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My System & Chess Praxis
New In chess£21.95| /As a chess player, Aron Nimzowitsch (1886-1935) belonged to the very best. In his peak years the Latvian-born maestro was ranked third in the world...
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New Wood Puzzle Designs
Linden Publishing (US)£22.99| /Wooden puzzles are fun to solve, but with this guide to the almost perfectly square sticks, rings, disks, and other shapes that they require, they ...
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No Limit
Huntington Press Inc (US)£22.99| /A penetrating look at Bob Stupak, controversial casino owner and builder of the Stratosphere Tower, the tallest structure west of the Mississippi. ...
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North Carolina Trivia
Blue Bike Books (CA)£14.99| /North Carolina Trivia is full of fascinating and often humorous stories of strange places, bizarre events, intriguing history and colorful characte...
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Ontario Sports Trivia
Overtime Books (CA)£11.99| /Ontario boasts more professional sports teams than any other Canadian province. The history of sports in Canada's largest province is long and fill...
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Ontario Trivia Box Set
Blue Bike Books (CA)£22.99| /Box set containing Bathroom Book of Ontario Trivia, Bathroom Book of Ontario History, and Weird Ontario Places.
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Open Files
Edition Olms AG£19.99| /Over a quarter of a century ago, the first edition of this book (published in East Germany in 1981) was a huge best seller. Yet unfortunately it wa...
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Oregon Trivia
Blue Bike Books (CA)£14.99| /Enjoy this rich and entertaining collection of facts about the colorful people and places of Oregon. Read about the town that has a bluebird house ...
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Pac-Man® Collectibles
Schiffer£27.99| /When Midway Manufacturing introduced the Pac-Man™ arcade game in late 1980, there were many who doubted that a maze-based game could compete agains...
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Pacific Northwest Trivia
Blue Bike Books (CA)£15.99| /Pacific Northwest Trivia is a readable, entertaining potpourri of fascinating facts about a region of ecological diversity, captivating history, a ...
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Painting Ancient and Medieval Warriors With Mike Davidson
Schiffer£13.99| /Small figures of ancient and medieval warriors clad in leather or metal armor, available at any toy or hobby store, make wonderful, challenging fig...
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Painting Civil War Miniatures
Schiffer£13.99| /Miniature American Civil War figures have become extremely popular in the past few years. Using a clearly photographed step-by-step approach, Mike ...
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Painting Miniature Military Figures
Schiffer£13.99| /While it may seem easy to paint a three dimensional miniature figure, to do it properly requires a practiced hand and some artistic techniques. Bec...
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Painting Napoleonic Miniatures
Schiffer£15.99| /The Napoleonic era has been called the age of the military tailor because of the colorful and ornate uniforms of this period. Using a clearly photo...
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Pennsylvania Sports Trivia
Overtime Books (CA)£11.99| /From home field to home ice, from racetrack to putting green, find out about the weird and interesting side of sports from a state that has always ...
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Pennsylvania Trivia
Blue Bike Books (CA)£14.99| /Pennsylvania has some of the most interesting, amazing and weird facts, places and historical firsts in the country, and in some cases, the world. ...
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Play to Win
Huntington Press Inc (US)£15.99| /Poker tournaments have taken television by storm. So what's next? Blackjack. Ken Einiger is a tournament champion, having won the 2005 World Series...
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Puzzle Tov!
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£13.99| /Challenging riddles, enigmas, logic problems and mind-benders, all with a Jewish twist. Jews have always been a puzzling people. In both senses of ...
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Quick Word Search
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£5.25| /Searching for hidden things has always involved a lot of fun and mystery. And word search puzzles offer just this. This book on word search puzzles...
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Quiz Setting Made Easy
Empire Publications (UK)£7.99| /Dawson explores the very essence of human existence. In his case the answer to the ancient philosophical conundrum What sets humans apart from the...
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Raiser's Edge
Huntington Press Inc (US)£35.99| /Crowned 2009 WPT Player of the year, after winning both the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier has clocked up li...
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Reach Mahjong
Huntington Press Inc (US)£20.99| /Mahjong is East Asia's most traditional and recognisable game. Due to its apparent complexity, Westerners, however, often disregard this intriguing...
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Reassess Your Chess Workbook
Siles Press (US)£20.99| /International Chess Master Jeremy Silman tests a player's strengths and weaknesses with 131 problems that cover openings, middlegames (both positio...
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Romantic Staffordshire Ceramics
Schiffer£27.99| /Linger over the images of finely detailed transfer prints produced by England's famous Staffordshire potters. Explore the wide range of early to mi...
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Route 66 Trivia, Fun & Games
Blue River Press (US)£12.99| /Route 66. The Mother Road. Main Street U.S.A. By whatever name, the road from Chicago to Los Angeles, used by millions of travellers for generation...
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School of Chess Excellence 1
Edition Olms AG£19.99| /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...
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School of Chess Excellence 2
Edition Olms AG£19.99| /The initial part of this book deals with combinations and tactical techniques, and suggests methods for developing a player's calculating ability. ...
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School of Chess Excellence 3
Edition Olms AG£19.99| /This third volume in Mark Dvoretsky's course is devoted to questions of strategy, and is aimed at improving the reader's positional understanding. ...
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School of Chess Excellence 4
Edition Olms AG£19.99| /"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 ...
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Sculpting Miniature Military Figures
Schiffer£16.99| /The art of creating military miniatures is centuries old. From the pharaohs of ancient Egypt to Frederick the Great to thousands of hobbyists today...
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Secret Notes
Edition Olms AG£19.99| /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...
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Secrets of Creative Thinking
Edition Olms AG£19.99| /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...
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Secrets of Endgame Technique
Edition Olms AG£19.99| /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...
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Secrets of Opening Preparation
Edition Olms AG£19.99| /The second volume explains the basic principles of the opening, discusses how to build an opening repertoire and produce opening novelties, and exp...
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Secrets of Positional Play
Edition Olms AG£19.99| /The main theme of volume 4 is prophylaxis, a concept first expounded by Nimzowitsch and one which has been brilliantly developed by Mark Dvoretsky ...
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Sheperd Paine
Schiffer Military£72.99| /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...
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Ship Model Building
Tidewater-Cornell Maritime£11.99| /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...
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Side-Stepping Mainline Theory
New In chess£20.95| /Spend more study time on whats really decisive in your games! The average chess player spends too much time on studying opening theory. In his day...
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Silmans Complete Endgame Course
Siles Press (US)£25.99| /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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Slot Expert's Guide to Playing Slots
Huntington Press Inc (US)£7.99| /The casino floors are jammed with new and different kinds of slot machines. In this guide John Robison tells you what they are, how they work, and ...
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So You Think You Know the Presidents?
History Publishing Co. Llc (US)£20.99| /There is nothing trivial about Meltzer's fascinating facts. Full of interesting insights and quirky questions, this book goes beyond oft-discussed ...
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Space Trivia
Collector's Guide Publishing (CA)£18.99| /What city turned its lights on and off to signal an astronaut? Which astronaut was born in China? Who got the first haircut in space? Which Shuttle...
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Spanish Exchange Variation
Edition Olms AG£16.99| /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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Spinifex Quiz Book
Spinifex Press£9.95| /Who invented hieroglyphics? Who did Einstein's mathematics? Which country did the Trung Sisters defend in 40 AD? Who invented the first computer? W...
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Step Right Up!
Schiffer£40.99| /Explore the naive art of late 19th and early 20th century shooting gallery targets, whole galleries, and arcade forms. Commonly seen on early midwa...
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Sudoku Puzzles: Part 1
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£2.00| /This book contains 111 puzzles, arranged in sections of increasing difficulty: 28 easy; 28 medium; 21 hard; 34 very hard. Solutions provided at the...
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Sudoku Puzzles: Part 2
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£2.00| /This book contains 111 puzzles, arranged in sections of increasing difficulty: 37 medium; 37 hard; 37 very hard. Solutions provided at the back of ...
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SumSearch
Schiffer£9.99| /Challenge yourself with numeric puzzles in this modern twist on the classic word search. SumSearch features 100 puzzles of escalating difficulty th...
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