Author: Gorō SakataPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gomoku
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Five-in-a-row, Renju
Author: Gorō SakataAudience and Actors
Author: Jacob RazPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004658254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A Book of Historic Board Games
Author: Damian Gareth WalkerPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326034804
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Board games have been played throughout the world for thousands of years. Many times, in many different cultures, people have amused themselves by devising mock races, battles and hunts, played in miniature on a small surface. The rules and the level of sophistication have changed through the ages, but the general idea has remained the same. Some of the oldest games, like backgammon, chess and draughts, are still popular today. This book looks at twelve different games taken from various periods of history. Most will not be recognised by the general public, but deserve to be better known. They are pachisi, halma, agon, tâb, fanorona, nine men's morris, wari, konane, xiang qi, tablut, asalto and renju. Each game has a whole chapter to itself, which includes a history, the rules, and a section on strategy and tactics. It is the author's intention that the reader will gain appreciation and enthusiasm for these wonderful old games, and be entertained by them for years to come.
War for Humanity
Author: A.R. LerwillPublisher: A.R. Lerwill
ISBN: 152726159X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Freya awakens to find a letter. The contents will challenge her and shake the foundations of the order. Honouring the final wishes of a dying man, Aldber travels to the Hollow Mountains in search of the legendary Mount Meru, seeking knowledge. But he is unaware that a revered assassin is hunting him. Held hostage in the desert fortress of Madarosa, Hecta receives torture. He is the only person capable of establishing communications between both continents. The chance of this happening dwindles as he slowly loses his sanity. The full moon approaches, when the centauri will launch their forces to conquer the world. The day of judgment draws upon them all.
Proceedings
Author: IEEE Symposium on Adaptive ProcessesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adaptive control systems
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Book of Games
Author: Jack BotermansPublisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402742217
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
This lavishly illustrated 736-page reference provides a lifetime of entertainment! It contains complete rules, playing tips, and instructive move-by-move examples of 65 fun and diverse games. They range from Senat, a pastime enjoyed by King Tut, to Hex, invented by a 20th-century mathematician; from strategy games like Siege of Paris to dice games like Chuck-a-Luck to chase games like Pachisi; from Asian Shogi to African Wari; and from traditional Chess and Go to modern creations like Mastermind and Othello. Colorful illustrations show old-time and modern players, game boards, and equipment alongside fascinating anecdotes and curious facts about games throughout history. For every player, this one’s a sure winner!
Games & Puzzles
Author: Developing Zeami
Author: Shelley Fenno QuinnPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824843495
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The great noh actor, theorist, and playwright Zeami Motokiyo (ca. 1363-1443) is one of the major figures of world drama. His critical treatises have attracted international attention ever since their publication in the early 1900s. His corpus of work and ideas continues to offer a wealth of insights on issues ranging from the nature of dramatic illusion and audience interest to tactics for composing successful plays to issues of somaticity and bodily training. Shelley Fenno Quinn’s impressive interpretive examination of Zeami’s treatises addresses all of these areas as it outlines the development of the playwright’s ideas on how best to cultivate attunement between performer and audience. Quinn begins by tracing Zeami’s transformation of the largely mimetic stage art of his father’s troupe into a theater of poiesis in which the playwright and actors aim for performances wherein dance and chant are re-keyed to the evocative power of literary memory. Synthesizing this remembered language of stories, poems, phrases, and their prosodies and associated auras with the flow of dance and chant led to the creation of a dramatic prototype that engaged and depended on the audience as never before. Later chapters examine a performance configuration created by Zeami (the nikyoku santai) as articulated in his mature theories on the training of the performer. Drawing on possible reference points from Buddhist and Daoist thought, the author argues that Zeami came to treat the nikyoku santai as a set of guidelines for bracketing the subjectivity of the novice actor, thereby allowing the actor to reach a certain skill level or threshold from which his freedom as an artist might begin.
God Speaks My Language
Author: Aloo Osotsi MojolaPublisher: Langham Publishing
ISBN: 1783688246
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This is the fascinating and important story of how God’s Word came to East Africa. Beginning with the pioneering efforts of Krapf and Rebmann, Aloo Osotsi Mojola traces the history of Bible translation in the region from 1844 to the present. He incorporates four decades of personal conversations and interviews, along with extensive research, to provide the first comprehensive account of the translations undertaken in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The maps and tables included assist the reader, as does a history of the Swahili language – its standardization, role as lingua franca, and impact on the work of translation. Mojola’s writing is a tribute to those who sacrificed much in their quest to see the word of God accessible to all people, in all places – and the many who continue to sacrifice for the peoples of East Africa. This book is a key contribution to the important and ongoing narrative of how God has met us, and continues to meet us, in our own contexts and our own languages.
Unparalled Spirit Sovereign
Author: Jiu LongZhenQiPublisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1648845215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 723
Book Description
On the continent of spiritual energy, young Ye Feng was born with a broken soul and was unable to fuse with spirit beasts, causing him to be unable to cultivate. At such a young age, he was bullied. A little cub, full of spirit, could improve a teenager's soul, a good-for-nothing teenager, and suddenly had a strong and powerful rise! Close]