Play Research

Winning today isn't about beating the competition at the old game. It's about inventing a whole new game - defining a new market category, developing it, and dominating it over time. You can't build a legendary company without building a legendary category. If you think that having the best product is all it takes to win, you're going to lose. In this farsighted, pioneering guide, the founders of Silicon Valley advisory firm Play Bigger rely on data analysis and interviews to understand the inner workings of "category kings".

Ready to level up your pickleball game? Whether you’re stuck at 2.5 or grinding your way toward 4.5, The Pickleball Skills Ladder delivers the exact drills, decisions, and discipline you need to advance—fast. This isn’t a collection of random tips or generic strategy advice. It’s a proven progression system built on practical drills, pattern recognition, and tactical execution. Inside, you’ll find a structured roadmap of 30 tightly focused chapters, each aligned with real skill benchmarks on the USA Pickleball rating scale. From foundational consistency at 2.5 to dynamic shot ...

Pickleball after 50 isn’t just a hobby—it’s a high-stakes balancing act between performance and preservation. Pickleball Over 50 is the ultimate blueprint for staying injury-free while playing at your highest level for decades to come. Written for competitive recreational athletes who aren’t interested in slowing down, this book delivers clear, proven strategies designed for the aging body—but with zero compromise on skill, stamina, or court dominance. Inside, you’ll find data-driven guidance on joint-safe training, smart warm-ups, paddle ergonomics, flexibility essentials, and ...

Learn how to critique your work. Play games to improve your skills. Novel project management. This collection of author books is everything you need! How To Critique Creative writing: Learn how to critique creative writing and justify your opinions from an analysis of the work. Essential tips for readers writing reviews or authors trying to improve their novels. This unique, concise guide will give you advice on capturing your impressions and then, more importantly, the methods to justify them by a systematic examination of the composition of the writing, with examples. Broken into sections...

In a sport obsessed with goals, assists, and last touches, The Third Man Is God peels back the veil on football’s most invisible and indispensable figure: the player who doesn’t receive the ball, yet shapes every sequence. Written with clinical detail and a philosopher’s edge, this book confronts the sacred mythologies of the modern game—the cult of the playmaker, the tyranny of the highlight, the false security of patterns—and reveals how the real architecture of success is built not through possession, but through timing, trust, and ghost movement. This isn’t another tactics ...

Strap yourself in for another 'deeply immersive' Ivan Jefford femdom erotica story...if you dare! WARNING: THIS BOOK DEALS WITH EXTREME BDSM PRACTICES. NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH The Institute of Psychosexual Research in Brussels, Belgium, is conducting paid experiments in the subconscious roots of female domination. Dr. Hanne Van Dijk has screened thousands of eighteen-year-old girls in several countries to find those few who are virgins, have no sexual experience, and minimal or no exposure to pornography. In the Session 1, the girl enters a room, alone, and encounters a set of male genitalia ...

The Relationist Blueprint is a coaching manifesto for building teams that move with intelligence, connect in layers, and dominate through rhythm. Forget rigid positional systems. This book teaches you how to develop players who read each other, not just the playbook. From rondos that teach anticipation to constraint-led drills that sharpen timing, this is a blueprint for constructing footballers who don’t just run plays—they feel patterns. Designed for serious coaches at all levels, this book walks you through the core principles of relationist football: shared scanning, third-man ...

With plenty of research-based guidance and step-by-step activities, this book will help your toddlers to speak in no time. And with proven strategies and easy-to-follow fun activities for toddlers, this book of 20 activities is an ideal addition to your homeschool educational material.

Babies are amazing! From the moment they open their eyes, they are learning and developing at an astonishing rate. Parents naturally want to engage with infants as they learn and grow, but what if we could optimize the way we play with babies? Backed by the latest research and years of observation, Playing with Baby distills the experts’ findings for new parents, giving them a guide to the first year of a baby’s life and the growth of his or her individual mind.

Cynthia Haliday was curious about why so many men were insecure about their prowess. As a doctoral student in Social Psychology she takes it upon herself to do a thorough study of men's size, stamina, and potency. It is only after measuring one insecure white man after another does her young black friend Lester suggest expanding her research to men of color! She agrees, and when she does, she gets her first sight of the shocking truth!

Creativity is a way of thinking, of looking at things, of experiencing, and operating. Although creativity may seem magical, a rare talent of a select few, creativity is, in fact, available to everyone. In Cultivating Creativity, you will learn how to unlock your creative potential and develop your creative expression. Through developing your creativity, you will become better at generating ideas and finding new perspectives. But, more importantly, with creativity, you will improve your capability to rise to the moment, to make the most of the potentials and demands of the present, and ...

Bestselling author and trend watcher Marc Ostrofsky is here to help. In this groundbreaking new audiobook, Ostrofsky reveals the ways that new technologies implant themselves in our daily lives and how we can easily take advantage of them to live, learn, buy, sell, work, play, communicate, and socialize better. Covering diverse topics from how the Internet affects our health to how we can become bargain-hunting pros, Ostrofsky's audiobook could come at no better time.

Painter Claudia Carr describes her surreal landscapes, composed from reflections of found objects that suggest imaginative scenarios of play and dreams.