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Raising the Stakes :E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming
"Competitive video and computer game play is nothing new: the documentary King of Kong memorably portrays a Donkey Kong player's attempts to achieve the all-time highest score; the television show Starcade (1982--1984) featured competitions among arcade game players; and first-person shooter games of the 1990s became multiplayer through network play. A new development in the world of digital ga…
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- 9780262301268
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- 1 online resource (viii, 323 pages) :illustrations
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The Curie Society
"An action-adventure original graphic novel, following a team of young women recruited by an elite secret society--originally founded by Marie Curie--with the mission of supporting the most brilliant female scientists in the world. The heroines of the Curie Society use their smarts, gumption, and cutting-edge technology to protect the world from rogue scientists with nefarious plans. Follow rec…
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- 0262371758
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- 1 online resource (163 pages) :color illustrations.
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Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice: Combustion, Fuels, Materia…
"This revised edition of Taylor's classic work on the internal-combustion engine incorporates changes and additions in engine design and control that have been brought on by the world petroleum crisis, the subsequent emphasis on fuel economy, and the legal restraints on air pollution. The fundamentals and the topical organization, however, remain the same. The analytic rather than merely descri…
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- 9780262311038
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The new comparative economic history :essays in honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson
Essays by internationally prominent economists examine long run cross-country economic trends from the perspective of New Comparative Economic History, an approach pioneered by Harvard economist Jeffrey G. Williamson.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275064
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- 1 online resource (x, 417 pages) :illustrations
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Reform of the International Monetary System: Why and How?
In this book, the economist John Taylor argues that the apparent correlation of monetary policy decisions among different countries—largely the result of countries' concerns about the exchange rate—causes monetary policy to deviate from effective policies that stabilize inflation and the economy. He argues that a rules-based reform of the international monetary system, achieved by applying …
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Internal combustion engine in theory and practice volume 1 : Thermodynamics, …
This revised edition of Taylor's classic work on the internal-combustion engine incorporates changes and additions in engine design and control that have been brought on by the world petroleum crisis, the subsequent emphasis on fuel economy, and the legal restraints on air pollution. The fundamentals and the topical organization, however, remain the same. The analytic rather than merely descrip…
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- Revised edition.
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- 0262311038
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- 1 online resource (783 pages).
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- 620 TAY i
Play between worlds :exploring online game culture
"In Play Between Worlds, T.L. Taylor examines multiplayer gaming life as it is lived on the borders, in the gaps - as players slip in and out of complex social networks that cross online and offline space. Taylor questions the common assumption that playing computer games is an isolating and alienating activity indulged in by solitary teenage boys. Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), in…
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- 9780262284714
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- 1 online resource (197 pages) :illustrations
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Technically Together: Reconstructing Community in a Networked World
Why we should not accept ""networked individualism"" as the inevitable future of community.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262340861
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What Every Medical Writer Needs to Know Questions and Answers for the Seriou…
This book presents must-know facts generally not covered in “How To” books about medical writing. Every medical writer, whether a beginner or veteran, needs answers to questions many might not even know to ask. How does your personality type influence your writing behavior, and what can you do to make writing easier for you? What should you ask before agreeing to co-author an article for pu…
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- 978-3-319-20264-8
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Distant viewing :computational exploration of digital images
"The authors construct theories and methods for "distant viewing" as a method for analyzing collections of digitized visual materials with computer vision"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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