IET Wiring Regulations: Electric Wiring for Domestic Installers

This book is essential reading for anyone studying towards Domestic Installer status with an approval body such as NICEIC NAPIT or ELECSA in line with...

Games of History Games and Gaming as Historical Sources

Games of History provides an understanding of how games as artefacts textual and visual sources on games and gaming as a pastime or a “serious” activi...

Lesbian Dames Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century

How are romantic and erotic relationships between women represented in the literature of the long eighteenth century? How does Sapphism surface in oth...

What's in Shakespeare's Names

‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet. ’ So says Juliet in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet but o...

Online Games Social Narratives

The study of online gaming is changing. It is no longer enough to analyse one type of online community in order to understand the plethora of players ...

Traveling through Video Games

This book unlocks an understanding of video games as virtual travel. It explains how video game design increasingly takes cues from the promotional la...

101 Playground Games A Collection of Active and Engaging Playtime Games for Children

101 Playground Games is a collection of active and engaging school playground games that will encourage active learning and social development among c...

Video Games and the Law

The video game industry is big business not only in terms of the substantial revenue generated through retail sales of games themselves but also in te...

James Joyce's World (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1957 this book explores what remained of Joyce’s background not only in Ireland but in those cities abroad where his books were wri...

The Plays of James Boaden

Originally compiled and published in 1980 this volume contains the plays of James Broaden. Although not many critics of eighteenth-century drama menti...

The Psychology of Video Games

What impact can video games have on us as players? How does psychology influence video game creation? Why do some games become cultural phenomena? The...

Revival: Society and Politics in Ancient Rome (1912) Essays and Sketches

The book is aimed at the general reader as well as to the special student of Roman life and literature. It includes articles which discuss social poli...

Games for Actors and Non-Actors

Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and bestselling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed Augusto Boal. It sets out the principle...

James Orr Poet and Irish Radical

James Orr was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver poets and has been favourably compared to his near contemporary Robert Burns. Baraniuk looks at Orr's ...

James Joyce's Finnegans Wake A Casebook

First published in 1991. James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: A Case Book was published in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Joyce's final work with...

Names Fashioned by Gender Stitched Perceptions

Names are very powerful and significant especially in the African context. Across societies there is a universal albeit taken-for-granted fact that al...

Teaching Games and Sport for Understanding

This new book brings together leading and innovative thinkers in the field of teaching and sport coaching pedagogy to provide a range of perspectives ...

Disability the Media and the Paralympic Games

This book focuses on the ground-breaking coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by the UK’s publicly owned but commercially funded Channel 4 net...

Production Pipeline Fundamentals for Film and Games

Every production is built on the backbone of the pipeline. While a functional and flexible pipeline can‘t assure a successful project a weak pipeline ...

A Political History Of The Olympic Games

The turmoil surrounding the 1980 Olympic Games says the author was nothing new-it was merely the most recent and most complex manifestation of the pol...

The Verbal Games of Pre-school Children

Originally published in 1980 The Verbal Games of Pre-school Children states that in the course of acquiring language every child recognizes that verba...

Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion

Game studies has been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect reject or reconfigure trad...

Dialogues Across Civilizations Sketches In World History From The Chinese And European Experiences

Dialogues Across Civilizations sets the histories of China and Europe alongside one another. Each chapter stands as an essay that imaginatively places...

Financializations of Development Global Games and Local Experiments

Financializations of Development brings together cutting-edge perspectives on socio-political socio-historical and institutional analyses of the evolv...

Gaming Disability Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games

This book explores the opportunities and challenges people with disabilities experience in the context of digital games from the perspective of three ...

Sales Training Games For Sales Managers and Trainers

Selling is a skill that should not be limited to sales staff. Customer service or other support staff could all benefit from developing an awareness o...

Dickens in America Twain Howells James and Norris

First published in 1988 this book looks at the enormous impact Dickens’ writings had on American novelists in the second half of the nineteenth centur...

Representing Conflicts in Games Antagonism Rivalry and Competition

This book offers an overview of how conflicts are represented and enacted in games in a variety of genres and game systems. Games are a cultural form ...

Routledge Handbook of the Olympic and Paralympic Games

This handbook offers an important and timely contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Olympic studies. It brings together for the first time in ...

Tourism at the Olympic Games Visiting the World

Going far beyond being just a mega sport event the Olympic Games are and have been in the past important settings for tourism and cultural change. Hos...

Jumpstart Creativity Games and Activities for Ages 7–14

Jumpstart! Creativity contains over 70 games and activities that any primary teacher can use to quickly and easily boost students’ creative and critic...

Reasons for Realism Selected Essays of James J. Gibson

James J. Gibson’s numerous theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of how people perceive were innovative controversial often rad...

Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games

This book looks closely at the endings of narrative digital games examining their ways of concluding the processes of both storytelling and play in or...

Simulations in the Political Science Classroom Games without Frontiers

This book is premised on the assumption that games and simulations provide welcome alternatives and supplements to traditional lectures and class disc...

Vintage Games An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto Super Mario and the Most Influential Games of All Time

Vintage Games explores the most influential videogames of all time including Super Mario Bros. Grand Theft Auto III Doom The Sims and many more. Drawi...

Therapeutically Applied Role-Playing Games The Game to Grow Method

Therapeutically Applied Role-Playing Games provides a comprehensive approach to implementing therapeutically applied role-playing game (TA-RPG) groups...

Learning with Music Games and Activities for the Early Years

Learning with Music offers an accessible introduction to music education theory for those working in the early years. Using real case studies and rich...

Drawing as Performance Theatrical Games and Techniques for Visual Artists

Making connections between drama and drawing Drawing as Performance introduces visual artists and designers to rehearsal techniques theory and games a...

The Olympic Winter Games at 100 Challenges Complexities and Legacies

2024 marks the 100-year anniversary of the winter sports week festival celebrated in Chamonix in 1924 which is now recognized as the first Olympic Win...

Northampton Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

First published in 1982 Northampton is a modern study of Henry Howard Earl of Northampton privy councillor to James I. Dr. Peck convincingly challenge...

Jumpstart Maths Maths Activities and Games for Ages 5-14

This fully updated third edition of Jumpstart! Maths presents a collection of simple-to-use multi-sensory games and activities which will jumpstart st...

Translating the Relics of St James From Jerusalem to Compostela

Analysing the narration of the translatio of the body of Saint James from Palestine to Santiago de Compostela and its impact on the historical and bib...

Producing Games From Business and Budgets to Creativity and Design

Master the secrets behind video game production - from concept to completion - with these comprehensive tips and tricks from two accomplished working ...

Thinking the Greeks A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield

This volume from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about the re...

James Mill John Stuart Mill and the History of Economic Thought

Commemorating the 250th anniversary of James Mill’s birth and the 150th of John Stuart Mill’s death this volume analyses the Mills’ discussions on top...

Serious Games in Personalized Learning New Models for Design and Performance

Serious Games in Personalized Learning investigates game-based teaching and learning at a time when learning and training systems are increasingly int...

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games Assessing the 30-Year Legacy

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. F...

Volume 21 Tome I: Cumulative Index Index of Names A-K

This last volume of Kierkegaard Research: Sources Reception and Resources is a cumulative index to all the volumes of the series. The series was origi...

Supporting Adult Learners through Games and Interactive Teaching A Practical Guide

Games-based teaching offers an engaging way for students and adult learners to interact with concepts and build their problem-solving and communicatio...

Maya for Games Modeling and Texturing Techniques with Maya and Mudbox

Well-known Maya professional Michael Ingrassia takes readers through his unique style of modeling: Image Based Modeling where efficient realistic mode...

James McNeill Whistler and France A Dialogue in Paint Poetry and Music

James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint Poetry and Music is the first full-length and in-depth study to position this painter within th...

Speaking Listening and Understanding Games and Activities for 5-7 year olds

3ds Max Modeling for Games: Volume II Insider’s Guide to Stylized Modeling

Learn how to model comic-stylea Pixar with the expert techniques found in 3ds Max Modeling for Games Volume 2: Insider‘s Guide to Stylized Modeling. T...

Jumpstart Study Skills Games and Activities for Active Learning Ages 7–12

Jumpstart! Study Skills presents a collection of engaging and simple-to-use games and activities that will jumpstart students’ understanding of workin...

The Foley Grail The Art of Performing Sound for Film Games and Animation

This book teaches you how to master classic and cutting edge Foley techniques in order to create rich and convincing sound for any medium be it film t...

The Game Audio Tutorial A Practical Guide to Sound and Music for Interactive Games

Design and implement video game sound from beginning to end with this hands-on course in game audio. Music and sound effects speak to players on a dee...

International Simulation and Gaming Research Yearbook Simulations and Games for Emergency and Crisis Management

The theme of this volume is emergency and crisis management and how games and simulations are effective tools in dealing with these issues. The work b...

American Sports From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of the Internet

American Sports is a comprehensive analytical introduction to the history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Pamela Grundy and B...

The Essential Guide to Game Audio The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games

The Essential Guide to Game Audio: The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games is a first of its kind textbook and must-have reference guide for everyt...

Return of the Grasshopper Games Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium

In this sequel to Bernard Suits’ timeless classic philosophical work The Grasshopper: Games Life and Utopia published in its full and unabridged form ...

Digital Games as History How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice

This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding hi...

The Hohenzollerns

Originally published in English in 1929 this book provides a history of the Hohenzollerns from the fifteenth century Frederick to Wilhelm III. Each ch...

Revelation Scripture and Church Theological Hermeneutic Thought of James Barr Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei

How does God's involvement with the generation of Holy Scripture and its use in the life of the Christian church figure into the human work of Scriptu...

The Video Game Debate 2 Revisiting the Physical Social and Psychological Effects of Video Games

This student-friendly book provides an accessible overview of the primary debates about the effects of video games. It expands on the original The Vid...

IET Wiring Regulations: Wiring Systems and Fault Finding for Installation Electricians

This book deals with an area of practice that many students and non-electricians find particularly challenging. It explains how to interpret circuit d...

3ds Max Modeling for Games Insider's Guide to Game Character Vehicle and Environment Modeling: Volume I

With 18 years under his belt in the game industry a key contributor to the MotorStorm series and the creator of the 3ds Max in Minutes video series (a...

The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning Tools for Design Teaching and Research

The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning aims to identify and showcase the rich diversity of games including: simulation ga...

Using Cognitive and Affective Metrics in Educational Simulations and Games Applications in School and Workplace Contexts

Presenting original studies and rich conceptual analyses this volume explores how cognitive and affective metrics can be used to effectively assess mo...

Character Costume Figure Drawing Step-by-Step Drawing Methods for Theatre Costume Designers

Character Costume Figure Drawing is an essential guide that will improve your drawing skills and costume renderings. Step-by-step visuals illustrate t...

Throwing The Emperor From His Horse Portrait Of A Village Leader In China 1923-1995

This engaging book sketches an intimate portrait of the life of Wang Fucheng an illiterate peasant who served for thirty years as Communist party secr...

Classical Mythology: The Basics

This new edition introduces the core elements of ancient Greek and Roman narratives about immortal gods and heroic humans. It explains how myths once ...

Black Man Emerging Facing the Past and Seizing a Future in America

In the face of centuries of institutional and interpersonal racism in light of the signals they receive from society and given the choices they must m...

Coins of Japan

Originally written in 1905 this volume examines the coins of Japan especially appealing because of a subtle and impersonal charm which pervades their ...

The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas

Beethoven’s piano sonatas are a cornerstone of the piano repertoire and favourites of both the concert hall and recording studio. The sonatas have bee...

Domestic Central Heating Wiring Systems and Controls

This unique A-Z guide to central heating wiring systems provides a comprehensive reference manual for hundreds of items of heating and control equipme...

Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare

In Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare visionary modernist theatre director Aureliu Manea analyses the theatrical possibilities of Shakespeare. Thro...

The Bantu Languages

Written by an international team of experts this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages comparative studies ...

A King Translated The Writings of King James VI & I and their Interpretation in the Low Countries 1593–1603

King James is well known as the most prolific writer of all the Stuart monarchs publishing works on numerous topics and issues. These works were widel...

Italy From Revolution to Republic 1700 to the Present Fourth Edition

This essential book fills a serious gap in the field by synthesizing modern Italian history and placing it in a fully European context. Emphasizing gl...

Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain P. T. Barnum Marietta Holley and the literary comedians...

Anna Halprin

Anna Halprin traces the life's work of this radical dance-maker documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the developmen...

Political Economy of the Tokyo Olympics Unrestrained Capital and Development without Sustainable Principles

This book is an analysis of both contemporary Tokyo and the contemporary Olympic Games emphasizing the role of late-stage capitalism and political eco...

The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies

A definitive guide to contemporary video game studies this second edition has been fully revised and updated to address the ongoing theoretical and me...

The Progress of a Biographer

First published in 1949 The Progress of a Biographer follows a general principle that there are absolute truths which an individual can in some degree...

A Compendium of World Sovereigns: Volume I Ancient

The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient Medieval and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-acces...

A Dictionary of English Surnames

This classic dictionary answers questions such as these and explains the origins of over 16 000 names in current English use. It will be a source of f...

Empire and Education

Empire is in a state of emergency. A global pandemic and an ongoing secular crisis of capitalism ecological instability racism and ethnic conflict geo...

The Drawings of Peter Lanyon

This title was first published in 2003. Peter Lanyon stood at the forefront of landscape painting in Europe during the late 1950s and early 60s. A pro...

The World of Fallout

Examining the four main single player games in the franchise and its related spinoff games this book explores the world of the popular role-playing vi...

Medicine in Modern Britain 1780-1950

Medicine in Modern Britain 1780–1950 provides an introduction to the development of medicine – scientific and heterodox domestic and professional – in...

The Economics of Sports

The sports industry provides a seemingly endless set of examples from every area of microeconomics giving students the opportunity to study economics ...

The Ludi Saeculares of Septimius Severus The Ideologies of a New Roman Empire

This is the first monograph to examine in detail the Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) of Septimius Severus and argues that the games represented a radi...

International Regimes in Global Health Governance

By analysing the roles and problems faced by international regimes as major players in global health governance this book looks into the root causes o...

The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes

Chopin's twenty-four Préludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz Liszt and others to consider Chopin's ...

The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing

As many places around the world confront issues of globalization migration and postcoloniality travel writing has become a serious genre of study refl...

The Nineteenth-Century History of English Studies

This study collects together many of the original texts from the long-running debate which surrounded the rise of English as an academic subject. Most...

Higher Education and the Growth of Knowledge A Historical Outline of Aims and Tensions

This book sketches the history of higher education in parallel with the development of science. Its goal is to draw attention to the historical tensio...

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music The Reynolds Desert House

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music describes the collaborative interaction of internationally acclaimed composer Roger Reynolds musician Karen ...

Personality Appearance and Speech

First published in 1957 Personality. Appearance and Speech is an intensive analysis of personality reflected by appearance and speech. It is a most fa...

Intrepid Women Victorian Artists Travel

Despite the increased visibility of Victorian women artists in museum exhibitions and historical studies the art produced by Victorian women has been ...