The Study of Games. Elliott M. Avedon & Brian Sutton-Smith. Wiley, 1971, ISBN 0-471-03839-3.
This book looks at games (both ancient & relatively modern) from a variety of perspectives. Most of these didn’t do too much for me. I did enjoy a couple chapters on Games as Structure and The Elements of Games. It also has a lot of bibliographic references to literature going back 100 years. I’d only recommend this for someone determined to build a complete library about games. (Reviewed Jan., ’04)