Social Games

In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience, revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. Because of this, our brain uses its spare time to learn about the social world-other people and our relation to them.

A basketball coach turned business consultant shares high-performance secrets and shows how you can build the mental fortitude necessary to stay on top of your game. What makes the best the best? Ultimately the best are where they are because of the mindset, habits, and rituals they have—both...

Des clés, des cadenas, des énigmes incompréhensibles, Ella arrivera-t-elle à sortir du jeu dont elle ne connait pas les règles ? Pas facile de se débrouiller quand ton seul allier est un cochon qui ne pense qu'à manger. Pour vivre cette troisième aventure d'Ella Lachance, ouvre ce livre, mais attention, il se pourrait que tu n'arrives plus à en sortir !

Forget the language instinct—this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is perhaps humanity’s most astonishing capacity—and one that remains poorly understood. In The Language Game, cognitive scientists Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater show us where...

Is English an innately playful language? Are word games good for you? Do we divide into number and word players? And could Scrabble have been invented in any other language?

The confidence, the dating sphere, and the girl: discover how to become an alpha male to attract the woman of your dreams. Are you trying to get a woman’s attention, but everything you do seems to fly right over her head, and you have no clue why? When you achieve the status of an alpha male, you will instantly become more popular with women, be the leader of the pack, and gain the charm to easily play the game of dating.

What are you waiting for before you can finally be okay? More money. The right relationship. Healing. Success. Purpose. Peace. Awakening. The object changes, but the promise remains: When this happens, I will finally feel whole. But the finish line keeps moving. What if the distance between you and what you seek is the very illusion keeping the search alive? What “Game” Are You Playing? exposes the illusion beneath every human struggle: that a separate “you” must get, fix, achieve, or understand something before you can be whole. These are not different searches.

Game On is a celebration of the trailblazing women opening doors for others, and a manifesto for women’s sports–a rallying cry to ensure the progress we are currently seeing goes from strength to strength.

Win the self confidence game, become free to focus, and improve your social and people skills.

It's Friday afternoon. A deployment is delayed. Security has concerns. Engineering has deadlines. Finance wants answers. And everyone is convinced someone else is the problem. If you've worked in cloud, you've been in this meeting. In SOLVING the CLOUD thinking game, Lori Higham takes listeners inside the conversations, rivalries, assumptions, and organizational dynamics that shape modern enterprises through the alternating perspectives of a CTO and CISO.

Learn how to get in the right "state" with specific techniques so that you can easily approach strangers and start conversations. In Day Game Step by Step, you learn how to start conversations with complete strangers and maintain the conversation easily by providing value instead of asking questions.

This program is read by the author. In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival. "Enriching"...

A powerful story about family, fútbol, and playing like a girl, perfect for fans of Front Desk, The Academy, and, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret from the award-winning author of Furia. At twelve years old, Valeria "Magic" Salomón is already the best soccer player her town has ever seen...

Pete Axthelm follows the 1969 - 70 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. Throughout, he writes clearly, intelligently, and passionately about the game, bringing alive the players’ efforts, accomplishments, and failures.

A teen programmer at a school for geniuses must join forces with a boy she can't remember to stop a hacker from deleting their memories in Shana Silver’s action-packed YA debut, Mind Games. Arden sells memories. Whether it’s becoming homecoming queen or studying for that all important test...

Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play. Video games vastly outpace all other mediums of entertainment in revenue and in global reach. On the surface, games do not appear ideological, nor are they categorized as national products. Instead, they seem to reflect the open and uncontaminated reputation of information technology. Like literature and film before it, video games have become the main artistic expression of empire today.

The second audiobook in a new series set in both a Minecraft-style video game world and the real world of elementary school where friendships will be tested, courage will be discovered, and teamwork will always win! Kat, Tai, and Alex are obsessed with the video game Otherworld. They strategize and play together all the time, but are famous for their arguments while playing. They can't help being passionate about what they love!

This is a book of 13 different drinking games for college students that will liven the party anytime you play them. Sitting around with friends drinking can get repetitive, so add some variety with these games. Be careful, it can get wild....