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Experimental Games Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification
ISBN: PB: 9780226629971, ISBN: HB: 9780226629834, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones
In our unprecedentedly networked world, games have come to occupy an important space in many of our everyday lives. Digital games alone engage an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide as of 2020, and other forms of gaming, such as board games, role...
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£22,00
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£72,00
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Data Centers Edges of a Wired Nation
ISBN: HB: 9783037786451, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2020
320 pp., 26x19 cm, 160 illus.
Often hidden in plain sight, data centers are the backbone of our Internet. They store, communicate, and transport the information we produce and access along invisible pathways. Unlike industrial plants, data centers come entwined with an iconograph...
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£30,00
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Lie Machines How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives
ISBN: HB: 9780300250206, Yale University Press, June 2020
224 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm
Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts bolster or berate politicians on Twitter. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their bunk. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies...
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£20,00
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Internet in Everything Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch
ISBN: HB: 9780300233070, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
The Internet has leapt from human-facing display screens into the material objects all around us. In this so-called Internet of Things – connecting everything from cars to cardiac monitors to home appliances – there is no longer a meaningful distinct...
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£25,00
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Promiscuous Knowledge Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History
ISBN: HB: 9780226611853, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings,
Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to the "mind of God". As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google's divine omniscience traffics indifferently in news, maps, weather, and porn. This book, b...
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£27,00
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Knuth par Knuth
ISBN: PB: 9781684000586, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
226 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The interviews in this volume form the nearest thing possible to an autobiography of eminent computer scientist Donald E. Knuth. Based on the English-language Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth, also published by CSLI Publications, this book bri...
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£23,00
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