You've got the worst sense of timing I ever saw , said Mooney . The pop of mucus had rent a sacred hush . Just then the band struck up the national anthem , and Mooney had to leave off to brace and salute .
This is a study of the early writings of Richard Harding Davis, the premier American journalist of the 1890s, best remembered for his coverage of the Spanish-American War.
War Games sheds light on the ways people actually make use of history in their daily lives and looks intensely into the meaning of war itself and how wars have become the heart of American history.
The President was eating his breakfast , and McNamara was there . ... A message was sent back and the morning wore along and everybody was speaking in a very low tone of voice , and the Russian text was examined very carefully to be ...
Memory, Militarism and the Subject of Play Philip Hammond, Holger Pötzsch ... or Colony? to Develop Historical Empathy and Nurture Ethical Thinking, in K. Schrier and D. Gibson (eds) Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values through Play.
Destroy everything. Then you people will come and fix it.' War Games is a controversial expos from the front lines of the humanitarian aid industry by one of the most intrepid and brilliantly incisive journalists of our times.
In this book, Philipp von Hilgers examines the theory and practice of war games through history, from the medieval game boards, captured on parchment, to the paper map exercises of the Third Reich.
Thompson sheds light on war reenactments and the ways people actually make use of history in their daily lives. She also looks intensely into the meaning of war itself and how wars have become the heart of American history.
"Batman created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger."
Fascinating and often chilling, this is the story of how psychology wins wars.
Based on a true story of World War II. For 12-year-old Petros, World War II feels unreal and far away.
... and Other Science Fiction Stories * The Cosmic Perspective and Other Black Comedies Critical Threshold (Daedalus Mission #2) * The Cthulhu Encryption: A Romance of Piracy * The Cure for Love and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution ...
Based on the true story of Akila Couloumbis's wartime boyhood, Newbery Honor winner Audrey Couloumbis, writing with her husband Akila, explores what it was like coming of age in Nazi occupied Greece, and tells a story of family, friendship, ...
Covering everything from chess to football, from Saving Private Ryan to American Sniper, and from Call of Duty to drone interfaces, War Games is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the militarization of American culture, ...
War Games: The Story of Sport in World War Two
Written by Ed Brubaker, Bill Willingham and others Art by Sean Phillips, Pete Woods and others Cover by James Jean The final volume of WARGAMES collects BATMAN #633, BATGIRL #57, CATWOMAN #36, ROBIN #131, BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS #58.
Organized around three modes of war representation--live, screen-based, and interactive--this book provides an overview of the nature, function, and appeal of war games.
From Rwanda to Afghanistan, from Sudan to Iraq, this brilliantly written and at times blackly funny work of reportage shows how the humanitarian aid industry, the media and warmongers the...
In the preface to this edition, Wright Morris describes the genesis of the book in 1951 and comments on its connections with his late work: "War Games may well prove to be the seedbed of much more in my fiction than I am aware, since it was ...
This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from games studies, media and cultural studies, politics and international relations, and related fields to examine the complex relationships between military-themed videogames and real ...