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The concept of world and the practice of world creation have been with us since antiquity, but they are now achieving unequalled prominence. In this timely anthology of subcreation studies, an international roster of contributors come together to examine the rise and structure of worlds, the practice of world-building, and the audience's reception of imaginary worlds. Including essays written by world-builders A.K. Dewdney and Alex McDowell and offering critical analyses of popular worlds such as those of Oz, The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Minecraft, Revisiting Imaginary Worlds provides readers with a broad and interdisciplinary overview of the issues and concepts involved in imaginary worlds across media platforms.

This book is a theoretical and practical deep dive into the craft of worldbuilding for video games, with an explicit focus on how different job disciplines contribute to worldbuilding. In addition to providing lenses for recognizing the various components in creating fictional and digital worlds, the author positions worldbuilding as a reciprocal and dynamic process, a process which acknowledges that worldbuilding is both created by and instrumental in the design of narrative, gameplay, art, audio, and more. Collaborative Worldbuilding for Video Games encourages mutual respect and collaboration among teams and provides game writers and narrative designers tools for effectively incorporating other job roles into their own worldbuilding practice and vice versa.Features: Provides in-depth exploration of worldbuilding via respective job disciplines Deep dives and case studies into a variety of games, both AAA and indie Includes boxed articles for deeper interrogation and exploration of key ideas Contains templates and checklists for practical tips on worldbuilding

Official crime policy shifted its focus from crime and criminals to victimization and victims in the 1980s and early 1990s. As a result, crime victims were the subject of extensive new legislation addressing victim needs, rights, and services. But did these initiatives really help victims, or did they help further Reagan and Bush administration "law and order" policies for curbing offender and public rights in favor of increasing police power? And has such power escalated incidents like the Rodney King case in Los Angeles?In this controversial and thought-provoking book, Robert Elias evaluates the effectiveness of the last decade''s victim policy and argues that victims have been politically manipulated for official objectives. As a result, little victim support has occurred, and victimization keeps escalating. He reaches these conclusions from a thorough examination of victim legislation, get-tough crime policies, media crime coverage, the victim movement, and the wars on crime and drugs. Finally, he proposes solutions that could lead to substantially less crime.Students and professionals of criminology, victimology, policy studies, and political science will find Victims Still an exceptionally stimulating resource. "In Victims Still, Elias demonstrates again that he is a preeminent scholar in the field of victimology. This work provides a unique, provocative, and elucidative account of the politicization of the victims'' movement as well as the social and political ramifications of the ''get tough'' crime policies and enforcement strategies of the 1980s. Dr. Elias raises serious and challenging questions about the currency of conventional responses to crime victims and offenders. Victims Still should be required reading for crime victim researchers and program practitioners.

Después de los clásicos, y por tanto desde hace casi 100 años, la sociología no ha mostrado progresos dignos de mención en la teoría de la sociedad. Como consecuencia de la disputa ideológica del siglo XIX, la paradoja de una comunicacion sobre la sociedad en la sociedad se resolvio mediante diversas formulas. La sociologia ha hecho muchos avances en los campos de la metodologia y de la teoria y, sobre todo, en el de la acumulacion de conocimiento empirico, pero se ha ahorrado la descripcionde la sociedad como un todo...

How to achieve a happier and healthier game design process by connecting the creative aspects of game design with techniques for effective project management.This book teaches game designers, aspiring game developers, and game design students how to take a digital game project from start to finishfrom conceptualizing and designing to building, playtesting, and iteratingwhile avoiding the uncontrolled overwork known among developers as crunch. Written by a legendary game designer, A Playful Production Process outlines a process that connects the creative aspects of game design with proven techniques for effective project management. The book outlines four project phasesideation, preproduction, full production, and post-productionthat give designers and developers the milestones they need to advance from the first glimmerings of an idea to a finished game.

Economists say there is a limit to what we gain by buying consumer goods Americans say they want to work less Yet we continue toiling away and use the proceeds to buy buy buy Why Stephen Rosenberg offers a novel theory arguing that workers have learned to treat goods as stores of potential free time legitimating endless wage work

How do you use social media platforms, search engines, and other forms of digital media to explore the key issues of our time? With this second edition, learn how to use the latest advancements in digital methods to answer your pressing research questions. The new edition includes: A new chapter on critical social media research, Tips for analysing content on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and more, Exploration of Google critique and algorithmic auditing,Examination of YouTubes content removal politics and Facebooks fake news problem. Whether you are new to digital research or are exploring a new platform, this book equips you with tools to navigate the evolving digital landscape and conduct rigorous studies in the digital age.

La obra aspira a profundizar en el debate sobre el envejecimiento en España, desde una perspectiva jurídica, política y sociológica. Para ello, el estudio, realizado en la Universidad CEU San Pablo, se divide en Ires bloques. El primero, coordinado por los profesores Dra. Ainhoa Uribe y Dr. Leopoldo Abad, aporta una vision amplia sobre la sociedad espanola, a partir del analisis del concepto "envejecimiento activo", la evolucion demografica de los mayores, las caracteristicas psicologicas y sociorogicas de dicho colectivo, su grado de incorporacion a las nuevas tecnologias, asi como se investiga en torno a las claves del comportamiento politico de los mayores de 65 años puesto que ellos son tambien ciudadanos activos de nuestras democracias. El segundo bloque, coordinado por el profesor Dr. Juan Pablo Maldonado, se adentra en el estudio de los derechos socioeconomicos de los mayores, prestando especial atencion a aquellos derechos relacionados con las cuestiones Iaborales, como el derecho al trabajo, la jubilacion, o el disfrute de las pensiones, dada su importancia durante la vejez. Por ultimo, el tercer bloque, realizado bajo la coordinacion de la profesora Dra. Begoña Fernandez, se refiere al estudio de los derechos civiles de los mayores de manera que se analizan temas tan relevantes como las refaciones familiares entre los abuelos y. los nietos en caso de ruptura matrimonial, la capacidad de obrar de los mayores, su incapacitacion o tutela, entre airas. En suma, se trato de una obra amplia, de caracter multidisciplinar, que aspiro a ahondar en el debate abierto en Espana sobre el envejecimiento activo, desde la perspectiva de la necesidad de impulsar y mejorar la participacion y los derechos de los mayores en nuestra sociedad.

This book offers an overview of how conflicts are represented and enacted in games, in a variety of genres and game systems. Games are a cultural form apt at representing real world conflicts, and this edited volume highlights the intrinsic connection between games and conflict through a set of theoretical and empirical studies. It interrogates the nature and use of conflicts as a fundamental aspect of game design, and how a wide variety of conflicts can be represented in digital and analogue games.The book asks what we can learn from conflicts in games, how our understanding of conflicts change when we turn them into playful objects, and what types of conflicts are still not represented in games. It queries the way games make us think about armed conflict, and how games can help us understand such conflicts in new ways.

This book covers the distinguishing characteristics and tropes of visual novels (VNs) as choice-based games and analyzes VNs like 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors; Hatoful Boyfriend; and Monster Prom, some of the best examples of the genre as illustrations. The author covers structuring branching narrative and plot, designing impactful and compelling choices, writing entertaining relationships and character interactions, understanding the importance of a VNs prose, and planning a VNs overall narrative design and story delivery.The book contains exercises at the end of chapters to practice the techniques discussed. By the end of the book, if the reader finishes all the exercises, they may have several portfolio pieces or a significant portion of their own VN project designed.Features: Discusses different aspects and genres of VNs, what makes them enjoyable, and successful techniques developers can incorporate into their own games Analyzes various VNs and choice-based games that use these successful techniques Shares tips from developers on portfolio pieces, hiring a team to work on VNs, and plotting and outlining VNsBranching Story, Unlocked Dialogue: Designing and Writing Visual Novels is a valuable resource for developers and narrative designers interested in working on VNs. The book will show them how they can design their own VN projects, design branching narratives, develop entertaining plots and relationships, design impactful and compelling choices, and write prose thats a pleasure to read.

Obra introductoria sobre los temas que aborda la ciencia sociológica en el mundo actual.Muestra la perspectiva sociológica de los asuntos de política pública: estado del bienestar, desarrollo económico, inmigracion global, matrimonios homosexuales, medio ambiente, etc.Texto dotado de numerosas herramientas didacticas: preguntas de pensamiento critico, resumenes, conceptos clave, autoevaluacion, ademas de gran cantidad de material de apoyo en la pagina web vinculada a la obra: videos, examenes interactivos, actualizaciones de censos, ejercicios de politica social, etc.

Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability The focus is on furnishing solutions and equipping students with both conceptual understanding and technical skills Each chapter explores one aspect of the field first introducing concepts and presenting issues then supplying tools for working toward solutions Elements of sustainability are examined piece by piece and coverage ranges over ecosystems social equity environmental justice food energy product life cycles cities and more Techniques for management and measurement as well as case studies from around the world are provided The 3rd edition includes greater coverage of resilience and systems thinking an update on the Anthropocene as a formal geological epoch the latest research from the IPCC and a greater focus on diversity and social equity together with new details such as sustainable consumption textiles recycling microplastics and net zero concepts The coverage in this edition has been expanded to include issues solutions and new case studies from around the world including Europe Asia and the Global South Chapters include further reading and discussion questions The book is supported by a compan

In today s highly globalized and regulated economy private and public organizations face myriad complex laws and regulations A process designed to detect and prevent regulatory compliance failures is vital However such an effective process cannot succeed without development and maintenance of a strong compliance and legal risk management culture This wide ranging handbook pulls together work from experts across universities and industries around the world in a variety of key disciplines such as law management and business ethics It provides an all inclusive resource specifying what needs to be known and what needs to be further pursued in these developing areas With no such single text currently available the book fills a gap in our current understanding of legal risk management regulatory compliance and ethics offering the potential to advance research efforts and enhance our approaches to effective legal risk management practices Edited by an expert on legal risk management this book is an essential reference for students researchers and professionals with an interest in business law risk management strategic management and business ethics

Pathways to Sustainable Welfare critically examines how cities can address the dual challenges of climate change and sustainability while ensuring the welfare of their populations Focused on three Swedish cities it explores the integration of environmental and welfare concerns in local policies urban movements and public opinions

Mª Ángeles Cea D´Ancona Este estudio presenta la situación de la evolución del racismo y la xenofobia en España en 2008, diagnóstico anual que se viene realizando por el Observatorio Español del Raci

Una visión cronológica de la evolución de la alimentación en la España del siglo XX a cargo de especialistas de cada sector, tratando temas como la comercialización y la distribución, la evolución economica agroalimentaria, las tecnologias, la cocina popular, la publicidad de los productos alimentarios y la nutricion.

This book studies environment and sustainable development from the perspective of gender It focuses on three major themes including sustainability of development practices policy perspectives on environmental management and climate change and its gendered impact It includes contributions from academicians working across disciplines and practitioners working at the grassroots levels The book addresses issues facing India amid a growing global environmental crisis and suggests policy measures for environmental protection and to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants Lucid and topical the volume will be an indispensable resource for students researchers of gender environment and sustainable development sociology and public policy It will also be a great resource for advocacy groups non governmental organisations NGOs and policymakers working in the area