Board And Table Games From Many Civilizations

Author : R. C. Bell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486145573
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations written by R. C. Bell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedic volume provides the rules and methods of play for more than 180 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'i (Go), Backgammon, Pachisi, and many others. Over 300 photographs and line drawings.

Author : R. C. Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758171108
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations written by R. C. Bell and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Charles Bell (arts)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations written by Robert Charles Bell (arts) and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tristan Donovan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250082730
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( 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.

Author : David Parlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( 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.

Author : Robert Charles Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations written by Robert Charles Bell and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adrian Seville
Publisher : Mango Media
ISBN 13 : 1684813921
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Vintage Board Games written by Adrian Seville and published by Mango Media. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover and Delight in Old-Fashioned Board Games from the Past Discover the world of old-fashioned board games from Wall Street Journal acclaimed Adrian Seville, an international expert on the cultural history of printed board games. The golden age of board games. Explore the world of vintage board games in this lavishly illustrated book that traces their evolution and cultural significance. From geography and moral lessons to just fun, discover the diverse array of old-fashioned board games from a bygone era. Step back in time. Delve into a bygone era of gaming with this remarkable illustrated board game book. It showcases the exquisite artistry and ingenuity of these games, which covered themes ranging from educational to gambling to simply pure entertainment. Learn all about the moral board games that aimed to instill proper behavior or immerse yourself in the excitement of lottery board games, all while gaining insights into the cultural influences that shaped these games. The Book of Vintage Board Games offers a glimpse into where games started in Europe and the emergence of board games in America. Inside explore: The history of geography board games and more Distant lands through war or journey board games A treasure trove of beautifully designed boards each reflecting its unique historical context If you enjoyed board game books such as Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Oxford History of Board Games, or Seven Games: A Human History, then you will love Adrian Seville’s The Book of Vintage Board Games.

Author : Adrian Seville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788854415195
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( 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.

Author : Joseph Leeming
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486239774
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Games and Fun with Playing Cards written by Joseph Leeming and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1980-03-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a collection of 124 games, tricks, puzzles and stunts with cards that will provide hours of entertainment for all ages. 20 varieties of solitaire, old stand-bys — Go Fish, Crazy Eights, Old Maid — and lesser known games — Authors, Frogs in the Pond, Persian Pasha — and much more.

Author : Irving L. Finkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Board Games in Perspective written by Irving L. Finkel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone plays board games, and everyone will find something to fascinate them in this book about the games of the past, and their history and development. Based on the lectures given at a conference in the British Museum, this book tells the story in a properly academic way, but it is no less interesting for that ... and perhaps even more interesting! The book begins with three chapters on the games of the ancient Near East, most notably The Royal Game of Ur , then there are five chapters on the various games of ancient Egypt, senet, mehen , etc. Five more chapters are devoted to the games of the Greek and Roman world, then one on India, and three on Chinese games including Go. Then there are three on the beginnings of Chess and its introduction into western Europe, then four on backgammon from India to medieval England, three on mancala games, and one on the pursuit of hnefatafl , finally some brief notes on the games of the New World. The authors, thirty-one of them, range from archaeologists, historians and museum curators, not least Irving Finkel, the editor of the volume, to such well-known historians of games as R C Bell and the internationally famous grandmaster and journalist Raymond Keene. It is a large format book with hundreds of photos and drawings.