Arthur Fine 1986 Chicago: University of Chicago Press xi + 186 pp price £21.25 ISBN 0 226 24946 8 The Shaky Game concentrates on Einstein's view of quantum mechanics, largely the matter of indeterminacy. Although the author wants to distance himself from recent unnamed French hermeneuts and exegetes, we see here precisely the shaky game identified by Lucien Febvre in 1928 – one where a commentator seeks to 'engender concepts from disincarnated minds which live their lives beyond time and space'.