Your Future Revealed by the Mah Jongg
Author | : Derek Walters |
Publisher | : Thorsons Publishers |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
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Author | : Derek Walters |
Publisher | : Thorsons Publishers |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
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Author | : David Pritchard |
Publisher | : Teach Yourself |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2013-11-29 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1444197878 |
This is an essential handbook for anyone new to the game of Mahjong. It takes you from the very beginning - learning the rules, choosing a set (or playing online) to advanced advice on strategy and gamesmanship. Each stage of play is clearly explained with diagrams and instructions and with plenty of practical examples to help you learn. Full coverage of the basics of scoring, settlements and penalties will help you become a true master of the game.
Author | : Derek Walters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2154 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
A world list of books in the English language.
Author | : Rose Arny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1070 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nancy Kalikow Maxwell |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2019-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0827613024 |
Is laughter essential to Jewish identity? Do Jews possess special radar for recognizing members of the tribe? Since Jews live longer and make love more often, why don’t more people join the tribe? “More deli than deity” writer Nancy Kalikow Maxwell poses many such questions in eight chapters—“Worrying,” “Kvelling,” “Dying,” “Noshing,” “Laughing,” “Detecting,” “Dwelling,” and “Joining”—exploring what it means to be “typically Jewish.” While unearthing answers from rabbis, researchers, and her assembled Jury on Jewishness (Jewish friends she roped into conversation), she—and we—make a variety of discoveries. For example: Jews worry about continuity, even though Rabbi Mordechai of Lechovitz prohibited even that: “All worrying is forbidden, except to worry that one is worried.” Kvell-worthy fact: About 75 percent of American Jews give to charity versus 63 percent of Americans as a whole. Since reciting Kaddish brought secular Jews to synagogue, the rabbis, aware of their captive audience, moved the prayer to the end of the service. Who’s Jewish? About a quarter of Nobel Prize winners, an estimated 80 percent of comedians at one point, and the winner of Nazi Germany’s Most Perfect Aryan Child Contest. Readers will enjoy learning about how Jews feel, think, act, love, and live. They’ll also schmooze as they use the book’s “Typically Jewish, Atypically Fun” discussion guide.
Author | : Annelise Heinz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190081813 |
How has a game brought together Americans and defined separate ethnic communities? This book tells the first history of mahjong and its meaning in American culture. Click-click-click. The sound of mahjong tiles connects American expatriates in Shanghai, Jazz Age white Americans, urban Chinese Americans in the 1930s, incarcerated Japanese Americans in wartime, Jewish American suburban mothers, and Air Force officers' wives in the postwar era. Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture illustrates how the spaces between tiles and the moments between games have fostered distinct social cultures in the United States. This mass-produced game crossed the Pacific, creating waves of popularity over the twentieth century. Annelise Heinz narrates the history of this game to show how it has created a variety of meanings, among them American modernity, Chinese American heritage, and Jewish American women's culture. As it traveled from China to the United States and caught on with Hollywood starlets, high society, middle-class housewives, and immigrants alike, mahjong became a quintessentially American game. Heinz also reveals the ways in which women leveraged a game to gain access to respectable leisure. The result was the forging of friendships that lasted decades and the creation of organizations that raised funds for the war effort and philanthropy. No other game has signified both belonging and standing apart in American culture. Drawing on photographs, advertising, popular media, and dozens of oral histories, Heinz's rich and colorful account offers the first history of the wildly popular game of mahjong.