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  • Priority Thinking - A Guide To Quick And Accurate Decision-Making At The Backgammon Board

    by Grant Hoffman ...
    In the age of bots and robotic learning, this book is a breath of fresh air, focusing on powerful principles that guide you through the complications of any position and quickly lead you to the correct move. Priority Thinking is the key to finding the solution and everything flows from that.This book tackles situations with a unique approach and provides a sound structure for quick and accurate ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • It's Your Move: 101 Backgammon Positions to Improve your Game

    by Grant Hoffman ...
    This is a collection of the first 101 Backgammon puzzles from a weekly blog. They are designed to help you improve your backgammon by presenting real-life positions that happened over the board. In each position it is White's move. Decide how White should play and then compare your choice with the correct move, with all the alternatives fully explained and diagrammed. The book is organized by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean

    The Case for Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation

    by Augustine Avwunudiogba, Leonard Sitji Bombom, Elisha J. Dung, Paul Erhunmwunsee, Brenda Ingrid Gill, Bruce Ormond Grant, Alecia D. Hoffman, John-Patrick Afamefuna Ifedi, Magdaline Mbong Mai, Charity Manyeruke, Jules-Clement Mba, Adeoye A. Akinsanya ...
    As important as state-to-state and multi-state cooperation have long proven to be, many countries in the Global South have yet to fully explore its potentials. Despite their shared history of slavery, colonialism, and underdevelopment, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean currently show a lack of significant cooperation. Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean: The Case for Bilateral and ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Africans and the Exiled Life

    Migration, Culture, and Globalization

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde, Alecia D. Hoffman, Bruce Ormond Grant, Olayinka Oyegbile, Sasha R. Drummond-Lewis, Dollin Wilson Ovaroh-Holt, Leonard Sitji Bombom, Magdaline Mbong Mai, Sulayman S. Nyang, Paul Erhunmwunsee0, Christal O. Spel1, Elisha Jasper Dung2, Brenda Ingrid Gill4, George K. Danns5 ...
    Series series African Governance, Development, and Leadership
    Since their early beginning in Africa as foragers, hunters and gatherers, humans have been on the move. In modern times, their movements have been compelled by geographical, economic, political, cultural, social and personal reasons. However, beginning in the second-half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century their reasons for and pattern of migration have been largely ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • San Francisco's Market Street Railway

    by Walt Vielbaum, Philip Hoffman, Grant Ute, Robert Townley ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    The Market Street Railway Company thrived in an age when rails ruled San Francisco. Spanning the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the boom times of World War II, it had a long and legendary lifetime that is deeply ingrained in the city�s early identity. Gradually, however, it became challenged by the emergence of the automobile, cheaper motor coaches, and �nickel jitneys��competing cars ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Backgammon For Winners

    by Bill Robertie ...
    The world's best backgammon player (and two-time champion) provides easy-to-understand advice on the basics of playing and winning at backgammon. Ten fast-reading chapters show the basics of setting up a board, how to move, the opening strategies and replies, middle and end game tactics, basic probabilities, plus back game and doubling strategy. Two sample games are included with move-by-move ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Backgammon For Serious Players

    by Bill Robertie ...
    If youre a backgammon player looking to take your game to the next level, this powerful book, from the worlds best player, will show you how to do it! Youll learn the all-important opening strategies and replies, middle, end and back game techniques, tournament strategies, advanced doubling cube play, and fascinating strategy moves. Includes basic backgammon probabilities and odds, unusual plays, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Improbability Principle

    Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day

    by David J. Hand ...
    "Human beings are a superstitious lot; we see patterns everywhere. But as Hand makes clear in this enlightening book, it all comes down to the math." —Jennifer Ouellette, The New York Times Book ReviewA Success Magazine Best Book of the YearIn The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anythi... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Hell on Wheels

    Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad

    by Dick Kreck ...
    Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated

    by Mark Wegman ...
    The period from the 1890s to the mid-1950s is generally considered the "golden era" of passenger rail travel in America. It was a time of celebrated locomotives and luxurious passenger service, a time when rail technology saw its greatest advances and railroads became the nation's favored mode of transportation. These glory years come alive in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railroad

    by Stephen E. Drew ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    The Virginia & Truckee is the most famous short line railroad in American history. Brainchild of William Sharon and the Bank of California, the V&T hauled the silver and gold ore, the cordwood, and the mining timbers that made the 1870s �Big Bonanza� a reality. From the state capital at Carson City, V&T rails stretched 66 miles to Virginia City, Reno, and Minden, Nevada. Serving the transportation ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sacramento's Southern Pacific Shops

    by Kevin W. Hecteman ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    In 1862, the Central Pacific Railroad was founded and began building eastward from Sacramento as part of the transcontinental railroad. This required a shop capable of keeping the railroad�s equipment in running order. So in 1867, in the swamps just north of town, the Sacramento shops were born. For well more than a century, this massive complex kept the Central Pacific and its corporate successor ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus