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This collection of critical ideas relating organization science to operations and accomplishments in the health care environment provides a thematic guide for leaders, practitioners, academics and administrators. It pulls in a broad cross-section of perspectives on the important linkage of scholarship and practice with a solid global perspective.

A definitive guide to contemporary video game studies, this second edition has been fully revised and updated to address the ongoing theoretical and methodological development of game studies.

Visit the realms of The Twilight Zone, journey to The Outer Limits and boldly go on a Star Trek! Read how motion picture and TV special effects were created before computers! From Lon Chaney to Ray Harryhausen, from Georges Melies to George Lucas, meet the multi-talented magicians-many of whom never received screen recognition-who invented ways to conjure up ferocious dinosaurs battling a giant ape in King Kong or the catastrophic natural disa...

From The Brothers Karamazov to Star Trek to Twin Peaks, this collection explores a variety of different imaginary worlds both historic and contemporary.

With contributions from a distinguished group of world-builders, including academics, writers and designers, this anthology of essays describes the process and discusses the nature of subcreation and the construction of worlds.

While so many books on technology look at new advances and digital technologies, The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence looks back at analog technologies that are disappearing, considering their demise and what it says about media history, pop culture, and the nature of nostalgia.

From The Brothers Karamazov to Star Trek to Twin Peaks, this collection explores a variety of different imaginary worlds both historic and contemporary.

The book is a short, silly satire of the Military-Industrial Complex. A crazy Mexican-American generaljoins forces with a crazy French-Canadian general to refight the Mexican-American War betweennorthern Mexico and America for control of southwest North America and the Seven Years Warbetween the French and the English for control of Canada. The North American Anglos will be given allof Alaska. This idea is based on demographics, which ultimate...

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The concept of world and the practice of world creation have been with us since antiquity, but they are now achieving unequalled prominence. In this timely anthology of subcreation studies, an international roster of contributors come together to examine the rise and structure of worlds, the practice of world-building, and the audience's recepti

The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds offers new approaches to imaginary worlds both as an art form and cultural phenomenon, explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of world-building, and studies of specific worlds and world-builders.

This book illuminates and examines the world of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood through world design, narrative, genre, form, content, authorship, reception and more.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Arbeit, Betrieb, Organisation und Wirtschaft, Note: 2, 0, Universität Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Diplomarbeit stellt die wissenschaftliche Forschung in Bezug auf die Entwicklung der Arbeitswelt differenziert dar. Dabei wird vor allem auf die in der Literatur häufig beschriebene Entwicklung von der Normalarbeit hin zu Entgrenzung und Subjektivierung eingegangen. Im empiris...

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Mark J.P. Wolf¿s study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on narrative, medium, or genre, and instead considers imaginary worlds as dynamic entities in and of themselves. Wolf argues that imaginary worlds¿which ...

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Myst "and "Riven is well-written, interesting, on-topic, insightful, and a real pleasure to read." --Edward Castronova, Indiana University Video games have become a major cultural force, and within their history, "Myst "and its sequel "Riven "stand out as influential examples. Myst" and "Riven: " The World of the D'ni" is a close analysis of two of the most popular and significant video games in the history of the genre, investigating in detai...

Neben einer kurzen Analyse der Ursachen und des Verlaufs der Finanzkrise werden die Auswirkungen auf die drei Instrumente Asset-Backed-Strukturen, Projekt- und Buy-out-Finanzierung sowie sich daraus ergebende Gestaltungsempfehlungen dargestellt.

This encyclopedia collects and organizes theoretical and historical content on the topic of video games, covering the people, systems, technologies, and theoretical concepts as well as the games themselves.