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Magnus Ritzman describes how chess began in ancient India and progressed through Persia and Europe. The walks through the fundamental rules of chess and how to play its most significant chess openings.

Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as it’s whispered, hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer job at Prague Castle cataloging Beethoven’s manuscripts, she has no idea how dangerous her life is about to become. Prague is a threshold, Sarah is warned, and it is steeped in blood. Soon after Sarah arrives, strange things begin to happen.

Tired of making decisions that seem to only work against you? It starts with understanding your brain and the decision-making process. Cognitive biases and heuristics have developed over thousands of years of evolution and can lead to serious damages in multiple areas of life if you don’t recognize them and stop them dead in their tracks. How Our Brains Betray Us has everything you need to know with examples, tools, and strategies to identify the most powerful cognitive biases that impair all types of decisions, how to avoid them and also use them to your advantage.

Black Veils: Master Vampyre Edition 888 is dedicated to furthering Vampyre culture and current through a lexicon of words of power from the vampire mythos. Written by Father Sebastiaan to inspire and challenge the listener, each black veil promotes personal evolution and embraces the vampyre current.

Over the past four decades, China's remarkable transformation has garnered admiration but also sparked concern. George Magnus draws on his intimate knowledge of this dynamic nation to uncover the origins of its ascent and show why the economic traps it faces at home and the political challenges it faces abroad pose a serious threat to its continued rise. 

Under the Glacier represents Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness at his entertaining and brilliantly inventive best. Philosophy, theological speculation and charming wit combine to make this novel a timeless fable of modern times. A youthful emissary of the Bishop of Iceland travels to the beautiful and mysterious district of Snæfellsnes, locally known as "Under Glacier" to investigate the affairs of the parish and its enigmatic pastor.

In this action-packed sequel to City of Dark Magic, we find musicologist Sarah Weston in Vienna in search of a cure for her friend Pollina, who is now gravely ill and who may not have much time left. Meanwhile, Nicolas Pertusato, in London in search of an ancient alchemical cure for the girl, discovers an old enemy is one step ahead of him. In Prague, Prince Max tries to unravel the strange reappearance of a long-dead saint while being pursued by a seductive red-headed historian with dark motives of her own.

Are you ready to finally lose weight - without invasive surgery, fad diets, or "magic pills"? Would you like to unlock the secrets of intermittent fasting, where you can eat whatever you want, burn fat, and still build muscle? If you’ve ever struggled with weight loss, you’re not alone. The truth is, weight loss isn't as easy as everyone makes out. And it's important to remember that this is not your fault! But your weight will not change itself...you must take action. And that’s how Intermittent Fasting Mastery will empower you.

Queen Syabus stole Lunar Alpha, taking half the Lagolian population with her. I’m sure that we’ll find her, and when we do, there’s going to be a bloodbath. If I’m going to stand a chance against the level 60 Queen Syabus and her powerful generals and commanders, I need to grind. I need to level up, and I need to get some new upgrades, so I need money and battle experience. Now that the Nekrol are gone, there’s only one way to get what I need: selling myself as a mercenary on the neutral marketplace planet of Holodnor.

An ongoing conversation with people from near and far about Big Sur's past, present, and future. A Big Sur Podcast interprets 'community' to mean ALL people from around the world who are curious about, and who care about, the preservation and restoration of the wild and rural character of Big Sur. Stories are told by visitors and residents, plumbers and linesmen, musicians and authors, dancers and jugglers and others. Sometimes we drift (way) off-topic into the arts, sciences, personal stories, gossip, politics, philosophy, ornithology, Henry Miller, and our zeitgeist in general. We like that!...

In a lush meadow, bounded by dense forest and a sparkling river, the flags of several tents flutter in the breeze, rich with the promise of halcyon days. Yet all is not as tranquil as it may seem: The balance of power wrought between the occupants of The Great Field, as it is properly known, is a delicate one, and relationships are stretched to breaking point when a new, large and disciplined group offers to share its surplus of milk pudding.

It has been 50 years since the sun died over Ashathar. Blaike was born in the blight. As one of the "touched" he is devoid of power. He is forbidden from following the Lightweaver Path. The "touched" still serve the brightlands, working the mines to extract sunstone; to deliver it to the Lightweavers, the saviors, preservers, and rulers of Ashathar.

Two paths. A single journey. Blaike isn't like any other Ember. He commands the draugr. Can an army of the dead defeat the Lightweaver's legion? Ashathar's sunstone mines are exhausted. Without sunstone, the blight will consume the Kingdom. To save Ashathar, Blaike must confront the tyrant who killed his father. Can Blaike and his draugr army rescue Ashathar from both tyranny and darkness? Ming Yue is on a quest to recover a shield forged from Antaboga's scale—the scale the dragon-god shed when he created the world. Batara Kala is preparing to launch a second Kataklysm. The power of the ...

When I went out target shooting in the woods, I wasn’t expecting to be abducted by a race of alien bunny girls from another star system. They weren’t there for me; they didn’t even know there was intelligent life on Earth. They were just conducting some battle drills in the forest and they saw me practicing my shot for my family’s annual hunting trip.

How would your life change if you could rapidly lose weight, burn fat and enjoy healthy, sustainable weight loss? No matter your age, how busy you are or how many times you’ve failed to lose weight, you’ll learn how to finally achieve the body you truly deserve. Even if you don’t know what the keto diet is or you’ve been struggling to lose weight for years, this book will empower you.

We’re closing in on Chorus, the Lagolian’s home star system. It’s been a long month of relentless, deadly 5v5 skirmishes with the Nekrol, deadly AI robots with mysterious origins, but there’s finally a light at the end of the tunnel, especially now that I’m in command of the Lagolian army. I’m going to need every little upgrade I can get, because there’s a new threat on the horizon - one that will make fighting the Nekrol seem like fighting kids’ toys - and one that will shed some light on where the alien robots came from, and what they want from the Lagolians.

What follows if we reject belief in any kind of non-physical soul and instead fully embrace what we know about the world? The main implication, this book argues, is a naturalization of personal identity and ethics. A radically different way of thinking about ourself.

If you, like me when I was starting out, are looking for a way to get everything on your wish list without having any of those pesky worries about how much it will cost...then this is the book for you.... When I was starting out in life, I wanted it all. I wanted the big house with an inground swimming pool, fast cars that belong in the movies, big-ticket vacations, and a bright future for me and my family. If you want a step-by-step guide to making more money than you ever thought possible, then buy now.

In 1992, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow was enjoying a pint with his brother when he got an idea that would change his life - and radically change the lives of others. After watching a news bulletin about war-torn Bosnia, the two brothers agreed to take a week’s hiatus from work to help....

I need to get myself ready for the final skirmish: the ultimate showdown with the level-60 war machine, Queen Syabus. I know it’s going to be a deadly battle, so I need every edge I can get. Britzi told me all about the mystical powers that were well-known to the Ancient Builder Race: powers like temporary invincibility and the ability to see through solid walls - powers that could only be learned deep in what she calls the Shadow Realm. But she keeps telling me to be careful, that I’m not ready to wield those powers yet.