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Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
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
A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership
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, Deluxe Edition
Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground
A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership
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
Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age
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
Board Games, Popular Culture, Space
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
How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us
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
The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity
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
Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards
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
Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction
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
A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade
ISBN: 9780262544702
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 25, 2022
The story of the British amusement arcade from the 1800s to the present.

Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
ISBN: 9780262048323
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
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
ISBN: 9780262048224
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
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
ISBN: 9780262048231
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
From ASCII Art to Comic Sans
Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age
ISBN: 9780262546140
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
Playing Place
Board Games, Popular Culture, Space
ISBN: 9780262047838
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
We Are All Monsters
How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us
ISBN: 9780262047524
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 14, 2023
Player vs. Monster
The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity
ISBN: 9780262047753
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 7, 2023
Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies
Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies
Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards
ISBN: 9781913380458
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: February 7, 2023
Uneven Futures
Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9780262543941
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 20, 2022
Arcade Britannia
A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade
ISBN: 9780262544702
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 25, 2022