Checkmate These fun-filled brain teasers will increase your skill. Each chessboard puzzle has its pieces in a specially conceived difficult arrangement. You must complete a given task in a specific number of moves: "White to play and mate in five moves", for example. Some puzzles sharpen both your defensive and offensive acumen, and many focus on your endgame-the most important phase of chess. Solutions are in the back. View More...
Tight, slight age tanning of pages, clean and square. Chip at top corner of front cover. 9 page introductory essay and 16 Plates of Sonnets (in Italian) by Louis de Subleyras matching illustrations by Claude-Henri Watelet from "Nella Venuta in Roma di Madama le Comte e dei Signori Watelet, E Copette" NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its titlepage, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadaysscandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although thetitle advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman'and her 'unsatiable desire of filthie lust', the unknown playwrightwith great dramatic skill and psychological insight manages to balancethe motivations of all the main characters. Thomas Arden, one of therapacious landlords so reviled in mid-Elizabethan social drama, wasmurdered at his own house in Faversham, Kent, in 1551. His ... View More...
"We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made," wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. Some of the parties who traveled with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah King, an Englishwoman and Mormon convert, was headed for Salt Lake City. Her cultured, introspective diary touches on the feelings of sensitive people bound together in a stressful undertaking. Celinda Hines and Rachel Taylor were Methodists seeking their new Canaan in Oregon. Also Oregon-bound in 1853 were Sarah (Sally) Perkins, whose minima... View More...
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world--part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods. From the vivid adventures of the great Celtic hero Cu Chulaind, to the stunning Exile of the Sons of Uisliu--a tale of treachery, honour and romance--these are masterpieces of passion and vitality, and form the foundation for the Irish literary tradition: a mythic legacy that... View More...
Fear tells you, "I want to make you safe."Love says, "you are safe."Fear would walk you on a narrow path.Love says, "open your arms and fly with me."--Emmanuel Emmanuel's great wisdom--coming to us through channel Pat Rodegast--has illuminated thousands of lives. Emmanuel's Book revealed deeply enriching truths about our place in the cosmos and the evolutionary destiny of the human soul. Now Emmanuel shines his light on the limitless power of love--and the prison house of fear. With startling directness and gentle wit, he confronts ageless questions such as "Why am I here?" and contemporary qu... View More...
Aims to help in the creation of new colour schemes throughout the house. Armed with a personal palette and a colour wheel, the reader learns how to choose background shades and to add colour with soft furnishings and lighting techniques. Tips are included on choice and application of paints. View More...
For more than 40 years, Runner's World magazine has been the world's leading authority on running--bringing its readers the latest running advice and some of the most compelling sports narratives ever told. From inspirational stories such as A Second Life(the story of Matt Long, the FDNY firefighter who learned to run again after a critical injury) to analytical essays such as White Men Can't Run (a look at what puts African runners at the front of the pack), the magazine captivates its readers every month. Now, for the first time, the editors of Runner's World have gathered these and other po... View More...
With more than 350 recipes from 27 countries, this is one Kosher cookbook you don't want to be without. It includes everything from wheat halva from India to borrekas from Greece. Five Star Publications, Inc. is donating a portion of all sales of Kosher Kettle to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger. View More...
Out There addresses the theme of cultural marginalization - the process whereby various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. It engages fundamental issues raised by attempts to define such concepts as mainstream, minority, and other, and opens up new ways of thinking about culture and representation. All of the texts deal with questions of representation in the broadest sense, encompassing not just the visual but also the social and psychological aspects of cultural identity. Included are important theoretical writings by Homi Bhabha, Helene Cixous, Gil... View More...