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Over eighty problems in chess are presented in large, open diagrams, one to a page, appropriate for children who are being taught chess by readers of Chess and Children, or for any child who knows the rules and has some familiarity with the game.Each diagram represents a critical point in the game, and the reader is challenged to answer the question in each case: "What's the Best Next Move?" Solutions are given in notation form on the page fol...

Chess and Children presents the conventional information about the game of chess from the point of view of one who wishes to teach it to children. It assumes little or no preliminary knowledge of the game on the part of the reader, so parents and teachers who do not play chess can make use of the book as readily as those who do.The author, who has specialized in teaching chess to children for several years, describes important teaching methods...

Lady Chatterley's Lover was a ground breaking novel. It remains one of the most famous books ever written. Although no doubt it contains great literature, most of its fame arises from the numerous obscenity trials that took place in various countries of the world.Although once banned in most countries of the world, it is now available in book form almost everywhere.The story line to Lady Chatterly's Lover is that Lady Chatterly loves her husba...

British Army's Quest for flying in the 1930s was spearheaded by the Royal Airforce Gunnery Officers and opposed by the Royal Air Force on tactical grounds. After a prolonged paper battle the Air Observation Post Squadrons were finally raised in 1941. Were they really required. "A peep into the British Military Culture ... the conflict between Flyer and Gunner .... History of Pakistan and India's Army Flying.

Burma was once the richest country in Asia. Now, it is the poorest country in Asia. This book was his first novel. This was written before he became famous as the authors of "1984" and "Animal Farm". The book was rejected by several publishers mainly because the characters resembled real people and the publishers feared the libel laws. According to this book, many of the British officers in Burma took Burmese mistresses and fathered illegitima...

When Brave New World was first published in 1932 it was regarded as another screwball Science Fiction novel. However, as time as gone on, more and more of the events predicted by this novel have become true and it is now required reading at major universities.In the Brave New World, the classes of people are divided into Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons. Each class is trained to believe that they are better off than either the people...

When it came out in 1925, Mrs Dalloway, was a new and different kind of novel. It does not have a traditional fixed plot or story line. Instead, it is a stream of consciousness novel, touching on thoughts of suicide, lesbianism and other forbidden subjects that pass through the person's mind. It has been made into a movie starring Vanessa Redgrave and into TV shows. In Mrs Dalloway, all of the action, aside from flashbacks, takes place on a da...

The House Maid's Storyby Dhammika Abeysinghe, a girl from Maiyahawa, Kandy More than one million girls have gotten jobs working as house maids in the Middle East. This is a real book describing what really happens to the house maids. Everything described in this book really happened. All the people described in this book are real people, and the things that happened in this book really happened to them.The facts and circumstances have been chn...

Metamorphosis is a strange story about a man who woke up in bed one morning to find himself having been transformed into a "horrible vermin". From the description of his armor-like back and his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections, it appears that he is now an insect such as a beetle or a cockroach. First published in 1915 in German as Die Verwandlung, this book is studied in colleges and universities across th...

This is what top-level competitive chess is really like.A Yugoslav grandmaster, befuddled at a simultaneous blindfold exhibition , flees from a crowd of peasants through a bathroom window ….A convicted murderer escapes from the police while being taken to a chess tournament …The wife of Grandmaster Reshevsky causes pandemonium when she insists on injecting herself into a game with Grandmaster Byrne …Here are the colorful personalities, the sca...

The Sicilian Defense is the most popular and most complex of opening systems in chess. It has been the favorite of top players throughout modern times. There are a number of systems and variations to choose from such as the Scheveningen, Dragon, Najdorf, Boleslavsky, Kan, etc. There are also a number of sharp, complex, theoretical systems and that is why it is aptly named "The Sicilian Jungle." IM Dr. Danny Kopec's addresses the problem of try...

Winnie-the-Pooh is the most popular children's book in the world. Tagalog is a language spoken as a first language by a quarter of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by the majority. Its standardized form, officially named Filipino, is the national language of the Philippines and is one of two official languages alongside English. It is spoken by 21, 500, 000 in Manila, most of Luzon and Mindoro. Total users in all coun...

An era has ended with the death of Charles Manson on November 19, 2017. The crimes that made him infamous and his name a household word happened in 1969, or 48 years ago. Most people alive today do not know much about this, but those who do remember him know a name that strikes fear into their hearts.That fear arises because Charles Manson seemed to have the almost hypnotic power to bring young women under his control. The members of the Manso...

This is a report on Robert F. Kennedy's 1962 round-the-world trip, which involved some sharp give and take, some useful impressions - and some thoughts on the responsibilities of freedom.This book is entitled "We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are JUST FRIENDS AND BRAVE ENEMIES" by Robert F. KennedyIn March of 1962, a Harper editor who had worked with Mr. Kennedy during the writing of his book, The Enemy Within, was permitte...

The Little Prince is one of the most famous books ever written. It is said to have been translated into 300 languages and dialects.The original in French has also been reprinted by Ishi Press as Le Petit Prince - grande édition imprimée ISBN 4871879275It was first published by Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1943. Copies of the first edition are rare and will sell for more than one thousand dollars.Here we have used for this reprint the original...

Hãy khám phá nh¿ng câu chuy¿n kinh di¿n dã bi¿n G¿u Pooh thành chú g¿u du¿c yêu thích nh¿t trên th¿ gi¿i! Winnie-the-Pooh hay còn g¿i G¿u Pooh Xinh X¿n là m¿t t¿p h¿p các chuy¿n nh¿ v¿ tình b¿n và th¿ gi¿i tu¿ng tu¿ng mà A.A.Milne dã sáng t¿o nên d¿ dành t¿ng con trai yêu d¿ Christopher Robin. Bu¿c ra t¿ dám d¿ choi c¿a Robin, t¿t c¿ các nhân v¿t dó: G¿u Pooh kh¿ kh¿o, L¿a xám Eeyore u s¿u, L¿n Con nhát cáy, Cú hi¿u bi¿t, Th¿ b¿ng nh¿ng, … dã ...

Le Petit Prince est une œuvre de langue française, la plus connue d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Publié en 1943 à New York simultanément à sa traduction anglaise, c'est un conte poétique et philosophique sous l'apparence d'un conte pour enfants.Traduit à ce jour en 300 langues, Le Petit Prince est le deuxième ouvrage le plus traduit au monde après la Bible.Le langage, simple et dépouillé, parce qu'il est destiné à être compris par des enfants, es...

Winnie-the-Pooh is the most popular children's book in Slovenia. It is also the most popular children's book in the world, but it is especially popular in Slovenia. Slovenian or Slovene is spoken by 2.5 million people in Slovenia and belongs to the group of South Slavic languages.Slovenia is at the North end of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia.This translation into Slovenian is part of project to translate Winnie-the-Pooh into other languages...

The word 'Sikh' means a 'disciple'. A Sikh is a person who believes in one god and teachings of the Ten Gurus, enshrined in the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh Holy Book.Additionally, he or she must take Amrit, the Sikh Baptism.The Sikh religion was founded by Guru Nanak, who was born in 1469 AD in the village Talwandi, now called 'Nankana Sahib' near Lahore (Pakistan).

Winnie-the-Pooh in Sinhalese¿Winnie-the-Pooh is the most popular children's book in the world. This is the first translation of Winnie-the-Pooh into Sinhalese, the language of Sri Lanka. We believe the reason Winnie-the-Pooh has not caught on in Sri Lanka is there are no bears in Sri Lanka. Winnie-the-Pooh is most popular in countries where there are a lot of bears, such as Russia. Sinhalese¿ is a language spoken by 18 million people. Sinhales...