This third edition encapsulates the many changes that have taken place in early childhood in the last five years. Whilst retaining its original message of the vital importance of play as a tool for learning, it consolidates this further with current evidence from research and pr…
Family and group theraplay / Evangeline Munns -- Research on theraplay effectiveness / Jim Wardrop and Linda Meyer -- The dysregulated child in theraplay / Liz DiPasquale -- Theraplay with overtly and passively resistant children / Shirley Eyles, Maria Boada, and Catherine Munns…
Encourages the reader to exercise by following the movements of various animals; presented in a question and answer format.
Gods and games: toward a theology of play
"Using game theory and examples of actual games people play, Nobel laureate Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler show how the elements of chance and rules underlie all that happens in the universe, from genetic behavior through economic growth to the composition of music." "To illu…
Introduction : playing the field / Allison Levy -- Performing pictures : parlor games and visual engagement in Ascanio de' Mori's Giuoco piacevole / Kelli Wood -- "Mixt" and matched : dance games in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe / Emily F. Winerock -- Ludi…
Contains fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory. Emphasized in these essays are the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. The titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person,…
