En Gran Bretaña, casi una cuarta parte de la población adulta toma un medicamento psiquiátrico al año, lo que supone un aumento de más del 500% desde 1980 y las cifras siguen creciendo. Sin embargo, a pesar de esta epide...
Si algo sabían hacer los dioses griegos era pelearse entre ellos, y cuando se enfurecían castigaban ¡a los humanos! Monstruos famosos, como Medusa o el Minotauro, por su parte, se la pasaban aterrorizando a la gente. ¿Cóm...
There's so much to digest w hen it comes to History - how do you know w here to begin? These incredible short introductions are just the thing for readers aged 6+ who are beginning to explore ancient history. Get to know the basics on Pirates from...
The endgame tends to be the neglected side of the game of go. This is strange indeed, for it also tends to be where the outcome is decided, and frequently accounts for about half the stones played.
In the game of go, the opening moves focus on the corners of the board. Over the thousands of years of go playing, this aspect of the game has been intensively studied and a large number of opening formulas, or josekis, have been discovered and refined....
About the book! We thought it beneficial for others within sight of or already within such times together might find humor as a means to help adjust to this abrupt change, especially if they just let life unfold around them. Why - because most situations...
Tesujis are the tactics of short range combat in the game of go. This volume presents over three hundred examples and problems of them, aimed at training the reader to read and spot the right play in all sorts of tactical situations. It covers a wide rang...
The approach to life-and-death problems used in this book is to emphasize the status of standard groups. Most life-and-death problems in books are presented in the following manner: Black to play and kill; or White to play and live; or Black to play and...
The middle game of go often appears chaotic, but there is order in the chaos, as this book plainly reveals. The result of a joint effort by a tournament-winning Japanese professional player and an experienced American go writer, Attack and Defense lays...
Romantic Anatomies of Performance takes as its subject the great virtuoso performers of the nineteenth century, examining the ways in which they thought of their own extraordinary gifts, the ways their contemporaries envisioned them, and how they have...
When Shawn Serrell, a reporter for the Sheriton Post, foils an attempted robbery at Conway Plaza, he becomes a celebrity of sorts. A bachelor with a nose for news, he earns a bonus as well as a promotion to the mobile news unit. The police and Serrell&aci...
When Shawn Serrell, a reporter for the Sheriton Post, foils an attempted robbery at Conway Plaza, he becomes a celebrity of sorts. A bachelor with a nose for news, he earns a bonus as well as a promotion to the mobile news unit. The police and Serrell&aci...
This comprehensive two-volume collection includes seminal and classic articles that are key in the development of economic analysis of the distribution of wealth.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...