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  • The Moves That Matter

    A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life

    by Jonathan Rowson ...
    A chess grandmaster reveals the powerful teachings this ancient game offers for staying present, thriving in a complex world, and crafting a fulfilling life.Refined and perfected through 1,500 years of human history, chess has long been a touchstone for shrewd tacticians and master strategists. But the game is much more than just warfare in miniature. Chess is also an ever-shifting puzzle to be ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds

    Crisis and emergence in metamodernity

    by Jonathan Rowson, Layman Pascal ...
    Series Book 1 - Dispatches
    No doubt the 21st century will continue to surprise us, but the battle for the soul of humanity appears to be quickening. Do we have what it takes to save ourselves from ourselves? The internet has fundamentally changed our experience of shared life, for good and bad. The spiritual and ecological exhaustion of modernity is watched and discussed in a public realm mostly controlled by private ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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    The Moves that Matter

    A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life

    by Jonathan Rowson ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Rowson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 20 min

    Bloomsbury presents The Moves that Matter written and read by Jonathan Rowson.'A powerfully unconventional and mind-expanding book ... A generous, nuanced and witty meditation on confronting the challenges life throws at us all' Oliver Burkeman, author of The AntidoteRefined and perfected throughout human history, chess has long been a touchstone for shrewd tacticians and master strategists. But ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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