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The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses
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4.39 avg rating — 3,379 ratings
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A Theory Of Fun For Game Design
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3.90 avg rating — 3,436 ratings
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The Design of Everyday Things
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4.15 avg rating — 47,057 ratings
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Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
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3.99 avg rating — 1,010 ratings
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Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences
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4.34 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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3.79 avg rating — 8,331 ratings
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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4.11 avg rating — 87,445 ratings
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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4.29 avg rating — 19,925 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,462,099 ratings
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 359,425 ratings
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Challenges for Game Designers
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3.99 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Game Feel (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books)
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3.91 avg rating — 378 ratings
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Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames
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3.84 avg rating — 360 ratings
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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4.13 avg rating — 44,612 ratings
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Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
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3.51 avg rating — 3,702 ratings
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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
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4.28 avg rating — 79,534 ratings
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The Invisible Game: Mindset of a Winning Team
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4.34 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 74,796 ratings
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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4.11 avg rating — 150,577 ratings
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Characteristics of Games
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4.13 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives,and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form
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3.87 avg rating — 735 ratings
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Chris Crawford on Game Design
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3.73 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 130,560 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 451,305 ratings
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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4.42 avg rating — 5,379 ratings
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
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4.20 avg rating — 24,022 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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4.01 avg rating — 849,460 ratings
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The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy
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4.01 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design
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4.06 avg rating — 637 ratings
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Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences
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4.47 avg rating — 489 ratings
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The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design
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3.61 avg rating — 344 ratings
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The Image of the City
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4.05 avg rating — 4,159 ratings
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Designing Virtual Worlds
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4.03 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Free: The Future of a Radical Price
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3.88 avg rating — 17,483 ratings
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The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia
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4.08 avg rating — 566 ratings
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The Art of Game Design: A Deck of Lenses
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4.39 avg rating — 3,379 ratings
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100 Principles of Game Design
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4.10 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games
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4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
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A Game Design Vocabulary: Exploring the Foundational Principles Behind Good Game Design
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3.93 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
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3.97 avg rating — 11,920 ratings
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An Introduction to Game Studies
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3.79 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Art of Computer Game Design
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3.80 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Unit Operations: An Appoach to Videogame Criticism
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3.68 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
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4.07 avg rating — 808 ratings
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Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture from Geek to Chic
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3.62 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
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4.40 avg rating — 325 ratings
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| 46 |
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First Person: New Media As Story, Performance, And Game
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3.74 avg rating — 159 ratings
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| 46 |
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Google SketchUp for Game Design: Beginner's Guide
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4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society
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3.78 avg rating — 138 ratings
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| 46 |
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Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 55 ratings
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| 46 |
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Origins of Architectural Pleasure
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4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings
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| 46 |
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Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory
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3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
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4.08 avg rating — 5,705 ratings
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| 46 |
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The Micro Kids: An 80s Adventure with ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and more (Video Games Book)
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3.96 avg rating — 72 ratings
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ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty fun games to code and learn
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4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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| 46 |
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The Micro Kids: An 80s Adventure with ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and more
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3.96 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Think Like A Game Designer: The Step-by-Step Guide to Unlocking Your Creative Potential
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4.04 avg rating — 168 ratings
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RPG Design Zine
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
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3.99 avg rating — 2,938 ratings
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
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3.76 avg rating — 7,210 ratings
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Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens: Design Principles, Aesthetic Values
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4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age
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3.88 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw Us In and Hold Us Spellbound
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 1
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3.67 avg rating — 173 ratings
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The Infinite Playground: A Player's Guide to Imagination
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3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
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4.22 avg rating — 3,852 ratings
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Morphology of the Folktale
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,161 ratings
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Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon
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3.91 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Think Like an Architect (Roger Fullington Series in Architecture)
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4.02 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Glass Bead Game
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4.10 avg rating — 41,901 ratings
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The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 2
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3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames (Volume 53) (Electronic Mediations)
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3.54 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
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3.86 avg rating — 3,828 ratings
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Stay Awhile and Listen: Book I - How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire
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3.82 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Games for Actors and Non-Actors
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4.36 avg rating — 557 ratings
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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
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3.82 avg rating — 30,008 ratings
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Doer's Dilemma - Why Achievers Suffer And What To Do About It
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient--Powered by the Science of Games
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3.94 avg rating — 2,852 ratings
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The Making of Star Trek
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4.10 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
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How to Read a Person Like a Book
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3.54 avg rating — 2,950 ratings
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Casual Game Design
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3.57 avg rating — 51 ratings
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You Have Died of Dysentery: The creation of The Oregon Trail – the iconic educational game of the 1980s
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4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Secret History of Mac Gaming
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4.22 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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4.12 avg rating — 1,307,842 ratings
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The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
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4.10 avg rating — 10,325 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 55,756 ratings
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Breakout: Pilgrim in the Microworld (Boss Fight Books, #22)
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3.77 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction
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3.86 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Acorn
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4.22 avg rating — 740 ratings
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The Visual Time Traveller: 500 Years of History, Art and Science in 100 Unique Designs
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Stay Awhile and Listen: Book II - Heaven, Hell, and Secret Cow Levels
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4.04 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Recess: From Dodgeball to Double Dutch
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4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
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4.37 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Manga in Theory and Practice
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4.25 avg rating — 1,438 ratings
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Mathematical Models in Biology (Classics in Applied Mathematics, Series Number 46)
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4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Dungeon Hacks: How NetHack, Angband, and Other Roguelikes Changed the Course of Video Games
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3.80 avg rating — 352 ratings
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The Anatomy of Super Mario (The Anatomy of Games Volume 1)
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3.72 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People who Play Them
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4.02 avg rating — 472 ratings
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The Anatomy of Castlevania
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4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment
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3.43 avg rating — 89 ratings
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