Intended for a second course in combinatorial games, this graduate textbook introduces tools for analyzing specific game values, such as mean, temperature, reduced canonical form, and atomic weight, and applies the basic theory of short partizan games to the abstract algebraic and combinatorial structure of short game values. Siegel, who works at Twitter, includes recent advances in generalized temperature theory and the construction of mis?re canonical forms for partizangames, and lists open problems. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)