Celebrating Board Games

Author : Nina Chertoff
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402738951
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( 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.

Author : Natalia Rojas
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063045532
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celebrating Birds written by Natalia Rojas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously illustrated and interactive full-color guide to more than 181 birds of North America, based on the bestselling board game, Wingspan. Praised for its gorgeous illustrations, accurate portrayal of bird habitats, and its gameplay, the bird-focused board game Wingspan has become an international sensation, available in a dozen languages and selling more than 200,000 copies its first year. Celebrating Birds is the ultimate companion to the game for fans, as well as a beautiful and in-depth field guide for avian and nature enthusiasts. In addition to large-size representations of each bird and the most up-to-date bird descriptions provided by Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Celebrating Birds includes a step-by-step guide that can be used to take the game into the real world. Players can collect points based on the birds, nests, and various habitat and feeding clues they find outside. Artists and best friends Natalia Rojas and Ana Maria Martinez collaborated to create the beautiful depictions featured in the original Wingspan board game. Celebrating Birds features larger illustrations of the 170 North American birds from the game, plus eleven exciting new birds. With Celebrating Birds, players and amateur naturalists can discover details about many of the birds currently at risk for extinction. As the number of birds in the United States and Canada has declined precipitously, Celebrating Birds is a fun way to raise awareness, educate, encourage activism, and provide resources on some of the most important ecological issues facing us today.

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 : Irving Finkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566490726
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( 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.

Author : Jesse Terrance Daniels
Publisher : Storey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1635863414
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Your Own Board Game written by Jesse Terrance Daniels and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Game design expert Jesse Terrance Daniels teaches all the fundamentals of game design, from rule-setting to physical construction, along with original illustrations that capture the ethos and energy of the young, contemporary gaming community"--

Author : Cynthia C. Nims
Publisher : Random House LLC
ISBN 13 : 158008088X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gourmet Game Night written by Cynthia C. Nims and published by Random House LLC. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Creative and whole-foods recipes designed to keep fingers clean during hand-intensive activities such as board game parties, poker nights, knitting groups, and more"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Philip E. Orbanes
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306815923
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monopoly written by Philip E. Orbanes and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Orbanes, master of all things Monopoliana, traces the remarkable story of the world’s most famous board game, from its origins as a collegiate teaching tool in the early twentieth century through Monopoly’s explosive growth in the postwar decades, to the game’s current status as a fixture in homes across the globe. Along the way, Orbanes includes memorable Monopoly personality portraits, surprising Monopoly legends and lore, and an extraordinary tour of the ingenious advertising that contributed to the game’s rise in popularity. This is the first and only book to cover comprehensively the origin, growth, and global reach of the game that has become a universal and everyday cultural icon.

Author : Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152006310
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watch Me Dance written by Andrea Davis Pinkney and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African American girl shows her little brother how she dances.

Author : Damian Gareth Walker
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326066951
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Historic Board Games written by Damian Gareth Walker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Board games have been played throughout the world for thousands of years. Many times, in many different cultures, people have amused themselves by devising mock races, battles and hunts, played in miniature on a small surface. The rules and the level of sophistication has changed through the ages, but the general idea has remained the same. Some of the oldest games, like backgammon, chess and draughts, are still popular today. This book looks at twelve different games taken from various periods of history. Most will not be recognised by the general public, but deserve to be better known. They are pachisi, halma, agon, tâb, fanorona, nine men's morris, wari, konane, xiang qi, tablut, asalto and renju. Each game has a whole chapter to itself, which includes a history, the rules, and a section on strategy and tactics. It is the author's intention that the reader will gain appreciation and enthusiasm for these wonderful old games, and be entertained by them for years to come.

Author : Mary Pilon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620405717
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monopolists written by Mary Pilon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins. Most think it was invented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers during the Great Depression in 1935 and lived happily--and richly--ever after. That story, however, is not exactly true. Ralph Anspach, a professor fighting to sell his Anti-Monopoly board game decades later, unearthed the real story, which traces back to Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and a forgotten feminist named Lizzie Magie who invented her nearly identical Landlord's Game more than thirty years before Parker Brothers sold their version of Monopoly. Her game--underpinned by morals that were the exact opposite of what Monopoly represents today--was embraced by a constellation of left-wingers from the Progressive Era through the Great Depression, including members of Franklin Roosevelt's famed Brain Trust. A gripping social history of corporate greed that illuminates the cutthroat nature of American business over the last century, The Monopolists reads like the best detective fiction, told through Monopoly's real-life winners and losers.