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his book "The Quark and the Jaguar" included a bit about the game Oware which is highly recommended
by vbuwivbiu 7y ago
his book "The Quark and the Jaguar" included a bit about the game Oware which is highly recommended
- agumonkey 7y agohttps://archive.org/details/MurrayGellMannTheQuarkAndTheJaguarAdventuresInTheSimpleAndTheComplex1995St.MartinsGriffin.compressed https://archive.org/details/MurrayGellMannTheQuarkAndTheJagu...
- ignoranceprior 7y agoHow is this allowed on the Internet Archive? It was only published in the 90s, it is still under copyright. I thought the Internet Archive's publicly accessible book collection was supposed to only include content in the public domain (or otherwise freely licensed).
- 8bitsrule 7y agoIA began to put up out-of-print items some time ago (old LPs for example). I'd guess that many books still under technical copyright can only be reprinted in small quantities (probably at a loss) and be hard to find. Seems a reasonable 'gentleman's agreement' that's working out for IA.
- theoh 7y agoI can't find the Oware reference, and the game is not in the index.
- vbuwivbiu 7y agoit goes by other names as it's played widely across Africa. He may have used another name for it.