The Ambiguity of Play By Brian Suttonsmith
If you are looking for any sort of clarity this is not the book for you, however if you are well steeped in academia or wish to learn some new (in my view, pompous) scholarly words then this may well be! Sutton Smith knows his stuff, of that it is clear, but the The Ambiguity of Play There are books on play, then are books on play studies, then there is this. Stuart Brown has an excellent book on the science of play, Huizinga wrote a pioneering work on play theory, but Sutton Smith (SS) has outplayed them all. Let me be Frank. This is a The Ambiguity of Play
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