{"product_id":"games-are-not-david-myers-9781526121653","title":"Games Are Not: The Difficult and Definitive Guide to What Video Games Are","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do we reconcile a videogame industry's insistence that games positively affect human beliefs and behaviors with the equally prevalent assumption that games are \"just games\"? How do we reconcile accusations that games make us violent and antisocial and unproductive with the realization that games are a universal source of human joy?\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGames are not, \u003c\/i\u003e David Myers demonstrates that these controversies and conflicts surrounding the meanings and effects of games are not going away; they are essential properties of the game's paradoxical aesthetic form. \u003ci\u003eGames are not\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on games writ large, bound by neither digital form nor by cultural interpretation. Interdisciplinary in scope and radical in conclusion, \u003ci\u003eGames are not\u003c\/i\u003e positions games as unique objects evoking a peculiar and paradoxical liminal state - a \u003ci\u003elusory attitude\u003c\/i\u003e - that is essential to human creativity, knowledge, and sustenance of the species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Myers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526121654\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526121653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d","brand":"David Myers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48742587400447,"sku":"9781526121653","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/games-are-not-david-myers-9781526121653","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}