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    Monsoon as Method
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    Monsoon as Method

    An edited volume by Monsoon Assemblages, a European Research Council funded research project.The book presents the methods that Monsoon Assemblages has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a coproducer of urban life...
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    Climax Change!
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    Climax Change!

    Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture, both in terms of its design philosophy and rising opportunities to innovate and radically transform...
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  • Giving the Devil His Due
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    Giving the Devil His Due

    Edited by Rebecca Brewer, formerly of Ace/Roc (Penguin Random House), Giving the Devil His Due features sixteen major names and rising stars in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror today. 'In Giving the Devil His Due, sixteen of speculative...
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  • Card Tricks
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    Card Tricks

    The quintessential card trick handbook for expert magicians and beginners alikeIf you practice any sort of magic-or plan on giving it a try-you probably know that for most people, card tricks are often the starting point. If you have a deck of cards...
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    Anatomy for Artists: Drawing Form & Pose
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    Anatomy for Artists: Drawing Form & Pose

    Learn how to confidently draw the human form from head to toe with this comprehensive, richly illustrated guide. Expert drawing instructor and storyboard artist Tom Fox knows exactly how to capture the figure in poses that are both dynamic and true to...
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  • Don't Let It Get You Down
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    Don't Let It Get You Down

    A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces - between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat.Savala Nolan knows what...
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  • Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts
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    Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts

    The first English translation of one of the earliest and most brilliant art-historical surveys, from one of the greatest modern art historiansAlos Riegl (1858-1905) was one of the greatest modern art historians. The most important member of the so-called...
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    Gathering of Leaves, A
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    Gathering of Leaves, A

    Plants and gardens play a central role in life on Earth. They have provided food, clothing, shelter, medicines, employment, leisure and enjoyment throughout history. Both also have many symbolic uses in art, mythology and literature, making plants and...
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    Auroboros: Under The Sun
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    Auroboros: Under The Sun

    A group of cynical, hard-bit mercenaries runs afoul of Lawbrand's authorities after a simple job goes belly-up.Desperate and on the run, these ragged outcasts find safety and belonging in their unlikely partnership. Always barely one step ahead the law,...
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    Incomparable Realms
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    Incomparable Realms

    Incomparable Realms offers a vision of Spanish culture and society during the Golden Age, the period from 1500 to 1700 when Spain unexpectedly rose to become the dominant European power.But in what ways was this a 'Golden Age', and for...
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    Dressing Up
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    Dressing Up

    Pierrot, Little Bo Peep, cowboy: these characters and many more form part of this colourful story of dressing up, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Fancy dress became a regular part of people's social...
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  • Recalling the Caliphate
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    Recalling the Caliphate

    As late as the last quarter of the twentieth century there were expectations that Islam's political and cultural influence would dissipate as the advance of westernization brought modernization and secularization in its wake. Not only has Islam...
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  • Honest Broker
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    Honest Broker

    Based on exclusive interviews with the United Nations Secretary-General himself, this is the first book to explain how Antnio Guterres thinks and operates, in an era of renewed great power competition and rising nationalism. The UN leader was re-elected...
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  • Another World Is Possible
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    Another World Is Possible

    Calls for an imaginative surge to fix our battered societies, fusing bold ideas and practical experiment.As the world confronts the fast catastrophe of Covid and the slow calamity of climate change, we also face a third, less visible emergency: a crisis...
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    Revenge, Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan
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    Revenge, Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan

    This fascinating book uncovers the hidden stories behind Pakistan's fixation with blasphemy--tales of revenge, political scheming and sovereign betrayal. Hussain's account opens in nineteenth-century colonial Punjab and traces blasphemy...
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  • Germany - Culture Smart!
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    Germany - Culture Smart!

    Germany - powerhouse of Europe and pillar of the Eurozone - feels reassuringly familiar. However, despite superficial appearances, this is a country that operates very differently from the USA and Britain. German history is more than a thousand years old...
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  • I Reserve the Right to be Terrified
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    I Reserve the Right to be Terrified

    You want to know why dying is like orgasm? Blayney Colmore, thirty years an Episcopal priest and life escort, explains: Does death make hash of all our efforts? Is there a dimension beyond what we know? Can normal people access it? As we burn down our...
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  • I Like Drawing
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    I Like Drawing

    A selection of works spanning more than 10 years, highlighting some of author Anthony Coleman's favorite characters from cartoons to pop stars. I Like Drawingis part of Blurring Books' new series of publications,Limited Slim Publications.
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  • Drawing Breath
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    Drawing Breath

    In Drawing/Breath: Inhales and Exhales on Body and Word, PEN/Bellwether Prize-winning writer Gayle Brandeis' essays explore both the writing life and the embodied life, along with potent intersection between the two. From the title essay investigating...
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  • Forget Me Not
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    Forget Me Not

    Death stalks a quartet of girls or is it the other way around?A simple, elemental story of a group of adorable, little girls evading the specter of Death perfectly complements Gabriel Howell's poetic diary/manifesto/wishlist. What looks like a Victorian...
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  • All of Us Together in the End
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    All of Us Together in the End

    All Of Us Together In The End is a lyrical examination of transformation after loss, by a writer the New York Times calls "irresistible" and "utterly convincing."Vollmer's family memoir shimmers with wonder and enchantment and begins with the death of...
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    Uncommon Dubai +
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    Uncommon Dubai +

    Uncommon Dubai + is a sliver of quotidian and artistic reflections on spaces of change and exchange, imbued with meaning and memory for individuals, communities and diasporas that enrich the city and its neighboring emirates.Weave through insights on the...
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    Writing the Modern

    This anthology of eminent Singaporean art historian T.K. Sabapathy's texts, selected from over four decades (1973 2015) of art critical and historical texts, brings together, for the first time, a cogent selection of the most important and influential...
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    Light of Wisdom, The Conclusion

    The Light of Wisdom, the Conclusion, presents detailed explanations of the activities of a Vajra Master and Buddhist practices to clear away hindrances on the path and enhance realization. The book is a combination of three texts: The root text, The...
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    Heart Lamp: Lamp of Mahamudra and Heart of the Matter

    This book main idea is that intrinsic to the heart, mind and spirit in every human being is an identical essence which can be realized. This realization makes any man or woman a Buddha. The focus of this book is the method of how to implement that...
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    The Great Gate

    The Great Gate, A Guidebook to the Guru's Heart Practice, is a compilation of instructions on the preliminary practices by the great masters, Chokling Dewey Dorje, Dudjom Rinpoche, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche & Chkyi Nyima Rinpoche. Clear direct and...
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    Universal Chess Training
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    Universal Chess Training

    Are you struggling with your chess development? While dedicating hours and hours on improving your craft, your rating simply does not want to move upwards? Spending loads of money on chess books and DVDs, but feeling no real improvement at all? No...
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    The Modernized Sveshnikov
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    The Modernized Sveshnikov

    The Sveshnikov is undeniably one of the most dynamic and aggressive Sicilians available these days. Most recently, it was made popular again by World Champion Magnus Carlsen in his match against Fabiano Caruana at the end of 2018. The main lines lead to...
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    Your Jungle Guide to Rook Endings
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    Your Jungle Guide to Rook Endings

    To learn and to play endgames well the chess player must love endgames' - Lev Psakhis. Different kinds of endgames have specific characteristics and rules. Every serious player must know many typical positions and main principles of all types of endings...
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  • The Modernized Stonewall Defense
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    The Modernized Stonewall Defense

    In his seventh book for Thinkers Publishing, Milos Pavlovic examines the Stonewall set-up in detail. Drawing upon his years of playing experiences and opening study, Milos highlights the key aspects and covers the most recent developments in this most...
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    Tactics Bible - Magnum Opus
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    Tactics Bible - Magnum Opus

    Grandmaster Grivas presents the reader an unique and massive amount of amazing puzzles including their historical background. All the most famous and rare tactical themes are covered, promising the read of the year!
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    The Modernized Reti, extended second edition

    The Reti opening has been most popular in the most recent years. In his 'Modernized Reti', Adrien shows how this refined opening needs to be handled. With many transpositions into different types of positions, it is one of the richest choices White has...
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    Chess Calculation Training Volume 3
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    Chess Calculation Training Volume 3

    In this volume 3, the author presents many games played by legendary players such as Alekhine, Karpov, Kasparov and Fischer, but also many forgotten or unknown examples that will help you to improve your calculation and knowledge of all areas of the game.
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    Chess Calculation Training Volume 2
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    Chess Calculation Training Volume 2

    The author focused in his first volume on middlegames, now his attention was drawn to endgames. Romain has carefully selected more than 496 positions, which arose in real games in the recent past. He separated the exercises into 11 different categories,...
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    Mastering Complex Endgames
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    Mastering Complex Endgames

    Adrian and Oleg compiled, resulting from all different kind of middlegames, an impressive amount of most instructive endgames. The ideal material for any chess player or trainer in search of the need endgame finesses and skills.
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    The Modernized Arkhangelsk Variation
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    The Modernized Arkhangelsk Variation

    The Ark has always been consideredone of the theoretically-heaviest defenses in meeting the Ruy Lopez, thoughalso the most exciting and definitely the most beautiful of all. It requirestactical vision, good calculation and memory, but not just from us...
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    The Essence of Chess Strategy Volume 2
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    The Essence of Chess Strategy Volume 2

    Volume 2 is divided into eight chapters. Unlike Volume 1, it is possibleto mix the order in which you study these chapters , but not to study the gameswithin each chapter out of order, since the examples build upon each other incomplexity. I suggest that...
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    Pandemic Shark
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    Pandemic Shark

    This book takes a closer look at the Classic mistakes by amateur playersinclude: 1. Moving a piece too often in the opening. This is one of themainstays which we think relates at least partly to the desire to createsomething in the opening, when we would...
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    The Chess Scalpel - 32 Master Games Dissected
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    The Chess Scalpel - 32 Master Games Dissected

    The idea behind this book is for you to'play' as in a real game, and it is my job to ensure you have a pleasant timewhile training. I suggest you take at least an hour and ahalf for eachgame and as your coach I will indicate when to guess the moves...
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    The Passed Pawn
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    The Passed Pawn

    The purpose of this series is to introduce the reader to advanced training concepts, using the same methods of presentation and instruction that were taught to great players by famous trainers that they have worked with. The series will commence with the...
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    The Essence of Chess Strategy Volume 1
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    The Essence of Chess Strategy Volume 1

    How to learn strategy? Can it belearned? It can be, of course. And these volumes are the perfect guide to learn(or, more precisely, to learn to understand) strategy. Our idea is to throw light on all the strategicconcepts in these volumes. To help you...
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    Cheparinov's 1.d4! Volume 2
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    Cheparinov's 1.d4! Volume 2

    Welcome to Volume 2 of Cheparinov's 1.d4!.In the second part of the series, I amsharing my knowledge about the Slav Defense. I am confident that the bookcontains many new and interesting ideas and I have tried to provide you with thebest practical...
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    The Modernized Grivas Sicilian
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    The Modernized Grivas Sicilian

    The Sicilian Defense is an opening that commences with the moves 1.e4 c5. TheSicilian Defense is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's firstmove 1.e4. For example, 1.d4, is a statistically more successful opening forWhite because of the...
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    The Modernized Sicilian Kan
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    The Modernized Sicilian Kan

    When you are building your repertoire youhave many choices available against 1.e4. Everyone knows the Sicilian is themost dangerous reply but there are so many choices! Most of them are highlytheoretical such as the Najdorf or the Dragon. Some are very...
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    Beat the Anti-Sicilians
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    Beat the Anti-Sicilians

    I have aimed to find a good balance of verbalexplanations without ignoring the hardcore variations you have to know. In caseyou find some of the analyses a bit too long, don't be discouraged! They havebeen included mainly to illustrate the thematic ideas...
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    The Najdorf Bg5 Revisited - Volume 2
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    The Najdorf Bg5 Revisited - Volume 2

    Do you relish the prospect of setting your opponent awkward problems from the early start of the game? If so, you should just continue reading, for in the Bg5 Najdorf, it's every man for himself, and only the best informed and most creative resourceful...
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    The Najdorf Bg5 Revisited - Volume 1
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    The Najdorf Bg5 Revisited - Volume 1

    Do you relish the prospect of setting your opponent awkward problems from the early start of the game? If so, you should just continue reading, for in the Bg5 Najdorf, it's every man for himself, and only the best informed and most creative resourceful...
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    Rakhmanov's Secrets of Opening Preparation
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    Rakhmanov's Secrets of Opening Preparation

    I decided to write about something that I would be interested to learn myself. In this bookI show what preparation for a game by a 2650 player looks like. In chess, we only see the game on the stage, and can only guess at what is hidden behind the scenes...
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