In A History of Egypt, Jason Thompson has written the first one-volume work to encompass all 5,000 years of Egyptian history, highlighting the surprisingly strong connections between the ancient land of the Pharaohs and the modern-day Arab nation.
No country's past can match Egypt's in antiquity, richness, and variety. However, it is rarely presented as a comprehensive panorama because scholars tend to divide it into distinct eras prehistoric, pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, medieval Islamic, Ottoman, and modern that are not often studied in relation to one another. In this...

In the Game Culture Reader, editors Jason C. Thompson and Marc Ouellette propose that Game Studies-that peculiar multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary field wherein international researchers from such diverse areas as rhetoric, computer science, literary studies, culture studies, psychology, media studies and so on come together to study the production, distribution, and consumption of games-has reached an unproductive stasis. Its scholarship remains either divided (as in narratologists versus ludologists debate) or indecisive (as in its frequently apolitical stances on play and fandom)....