It is the perfect book for those who are interested in how games are made, and because of Schreier’s focus on narrative and excellent ability to distill more obtuse concepts into easy-to-understand chunks of information, it’s perfect for game veterans or n00bs alike. Jason Schreier’s book Blood, Sweat, and Pixels is a fantastic insight into the niche, secretive, complicated world of how games are crafted. This is true in part because games are a new medium, but also significantly due to the complexity and difficulty of making modern games. Many gamers–even passionate ones–simply don’t know how games are made, what processes are involved, the time frame needed, or the required building blocks to make a good game. Video games, however, are a different breed. And recording sessions are embedded enough in the public consciousness that they, too, are inherently comprehensible, even if you don’t know the ‘hows’ and the ‘whys.’ Books, poem, and comics are self-explanatory, and significantly less interesting to watch being made. Films have been including ‘how it’s made’ featurettes in DVD releases for years.
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Without pause, I grasp the little blond mountain climber under my right arm and jump off the back of the tower. I sprint up one side of the pumpkin tower, taking two pumpkins at a time until Im at the top. His arms are out to his sides in a shaky T as he balances on the top pumpkin. I look up into the sunlight at the peak of the tower and my eyes focus on the cause of both the scream and the avalanche. Pumpkins are rolling down the sides of the tower from the top and people are yelping and jumping out of the way as the twenty- and thirty-pounders barrel toward them.Ī woman screams, both her arms extended over her head like shes on a roller coaster. “Avalanche!” I scream, racing for the huge pumpkin-tower display near the entrance to the Patch. It takes me only a fraction of a second to turn, but it feels like everything is moving in slow motion as I take in the full scene. Shes looking at something over my right shoulder. “What the-?” The redheaded woman standing across from me at the checkout pales and her dark brown eyes widen. Liza Picard's wonderfully skilful and vivid evocation of the London of Elizabeth I enables us to share the delights, as well as the horrors, of the everyday lives of our sixteenth-century ancestors. Cares could be forgotten in a playhouse or the bull-baiting of bear-baiting rings, or watching a good cockfight. But food and drink, sex and marriage and family life provided comfort. Plague, smallpox and other diseases afflicted them. Then the Londoners of the time take the stage, in all their amazing finery. Liza Picard surveys building methods and shows us the interior decor of the rich and the not-so-rich, and what they were likely to be growing in their gardens. It begins with the River Thames, the lifeblood of Elizabethan London, before turning to the streets and the traffic in them. 'Reading this book is like taking a ride on a marvellously exhilarating time-machine, alive with colour, surprise and sheer merriment' Jan Morris Elizabethan London reveals the practical details of everyday life so often ignored in conventional history books. The eighteenth century saw publication of Wunderliche Fata einiger Seefahrer (4 parts 1731-1743), usually known as Insel Felsenburg, by Johann Gottfried Schnabel (1692-1752). Considered a masterpiece of its time is the picaresque novel Der abenteuerliche Simplizissimus ( 1669 trans A T S Goodricke as The Adventurous Simplicissimus 1912 retrans H Weissenborn and L Macdonald 1963) by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622-1676), which contains, inter alia, a journey into a Utopia located in the centre of the Hollow Earth. The roots of German sf can be traced back to the seventeenth century, when the astronomer Johannes Kepler's Somnium ( 1634 in Latin trans into German as Traum von Mond 1898 trans E Rosen as Kepler's "Somnium" 1967) reflected, in semifictional form, on life on the Moon. There is a separate entry for Austria, with which there is a small and inevitable overlap: many books by Austrian writers were in fact published in Germany, and many Austrians have lived in Germany – some, indeed, working in the German publishing industry. This entry covers the whole of Germany, including the former GDR (East Germany). Warren, admired Sinclair’s fourth novel, Manassas, a historical epic set in the Civil War that was written as a salute to the abolitionist movement. One year later, Sinclair established himself as a regular contributor to Appeal to Reason, America’s leading socialist newspaper. His politics veered leftward with age, and by 1903, he had become a socialist. Sinclair’s first novel-a romance titled Springtime and Harvest-was released in 1901. While enrolled at the City College of New York, the future Pulitzer Prize-winner supported himself by writing jokes and short stories for assorted newspapers. Upton Sinclair, who was born in 1878, began his literary career as a teenager. The Jungle was commissioned by a socialist newspaper editor. Grab a barf bag and join us as we take a fresh look at Sinclair’s gut-wrenching magnum opus. The book certainly did both of those things-but for reasons that its author didn’t quite expect. Upton Sinclair conceived The Jungle as a political game-changer, a book that would get people talking and instigate major reforms. It also highlights some of the people involved in the biggest losses in the market crash: Wing Chau, Merrill's $300 million mezzanine CDO manager Howie Hubler, known as the person who lost $9 billion in one trade, the fourth-largest single loss in history and Joseph Cassano's AIG Financial Products, which suffered over $99 billion in losses. It follows people who believed the housing bubble was going to burst-including Meredith Whitney, who predicted the demise of Citigroup and Bear Stearns Steve Eisman, an outspoken hedge fund manager Greg Lippmann, a Deutsche Bank trader Eugene Xu, a quantitative analyst who created the first CDO market by matching buyers and sellers the founders of Cornwall Capital, who started a hedge fund in their garage with $110,000 and built it into $120 million when the market crashed and Michael Burry, an ex- neurologist who created Scion Capital. It also highlights the eccentric natures of people who bet against the market or otherwise "go against the grain". The Big Short describes several of the main players in the creation of the credit default swap market that sought to bet against the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) bubble and thus ended up profiting from the financial crisis of 2007–08. It spent 28 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, and was the basis for the 2015 film of the same name. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is a nonfiction book by Michael Lewis about the build-up of the United States housing bubble during the 2000s. “She came in and she had sorts of terrible manuscripts about sweet little pussycats-talking pussycats, as I remember. Throughout her career Parish would go on to write over 30 books, 12 of which featured Miss Bedelia -but apparently, not all of her ideas were home runs. Her first book, Let’s Be Indians, was issued in 1962 by Harper and Row, under the guidance of editor Susan Hirschman. Parish was already a published author at that time when the first Amelia book was released in 1963. Amelia Bedelia was not author Peggy Parish’s first children’s book. While you may be familiar with her creative take on household chores, here are a few things you may not know about Amelia Bedelia. Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish’s bumbling but beloved housekeeper, has been delighting children and adults alike since she debuted in 1963, and is now one of the most treasured children’s book characters of all time. There were songs that came and went (including Mumford & Sons’ “Believe,” Bon Iver’s “33 “GOD”” & the entirety of Thelma Plum’s Monsters EP) but this is the final version.ġ - Dragon Age Inquisition Theme - Trevor Morris I keep ongoing playlists for everything I write and I worked on The Starless Sea for a long time so its playlist morphed quite a bit over the years. In her own words, here is Erin Morgenstern's Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Starless Sea: The novel’s scope and ambition are undeniable." It demands that its readers interpret it in an older way the way we read The Faerie Queene. The novel reads like panel after panel of mythic illustrations. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others.Įrin Morgenstern's novel The Starless Seais ambitious, complex, and totally enthralling. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. |