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But It's Just a Game

Author : Julia Cook
Publisher : National Center for Youth Issues
ISBN 13 : 1937870936
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book But It's Just a Game written by Julia Cook and published by National Center for Youth Issues. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "But Mom, it's just a game." Meet Jasper! A young boy who is totally absorbed with playing video games... "With my game controller in my hands, I'm the boss of my whole world! I can be who I want and do as I please. I can get the highest score. I get all the chances that I need. If I make a mistake it's ok. Everyone thinks I'm 'it on a stick!' And the bad stuff all goes away." Video game addiction is on the rise, but it can be prevented. This creative story book teaches both kids and adults how to switch out their game controller for a "life controller." Video gaming is becoming a part of our culture, and we must be strategic in creating a healthy gaming balance.

When It Was Just a Game

Author : Harvey Frommer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1589799216
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book When It Was Just a Game written by Harvey Frommer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by acclaimed sports author and oral historian Harvey Frommer and with an introduction by pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, When It Was Just a Game tells the fascinating story of the ground-breaking AFL–NFL World Championship Football game played on January 15, 1967: Packers vs. Chiefs. Filled with new insights, containing commentary from the recently discovered unpublished memoir of Kansas City Chiefs coach Hank Stram, and featuring oral history from many who were at the game—media, players, coaches, fans—the book presents back story and front story in the words of those who lived it and saw it go on to become the Super Bowl, the greatest sports attraction the world has ever known. Archival photographs and drawings help bring the event to life.

Never Just a Game

Author : Robert F. Burk
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807849613
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Never Just a Game written by Robert F. Burk and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this book, the first installment of a highly readable, comprehensive labor history of baseball, Robert Burk d

More Than Just a Game

Author : Chuck Korr
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429922761
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book More Than Just a Game written by Chuck Korr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Chuck Korr and Marvin Close's More Than Just a Game tells the timeless true story of how political prisoners under apartheid found hope and dignity through soccer. In the hell that was Robben Island, inmates united courageously in an act of protest. Beginning in 1964, they requested the right to play soccer during their exercise periods. Denied repeatedly, they risked beatings and food deprivation by repeating their request for three years. Finally granted this right, the prisoners banded together to form a multi-tiered, pro-level league that ran for more than two decades and served as an impassioned symbol of resistance against apartheid. Former Robben Island inmate Nelson Mandela noted in the documentary FIFA: 90 Minutes for Mandela, "Soccer is more than just a game.... The energy, passion, and dedication this game created made us feel alive and triumphant despite the situation we found ourselves in."

Seven Games: A Human History

Author : Oliver Roeder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324003782
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 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.

It's All a Game

Author : Tristan Donovan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250082730
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book It's All a Game written by Tristan Donovan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] timely book...It’s All a Game provides a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history."—The Wall Street Journal Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It’s All a Game, British journalist and renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from the paranoid Chicago toy genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the scientific use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan ultimately reveals why board games--from chess to Monopoly to Settlers of Catan, and more--have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations.

It Isn't Just a Game

Author : Owen Schoenfeld
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607990768
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book It Isn't Just a Game written by Owen Schoenfeld and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex and Corey had a great setup. One would watch the White Sox game on TV, while the other would play as the White Sox in the latest sports videogame. It worked out great for the first outs, as the videogame's strikeouts matched those of the real players. However, when the game stays mysteriously tied to the events of the actual game, Alex and Corey begin to wonder if it's more than coincidence. Imaginations run wild as they plan their summer around the gamea "they're on a winning streak and they can't afford for the Sox to lose! Could they possibly help the Sox win the World Series? Is it possible that It Isn't Just a Game? Join the authors in this exciting tale of how a game can be more than just a game."

It's Only a Game

Author : Jackie Burke
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781592401161
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book It's Only a Game written by Jackie Burke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gems of wisdom about golf and life--and a spirited call for a return to the game's core values--are offered by one of the game's most respected elder statesmen and former champions.

It's Just a Game

Author : John Farrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's Just a Game written by John Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soccer team learns that sports should be played not only to win, but to have fun.

It's Just a Game

Author : Brian Carriveau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966681987
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book It's Just a Game written by Brian Carriveau and published by . This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the people that kindle the flame of baseball as Americas pastime in Its Just a Game.

A Game for Swallows

Author : Zeina Abirached
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
ISBN 13 : 1467700479
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book A Game for Swallows written by Zeina Abirached and published by Graphic Universe ™. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and her little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut is for Muslims. When Zeina's parents don't return one afternoon from a visit to the other half of the city, and the bombing grows ever closer, the neighbors in her apartment house create a world indoors for Zeina and her brother where it's comfy and safe, where they can share cooking lessons and games and gossip. Together they try to make it through a dramatic day in the one place they hoped they would always be safehome. Zeina Abirached, born into a Lebanese Christian family in 1981, has collected her childhood recollections of Beirut in a warm story about the strength of family and community.

More Than Just a Game

Author : Tony Price
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994580269
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book More Than Just a Game written by Tony Price and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that covers the history of rugby league in Queensland from 1908 up to and including the 2020 season. This book tells the story of the formation of the game in Queensland right through to the success of the Brisbane Broncos and North Queensland Cowboys. Every interstate game from 1908 until 2019 is mentioned in detail and we cover all the great International teams that toured Australia. In this 380 page book are more than 500 photographs, most in colour which tell the story of rugby league in Queensland like no other.

It's Not Just a Game

Author : Eric Crookshank
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
ISBN 13 : 9781551099590
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book It's Not Just a Game written by Eric Crookshank and published by Nimbus Publishing (CN). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where I am today all started from the bottom. I want to tell the story of my journey from there to here.Refusing to become a victim of his circumstances, Eric Crookshank went from a child counting his father's drug money to a university graduate with a degree in business administration; from a benched teenager with dreams of conquering the basketball court to the captain of the National Basketball League of Canada's Halifax Rainmen.Eric Crookshank has become a role model to a new generation of basketball players, both on and off the court. In this powerful story, Crookshank invites us to experience the highs and lows of his life so far as he overcomes adversity and grows into a leader.--Alison Jenkins

The Game of Life

Author : Florence Scovel Shinn
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Game of Life written by Florence Scovel Shinn and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game of Life by Florence Scovel Shinn is a transformative guide to understanding and playing the game of life with spiritual insight and practical wisdom. Originally published in the early 20th century, this classic work combines metaphysical principles with real-life anecdotes to provide readers with a comprehensive approach to living a life of purpose and fulfillment.

More Than Just a Game

Author : Kathryn Jay
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023150070X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book More Than Just a Game written by Kathryn Jay and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Than Just a Game tracks the explosion of the sports industry in the United States since 1945 and how it has shaped class, racial, gender, and national identities. By examining both professional and intercollegiate sports such as baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis, and stock car racing, Kathryn Jay looks at the impact of packaging, salary, hype, corporate sponsorship, drug use, and the presence of women and African American players. Jay also considers the persistent belief that sports encourage good citizenship and morality despite a rise in cheating and violent behavior and an unabashed emphasis on financial gain. More Than Just a Game is a fascinating exploration of a phenomenon that has engaged the American imagination and thrilled fans for decades.

It's Only a Game

Author : Charles Monroe Schulz
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781490927541
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book It's Only a Game written by Charles Monroe Schulz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1950s, amidst the surging popularity of Peanuts and during a strongly creative period, Charles M. Schulz created his only other syndicated newspaper comic. It's Only a Game focused on the fun and foibles of people and their pastimes. Schulz targets those who play bridge and those who bowl, little leaguers and horse track regulars, those who rush across the gridiron and those who hunch over the chessboard. This full-color collection offers up the series in its full Sunday format. Commentary and insight are provided by artist and cartoonist Jim Sasseville, who worked with Schulz on the feature. To facilitate the best display of the art, this book is in a special format: the pages flip up like a calendar, rather than to the left like a regular book. For those readers used to the Sunday newspaper funnies, this makes for a familiar and comfortable reading experience. Prepared and published by About Comics.

Probability and Finance

Author : Glenn Shafer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471461717
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Probability and Finance written by Glenn Shafer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-02-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a foundation for probability based on game theory rather than measure theory. A strong philosophical approach with practical applications. Presents in-depth coverage of classical probability theory as well as new theory.