false 65730 222146 0812972155 9780812972153 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172845146m/222146.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172845146s/222146.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222146.Masters_of_Doom_How_Two_Guys_Created_an_Empire_and_Transformed_Pop_Culture 4.08 133 Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to produce the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake— until the games they made tore them apart. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it's like to be young, driven, and wildly creative.]]> 65730 3.95 225 38 2003 392874 1400064074 9781400064076 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174405871m/392874.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174405871s/392874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/392874.Jonny_Magic_and_the_Card_Shark_Kids_How_a_Gang_of_Geeks_Beat_the_Odds_and_Stormed_Las_Vegas 3.52 25 Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids is his amazing true story: the jaw-dropping, zero-to-hero chronicle of a fat, friendless boy from New Jersey who found his edge in a game of cards–and turned it into a fortune.

The ultimate bully-magnet, Finkel grew up heckled and hazed until destiny came in the form of a trading-card game called Magic: The Gathering. Magic exploded from nerdy obsession to mainstream mania and made the teenage Finkel an ultracool world champion.

Once transformed, this young shark stormed poker rooms from the underground clubs of New York City to the high-stakes tables online, until he landed on the largest card-counting blackjack team in the country. Taking Vegas for millions, Finkel’s squad of brainy gamers became the biggest players in town. Then they took on the town’s biggest game, the World Series of Poker, and walked away with more than $3.5 million.

Thrilling, edgy, and ferociously feel-good, the odyssey of these underdogs-turned-overlords is the stuff of pop-culture legend. And David Kushner, acclaimed author of Masters of Doom, masterfully deals out the outrageous details while bringing to life a cast of characters rife with aces, kings, knaves . . . and more than a few jokers. If you secretly believe every player has his day, you’re right. Here’s the proof.]]> 65730 3.95 225 38 2005 5149322 0802716199 9780802716194 6 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5149322.Levittown_Two_Extraordinary_Families_One_Ruthless_Tycoon_and_the_Fight_for_the_American_Dream 3.88 25 The dark side of the American dream: the true story of the first African-American family to move into the iconic suburb, Levittown, PA .

In the decade after World War II , one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home. T he Levitts—William, Alfred, and their father, Abe—pooled their talents to create storybook towns with affordable little houses. T hey laid out the welcome mat, but not to everyone. Levittown had a whites-only policy.

The events that unfolded in Levittown, PA, in the unseasonably hot summer of 1957 would rock the community. There, a white Jewish Communist family named Wechsler secretly arranged for a black family, the Myerses, to buy the pink house next door. T he explosive reaction would transform their lives, and the nation, leading to the downfall of a titan and the integration of the most famous suburb in the world. Levittown is a story of hope and fear, invention and rebellion, and the power that comes when ordinary people take an extraordinary stand. And it is as relevant today, more than fifty years later, as it was then.</DIV>]]> 65730 3.95 225 38 2009 983823 0764507052 9780764507052 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180004058m/983823.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180004058s/983823.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/983823.Music_Online_for_Dummies 0.0 0 65730 3.95 225 38 2000 1844751 0714630756 9780714630755 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1844751.The_Rise_of_Turkish_Nationalism_1876_1908_1876_1908 0.0 0 An analysis of the ideas and doctrines of Turkish nationalist writers in the closing decades of the Ottoman period. This book argues that such ideas played an important role in the formation of modern Turkish nationalism.

]]> 65730 3.95 225 38 1977 6229787 9652170275 9789652170279 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6229787.Palestine_in_the_Late_Ottoman_Period 0.0 0 65730 3.95 225 38 1997 2323455 9652171263 9789652171269 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2323455.Agovernor_in_Jersualem_1906_8 0.0 0 65730 3.95 225 38 1996 7062225 1588364941 9781588364944 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7062225-jonny-magic-and-the-card-shark-kids 0.0 0 65730 3.95 225 38 2005 6603887 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6603887-masters-of-doom 0.0 0 Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.” —Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams

Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart.

Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative.


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