Simon Parkin: 3 books
Death by Video Game
Danger, Pleasure, and Obsession on the Virtual Frontline
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
"The finest book on video games yet. Simon Parkin thinks like a critic, conjures like a novelist, and writes like an artist at the height of his powers—which, in fact, he is." —Tom Bissell, author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
On January 31, 2012, a twenty-three-year-old...
by Simon Parkin
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Matamos el tiempo con los videojuegos pero ¿qué pasa cuando los videojuegos nos matan a nosotros? La pregunta da mucho de sí, y Simon Parkin intenta responderla sin olvidar que, para algunos, EVE Online, Grand Theft Auto y League of Legends tienen poderes salvíficos. Jugamos por muchos motivos,...
A Game of Birds and Wolves
The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
The triumphant story of a small group of female volunteers who, alongside a retired British naval captain, devised a winning strategy to defeat the Nazi U-boats and deliver a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic
By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World...