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This collection includes every known game of the Orient, including many otherwise unknown games. These games have different names in Chinese or Korean than the names by which we know them in the West.

The Wali of Swat was born in 1908 nine years before his father carved out a centralized state in the stateless, unruly tribal area of the Swat Pathans on the borders of British India. The Wali ruled Swat for twenty years, tell it was merged with Pakistan in 1969.

The Structure of Lie Groups presents the basic part of the Lie group theory in a self contained exposition. The main emphasis is put on the use of Lie algebras in dealing with the structural and representation-theoretical features of Lie groups.

By the guiding of his father God, Allah, the great God of the universe. To redeem man from his sinful and fallen stage of humanity back to the highest plane of life with his father God, Allah.

Pai Gow is the biggest gambling game in the world. It is a game played with dice and with 32 Chinese dominoes. Although it is an ancient game, its popularity has greatly increased in recent years and it is now featured in almost every major gambling casino in the world. It is common for a player to bet $5000 (five thousand US dollars) on a single hand of Pai Gow. When I was playing Pai Gow recently in the Oaks Card Room in Emeryville Californi...

Now, more than 160 years after publication, this book is about to be made into ANOTHER Major Motion Picture.The latest movie stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep and Laura Dern. The movie is in the can but is not scheduled to be released until December 25, 2019.The book has been adapted previously for cinema, twice as silent film and four times with sound in 1933, 1949, 1978 and 1994. Six television ...

The 1966 World Championship Match was one of the hardest fought and most exciting matches of this series. It was played under the traditional rules of a 24 game match, time limit was 40 moves in 2¿ hours, and if a 12-12 tie the champion would retain his title.This was a significant factor since the Botvinnik-Bronstein match and the first Botvinnik-Smyslov Match had both ended in a 12-12 tie.There were political implications in this because the...

This book is perhaps unique in that it was written by a professional educator who also played chess, rather than by a professional chess player who also wrote.Dr. Milton Finkelstein was Director of the New York City Department of Education who wrote several other books in the educational field. Before that, he had been a high school principal and a high school teacher.A leading figure in American chess for more than thirty years, presents a si...

Defense lawyer Melvin M. Belli is an internationally famed trial lawyer. He lived in San Francisco but he had won his reputation in cases and courtrooms around the world. As one of history's most successful personal-injury lawyers, he has won millions of dollars in awards for plaintiffs. He is the author of the six-volume Modern Trials, a standard reference in the legal profession, in which he sets forth his theories on demonstrative evidence....

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The siege of Malakand was Winston Churchill's first experience of actual combat, which he later described in several columns for The Daily Telegraph, receiving £5 per column, these articles were eventually compiled into his first published book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, beginning his career as a writer and politician.

From this book, Modern Chess Strategy with an Appendix on Go, profusely illustrated with hundreds of diagrams, you can learn to play chess well within a short time even if you do not know the first thing about it. The author a chess master of International renown, has the rare knack of clarifying problems which heretofore seemed difficult or confusing. His instructions will speedily guide you from the elementary stage to the stage where you ca...

This is the story of the Mutiny by the French Army at the height of World War I in 1917.It was not a mutiny in the traditional sense. The French soldiers did not desert their positions.However, they refused to attack when ordered to do so.The reason was they knew an attack would have been a suicide mission. The same commander had previously given an order to attack and the result had been an utter defeat of the French Army by the Germans, with...

This is a major work by a left-wing former Communist writer. He is so honored by the Soviet Union that he is one of only three Americans honored by being buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

This is a reprint of the classic work Basic Chess Endings by Reuben Fine, published in 1941.Although there are claims it has been superseded by other books, Basic Chess Endings by Fine remains the only book that covers all of the most basic chess endings and yet is in small size so it can be carried around in your pocket. The other books just show some endgames, not every endgame.Grandmaster Fine was one of the strongest chess players in the w...

This is the Epic Journey by the First, Last and until recently the Only Man ever to cross the Entire Continents of China, Russia and India starting from near to Korea in North Eastern China in 1886, crossing Manchuria and all of China walking along side the Great Wall, following a route similar to Marco Polo, then crossing Chinese Turkistan, reaching Kashgar and Yarkand, then crossing the Himalayas by way of the Mustagh Pass and then reaching ...

The idea of an exotic dancer working as a lethal double agent using her powers of seduction to extract military secrets from her many lovers made Mata Hari an enduring archetype of the femme fatale.

This little book at low cost covers everything. If you master the material in this book and you can pass any math class below calculus. It starts by telling you that One plus One equals Two. Then it goes through all the numbering systems. Then vectors, Euclidean planes, lines, points and maps.

Arnold S. Denker was one of America's and the World's leading chess players. He played and competed in almost every leading chess event from 1933 right up until his death just short of age 91. He won the US Chess Championship in 1944 defeating Reuben Fine.

Winnie-the-Pooh, the Original Version This is a reproduction of the original Winnie-the-Pooh published in 1926.