Sport and Video Games by Lukasz Muniowski (Paperback Book)

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This book explores the complex relationships between sport and video games, two of the largest entertainment sectors globally. Focusing on those games that depict real-life sports and athletic competitions, from FIFA, Madden, and NBA 2K to Football Manager and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, the book examines how sport has influenced gaming, and vice versa, and how this relationship is likely to develop in the future. Arguing that sports games are a unique interface between virtual worlds and our real-life social worlds, the book examines the concept of simulation; how the performance of athletes and teams in the real world influences video games; and whether those close links enhance or limit the player’s experience. It also considers how video games are used by leagues and sports franchises,.

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Change and Improvement in School-University Partnership Settings: Emerging

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"Change and Improvement in School-University Partnership Settings: Emerging Research and Opportunities" is a textbook published by IGI Global Scientific Publishing in 2021. Authored by Linda A. Catelli, the book explores the subject areas of educational policy & reform, collaborative & team teaching, and administration in general. With a trade paperback format and 239 pages, this book provides insights and opportunities for change and improvement in school-university partnership settings in the education sector."

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Animal Studies The Key Concepts by Matthew R. Calarco (Paperback Book)

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Prefaced with a brief introduction to the field of animal studies, the text explores the key influential terms, topics and debates which have had a major impact on the field, and that students are most likely to encounter in their animal studies classes. Animal Studies provides a guide to key concepts in the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of animal studies, laid out in A-Z format. While Human–Animal Studies and Critical Animal Studies are the main frameworks that inform the bulk of the writings in animal studies and the key concepts discussed in the volume, other approaches such as anthrozoology and cognitive ethology are also explored. The entries in the volume attend to the differences in ongoing debates among scholars and activists, showing that what is commonly called “animal.

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Reading Development and Difficulties by Kate Cain (Paperback Book)

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This accessible text brings together research on word reading and comprehension development, which are often treated separately, and provides a comprehensive and detailed introductory text to reading development and difficulties. Key features include: An introduction to the important issues in reading research and the skills involved in reading words and understanding text, from the point of view of both a beginner and a skilled reader A consideration of the similarities and differences between written and spoken language, and the advantages and disadvantages of different methodological approaches An examination of how failures in reading comprehension skills can create difficulties and disorders A consideration of the implications of this research for the teaching of reading and the.

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