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• Play Redux: The Form of Computer Games (c2010), by David Myers (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Video Games and the Global South (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2019), ed. by Phillip Penix-Tadsen (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009), by Bonnie A. Nardi (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Gameplay, Emotions and Narrative: Independent Games Experienced (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2019), by Katarzyna Marak, Miłosz Markocki, and Dariusz Brzostek (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Dungeons and Dreamers: A Story of How Computer Games Created a Global Community (second edition; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), by Brad King and John Borland (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Toward a Ludic Architecture: The Space of Play and Games (text-only version; c2010), by Steffen P. Walz (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Atari Player-Missile Graphics in BASIC (1984), by Philip C. Seyer (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)

• The Computer Controller Cookbook (1983), by Tom Riley and Kelda Riley (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)

• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Computer Fun (London: Usborne Publishing, c1984), by Gaby Waters, contrib. by Paul Shreeve, illust. by Graham Round (PDF at Usborne and Google)
• Computer Spy Games (London: Usborne Pub., c1984), by Jenny Tyler and Chris Oxlade, contrib. by Adrian Hall, illust. by Sue Walliker, Rob McCaig, and Martin Newton (PDF at Usborne and Google)
• Weird Computer Games (London: Usborne Pub., c1984), by Jenny Tyler and Chris Oxlade, contrib. by Les Howarth and Adrian Hall, illust. by Rob McCaig, Sue Walliker, Martin Newton, and Graham Smith (PDF at Usborne and Google)
• Creepy Computer Games (London: Usborne Pub., c1983), ed. by Jenny Tyler and Chris Oxlade, illust. by Rob McCaig (PDF at Usborne and Google)
• Computer Spacegames (London: Usborne Pub., c1982), by D. Isaaman and Jenny Tyler, contrib. by Bob Merry, illust. by Martin Newton, Tony Baskeyfield, Graham Round, Jim Bamber, Mark Duffin, and John Bolton (PDF at Usborne and Google)

• Computer Battlegames (London: Usborne Pub., c1982), by D. Isaaman and Jenny Tyler, contrib. by Bob Merry, illust. by Rex Archer, Jim Bamber, Tony Baskeyfield, Martin Newton, and Graham Round (PDF at Usborne and Google)

• Scratch 3 Programming Playground, by Al Sweigart (illustrated HTML with commentary at inventwithscratch.com)

• Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python (fourth edition, 2016), by Al Sweigart (illustrated HTML with commentary at inventwithpython.com)
• Game Programming Patterns (web version, down the page, is free to access; 2014), by Robert Nystrom (illustrated HTML with commentary at gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
• Making Games with Python and Pygame (c2012), by Al Sweigart (HTML and PDF with commentary at inventwithpython.com)
• GTK+ / Gnome Application Development, by Havoc Pennington (HTML at linuxtopia.org)

• Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education (text-only version; c2010), by José P. Zagal (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education (text-only version; c2010), by José P. Zagal (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Jet Fighter School II: More Training for Computer Fighter Pilots (1988), by Richard G. Sheffield (illustrated HTML at flightsimbooks.com)
• Jet Fighter School: Air Combat Simulator Tactics and Maneuvers (1987), by Richard G. Sheffield (illustrated HTML at flightsimbooks.com)

• Mobile Media Learning: Amazing Uses of Mobile Devices for Learning (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), ed. by Seann Dikkers, John Martin, and Bob Coulter (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), ed. by Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1999), ed. by James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)

• Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Ross Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• AIDS: The Burdens of History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), ed. by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox (HTML at UC Press)

• Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Deborah H. Holdstein and David Bleich (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Aging in the Social Space (Białystok-Kraków: Association of Social Gerontologists, 2015), by Łukasz Tomczyk and Andrzej Klimczuk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at SSOAR

• Social, Economic, and Institutional Aspects of Agro-Forestry, ed. by J. K. Jackson (HTML at UNU Press)

• How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Karl Steel (PDF at Ohio State)

• Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text, by Irene A. Bierman (HTML at UC Press)

• Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Elena Esposito (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (2005), by International Academy of Astronautics and European Space Agency (PDF at esa.int)

• Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2010), ed. by John Robert Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch, and Michael Walsh (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Social Rule: A Study of the Will to Power (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1916), by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality (open access edition; New York and London: Routledge, 2022), by Zachary J. McDowell and Matthew A. Vetter (PDF files at taylorfrancis.com)

• Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2008), by Jonathan Alexander (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• Banks and Social Responsibility (ACSJC occasional paper #17; North Blackburn, Vic.: CollinsDove, c1993), by David Farmer (PDF in Australia)

• Data Feminism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism Through Big Data (London: University College London Press, 2022), by Chiara Bonacchi (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Essays of a Biologist (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1923), by Julian Huxley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Joseph Michael Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)

• Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2019), by Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at bookhunger.org)

• Violence and Disruption in Society: A Study of the Early Buddhist Texts, by Elizabeth J. Harris (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Buddhism and Social Action: An Exploration, by Ken Jones (HTML at Access to Insight)

• Icon, Brand, Myth: The Calgary Stampede (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), ed. by Max Foran (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.