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Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
ISBN: 9780262553940
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2025
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.
Fierce Dancing
Adventures In The Underground
ISBN: 9781917674089
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2025
The Saucerian
UFOs, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker
ISBN: 9780262049542
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
The strange, but true biography of the colorful founder of Saucerian Books, a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century.
Playing at the World, 2E
Three Pillars of Role-Playing Games
ISBN: 9780262552318
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 8, 2025
The second volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games.
Picturing Aura
A Visual Biography
ISBN: 9780262551748
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 1, 2025
The remarkable history of efforts to visualize the human aura and the lives of its pictures in religion, science, art, and culture.
Building a Voice
Sound, Surface, Skin
ISBN: 9781913380885
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2025
On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin.
I'll Have What She's Having
Mapping Social Behavior
ISBN: 9780262553803
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 4, 2025
How we learn from those around us: an essential guide to understanding how people behave.
Codename Revolution
The Nintendo Wii Platform
ISBN: 9780262553780
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 17, 2024
Nintendo's hugely popular and influential video game console system considered as technological device and social phenomenon.
Intellivision
How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie ®
ISBN: 9780262549509
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 5, 2024
The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 1980s whose fate was shaped by Mattel, Atari, and countless others who invented the gaming industry.

Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
ISBN: 9780262553940
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2025
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.
Fierce Dancing
Adventures In The Underground
ISBN: 9781917674089
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2025
The Saucerian
UFOs, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker
ISBN: 9780262049542
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
The strange, but true biography of the colorful founder of Saucerian Books, a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century.
Playing at the World, 2E
Three Pillars of Role-Playing Games
ISBN: 9780262552318
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 8, 2025
The second volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games.
Picturing Aura
A Visual Biography
ISBN: 9780262551748
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 1, 2025
The remarkable history of efforts to visualize the human aura and the lives of its pictures in religion, science, art, and culture.
Building a Voice
Sound, Surface, Skin
ISBN: 9781913380885
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2025
On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin.
I'll Have What She's Having
Mapping Social Behavior
ISBN: 9780262553803
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 4, 2025
How we learn from those around us: an essential guide to understanding how people behave.
Codename Revolution
The Nintendo Wii Platform
ISBN: 9780262553780
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 17, 2024
Nintendo's hugely popular and influential video game console system considered as technological device and social phenomenon.
Intellivision
How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie ®
ISBN: 9780262549509
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 5, 2024
The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 1980s whose fate was shaped by Mattel, Atari, and countless others who invented the gaming industry.