Inspiring and engaging

An intriguing and thought-provoking book

Despite her expertise, McGonigal's book is never overly technical, and as with a good computer game, anyone, regardless of gaming experience, is likely to get sucked in

McGonigal is persuasive and precise in explaining how games can transform our approach to those things we know we should do. McGonigal is also adept at showing how good games expose the alarming insubstantiality of much everyday experience. McGonigal is a passionate advocate... Given the power and the darker potentials of the tools she describes, we must hope that the world is listening

McGonigal brilliantly deconstructs the components of good game design before parlaying them into a recipe for changing the offline, 'real' world'

She brilliantly links the growing scholarship on happiness to the gimmicks and tricks that commercial game designers devise to engage their febrile audiences

I found as I read through her book I had already begin [sic] to feel empowered and make notes on the games I'd like to look into. Gamers can change reality - McGonigal proves that...

As soon as I started this book, I was gripped with curiosity

Thomas Wright's lively little book on Harvey's revolutionary idea is a panegyric to the man's whirring mind, and to the excitements of thinking more generally

Excellent and often bloodthirsty... A highly readable account of a great Englishman

A vivid biography of William Harvey, which reveals his complex character

It’s a pretty gruesome story – told very well here by Thomas Wright

An engaging and lively account of an endlessly curious man

A fascinating window into the complex emergent urban future. This book is an extremely sophisticated, often devastatingly witty and ironic, interpretation of what is possible over the next two decades

Throw out your old atlas. The new version is here

Kasarda ... and Lindsay convincingly put the airport at the centre of modern urban life

Highly recommended