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How do you win a won game? How do you win a lost game? Study the endgame! More specifically, study this book and you will really get strong at the endgame. It would be an exaggeration to say that most games are decided in the endgame, but there is no question that a great many upsets are pulled off at this stage. Players often come out of the opening with a clear lead, only to see it dwindle away in the endgame. On the other hand, if yo...

GREAT EXPECTATIONS is Charles Dickens' thirteenth novel and his penultimate completed novel, a bildungsroman which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman...

Who's killing the tourists in Florida? When a gunman mistakes Candace McCoy for a wealthy visitor, the former detective faces her biggest challenge yet: Is the violence the start of a full-blown war on tourists? Or are the attacks a smokescreen for an even greater threat? And if CW (who made her debut in Peak Season) unmasks the killers, will it spell the end of her career, her friends, and her life? Haunted by a father who destroyed her famil...

Messina, is the capital of Sicily. Founded by the Greeks, it has a long history of having to rebuild itself, giving a strength to its inhabitants, who do not readily give in to any adversity as a people. In 1783, an earthquake destroyed much of the city. It took decades to rebuild. Another earthquake damaged the city on November 16, 1894, and Messina was almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami. December 28, 1908, that killed app...

An Unabridged, Unaltered Edition of Acting: The First Six Lessons created for The National Theatre Conference, to include: Concentration - Memory of Emotion - Dramatic Action - Characterization - Observation - Rhythm

The sixth novel in the Journey Home novel series, WALKING THROUGH THE VALLEY continues the saga of Gideon Taylor, a Federal surgeon during the Civil War. In this sixth novel, Gideon is called back to Ohio to help a young man, Garrett Michaels, who served as a steward during the war. While in Ohio Gideon receives an urgent telegram to return home so he leaves promptly, but his trip home is delayed by a steamboat accident on the Ohio River.

The seventh novel in the Journey Home Civil War novel series, GREEN PASTURES finds Gideon Taylor returning to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he served as a Federal surgeon during the last years of the war. Finding the experience more positive than expected, when he returns to Braxton Springs, he has to tangle again with the Bunch brothers. Finally he journeys to Cincinnati where he finds a number of pleasant surprises awaiting him as he experienc...

This compilation of short stories is a collection of narratives about the inner thoughts and inner workings of animals and folklore in our daily lives, what we see and what we don't. It's the other side of the perspective that impacts us equally, presented without our own perceptions that would only blur their purity. This compilation of poems is a collection of poetic translation of the analysis of the world around us, the inner workings of t...

What's the one thing in the world that scares kids the most? Being different. But not Salvatore. You see, Salvatore's webs are different. Much to his family's disappointment. Because this family of circus-performing spiders has built their act off tradition. Webs are circles, period. But not Salvatore's. And over his father's squashed body is he going to let him perform with them. It would ruin all they worked for since Grandpa Sebastian Spinf...

Vasily Sukhomlinsky's My Heart I Give to Children is an educational classic that has sold millions of copies in 30 languages. It describes Sukhomlinsky's ground-breaking work with thirty-one students in rural Ukraine, during an experimental preschool year and the subsequent four years of their primary schooling.Sukhomlinsky wrote over thirty books, all based on his personal experience as a teacher and school principal at Pavlysh Secondary Scho...

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