This edited volume explores the various and unique motivations driving the rapidly-growing esports industry, which attracts attention and financial investment from major sponsors, athletic organizations, and entertainment values. Contributors draw on a variety of perspectives and theoretical vantage points to examine the multitude of traditions, cultures, expectations, and rituals that different stakeholders factor into their motivation to play and watch esports. Scholars of media studies,...

Unqualified for Love (and loving it)Perfectly imperfect, gloriously chaotic, and still somehow dating.Unqualified for Love (and Loving It) follows Kendra, a woman who has survived divorce, disastrous dates, and the kind of romantic chaos that would make anyone swear off love forever. But instead of giving up, she decides to rewrite the rules. No more pretending. No more performing. Kendra chooses to embrace her flaws, her humour, a...