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Author: Corey Mead Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0544031563 Category : COMPUTERS Languages : en Pages : 221
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Exploring behind the scenes at training sessions where soldiers play multiplayer missions that test combat skills, an expert on military innovation shows how the military is influencing the adoption of video games as learning and recruitment tools.
Author: Corey Mead Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0544031563 Category : COMPUTERS Languages : en Pages : 221
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Exploring behind the scenes at training sessions where soldiers play multiplayer missions that test combat skills, an expert on military innovation shows how the military is influencing the adoption of video games as learning and recruitment tools.
Author: John Strege Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440627282 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 336
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World War II transformed the American home front, and golf was no exception. The world-famous Masters course at Augusta National became a farm to ease food shortages. Ben Hogan and Sam Snead were drafted, and Bobby Jones enlisted. Rubber rationing forced pros and amateurs alike to play with well-worn golf balls—and created a black market for new ones. The 1942 U.S. Open was canceled, replaced by the Hale American Open—whose winner Ben Hogan was awarded $1000 in war bonds—while golfers across the country raised millions of dollars for the war effort. When War Played Through brings to life these little-known aspects of an endlessly fascinating period in golf’s history. Bestselling golf author John Strege’s narrative extends overseas, to captured soldiers in Germany who constructed golf courses in a POW camp and English golfers who devised rules for playing around bomb craters and shrapnel during the Blitz. Many golfers returned home from battle with commendations for valor, finding unmatched solace on the links after a dark time. When War Played Through is the compelling story of how an elite sport became a selfless one—and how golf became, for a nation at war, much more than a game.
Author: Claire M. Tylee Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415222976 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 242
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This anthology consists of ten plays from countries involved in the First World War. It explores the historical development of theatrical conventions and genres and the historical context of social and gender issues.
Author: Wanda Ellen Wakefield Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791433140 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 236
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Traces the development of U.S. military sports and explains how and why the American armed forces embraced sports as a crucial part of training and entertainment for the men (and ultimately women) in uniform.
Author: Jenni G. Halpin Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319751484 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 134
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This book analyzes recent physics plays, arguing that their enaction of concepts from the sciences they discuss alters the nature of the decisions made by the characters, changing the ethical judgements that might be cast on them. Recent physics plays regularly alter the shape of space-time itself, drawing together disparate moments, reversing the flow of time, creating apparent contradictions, and iterating scenes for multiple branches of counterfactual history. With these changes both causality and responsibility shift, variously. The roles of iconic scientists, such as Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg, are interrogated for their dramatic value, placing history and dramatic license in tension. Cold War strategies and the limits of espionage highlight the emphatically personal involvement of ordinary individuals. This study is vital reading for those interested in physics plays and the relationship between the sciences and the humanities.
Author: Irvine Arditti Publisher: Bärenreiter-Verlag ISBN: 3761872402 Category : Music Languages : de Pages : 117
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Irvine Arditti, der außergewöhnliche Geiger, Spezialist für Neue Musik und Primarius des phänomenalen Arditti Quartetts, und der Komponist und Dirigent Robert HP Platz haben sich zusammengetan, um über zeitgenössische Violintechniken zu schreiben. Detaillierte Erklärungen des technisch auf der Violine Möglichen werden hier für Interpreten, aber auch für Komponisten gegeben. Dabei wird die Virtuosität einer neuen Generation von Solisten berücksichtigt, die durch ihre außerordentlichen Fähigkeiten den Weg zu einem tieferen Verständnis sowohl von klassischer als auch von neuer Musik geebnet haben. Die Kapitel zur Bogentechnik, zum Vibrato, Pizzicato, Glissando, zu Flageoletts, Tabulaturen, zum Rhythmus und zu speziellen Aspekten der elektronischen Klangerzeugung werden durch zahlreiche anschauliche Notenbeispiele und Schemata illustriert. Besonders hilfreich sind die Videoaufnahmen, auf die aus dem eBook heraus verlinkt wird. Darin realisiert und erläutert Arditti selbst die im Buch beschriebenen Techniken auf der Geige. Kapitel zu den Grundlagen der Violintechnik und zu Irvine Ardittis ganz persönlichen Erfahrungen mit namhaften Komponisten machen das Buch auch für Nicht-Geiger interessant.
Author: Jeffrey Henderson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000577538 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 301
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This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes’ Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These plays, originally a series, are the world’s earliest political satires, and are made available here for the first time in one volume, augmented by full introductions and notes. In these three works, Aristophanes launched satirical attacks on Cleon, the world’s first demagogue, and explored the vulnerability of democracy to populist manipulation and disinformation. Henderson's fresh translations and exploration of the themes within them enable readers to explore the perils facing democracy in its first century which are still with us today. The Introduction offers the reader background on Aristophanes' life, Athenian democracy, classical drama, as well as on political comedy, while introductions to each individual play provide the reader with context. An appendix also collects selected fragments from Aristophanes' lost political plays. Three More Plays by Aristophanes offers an invaluable collection of these works for students and faculty working on classical studies, theatre and theatre history, and drama. The clear translations and contextualizing introductions and notes also make these plays accessible to students of government, law, and political science, and to the general reader interested in any of these subjects.
Author: Ann R. Hawkins Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438485565 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 322
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A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances during the century allowed for easier manufacturing and distribution of board games and books about games, and the changing economic conditions created a larger market for them as well as more time in which to play them. These changing conditions not only made games more profitable, but they also increased the influence of games on many facets of culture. Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America focuses on the material and visual culture of both American and British games, examining how cultures of play intersect with evolving gender norms, economic structures, scientific discourses, social movements, and nationalist sentiments.
Author: Jonathan Fraser Light Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476617449 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 1112
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More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America’s culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues’ decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.
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