It's All a Game
a short history of board games
$42.62
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
2 December 2019
Summary
‘Timely… wonderfully entertaining’ - The Wall Street Journal
In It’s All A Game, 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786494542 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178649454X |
| Author: | Tristan Donovan |
| Publisher: | Atlantic Books |
| Imprint: | Atlantic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2019 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
[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 *A brisk and hugely readable account of some of the world’s great board games and the amazing people who played them. Packed with fascinating tales from ancient Egyptian senet to Google’s AlphaGo. Highly recommended. – Ian Stewart, author of SIGNIFICANT FIGURES
About The Author
Tristan Donovan
Tristan Donovan is a journalist whose work has appeared on the BBC, in The Times, and in Wired amongst other publications. He lives in Brighton, UK.
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