Recommended by 1 source and appears in Nonfiction.
"Characteristics of Games" offers a new way to understand games: by focusing on certain traitsincluding number of players, rules, degrees of luck and skill needed, and reward/effort ratioand using these characteristics as basic points of comparison and analysis. These issues are often discussed by game players and designers but seldom written a...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Nonfiction.
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Preston Pysh
“So, I read a bunch of books each year, and I’m going to start highlighting my top 5 favorites reads at the end of each year. So here it goes for 2021: #1: Layered Money by Nik Bhatia loved this book, it does an incredible job laying out how the existing financial system…”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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