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Product Description: Imagine if new knowledge and insights came not just from research centers, think tanks, and universities but also from games, of all things. Video games have been viewed as causing social problems, but what if they actually helped solve them? This question drives Karen Schrier’s Knowledge Games, which seeks to uncover the potentials and pitfalls of using games to make discoveries, solve real-world problems, and better understand our world...read more

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9781421419206 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 29, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Imagine if new knowledge and insights came not just from research centers, think tanks, and universities but also from games, of all things.

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Product Description: Research demonstrated some years ago that there is a strong positive correlation between ’play’, ’fun’ and organisational performance. More recently, organisations have started to wrestle with the idea of how to engage the skills and motivation of the video game generation; as customers and as employees...read more

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9781472429056 | Gower Pub Co, July 7, 2015, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Research demonstrated some years ago that there is a strong positive correlation between ’play’, ’fun’ and organisational performance.

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Product Description: A game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the relationship of play and narrative. The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre-cultural but pre-human; zoologists have identified play behaviors in turtles and in chimpanzees...read more

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9780262028516 | 1 edition (Mit Pr, March 6, 2015), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the relationship of play and narrative.

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Product Description: Psychology 101 as you wish it were taught: a collection of entertaining experiments, quizzes, jokes, and interactive exercisesPsychology is the study of mind and behavior: how and why people do absolutely everything that people do, from the most life-changing event such as choosing a partner, to the most humdrum, such as having an extra donut...read more

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9780143126201 | Penguin USA, December 30, 2014, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Psychology 101 as you wish it were taught: a collection of entertaining experiments, quizzes, jokes, and interactive exercisesPsychology is the study of mind and behavior: how and why people do absolutely everything that people do, from the most life-changing event such as choosing a partner, to the most humdrum, such as having an extra donut.

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9781451611052 | Free Pr, March 8, 2011, cover price $24.00

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9781451611069 | Free Pr, April 19, 2014, cover price $15.99

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Product Description: Ever thought about capturing a queen, amassing real estate gold, or striking down a zombie or two? For centuries, games have stimulated the imagination. They have divided, and they have united. They have driven our competitive spirit and indulged our fancy...read more

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9781597977234 | Potomac Books Inc, July 1, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Ever thought about capturing a queen, amassing real estate gold, or striking down a zombie or two?

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By Youngkyun Baek (editor)

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9781624175770 | Nova Science Pub Inc, April 20, 2013, cover price $175.00

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Product Description: Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the real world. "Serious games" is defined herein as any form of interactive computer-based game software for one or multiple players to be used on any platform and that has been developed to provide more than entertainment to players...read more
By Ute Ritterfeld (editor)

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9780415993692 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 5, 2009), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the real world.

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9780415993708 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 5, 2009), cover price $63.95 | About this edition: Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the real world.

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Product Description: "Humans are the only animals who create and solve puzzles―for the sheer pleasure of it―and there is no obvious genetic reason why we would do this. Marcel Danesi explores the psychology of puzzles and puzzling, with scores of classic examples...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780253340948 | Indiana Univ Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $25.95

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9780253217080 | Indiana Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: "Humans are the only animals who create and solve puzzles―for the sheer pleasure of it―and there is no obvious genetic reason why we would do this.

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9780253109194 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: "Humans are the only animals who create and solve puzzles―for the sheer pleasure of it―and there is no obvious genetic reason why we would do this.

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Product Description: In this lively and enlightening book, Paul Brenner suggests that treating life's events and everyday activities as a game would lead to a more socially functional and effective society. Through compelling suggestions and dynamic anecdotes, he conceptualizes all our economic, political, social, and spiritual pursuits in terms of role-play, and demonstrates the contribution this perspective can make to the happiness of individuals and to the systemic welfare of an increasingly complex social order...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780791449639 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $44.50 | About this edition: In this lively and enlightening book, Paul Brenner suggests that treating life's events and everyday activities as a game would lead to a more socially functional and effective society.

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9780791449646, titled "If Life Is a Game, How Come I'm Not Having Fun?: A Guide to Life's Challenges" | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $26.95

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9780787951405 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, March 28, 2000, cover price $52.00
9780875892610 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, December 1, 1975, cover price $41.95

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Product Description: In Richard Powers' An Alien Among Us, it's your job to lead an intergalactic space mission. Will you accept the challenge?From a list of twelve candidates, players must select six to join the mission based on attributes that fall into categories such as gender, age, religion, nationality, positive attributes and negative attributes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781877864742 | Intercultural Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In Richard Powers' An Alien Among Us, it's your job to lead an intergalactic space mission.

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Proposes to show how children can be prepared to develop their full potential as 'thinking' human beings. The activities or 'games' described provide a general foundation which should help the child to deal successfully with specific academic subjects. With Additional Thoughts.

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9780195017298 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 7, 1974, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Proposes to show how children can be prepared to develop their full potential as 'thinking' human beings.

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9780195019278 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 22, 1975, cover price $21.95

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