Celebrating Board Games

Author : Nina Chertoff,Susan Kahn
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1402738951

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Celebrating Board Games by Nina Chertoff,Susan Kahn Pdf

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,Ana Maria Martinez
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780063045538

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Celebrating Birds by Natalia Rojas,Ana Maria Martinez Pdf

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 : Terri Toles Patkin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476676913

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Who's in the Game? by Terri Toles Patkin Pdf

Some board games--like Candy Land, Chutes & Ladders, Clue, Guess Who, The Game of Life, Monopoly, Operation and Payday--have popularity spanning generations. But over time, updates to games have created significantly different messages about personal identity and evolving social values. Games offer representations of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, age, ability and social class that reflect the status quo and respond to social change. Using popular mass-market games, this rhetorical assessment explores board design, game implements (tokens, markers, 3-D elements) and playing instructions. This book argues the existence of board games as markers of an ever-changing sociocultural framework, exploring the nature of play and how games embody and extend societal themes and values.

Author : Megan A. Norcia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780429559266

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Gaming Empire in Children's British Board Games, 1836-1860 by Megan A. Norcia Pdf

Over a century before Monopoly invited child players to bankrupt one another with merry ruthlessness, a lively and profitable board game industry thrived in Britain from the 1750s onward, thanks to publishers like John Wallis, John Betts, and William Spooner. As part of the new wave of materials catering to the developing mass market of child consumers, the games steadily acquainted future upper- and middle-class empire builders (even the royal family themselves) with the strategies of imperial rule: cultivating, trading, engaging in conflict, displaying, and competing. In their parlors, these players learned the techniques of successful colonial management by playing games such as Spooner’s A Voyage of Discovery, or Betts’ A Tour of the British Colonies and Foreign Possessions. These games shaped ideologies about nation, race, and imperial duty, challenging the portrait of Britons as "absent-minded imperialists." Considered on a continuum with children’s geography primers and adventure tales, these games offer a new way to historicize the Victorians, Britain, and Empire itself. The archival research conducted here illustrates the changing disciplinary landscape of children’s literature/culture studies, as well as nineteenth-century imperial studies, by situating the games at the intersection of material and literary culture.

Author : Cynthia C. Nims
Publisher : Random House LLC
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781580080880

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Gourmet Game Night by Cynthia C. Nims Pdf

"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 : Lawrence C. Rubin, PhD, LMHC, RPT-S
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0826101194

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Popular Culture in Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Play-Based Interventions by Lawrence C. Rubin, PhD, LMHC, RPT-S Pdf

With a Foreword by Danny Fingeroth, former Group Editor of Marvel's Spiderman comics line Popular culture, simply stated, is the language of a people, expressed through everything from its clothing, food choices, and religious practices to its media. The popular and predominant values, interests, and needs of a society find their way into mass consciousness through a variety of venues including literature, cinema, television, video games, sport, and music. Through the inter-related forces of mass production, global marketing and the Internet, the fruits of popular culture penetrate into stores, living rooms, and everyday experience of children, teens, and adults in the form of catchphrases, toys, iconography, celebrities, and indelible images. Psychotherapists and counselors who can tap into the powerful images, messages, and icons of popular culture have at their disposal an unlimited universe of resources for growth, change, and healing. Using real-world case examples and sound psychological theory, this book demonstrates how you can immediately start incorporating popular culture icons and images into your counseling or therapy. In this way, the authors will help elevate your ability to conduct clinical interviews with clients of all ages and all types of clinical problems.

Author : Maria Provenzano
Publisher : Harper Celebrate
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780785245797

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Everyday Celebrations From Scratch by Maria Provenzano Pdf

Why wait for the holidays to celebrate? Life’s everyday moments are worthy of connecting people together with food and crafts. Everyday Celebrations from Scratch is filled with impressive (yet easy) recipes, step-by-step craft tutorials, and inspiration to set the scene--all to help you create the life you want, from scratch. First, Maria shares the essentials of everyday celebrations, including must-haves for a well-stocked pantry and the basic supplies for craft activities anyone can do. Each section of the book provides inspiration for both food and do-it-yourself (DIY) projects, so you can invest minimum time for maximum impact! Discover how fun it can be to celebrate . . . Weeknight meals, so even a takeout night is memorable Family, including an inspiring and nourishing breakfast before a loved one’s major presentation or important test Friendship, with crafts like custom bookmarks for your reading club or wine glass tags for a girl’s night in Sports, which can involve the best-ever tailgating party or a neighborhood backyard Olympics Seasons, to make it even easier to feel festive all year round Everyday celebrations are the foundations of memories that last a lifetime, and Maria will show you just how easy it can be!

Author : Nina Chertoff,Susan Kahn
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Christmas tree ornaments
ISBN : 140273896X

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Celebrating Christmas Ornaments by Nina Chertoff,Susan Kahn Pdf

They sparkle, they shine--they light up the tree and the eyes of all who look upon them: therein lies the beauty of Christmas ornaments. Across these pages in richly detailed photographs are a merrily glistening array of some of the most creative, clever, and exquisite ornaments ever produced. A lively introduction explains the tradition of decorating trees, and gives the history of ornaments from the first commercially marketed ones (made possible by a new glass-blowing process) to the silver balls and garlands produced by newly arrived immigrants to the United States to modern designs fashioned out of Styrofoam and satin. The authors also look at some homemade treasures, including designs on paper and food-based decorations such as cookies, pretzels, and marzipan.

Author : Chloe Germaine,Paul Wake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350202740

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Material Game Studies by Chloe Germaine,Paul Wake Pdf

This is the first volume to apply insights from the material turn in philosophy to the study of play and games. At a time of renewed interest in analogue gaming, as scholars are looking beyond the digital and virtual for the first time since the inception of game studies in the 1990s, Material Game Studies not only supports the importance of the (re)turn to the analogue, but proposes a materiality of play more broadly. Recognizing the entanglement of physical materiality with cultural meaning, the authors in this volume apply a range of theoretical approaches, from material eco-criticism to animal studies, to examine games and play as existing within worlds of matter. Different chapters focus on the material properties of board, card and role-playing games, how they are designed and made, how they are touched and played with, and how they connect with other human and nonhuman things. Bringing together international scholars, Material Game Studies defines a new field of material game studies and demonstrates how it is a valuable addition to wider debates about the material turn and the place of embodied humans in a material world.

Author : Damian Gareth Walker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781326066956

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A Book of Historic Board Games by Damian Gareth Walker Pdf

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 : Jade Summers
Publisher : Jade Summers
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798224086399

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Colors and Cultures: Celebrating Asia's Fascinating Festivals by Jade Summers Pdf

Dive into the vibrant world of Asian festivals with "Colors and Cultures: Celebrating Asia's Fascinating Festivals," a beautifully illustrated and deeply insightful book that explores the rich tapestry of traditions, rituals, and celebrations across Asia. From the dazzling lights of Diwali in India to the serene beauty of Japan's Cherry Blossom Festival, this book takes readers on a journey through the continent's most captivating and colorful events. Each chapter delves into the history, cultural significance, and unique customs of each festival, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the diverse cultures that make up Asia. Packed with stunning photographs and engaging narratives, "Colors and Cultures" is not just a book, but an immersive experience that brings the spirit of Asian festivals to life. Whether you are an avid traveler, a cultural enthusiast, or simply curious about the world, this book will enrich your knowledge and appreciation of Asia's festive heritage. Celebrate the joy, color, and unity of Asia's festivals with "Colors and Cultures."

Author : Daniel Diehl,Mark Donnelly
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0811728668

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Medieval Celebrations by Daniel Diehl,Mark Donnelly Pdf

Medieval historians Diehl and Donnelly provide ideas and instructions for planning an authentic medieval celebration, complete with guidelines on proper table manners, lyrics and music for festive songs and dances, rules for games, plans for decorating the dining hall, food and drink recipes, and period costume patterns. Specific information is offered for holiday celebrations and wedding services and receptions.

Author : Tristan Donovan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781250082732

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It's All a Game by Tristan Donovan Pdf

"[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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christmas
ISBN : MINN:31951D021089545

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Celebrating the Tradition by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kirti Makhija
Publisher : Educreation Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ideas For Holidays, Celebrations and Parties by Kirti Makhija Pdf

This book "IDEAS FOR HOLIDAYS, CELEBRATIONS AND PARTIES" is completely about the creative and amazing ideas for spending vacations, writing cards, birthday wishes, celebrating parties, spending spare time usefully and etc. With this book, no one will ever be confused whom to write an extremely humorous birthday message and whom to write a simple one; no one will ever be confused how to spare time in such a way that gives successive productivity. So dear reader, this book is a perfect one if you are the amazing ideas for the same.