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World of Warcraft
A personal look at the pros and cons of temporarily giving your life over to the world's biggest game.
A Book about Books
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Super Mario Bros. 2
How Nintendo Mario-ified an existing Japanese NES game to creat Super Mario Bros. 2.
Jagged Alliance 2
How a classic tactical game got made, told by the developers themselves.
Mega Man 3
A critical and historical look at the game that turned Mega Man from a fluke hit to Capcom's tentpole franchise.
Final Fantasy VI
Terra the magical half-human. Shadow the mysterious assassin. Celes the tough, tender general. Kefka the fool who would be god. Each of the many unforgettable characters in Final Fantasy VI has made a huge impression on a generation of players, but why do we feel such affection for these 16-bit heroes and villains as so many others fade? The credit goes to the game’s score, composed by the legendary Nobuo Uematsu. Armed with newly translated interviews and an expert ear for sound, writer and musician Sebastian Deken conducts a critical analysis of the musical structures of FF6, the game that pushed the Super Nintendo’s sound capabilities to their absolute limits and launched Uematsu’s reputation as the “Beethoven of video game music.” Deken ventures deep into the game’s lush soundscape—from its expertly crafted leitmotifs to its unforgettable opera sequence—exploring the soundtrack’s lasting influence and how it helped clear space for game music on classical stages around the world.
Shadow of the Colossus
A gorgeously narrated meditation on one of the deepest, most artful video games.
Spelunky
A game's creation as told by its creator, perhaps the best rpimer on game design.
Making the World Safe for Investment
Western governments, companies, economists and lawyers established the international legal order now known as international investment law to protect foreign property from a redistribution of wealth through domestic law making. This book offers a pre-history of these legal arrangements, focusing on the time before 1959 and the ratification of the first bilateral investment treaty and the ICSID Convention. It introduces new archival material, such as arbitral awards, diplomatic notes and concession agreements, as well as scholarly writings pertaining to developments in these proceedings. These materials are systematised into a coherent argument on the protection of foreign property. The book develops the important role of concession agreements and their internationalisation for the making of international investment law, thereby insisting on the private law character of the foundations of the field. In doing so it displays the analytic force of viewing law as jurisdictional practice, rather than as a system of norms.
