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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular …
Grand Theft Auton tarina: bandiittien nousu ja uho
Pelisarja, joka määritteli säännöt uusiksi Grand Theft Auto on yksi suurimmista ja kiistanalaisimmista ilmiöistä pelien historiassa. Ensimmäisestä osastaan (1997) lähtien se on …
The Internment of Aliens in Twentieth Century Britain
These essays reveal the role of British intelligence in the roundups of European refugees and expose the subversion of democratic safeguards. They examine the oppression of …
The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
"An engrossing microcosm of the internet's Wild West years" (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com …
Alligator Candy: A Memoir
From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, Alligator Candy is "a raw story about courage, survival, and …
The Crimean Circle: A Russian Jewish Tale of the Crimean War
Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World
The Holocaust is often invoked as a benchmark for talking about human rights abuses from slavery and apartheid to colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Western educators and …
Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia
claim was that he had faced a conflict of duties pitting his legal duty not to kill against his duty as a physician to relieve his patient’s unbearable suffering. He was acquitted …
Belsen in History and Memory
Drawing on documentary and oral sources in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Dutch and French, this book challenges many sterotypes about Belsen, and reinstates the groups hitherto …
Japanese Foodways, Past and Present
Spanning nearly six hundred years of Japanese food culture, Japanese Foodways, Past and Present considers the production, consumption, and circulation of Japanese foods from the …
Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas
Describes how a group of young "nerds," led by underdog hero Jon Finkel, a.k.a. Jonny Magic, used the techniques they learned from fantasy games to conquer underground poker clubs, …
Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory
This book was a finalist in the 2009 Jewish Book Council Awards in the category of Anthologies and Collections. The twelve essays in this fascinating collection range broadly over …