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Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from
Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Magnus Carlsen's world
championship victories, and featuring a foreword by five-times
World Champion Vishy Anand. This book is written by an all-star
team of authors. Wesley So is the reigning Fischer Random World
Champion, the 2017 US Champion and the winner of the 2016 Grand
Chess Tour. Michael Adams has been the top British player for the
last quarter of a century and was a finalist in the 2004 FIDE World
Championship. Graham Burgess is the author of thirty books, a
former champion of the Danish region of Funen, and holds the world
record for marathon blitz chess playing. John Nunn is a three-time
winner of both the World Solving Championship and the British Chess
Federation Book of the Year Award. John Emms is an experienced
chess coach and writer, who finished equal first in the 1997
British Championship and was chess columnist of the Young
Telegraph. The 145 greatest chess games of all time, selected,
analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British and
American experts and illustrated with over 1,100 chess diagrams.
Join the authors in studying these games, the cream of two
centuries of international chess, and develop your own
chess-playing skills - whatever your current standard. Instructive
points at the end of each game highlight the lessons to be learned.
First published in 1998, a second edition of The Mammoth Book of
the World's Greatest Chess Games in 2004 included an additional
twelve games. Another new edition in 2010 included a further
thirteen games as well as some significant revisions to the
analysis and information regarding other games in earlier editions
of the book, facilitated by the use of a variety of chess software.
This 2021 edition, further updated and expanded, now includes 145
games. The authors have made full use of the new generation of
chess analysis engines that apply neural-network based AI.
Personal relationships have long been of central interest to social
scientists, but the subject of friendship has been relatively
neglected. Moreover, most studies of friendship have been social
psychological. Placing Friendship in Context is a unique collection
bridging social psychological and social structural research to
advance understanding of this important subject. In it, some of the
world's leading researchers explore the social and historical
contexts in which friendships and other similar informal ties
develop and how it is that these contexts shape the form and
substance the relationships assume. Together, they demonstrate that
friendship cannot be understood from individualistic or dyadic
perspectives alone, but is a relationship significantly influenced
by the environment in which it is generated. By analysing the ways
in which friendships articulate with the social structures in which
they are embedded, Placing Friendship in Context redescribes such
personal relationships at both the macro and the micro level.
Personal relationships have long been of central interest to social scientists, but the subject of friendship has been relatively neglected. Moreover, most studies of friendship have been social psychological. Placing Friendship in Context is a unique collection bridging social psychological and social structural research to advance understanding of this important subject. In it, some of the world's leading researchers explore the social and historical contexts in which friendships and other similar informal ties develop and how it is that these contexts shape the form and substance the relationships assume.
The 125 greatest chess games of all time, selected, analysed,
re-evaluated and explained by a team of British experts and
illustrated with over 1,000 chess diagrams. Join the authors in
studying these games, the cream of two centuries of international
chess, and develop your own chess-playing skills - whatever your
current standard. Instructive points at the end of each game
highlight the lessons to be learned. First published in 1998, a
second edition of The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess
Games in 2004 included an additional 12 games. This edition
includes a further 13 games as well as some significant revisions
to the analysis and information regarding other games in earlier
editions of the book, facilitated by the use of a variety of chess
software.
Hot shot Private Investigator Cole Ustick couldn't care less about
politics. However, his boss thrusts Ustick into the world of Idaho
politics by assigning him the case of gubernatorial candidate
Ignacio Hernandez. Hernandez wants to find the women behind thinly
sourced allegations of sexual misconduct against him that appeared
in the state's largest newspaper.
When he's confronted by uncooperative campaign staffers who would
rather keep their own secrets than save their boss' campaign Ustick
takes matters into his own hands. He tricks the reporter behind the
scandal into revealing one of Hernandez's accusers. When the woman
turns up dead and Hernandez is charged with her murder, Ustick
finds himself embroiled in the biggest political scandal in Idaho
history.
The body count rises as Ustick tries to uncover the truth behind a
power hungry alliance that will stop at nothing. Will Ustick
identify the true players behind the plot or become their next
victim?
Dave Johnson's dreams have come true. He's taken Seattle by storm
as Powerhouse, a metal-clad crime fighter. His awesome array of
powers has the underworld on the run, his charitable efforts are a
success, and he has a popular comic book. When his publisher is
bought out, he's given every fan's dream: he's tasked with creating
his own line of comic books. His biggest problem is his tendency to
attract campy, wannabe "supervillains" who aren't worthy opponents.
Mitch "the Pharaoh" Farrow wants to turn Dave's dream into a
nightmare. Mitch's job is to spread cynicism ahead of an
interdimensional alien invasion. The aliens' king has promised to
cure Mitch's dying daughter when he takes over and Mitch will do
anything to save her. He uses every tool at his disposal, from a
massive media smear machine to a force field bubble that crushes
its victim into atoms.
With the help of new allies and old friends, Powerhouse strives to
protect his family and the citizens of Seattle from the forces of
cynicism.
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