Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] Inside the making of the multibillion-dollar Grand Theft Auto videogame empire Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time...read more

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] Inside the making of the multibillion-dollar Grand Theft Auto videogame empire Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and repeatedly transformed the world of gaming. Despite its incredible innovations in the $75 billion game industry, it has also been a lightning rod of debate, spawning accusations of ethnic and sexual discrimination, glamorizing violence, and inciting real-life crimes. Jacked tells the turbulent and mostly unknown story of GTA's wildly ambitious creators, Rockstar Games, the invention and evolution of the franchise, and the cultural and political backlash it has provoked. *Explains how British prep school brothers Sam and Dan Houser took their dream of fame, fortune, and the glamor of American pop culture and transformed it into a worldwide videogame blockbuster *Written by David Kushner, author of Masters of Doom and a top journalist on gaming, and drawn from over ten years of interviews and research, including firsthand knowledge of Grand Theft Auto's creators and detractors *Offers inside details on key episodes in the development of the series, including the financial turmoil of Rockstar games, the infamous ''Hot Coffee'' sex minigame incident, and more Whether you love Grand Theft Auto or hate it -- or just want to understand the defining entertainment product of a generation -- you'll want to read Jacked and get the real story behind this boundary-pushing game.

The dark side of the American dream: the true story of the first African-American family to move into the iconic suburb, Levittown, PA . In the decade after World War II , one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home. T he Levitts―William, Alfred, and their father, Abe―pooled their talents to create storybook towns with affordable little houses. T hey laid out the welcome mat, but not to everyone. Levittown had a whites-only policy. The events that unfolded in Levittown, PA, in the unseasonably hot summer of 1957 would rock the community. There, a white Jewish Communist family named Wechsler secretly arranged for a black family, the Myerses, to buy the pink house next door. T he explosive reaction would transform their lives, and the nation, leading to the downfall of a titan and the integration of the most famous suburb in the world. Levittown is a story of hope and fear, invention and rebellion, and the power that comes when ordinary people take an extraordinary stand. And it is as relevant today, more than fifty years later, as it was then.

Describes how a group of young 'nerds,' led by underdog hero Jon Finkel, a.k.a. Jonny Magic, used the techniques they learned from fantasy games to conquer underground poker clubs, online casinos, card counting, blackjack, and the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Reprint.

Product Description: Hardcover Edition. How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture.

Offers a guide to digital media, covering such topics as choosing a digital camera, editing images, capturing film footage, editing movies, streaming Internet radio, and buying digital music.

Presents a dual biography of John Carmack and John Romero, the visionary creators of the two most successful video games in history, Doom and Quake, assessing the impact of their creation on American pop culture and the cyber-world and revealing how their phenomenal success eventually destroyed their relationship. Reprint. 22,500 first printing.

Discusses music and music-related resources available online and describes Web sites to download music files, buy CDs and musical instruments, listen to live music and radio broadcasts, and interact with music fans. (view table of contents)

Product Description: An analysis of the ideas and doctrines of Turkish nationalist writers in the closing decades of the Ottoman period. This book argues that such ideas played an important role in the formation of modern Turkish nationalism.