Creativity

Ryan G. Van Cleave

Oxford University Press Academic US

Contemporary American Poetry & CD Pkg

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

WARNING: This video game may impair your judgment. It may cause sleep deprivation, alienation of friends and family, weight loss or gain, neglect of one's basic needs as well as the needs of loved ones and/or dependents, and decreased performance on the job. The distinction between fantasy and reality may become blurred. Play at your own risk. Not responsible for suicide attempts, whether failed or successful. No such warning was included on the latest and greatest release from the Warcraft series of massive multiplayer on-line role-playing games (MMORPGs)—World of Warcraft (WoW). So when Ryan Van Cleave—a college professor, husband, father, and one of the 11.5 million Warcraft subscribers worldwide—found himself teetering on the edge of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, he had no one to blame but himself. He had neglected his wife and children and had jeopardized his livelihood, all for the rush of living a life of high adventure in a virtual world. Ultimately, Ryan decided to live, but not for the sake of his family or for a newly found love of life: he had to get back home for his evening session of Warcraft. A fabulously written and gripping tale, Unplugged takes us on a journey through Ryan's semi-reclusive life with video games at the center of his experiences. Even when he was sexually molested by a young school teacher at age eleven, it was the promise of a new video game that lured him to her house. As Ryan's life progresses, we witness the evolution of videogames—from simple two-button consoles to today's complicated multi-key technology, brilliantly designed to keep the user actively participating. As is the case with most recovering addicts, Ryan eventually hits rock bottom and shares with the reader his ongoing battle to control his impulses to play, providing prescriptive advice and resources for those caught in the grip of this very real addiction.

Unplugged: My Journey into the Dark World of Video Game Addiction

Computers & Technology

Games & Strategy Guides

HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS+ INC

American Diaspora: Poetry Of Displacement

Diaspora constitutes a powerful descriptor for the modern condition of the contemporary poet, the spokesperson for the psyche of America. The poems in American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement focus on the struggles and pleasures of creating a home-physical and mental-out of displacement, exile, migration, and alienation. To fully explore the concept of diaspora, the editors have broadened the scope of their definition to include not only the physical act of moving and immigration but also the spiritual and emotional dislocations that can occur-as for Emily Dickinson and other poets-even in a life spent entirely in one location. v

American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement

Literature & Fiction

Virgil Suarez

Poetry

University Of Iowa Press

This collection of poetry explores the poet's relationship and generational conflict with his father, the environment in which he matured, and the culture of his youth. The poems center around problems achieving self-definition in the American Midwest and the massive pressures for conformity pressed upon youth by the pop media. The poet rails against his own generation, which he views as failing to respond to the massive changes in the American social morass, except by escapism and avoidance.

Ha Ha Tonka: A Book of Rune

Higganum Hill Books

The Florida Letters

Dream Horse Press

Memoir Writing for Dummies

For Dummies

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