Author: Sampson StarkweatherPublisher:
ISBN: 9780991336128
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Schopenhauer said life is pain. Starkweather says Pain: The Board Game.
The First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather
Author: Sampson StarkweatherPublisher: Birds
ISBN: 9780982617793
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. As Jared White points out in his introduction to THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER, "We live in an era when a book of poems is often a 50-80 page manuscript bound with a thin mustache of a spine." THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER seeks to "upend this orthodoxy." Distinct but kindred, these books are like four ecologically diverse quadrants of one realm, in a Disneyworld of poetry's possibilities. The poems themselves are invested in the purity of experiences and the varieties of contemporary language news reports, video games, WWF wrestling, Mike Tyson. These poems are, as White puts it, "a phantasmagoria worthy of Arthur Rimbaud but a 'Rimbaud chugging Robotussin(r).'" THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER is no less than this: a book of books about the lonely yearning to be transformed by poetry, and through poetry, transform the world. THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER are King of the Forest, La La La, The Waters, and Self Help Poems."
Chronicles Of Hate
Author: Adrian SmithPublisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 1632152096
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
In a world where the sun is frozen and the moon burns, an unlikely hero rises to free the Earth Mother from her chains. His path lies in shadows, his enemies' legion.
Chronic Pain
Author: Herta FlorPublisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 1496332075
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 823
Book Description
"Chronic Pain: An Integrated Biobehavioral Approach...offers in a single volume the most comprehensive and in-depth view of the field currently available. Drs. Flor and Turk share their collective knowledge and professional insights accumulated over three decades of extraordinary contributions to the field....The first section of the volume provides an up-to-date and highly digestible review of the foundational principles of the multidimensional experience of chronic pain and is followed by two sections on clinical assessment and treatment, concluding with a glimpse at future innovations in pain care. These later sections are simply extraordinary in integrating theory, science, and practical information that will be equally useful to novice and experienced clinicians, investigators, and policy makers." — From the Foreword by Robert D. Kerns, PhD This book integrates current psychological understanding with biomedical knowledge about chronic pain. With an emphasis on psychological factors associated with chronic pain states, this volume includes recommendations for a structured assessment plan. Using detailed treatment protocols and case examples, the authors aim to guide clinicians in developing effective individualized treatments for their chronic pain patients. The accompanying online ancillary content includes 65 appendices of sample documents and worksheets featuring detailed assessment methods and treatment protocols for use by health care professionals. Chronic Pain: An Integrated Biobehavioral Approach is essential reading for: Clinicians who treat chronic pain patients Clinical psychologists Students studying medicine, psychology, psychophysiology, and behavioral medicine Social workers Nurses Clinical investigators All those interested in the treatment of chronic pain
Rattle of Bones
Author: Robert E. HowardPublisher: SAMPI Books
ISBN: 6561333659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
In "Rattle of Bones", Solomon Kane, a grim Puritan adventurer, stops at a mysterious inn deep in the forest with a fellow traveler. The innkeeper, with a hidden past, warns of dangers lurking in the night. As tensions rise, Kane uncovers dark secrets involving murder and supernatural forces, leading to a brutal confrontation that tests his resolve and skills in a chilling atmosphere of betrayal and dread..
Gonna Roll the Bones
Author: Fritz LeiberPublisher: Milk and Cookies Press
ISBN: 9780689035913
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Caldecott Award-winning artist presents this adaptation of the Hugo Award-winning story by a legendary grand master master of fantasy fiction--a classic fable in the tradition of "The Devil and Daniel Webster." Full color.
Achievement Relocked
Author: Geoffrey EngelsteinPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026204353X
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
How game designers can use the psychological phenomenon of loss aversion to shape player experience. Getting something makes you feel good, and losing something makes you feel bad. But losing something makes you feel worse than getting the same thing makes you feel good. So finding $10 is a thrill; losing $10 is a tragedy. On an “intensity of feeling” scale, loss is more intense than gain. This is the core psychological concept of loss aversion, and in this book game creator Geoffrey Engelstein explains, with examples from both tabletop and video games, how it can be a tool in game design. Loss aversion is a profound aspect of human psychology, and directly relevant to game design; it is a tool the game designer can use to elicit particular emotions in players. Engelstein connects the psychology of loss aversion to a range of phenomena related to games, exploring, for example, the endowment effect—why, when an object is ours, it gains value over an equivalent object that is not ours—as seen in the Weighted Companion Cube in the game Portal; the framing of gains and losses to manipulate player emotions; Deal or No Deal’s use of the utility theory; and regret and competence as motivations, seen in the context of legacy games. Finally, Engelstein examines the approach to loss aversion in three games by Uwe Rosenberg, charting the designer’s increasing mastery.
Games
Author: C. Thi NguyenPublisher:
ISBN: 0190052082
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Games are a unique art form. They do not just tell stories, nor are they simply conceptual art. They are the art form that works in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be in games and what to care about; they designate the player's in-game abilities and motivations. In other words, designers create alternate agencies, and players submerge themselves in those agencies. Games let us explore alternate forms of agency. The fact that we play games demonstrates something remarkable about the nature of our own agency: we are capable of incredible fluidity with our own motivations and rationality. This volume presents a new theory of games which insists on games' unique value in human life. C. Thi Nguyen argues that games are an integral part of how we become mature, free people. Bridging aesthetics and practical reasoning, he gives an account of the special motivational structure involved in playing games. We can pursue goals, not for their own value, but for the sake of the struggle. Playing games involves a motivational inversion from normal life, and the fact that we can engage in this motivational inversion lets us use games to experience forms of agency we might never have developed on our own. Games, then, are a special medium for communication. They are the technology that allows us to write down and transmit forms of agency. Thus, the body of games forms a "library of agency" which we can use to help develop our freedom and autonomy. Nguyen also presents a new theory of the aesthetics of games. Games sculpt our practical activities, allowing us to experience the beauty of our own actions and reasoning. They are unlike traditional artworks in that they are designed to sculpt activities - and to promote their players' aesthetic appreciation of their own activity.
All in My Head
Author: Paula KamenPublisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0786736755
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
At the age of twenty-four, Paula Kamen's life changed in an instant. While she was putting in her contacts, the left lens disturbed a constellation of nerves behind her eye. The pain was more piercing than that of any other headache she had ever experienced. More than a decade later, she still has a headache-the exact same headache. From surgery to a battery of Botox injections to a dousing of Lithuanian holy water, from a mountain of pharmaceutical products to aromatherapy and even a vibrating hat, All in My Head chronicles the sometimes frightening, usually absurd, and always ineffective remedies Kamen-like so many others-tried in order to relieve the pain. Beleaguered and frustrated by doctors who, frustrated themselves, periodically declared her pain psychosomatic, she came to understand the plight of the millions who suffer chronic pain in its many forms. Full of self-deprecating humor and razorsharp reporting, All in My Head is the remarkable story of patience, acceptance, and perseverance in the face of terrifying pain.
Wisdom's Game
Author: Judi ThomasesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781879384576
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Wisdom's Game offers fresh and powerful words from another realm that will cause you to readjust your understanding of life. It explores why we come to earth, what our soul purpose is, the role of pain and suffering, the direction toward which the overall journey is trending, and the tools we hold for winning life's game.
