Playing with the Past: Into the Future

Playing with the Past: Into the Future
Author: Erik Champion
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2023-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031109325

Since the turn of this century (and even earlier), a plethora of projects have arisen to promise us bold new interactive adventures and immersive travel into the past with digital environments (using mixed, virtual or augmented reality, as well as computer games). In Playing with the Past: Into the Future Erik Champion surveys past attempts to communicate history and heritage through virtual environments and suggests new technology and creative ideas for more engaging and educational games and virtual learning environments. This second edition builds on and updates the first edition with new game discussions, surveys, design frameworks, and theories on how cultural heritage could be experienced in digital worlds, via museums, mobile phones, or the Metaverse. Recent games and learning environments are reviewed, with provocative discussion of new and emerging promises and challenges.

Staying in Touch in the Past, Present, and Future

Staying in Touch in the Past, Present, and Future
Author: Linda Bozzo
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780766034389

"Readers will learn about the history, present, and dream about the possible futures of different communication devices such as the television, radio, telephone, telegraph, mail, billboards, and visiting people"--Provided by publisher.

Playing the Future

Playing the Future
Author: Douglas Rushkoff
Publisher: Berkley
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Adjustment (Psychology)
ISBN: 9781573227643

"Makes dazzling links between chaos theory and Rodney King, snow boarding and William Gibson, race culture and Star Wars--the literary equivalent of U2's Zoo TV--Rushkoff is courageous enough to stand up against fashionable gloom by putting his faith in today's 'screenagers.

Game Theory and Exercises

Game Theory and Exercises
Author: Gisèle Umbhauer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2016-01-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317362993

Game Theory and Exercises introduces the main concepts of game theory, along with interactive exercises to aid readers’ learning and understanding. Game theory is used to help players understand decision-making, risk-taking and strategy and the impact that the choices they make have on other players; and how the choices of those players, in turn, influence their own behaviour. So, it is not surprising that game theory is used in politics, economics, law and management. This book covers classic topics of game theory including dominance, Nash equilibrium, backward induction, repeated games, perturbed strategie s, beliefs, perfect equilibrium, Perfect Bayesian equilibrium and replicator dynamics. It also covers recent topics in game theory such as level-k reasoning, best reply matching, regret minimization and quantal responses. This textbook provides many economic applications, namely on auctions and negotiations. It studies original games that are not usually found in other textbooks, including Nim games and traveller’s dilemma. The many exercises and the inserts for students throughout the chapters aid the reader’s understanding of the concepts. With more than 20 years’ teaching experience, Umbhauer’s expertise and classroom experience helps students understand what game theory is and how it can be applied to real life examples. This textbook is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students who study game theory, behavioural economics and microeconomics.

The Future of Play Theory

The Future of Play Theory
Author: Professor of Educational Psychology Anthony D Pellegrini, PhD
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780791426418

This book looks at the impact of play on child development.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Author: Elabbas Benmamoun
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2007-12-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027291306

This volume offers a selection from the papers presented at the 2005 Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The papers cover a variety of topics in Arabic Linguistics, ranging from the lexicon, phonology, syntax and computational linguistics.

English Grammar, Vocabulary, and Verbal Ability for Competitive Exams

English Grammar, Vocabulary, and Verbal Ability for Competitive Exams
Author: Karminder Ghuman, PhD and Indu Prakash
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2024-03-09
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This is a comprehensive English grammar book that essentially focuses on competitive examinations. Each of the fundamentals of grammar, idioms, and vocabulary lists included in this book has been comprehensively illustrated through definitions, illustrations, and examples. Chapters have also been included for topics like Reading comprehension, Essay, Letter, and Precis writing. Unsolved and solved exercises included in this book can provide readers with sufficient opportunities to practice. Different chapters have been carefully developed to cover the entire range of competitive examinations that have English test. Chapters in this book are mapped to different sections of the English section of the various competitive examinations. The trainers in the coaching academies can adopt this as a standard text or reference book for guiding the students enrolled at these coaching institutes. The learnings included in this book shall add tremendous value to the candidates in their preparation for various competitive examinations.

The Future You

The Future You
Author: Brian David Johnson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0062965085

YOUR FUTURE STARTS NOW By the time you reach the end of the book, I promise you will understand your Future You better than ever...you will be able to see yourself in the future you want and know the steps needed to get there. Brian David Johnson has spent a quarter century helping governments, schools, corporations, and small businesses shape the future—now, he wants to help you. In The Future You, Johnson distills his work as an applied futurist and gives readers the practical tools to craft the future they’ve always wanted. Offering a unique combination of practical guidance, interactive workbooks, and compelling real-life stories, The Future You empowers readers to break through the fear of uncertainty. Whether you want to find your new passion, switch your career, or make a personal change, fear holds so many of us captive and prevents us from taking the steps necessary to start now. You no longer have to just dream about a better future, you can turn those plans, those ideas, and those hopes into reality.

Playing the Text, Performing the Future

Playing the Text, Performing the Future
Author: Felicitas Meifert-Menhard
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-10-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110272393

This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games. How 'radical' can printed Future Narratives really be, given the constraints of their media? When exactly do they not only play with the mere idea of multiple continuations, but actually stage genuine openness and potentiality? Process- rather than product-oriented, text-based Future Narratives are seen as performative and contingent systems, simulating their own emergence.

Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play

Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play
Author: Marissa Nicosia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198872666

Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative futures in the early modern English cultural imaginary. This book considers chronicle plays—plays written for the public stage and play pamphlets composed when the playhouses were closed during the civil wars—in order to examine the formal and material ways that playwrights imagined futures in dramatic works that were purportedly about the past. Through close readings of William Shakespeare's 1&2 Henry IV, Richard III, Shakespeare's and John Fletcher's All is True, Samuel Rowley's When You See Me, You Know Me, John Ford's Perkin Warbeck, and the anonymous play pamphlets The Leveller's Levelled, 1 & 2 Craftie Cromwell, Charles I, and Cromwell's Conspiracy, the volume shows that imaginative treatments of history in plays that are usually associated with the past also had purchase on the future. While plays about the nation's past retell history, these plays are not restricted by their subject matter to merely document what happened: Playwrights projected possible futures in their accounts of verifiable historical events.