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April 26, 2024

Playing Place Board Games, Popular Culture, Space

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Free Download Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space by Chad Randl, D. Medina Lasansky
English | August 15, 2023 | ISBN: 0262047837 | 272 pages | EPUB | 48 Mb
An essay collection exploring the board game’s relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of space.

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January 30, 2024

Playing with Type 50 graphic experiments for exploring typographic design principles

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Free Download Lara McCormick, "Playing with Type: 50 graphic experiments for exploring typographic design principles"
English | 2013 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 1592538177 | PDF | 39,4 mb
Playing with Type is a hands-on, playful approach to learning type application and principles. This engagingguide begins with an introduction to the philosophy of learning through the process of play. Along with a series of experimental design projects with an emphasis on type, the author provides designers with a "toolkit" of ideas and skills developed through the process of play. The awareness and sensitivity to type styles, forms, and type choices gained through these visual experiments will increase the designer’s confidence in their personal and professional work. This book can be used in the classroom or independently, and readers can go directly to exercises that appeal to them.

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January 26, 2024

Playing and Reality

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Free Download D. W. Winnicott, "Playing and Reality"
English | 2005 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0415345464 | EPUB | 1,9 mb
What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it – whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that surround the fundamental issue of the individual self and its relationship with the outside world. In this landmark book of twentieth-century psychology, Winnicott shows the reader how, through the attentive nurturing of creativity from the earliest years, every individual has the opportunity to enjoy a rich and rewarding cultural life. Today, as the ‘hothousing’ and testing of children begins at an ever-younger age, Winnicott’s classic text is a more urgent and topical read than ever before.

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January 14, 2024

Playing with Scripture

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Free Download Andrew Judd, "Playing with Scripture "
English | ISBN: 1032623225 | 2024 | 242 pages | PDF | 1151 KB
This book puts a creative new reading of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and literary genre theory to work on the problem of Scripture. Reading texts as Scripture brings two hermeneutical assumptions into tension: that the text will continually say something new and relevant to the present situation, and that the text has stability and authority over readers. Given how contested the Bible’s meaning is, how is it possible to ‘read Scripture’ as authoritative and relevant? Rather than anchor meaning in author, text or reader, Gadamer’s phenomenological model of hermeneutical experience as Spiel (‘play’) offers a dynamic, intersubjective account of how understanding happens, avoiding the dead end of the subjective-objective dichotomy. Modern genre theory addresses some of the criticisms of Gadamer, accounting for the different roles played by readers in different genres using the new term

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January 10, 2024

Intercultural Phenomenology Playing with Reality

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Free Download Intercultural Phenomenology: Playing with Reality (Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies) by Yuko Ishihara, Steven A. Tainer
English | December 28, 2023 | ISBN: 1350298298, 135029828X | True EPUB/PDF | 176 pages | 2.4/22.2 MB
Intercultural Phenomenology explores the nature of reality by engaging in a cross-cultural dialogue between two of the most influential philosophical traditions of the 20th century.

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