Playin' to Win: A Surgeon, Scientist and Parent Examines the Upside of Video Games (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781600373626)

At the edge of one of America's most defining eras in its history, salvation comes from the most unlikely source: video games. Playin' To Win: A Surgeon, Scientist and Parent Examines the Upside of Video Games, is inspired, in part, by many edgy titles that have previously probed the expanse of what could be. It is a Freakanomics with a more grassroots subject matter that elicits an instantaneous visceral response from citizens of every walk of life. It is an Everything Bad Is Good For You with grittier details on how the unexpected can be incorporated into raising our society to the next level. Ultimately, it makes a case that video games can promote a Tipping Point with a focus on contributing to real world solutions. It is direct, thought-provoking and consistently challenges perceptions of the boundaries of reality. It has to be Because the readers will be the firstto bear witness: this is a call for the start of a second American Revolution

Author: Butch
ISBN-10: 1600373623
ISBN-13: 9781600373626
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.32w x 0.86d