Invitation to the Game

Invitation to the Game

Author: Monica Hughes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1993-06

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0671866923

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Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their "Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game.


The Game

The Game

Author: Monica Hughes

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Published: 2010-10-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781442409392

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The Game is just the beginning… It’s the year 2154. Lisse and her friends have been deemed unemployable in the eyes of society. Now they must scavenge the disintegrating city for food and shelter, just to make ends meet. But their dismal existence starts to look up when Lisse and her friends are invited to participate in The Game, an experience highly regarded in their society. The Game is a virtual reality experience where they are challenged to survive. But as they spend more time in The Game, the line between reality and fantasy starts to blur. What started as a simple exercise quickly becomes a test of endurance, trust, and their will to live.


Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers

Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers

Author: Gale W. Sherman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1993-11-15

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 0313080003

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Selected for their high interest, appealing formats, appropriate reading levels, outstanding writing, and popularity, these contemporary, spellbinding titles (20 for grades 5-8 and 20 for grades 9-12) reflect a variety of genres and themes that will encourage lifelong literacy. Given for each title are genre and themes, review citations, author information, plot summary, reading and interest rankings, booktalks, literature extensions, alternative book report suggestions, and reproducible bookmarks that suggest further reading.


The Game of Triumphs

The Game of Triumphs

Author: Laura Powell

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0375865659

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Fifteen-year-old Cat and three other London teens are drawn into a dangerous game in which Tarot cards open doorways into a different dimension, and while there is everything to win, losing can be fatal.


Let the Game Commence

Let the Game Commence

Author: David Palin

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Published: 2023-05-12

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1913230791

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Arthur Du Fuss, bitter, alone, and ignored by his neighbours, has two secrets: one dies with him when he commits suicide; the other is the vast wealth he amassed through the creation of a cult board game. Now his erstwhile neighbours receive a post-mortem invitation to the offices of a charismatic City lawyer to play a final version of the game; the prize - Arthur's fortune. As they dice with the devil, the game first exposes the fragility of their relationships, and then tears them apart, with tragic and horrifying consequences. But Arthur, too, must pay for his revenge. The old man learns that outstanding debts can still be called in, even when you are dead.


Getting in the Game

Getting in the Game

Author: Dawn FitzGerald

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-12-26

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780312377533

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With humor and a feisty spirit, Jo fights for her place both on and off the ice in this funny and feisty middle-grade novel.


The Game of Language

The Game of Language

Author: Jaakko Hintikka

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1983-10-31

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9789027716873

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Since the first chapter of this book presents an intro duction to the present state of game-theoretical semantics (GTS), there is no point in giving a briefer survey here. Instead, it may be helpful to indicate what this volume attempts to do. The first chapter gives a short intro duction to GTS and a survey of what is has accomplished. Chapter 2 puts the enterprise of GTS into new philo sophical perspective by relating its basic ideas to Kant's phi losophy of mathematics, space, and time. Chapters 3-6 are samples of GTS's accomplishments in understanding different kinds of semantical phenomena, mostly in natural languages. Beyond presenting results, some of these chapters also have other aims. Chapter 3 relates GTS to an interesting line of logical and foundational studies - the so-called functional interpretations - while chapter 4 leads to certain important methodological theses. Chapter 7 marks an application of GTS in a more philo sophical direction by criticizing the Frege-Russell thesis that words like "is" are multiply ambiguous. This leads in turn to a criticism of recent logical languages (logical notation), which since Frege have been based on the ambi guity thesis, and also to certain methodological sug gestions. In chapter 8, GTS is shown to have important implications for our understanding of Aristotle's doctrine of categories, while chapter 9 continues my earlier criticism of Chomsky's generative approach to linguistic theorizing.