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9780544570207 | Mariner Books, January 5, 2016, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Created for children but designed by adults with considerable ingenuity, architectural toys have long offered a window on a much larger world. In Architecture in Play, Tamar Zinguer explores the nearly two-hundred-year period over which such playthings have reflected changing attitudes toward form, structure, and permanence, echoing modernist experiments and stylistic inclinations in fascinating ways while also incorporating technological advances in their systems of construction...read more

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9780813937724 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 4, 2015, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Created for children but designed by adults with considerable ingenuity, architectural toys have long offered a window on a much larger world.

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9780534724962, titled "Introductory Sociology" | Custom edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, October 1, 2000), cover price $57.95 | also contains Introductory Sociology | About this edition: Sociology 7e by Jon M.

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Product Description: Philosophical Perspectives on Play builds on the disciplinary and paradigmatic bridges constructed between the study of philosophy and play in The Philosophy of Play (Routledge, 2013) to develop a richer understanding of the concept and nature of play and its relation to human life and value...read more
By Emily Ryall (editor)

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9781138841437 | Routledge, September 2, 2015, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Philosophical Perspectives on Play builds on the disciplinary and paradigmatic bridges constructed between the study of philosophy and play in The Philosophy of Play (Routledge, 2013) to develop a richer understanding of the concept and nature of play and its relation to human life and value.

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Product Description: This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art. In particular, it analyzes ludic participation, in which play and games are used organizationally so that participants actively engage with or complete the work of art through their play...read more

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9781138850286 | Routledge, March 27, 2015, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art.
9780405052873, titled "The Jews in the Modern World" | Ayer Co Pub, December 1, 1988, cover price $36.50 | also contains The Jews in the Modern World | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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Product Description: The Handbook of the Study of Play brings together in two volumes thinkers whose diverse interests at the leading edge of scholarship and practice define the current field. Because play is an activity that humans have shared across time, place, and culture and in their personal developmental timelines—and because this behavior stretches deep into the evolutionary past—no single discipline can lay claim to exclusive rights to study the subject...read more
By David Kuschner (editor)

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9781475807943 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 5, 2015, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: The Handbook of the Study of Play brings together in two volumes thinkers whose diverse interests at the leading edge of scholarship and practice define the current field.

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Product Description: Part memoir, part manifesto, this exploration of the underside of America’s obsession with safety is prompted by the author’s visit to a thrillingly alarming adventure playground in Tokyo"How fully can the world be explored," asks Amy Fusselman " ...read more

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9780544303003 | Houghton Mifflin, January 13, 2015, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Part memoir, part manifesto, this exploration of the underside of America’s obsession with safety is prompted by the author’s visit to a thrillingly alarming adventure playground in Tokyo"How fully can the world be explored," asks Amy Fusselman " .

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By Malcolm Maclean (editor)

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9780415538350 | Routledge, March 22, 2013, cover price $145.00

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9781138833876 | Reprint edition (Routledge, October 10, 2014), cover price $47.95

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Product Description: Play is a foundational concept that animates life, work, creativity and organization; and while play is essential, it also dislodges the very meaning of these terms. Organization in Play explores different meanings, usages and understandings of play to present novel and insightful perspectives on capitalism, management, markets, bureaucracy and other organizational phenomena...read more

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9783034302135 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 29, 2011, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: Play is a foundational concept that animates life, work, creativity and organization; and while play is essential, it also dislodges the very meaning of these terms.

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Product Description: Exceeds maximum length of 2000 characters; Reflective Playwork provides an introduction to playwork values, principles and practice for all who work with children. It recognizes that play is a need for all, and seeks to encourage the provision of time and space for all children to freely enjoy its benefits...read more

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9781441167682 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 10, 2010, cover price $130.00

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9780826497642 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 10, 2010, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Exceeds maximum length of 2000 characters; Reflective Playwork provides an introduction to playwork values, principles and practice for all who work with children.

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Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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9781443725576 | Read Books, November 30, 2008, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
9780405052873 | Ayer Co Pub, December 1, 1988, cover price $36.50 | also contains Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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9781406735796 | Hesperides Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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Product Description: This book introduces the critical concepts and debates that are shaping the emerging field of game studies. Exploring games in the context of cultural studies and media studies, it analyses computer games as the most popular contemporary form of new media production and consumption...read more

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9780335213580 | Open Univ Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This book introduces the critical concepts and debates that are shaping the emerging field of game studies.

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Introduces the critical concepts and debates that are shaping the field of game studies. Exploring games in the context of cultural studies and media studies, this book analyses computer games as the most popular contemporary form of new media production and consumption.

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9780335213573 | Open Univ Pr, May 30, 2006, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Introduces the critical concepts and debates that are shaping the field of game studies.

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Product Description: Masking the Abject traces the beginnings of the malediction of play in Western metaphysics to Aristotle. Mechthild Nagel's innovative study demonstrates how play has served as a 'castaway' in western philosophical thinking: It is considered to be repulsive and loathsome, yet also fascinating and desirable...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780739103074 | Lexington Books, August 1, 2002, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: Masking the Abject traces the beginnings of the malediction of play in Western metaphysics to Aristotle.

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9780739103081 | Lexington Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $30.99 | About this edition: Masking the Abject traces the beginnings of the malediction of play in Western metaphysics to Aristotle.

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Insightful and innovative, a guide to revitalizing organizational skills for relieving stress centers around five principles--play, organization, self, emergence, and coherence. Original. 25,000 first printing. IP.

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9781881052951 | Berrett-Koehler Pub, August 1, 1996, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Drawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers, the authors offer a program for organizing and leading human activity in all types of organizations, based a new theory of human evolution

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9781576750506 | Berrett-Koehler Pub, December 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Drawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers, the authors offer a program for organizing and leading human activity in all types of organizations, based a new theory of human evolution

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781574530537 | Abridged edition (Audio Literature, August 1, 1996), cover price $17.95

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Product Description: Play resides at the heart of the Platonic dialogues, shaping their insights as well as informing their style. The Play of the Platonic Dialogues traces the prominent role of play, both as a general philosophical characteristic and as influencing the treatment of key issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780820433134 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: Play resides at the heart of the Platonic dialogues, shaping their insights as well as informing their style.

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By William S. Sax (editor)

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9780195091014 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 16, 1995, cover price $59.95

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9780195091021 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 16, 1995, cover price $49.95

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Product Description: The primary aim of this study is to formulate desiderata for «ludic criticism,» a strategy which is proffered as a mode of approaching the opaque and highly playful fictions that have been created by writers in Europe and America in the last quarter of this century...read more

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9780820419428 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 1, 1994, cover price $53.95 | About this edition: The primary aim of this study is to formulate desiderata for «ludic criticism,» a strategy which is proffered as a mode of approaching the opaque and highly playful fictions that have been created by writers in Europe and America in the last quarter of this century.

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A philosophical and psychological examination of play discusses play as an original and creative force and as a practical and universal way to experience belonging

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9781558742536 | Hci, March 1, 1993, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A philosophical and psychological examination of play discusses play as an original and creative force and as a practical and universal way to experience belonging

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Product Description: The literature on mass communication is now dominated by objective sociological approaches. What makes the work of Stephenson so unusual is his starting points: his frank willingness to adopt a subjective and psychological approach to the study of mass communication...read more

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9780887387050 | Rev sub edition (Transaction Pub, January 1, 1988), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: The literature on mass communication is now dominated by objective sociological approaches.

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Product Description: Book by Hans, James S.

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9780870233241 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, July 1, 1981, cover price $27.50

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9780870233258 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, July 1, 1981, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Book by Hans, James S.

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