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Barcode30293102294910
LocationClark County
Call No794 Clar
TitleAcross the board : how games make us human / Tim Clare.
AuthorClare, Tim, author.
CollectionNF
Total Circ0
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102294910794 Clar6/1/2025 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781419780561 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 1419780565 (hardcover)
Personal Name Clare, Tim, author.
Title Statement Across the board : how games make us human / Tim Clare.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Abrams Press, 2025
Physical Description vi, 233 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographic notes (pages [225]-233).
Summary, Etc. "Tabletop games are ordinary and extraordinary. Ordinary because they're everywhere: played in bars and cafes, churches and casinos, through sunless winters in polar research stations and in the sweltering summer heat of Tanzanian villages and streamed live over Twitch to millions of viewers. They fill the activity pages of children's magazines and the halls of senior centers. They appear as smartphone apps and in luxury editions and as game boards scratched into the dirt. And they're extraordinary for precisely the same reason: they're everywhere, in every civilization, everywhere in the world across all recorded human history. In Across the Board, tabletop game aficionado Tim Clare takes us through that history and across those civilizations. We learn how the same games emerge over and over and how they've evolved and spread, as well as about the contemporary culture of gaming. With rousing enthusiasm, Tim explores games as familiar to us as Monopoly or chess, as niche as Magic: The Gathering, and as unexpected as the Japanese poetry-matching card game karuta. We learn about games as recreation and as ritual, and above all, we see how they can be a way for us to come together -- because of all the things that make us human, there's nothing quite so set up for connection as sharing a round of cards or the roll of a d20."-- Front flap of cover.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Board games History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Board games Social aspects.
Added Entry, Corporate Name Abrams (Publishing company), publisher.

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