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Avidly Reads Board Games

Author : Eric Thurm
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479815829
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Avidly Reads Board Games written by Eric Thurm and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly—an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books—specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life. Writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat, capitalist priorities of Monopoly and its socialist counterpart, Class Struggle, Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce hierarchies and relationships—from the familial to the geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night, Board Games is an engaging book of twists and turns, trivia, and nostalgia.

The Board Game Book

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781916456228
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book The Board Game Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

It's All a Game

Author : Tristan Donovan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250082730
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book It's All a Game written by Tristan Donovan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] timely book...It’s All a Game provides a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history."—The Wall Street Journal Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It’s All a Game, British journalist and renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from the paranoid Chicago toy genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the scientific use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan ultimately reveals why board games--from chess to Monopoly to Settlers of Catan, and more--have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations.

Board Games in 100 Moves

Author : Ian Livingstone
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465498710
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Board Games in 100 Moves written by Ian Livingstone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprising stories behind the games you know and love to play. Journey through 8,000 years of history, from Ancient Egyptian Senet and Indian Snakes and Ladders, right up to role-play, fantasy and hybrid games of the present day. More than 100 games are explored chronologically, from the most ancient to the most modern. Every chapter is full of insightful anecdotes exploring everything from design and acquisition to game play and legacy.

Board Games as Media

Author : Paul Booth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 1501357174
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Board Games as Media written by Paul Booth and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading expert Paul Booth explores the growth in popularity of board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game. What does a game communicate? How do games play us? And how do we decide which games to play and which are just wastes of cardboard? With little scholarly research in this still-emerging field, Board Games as Media underscores the importance of board games in the ever-evolving world of media.

The Oxford History of Board Games

Author : David Parlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of Board Games written by David Parlett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, people have been planning attacks, captures, chases, and conquests - on a variety of different boards designed for an astonishing diversity of games. Today the compelling mix of strategy, skill, and chance is as strong as ever; new board games are invented almost daily,while the perennial favourites continue to attract new devotees and reveal new possibilities. The Oxford History of Board Games investigates the principles of board games throughout the ages and across the world, exploring the fascinating similarities and differences that give each its unique appeal, and drawing out the significance of game-playing as a central part of human experience - asvital to a culture as its music, dance, and tales. Beautifully illustrated and with diagrams to show the finer points of the games, this is a fascinating and accessible guide to a richly rewarding subject. In his trade-mark accessible, entertaining style, David Parlett looks at the different families of games: games based on configuration or connection, races or chases, wars or hunts, capture or blockade. He focuses mainly on traditional games, the folk entertainments that have grown up organicallythrough the centuries, and which exhibit endless local variations, although he discusses also the commercial products that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to match their astonishing popularity. This is not primarily a how-to book, although the rules and strategies of certain games are discussed in detail, neither does it offer sure-fire tips for success, although with a fuller understanding of a game the reader will undoubtedly become a better-informed, if not better, player. Rather, itis an affectionate and authoritative survey of one of the most familiar parts of our cultural history, which has until now been inexplicably neglected.

Celebrating Board Games

Author : Nina Chertoff
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402738951
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Celebrating Board Games written by Nina Chertoff and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful and nostalgic pictorial celebration of board games will transport readers back to a simpler time, when child’s play didn’t involve video games or computer screens of any kind. More than 100 of the best are featured, from the 19th century until today, with pictures of both the boards and the various pieces. They include Animal Crackers, which dates from 1883; Across the Continent (1888); the ever-popular children’s favorite Candyland (1938); Nurse Ames (1944); the mystery game Clue (1950); Elvis (1958); and many more. Some are well-known, others more rare, but they will surely send readers scrambling to their old toy chests to play another round.

More Board Games

Author : Desi Scarpone
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764311611
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book More Board Games written by Desi Scarpone and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Board games continue to fascinate players and collectors alike, and their appeal is rapidly growing. This completely new book presents over 1000 color photographs of board games ranging from the 1920s to the 1990s, an informative text, vintage advertisements, and current prices. It is sure to satisfy the game playing appetites of collectors, dealers, and enthusiasts everywhere.

The Everything Tabletop Games Book

Author : Bebo
Publisher : Everything
ISBN 13 : 1507210620
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Everything Tabletop Games Book written by Bebo and published by Everything. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tabletop and board games aren’t just for rainy days or awkward family events anymore. As the game industry grows, people of all ages are jumping to play “the original social network.” In our ever-increasing technological world, playing old-school games is a welcome retreat from the overexposure to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and the rest of social media. Over the past few years, board games have become the hot new hobby. Instead of friends sitting around the same table and staring at their phones, they are now either working with or against each other. Millions upon millions of new fans have begun to join their friends in real life for a fun game of Pandemic, 7 Wonders, or Ticket to Ride. The Everything Tabletop Games Book shows how to play some of the best tabletop games in the world, from classic strategy games like Settlers of Catan to great new games like Gloomhaven. Throughout the book, you’ll learn the different genres of tabletop and board games; how to play each game; rules and strategies to help you win; and even where to play online—including new expansions to keep your favorite games fresh and exciting. So gather up some friends, pick a game from this book, and start playing! You’ll be having a blast in no time.

The Book of Classic Board Games

Author : Sid Sackson
Publisher : Klutz
ISBN 13 : 9780932592941
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Classic Board Games written by Sid Sackson and published by Klutz. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive rules for 15 classic games, each illustrated in a different and beautiful style. Comes with a supply of black and white playing pieces and a pair of dice, all of which can always be kept handy in the book's bound-in, zip-up storage pouch. Neat!

Board Games to Create and Play

Author : Kevan Davis
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1911624296
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Board Games to Create and Play written by Kevan Davis and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create the next Snakes and Ladders, Monopoly, The Game of Life, Ticket to Ride, or Settlers of Catan with this creative board game book! Board games are back in vogue, with board game cafés popping up around the world. This interactive gaming book teaches you how, in just half an hour, you and your friends can come up with a new game and start playing immediately. Just decide on a theme for the game, pick a rule set from the book, agree on some variations, color in one of many board game designs, and gather your die and counters! Possible to play in any order, this book is packed with tips, tricks, and mechanics on how to design the perfect game. With 40 different rule sets, each introducing a new concept, it encourages you to develop and test your own rules. Whatever the age range or experience of players, the game that you create from this book will always be playable, entertaining, and surprising. Each board you create is easy to pull out and completely reusable to play again and again.

The Amazing Game Board Book

Author : Shereen Gertel Rutman
Publisher : 젬키드
ISBN 13 : 9781584760207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Amazing Game Board Book written by Shereen Gertel Rutman and published by 젬키드. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 50 games and activities, including mazes, tangrams, superstar hangman, reusable fortune-teller, cosmic science games, optical illusions, brain teasers, write-on/wipe-off drawing board, and much more!

The Book of Pop-up Board Games

Author : David West
Publisher : Pop Up Board Games S.
ISBN 13 : 9781857071566
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Pop-up Board Games written by David West and published by Pop Up Board Games S.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four exciting games: Pirates search for hidden treasure; Medieval Knights race to rescue a beautiful princess; fearless Astronauts try to escape from an alien spaceship; a scary Mummy chases a group of explorers through the tombs of ancient Egypt. Includes an integrated spinner, press-out counters, and storage pockets.

Educational Board Games

Author : Atma Vidya Educational Foundation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788125011934
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Educational Board Games written by Atma Vidya Educational Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource book for teachers presents board games formulated to educate children through the medium of funfilled entertainment. The games here are grouped into categories such as English, history, science, social studies and mathematics and are meant for use at the lower primary level. These educational board games were developed by the teachers of Sri Atmananda Memorial School, Kerala, who have actually used these games to great advantage while teaching their students.

Vintage Board Games

Author : Adrian Seville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788854415195
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Vintage Board Games written by Adrian Seville and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The printed board game reached new heights of beauty and ingenuity during the nineteenth century, covering almost every conceivable theme, from geography or history to contemporary crazes. Some relied on dice or a numbered spinning top called a teetotum, others were meant for gambling, and still more were "mind games" requiring serious thought. They all appear in this lavish book, which displays elaborately designed boards and traces their development through time.

Ancient Board Games

Author : Irving Finkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566490726
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Board Games written by Irving Finkel and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are four board games -- the Royal Game of Ur; Mehen, the Game of the Snake; Hounds and Jackals; and the Egyptian Game of Senet -- which were popular in the days of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt and in nearby countries from about 5,000 years ago, chosen and recreated by Dr. Irving Finkel of the British Museum. Everything you need to play them is here: the playing boards recreated in sumptuous colors, playing pieces, and full instructions including variations and other possibilities you may like to try.

For the Love of Board Games

Author : Erin Dean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986287237
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book For the Love of Board Games written by Erin Dean and published by . This book was released on 2019-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Love of Board Games is a book that explores how modern, popular board games were created by interviewing the designers behind the games. Stories in this book come from some of the industry's biggest board game designers: Matt Leacock, Jamey Stegmaier, Bruno Cathala, Richard Garfield, Reiner Knizia, and many others.