Addiction By Design

Author: Natasha Dow Schüll
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691127557
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machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. --

Addiction By Design

Author: Natasha Dow Schüll
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400834651
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Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward.

Addiction By Design

Author: Natasha Dow Schll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691160887
Size: 76.96 MB
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Originally published in hardcover in 2012. "A stunning portrayal of technology and the inner life. Searing, sobering, compelling: this is important, first-rate, accessible scholarship that should galvanize public conversation.

Bored And Brilliant

Author: Manoush Zomorodi
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250124964
Size: 21.67 MB
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What’s more, the book is crammed with practical exercises for anyone who wants to reclaim the power of spacing out – deleting the Two Dots app, for instance, or having a photo-free day, or taking a 'fakecation'." —Gretchen Rubin, ...

Off Track And Online

Author: Holly Kruse
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262034417
Size: 15.20 MB
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In this book, Holly Kruse explores how horse racing has used media over the last several decades, arguing that examining the history and context of horse racing and gambling gives us a clearer understanding of the development of data ...

The Strip

Author: Stefan Al
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026203574X
Size: 72.58 MB
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" In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself.

The Social Structures Of The Economy

Author: Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745681654
Size: 62.46 MB
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But one has only to examine an economic transaction closely, as Pierre Bourdieu does here for the buying and selling of houses, to see that these abstract assumptions cannot explain what happens in reality.

Being Nuclear

Author: Gabrielle Hecht
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262300672
Size: 34.40 MB
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Does uranium itself count as a nuclear thing? In this book, Gabrielle Hecht lucidly probes the question of what it means for something--a state, an object, an industry, a workplace--to be "nuclear.

The Drug Legalization Debate

Author: James A. Inciardi
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761906902
Size: 34.82 MB
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Retaining the focus and the spirit of the acclaimed First Edition, The Drug Legalization Debate, Second Edition, addresses the major issues involved in the continuing drug legalization debate - including deterrence, treatment, education, ...

High Stakes

Author: Sam Skolnik
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807006300
Size: 75.39 MB
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From the Hardcover edition.