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This book deals with new approaches to insect pest management in field and protected crops using ecologically sound and innovative techniques. It starts with an overview on general topics in pest management, i.e., the efficacy and selectivity of new biorational insecticides such as insect growth regulators, avermectins, the neonicotinoid insecticides, and the ecology of insect pests and relevance to pest management along with new insights int...

This book holds the distinction and is famous for being the first chess book Bobby Fischer ever read. As Bobby himself tells the story, when he was 6 years old, one day his sister Joan brought home a plastic chess set she had bought in the market and they learned how to play by reading the instructions on the box. Later, when Bobby had developed an interest in the game, Joan brought home a book appropriately entitled "First Book of Chess". It ...

International Master Al Horowitz goes through every major chess opening system and provides one line of play for White, one line of play for Black, and the reason for each move by White or Black. This book will not show the reader how to win every game, but it will provide an easy route which will enable the player to get a reasonable, playable position with good winning chances, without having to memorize a bunch of opening lines.

This is a combined work, taking five separate books and combining them into one volume, but then re-dividing them into two volumes. The books included in this volume are: How to Win in the Middle Game of ChessHow to Win in the Chess EndingsThis may well be the nearest approach to the complete chess book yet devised. It brings together four books previously written by the author under these titles: How to Win in the Chess Openings, Modern Ideas...

This is a combined work, taking five separate books and combining them into one volume, but then re-dividing them into two volumes. The books included in this volume are: Pictorial Guide for Beginners, How to Win in the Chess Openings, Modern Ideas in the Chess Openings. This may well be the nearest approach to the complete chess book yet devised. It brings together four books previously written by the author under these titles: How to Win i...

This book is based on the following premise: Every move on the chessboard is an exchange, a give and take. The very first move, if it is a pawn move, for example, gives away control of the squares that the Pawn had previously commanded and takes control of new squares. Similarly at any stage of the game, there is implicit in every move a plus and minus quality. To be sure, these differences of themselves are usually minute and carry little wei...

This book examines the changing national identities that are transforming East Asia - pushing China and Taiwan apart and toward a showdown, while propping up a weakened North Korea. Accomplished contributors analyze the dynamics and the U.S.'s policy response.

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Getting There: An American Odyssey offers a singular perspective on the tumultuous period between the 1950s and the early twenty-first century through the personal experiences and reflections of a young student, academic historian, journalist, musician, and activist. Moving from the East and beyond to the Pacific Northwest, the memoir addresses the challenge of balancing the critical tools of teaching and scholarship with a populist approach t...

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Speaking for myself and for players of my strength, Chess Openings: Theory and Practice is the greatest aid I have ever seen for preparing for a tournament. Speaking for all other players, the book is a "must." Current thinking on all important lines is meticulously presented, offering myriad, clear-cut ideas a completely new and effective arsenal of weapons. "-Samuel Reshevsky, United States Open Champion". Chess Openings Theory and Practice ...

Eine Sensation: Ein bisher unveröffentlichtes Recital, das der große Vladimir Horowitz am 26. Oktober 1986 in der Orchestra Hall in Chicago gab - erstmalig auf einem Doppel-Album. Horowitz spielt Scarlatti, Mozart und Scriabin - sowie Werke von Chopin und Schumann, die komplett neu in der Deutsche Grammophon-Horowitz-Diskographie sind. Als Zugabe: Schumanns Träumerei und Moszkowskis Etincelles. Ein weiteres Highlight: Zwei ebenfalls bisher unv...

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100 Jahre nach seinem Tod erscheint erstmals eine Edition sämtlicher Werke von Alexander Scriabin. Die vorliegende Box mit 18 Tonträgern darf als kleine Sensation gelten: nicht nur versammelt sie mit 64 extra neu-aufgenommen Tracks zum allerersten Mal das Gesamtwerk dieses großen Komponisten, darüber hinaus sind die Aufnahmen von Künstlern wie Vladimir Horowitz, Sviatoslav Richter, Shura Cherkassky, Jewgeni Kissin, Daniil Trifonov, Vladimir As...

10 neue Titel aus der weltweit ebenso beliebten wie erfolgreichen "The Originals"-Serie - ein Name der für kompromisslose Qualität, hochkarätige Aufnahmen und legendäre Interpretationen steht:

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This book examines the changing national identities that are transforming East Asia - pushing China and Taiwan apart and toward a showdown, while propping up a weakened North Korea. Accomplished contributors analyze the dynamics and the U.S.'s policy response.

In this book, I. A. Horowitz, Chess Editor of the "New York Times" and former U.S. Open Champion, applies some of the ideas and convictions acquired from thirty-five years of playing, teaching and analyzing the royal game. He emphasizes the tactical aspects of the game: how to recognize the big chance and hit hard when it occurs. He also stresses the ideas and methods in opening play, rather than the routine memorizing of variations that takes...

Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the lively, highly informative New York Times bestselling blockbuster Inside of a Dog, explains how dogs perceive the world through their most spectacular organ the nose and how we humans can put our under-used sense of smell to work in surprising ways. To a dog, there is no such thing as fresh air. Every breath of air is loaded with information. In fact, what every dog the tracking dog, of course, but also th...