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Author: Andrew Soltis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 238 The aim of every chess player: how to beat a better player. Chess history is littered with David vs Goliath chess...

International Grandmaster Andrew Soltis brings you a foolproof guide to choosing your best next chess move, every time. There are more than 30 moves you can choose from an average...

This book examines how the value of pieces changes in the course of a game and how masters use this knowledge to decide which pieces to exchange - and when....

International Grandmaster Andrew Soltis brings you a foolproof guide to choosing your best next chess move, every time. There are more than 30 moves you can choose from an average...

Author: Andrew Soltis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An insightful new book that is perfect for newcomers to chess inspired by Netflix's Queen's Gambit. Written by one...

Author: Andrew Soltis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 An insightful new book that is perfect for newcomers to chess inspired by Netflix's Queen's Gambit. Written by one of the...

Emanuel Lasker was the longest-reigning world champion (1894-1921) and remained one of the world's top 10 players for nearly four decades. He competed against top players such as Capablanca, Rubinstein...

"Bobby Fischer...The precision and energy that he played with is unmatched in the history of chess." Magnus Carlsen, World Chess Champion Nearly 30 years since his last chess game, Bobby...

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One of the most important literary biographies of recent times, this is not only the story of one of the century's greatest writers, but the history of Russia itself. A...

This is a collection of ingenious and satisfying puzzles drawn from across the ancient and modern world. You will be imprisoned by a sadistic logician; thrown in an arena with...

An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States. An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty...

WINNER OF THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: SPORT NOMINATED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark gathering of voices from the Australian poetic landscape, Consolidation: The Second Paperback Poets Anthology...

More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by Britain's most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the first French gunboats that shelled Da Nang in 1847 to the grinding quagmire of American military...

'This book is NUTS! - in the best possible way. A relentless roller coaster ride through the heaven and hell of modern Russia' PETER POMERANZEV 'Written with all the pace...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: some moisture damage to book block; In the raw, restless years of the Victorian Gold Rush, one Englishman ventured to...

A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to...

Dr. Steven R. Gundry, the New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking Plant Paradox series, shares compelling evidence that our gut microbiome is driving our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of laughter and legacy, Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography...

Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact "do more." The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePublished at the dawn of the modern gay liberation movement, Dennis Altman's Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation stands as...

*Introduced by Rory Stewart* What makes a person good? What does it mean to be evil? And what does it tell us about being human? Philosophers have been grappling with...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Foxing on block of book, text otherwise...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark intervention in the study of human identity, Ann Oakley's Sex, Gender and...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionAt the uncertain threshold where reason confronts its own limits, William Desmond's Perplexity...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the turbulent backdrop of 17th-century Scotland, Adam Hepburn's Vow: A Tale of Kirk and Covenant chronicles the life of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased corners and spineAt the turbulent crossroads of post-war European thought, a group of radical thinkers dared...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew Western writers have penetrated the soul of Japan as deeply, or as tenderly, as Lafcadio...

From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series BROAD CITY , a hilarious and poignant collection about love, loss, work, comedy and figuring out who you really are when...

She lies on the floor, her blue eyes wide and unseeing, arms outstretched as if begging for help. Kneeling next to her, wearing a sequinned purple ballgown and holding a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFrom the celebrated author of Eat, Pray, Love comes a deeply personal meditation on the forces that shape a human life — love in...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to be human? In Treatise On Man, the thirteenth-century Dominican friar and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowy, fog-choked streets of 1830s London, a young Italian street boy vanished — and the chilling truth of what happened to...

Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2025 A Sunday Times Best Book of 2025 A Guardian Best Sports Book 2025 A unique memoir from British...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of faith, politics, and literary genius stands François Mauriac — Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Catholic moralist, and one of the most towering...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodRising from the windswept plains and misty highlands of prehistoric Europe, the great standing stones of the ancient world have captivated and confounded scholars...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased spine and cornersAt the intersection of democracy's promise and social reality lies a profound paradox...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most consequential works in twentieth-century moral philosophy, The Right and The Good presents a rigorous and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the gritty, coal-dusted landscape of Nottinghamshire at the turn of the twentieth century, Sons...

A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Challenging, forensic, compelling' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Pure centrist erotica. A myth-busting chronicle of bad-tempered, Brexit-riven England' SUNDAY TIMES 'Wonderfully evocative. Too honest, too nuanced and...