My Life as a Night Elf Priest by Bonnie Nardi
Bonnie Nardi, scholar, ethnographer, human–computer-interaction researcher, and author of one of my favourite books, A Small Matter of Programming, also wrote this personal ethnographic account of her research into and explorations of World of Warcraft: My Life as a Night Elf Priest.
From Wikipedia:
World of Warcraft was a major critical and commercial success upon its original release in 2004 and quickly became the most popular MMORPG of all time, reaching a peak of 12 million subscribers in 2010.
2010 also being when this book was published.
Most text of the cover is in various sizes of ITC Goudy Sans and sadly not the more erratic Goudy Sans which might have made a better fit for the topic. Text in yellow—“My Life as a Night Elf Priest”, “World of WarCraft”, and “Bonnie A. Nardi”—has a 3D bevel effect applied, similar to World of Warcraft official art. While the word “WarCraft” tends to appear with an internal capital C in official art and similar, in running text it seems to consistently be spelled without the capital. Text in red is added in Clearface Gothic.
Also, elf on cover with facepaint, gigantic shoulder pads, and bearing behind their head some sort of antler-/tree-like structure festooned with polygonal gold leaves.
