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The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Paperback/Jon Peterson
How the early Dungeons Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games, theorizing a new game genre. When Dungeon Dragons m…
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Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History, Hardcover/Stephen Chrisomalis
Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social fac…
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Happiness, Paperback/Tim Lomas
A concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness. What does it mean to feel happiness? As a state of mind, it's elusive. As…
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Shaping Technology / Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change, Paperback/Wiebe E. Bijker
Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this volume carries forward the project of creating a the…
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Return from the Stars, Paperback/Stanislaw Lem
An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes. Stanislaw Lem's Return from the Stars …
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Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan, Paperback/Lorenzo Chiesa
The evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan. Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the ex…
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Your Computer Is on Fire, Paperback/Thomas S. Mullaney
Technology scholars declare an emergency: attention must be paid to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological…
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Spatial Computing, Paperback/Shashi Shekhar
An accessible guide to the ideas and technologies underlying such applications as GPS, Google Maps, Pok mon Go , ride-sharing, driverless ca…
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Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons, Paperback/Jon Peterson
The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by its cocreators. When …
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A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Hardcover/John Zerilli
A concise but informative overview of AI ethics and policy. Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of h…