500 chess puzzle positions to solve Based on The Times Winning Move column, Byron Jacobs presents a series of challenging chess positions for you to crack. Can you work out the killer move? Deploy your best tactics by trying...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Jun-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520414020)
Japans stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal regime to a major industrial power over the course of the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries has long fascinated and vexed historians. In this study, David L. Howell looks beyond the in...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Nov-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108417938)
This major new reference work presents an accessible and innovative survey of the latest developments in the study of early modern Japan. The period from about 1580 to 1877 saw the reunification of Japan after a long period of civil war, followed by...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Oct-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: New in Chess, ISBN-13: 9789083347929)
It is amazing how much play you can create in a seemingly equal chess position - if you persevere. In this book, the greatest chess player of all time, Magnus Carlsen, and his friend, Grandmaster David Howell, explain how to win these kinds of che...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Aug-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: New in Chess, ISBN-13: 9789083328461)
The greatest chess player of all time, Magnus Carlsen, and his friend, Grandmaster David Howell, explain how to win a chess game through perseverance. They show how you, in an equal starting position, can keep posing problems to your opponent and...Lasīt vairāk
In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New Yorks struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a socialite whose reputation rests on the museums su...Lasīt vairāk
In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New Yorks struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a socialite whose reputation rests on the museums su...Lasīt vairāk
In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New Yorks struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a socialite whose reputation rests on the museums su...Lasīt vairāk
