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  • Find the Checkmate

    by Gary Lane ...
    This title, suitable for both novices and children, allows readers to find the right way to deliver a checkmate in one, two or more moves from hundreds of positions provided by the author. By tackling these puzzles, they can begin to think like chessplayers and visualize, calculate and advance. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Find the Winning Move

    by Gary Lane ...
    Find the Winning Move contains hundreds of chess positions in which the reader must find the right way to deliver a winner in one, two or more moves. International Master Gary Lane uses his teaching skill and experience to present a fun but educational puzzle book that helps players develop recognition of tactical combinations. Over 400 puzzles are presented to allow players of all levels - from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Improve Your Chess in 7 Days

    by Gary Lane ...
    No time to study but want to win more chess games? "Improve Your Chess in 7 Days" is packed with practical tips, hints on how to improve, learn from the champions and find out how to beat them - in just a week. With one short chapter for each day of the week, the book is ideal for social chess players and includes a sprinkling of chess cartoons to keep you smiling as you read.With comments and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days

    by Gary Lane ...
    A follow-up to the bestselling 'Improve Your Chess in 7 Days', this essential chess instructor is perfect for players who are desperate to brush up on their tactics but don''t have time to devote to long hours of study. Handily arranged day by day, it is full of easy-to-follow advice on developing nifty tricks that will confound your opponent and help you win the game. It includes all the basic ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Sylvia Plath

    New Views on the Poetry

    by Gary Lane ...
    Originally published in 1979. Sylvia Plath is one of the most controversial poets of our time. For some readers, she is the symbol of women oppressed. For others, she is the triumphant victim of her own intensity—the poet pursuing sensation to the ultimate uncertainty, death. For still others, she is a doomed innocent whose sensibilities were too acute for the coarseness of our world. The new ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    The World of Fashion (Unabridged)

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    by John Oxenford ...
    Narrated by Shirley Harrison, Shawn Thomas, Gary Lane, Bruce Singleton ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 3 min

    This Victorian-era dramedy was adapted by playwright/critic John Oxenford from Eugene Scribe and Ernst Legouvé’s “Les doigts de fée” (“Fairy Fingers.”) The original play was first performed by the Comédie-Française in 1861. It tells the story of an impoverished young noblewoman who scandalizes her blue-blooded kinsmen by deciding to work for a living. She assumes a false name and enters the world ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Match for the World Chess Championship

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  • The Mammoth Book of Chess

    by Graham Burgess ...
    Series Book 199 - Mammoth Books
    'A terrific work that is particularly suited for those from beginner to club player'JOHN WATSON, The Week in ChessThe fully revised and updated award-winning, bestselling, classic chess book by FIDE Master and chess world-record holder, Graham Burgess.Comprehensive and clear, this fully revised and updated fourth edition of Graham Burgess's bestselling chess classic is an invaluable guide to help ... Read more

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  • The Situation and the Story

    The Art of Personal Narrative

    by Vivian Gornick ...
    A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of LoveAll narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Calculate Like a Grandmaster

    Learn from the World-Class Attacking Players

    by Daniel Gormally ...
    • Learn the calculation secrets of the world's best attacking players• First book from one of the UK's biggest chess stars• Illustrated with a wealth of examples from top-level chess gamesThis first book from one of the UK's top grandmasters is a penetrating and detailed (though engaging and friendly) study of typical games played by the most exciting chess players of the modern era, those that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Force of Character

    And the Lasting Life

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    In his bestselling The Soul's Code, James Hillman restored passion and meaning to the concept of identity, arguing that each of us is born with an innate character, the "daimon" or "spirit" that calls us to what we are meant to be. Now, in The Force of Character, Hillman brings the idea of character full circle, offering a revolutionary new vision of life's most feared and misunderstood chapter: ... Read more

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