Let's Play SHESS is written to inspire and shake up women of all ages and backgrounds to take a chance, learn something new and believe in their abilities. This book provides a fresh entertaining approach to exploring every woman's inquisitive mind and entrepreneurial passion by playing chess. The fascinating and realistic correlation between transferring the chess-playing skills into your real life is revealed, as well as the invaluable rewards and benefits you gain as a result. SHESS is an all-encompassing term which represents "your game of life." All of the circumstances which exist in your life, including challenges relevant to business development represent your individual "battlefield." Whether on a personal or professional level, SHESS relates how you think, react, analyze and solve problems, and make decisions. While this book is dedicated to women, everyone is certainly welcome to explore this wisdom.

Being on the run doesn't mean giving up your crosswords! From the pages of "The New York Times" comes this brand-new collection of easy-to-solve, fast-to-finish puzzles especially designed for solvers on the go.

Originally published in 1935, this is a detailed manual of Bridge technique, 'As Used by the Leading Contract Bridge Tournament Players, with Examples of Expert Bidding and Expert Play'. Contents Include: Part 1 - Expert Bidding - What Every Expert Knows - Valuing the Hand - The Opening Bid of One - Responses to Opening Bids of One - Rebidding - Specialized Opening Bids and Responses - Defensive Bidding - Penalty Doubles and Sacrifice Bids - Slam Bidding - Psychic Bidding - Examples and Drills - Part Two - General Principles - Declarer's Play - Defensive Play - Advanced Play - A Series of Fine Hands

The Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records - ARCADE VOLUME *Video Games * Emulation * Arcade Novelties * Pinball The Official Book of Records is now divided into three volumes. This Arcade Volume will be followed by two additional volumes that focus on Console Gaming and PC Gaming. What you will find in this 3-volume set: 1....Each volume settles all arguments by telling you what the current high score is on almost any game and who you have to beat to become the new world champion! 2...Each volume is the authority that establishes the rules and standardized settings on each game! 3...Each volume promotes computer gaming as a professional sport, with a tradition of contests, statistics, world records and star players! 4...Each volume publicizes an international schedule of tournaments players can compete in to gain entrance into this record book! 5...Each volume brings credit to thousands of gamers around the world who know they are the best!

Focus your mind and heart with this gratitude puzzle journal. Full of gratitude practices and exercises, as well as entertaining puzzles, this journal will help you focus on what's important: being grateful. With more than 320 puzzles and activities, you'll find gratitude word searches and word scrambles, mindfulness cryptograms, mazes, adult coloring pages, journal prompts, monthly gratitude templates for reflection and goal setting, and blank space for monthly vision boards one can create by collaging, sketching, or doodling.

Keep your brain fit and your memory sharp with a variety of fun and engaging puzzles from Brain Busters. From Crosswords to Word Searches to Spot the Difference and other stimulating challenges, our curated collection offers hours of mind-sharpening fun in these brain-training games to enhance memory and cognitive function.

• OVER 300 PUZZLES & ACTIVITIES: Keep your brain fit with hours of fun and entertainment for adults to enjoy!
• A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING: Feeling up for some mental exercise, try a word puzzle. If it's a day for gratitude and reflection, fill out one of the journal prompts or use the blank space to inspire a creative spark for some doodles or sketching.
• LAY FLAT: Spiral-bound lays flat for ease of use at home or on the go. Whether you're drinking your morning coffee, riding on the train, or relaxing on vacation this puzzle book can go with you.
• MAKES A GREAT GIFT: First and foremost this is a wonderful gift for yourself, but also makes for a lovely Mother's Day, birthday, or thinking-of-you gift.
• BRAIN BUSTERS(TM) Part of the Brain Busters Puzzle Collection from Parragon & Cottage Door Press. Look for our other puzzle books including Smithsonian Inspiring Women Who Shaped America Word Search & Beautiful Botanicals Word Search, The Ultimate Book of Mixed Puzzles, Mindfulness Word Search, Large Print Word Searches, Bible Word Search, Crosswords, Picture Puzzles, and More!

Many railway modellers include an engine shed somewhere on their layout. However, all too often the shed is squeezed into a quite improbable location and is little more than a place to 'park' engines when they are not in use. This well-illustrated and comprehensive book, written by an experienced railway modeller, helps even the beginner to develop a far more realistic approach and to capture the unforgettable grimy but exciting atmosphere of the locomotive shed in the steam era.

The collected essays in this volume focus on the presentation, representation and interpretation of ancient violence – from war to slavery, rape and murder – in the modern visual and performing arts, with special attention to videogames and dance as well as the more usual media of film, literature and theatre. Violence, fury and the dread that they provoke are factors that appear frequently in the ancient sources. The dark side of antiquity, so distant from the ideal of purity and harmony that the classical heritage until recently usually called forth, has repeatedly struck the imagination of artists, writers and scholars across ages and cultures. A global assembly of contributors, from Europe to Brazil and from the US to New Zealand, consider historical and mythical violence in Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus and the 2010 TV series of the same name, in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, in the work of Lars von Trier, and in Soviet ballet and the choreography of Martha Graham and Anita Berber. Representations of Roman warfare appear in videogames such as Ryse: Son of Rome and Total War, as well as recent comics, and examples from both these media are analysed in the volume. Finally, interviews with two artists offer insight into the ways in which practitioners understand and engage with the complex reception of these themes.

All the Ages Awakening from Firelit Dreams seeks to tell a different sort of story with a different sort of adventure - it is a world both ancient & new - where the unthinkable epochs of the natural world fold under the new world of technical achievement, agriculture & urbanism. This is a setting of deep myths & new gods, of old ways meeting with the first revolution. You will find no dungeons here save those that you build, no gods here save those that you raise up & no treasure here save that which you create - this is the dawn of the world where the seeds of ten thousand years of adventure are planted.

With complex stories and stunning visuals eliciting intense emotional responses, coupled with opportunities for self-expression and problem solving, video games are a powerful medium to foster empathy, critical thinking, and creativity in players. As these games grow in popularity, ambition, and technological prowess, they become a legitimate art form, shedding old attitudes and misconceptions along the way. Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives asks whether videogames have the power to transform a player and his or her beliefs from a sociopolitical perspective. Unlike traditional forms of storytelling, videogames allow users to immerse themselves in new worlds, situations, and politics. This publication surveys the landscape of videogames and analyzes the emergent gaming that shifts the definition and cultural effects of videogames. This book is a valuable resource to game designers and developers, sociologists, students of gaming, and researchers in relevant fields.

Calling all puzzle lovers, get ready to go word hunting!

77 Bible Word Searches for Kids helps kids to know God as they read 77 stories from the Bible about God's love for us and His faithfulness throughout history.
Each story is followed by a Word Search with ten key words to help kids remember what they have read in a way that is playful and engaging.

Join the hunt and see if you can find 770 words!

Special features:

• Softcover
• Gloss Laminated Cover
• One-color insides
• For 8-to-10-year-olds