Download or read book Board Game Builder Milton Bradley written by Lee Slater and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging biography, readers will learn about the builder of board games, Milton Bradley. Follow the story from Bradley's childhood, his early entrepreneurial work creating and selling stationery, his drafting education at Harvard, his first business creating and selling lithographs, and how these experiences came together when he formed the Milton Bradley Company and created the Game of Life. Bradley's family, retirement, and work producing educational materials to support the new movement in education called kindergarten are included. Sidebars, historic photos, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of this topic. Additional features include a table of contents, an index, a timeline and fun facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Who Was Milton Bradley written by Kirsten Anderson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the man behind the board games: Milton Bradley. Born in Maine in 1836, Milton Bradley moved with his family to the working-class city of Lowell, Massachusetts, at age 11. His early life consisted of several highs and lows, from graduating high school and attending Harvard to getting laid off and losing his first wife. These experiences gave Bradley the idea for his first board game: The Checkered Game of Life. He produced and sold Life across the country and it quickly became a national sensation. Working with his company, the Milton Bradley Company, he continued to produce board games, crayons, and kid-friendly school supplies for the rest of his life. He is often credited as the father of board games, and the Milton Bradley Company has created Battleship, Jenga, Yahtzee, Trouble, and many more classic games.
Download or read book Board Games Milton Bradley written by Lee Slater and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this title, readers will learn about board game creator Milton Bradley. Follow Bradley's early work creating and selling stationery, his first business creating and selling lithographs, and how these experiences came together when he formed the Milton Bradley Company and created the Game of Life. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Her Spare Heir Billionaire written by Eliza Ellis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love psychologist needs a husband to prove she's not a quack. A billionaire prince is the perfect mail-order groom. Dr. Deanna Pearson's love algorithm can predict if a marriage is going to last forever. When she's challenged to get married herself, the divorced doctor must face her fear of marriage. After she's matched to a cocky billionaire prince with commitment issues, Deanna wonders if she's made the biggest mistake of her life. Until the honeymoon on his private jet stirs repressed feelings yearning for release. Business mogul Prince Maxim Malenkov isn't afraid of commitment, just marriage to the wrong woman. He thought he was safe in America until his brother, the king, appeals to his sense of duty. When Maxim hears a reality TV doctor needs a husband, he can't resist one final act of rebellion. After their wedding night ends with them sleeping apart, Maxim will do whatever it takes to make Deanna feel safe and wanted. After a night alone in an abandoned farm, Maxim and Deanna agree to make their marriage work and revitalize his country's economy. But if they can't get the king to accept her, they'll have to dissolve their union. And when palace intrigue threatens Maxim's family and Deanna's reputation, will their budding romance last? Her Spare Heir Billionaire is a standalone novel in the Billionaire Boss series where the men have the money but the women make the rules. A sexy billionaire prince, quirky best friends, and toe-curling kisses are what you'll read in this contemporary, palace intrigue romance by Eliza Ellis. Previously published as The Mail Order Billionaire with new content. Read Her Spare Heir Billionaire to enjoy a contemporary mail-order groom romance today! Books by Eliza Ellis Billionaire Boss 1. Her Special Forces Billionaire 2. Her Business Rival Billionaire 3. Her Spare Heir Billionaire 4. Her Ranch Hand Billionaire (August 2019) Sisters of Springfield 1. Hers to Kiss 2. Hers to Marry 3. Hers to Love (July 2019) 4. Hers to Hold (August 2019) Norfolk Saga 1. Splint 2. Taken 3. Friction
Download or read book A Gamut of Games written by Sid Sackson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert on game history selects 38 of his favorite amusements, all of which can be played by children or adults with common items such as cards, dice, checkerboards, and pencil and paper.
Download or read book It s All a Game written by Tristan Donovan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] timely book . . . a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history.” —The Wall Street Journal Board games have been with us even longer than the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It’s All a Game, Tristan Donovan, British journalist and author of Replay: The History of Video Games, opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from the paranoid Chicago toy genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the scientific use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan ultimately reveals why board games—from chess to Monopoly to Risk and more—have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations. “Splendid . . . A quick and breezy read, it doesn’t just tell the fascinating stories of the (often struggling) individuals who created our favorite games. It also manages to convey the entire sweep of board game history, from the earliest forms of checkers to modern-day surprise hits like Settlers of Catan.” —Mashable “Artfully weaves together culture, business, and ways games impact society.” —Booklist “A fascinating and insightful discussion not only of games past, but the socioeconomic and historical factors that contributed to their popularity.” —Chicago Review of Books
Download or read book Games written by Bruce Whitehill and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles and prices games manufactured from 1822-1992, and gives histories of hundreds of manufacturers, including, Milton Bradley, Selchow & Righter, and Parker Brothers
Download or read book Game Changer written by Robert Angel and published by Amplify. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It all began with one small step.Game Changer is the story of how a twenty-three-year-old waiter from Seattle had the outrageous dream of beating industry giants Milton Bradley and Mattel at their own game. With no experience, Rob Angel used his guts, drive, and intuition to create one of the most beloved board games of all time: Pictionary. Rob did it his way. He produced the first 1,000 games by hand in his tiny one- bedroom apartment, disrupted the market by selling to nontraditional retail outlets, and did countless demonstrations at the bottom of the escalator at Nordstrom-a store with no game department. Anything to succeed.Getting there wasn't easy; Rob had to navigate his way through production mishaps, cash flow troubles, and countless copycats trying to scratch their way past Pictionary. Still, within three years, Pictionary became the bestselling board game in North America, and shortly after, the world. When Mattel acquired Pictionary in 2001, a staggering 38,000,000 games had been sold in 60 countries.In Game Changer, Rob shares the remarkable inside story of taking Pictionary from simple idea to iconic global brand by breaking rules and breaking records, never giving up or giving in, and working harder when most would walk away all while having the time of his life. Candid and compelling, Game Changer is as much a captivating memoir as it is a blueprint to personal and professional success."
Download or read book Terrible Old Games You ve Probably Never Heard Of written by Stuart Ashen and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, Stuart Ashen has created a collection of hilarious and damning reviews of some of the most bizarre, frustrating, pointless and downright terrible video games ever made. And he would know. . . he's played them all. Dripping with wry humour and featuring the best, worst graphics from the games themselves, this book encapsulates the atrocities produced in the days of tight budgets and low quality controls. These are the most appalling games that ever leaked from the industry's tear ducts and have long since been (rightly) relegated to the dusty shelves of history. Welcome to a world of games you never knew existed. You will probably wish you still didn't.
Download or read book Elementary Color written by Milton Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intent of this book is to offer for primary school teachers a clear and condensed explanation of the Bradley System of Color Instruction. This system relies on Maxwell rotating color disks to determine and define pigmentary standards.
Download or read book The Games we Played written by Margaret Hofer and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As families are rediscovering the joys and virtues of staying and entertaining at home, board games have surged in popularity indeed, sales doubled in the last year alone. this mirrors a trend in the late nineteenth century the heyday of American boards and table games when, fueled by the introduction of games coincided with a growing need for middle-class social entertainment. Then, like now, the games that best captured players imaginations mimicked, and sometimes poked fun at, the culture that produced them Organized around themes such as courtship, commerce, travel, sports, and city life, The Games We Played brings together over one hundred eye-catching examples of Americas rare and popular board games, such as The Game of Playing Department Store, which encourage players to accumulate the greatest quantity of goods while spending their money as economically as possible, and Bulls and Bears: The Great Wall St. Game, in which players try their hand as speculators, bankers, and brokers, yelling each other down as if in a trading pit. This playful visual survey of its thematic essays will cause board and table game aficionados to share in the revelry of togetherness.
Download or read book Your Move written by Jonathan Kay and published by Sutherland House Books. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great board game revolution is here-- What do these games tell us about our society, our relationships, and ourselves? "Games, Jonathan Kay and Joan Moriarity show in this lively and insightful book, are not just fun and games: they allow us to explore the complexities of the world, from evolution to war to climate." - STEVEN PINKER, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress "Kay and Moriarity are both skilled writers and elucidators, and their voices are distinct enough to provide the book with a pleasing yin and yang. It's a far more perceptive and intriguing book than it appears at first blush, particularly for those readers who have never thought of games as an artistic medium - at least not one that comments on society." - KIRKUS REVIEWS Board games are among our most ancient and beloved art forms. During the rise of digital media, they fell from prominence for a decade or two but today they are in a new golden age. They're ingeniously designed, beautiful to look at, and exhilarating to play. Games are reclaiming their place in our culture, as entertainment, social activity, and intellectual workout equipment. Alone among all art forms, games require their audience (called "players") to participate. If nobody's playing, there is no game. As a result, games can tell far more about us than our TV shows, movies or music ever could. How does The Game of Life illustrate our changing attitudes about virtue? How does a World War II conflict simulation game explain the shortcomings of a failed novelist? Each chapter of Your Move examines one game, and what it reveals about our culture, history, society, and relationships. The book's two co-authors bring the perspectives of a writer who plays, and a player who writes. Before Jonathan Kay began his distinguished career as an author and commentator, he had a passion for games, and in recent years he has rediscovered them. Meanwhile, Joan Moriarity's career has been spent designing, developing, distributing, art directing, recommending and teaching board games and, recently, writing about them for a wider audience. With its short, punchy essays, and beautiful photographs of the games themselves, every chapter will be a worthwhile read in itself, and the book overall will leave you inspired to discover the truths of your own inner and outer world through play -- whether you're a seasoned veteran or a total newcomer.
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Download or read book The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary written by Merriam-Webster, Inc. Staff and published by 범문사. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes more than 100,000 words that are acceptable for playing Scrabble, with parts of speech, varient forms, and definitions.
Download or read book Time Travel For Sale written by Dan Arthur Busby and published by Booktrail Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time Travel For Sale is a sequel to Lost in Time: Trapped In A Prehistoric World. Jimmy is a scientist who has invented a time machine, and is sent by the government to the Cretaceous period by his own invention for a false murder accusation. There, he is forced to remake another time machine in that primitive environment. When this is finally accomplished, he and his two friends find their way to a utopia of the future. They are fortunate enough to meet a government worker named Tom who has devoted his life to rediscovering time travel technology. He offers Jimmy a deal he can't refuse to share his scientific secrets. Ultimately the two men open a business of tours to prehistoric times. The pair become wealthy from their blossoming business. However, the mayor has gotten them to sign a contract allowing him to control their business. He wants them to charge hunters to accompany them on safaris where they will find and kill dinosaurs of any chosen time period. This presents some very serious safety issues.
Download or read book Sammy the White House Mouse written by Elizabeth St. John and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sammy's white fur and blue eyes indicate that he is the mouse born every forty years who is destined to be the White House mouse.
Download or read book More Board Games written by Desi Scarpone and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Board games continue to fascinate players and collectors alike, and their appeal is rapidly growing. This completely new book presents over 1000 color photographs of board games ranging from the 1920s to the 1990s, an informative text, vintage advertisements, and current prices. It is sure to satisfy the game playing appetites of collectors, dealers, and enthusiasts everywhere.
