Author: Chess Notebooks
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781099156335
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Grab this cool Eat Sleep Chess Repeat Notebook as a gift for men and women chess players Usage: Gratitude Journal 5 Minute Journal Affirmation Journal Mindfulness Journal Happiness, Positivity, Mood Journal Prayer Journal Writing, Poetry Journal Travel Journal Work, Goal Journal Daily Planner Dream Journal Yoga, Fitness, Weight Loss Journal Recipe, Food Journal Password Journal Art Journal Log Book Diary Features: 6 x 9 page size 120 pages Dotted grid pages Soft cover / paperback Matte finish cover
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Author: Julian Jaynes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527543
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527543
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Hundred Ghost Soup
Author: Robert Chansky
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
ISBN: 9781620070420
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A Beijing orphan is nearly eighteen. He wants a family and a name, if only for a while. He hacks adoption papers to get them. He also gets: - a long train ride into an empty station in a ghost town. - Ghosts. Their leaders, calling themselves Mr. and Mrs. Vulpin, are his new parents. They are illusion-casting fox spirits, glamorous, clever, and trapped. They need him to free themselves of the ghosts. Our hero works for them and accepts their flaws so long as they pretend to be a family. But then he discovers their wonderful meals are illusory. Are the Vulpins up to no good? And the People's Republic of China will never allow spirits to possess a town. To save them all, he must travel back to Beijing, rifle the Politburo's files, and find a Minister's secrets. When he kindles the wrath of the People's Liberation Army and the Minister of Fate himself, he must penetrate layers of illusions, decide whom he can trust, and learn to cook. And then there is the matter of the soup's main ingredient: him.
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
ISBN: 9781620070420
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A Beijing orphan is nearly eighteen. He wants a family and a name, if only for a while. He hacks adoption papers to get them. He also gets: - a long train ride into an empty station in a ghost town. - Ghosts. Their leaders, calling themselves Mr. and Mrs. Vulpin, are his new parents. They are illusion-casting fox spirits, glamorous, clever, and trapped. They need him to free themselves of the ghosts. Our hero works for them and accepts their flaws so long as they pretend to be a family. But then he discovers their wonderful meals are illusory. Are the Vulpins up to no good? And the People's Republic of China will never allow spirits to possess a town. To save them all, he must travel back to Beijing, rifle the Politburo's files, and find a Minister's secrets. When he kindles the wrath of the People's Liberation Army and the Minister of Fate himself, he must penetrate layers of illusions, decide whom he can trust, and learn to cook. And then there is the matter of the soup's main ingredient: him.
Seeing Like a State
Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Red Plenty
Author: Francis Spufford
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
"Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
"Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.
Winning Chess Openings
Author: Yasser Seirawan
Publisher: Everyman Chess
ISBN: 1857448243
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Start every game with confidence! The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defense formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows you how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, you're shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces. Winning Chess Openings will help you develop a solid understanding of opening principles that you can apply to every game you play without having to memorise a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines. * Build a safe house for a King * Estimate losses of ten moves or fewer * Utilise the elements: time, force, space and pawn structure * Plan strategy based on time-tested opening principles * Employ a defense for Black against any White Opening * Apply an opening for White used by World Champions Winning Chess Openings will help readers develop a solid understanding of opening principles that can be applied to every game they play--without having to memorize a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines.
Publisher: Everyman Chess
ISBN: 1857448243
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Start every game with confidence! The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defense formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows you how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, you're shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces. Winning Chess Openings will help you develop a solid understanding of opening principles that you can apply to every game you play without having to memorise a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines. * Build a safe house for a King * Estimate losses of ten moves or fewer * Utilise the elements: time, force, space and pawn structure * Plan strategy based on time-tested opening principles * Employ a defense for Black against any White Opening * Apply an opening for White used by World Champions Winning Chess Openings will help readers develop a solid understanding of opening principles that can be applied to every game they play--without having to memorize a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines.
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Author: Bobby Fischer
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553263153
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A one-of-a-kind masterclass in chess from the greatest player of all time. Learn how to play chess the Bobby Fischer way with the fastest, most efficient, most enjoyable method ever devised. Whether you’re just learning the game or looking for more complex strategies, these practice problems and exercises will help you master the art of the checkmate. This book teaches through a programmed learning method: It asks you a question. If you give the right answer, it goes on to the next question. If you give the wrong answer, it explains why the answer is wrong and asks you to go back and try again. Thanks to the book’s unique formatting, you will work through the exercises on the right-hand side, with the correct answer hidden on the next page. The left-hand pages are intentionally printed upside-down; after reaching the last page, simply turn the book upside-down and work your way back. When you finish, not only will you be a much better chess player, you may even be able to beat Bobby Fischer at his own game!
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553263153
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A one-of-a-kind masterclass in chess from the greatest player of all time. Learn how to play chess the Bobby Fischer way with the fastest, most efficient, most enjoyable method ever devised. Whether you’re just learning the game or looking for more complex strategies, these practice problems and exercises will help you master the art of the checkmate. This book teaches through a programmed learning method: It asks you a question. If you give the right answer, it goes on to the next question. If you give the wrong answer, it explains why the answer is wrong and asks you to go back and try again. Thanks to the book’s unique formatting, you will work through the exercises on the right-hand side, with the correct answer hidden on the next page. The left-hand pages are intentionally printed upside-down; after reaching the last page, simply turn the book upside-down and work your way back. When you finish, not only will you be a much better chess player, you may even be able to beat Bobby Fischer at his own game!
LOGICAL CHESS
Author: Irving Chernev
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671211356
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From Simon & Schuster, Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained is Irving Chernev guide to beginners chess and the basic moves for every player to improve. In this much loved classic, Irving Chernev explains 33 complete games in detail, telling the reader the reason for every single move. Playing through these games and explanations gives a real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671211356
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From Simon & Schuster, Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained is Irving Chernev guide to beginners chess and the basic moves for every player to improve. In this much loved classic, Irving Chernev explains 33 complete games in detail, telling the reader the reason for every single move. Playing through these games and explanations gives a real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.
Eat Sleep Chess Repeat
Author: Chess Notebooks
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781099156335
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Grab this cool Eat Sleep Chess Repeat Notebook as a gift for men and women chess players Usage: Gratitude Journal 5 Minute Journal Affirmation Journal Mindfulness Journal Happiness, Positivity, Mood Journal Prayer Journal Writing, Poetry Journal Travel Journal Work, Goal Journal Daily Planner Dream Journal Yoga, Fitness, Weight Loss Journal Recipe, Food Journal Password Journal Art Journal Log Book Diary Features: 6 x 9 page size 120 pages Dotted grid pages Soft cover / paperback Matte finish cover
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781099156335
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Grab this cool Eat Sleep Chess Repeat Notebook as a gift for men and women chess players Usage: Gratitude Journal 5 Minute Journal Affirmation Journal Mindfulness Journal Happiness, Positivity, Mood Journal Prayer Journal Writing, Poetry Journal Travel Journal Work, Goal Journal Daily Planner Dream Journal Yoga, Fitness, Weight Loss Journal Recipe, Food Journal Password Journal Art Journal Log Book Diary Features: 6 x 9 page size 120 pages Dotted grid pages Soft cover / paperback Matte finish cover
Eat Sleep Chess Repeat
Author: BlueFlame Journals
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781651311028
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Eat , Sleep, Chess, Repeat Notebook/ Journal / Planner / Notepad/ Diary Gift. This lined notebook / journal can be used as a journal, notebook or diary. Perfect for keeping track of your schedule, creating to-do lists, creative writing or recording your thoughts and feelings. 120 pages Matte finish paperback cover. Professionally DESIGN The perfect size at 6"x9" Great gift idea for birthdays, Christmas or any special occasion
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781651311028
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Eat , Sleep, Chess, Repeat Notebook/ Journal / Planner / Notepad/ Diary Gift. This lined notebook / journal can be used as a journal, notebook or diary. Perfect for keeping track of your schedule, creating to-do lists, creative writing or recording your thoughts and feelings. 120 pages Matte finish paperback cover. Professionally DESIGN The perfect size at 6"x9" Great gift idea for birthdays, Christmas or any special occasion
Eat Sleep Chess Repeat
Author: Chess Humour Press
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781696336925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Perfect Notebook for Chess Lovers! This is a Journal, Planner and Notebook to record your chess moves or note down any of your tactics and ideas daily, weekly or as often as you wish. There is plenty of space to write as much as you want, whenever you want. Start jotting down your ideas, big and small, and make your goals and dreams come true. If you want to increase the positive effects, get a copy for a friend and share to inspire each other. Small lined daily diary / journal / notebook to write in, to record your daily gratitude list, creative writing, for creating lists, for scheduling, organizing and recording your thoughts. Makes an excellent gift idea for birthdays, Christmas, anniversary, holidays, coworkers or any special occasion. Perfectly sized at 6" x 9" 100 page Softcover bookbinding Fits in your bag Flexible Paperback. Click the orange 'buy now' button now!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781696336925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Perfect Notebook for Chess Lovers! This is a Journal, Planner and Notebook to record your chess moves or note down any of your tactics and ideas daily, weekly or as often as you wish. There is plenty of space to write as much as you want, whenever you want. Start jotting down your ideas, big and small, and make your goals and dreams come true. If you want to increase the positive effects, get a copy for a friend and share to inspire each other. Small lined daily diary / journal / notebook to write in, to record your daily gratitude list, creative writing, for creating lists, for scheduling, organizing and recording your thoughts. Makes an excellent gift idea for birthdays, Christmas, anniversary, holidays, coworkers or any special occasion. Perfectly sized at 6" x 9" 100 page Softcover bookbinding Fits in your bag Flexible Paperback. Click the orange 'buy now' button now!