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Josephus and Modern Scholarship (1937–1980)
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Playing Oppression
A striking analysis of popular board games’ roots in imperialist reasoning—and why the future of play depends on reckoning with it. Board games conjure up images of innocuously enriching entertainment: family game nights, childhood pastimes, cooperative board games centered around resource management and strategic play. Yet in Playing Oppression, Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson apply the incisive frameworks of postcolonial theory to a broad historical survey of board games to show how these seemingly benign entertainments reinforce the logic of imperialism. Through this lens, the commercialized version of Snakes and Ladders takes shape as the British Empire’s distortion of Gyan Chau...
Federal Register
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Jenatsch's Axe
During the turbulent events of Europe's Thirty Years' War, both ruthlessness and adaptability were crucial ingredients for success. In this engaging volume, Randolph C. Head traces the career of an extraordinarily adaptable and ruthless figure, George Jenatsch (1596-1639). Born a Protestant pastor's son, Jenatsch's career took him from the clergy to the military to the nobility. A passionate Calvinist in his youth, he converted to Catholicism and prudence as his power grew. A native speaker of the Romansh language, he crossed the boundaries of language and local loyalty in his service to France, Venice, and his own people. Violence marked every turning point of his life. After fleeing the "H...
Jones's Digest
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Art Directors Annual: 90
Continuously published since 1920, the Art Directors Annual is the world's most widely distributed creative awards reference book and source of inspiration, honoring the year's best work in design and advertising around the globe. Every winning entry (including all Cube and Merit winners) is reproduced in full-color with complete credits. The 90th edition includes the NEW ADC Designism (which explores the responsibilities of creatives to drive social and political change through their work), ADC Hybrid, the 2011 ADC Hall of Fame Laureates and the ADC Black Cube for best in show.
