Social Games

A wall in the distant north cuts the world in two. Ruthless sea borne warriors raid the coasts from their war galleys, yearning to regain lost glories. A young nobleman and his kin are slaughtered under a banner of truce within a mighty castle. A warrior king becomes a legend when he smites his foe with one swing of his axe during a nation-forging battle. Yet this isn’t Westeros–it’s Scotland.

This is a book of 13 different drinking games for college students that will liven the party anytime you play them. Sitting around with friends drinking can get repetitive, so add some variety with these games. Be careful, it can get wild....

Filming for season two of The Fame Game has begun, and star Madison Parker is doing something she never thought she'd do: avoiding the PopTV cameras. She knows Trevor will come groveling and that she'll go back to the show eventually - but on her terms. Fame can turn a girl into a pawn, and Madison knows that's not the life she wants. Fame can turn a girl into a target, too, something her Fame Game costars are quickly learning....

Madison Parker has discovered that not all publicity is good publicity. After turning herself in for stealing some bling, the reality star is stuck doing community service while her Fame Game castmates soak up all the screen time. Not that newcomer Kate Hayes needs more attention - ever since her breakout song became an overnight sensation she's suddenly acting like she's Katy Perry.

Дорогие мамы и папы, бабушки и дедушки! Приглашаем вас и ваших малышей на захватывающую экскурсию в мир популярных современных профессий. В ходе знакомства с ними дошкольники попутно узнают, какими качествами необходимо обладать человеку, желающему получить ту или иную специальность.

Best friends Waffles and Mochi know that delicious food brings people together. So, when they start new jobs at a supermarket, they want to make a special treat for their coworkers. But what should it be? Their search for an answer will take them around the world as they investigate ingredients, find flavors, and make new friends.

America's long-standing principles and traditional values are under attack by leftist ideologues who reject them outright and are working hard to replace them. We are fast becoming a nation of socialists, secular humanists, atheists, agnostics, and anarchists who want to tear down every virtue enshrined by our Founding Fathers.

Machtspiele, suggestive Beeinflussung und versteckte Manipulation stehen an der Tagesordnung, sowohl im Alltag als auch im Beruf. Umso wichtiger ist es, sich vor Manipulationsversuchen zu schützen, andere durchschauen zu können und geschickt mit Menschen umzugehen. In diesem Buch erfahren Sie, wie Sie „das Spiel gewinnen“!

Sabiduría intemporal..., un estilo divertido..., explicaciones fácile de entender sobre el éxito. En esta obra ya clásica, Florence Scovel Shinn se perfiló como una escritora excepcional, cuyas prácticas y reveladoras sugerencias atrajeron en su época a lectores y mujeres emprendedorasde todos los ámbitos.

In the mystical realm of Bríandalör, every day the brave and the bold delve into hidden temples or forgotten dungeons, battling vile monsters and evil wizards to loot their treasure hoards for sweet, sweet magic items. But in their free time, our heroes - Thromdurr the mighty barbarian, Devis the shifty thief, Vela the noble paladin, Sorrowshade the Gloom Elf assassin, and Albiorix the (good!) wizard - need to relax and unwind. That’s why they meet up once a week to play a role-playing game where they assume the characters of average American eighth graders.

Louie and Ralphie Ratso have a genius idea: If they clear out the lot down the street, they can use all the junk lying around to build makeshift games for a Big City FunTime Arcade! With their friends to help, they'll be able to recycle all the old abandoned stuff into whack-a-mouse, a high-striker, a fortune-telling booth, and more. Everyone says the house next to the lot is haunted, but if Louie just pretends it's not there, maybe he can ignore the goose bumps he gets every time he looks at it.

From parsing Silicon Valley personal ads, hanging out with high tech gurus, attending conferences-cum-rallies or exposing the flaws in technolibertarian thinking, Borsook's observations, mordant wit, and furious passion awakens you to the social and political consequences of having computer geeks run the world.

Play Money explores a remarkable new phenomenon that's just beginning to enter public consciousness: MMPORGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments the size of continents. With city-sized populations of nearly full-time players, these games generate their own cultures, governments, and social systems and, inevitably, their own economies, which spill over into the real world.

I have multiple daughters and grandchildren. I wrote and designed this book/game with them in mind. I wanted to make a game that provided safe fun and a learning experience for my friends and family members.

Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling audiobook provides the first comprehensive history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the abduction of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists and the hostages' tragic deaths after a botched rescue mission by the German police. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources from the time, eminent historian David Clay Large explores the 1972 festival in all its ramifications.

Pascal Le Preste Paresseux est de retour et il est toujours aussi rapide...et maladroit! Ce livre est la version française d’un des livres de la série best-seller en langue anglaise, « Sam the Speedy Sloth. » Cette collection rapporte les joyeuses aventures successives de Pascal.

Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play. Video games vastly outpace all other mediums of entertainment in revenue and in global reach. On the surface, games do not appear ideological, nor are they categorized as national products. Instead, they seem to reflect the open and uncontaminated reputation of information technology. Like literature and film before it, video games have become the main artistic expression of empire today.

This is an audio summary of Skin in the Game, a provocative book that redefines the modern way of understanding the world and offers critical insight into the best ways people can contribute to a fair and just society while influencing each other for the better.

Los videojuegos, algunos lo usan para desestresarse otros lo toman como un trabajo, es un estilo de vida que ya un significativo número de personas a puesto en la mira para dedicarse a ello; pero, ¿Cómo empezó todo?

In Götterspiel wird in Versform der Sinn des Daseins selbst hinterfragt und beschrieben, wie Götter aus Langeweile einen der Ihren auf die Erde schicken, woselbst Dieser in "Germanischer Zeit" ohne Erinnerung an sein göttliches Dasein seine Aufgabe erfüllen muss. Verlust all seiner Lieben und weitere "Schicksalsschläge" lassen den einstigen "Gott" mit sich und den Göttern hadern, bis er endlich doch durch Lebenserfahrung dem Sinn des Daseins nahe kommt. Versmaß: 9 : 8 - 9 : 8