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288 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674005815
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 15 May 2001
Description
Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? D...
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288 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674005815
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 15 May 2001
Description
Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? D...