Pennsylvania has some of the most interesting, amazing and weird facts, places and historical firsts in the country, and in some cases, the world. ...

Challenging riddles, enigmas, logic problems and mind-benders, all with a Jewish twist. Jews have always been a puzzling people. In both senses of ...

Dawson explores the very essence of human existence. In his case the answer to the ancient philosophical conundrum ‘What sets humans apart from the...

International Chess Master Jeremy Silman tests a player's strengths and weaknesses with 131 problems that cover openings, middlegames (both positio...

Linger over the images of finely detailed transfer prints produced by England's famous Staffordshire potters. Explore the wide range of early to mi...

Mark Dvoretsky is regarded as the leading chess coach in the world, and in this series of books he reveals the training methods that have transform...

The initial part of this book deals with combinations and tactical techniques, and suggests methods for developing a player's calculating ability. ...

This third volume in Mark Dvoretsky's course is devoted to questions of strategy, and is aimed at improving the reader's positional understanding. ...

"Compared with the other books in this series, substantially more space is given to the analysis of the opening problems that confront a player in ...

The art of creating military miniatures is centuries old. From the pharaohs of ancient Egypt to Frederick the Great to thousands of hobbyists today...

David Bronstein describes the chess personalities he has met in various countries over the past decade, and annotates 40 of his best games from thi...

The world's top trainer, Mark Dvoretsky, and one of his best-known pupils, grandmaster Artur Yusupov, present a five-volume series based on courses...

Successful endgame play is all about technique. In this third volume of the series the authors explain how to study the endgame and to analyse endg...

The second volume explains the basic principles of the opening, discusses how to build an opening repertoire and produce opening novelties, and exp...

The main theme of volume 4 is prophylaxis, a concept first expounded by Nimzowitsch and one which has been brilliantly developed by Mark Dvoretsky ...

Sheperd Paine did more than anyone to elevate modeling to the level of an art form - one that includes elements of painting, sculpting, research, a...

This is an enlarged edition of a work that has been accepted as the most complete exposition of model shipbuilding. The book is unusual in its atte...

Spend more study time on what’s really decisive in your games! The average chess player spends too much time on studying opening theory. In his day...

For over 100 years, the world's leading chess players and teachers have told their students to study the endgame. Now, for the first time, a revolu...

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The Spanish Exchange Variation lets you play one of the major chess openings, the Ruy Lopez, without the risk of drowning in the huge flow of infor...

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Explore the naive art of late 19th and early 20th century shooting gallery targets, whole galleries, and arcade forms. Commonly seen on early midwa...

Challenge yourself with numeric puzzles in this modern twist on the classic word search. SumSearch features 100 puzzles of escalating difficulty th...