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The Batsford Book of Chess - From Beginner to Winner
epub | 18.74 MB | English | Author :Sean Marsh | Pavilion Books
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The Batsford Book of Chess is a landmark, full-colour chess instruction book, authoritatively written and beautifully designed. Arranged in the form of a course, it will take you all the way from tentative beginner to formidable chess player. 'Quick Start' reference pages help you retain the information you've learned, and puzzle sections let you test yourself as you go. To illustrate more advanced strategy and tactics, the author uses world-class 'chess heroes' such as Bobby Fischer and Mikhail Tal to bring the concepts to life. Essential topics include:
[*] Pieces and Moves: the very basics, covering the chessboard, notation, the names of the pieces and how they move, plus an overview of chess etiquette
[*] What Chess is All About: an exploration of chess culture and history
[*] Winning, Drawing and Losing: Covers the various ways of winning at chess, and how games are drawn
[*] Six Openings for Life: Coverage of six of the best chess openings, each illustrated by a...
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The Dead Roam the Earth - True Stories of the Paranormal from Around the World
epub | 1.16 MB | English | Author :Alasdair Wickham | 2011 | Penguin Publishing Group
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Captivating true accounts of the paranormal from all over the world
Do you believe in ghosts? From incubi in Sumatra to exorcism in Sudan to spirits in our own backyard, The Dead Roam the Earth explores the fascinating variety-and uncanny similarity-of supernatural encounters in every corner of the planet, providing chilling accounts of real-life ghost sightings, haunted places, poltergeists, possessions, Mothmen, demons, witchcraft, ritualistic killings, and much more.
Could so many people in so many places just be imagining things? In addition to its wealth of testimonials from ordinary people witnessing extraordinary things, this engrossing book presents the latest scientific attempts to make sense of the supernatural-including how electronic equipment has revolutionized spiritual communication-and finds the devil in the details.
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The Division of Labor in Society
epub | 2.99 MB | Author :Emile Durkheim | Free Press
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Originally published in 1893, Emile Durkheim's groundbreaking work remains one of the cornerstone texts of the sociological canon-now updated with a new introduction and improved translation by leading scholar Steve Lukes.
In 1893, a young doctoral student was to publish an entirely original work on the nature of labor and production as they were being shaped by the industrial revolution. Emile Durkheim's The Division of Labor in Society studies the nature of social solidarity and explores the ties that bind one person to the next in order to hold society together.
This revised and updated second edition fluently conveys original arguments for contemporary readers. Leading Durkheim scholar Steve Lukes's new introduction builds upon Lewis Coser's original-which places the work in its intellectual and historical context and pinpoints its central ideas and arguments-by focusing on the text's significance for how we ought to think sociologically...
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501 Spanish Verbs, 8th Edition
epub | 2.62 MB | English | Author :Christopjer Kendris | Barron's Educational Series
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The world's bestselling Spanish verbs reference book has just gotten better! This new eighth edition sho students and travelers exactly how to use the 501 most common and useful Spanish verbs in all 15 tenses and moods. Includes verbs alphabetically listed in chart form, a link to online content with language-learning aids and audio files, updated sentences demonstrating verb usage in all tenses, and more.
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The Female Quixote (Penguin Classics)
epub | 2.14 MB | Author :Charlotte Lennox | Penguin Books Ltd
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Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. As she makes forays into fashionable society in Bath and London, many scbangs and mortifications ensue - all men seem like predators wishing to ravish her, she mistakes a cross-dressing prostitute for a distressed gentlewoman, and she risks her life by throwing herself into the Thames to avoid a potential seducer. Can Arabella be cured of her romantic delusions? An immediate success when it first appeared in 1752, The Female Quixote is a wonderfully high-spirited parody of the style of Cervantes, and a telling and comic depiction of eighteenth-century English society.
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The Food Addiction Recovery Workbook - How to Manage Cravings, Reduce Stress
epub | 744.92 KB | English | Author :Carolyn Coker Ross | New Harbinger Publications
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When it comes to addiction, abstinence isn't always the right answer-and with food addiction, it's impossible. For readers stuck in a cycle of binging, overeating, and restricting, physician Carolyn Coker Ross offers the proven-effective Anchor Program™. Using this step-by-step guide, readers will learn strategies to help curb cravings, end body dissatisfaction, manage stress and emotions without food, and get off the diet treadmill, once and for all.
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A Vietnamese Family Chronicle - Twelve Generations on the Banks of the Hat River
epub | 3.75 MB | English | Author :Nguyen Trieu Dan | McFarland
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The Nguyen of Kim Bai (a village in the Red River delta in Vietnam) traces its ancestry back to at least the 15th century. The region is also considered to be the birthplace of the Vietnamese race (the epic revolt of the Trung sisters against the Chinese occupiers occurred here). The Nguyen family chronicle since 1600, preserved through war and exile, was written (in Chinese script) by the author's grandfather. This document (kept in Nguyen's ancestors' altar) is quoted liberally. A clear and unique picture of Vietnamese personality and culture is provided.
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Amazon Wisdom Keeper - A Psychologist's Memoir of Spiritual Awakening
epub | 5.92 MB | English | Author :Loraine Y. Van Tuyl | She Writes Press
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With captivating lyricism, Amazon Wisdom Keeper transports us into the multicultural upbringing and transformation of Loraine Van Tuyl, a graduate psychology student and budding shamanic healer who's blindsided by startling visions, elusive drumming, and her inseverable mystical ties to the Amazon rainforest of her native Suriname.
Is she in the wrong field, or did her childhood dreams, imaginary guides, and premonitions somehow prepare her for these challenges? Did Suriname's military coup and her family's uprooting move to the US rob her from all that she knew and loved at thirteen to help reveal her soul's purpose, or is she losing her mind by entertaining far-fetched questions and hunches that can't be answered or proven-like wondering if her perplexing life story is shedding light on the double-binds in her field on purpose, and suspecting that her soul's daunting blue print was plotted long before she was even born? Van Tuyl wrestles with these questions and more...
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An American Family - A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
epub | 10.08 MB | English | Author :Khizr Khan | 2017 | Random House Publishing Group
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This inspiring memoir by the Gold Star parent and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the American dream and why-especially in these tumultuous times-we must not be afraid to step forward for what we believe in when it matters most.
An American Family is an intensely personal story about the nature of true patriotism and what it's like to risk everything you know for the promise of a 226-year-old piece of parchment. As Khizr Khan traces his remarkable journey-from humble beginnings on a poultry farm in Pakistan to obtaining a degree from Harvard Law college and raising a family in America-he sho what it means to leave the limitations of one's country behind for the best values and promises of another. He also tells the story of the Khans' middle child, U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed while protecting his base camp in Iraq, and the ways in which their undying pride in him and his sacrifice have...
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Better PHP Development
epub | 1.73 MB | English | Author :Bruno Skvorc | SitePoint
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PHP powers the vast majority of the web today. It is by far the most ubiquitous and accessible mature web language, and welcomes thousands of new developers every day. It is this ease of access that can, admittedly, sometimes give it a bad name - good resources are few and far in between, and the competition is real, driving people to take shortcuts, skip best practices, and learn on-the-fly.
With PHP 7+ came some improvements that make it harder to make mistakes, and 7.2 is making things even safer, even more structured. If you're just getting started with the language (or perhaps youve been using it a while and have learned some bad habits), you're in luck. Not only will it be ever harder to slip up and make mistakes, but content such as this - hand picked from the excellent SitePoint PHP channel - will help you get started the right way.
This collection comprises:
[*]How PHP Executes - from Source Code to Render by Thomas Punt
[*]Getting to Know and...
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Bits of me are falling apart - Dark Thoughts From The Middle Years
epub | 1.91 MB | English | Author :William Leith | 2009 | Doubleday Canada
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A hilarious, horrendous, and ultimately helpful memoir about hitting middle age and trying to hit back.
William Leith, well-known for his jaw-droppingly candid columns about his dysfunctional and dissolute life, is no longer young. Given what he used to put his body through, before he gave up bingeing on drugs and drink and bad food, he is in fairly good shape. There is no getting past it, though: he's getting past it. And bits of him are falling apart.
What is happening to him? And what can be done about it? In his extraordinary chronicle The Hungry Years, Leith turned his merciless eye and magpie mind on his addictions and the chemistry, psychology, and philosophy behind them. Bits of Me Are Falling Apart is an even more ambitious and mordantly funny book, in which an unflinching memoir of his own, unique voyage into later life becomes an examination of the aging process in all humans - what science tells us about it and might be able to do to...
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Constitution Making Under Occupation - The Politics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq
epub | 16.85 MB | English | Author :Arato, Andrew; | 978-0-231-51243-5 | 2009 | Columbia University Press
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The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constitution by its agents. Andrew Arato is the first person to record this historic process and analyze its special problems. He compares the drafting of the Iraqi constitution to similar, externally imposed constitutional revolutions by the United States, especially in Japan and Germany, and identifies the political missteps that contributed to problems of learning and legitimacy.
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Crashback - The Power Clash Between the U S and China in the Pacific
epub | 27.59 MB | Author :Michael Fabey | Scribner
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An alarming message from an award-winning journalist with unprecedented access to the highest naval officers in America and China and their ships and weapons, this is a chilling look at the "warm war" over control of the South China Sea-one that is threatening to flare into full-scale conflict.
Out in the Pacific Ocean, there is a war taking place. It is a "warm war," a shoving match between the United States, since WWII the uncontested ruler of the seas, and China, which now possesses the world's largest navy. The Chinese regard the Pacific, and especially the South China Sea, as their ocean, and they're ready to defend it. Each day the heat between the two countries increases as the Chinese try to claim the South China Sea for their own, and the United States insists on asserting freedom of navigation. Throughout Southern Asia, countries such as Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea respond with outrage and growing fear as China turns coral...
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Creating Healthy Neighborhoods - Evidence-Based Planning and Design Strategies
epub | 22.53 MB | English | Author :Ann Forsyth, Emily Salomon, Laura Smead | Routledge
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Good housing. Easy transit. Food access. Green spaces. Gathering places. Everybody wants to live in a healthy neighborhood. Bridging the gap between research and practice, it maps out ways for cities and towns to help their residents thrive in placed designed for living well, approaching health from every side - physical mental, and social.
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Cinemaps - An Atlas of 35 Great Movies
epub | 393.08 MB | English | Author :Andrew DeGraff | 2017 | Quirk Books
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This beautifully illustrated atlas of beloved movies is an essential reference for cinephiles, fans of great films, and anyone who loves the art of mapmaking.
Acclaimed artist Andrew DeGraff has created beautiful hand-painted maps of all your favorite films, from King Kongand North by Northwest to The Princess Bride, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, even The Breakfast Club-with the routes of major characters charted in meticulous cartographic detail. Follow Marty McFly through the Hill Valley of 1985, 1955, and 1985 once again as he races Back to the Future. Trail Jack Torrance as he navigates the corridors of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining. And join Indiana Jones on a globe-spanning journey from Nepal to Cairo to London on his quest for the famed Lost Ark. Each map is presented in an 11-by-14-inch format, with key details enlarged for closer...
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Dancing with the King - The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864-1885
epub | 6.53 MB | English | Author :Michael Belgrave | Auckland University Press
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After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tāwhiao, the second Māori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Pōtae, the King Country. For the next twenty years, the King Country operated as an independent state - a land governed by the Māori King where settlers and the Crown entered at risk of their lives. Dancing with the King is the story of the King Country when it was the King's country, and of the negotiations between the King and the Queen that finally opened the area to European settlement. For twenty years, the King and the Queen's representatives engaged in a dance of diplomacy involving gamesmanship, conspiracy, pageantry and hard headed politics, with the occasional act of violence or threat of it. While the Crown refused to acknowledge the King's legitimacy, the colonial government and the settlers were forced to treat Tāwhiao as a King, to negotiate with him as the ruler and representative of a sovereign state, and to accord him the respect and formality that this involved. Colonial negotiators even made Tāwhiao offers of settlement that came very close to recognising his sovereign authority. Dancing with the King is a riveting account of a key moment in New Zealand history as an extraordinary cast of characters - Tāwhiao and Rewi Maniapoto, Donald McLean and George Grey - negotiated the role of the King and the Queen, of Māori and Pākehā, in New Zealand.
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Dare Not Linger - The Presidential Years
epub | 45.28 MB | English | Author :Nelson Mandela | Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk to Freedom.
"I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended."
In 1994, Nelson Mandela became the first president of democratic South Africa. Five years later, he stood down. In that time, he and his government wrought the most extraordinary transformation, turning a nation riven by centuries of colonialism and apartheid into a fully...
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Earn It! - What to Do When Your Kid Needs an Entitlement Intervention
epub | 1.04 MB | Author :Michael G. Wetter, Eileen Bailey | Hazelden Publishing
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Does your family suffer from "affluenza" exhaustion? Are you confused by the "Me! ME! ME!!!" attitude of your child? Whether your child is six, sixteen, or thirty-six years old, it may be time for an entitlement intervention. Change yourself to change your children.
We're quick to judge today's younger generations-children, teens, and young adults who seem to think they deserve to always have their individuality celebrated and their happiness prioritized. So what happens when your kid-whom you don't recall lavishing with excessive rewards or money-acts entitled, as if everything should be about his wants or her needs? Good ne: from any age, you can help your child evolve into a confident and motivated adult who understands that many of the best things in life are earned.
In Earn It! What to Do When Your Kid Needs an Entitlement Intervention, we learn to create a family culture where responsibilities are...
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Etiquette - The Original Guide to Conduct in Society, Business, Home, and More
epub | 13.12 MB | English | Author :Emily Post | Skyhorse Publishing
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First published in 1922, Etiquette has served for generations as the premiere guide to manners and decorum. It details the nuances of various social settings as well as how to act within them, so as not to offend any parties present.
Different settings often call for different conduct. In addition to covering general forms of communication, salutations, greetings, and conversation, this classic manual also details what behaviors and topics are socially acceptable (and unacceptable) at specific events such as weddings, formal dinners, engagements, funerals, christenings, games and sports, business and politics, ball and dances, and many, many more. It will teach you the contemporary time period's sense of how an individual should conduct oneself, offering tips and tricks long forgotten in an age of impulse, social awkwardness, and conversational disrepair, condoned by our reliance on technology.
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Hammer's German Grammar and Usage, 6th edition
epub | 4.78 MB | English | Author :Martin Durrell | Routledge
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For nearly forty years, Understanding and Using English Grammar has been the go-to grammar resource for students and teachers alike. Its time-tested approach blends direct grammar instruction with carefully sequenced practice to develop all language skills.
New to This Edition
- Pretests at the start of each chapter enable learners to check what they already know.
- Updated grammar charts reflect current usage and highlight differences between written and spoken English.
- A new chapter on article usage.
- A variety of high-interest readings include revie, articles on current topics, and blogs that focus on student success.
- Additional incremental practice helps learners better grasp concepts, while thematic exercises and integrated tasks offer more contextualized language use.
- Step-by-step writing activities are supported by writing tips and pre-writing and editing tasks.
MyEnglishLab (access code provided in the book)
- Rich online practice for all skill areas: grammar, reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
- Instant feedback and remediation.
- Grammar videos.
- Bonus material not included in the Student Book, including additional expanded practice of gerunds and infinitives.
- Robust assessments.
- Gradebook and diagnostic tools.
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