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Presenting a holistic and thoroughly practical investigation of the true nature of computer games that arms readers with a small yet powerful set of theories for developing unique approaches to understanding games. Game Invaders fully integrates genre theory, new media aesthetics, perceptual opportunities, and semiotics into a practical DIY toolkit for games analysis—offering detailed guidance for how to conduct in-depth critiques of game content and gameplay. Featuring an informal and witty writing style, the book devotes a number of chapters to specific games from all eras, clearly demonstrating the practical application of the theories to modern, large-scale computer games. Readers will find: • Suggestions on how to apply the DIY package to major issues central to understanding computer games and their design • Coverage of the semiotics of video games, laying the foundation for such topics as the role of agency and virtual storytelling • Tasks and solutions for readers wishing to practice techniques introduced in the book • A companion website featuring access to an app that enables the reader to conduct their own activity profiling of games An important resource for those wishing to dig deeper into the games they design, Game Invaders gives game designers the skills they need to stand out from the crowd. It is also a valuable guide for anyone wishing to learn more about computer games, virtual reality, and new media.

A novel “My Dear Bitch” consists of 2 volumes. Volume #2 called “An Unwelcome Person” and tells the rest of the “love story” between a Russian woman and her American groom. Sensationally frank expressions and reasoning will not leave indifferent neither men, nor women.The naked true of family life.All names in the novel are fictitious.Oleg Lubske, PublisherPublishing House “Ne Chitat’! ” (aka “Don’t Read!”)

A critically acclaimed, Booker long-listed novel that is reminiscent of Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration Trilogy’.Clarice Pike and Vic Warren are from completely different backgrounds. An impossible affair has already driven them thousands of miles apart. 1939 finds Clarice in Malaya where her father is an obscure company doctor, and Vic in East London, an unemployed shipwright badly married to Phylis, Clarice’s cousin. As their feelings conspire to draw the lovers back together, the world erupts with a terrible violence. It is the relentlessness of male brutality that forces Vic to grope towards what real manhood might be.‘If the Invader Comes’ combines themes from Derek Beaven’s previously acclaimed ‘Newton’s Niece’ and ‘Acts of Mutiny’ to portray a wartime England where human relationships are threatened as much from within the family as from occupied Europe. Exciting, moving and ultimately optimistic, Derek Beaven’s new novel represents a daring leap in British fiction.

Mills & Boon are excited to present The Anne Mather Collection – the complete works by this classic author made available to download for the very first time! These books span six decades of a phenomenal writing career, and every story is available to read unedited and untouched from their original release. Convent girl!After her sheltered life in a convent, Sarah Winter can’t wait to get out into the world! She knows her job as a governess to three children is going to be a challenge – but she doesn’t expect her instant, fierce attraction to the children’s uncle and guardian, the dynamic Jason de Cordova.As the heat flares between them, unworldly Sarah soon finds the situation is more than she can handle! Jason is charismatic, powerful and more or less rules the small Caribbean island on which she finds herself. Most daunting of all, he is also married! But fighting her feelings soon proves impossible…especially as Jason is more than happy to cure Sarah of her innocence!