This is a chess book for everyone, from eight to eighty, beginner to master. In a clear, easy-to-follow format it explains how the best way to beat a stronger opponent (be it a friend, clubmate - or Dad ) is by cleverly forcing checkmate. Delightful and instructive positions from real games are used to show the 50 Deadly Checkmates that chess masters use to win their games.For the beginner, simply

Maya Art\'s work explores themes of femininity, religious syncretism and cultural diversity. In 2017, she spent a year in the Afro-Mexican village of Costa Chica. Oaxaca, in the home of Juliana, a lawyer and her teenage daughter, Veronica. It was Juliana who introduced her to the women of the community - healers, midwives, widows, single mothers and mothers with many children. They live relatively

The Third edition of this successful Atlas of Osteoporosis is designed to provide a wide range of physicians with a pictorial guide to this important disease. The illustrations are an excellent teaching resource and the text provides a concise overview to osteoporosis. For the first time, text and illustrations are fully integrated.The book contains details of skeletal biology and the pathophysiology

From Jerry\'s kitchen to Monk\'s cafe, food is central to many of Seinfeld\'s most memorable moments, and this official cookbook teaches fans to prepare favorite dishes from the show right in their own

A memoir by two accomplished gamblers about their gambling

A beautifully designed and heart-warming book for every mother, celebrating the wonderful things she teaches her children and the wonderful lessons her children teach

Designed for hassle-free, classroom and independent study, our resources are the smart choice for those revising for Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History British

Sometimes a song can save your life. Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their bond to the music--and to one another--always brings them back together again. The final round

A retelling of Anna Sewell s classic adventure story of Black Beauty as he starts life carefree in the field with his mother, and is then sold from owner to owner. Will he survive as his treatment gets worse and worse, and will he ever find an owner worthy of his unending loyalty? Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children\'s sustained engagement with texts and are more complex

The Asetian Bible is an authoritative work on Ancient Egyptian spirituality and real life vampirism that presents the Asetian tradition to the world, developed in a way for both initiates and scholars. After millennia of elitist secrecy, a tradition old as time itself, built before the very foundations of mankind, escapes the void of eternity to be seen throughout the mist. The first dark mystical

This book explores how the human mind works through the lens of psychological disorders, challenging many existing theoretical constructs, especially in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and philosophy of mind. Drawing on the expertise of leading academics, the book discusses how psychopathology can be used to inform our understanding of the human mind. The book argues that studying mental disorders

You can set your table--or you can \'scape it.When Bugsy Drake stepped onboard the yacht as Second Stew on Bravo\'s Below Deck Med, she showed the world the magic of tablescaping. With the help of some unconventional centerpieces, a few artfully folded napkins, well-placed lighting, and a generous sprinkling of d cor, tablescaping is the art of transforming a meal into an adventure that your guests

The Anthropocene has become central to understanding the intimate connections between human life and the natural environment, but it has fractured our sense of time and possibility. What implications does that fracturing have for how we should think about politics in these new times? In this cutting-edge intervention, Duncan Kelly considers how this new geological era could shape our future by engaging

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If you think baby brain is bad for you, think again - because neuroscientist Dr Sarah McKay (author of The Women\'s Brain Book) has looked at studies and talked to experts from all over the world and the proof is in: giving birth is one of the best things to ever happen to a woman\'s brain. Moreover, the positive effects of baby brain last well beyond the baby stage - even into old age, with elderly

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Club--now an original Netflix series! Teresa Chafey is running away from home. Driving north along the California coast, she picks up two mysterious hitchhikers: Poppy Corn and Freedom Jack. Together the three of them tell stories: Teresa of her devastating relationship with her boyfriend, Poppy of a sad young woman she once knew, and Freedom

Looking for some jokes that will never go extinct? Look no further. . .101 Silly Dinosaur Jokes for Kids is filled with funny, delightful Jurassic-era puns, knock-knocks, and gut-busters that dinosaur-obsessed kids will love reading, sharing, and telling. This dino-mite joke book is filled to the brim with hilarious jokes, funny riddles, and side-splitting puns that are all about DINOSAURS! Whether