"A monograph that surveys the formal elements of the 2D platforming game genre and examines how design choices act as ideological forms of pleasure, affect, and idea"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Seed Activism is an ethnography of court challenges to corporate intellectual property (IP) rights and practices in Brazil and India. Based on a wealth of interviews with a diverse range of actors-from farmers and plant breeders to corporate lawyers-the book offers the first detailed ethnographic account of the legal disputes that have arisen in the past decade around patents and royalties on …
"Experimental game designer Pippin Barr explores the "stuff" videogames are made of by offering a conceptual discussion of the fundamentals of game design grounded in eight case studies of his own games"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An original argument to explain the "language gap" between humans and other primates, drawing on research from evolutionary biology, paleobiology, and archaeology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Tells the story of pregnancy testing-one of the most significant and least studied technologies of reproduction"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A new theory on adjunct control from a leading linguistics researcher"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How our sense of smell engages with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political economy -- and how it can help enrich our understanding of the nature of truth, language, economy, and sexuality. Why is it that, in Indo-European languages at least, we have no language to describe smells, leaving us (and famously Juliet) no choice but to call the scent of a rose simply "sweet" In What's That Smell ,…
"The book explores the origin story of the Open Government Partnership and place the open government reform movement in the context of the long history of public sector reform"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A phenomenological exploration of the emotional experience of grief. Written by one of the leading figures philosophical psychology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A guide for organizations to improve their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, focusing specifically on the experiences of women of color"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.