’s current status as a fixture in homes across the globe. Along the way, Orbanes includes memorable Monopoly personality portraits, surprising Monopoly legends and lore, and an extraordinary tour of the ingenious advertising that contributed to the game’s rise in popularity. This is the first and only book to cover comprehensively the origin, growth, and global reach of the game that has become a universal and everyday cultural icon.

Tortured Cardboard

Author : Philip E. Orbanes
Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 : 9781682618530
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Tortured Cardboard written by Philip E. Orbanes and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be enlightened and entertained. Be prepared for irreverence. Come on this journey through time and witness how these games came to be, why they flourish, and what you can gain by applying their “secrets.” The term “tortured cardboard” sums up what happens to cardboard when making a board game (bound, cut, folded, punched). And, as you’ll learn, great board games often reflect whatever “tortures” culture. Each gained immortality after a chaotic beginning and a chance survival. Why? Because—be it chess, backgammon, Clue®, Monopoly®, Scrabble®, Settlers of Catan®, or one of ten others featured in this book—each is replete with “lessons” applicable to achievement in your life. As the twenty-first century gathers momentum, our love affair with board games continues to strengthen. They involve us, they refine social skills, and they teach great lessons applicable in real life. “Tortuous” is the journey of every great board game, from birth in chaotic times, through survival by mere chance, to raging popularity and eventual immortality. Tortured Cardboard reveals how the great ones came to endure and—all fun aside—how each teaches us something about our own behavior while providing “rules” that can work in your life.

White Witch in a Black Robe

Author : Wendy Hoffman
Publisher : Aeon Books
ISBN 13 : 1911597922
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book White Witch in a Black Robe written by Wendy Hoffman and published by Aeon Books. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Witch in a Black Robe is a memoir about how secret high-level mind control is performed throughout victims' lives and the ways heads of governments and religious organizations participate in this, as well as the healing process and how the mind becomes whole again.The memoir begins with the author's childhood in a multi-generational cult family, her ordinary life in the normal world and her simultaneous secret tortuous world. She describes her world travels as a satanic cult queen and prophet, encountering well-known and influential people. The final section portrays the process of weaving the pieces of her mind back together with the help of a therapist, and adjusting to life with a whole mind.This is an important book for survivors of mind control and ritual abuse, their therapists, and the general public, revealing one of the world's best-kept and grimmest secrets. As the author says in her introduction, 'This book is not for the delicate or for those who are convinced the world is fine just the way it is.'

Playing Oppression

Author : Mary Flanagan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262373726
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Playing Oppression written by Mary Flanagan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking analysis of popular board games’ roots in imperialist reasoning—and why the future of play depends on reckoning with it. Board games conjure up images of innocuously enriching entertainment: family game nights, childhood pastimes, cooperative board games centered around resource management and strategic play. Yet in Playing Oppression, Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson apply the incisive frameworks of postcolonial theory to a broad historical survey of board games to show how these seemingly benign entertainments reinforce the logic of imperialism. Through this lens, the commercialized version of Snakes and Ladders takes shape as the British Empire’s distortion of Gyan Chaupar (an Indian game of spiritual knowledge), and early twentieth-century “trading games” that fêted French colonialism are exposed for how they conveniently sanitized its brutality while also relying on crudely racist imagery. These games’ most explicitly abhorrent features may no longer be visible, but their legacy still lingers in the contemporary Eurogame tendency to exalt (and incentivize) cycles of exploration, expansion, exploitation, and extermination. An essential addition to any player’s bookshelf, Playing Oppression deftly analyzes this insidious violence and proposes a path forward with board games that challenge colonialist thinking and embrace a much broader cultural imagination.

The General Mills/Parker Brothers Merger

Author : Ellen Wojahn
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781587981821
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book The General Mills/Parker Brothers Merger written by Ellen Wojahn and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of a previously published book. The original title was Playing by Different Rules. It deals with the Genral Mills/ Parker Brothers Merger.

The Cardboard Kingdom

Author : Chad Sell
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1524719390
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Cardboard Kingdom written by Chad Sell and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier, Awkward, and All's Faire in Middle School, this graphic novel follows a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary cardboard into fantastical homemade costumes as they explore conflicts with friends, family, and their own identity. "A breath of fresh air, this tender and dynamic collection is a must-have." --Kirkus, Starred Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters--and their own inner demons--on one last quest before school starts again. In the Cardboard Kingdom, you can be anything you want to be--imagine that! The Cardboard Kingdom was created, organized, and drawn by Chad Sell with writing from ten other authors: Jay Fuller, David DeMeo, Katie Schenkel, Kris Moore, Molly Muldoon, Vid Alliger, Manuel Betancourt, Michael Cole, Cloud Jacobs, and Barbara Perez Marquez. The Cardboard Kingdom affirms the power of imagination and play during the most important years of adolescent identity-searching and emotional growth. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS * THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY * SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL * A TEXAS BLUEBONNET 2019-20 MASTER LIST SELECTION "There's room for everyone inside The Cardboard Kingdom, where friendship and imagination reign supreme." --Ingrid Law, New York Times bestselling author of Savvy "A timely and colorful graphic novel debut that, like its many offbeat but on-point characters, marches to the beat of its own cardboard drum." --Tim Federle, award-winning author of Better Nate Than Ever

Tortured by Blue

Author : Chicago Torture Victims
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982219491
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Tortured by Blue written by Chicago Torture Victims and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The torture ring that operated out of Chicago Police Department Area 2 and 3 headquarters for more than two decades is one of the most terrible and harrowing stories of injustice to take place in my lifetime. Journalists, lawyers and activists played their part in exposing this nightmare, but the victims of police torture themselves did the most to make the truth known, and against steep odds, they were heard. Jon Burge may have never seen the inside of a jail cell like he should have, but thanks in large part to Stanley Howard and the other authors of this book, he will never be remembered as anything other than a monstrous criminal. This book tells the story of police torture in Chicago from the inside—literally—and when you read it, you’ll agree that no one has done a better job of telling all of it. Nothing can ever make up for the injustices these men suffered. But if we can stop this state-sponsored crime from ever happening again, we will have Stanley, Mark, Marvin and Ronnie to thank for it. — Alan Maass, author, The Case for Socialism; editor, SocialistWorker.org Tortured by Blue is not a story about individual survival in the face of horrific circumstances. It is a story about the multitude of individuals (police, prosecutors, judges, elected officials to name a few), practices, and systems that looked the other way and knowingly ALLOWED for the police torture of men and women in Chicago to continue on for decades. With the turn of each page, my rage grew, and with it a commitment to making sure the truths Stanley Howard, Mark Clements, Marvin Reeves and Ronald Kitchen lifts up in their writings are shared widely and result in accountability and substantive change so no individual or family has to go through what the police torture survivors had to experience. —Cindy Eigler, director of policy and strategic initiatives, Chicago Torture Justice Center Swept under the rug for too long, the wrongful convictions and police abuses described in [Torture by Blue] are a very real part of the history of the city of Chicago. Studying that history is crucial to avoiding the mistakes of the past, and [the author’s] deserves considerable credit from pulling it all together. Well -researched and comprehensive in scope, [the author’s] book doses an excellent job of telling this important story. —Jon Lovey, civil rights attorney specializing in police misconduct

Leather Wings

Author : Marilyn Duckworth
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1775532119
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Leather Wings written by Marilyn Duckworth and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, this novel explores love, obsession and stranger danger. Wallace is a door-to-door salesman. When he meets six-year-old Jania, his life gains a new dimension. He is in love. This is 'pure' adoration. Or is it? Esther, reluctant grandmother, is too self-absorbed to notice the drama that is about to break. Innocence carries its own dangers: love grows where least expected. The little girl might have some answers of her own, but who will listen?

The Cardboard Box

Author : Mary Anne Enslow
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449034683
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Cardboard Box written by Mary Anne Enslow and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her Uncle Charlie dies, Mary discovers that she has inherited a house in Georgia. She travels to Sunset Cove, and unravela why her uncle never mentioned the house and why the townspeople don't want her to stay.

Kill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare

Author : Elisabeth Weber
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 0998531847
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Kill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare written by Elisabeth Weber and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kill Boxes addresses the legacy of US-sponsored torture, indefinite detention, and drone warfare by deciphering the shocks of recognition that humanistic and artistic responses to violence bring to consciousness if readers and viewers have eyes to face them.Beginning with an analysis of the ways in which the hooded man from Abu Ghraib became iconic, subsequent chapters take up less culturally visible scenes of massive violations of human rights to bring us face to face with these shocks and the forms of recognition that they enable and disavow. We are addressed in the photo of the hooded man, all the more so as he was brutally prevented, in our name, from returning the camera's and thus our gaze. We are addressed in the screams that turn a person, tortured in our name, into howling flesh. We are addressed in poems written in the Guantánamo Prison camp, however much American authorities try to censor them, in our name. We are addressed by the victims of the US drone wars, however little American citizens may have heard the names of the places obliterated by the bombs for which their taxes pay. And we know that we are addressed in spite of a number of strategies of brutal refusal of heeding those calls.Providing intensive readings of philosophical texts by Jean Améry, Jacques Derrida, and Christian Thomasius, with poetic texts by Franz Kafka, Paul Muldoon, and the poet-detainees of Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp, and with artistic creations by Sallah Edine Sallat, the American artist collective Forkscrew and an international artist collective from Pakistan, France and the US, Kill Boxes demonstrates the complexity of humanistic responses to crimes committed in the name of national security. The conscious or unconscious knowledge that we are addressed by the victims of these crimes is a critical factor in discussions on torture, on indefinite detention without trial, as practiced in Guantánamo, and in debates on the strategies to circumvent the latter altogether, as practiced in drone warfare and its extrajudicial assassination program.The volume concludes with an Afterword by Richard Falk.

Way Worse Than Attica: the 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico

Author : Dirk Cameron Gibson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 166553348X
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Way Worse Than Attica: the 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico written by Dirk Cameron Gibson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on the 1980 Penitentiary of New Mexico riot is by far the most comprehensive, best-researched and most credible publication on this topic. It examines the prison administration, the correctional officers and the inmates in great detail. Clues to the impending riot are documented, and the causes of the riot and contributing factors are discussed. The pre-riot, riot and post-riot stages of the event are covered. In addition to providing chapters on the negotiation about and investigation into the insurrection, the significance and consequences of the riot are assessed. Separate chapters discuss the families of the hostage correctional officers, the inmate families, the media and medical first responders. Tours of the prison are discussed, and paranormal aspects of the riot documented. There are ghosts in the prison! This prison riot differed from most in that no inmates tried to escape. That is because this was not a traditional prison riot but rather one intended to initiate public and media awareness of terrible living conditions and to create public and media dialogue about inmate complaints. In the years immediately prior to the riot ACLU attorneys had submitted two Consent Decrees to federal courts, and the prison administration was forced to promise to address more than 200 inmate grievances. In fact they ignored the decrees and cracked down harder on the inmates. The inevitable result was the death of an unknown but undoubtedly significant number of inmates and countless serious injuries. The research foundation of this book is the most complete of any book about the riot. All published articles and books and blogs and government reports about the riot are included. Most significantly, interviews with correctional officers and family members provide intimate personal insight into the motives, madness and mutilations of this murderous riot.

A Frequency Dictionary of French

Author : Deryle Lonsdale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135973504
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book A Frequency Dictionary of French written by Deryle Lonsdale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Frequency Dictionary of French is an invaluable tool for all learners of French, providing a list of the 5000 most frequently used words in the language. Based on a 23-million-word corpus of French which includes written and spoken material both from France and overseas, this dictionary provides the user with detailed information for each of the 5000 entries, including English equivalents, a sample sentence, its English translation, usage statistics, and an indication of register variation. Users can access the top 5000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an alphabetical index. Throughout the frequency listing there are thematically-organized lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, weather, clothing, and family terms. An engaging and highly useful resource, the Frequency Dictionary of French will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of French vocabulary. Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415775311 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work. Deryle Lonsdale is Associate Professor in the Linguistics and English Language Department at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah). Yvon Le Bras is Associate Professor of French and Department Chair of the French and Italian Department at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah).

Shadows on the Sand

Author : Gayle Roper
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 1601423063
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Shadows on the Sand written by Gayle Roper and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She serves him breakfast at her café every morning … but he never seems to notice her. Carrie Carter’s small café in Seaside, New Jersey, is populated with a motley crew of locals … although Carrie only has eyes for Greg Barnes. He’s recovering from a vicious crime that three years ago took the lives of his wife and children—and from the year he tried to drink his reality away. While her heart does a happy Snoopy dance at the sight of him, he never seems to notice her. When Carrie’s dishwasher is killed and her young waitress disappears, Greg finds himself drawn into helping Carrie solve the mysteries … and into her life. But when Carrie’s own painful past becomes all too present, her carefully constructed world begins to sink. Will the fragile relationship she’s building with Greg implode from the weight of the baggage they both carry?

Seventeen A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William

Author : Booth Tarkington
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9359950467
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Seventeen A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William written by Booth Tarkington and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seventeen" is a sweet coming-of-age book written by using Booth Tarkington, an American creator recognised for his considerate stories about lifestyles within the early 1900s. The book receives the essence of developing up in a small Midwestern city and the humorous parts of those years. William Sylvanus Baxter, who's affectionately known as "Willy," is the primary man or woman of the tale. He is seventeen months’ vintage and is going via the awkward, humorous, and disturbing instances of developing up. The principal plot of the tale is set Willy's mishaps, love adventures, and runs into the complex international of social expectations. Setting his story in the proper town of "Jonesville," Tarkington creates a tale on the way to never give up and could be very American. The book appears at not unusual themes like being younger and excited, seeking to determine out who you're, and feeling unhappy about misplaced love. Tarkington's eager observations and wit shine through as he efficaciously captures the quirks of small-city life, adding humor and interest to the tale. For many years, "Seventeen" has been a classic in American writing. It is loved through readers of all ages for its nostalgic study childhood. Booth Tarkington's smart writing and insightful characters have made "Seventeen" a liked book that speaks to the popular pleasure of developing up and the undying enchantment of minor adventures.

The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection

Author : Booth Tarkington
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456614118
Total Pages : 3950 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection written by Booth Tarkington and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 3950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Booth Tarkington Alice Adams Beasley's Christmas Party The Beautiful Lady The Conquest of Canaan The Flirt Gentle Julia The Gentleman From Indiana The Gibson Upright The Guest of Quesnay Harlequin and Columbine His Own People In the Arena The Magnificent Ambersons The Man from Home Monsieur Beaucaire Penrod Penrod and Sam Ramsey Milholland Seventeen The Turmoil The Two Vanrevels

Black Mamba

Author : MathiRaj
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1648699693
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Black Mamba written by MathiRaj and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These people are like shadows, they vanish once the darkness kicks in” The plot revolves around a psychotic serial killer who sets out on a rampage to kill the family of a person who is an important cog of the society. The police department puts their most efficient officer who has a revenge motive against the serial killer to solve the case. Now the situation boils down to who makes the better move. In this cold battle filled with madness and rage, who will be the one to survive?