The Prize in the Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prize in the Game write by Jo Walton. This book was released on 2004-05-16. The Prize in the Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set in the world of Jo Walton's previous novels, The King's Peace and The King's Name, The Prize in the Game takes us to a shining era of dark powers, legendary heroes and passionate loves-all of them ruled by the hand of Fate. When a friendly competition leads to the death of a beloved horse and incurs the wrath of the Horse Goddess, the kingdoms of the island of Tir Isarnagiri are doomed to suffer. As the goddess' curse chases them down the years, four friends destined for kingship-Conal, Emer, Darag, and Ferdia-are forced into conflict as their countries build towards war. Matters are complicated when Emer and Conal fall in love, and dream of escaping together from the machinations of their respective families. But Conal and Ferdia are rivals for the High Kingship of the island, and Conal cannot simply leave. The contest between them will lead to a visionary quest on a mountain sacred to the gods-and terrifying to men. Yet Emer faces an even greater struggle. For when war finally comes, Emer has two choices: perform her duty to the homeland to which she owes everything, or protect the one she loves and be branded a traitor forever. The path she takes will become the stuff of legend, and forever alter the destiny of Tir Isarnagiri. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Prize in the Game
Prize in the Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prize in the Game write by Jo Walton. This book was released on 2015. Prize in the Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters
Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters write by Fred Reinfeld. This book was released on 1995-01-01. Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Noted authority analyzes and annotates 50 games — spanning nearly 70 years of competition — recognized for imaginative and inventive combinations. Steinitz vs. Lasker, London; Capablanca vs. Janowski, New York; Alekhine vs. Marshall, New York; Botvinnik vs. Tartakower, Nottingham; and many more. Invaluable instruction for players at every level. 50 diagrams.
Invitation to the Game
Invitation to the Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Invitation to the Game write by Monica Hughes. This book was released on 1993-06. Invitation to the Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their "Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game.
Games
Games - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Games write by C. Thi Nguyen. This book was released on 2020. Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Games are a unique art form. The game designer doesn't just create a world; they create who you will be in that world. They tell you what abilities to use and what goals to take on. In other words, they specify a form of agency. Games work in the medium of agency. And to play them, we take on alternate agencies and submerge ourselves in them. What can we learn about our own rationality and agency, from thinking about games? We learn that we have a considerable degree of fluidity with our agency. First, we have the capacity for a peculiar sort of motivational inversion. For some of us, winning is not the point. We take on an interest in winning temporarily, so that we can play the game. Thus, we are capable of taking on temporary and disposable ends. We can submerge ourselves in alternate agencies, letting them dominate our consciousness, and then dropping them the moment the game is over. Games are, then, a way of recording forms of agency, of encoding them in artifacts. Our games are a library of agencies. And exploring that library can help us develop our own agency and autonomy. But this technology can also be used for art. Games can sculpt our practical activity, for the sake of the beauty of our own actions. Games are part of a crucial, but overlooked category of art - the process arts. These are the arts which evoke an activity, and then ask you to appreciate your own activity. And games are a special place where we can foster beautiful experiences of our own activity. Because our struggles, in games, can be designed to fit our capacities. Games can present a harmonious world, where our abilities fit the task, and where we pursue obvious goals and act under clear values. Games are a kind of existential balm against the difficult and exhausting value clarity of the world. But this presents a special danger. Games can be a fantasy of value clarity. And when that fantasy leaks out into the world, we can be tempted to oversimplify our enduring values. Then, the pleasures of games can seduce us away from our autonomy, and reduce our agency."--
