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        Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007

        Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007

        Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007

        by J. G. Ballard

        Edited by Mark Blacklock

        Foreword by Tom McCarthy

        ISBN: 9780262048323

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 24, 2023

        J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.
        Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground

        Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground

        Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground

        A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership

        by Stu Horvath

        ISBN: 9780262048224

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 10, 2023

        A richly illustrated, encyclopedic deep dive into the history of roleplaying games.
        Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground

        Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground, Deluxe Edition

        Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground

        A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership

        by Stu Horvath

        ISBN: 9780262048231

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 10, 2023

        When Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson released Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, they created the first roleplaying game of all time. Little did they know that their humble box set of three small digest-sized...
        From ASCII Art to Comic Sans

        From ASCII Art to Comic Sans

        From ASCII Art to Comic Sans

        Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age

        by Karin Wagner

        ISBN: 9780262546140

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 19, 2023

        A fresh and provocative take on typography, computing, and popular culture, viewed through four idiosyncratic typographical phenomena from the digital age.
        Playing Place

        Playing Place

        Playing Place

        Board Games, Popular Culture, Space

        Edited by Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky

        ISBN: 9780262047838

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 15, 2023

        An essay collection exploring the board game's relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of space.
        We Are All Monsters

        We Are All Monsters

        We Are All Monsters

        How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us

        by Andrew Mangham

        ISBN: 9780262047524

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 14, 2023

        How the monsters of nineteenth-century literature and science came to define us.
        Player vs. Monster

        Player vs. Monster

        Player vs. Monster

        The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity

        by Jaroslav Švelch

        ISBN: 9780262047753

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 7, 2023

        A study of the gruesome game characters we love to beat—and what they tell us about ourselves.
        Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies

        Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies

        Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies

        Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

        by Angela McRobbie

        ISBN: 9781913380458

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: February 7, 2023

        A feminist analysis of young women and popular culture and a forceful critique of male domination in youth culture.
        Uneven Futures

        Uneven Futures

        Uneven Futures

        Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction

        Edited by Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes and Gerry Canavan

        ISBN: 9780262543941

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 20, 2022

        Essays on speculative/science fiction explore the futures that feed our most cherished fantasies and terrifying nightmares, while helping diverse communities devise new survival strategies for a tough millennium.
        Arcade Britannia

        Arcade Britannia

        Arcade Britannia

        A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade

        by Alan Meades

        ISBN: 9780262544702

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 25, 2022

        The story of the British amusement arcade from the 1800s to the present.
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