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  • Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

    A Surgeon Cuts through the Evidence

    by Ian Harris ...
    For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced, practising orthopaedic surgeon who performs many of these operations himself, makes the unsettling ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hippocrasy

    How doctors are betraying their oath

    by Rachelle Buchbinder, Ian Harris ...
    Two world-leading doctors reveal the true state of modern medicine and how doctors are letting their patients down. In Hippocrasy, rheumatologist and epidemiologist Rachelle Buchbinder and orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris argue that the benefits of medical treatments are often wildly overstated and the harms understated. That overtreatment and overdiagnosis are rife. And the medical system is not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Price of Fish

    A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions

    by Michael Mainelli, Ian Harris ...
    Gold Medal Winner - Economics, Independent Publisher Book AwardsIn The Price of Fish, Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris examine in a unique way the world's most abiding and wicked problems sustainability, global warming, over-fishing, overpopulation, the pensions crisis; all of which are characterized by a set of messy, circular, aggressive and peculiarly long-term problems and go on to suggest that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The London Files

    Defanging the London System

    by Vassilios Kotronias, Mikhail Ivanov ...
    Lambasting the London Although the London System was first played almost 200 years ago, it lay dormant until the beginning of the 21st century. Then chessplayers rediscovered it, realizing that the London could be played against most responses by Black, obtaining a good game with little preparation. Nowadays the London has evolved into an opening taken up by both club players and world champions. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Buddhism, Power and Political Order

    Edited by Ian Harris ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    Weber's claim that Buddhism is an otherworldly religion is only partially true. Early sources indicate that the Buddha was sometimes diverted from supramundane interests to dwell on a variety of politically-related matters. The significance of Asoka Maurya as a paradigm for later traditions of Buddhist kingship is also well-attested. However, there has been little scholarly effort to integrate ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    Brief History of Hip-Hop Music, A

    by Ian Harris ...
    Narrated by Ian Harris ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 26 min

    Dive into the origins of one of the most influential cultural movements in the world. A Brief History of Hip-Hop Music takes listeners on a journey back to the gritty streets of 1970s New York, where hip-hop was born out of hardship and a desire for creative expression. From its beginnings in the South Bronx to its global domination, this audiobook explores the evolution of hip-hop as not just a ... Read more

    $5.94 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Brief History of Country Music, A

    by Ian Harris ...
    Narrated by Ian Harris ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 58 min

    Discover the soulful journey of country music, from its humble beginnings to its place in the heart of American culture. In this captivating audiobook, Ian Harris traces the roots of country music, diving deep into its rich heritage—from the early folk traditions of European settlers to the blending of African American blues, and the rise of Nashville's country music empire. Harris brings to life ... Read more

    $5.94 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Bruce Pandolfini ...
    In the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit Bruce Pandolfini teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase.Of the three traditional phases of chess play—the opening, the middle-game and the endgame—the opening is the phase average players confront most often. Unfortunately, ... Read more

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  • Back to Basics: Openings

    by Carsten Hansen ...
    Chess Openings Can Be Simple! Because of the sheer volume of variations, possible transpositions and ever-changing theory, chess openings can be overwhelming � even intimidating. This book is an introduction to understanding and playing chess openings. The author, Danish Master Carsten Hansen, stresses opening play based on comprehending opening principles as well as useful, fundamental ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played

    62 masterly games of chess strategy

    by Irving Chernev ...
    One of the game's most admired and respected writers guides you through 62 masterly demonstrations of the basic strategies of winning at chess. Each game provides a classic example of a fundamental problem and its best resolution, described with chess diagrams and Chernev's lively and illuminating notes. The games – by chess greats such as Capablanca, Tarrasch, Fischer, Alekhine, Lasker and ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • Study Chess with Tal

    chess tactics from the grandmaster

    by Mikhail Tal, Alexander Koblencs ...
    Mikhail Tal is one of the all-time chess greats. In 1960 he became the youngest champion in world history at the age of 23, sweeping to victory at his first attempt. His extraordinary tactical ability has never been bettered, and his reputation goes from strength to strength.This absorbing book, first published in the early 1980s, is based on diaries kept by Tal's coach from their training ... Read more

    $18.49 USD