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Games Indians Play

Author : V Raghunathan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184750021
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Games Indians Play written by V Raghunathan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Raghunathan writes really well . . . there are rare instances where a reviewer thinks; I wish I could write like that. This is one of those rare instances’ —Bibek Debroy in Indian Express In a rare attempt to understand the Indianness of Indians—among the most intelligent people in the world; but also; to a dispassionate eye; perhaps the most baffling—V. Raghunathan uses the props of game theory and behavioural economics to provide an insight into the difficult conundrum of why we are the way we are. He puts under the scanner our attitudes towards rationality and irrationality; selflessness and selfishness; competition and cooperation; and collaboration and deception. Drawing examples from the way we behave in day-to-day situations; Games Indians Play tries to show how in the long run each one of us—whether businessmen; politicians; bureaucrats; or just plain us—stand to profit more if we were to assume a little self-regulation; give fairness a chance and strive to cooperate and collaborate a little more even if self-interest were to be our main driving force.

Games Indians Play

Author : V. Raghunathan
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143063117
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Games Indians Play written by V. Raghunathan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to understand the Indianness of Indians - among the most intelligent people in the world. The author uses the props of game theory and behavioural economics to provide an insight into the difficult conundrum of why we are the way we are.

Games Indians Play

Author : V. Raghunathan
Publisher : Prhi
ISBN 13 : 9780143429951
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Games Indians Play written by V. Raghunathan and published by Prhi. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Raghunathan writes really well . . . there are rare instances where a reviewer thinks; I wish I could write like that. This is one of those rare instances' -Bibek Debroy in Indian Express In a rare attempt to understand the Indianness of Indians-among the most intelligent people in the world; but also; to a dispassionate eye; perhaps the most baffling-V. Raghunathan uses the props of game theory and behavioural economics to provide an insight into the difficult conundrum of why we are the way we are. He puts under the scanner our attitudes towards rationality and irrationality; selflessness and selfishness; competition and cooperation; and collaboration and deception. Drawing examples from the way we behave in day-to-day situations; Games Indians Play tries to show how in the long run each one of us-whether businessmen; politicians; bureaucrats; or just plain us-stand to profit more if we were to assume a little self-regulation; give fairness a chance and strive to cooperate and collaborate a little more even if self-interest were to be our main driving force.

Handbook of American Indian Games

Author : Allan and Paulette Macfarlan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486157563
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of American Indian Games by : Allan and Paulette Macfarlan

Download or read book Handbook of American Indian Games written by Allan and Paulette Macfarlan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich collection of 150 authentic American Indian games for boys and girls of all ages: running, relay, kicking, throwing and rolling, tossing and catching, guessing, group-challenge and many other games. 74 black-and-white illustrations.

Prehistoric Games of North American Indians

Author : Barbara Voorhies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607815594
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Games of North American Indians written by Barbara Voorhies and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dreams of a Billion

Author : Boria Majumdar
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353576016
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Dreams of a Billion written by Boria Majumdar and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As India gears up for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the country will focus once again on the moments of glory we have had on the largest sports arena in the world, featuring such stalwarts as Abhinav Bindra, Mary Kom and PV Sindhu. But it will also be time to ask again the question we ask ourselves every four years: why does a country of a billion plus have so little to show for itself at the Olympics?Dreams of a Billion gives the reader an inside view of what goes on backstage in the Indian Olympics world, alongside a quick history of how India has fared at the Olympics over the past century, and a look at how the Indian Olympics world has changed in the last decade. Which brings us to the question: How good is India's preparation for Tokyo 2020? Can Tokyo be the gamechanger Indian sport wants it to be and hopes it will be?

Games of the North American Indians

Author : Stewart Culin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486231259
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Games of the North American Indians written by Stewart Culin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete work ever prepared on the subject — based on museum collections, travel and ethnographic accounts, and author's own research. Covers over 200 tribes and everything from games of chance and dexterity to such minor amusements as shuttlecock and tipcat. Bureau of American Ethnology report worth a substantial sum in original edition. 1,112 figures.

On the Rez

Author : Ian Frazier
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312278595
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book On the Rez written by Ian Frazier and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-05-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raw account of modern day Oglala Sioux who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.

The Real All Americans

Author : Sally Jenkins
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385522991
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Real All Americans written by Sally Jenkins and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike. If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you’d be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native Americans deserved a place in American society. In 1879, Pratt made a treacherous journey to the Dakota Territory to recruit Carlisle’s first students. Years later, three students approached Pratt with the notion of forming a football team. Pratt liked the idea, and in less than twenty years the Carlisle football team was defeating their Ivy League opponents and in the process changing the way the game was played. Sally Jenkins gives this story of unlikely champions a breathtaking immediacy. We see the legendary Jim Thorpe kicking a winning field goal, watch an injured Dwight D. Eisenhower limping off the field, and follow the glorious rise of Coach Glenn “Pop” Warner as well as his unexpected fall from grace. The Real All Americans is about the end of a culture and the birth of a game that has thrilled Americans for generations. It is an inspiring reminder of the extraordinary things that can be achieved when we set aside our differences and embrace a common purpose.

Man, Play, and Games

Author : Roger Caillois
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252070334
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Man, Play, and Games written by Roger Caillois and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.

Boys' Games Among the North American Indians

Author : Edith Stow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boys' Games Among the North American Indians written by Edith Stow and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Indian Lacrosse

Author : Thomas Vennum
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801887642
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book American Indian Lacrosse written by Thomas Vennum and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the aboriginal roots of lacrosse, one must enter a world of spiritual belief and magic where players sewed inchworms into the innards of lacrosse balls and medicine men gazed at miniature lacrosse sticks to predict future events, where bits of bat wings were twisted into the stick's netting, and where famous players were—and are still—buried with their sticks. Here Thomas Vennum brings this world to life.

Why Baseball Matters

Author : Susan Jacoby
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300235402
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Why Baseball Matters written by Susan Jacoby and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital distraction. These paradoxes are explored by the historian and passionate baseball fan Susan Jacoby in a book that is both a love letter to the game and a tough-minded analysis of the current challenges to its special position—in reality and myth—in American culture. The concise but wide-ranging analysis moves from the Civil War—when many soldiers played ball in northern and southern prisoner-of-war camps—to interviews with top baseball officials and young men who prefer playing online “fantasy baseball” to attending real games. Revisiting her youthful days of watching televised baseball in her grandfather’s bar, the author links her love of the game with the informal education she received in everything from baseball’s history of racial segregation to pitch location. Jacoby argues forcefully that the major challenge to baseball today is a shortened attention span at odds with a long game in which great hitters fail two out of three times. Without sanitizing this basic problem, Why Baseball Matters remind us that the game has retained its grip on our hearts precisely because it has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to reinvent itself in times of immense social change.

American Indian Games

Author : Coordinator American Indian Studies Jay Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780516245812
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book American Indian Games written by Coordinator American Indian Studies Jay Miller and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly describes some of the toys and games used by various North American Indian cultures to amuse their children and teach lessons about life.

Gamer Nation

Author : John Wills
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421428695
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Gamer Nation written by John Wills and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how games actively influence the ways people interpret and relate to American life. In 1975, design engineer Dave Nutting completed work on a new arcade machine. A version of Taito's Western Gun, a recent Japanese arcade machine, Nutting's Gun Fight depicted a classic showdown between gunfighters. Rich in Western folklore, the game seemed perfect for the American market; players easily adapted to the new technology, becoming pistol-wielding pixel cowboys. One of the first successful early arcade titles, Gun Fight helped introduce an entire nation to video-gaming and sold more than 8,000 units. In Gamer Nation, John Wills examines how video games co-opt national landscapes, livelihoods, and legends. Arguing that video games toy with Americans' mass cultural and historical understanding, Wills show how games reprogram the American experience as a simulated reality. Blockbuster games such as Civilization, Call of Duty, and Red Dead Redemption repackage the past, refashioning history into novel and immersive digital states of America. Controversial titles such as Custer's Revenge and 08.46 recode past tragedies. Meanwhile, online worlds such as Second Life cater to a desire to inhabit alternate versions of America, while Paperboy and The Sims transform the mundane tasks of everyday suburbia into fun and addictive challenges. Working with a range of popular and influential games, from Pong, Civilization, and The Oregon Trail to Grand Theft Auto, Silent Hill, and Fortnite, Wills critically explores these gamic depictions of America. Touching on organized crime, nuclear fallout, environmental degradation, and the War on Terror, Wills uncovers a world where players casually massacre Native Americans and Cold War soldiers alike, a world where neo-colonialism, naive patriotism, disassociated violence, and racial conflict abound, and a world where the boundaries of fantasy and reality are increasingly blurred. Ultimately, Gamer Nation reveals not only how video games are a key aspect of contemporary American culture, but also how games affect how people relate to America itself.

The Great Tamasha

Author : James Astill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608199177
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Great Tamasha written by James Astill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of cricket in India, discussing the creation of the Twenty20 cricket league and the corruption and scandal that followed.

The Games the Indians Played

Author : Sigmund A. Lavine
Publisher : New York : Dodd, Mead
ISBN 13 : 9780396068464
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book The Games the Indians Played written by Sigmund A. Lavine and published by New York : Dodd, Mead. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the wide variety of games engaged in by North and Central American Indians, including, lacrosse, cat's-cradle, dice games, and horse racing.