The Game Changers

The Game Changers How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too

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Publisher's Synopsis

'The best book on games I've read in years' G.T. KARBER, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of MURDLE

'Clare is a fabulous tour guide through the history of table games' Tom Brewster, presenter of Shut Up & Sit Down

Why is playing games a universal human instinct?
Why did the same games evolve across wildly different civilisations?
And how can those games make your life happier, healthier and more fulfilled?

The history of board games is really the history of human civilisation. Through it we see how our species has learned to live with one another, make deals, take on different roles and manage the ups and downs of luck.

In this entertaining and thought-provoking look at games through the ages, Tim Clare explores the legal highs of a good dice roll, the thrills of a predatory race game and the tactile pleasures of the games that age with us through our lives to discover how, through play, we become fully ourselves.

Drawing on Roman anti-cheating devices, organised crime card syndicates and the combative domestic bonding ritual of Monopoly, The Game Changers explains why games are more popular now than ever, and how playing them helps us learn to be better losers, make smarter decisions and become more human.

Book information

ISBN: 9781805301349
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate
Pub date:
DEWEY: 794.09
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 20948
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 408g
Height: 228mm
Width: 160mm
Spine width: 27mm