Collectible toys and games of the twenties and thirties from Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogs

The first book-length study on mythology reception in video games, this monograph examines how video games characterize mythological characters from the perspectives of classical r...

This chapter explores the dynamics of job segregation by gender as well as the social and cultural construction of boundaries between “male” and “female” work in the retail sector....

Drawing on extensive research over more than two decades, this book focuses on toys and games as resources for play.It analyses their functionalities as well as their symbolic mean...

The handbook is composed of chapters by authors who discuss the important features of particular types of toys, provide information related to the developmental importance of this ...

How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought. Are games art? This question is a dominant mode of thinking about ...