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Check out this superb new book on game design, Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman (MIT Press, 2003).
I won't say much about it, because I'm a few chapters in, having only skimmed the rest, but so far it's obvious that there has never been anything like this before. It's more than 650 pages long, meant to be a textbook for an academic course in game design (any kind of game, on computer or off). It's even of interest to non-designers, because it contains original games by James Ernest and Richard Garfield, among others, and an essay by Reiner Knizia on his Lord of the Rings game.
And, oh yeah, my Game Systems series was cited, and served as source material for a chunk of the "Games as Open Culture" chapter.
If you buy it here, I'll even make, like, $3.75...
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