Vice City Virtue

Vice City Virtue
Author: Karolien Poels
Publisher:
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2011
Genre: Video games
ISBN: 9789033484681
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In this book we explore the wide range of moral issues that apply to digital game play from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book features contributions from scholars who evaluate the debate on violent games from a cultural, philosophical and theological point of view. From the perspective of media psychology, the attraction of virtual violence is examined, in addition to the cognitive process underlying amoral gaming activities, such as taboo violation and cheating. Case studies include analyses of survival horror grames and World War II games, and focus on specific titles, such as "Fallout 3", "Heavy Rain", "Grand Theft Auto IV" and "America's army".

Dance with the Wind

Dance with the Wind
Author: Susannah Welch
Publisher: Silky Sky Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2021-05-17
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 173657700X
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A singer with forbidden magic. An undercover renegade. How can she keep her magic a secret if it goes wild every time they dance? On Ylena’s first day inside the Shining City, a mysterious woman tricks her into auditioning for a magical ritual celebrating the Goddess. Every year, the young singers and dancers compete for the honor of performing in the enchanted ceremony, but with the ruthless High Priests in charge, a single wrong note is blasphemy. If learning her role wasn’t hard enough, unexpected emotions make rehearsals even more complicated. There’s Wilder, Ylena’s flirty costar who knows more about the city’s dark secrets than he’s willing to tell, and Caed, her dance instructor, a priest who isn’t what he seems. When Ylena manifests magic that makes her a threat, can she escape the spotlight at center stage before the High Priests discover her secret? Prepare to be swept into a world of beautiful magic, shocking twists, and breathless fairy tale romance. Inside you will find a sweet, slow-burn romance with a swoon-worthy couple, and a happily-ever-after at the end of the trilogy. Dance with the Wind is Book 1 in the City of Virtue and Vice series. If you enjoy strong heroines, fantasy worlds, elemental magic, and sweet romance, then try the City of Virtue and Vice series today! KEYWORDS: ya fantasy romance, sweet fantasy romance, ya fantasy, fairy tale romance, young adult fantasy, young adult fantasy romance, romantic fantasy, strong heroine fantasy, strong female lead, clean fantasy romance, sweet fantasy romance, free, free fantasy romance, free young adult fantasy, slow burn, magic romance, enchanted magic, epic, love story, coming of age fantasy, swoony fantasy romance PERFECT FOR FANS OF: Elise Kova, Sylvia Mercedes, Alisha Klapheke, Tara Grayce, Casey L. Bond, Emma Hamm, Miranda Honfleur, Shari Tapscott, Frost Kay, Deborah Grace White, Shannon Mayer, K.F. Breene, Juno Hart, Laura Greenwood, Lindsay Buroker, Naomi Novik

C.S. Lewis Explores Vice and Virtue

C.S. Lewis Explores Vice and Virtue
Author: Gerard Reed
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Cardinal virtues
ISBN: 9780834118942
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C.S. Lewis provides one of the best bridges between today's directionless world and a classical world of greater moral balance. Reed explores these "permanent" morals that Lewis stridently advocated and sought to live out in his own life.

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Author: Mackenzi Lee
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062382829
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A Kirkus Prize nominee and Stonewall Honor winner with 5 starred reviews! A New York Times bestseller! Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR and the New York Public Library! "The queer teen historical you didn’t know was missing from your life.”—Teen Vogue "A stunning powerhouse of a story."—School Library Journal "A gleeful romp through history."—ALA Booklist A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An 18th-century romantic adventure for the modern age written by This Monstrous Thing author Mackenzi Lee—Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets the 1700s. Henry “Monty” Montague doesn’t care that his roguish passions are far from suitable for the gentleman he was born to be. But as Monty embarks on his grand tour of Europe, his quests for pleasure and vice are in danger of coming to an end. Not only does his father expect him to take over the family’s estate upon his return, but Monty is also nursing an impossible crush on his best friend and traveling companion, Percy. So Monty vows to make this yearlong escapade one last hedonistic hurrah and flirt with Percy from Paris to Rome. But when one of Monty’s reckless decisions turns their trip abroad into a harrowing manhunt, it calls into question everything he knows, including his relationship with the boy he adores. Witty, dazzling, and intriguing at every turn, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue is an irresistible romp that explores the undeniably fine lines between friendship and love. Don't miss Felicity's adventures in The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, the highly anticipated sequel!

Virtual Learning Environments

Virtual Learning Environments
Author: Aroutis Foster
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2024-06-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1040035302
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This book provides education scholars insight into current theoretical and methodological approaches to conceptualize, facilitate, and examine learning and identity in virtual learning environments such as games and simulations. Virtual learning environments (VLEs) are being increasingly designed, implemented, and researched because they offer opportunities for learning that are embodied, enactive (i.e., learning by doing), extended into the learners’ environment, and embedded in authentic and potentially valuable contexts for identity exploration. Each chapter in this book uniquely illustrates the learning and identity processes, characteristics, and outcomes that VLEs can facilitate. Together, these approaches provide a foundation for use-inspired research that guides how individuals intentionally, continually, and dynamically reinvent the self for a future that requires flexibility and adaptability in both career and academic spaces. The volume will be a key resource for researchers, scholars, and practitioners engaged in the interdisciplinary fields of learning sciences, learning analytics, and learning design. It was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Experimental Education.

Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives

Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives
Author: Valentine, Keri Duncan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2016-06-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1522502629
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With complex stories and stunning visuals eliciting intense emotional responses, coupled with opportunities for self-expression and problem solving, video games are a powerful medium to foster empathy, critical thinking, and creativity in players. As these games grow in popularity, ambition, and technological prowess, they become a legitimate art form, shedding old attitudes and misconceptions along the way. Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives asks whether videogames have the power to transform a player and his or her beliefs from a sociopolitical perspective. Unlike traditional forms of storytelling, videogames allow users to immerse themselves in new worlds, situations, and politics. This publication surveys the landscape of videogames and analyzes the emergent gaming that shifts the definition and cultural effects of videogames. This book is a valuable resource to game designers and developers, sociologists, students of gaming, and researchers in relevant fields.

Virtue Ethics

Virtue Ethics
Author: Christine Swanton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2003
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199253889
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Major concerns of modern ethical theory are addressed from a character-based perspective in this new, comprehensive theory of virtue ethics.

Laboratories of Virtue

Laboratories of Virtue
Author: Michael Meranze
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807838276
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Michael Meranze uses Philadelphia as a case study to analyze the relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America. In Laboratories of Virtue, he interprets the evolving system of criminal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that characterized the early American republic. Engaging recent work on the history of punishment in England and continental Europe, Meranze traces criminal punishment from the late colonial system of publicly inflicted corporal penalties to the establishment of penitentiaries in the Jacksonian period. Throughout, he reveals a world of class difference and contested values in which those who did not fit the emerging bourgeois ethos were disciplined and eventually segregated. By focusing attention on the system of public penal labor that developed in the 1780s, Meranze effectively links penal reform to the development of republican principles in the Revolutionary era. His study, richly informed by Foucaultian and Freudian theory, departs from recent scholarship that treats penal reform as a nostalgic effort to reestablish social stability. Instead, Meranze interprets the reform of punishment as a forward-looking project. He argues that the new disciplinary practices arose from the reformers' struggle to contain or eliminate contradictions to their vision of an enlightened, liberal republic.

Suspect Citizens

Suspect Citizens
Author: Jocelyn M. Boryczka
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2012
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781439908945
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What drives the cycle of backlashes against women's on-going struggle for equality, freedom, and inclusion in American politics? In her innovative and provocative book, Suspect Citizens, Jocelyn Boryczka presents a feminist conceptual history that shows how American politics have largely defined women in terms of their reproductive and socializing functions. This moral framework not only denies women full citizenship, but also devalues the active political engagement of all citizens who hold each other and their government under suspicion. Using the gendered notions of virtue and vice, Boryczka exposes the paradox of how women are perceived as virtuous moral guardians and vice-ridden suspect citizens capable of jeopardizing the entire nation's exceptional future. Shifting from virtue and vice to a democratic feminist ethics, Suspect Citizens advances a politics of collective responsibility and belonging.

The Borders of Subculture

The Borders of Subculture
Author: Alexander Dhoest
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-06-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317525841
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This book aims to revisit the notion of subculture for the 21st century, reinterpreting it and extending its scope. On the one hand, the notion of resistance is redefined and applied to contemporary practices of cultural production and entrepreneurship. On the other hand, contributors reconsider the connection of subcultures to everyday culture, exploring more mainstream forms of cultural production and consumption across a wider range of social groups. As a consequence, this book extends the scope to look beyond the white, male, adolescent, urban cultures identified with earlier subcultural studies. Contributors also examine fusions and crossovers between Western and non-Western cultural practices.