Brooke Newman: 3 books

Book cover of Jenniemae & James

Jenniemae & James

A Memoir in Black and White

by Brooke Newman
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010

James Newman was a brilliant mathematician, the man who introduced the mathematical concept “googol” and “googolplex” (aka “google” and “googleplex”) to the world, and a friend of Einstein’s. He was also a notorious philanderer with an insatiable appetite for women and fast cars,...
Book cover of Debugging Game History

Debugging Game History

A Critical Lexicon

by Mikael Jakobsson, Nick Montfort, Erkki Huhtamo
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016

Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
Book cover of Dark Inheritance

Dark Inheritance

Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica

by Brooke N. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018

A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges...
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