FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings
By: Paul van der Sterren
4.22
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
* The perfect survival guide to the chess openings * All openings covered * Detailed verbal explana…
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1. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
By: Edmund Morris
4.23
Format: 816 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time Described by … read more
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"Any black or red man who could win admission to “the fellowship of the doers"-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
"He plunged at once into the somewhat rodent-like life of a professional historian."-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
"Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]"-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
"[T]he one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfu…"-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
2. Play Winning Chess
By: Jeremy Silman , Yasser Seirawan
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Play Winning Chess is an introduction to the moves, strategies and philosophy of chess, with clear … read more
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3. Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
By: None , Jim Marfia , David Ionovich Bronstein , Boris Samoilovich Vainshtein
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This legendary tournament features 210 hotly contested games, many of them masterpieces of the firs… read more
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4. Winning Chess Strategies, revised
By: Jeremy Silman , Yasser Seirawan
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
A complete overview of proven chess principles that teaches readers how to deploy their pieces usin… read more
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5. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
6. The Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z
By: Jeremy Silman
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This comprehensive guide, in dictionary form, makes all aspects of chess strategy quick, easy, and … read more
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7. How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course
By: Jeremy Silman
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
How to Reassess Your Chess is the popular step-by-step course that will create a marked improvement… read more
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8. Modern Chess Openings
By: Nick de Firmian
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Modern Chess Openingsis the best and most trusted tool for serious chess players on the market. Fir… read more
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9. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
By: Bobby Fischer , None , None
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
This book is essentially a teaching machine. The way a teaching machine works is: It asks you a que… read more
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10. My System
By: Aron Nimzowitsch , None , None
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For many years, Nimzovich was known as the "Stormy Petrel" of the chess world. Today, his profound … read more
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11. Winning Chess Tactics, revised
By: Jeremy Silman , Yasser Seirawan
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
The essential guide to the use of tactics, the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-t… read more
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12. Logical Chess Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition
By: Irving Chernev
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
Having learned the basic moves, how exactly should a player improve? In this popular classic, the a… read more
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13. The Queen's Gambit
By: Walter Tevis
4.30
Format: 543 pages,
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is un… read more
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14. Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master
By: Jeremy Silman
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
For over 100 years, the world's leading chess players and teachers have told their students to stud… read more
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15. Art of Attack in Chess
By: None
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
One of the finest chess books ever written, the Art of Attack has been transcribed into algebraic n… read more
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16. Philosophical Investigations
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , G.E.M. Anscombe
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more
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17. Nemesis Games (The Expanse #5)
By: James S.A. Corey
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for televi… read more
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18. Letters from a Stoic
By: Seneca , Robin Campbell
4.75
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more
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19. RatBurger
By: David Walliams
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
The fifth screamingly funny novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing ch… read more
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20. The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery
By: Jeremy Silman
3.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This book takes the student on a journey through his own mind and returns him to the chess board wi… read more
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21. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
22. 100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player
By: Jesús de la Villa
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
There are, contrary to what most amateurs believe, relatively few chess endgames one must know. Jes… read more
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23. Chess Story
By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more
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24. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
25. How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond
By: Levy Rozman
4.40
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Learn chess from International Master and Youtube's top chess teacher Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess)… read more
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26. The World as Will and Representation
By: Arthur Schopenhauer
4.26
Format: 1474 pages, Kindle Edition
The World as Will and Representation is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenha… read more
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27. Discovering Chess Openings: Building Opening Skills from Basic Principles
By: John Emms
3.74
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In Discovering Chess Openings John Emms argues that studying openings doesn't have to be hard work … read more
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28. Chess Openings for Beginners: A Comprehensive and Simplified Guide to Chess Openings
By: Cory Klein
4.00
Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition
Centuries' Worth of Opening Theory and Analysis The topic of chess openings is very theoretical.… read more
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29. Chess Improvement: It's all in the mindset
By: Barry Hymer
4.00
Format: 469 pages, Kindle Edition
Written by Barry Hymer and Peter Wells, Chess It's all in the mindset is an engaging and instructi… read more
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30. FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings
By: Paul van der Sterren
4.22
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
* The perfect survival guide to the chess openings * All openings covered * Detailed verbal explana… read more
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31. The Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)
By: Ilya Maizelis
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Ilya Maizelis's masterpiece is the definitive introduction to the game of chess. It has inspired ge… read more
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