Author: Zsuzsa Polgár
Publisher: Compchess Consulting
ISBN: 9780965705974
Category : Women chess players
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Queen of the Kings Game
Author: Zsuzsa Polgár
Publisher: Compchess Consulting
ISBN: 9780965705974
Category : Women chess players
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher: Compchess Consulting
ISBN: 9780965705974
Category : Women chess players
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Game of Queens
Author: Sarah Gristwood
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465096794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
"Sarah Gristwood has written a masterpiece that effortlessly and enthrallingly interweaves the amazing stories of women who ruled in Europe during the Renaissance period." -- Alison Weir Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, these women wielded enormous power over their territories, shaping the course of European history for over a century. Across boundaries and generations, these royal women were mothers and daughters, mentors and protées, allies and enemies. For the first time, Europe saw a sisterhood of queens who would not be equaled until modern times. A fascinating group biography and a thrilling political epic, Game of Queens explores the lives of some of the most beloved (and reviled) queens in history.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465096794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
"Sarah Gristwood has written a masterpiece that effortlessly and enthrallingly interweaves the amazing stories of women who ruled in Europe during the Renaissance period." -- Alison Weir Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, these women wielded enormous power over their territories, shaping the course of European history for over a century. Across boundaries and generations, these royal women were mothers and daughters, mentors and protées, allies and enemies. For the first time, Europe saw a sisterhood of queens who would not be equaled until modern times. A fascinating group biography and a thrilling political epic, Game of Queens explores the lives of some of the most beloved (and reviled) queens in history.
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens
Author: Tanya Boteju
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534430652
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
“Poignant and important.” —Refinery29 “A bright and sparkly celebration of love and self-acceptance.” —Kirkus Reviews Judy Blume meets RuPaul’s Drag Race in this funny, feel-good debut novel about a queer teen who navigates questions of identity and self-acceptance while discovering the magical world of drag. Perpetually awkward Nima Kumara-Clark is bored with her insular community of Bridgeton, in love with her straight girlfriend, and trying to move past her mother’s unexpected departure. After a bewildering encounter at a local festival, Nima finds herself suddenly immersed in the drag scene on the other side of town. Macho drag kings, magical queens, new love interests, and surprising allies propel Nima both painfully and hilariously closer to a self she never knew she could be—one that can confidently express and accept love. But she’ll have to learn to accept lost love to get there. From debut author Tanya Boteju comes a poignant, laugh-out-loud tale of acceptance, self-expression, and the colorful worlds that await when we’re brave enough to look.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534430652
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
“Poignant and important.” —Refinery29 “A bright and sparkly celebration of love and self-acceptance.” —Kirkus Reviews Judy Blume meets RuPaul’s Drag Race in this funny, feel-good debut novel about a queer teen who navigates questions of identity and self-acceptance while discovering the magical world of drag. Perpetually awkward Nima Kumara-Clark is bored with her insular community of Bridgeton, in love with her straight girlfriend, and trying to move past her mother’s unexpected departure. After a bewildering encounter at a local festival, Nima finds herself suddenly immersed in the drag scene on the other side of town. Macho drag kings, magical queens, new love interests, and surprising allies propel Nima both painfully and hilariously closer to a self she never knew she could be—one that can confidently express and accept love. But she’ll have to learn to accept lost love to get there. From debut author Tanya Boteju comes a poignant, laugh-out-loud tale of acceptance, self-expression, and the colorful worlds that await when we’re brave enough to look.
The Royall Game of Chesse-play
Author: Gioachino Greco
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Game of Queens
Author: India Edghill
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466883669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
For fans of The Red Tent and The Dovekeepers, India Edghill breathes new life into the biblical story of Vashti and Esther with her signature historical richness, epic scope, and sweeping romance. You may know part of the story already, but you only know what history has passed along. The story of how Vashti, Queen of Queens, the most beautiful woman in all the empire, defied the king her husband and so lost her crown. The story of how Ahasuerus, King of Kings, commanded that the most beautiful maidens be sent to his court so he might choose a new queen. And you may know how he set the queen's crown upon the head of the virtuous and beautiful Esther, and how Queen Esther herself defied both king and law to save her people from a treacherous fate. What India Edghill brings us in Game of Queens is the story of power and treachery, blood and deception, bravery and romance that surrounds the court of Ahasuerus and brings to life two of the most celebrated female heroines in all of history.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466883669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
For fans of The Red Tent and The Dovekeepers, India Edghill breathes new life into the biblical story of Vashti and Esther with her signature historical richness, epic scope, and sweeping romance. You may know part of the story already, but you only know what history has passed along. The story of how Vashti, Queen of Queens, the most beautiful woman in all the empire, defied the king her husband and so lost her crown. The story of how Ahasuerus, King of Kings, commanded that the most beautiful maidens be sent to his court so he might choose a new queen. And you may know how he set the queen's crown upon the head of the virtuous and beautiful Esther, and how Queen Esther herself defied both king and law to save her people from a treacherous fate. What India Edghill brings us in Game of Queens is the story of power and treachery, blood and deception, bravery and romance that surrounds the court of Ahasuerus and brings to life two of the most celebrated female heroines in all of history.
Lead Like a King/Queen
Author: Charles H. Gaulden
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 166291184X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
After the death of the famous King Solomon, the nation of Israel split into two countries. The southern kingdom, known as Judea, lasted three and a half centuries. During those 350 years, the Judean kingdom had 19 kings and one queen. This book examines that important history with the specific lens of "What were the leadership principles from these 20 leaders?" The book is divided into twelve chapters, with a 21-century leadership application for each chapter. These 12 principles help the reader with the great question, "How to lead like a king/queen?"
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 166291184X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
After the death of the famous King Solomon, the nation of Israel split into two countries. The southern kingdom, known as Judea, lasted three and a half centuries. During those 350 years, the Judean kingdom had 19 kings and one queen. This book examines that important history with the specific lens of "What were the leadership principles from these 20 leaders?" The book is divided into twelve chapters, with a 21-century leadership application for each chapter. These 12 principles help the reader with the great question, "How to lead like a king/queen?"
2/1 Game Force a Modern Approach
Author: Neil H. Timm Ph.D.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490724435
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
The 2/1 Game Force bidding system is an improvement over the Standard American System that has been in effect and played by bridge players for many years. The advantage of the 2/1 system is that it allows the partnership to know that game is possible with only a single bid. In this book, I have tried to present the fundamental aspects of the bidding structure for playing a pure Two-Over-One Game Force system of bidding. In this book, I have tried to change behavior by presenting a series of bids geared toward the 2/1 bidding structure that includes Bergen, Reverse Bergen, and Combined Bergen Raises, inverted minor suit raises with crisscross and flip-flop, cuebidding, modified scroll bids, and many more methods not used in Standard American or Precision. In the fourth edition, the Minorwood Convention has been expanded and several variations of the Flannery Convention are included in this edition. I have added the Hello and SCUM conventions used to interfer over strong notrumps and a Modified Landy convention designed to compete over partnerships that employ a weak notrump bid. The Equal Level Conversion (ELC) double is discussed in Chapter 6 and additional material on slam bidding has been added to Chapter 3. The material on two-way new minor forcing and the Gazilli Convention has been expanded upon in Chapter 1 and Jacoby transfers with a superaccept structure has been added to Chapter 2. Finally, a new chapter that reviews the new Italian System of bids called Fantunes has been included in this edition. The System has been modified to be in compliance with the General Convention Chart.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490724435
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
The 2/1 Game Force bidding system is an improvement over the Standard American System that has been in effect and played by bridge players for many years. The advantage of the 2/1 system is that it allows the partnership to know that game is possible with only a single bid. In this book, I have tried to present the fundamental aspects of the bidding structure for playing a pure Two-Over-One Game Force system of bidding. In this book, I have tried to change behavior by presenting a series of bids geared toward the 2/1 bidding structure that includes Bergen, Reverse Bergen, and Combined Bergen Raises, inverted minor suit raises with crisscross and flip-flop, cuebidding, modified scroll bids, and many more methods not used in Standard American or Precision. In the fourth edition, the Minorwood Convention has been expanded and several variations of the Flannery Convention are included in this edition. I have added the Hello and SCUM conventions used to interfer over strong notrumps and a Modified Landy convention designed to compete over partnerships that employ a weak notrump bid. The Equal Level Conversion (ELC) double is discussed in Chapter 6 and additional material on slam bidding has been added to Chapter 3. The material on two-way new minor forcing and the Gazilli Convention has been expanded upon in Chapter 1 and Jacoby transfers with a superaccept structure has been added to Chapter 2. Finally, a new chapter that reviews the new Italian System of bids called Fantunes has been included in this edition. The System has been modified to be in compliance with the General Convention Chart.
Pawns, Queens, Kings
Author: Barry Brynjulson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728377951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Two gentlemen in a senior community begin an evening $1 tuck-in service, complete with guitars and serenading. Pawns, Queens, Kings...the Endgame follows these two men and four other residents as they look for their own versions of purpose, esteem, and companionship. Not all is fun and shenanigans as the realities of aging appear. This bitter-sweet narrative tenderly explores the needs and wants of the aged, as well as their desire to die with dignity.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728377951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Two gentlemen in a senior community begin an evening $1 tuck-in service, complete with guitars and serenading. Pawns, Queens, Kings...the Endgame follows these two men and four other residents as they look for their own versions of purpose, esteem, and companionship. Not all is fun and shenanigans as the realities of aging appear. This bitter-sweet narrative tenderly explores the needs and wants of the aged, as well as their desire to die with dignity.
The Chess Handbook; Teaching the Rudiments of the Game ... Exemplified by Appropriate Games Actually Played by Morphy, Harrwitz ... and Many Others. By an Amateur [-Mears].
Author: AMATEUR.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Queen's Kings
Author: A.V. Arms
Publisher: Harper Woods Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In the final book of the family’s long journey, the fight has just begun. Duke William is now King of England, but the English will not rest until they have pushed him off English soil. To secure his place under the Crown, King William sends his troops to begin the Harrying of the North. Among his arsenal is the man who has become known as the Devil’s Hand. He and his army leave nothing but death and destruction in their wake as they do the King’s bidding. King William put a great deal of time into creating his perfect killing machine and believes the mighty House of Tresche will try to reclaim him. He knows the brother will serve as perfect bait to bring the rest of the family under his control once again. As the battleground at Hastings quieted, only one member of the House of Tresche was free. Now there is only one of them left under William’s thumb, and his family wants him back. It is no longer a battle for the Crown, but one for a family torn apart by war. Will the mighty House of Tresche succeed in freeing Roan? Or is it too late to save the man once known as Roan the Fearless?
Publisher: Harper Woods Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In the final book of the family’s long journey, the fight has just begun. Duke William is now King of England, but the English will not rest until they have pushed him off English soil. To secure his place under the Crown, King William sends his troops to begin the Harrying of the North. Among his arsenal is the man who has become known as the Devil’s Hand. He and his army leave nothing but death and destruction in their wake as they do the King’s bidding. King William put a great deal of time into creating his perfect killing machine and believes the mighty House of Tresche will try to reclaim him. He knows the brother will serve as perfect bait to bring the rest of the family under his control once again. As the battleground at Hastings quieted, only one member of the House of Tresche was free. Now there is only one of them left under William’s thumb, and his family wants him back. It is no longer a battle for the Crown, but one for a family torn apart by war. Will the mighty House of Tresche succeed in freeing Roan? Or is it too late to save the man once known as Roan the Fearless?