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Playing with Reality : How Games Shape Our World by Kelly Clancy (Hardback) ✓ In Stock

A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to practice making predictions about the future. Games are thought to be older than written language, and have now become the dominant cultural media—bigger than movies, TV, music, and literature combined. They are also fun. But as neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy argues, it’s time we started taking them more seriously. In Playing With Reality, she chronicles the riveting and hidden history of games since the Enlightenment, weaving an unexpected path through military theory, biology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and the future of democracy. Games, Clancy shows us, have been deeply intertwined with the arc of history. War games shaped the outcomes of real wars in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Game theory warped our understanding of human behaviour and brought us to the brink of annihilation—yet still underlies basic assumptions in economics, politics, and technology. We used games to teach computers how to learn for themselves, and now we are designing games that will determine the shape of society and future of democracy. Games also inform the basic systems that govern our daily lives: the social media and technology that can warp our preferences, polarise us, and manufacture our desires. Lucid, thought-provoking, and masterfully told, Playing With Reality makes the bold argument that the human fascination with games is the key to understanding our nature. ‘A book to get the neurons firing. As a passionate game player I loved reading a neuroscientist’s perspective on the role games have played in humanity’s attempts to navigate the game of life. A dopamine hit on every page’ Marcus du Sautoy

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On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose ✓ In Stock

A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question, Rose tracks the multiple forms of today's violence - historic and intimate, public and private - as they spread throughout our social fabric, offering a new account of violence in our time. In this provocative and incisive book, Rose casts her net wide: trans rights and #MeToo; the sexual harassment of migrant women; the trial of Oscar Pistorius; domestic violence in pandemic lockdown; the writing of Roxane Gay, Anna Burns, Hisham Matar and Han Kang. What obscene pleasure in violence do so many male leaders of the Western world unleash in their supporters? Is violence always gendered and if so, always in the same way? What is required of the human mind when it grants itself permission to enact violence? On Violence and On Violence Against Women is an agitation against injustice, a challenge to radical feminism and a formidable call to action. 'An immense achievement.'JUDE KELLY CBE, founder of the Women of the World Foundation 'Explodes the myth that violence and misogyny only happens to other women.'VAL McDERMID 'Ambitious, sobering ... this is a hugely important book.'LAUREN ELKIN ISBN 9780571332717

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What About Men? by Caitlin Moran (Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Five Bad Deeds by Caz Frear (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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This, My Second Life by Patrick Charnley (Hardback) ✓ In Stock
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The Long Game (Book 6 of Game Changers) by Rachel Reid ✓ In Stock
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Role Model (Book 5 of Game Changers) by Rachel Reid ✓ In Stock
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The Fox of Kensal Green by Richard Tyrrell (Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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The House of My Mother by Shari Franke (Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin (Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy ✓ In Stock
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney ✓ In Stock
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Churchill's Shadow by Geoffrey Wheatcroft ✓ In Stock
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