Anticipation exceeded realization

Anticipation exceeded realization
Author: Robert Allan Stevens
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-03-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1365885305

The original Illinois State University was typical of colleges in the American antebellum period. Springfield's community boosters welcomed the new college as a civic adornment. Determined men of the cloth envisioned a prestigious institution like the one at which they learned the "artes liberals" and the Lutheran catechism. But turbulent times undermined their heroic efforts to sustain the school. The saga of ISU is a short arc from eager anticipation to bitter realization.

Esport Play

Esport Play
Author: Veli-Matti Karhulahti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2020-06-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501359339

Weaving the author's own lived experience with theoretical insights from the fields of game studies, psychology, and anthropology, Esport Play probes and advances current gaming topics such as addiction, skill development, and toxicity. With a focus on League of Legends – one of the flagship esports of our time – Karhulahti explicates what esport play is: documenting and identifying competitive play as a present-day means to satisfy basic human needs. Ultimately, the book presents a theory of psycholudic development that explains and organizes the development of player-play relationships that may last for years.

History of the Seventy Seventh Division, August 25th, 1917, November 11th, 1918

History of the Seventy Seventh Division, August 25th, 1917, November 11th, 1918
Author: United States. Army. Infantry Division, 77th
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1919
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

This book contains the history of the 77th Division during World War One, from the training at Camp Upton and France, to the Vesle, Aisne, Argonne, and Sedan. The book also records deaths, injuries, honors, officers, and other war statistics or testimonies.