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Irving Chernev was one of the most prolific authors of the game of chess. He was born in Pryluky, Russia in the Chernigov region of Ukraine on January 29, 1900 and he died in San Francisco, California, USA on September 29, 1981.He wrote more than 20 chess books, among them: Chessboard Magic!, The Bright Side of Chess, The Fireside Book of Chess (with Fred Reinfeld), The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played, 1000 Best Short Games of Ches...

In the late summer of 1978 there was still a disco beat in the air and that era was at about the half way mark of its run. There were also the sweet sounds of Ann Murray and of course Barry Manilow. Mick Jagger's "Miss You" was one of the "bigs" in the Rock world at this time. Soft and "Punk" were still looming. Dan Hill's one hit wonder "Sometimes When We Touch" was still on the charts from March, I believe. Being born in 1955 and being raise...

If you have been watching the TV News Channels, such as CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS or ABC, you must have seen Marie Osmond because Marie Osmond is now on the TV all the time. But she is not singing now. She is selling a weight-loss product: Nutrisystems. She advertises you "just eat the food and lose the weight." No counting, no measuring, no meetings. Does this really work? One must admit she is still a beautiful woman with not an ounce of fat...

This book deals with interracial love. It would be unthinkable for this book to be banned nowadays, but it was banned in Boston and by the United States Postal Service when it came out in 1944.Strange Fruit is, first of all an absorbing story. Conceived with unusual breadth of understanding and sympathy, told with skill and beauty, it deals with things that the neighbors mustn't know - and it deals with the neighbors. It lays open the heart of...

Young Jody Baxter lives with his parents, Ora and Ezra "Penny" Baxter, in the animal-filled central Florida backwoods in the 1870s. His parents had six other children before him, but they died in infancy, which makes it difficult for his mother to bond with him. Jody loves the outdoors and his family. He has wanted a pet for as long as he can remember, but his mother says that they barely have enough food to feed themselves, let alone a pet. A...

The first known appearance of organized Christianity in Japan was the arrival of the Portuguese Catholics in 1549. Spanish missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Japan with three Japanese Catholic converts intending to start a church in Japan. The local Japanese people initially assumed that the foreigners were from India and that Christianity was a new "Indian faith". These mistaken impressions were due to already existing ties between the Port...

It is this, the inner world of the early astronauts, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and their confreres, that Tom Wolfe describes with his extraordinary powers of empathy. He shows us the hidden Olympus to which all ambitious combat and test pilots aspired, the top of the pyramid of the right stuff' And we learn the nature of the ineffable pilot's grace without which all else meant nothing. We see the men those achievements dominated t...

Chamberlain holds just about every record in the game, knows most every player, and says what he thinks about stars like Bill Russell, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Rick Berry, or coaches like Bill Sharman, Red Auerbach, Neil Johnston, and Bill van Breda Kolff. He takes you from his highly controversial college years at Kansas right through the current season - throwing verbal punches all the way.WILT - So candid and outspo...

Phil Berger tells the story of the kid from the wrong side of the tracks in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, who showed an early talent for sports and for getting into trouble. As a high school football, baseball and basketball star, Joe marched to his own drum and continued to do so at the University of Alabama.After being suspended by Alabama Coach "Bear" Bryant for breaking the rules, Joe went on to become pro football's hottest prospect. Even w...

Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953, the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so the timeline develops along with the plot The ...

Not since Murray's Classic Work of 1913 has there been so seriously researched history chess which is also readable. Since then what was still largely seen as the preserve of a few upper-class eccentrics has become an international sport , played by millions and watched by even more on TV.Richard Eales long overdue study traces the game from its origin in the East , through its medieval status and symbolism , to the new process of the Renaissa...

This book is called a Psychobiography. This is a challenging biography. a rich. three-dimensional intimate portrait, which illuminates the relationship between Jefferson's inner life and his public life. Biographer Fawn M. Brodie has made discoveries and settled some ancient controversies. While others have concentrated on Jefferson and the life of the mind, Mrs. Brodie has concentrated on Jefferson and the life of the heart, describing for th...

The question we will always be asking but will never know the answer is the question: Is there life in Outer Space?I think that almost every thinking person believes that life exists out there somewhere? But finding life is almost meaningless unless we can find intelligent life that can communicate with us. And for what purpose?We now know that it is almost certain that chemical spores can be created and if enough of them come together life ca...

Scarne was often proclaimed by experts, magicians and editors of the time as the greatest card manipulator of all time. But he was happiest when inventing (and marketing, through his company John Scarne Games, Inc.) new games, which he did quite a bit. And he was especially proud of one called Teeko, which he invented in 1945, re-invented in 1952 and modified in the 1960s. He was so proud of the game that he named his son John Teeko Scarne. Te...

The personal and professional stories of the young American geniuses I have tutoredBobby Fischer, William J. Lombardy, Robert E. Byrne, Donald Byrne, Raymond A. Weinstein, Salvatore J. Matera, Lewis H. Cohen by John W. Collinsincluding over 80 of their most memorable games This book is about seven of the greatest American chess players, including World Champion Bobby Fischer. John W. Collins knew them all when they were boys, before they becam...

Frank Marshall was United States Chess Champion for 27 years. He was also the first American player able so sustain himself as one of the top players in the world for an extended period of time. Marshall was in the first group of five players to be awarded the Grandmaster title. He along with Lasker, Capablanca, Tarrasch and Alekhine were awarded the grandmaster title by Czar Nicholas II of Russia in 1914, as they were the five top finishers a...

One of the most entertaining and instructive books on chess ever written. Edward Lasker recounts how as a young boy he met famous old masters, learned from them and worked his way up the ranks until he became one of the strongest players himself.In this book, Lasker provides mini-biographies for many masters who otherwise would not be remembered today. He shows how he learned from them and this enabled him to increase his chess strength.This b...

Harry Hanan, self-assured CIA Chief of Station, Ankara, is dying from terminal cancer. But Harry will not be allowed to die in peace.The Thirteen Men have been marked for death by a self-appointed goel hadam, the Biblical "avenger of the Blood" authorized by ancient law to kill for private revenge. And Harry Hanan is to be the thirteenth victim. In this quest for his own murderer, Hanan joins a clandestine international quartet on the trail of...

The Warriors movie is based on a Classical Greek Story the Anabasis written circa 370 BC. Anabasis was about an army sent to conquer Babylon led by Cyrus the Younger. The army was victorious but when Cyrus was killed they were disorganized and had to march back to Greece. This involved crossing the mountains leading to the Black Sea. Meanwhile, the Greeks had to fight the Babylonians who were chasing them.This explains why the leader of the co...

This is the second book in a series of books by Adelle Davis. Time magazine best put it in 1972, calling her "the high priestess of a new nutrition religion."This book provides 36 stories and anecdotes about people whose lives were improved by eating the right foods, or whose lives got worse by easing the wrong things.As you will see, the book makes some unusual recommendations. It contends that almost any disease can be prevented by proper di...