Everyone's Second Chess Book
By: Dan Heisman
4.14
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
An amazing look at kids who play chess and how to help them and their parents. It features overcomi…
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1. 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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2. The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain
By: David Shenk
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a pr… read more
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3. Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time
By: David Edmonds , John Eidinow
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at… read more
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4. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
By: David Allen
4.01
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and ma… read more
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"My mission is to create a world where there are no problems only projects."-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
"Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist."-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
"Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stres…"-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
"Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignmen…"-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
5. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
By: Annie Duke
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in footbal… read more
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6. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
7. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
8. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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9. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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10. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
11. Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
By: James Vincent
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful to… read more
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12. 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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- chess
13. Everyone's Second Chess Book
By: Dan Heisman
4.14
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
An amazing look at kids who play chess and how to help them and their parents. It features overcomi… read more
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