This is the first book to focus on sports betting from a sociological perspective. Drawing on multi-stage sociological research, it deepens our understanding of an increasingly significant aspect of the contemporary sport industry....Loe edasi...
Sari: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2025, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003433538)
Written in a clear, easy-to-understand, and conversational style; and enhanced with challenges and tips to broaden your flexagon skills and spark creativity, this book is a must for flexagon enthusiasts, teachers, students, libraries, mathematicians...Loe edasi...
With a sense of humor, plenty of examples, and simple tips, this book covers everything from typography to retail presence. Learn how to effectively use graphic design elements to enhance player experience. Create stunning game components, clear rul...Loe edasi...
This book looks at a range of topics and design issues pertinent to the history, current state of design, and to developing trends within the hobby, industry, and the adjacent field of game scholarship....Loe edasi...
Samuel Dittmer, Hiram Golze, Grant Molnar, Caleb Stanford
Sari: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Aug-2024, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003477761)
This book is a compilation of the problems and solutions for the first ten years of the Utah Math Olympiad. The problems are challenging but should be understandable at a high school level. The book will be a fantastic resource for anyone who enjoys...Loe edasi...
Sari: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Jul-2024, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003383529)
This book provides a bridge between mathematics and hobby tabletop gaming. Readers interested in either mathematics or tabletop games will find this book an engaging way to begin exploring the other topic or the connection between the topics....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jun-2024, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003270188)
The 21st Century in 100 Games is an interactive public history of the contemporary world. It creates a ludological retelling of the 21st century through 100 games that were announced, launched and played from the turn of the century....Loe edasi...
Thematic Integration in Board Game Design examines the design and integration of theme from the standpoints of technical structure, narrative building, and the design process. This book presents multiple approaches to designing theme as well as deve...Loe edasi...
This book covers the process of creating digital characters for videogames as well as for 3D print and collectibles. It looks at character asset creation for high-end AAA console games as well as asset creation for legacy devices and the ever-growin...Loe edasi...
In this book, youll discover roles in the industry you didnt even know existed. Not only that, but youll also learn what skills, experience, and education are necessary to land these jobs and start working in the board game industry....Loe edasi...
Making a great board game and pitching it to publishers are 2 completely different things. If youve got a game that you want to share with the world but dont know what to do next, this book will help you navigate through exactly what steps to take....Loe edasi...
Video Games in Psychotherapy provides the reader with a practical session-by-session framework for using video games, interactive media, and gaming metaphors to help make the process of psychotherapy more engaging for todays youth....Loe edasi...
This collection of essays is devoted to the philosophical examination of the aesthetics of videogames. As a burgeoning medium of artistic expression, videogames raise entirely new aesthetic concerns, particularly concerning their ontology, interacti...Loe edasi...
This book develops the concept of gamble-play media, describing how some gambling and gambling-like practices are increasingly mediated by digital technologies....Loe edasi...
This book discusses the history, methods, and variations of the piano-hinged dissections and is rich with illustrations that clearly depict the cuts of the dissections and three-dimensional simulations of the dissections in the process of being fold...Loe edasi...
The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most popular and recognizable examples in videogames of what Tolkien referred to as mythopoeia, or myth-making. The essays in this volume explore how The Legend of Zelda series puts players in touch with vide...Loe edasi...
This book draws on the many excellent presentations at the meeting, G4G5, held in Atlanta on April 57, 2004. It commemorates the memory of two great puzzlers, Edward Hordern, a master puzzle solver and a great puzzle collector, and Nobuyuki Yoshigah...Loe edasi...
This book is an outcome of the Gatherings for Gardner (G4G) and provides new challenges to the mathemagicians, as a playful provocation. It is a tribute to Martin Gardner, who has provided original puzzles and puzzling stories ever since he produced...Loe edasi...
This book presents a collection of problems and puzzles, and provides the tools and projects to furnish all-too-sluggish minds with an athletic workout and which foster an agility of the mind as they entertain. It is dedicated to all the underpaid t...Loe edasi...
This novel is a mystery story about how an unsuspecting cardiologist becomes embroiled in a plot involving international espionage, and the Neo-Nazi movement. It is also about Capt. Tamirs reserve duty in Southern Lebanon and his experience with Mo...Loe edasi...
This autobiography of Saunders Mac Lane, an extraordinary mathematician, takes the reader on a journey through the most important milestones of the mathematical world in the twentieth century....Loe edasi...
This book discusses the concept of robot consciousness and some other topics related to human-robot relationshipsthe religious beliefs of robots, their ethics, their civil and legal rights, and our own ethical attitudes as they pertain to our intera...Loe edasi...
Computer role-playing games (CRPGs) are a special genre of computer games that bring the tabletop role-playing experience of games such as Dungeons & Dragons to the computer screen. Thisnew edition inlcudes two new chapters: The Modern Age, and a ch...Loe edasi...
How long have you been thirsting for tempting, tantalizing teasers, craving for challenging cryptographic conundrums? A sequel to Have Some Sums to Solve, this work can satiate the desires of even the most prolific puzzle enthusiast....Loe edasi...
Divided into three sections, this book gives some historical notes, a step-by-step solution of a sample alphametic, and some general hints on the solution of alphametics. It presents a challenging diversion to mathematics enthusiasts....Loe edasi...
Written for a wide audience, this is the full story of Hex, inside and out, with all its twists and turns: Heins creation, Lindhards puzzles, Nashs proofs, Gales Bridg-it, the game of Rex, Shannons machines, Bridg-its fall, Hexs resilience, Hex theo...Loe edasi...
Improving Your NCAA® Bracket with Statistics is both an easy-to-use tip sheet to improve your winning odds and an intellectual history of how statistical reasoning has been applied to the bracket pool using methods standard and innovative....Loe edasi...
This collection offers readers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, international, and transmedia examination of roleplaying games Each chapter includes key terms, sidebars with additional content, and recommended readings to help both students and p...Loe edasi...
Here, the game dots and boxes serves as an introduction to mathematical game theory. The title is a guide to the game and its mathematical underpinnings. Chapters on strategy are interspersed with 100 sample problems and their strategic solutions....Loe edasi...
Discusses how to design good geometric puzzles: two-dimensional dissection puzzles, polyhedral dissections, and burrs. This book outlines major categories of geometric puzzles and provides examples. It also presents challenges and questions, as we...Loe edasi...
The magnum opus of one of the worlds leading origami artists, the second edition of Origami Design Secrets reveals the underlying concepts of origami and how to create original origami designs...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jan-2014, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199984794)
This Handbook is the definitive source of path-breaking research on the economics of gambling. It is divided into sections on casinos, sports betting, horserace betting, betting strategy, motivation, behavior and decision-making in betting markets,...Loe edasi...
This book, which is the first systematic study of psychology and board games, covers topics such as perception, memory, problem solving and decision making, development, intelligence, emotions, motivation, education, and neuroscience....Loe edasi...
Sari: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jul-2012, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110288810)
More than a mere pastime, chess was an important pedagogical tool and thought paradigm in the Middle Ages. In this collection of essays, scholars investigate chess texts from various European traditions and make the case for seeing chess as an impor...Loe edasi...
Spatial Reasoning Puzzles That Make Kids Think! engages even the most reluctant math learner. In this fun and challenging book, students must conquer four types of logical and spatial reasoning puzzles. Grades 6-8...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Dec-2010, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9780470972977)
Accessibly written and based on the latest research, this book tackles a key issue in contemporary society. Pulling no punches, addiction authority Jim Orford presents evidence that gambling represents a serious danger to public health due to its po...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Nov-2010, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444324921)
* Shows how new modeling techniques can elucidate links between climate, hydrology and water resources * Shows both strengths and limitations of models * Shows how modeling can be used at different special scales ....Loe edasi...
Industry consolidation, mergers, changes to business models, the emergence of new threats all require managers to understand highly complex situations, assess risk and opportunity and make informed decisions. This book provides a look at wargaming a...Loe edasi...
