Описание: How filling life with play whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is no game. It s demanding, boring, and rarely fun. But what if we ve got games wrong? Playing anything whether an instrument, a sport, or a video game takes hard work and makes absurd demands. Where s the fun in that? In "Play Anything," acclaimed philosopher and award-winning game designer Ian Bogost reveals that play isn t a mindless escape from boring reality. Instead, play is what happens when we accept limitations, narrow our focus, and consequently have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating cards to make a poker hand is no different than treating chores and obligations as tools but which we can discover new happiness. Ranging from Internet culture to moral philosophy, from ancient poetics to modern consumerism, "Play Anything" reveals how today s chaotic world can only be tamed and enjoyed when we first impose boundaries on ourselves. "
Описание: The World Bank Group was a principal founding partner of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in its pilot phase in 1991, and of the restructured GEF in 1994. The Bank plays three different roles in the GEF: (a) as trustee of the GEF and related trust funds, (b) as implementing agency, including the implementation of private-sector GEF projects by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and (c) as the host organization of the functionally independent GEF secretariat. Focusing primarily on the role of the Bank as an implementing agency, this review documents how the partnership that the GEF and the World Bank Group established in the early 1990s has evolved over time, offers explanations for observed changes, and draws a number of lessons.The review addresses the following issues:The mutual relevance of the World Bank Group and the GEFInter-organizational coordination along the World Bank Group-GEF project cycleThe introduction of the GEF’s resource allocation systems in 2006 and 2010The evolution and effectiveness of the Bank Group’s GEF portfolio Catalytic approaches in the Bank Group-GEF partnership: co-financing, blending, and mainstreamingThe World Bank’s corporate activities as a GEF implementing agency.The principal purposes of this review are (a) to help improve the relevance and effectiveness of the Bank Group’s partnership with the GEF, and (b) to draw lessons for the Bank Group’s partnership with the GEF and other large global partnership programs.
Автор: Barker K. Brandon, Rice Claiborne Название: Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception ISBN: 0253041090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253041098 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4389.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Wiggling a pencil so that it looks like it is made of rubber, "stealing" your niece's nose, and listening for the sounds of the ocean in a conch shell– these are examples of folk illusions, youthful play forms that trade on perceptual oddities. In this groundbreaking study, K. Brandon Barker and Claiborne Rice argue that these easily overlooked instances of children's folklore offer an important avenue for studying perception and cognition in the contexts of social and embodied development. Folk illusions are traditionalized verbal and/or physical actions that are performed with the intention of creating a phantasm for one or more participants. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that combines the ethnographic methods of folklore with the empirical data of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology, Barker and Rice catalogue over eighty discrete folk illusions while exploring the complexities of embodied perception. Taken together as a genre of folklore, folk illusions show that people, starting from a young age, possess an awareness of the illusory tendencies of perceptual processes as well as an awareness that the distinctions between illusion and reality are always communally formed.
Автор: Barker K. Brandon, Rice Claiborne Название: Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception ISBN: 0253041082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253041081 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 10659.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Wiggling a pencil so that it looks like it is made of rubber, "stealing" your niece's nose, and listening for the sounds of the ocean in a conch shell– these are examples of folk illusions, youthful play forms that trade on perceptual oddities. In this groundbreaking study, K. Brandon Barker and Claiborne Rice argue that these easily overlooked instances of children's folklore offer an important avenue for studying perception and cognition in the contexts of social and embodied development. Folk illusions are traditionalized verbal and/or physical actions that are performed with the intention of creating a phantasm for one or more participants. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that combines the ethnographic methods of folklore with the empirical data of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology, Barker and Rice catalogue over eighty discrete folk illusions while exploring the complexities of embodied perception. Taken together as a genre of folklore, folk illusions show that people, starting from a young age, possess an awareness of the illusory tendencies of perceptual processes as well as an awareness that the distinctions between illusion and reality are always communally formed.
Описание: In an era of increasing global inequality, free trade ideologues and protectionist prophets, Christian Felber sets out visionary new roadmap for making trade good.
Автор: Theo Offerman Название: Beliefs and Decision Rules in Public Good Games ISBN: 1441951881 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441951885 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Part I provides an introduction to this study of players` beliefs and decision rules in to obtain data in order to public good games. Chapter 2 provides an overview of psychological and economic ideas concerning players` beliefs and decision rules in public good games.
Автор: Ban Cornel Название: Ruling Ideas: How Global Neoliberalism Goes Local ISBN: 019060039X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190600396 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6651.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Why do some countries govern by moderate neoliberalism while others by a radical version? Looking at Spain and Romania, Ruling Ideas points to the role of local intellectual traditions, the strength of international alternatives, the resources of the local advocates of neoliberalism, and their vulnerability to external coercion.
Автор: Hoffecker John Название: Modern Humans: Their African Origin and Global Dispersal ISBN: 0231160763 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231160766 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 13939.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent-and perhaps the most important-phase of human evolution: the appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa less than half a million years ago and their spread throughout the world. John F. Hoffecker demonstrates that Homo sapiens represents a major transition in the evolution of living systems.
Описание: The 2008 financial crisis was the worst since the Great Depression and many voices argued that it would transform global financial governance. But half a decade later, how much has really changed? In The Status Quo Crisis, Helleiner surveys the landscape and argues that continuity has marked global financial governance more than dramatic transformation. .
Описание: Finance Capital Today is shortlisted for the The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize 2017.Finance Capital Today presents a rich new analysis of the specific features of contemporary capitalism, notably its truly global nature and its financialisation, calling on Marxist analyses of the concentration, centralisation and globalisation of capital and Marx’s theory of interest-bearing and fictitious capital. Chesnais shows how financial globalisation and the exponential growth of financial assets have developed alongside the globalisation of productive capital, paying special attention to the contemporary operations of transnational corporations and global oligopoly. He argues that the macroeconomic perspective is one in which large amounts of capital are looking for profitable investment in a setting of underlying overproduction and low profits. The outcome will be low global growth, repeated financial shocks and the growing interconnection between the environmental and economic crises.
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