The Exhilarating Elephant Gambit
The Exhilarating Elephant Gambit

Author: Jakob Aabling-Thomsen

Publisher:

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781784830625

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The Exhilarating Elephant Gambit offers a complete repertoire for Black after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5!?, based on 3.exd5 Bd6 or 3.Nxe5 Bd6 4.d4 dxe4. Perhaps the boldest opening in all of chess theory, the Elephant sees Black sacrifice a pawn to obtain quick and active development, with most of his pieces pointing menacingly towards the enemy kingside.Attacking and other tactical resources abound, with a future ...e4-e3 advance often mauling White's position like an Elephant's tusk. With original analysis of all variations and improvements against all published "refutations", this book contains everything you need to shock, surprise and stampede your opponents.

Gambit Chess Openings
Gambit Chess Openings

Author: Eric Schiller

Publisher:

Published: 2001-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781580420389

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An exciting compendium on chess gambits, the most popular of the chess openings, Gambit Chess Openings (GCO) completes the trilogy of chess openings with Standard Chess Openings (SCO) and Unorthodox Chess Openings (UCO) to give players the complete encyclopedia of chess openings! Every important gambit opening and variation ever played and currently in vogue is here, collected together in one volume.Gambits, where one side sacrifices material, a pawn or more, for an advance in development, are the most exciting and popular openings in chess! Every player uses gambits to force early action and excitement over the board, even the world champions, whose great gambits are well represented in GCO. Not only are gambits fun to play, especially at the amateur level, but they are essential to be able to defend against so the gambiteer doesn't run off with the game in a few bold strokes.Hundreds of gambits are discussed with a clear explanation of what the gambit player receives in return for the sacrificed pawn or piece. Many of these gambits are seen primarily in amateur games, where they trap the unwary, but some gambits are encountered frequently in professional contests. Gambits are ranked according to various criteria so that readers can quickly find gambits with similar characteristics to the ones they already enjoy. Includes popular favorites such as the King's Gambit, Benko Gambit, Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Cochrane Gambit, Fried Liver Attack, Evans Gambit, Smith-Morra Gambit, Latvian Gambit and the Elephant Gambit.More than 100 complete games are included so that readers can see how the ideas behind the gambit are influential not only in the beginning of the game, but later on inits development.An essential and fun reference book for both amateur and professional players.

Player Piano
Player Piano

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Publisher: Dial Press

Published: 2009-09-30

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0307568083

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“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco Chronicle Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Praise for Player Piano “An exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma.”—Life “His black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear.”—The New York Times Book Review

The Emperor of All Maladies
The Emperor of All Maladies

Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-08-09

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 1439170916

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.

Salt Sugar Fat
Salt Sugar Fat

Author: Michael Moss

Publisher: Signal

Published: 2013-02-26

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 0771057091

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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the troubling story of the rise of the processed food industry -- and how it used salt, sugar, and fat to addict us. Salt Sugar Fat is a journey into the highly secretive world of the processed food giants, and the story of how they have deployed these three essential ingredients, over the past five decades, to dominate the North American diet. This is an eye-opening book that demonstrates how the makers of these foods have chosen, time and again, to double down on their efforts to increase consumption and profits, gambling that consumers and regulators would never figure them out. With meticulous original reporting, access to confidential files and memos, and numerous sources from deep inside the industry, it shows how these companies have pushed ahead, despite their own misgivings (never aired publicly). Salt Sugar Fat is the story of how we got here, and it will hold the food giants accountable for the social costs that keep climbing even as some of the industry's own say, "Enough already."

New in Chess Yearbook 138
New in Chess Yearbook 138

Author: Jan Timman

Publisher: New In Chess,Csi

Published: 2021-05-10

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9789056919573

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New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains all major new chess opening developments. Each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. An accessible way to keep up to date with main line opening theory. Indispensable for advanced players.

A Playful Path
A Playful Path

Author: Bernard De Koven

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-12-18

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1304351823

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A Playful Path, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, the joy of form or the content, the play of brain or mind, body or spirit, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.

The Moral Arc
The Moral Arc

Author: Michael Shermer

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2015-01-20

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 0805096930

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Bestselling author Michael Shermer's exploration of science and morality that demonstrates how the scientific way of thinking has made people, and society as a whole, more moral From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to apply scientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts of dissected bodies in old medical texts, physicians opened bodies themselves to see what was there; instead of divining truth through the authority of an ancient holy book or philosophical treatise, people began to explore the book of nature for themselves through travel and exploration; instead of the supernatural belief in the divine right of kings, people employed a natural belief in the right of democracy. In The Moral Arc, Shermer will explain how abstract reasoning, rationality, empiricism, skepticism--scientific ways of thinking--have profoundly changed the way we perceive morality and, indeed, move us ever closer to a more just world.

UNBORED Games
UNBORED Games

Author: Joshua Glenn

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1632860465

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UNBORED Games has all the smarts, creativity, and DIY spirit of the original UNBORED (“It's a book! It's a guide! It's a way of life!” -Los Angeles Magazine), but with a laser-like focus on the activities we do for pure fun: to while away a rainy day, to test our skills and stretch our imaginations-games. There are more than seventy games here, 50 of them all new, plus many more recommendations, and they cover the full gambit, from old-fashioned favorites to today's high-tech games. The book offers a gold mine of creative, constructive fun: intricate clapping games, bike rodeo, Google Earth challenges, croquet golf, capture the flag, and the best ever apps to play with Grandma, to name only a handful. Gaming is a whole culture for kids to explore, and the book will be complete with gaming history and interviews with awesome game designers. The lessons here: all games can be self-customized, or hacked. You can even make up your own games. Some could even change the world. The original UNBORED has taken its place as a much beloved, distinctly contemporary family brand. UNBORED Games extends the franchise -- also including UNBORED Adventure -- in a new handy flexibound format, illustrated in full color throughout. This is a whole shelf of serious fun the whole family can enjoy indoors, outdoors, online and offline.