Summary: "Brought to life by director Daniel Junge, this is a tale of brilliant innovations, colossal failures and ego-driven rivalries akin to Steve Jobs versus Bill Gates. It is a 50-year-long, multi-generation epic featuring corporate coups, industrial espionage, secret burial grounds and the promise of unimaginable riches just one cartridge away. The only constant through the saga is this: just when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GAMKochar, Amandeep S.
Summary: The tenant of Dasvandh is played out through a dueling lemonade-stand story (Jeet, Fudge, Jamal and Tugboat versus two sisters, new to town). Jeet and Fudge set up a very popular lemonade stand in the green space next to the loving library/animal shelter while their mom volunteers at the park clean-up. Their friend, Jamal and his puppy Tugboat is also there with their mom and decide to help...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KOCSummary: The Q-bitz game is a great way to say goodbye to boredom and challenge your mind all at once. Practice your symmetry, visual dexterity, quick thinking, and competitive nature. Q-bitz stimulates the brain to use spatial reasoning and memory skill making it perfect for both the classroom and at home. With Q-bitz, it's not the same game over and over again. You get 80 different puzzle cards that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MindWare 2009
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME Q-BISummary: Players travel to the capital city of Puerto Rico and compete to build palaces, poor houses, silver smelters, gold mines and many other features.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Ravensburger Spieleverlag 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The game takes place on a ring of tropical isles, including the mysterious Soopky Island, home of the Ghost Captain. Each island generates a specific resource: wood, goats, molasses, gold or cutlasses. Players use resources to build and expand their network of pirate lairs. The first player to control seven pirate lairs wins the game.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Mayfair Games 2012
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME CATSummary: A game played in three zones: the kingdom, the quest zone, and the battlefield. The goals are to acquire resources in the kingdom, draw more cards in the quest zone, and attack the opponent in the battlefield. Attacking the opponent leads to the ultimate goal of burning down the sections of his capital. The first player to burn two of the three sections of his opponent's capital wins the game.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy Flight Publishing Inc. 2009
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAMES WARKahn, Ben
Summary: "The Manhattan Mist have beaten the odds to land themselves in the national championships for Renegade Rule, one of the hottest virtual reality games in existence. But they're in for competition fiercer than they ever imagined, and one team member's entire future could be at stake. Four queer female friends will have to play harder than ever against self-doubt, infighting, romantic distraction,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KAHHeffernan, Margaret
Summary: "Competition has run amok. Social Darwinism, survival of the fittest, is crudely understood as justifying a winner-takes-all culture. If you want get into the best school, land the right job, buy the cool dress, find the perfect partner, be made for life, you have tread underfoot any and all your rivals. Competition has become a simplistic zero-sum game, played without any enjoyment at all. In...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014