London. BBC Cymrufyw Online 2020-2024. 199 p. Entertaining articles about the history of Wales , Saints and Preachers , famous Sportsmen and Women and Welsh links with America including the Welshman who almost became President.
New York: David McKay & Co, 1951. — 307 p. Anecdotes and reminiscences about chess , chess players , literary figures who played chess and the Chess Automaton. These include a meeting between Captain Evans ( inventor of the Evans Gambit ) and Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia , a description of Simpson`s in London , a law suit brought against Chess ( Sutton Coldfield ) claiming a...
Holland: Internet www.hhdbvi.nl. — 168 p. Henri Rinck (January 10, 1870 – February 17, 1952) was a French chess endgame study composer one of the most important of his generation. He composed 1700 problems and published them for the most part in successive and larger editions of his book " Fins de partie " the final edition being " 1414 fins de partie " (1952). Harold van...
No publication info. - 1 p. A "Piem" to learn the first one hundred numbers of pi. A "Piem" is text in which the number of letters in successive words is equal to the numbers in the sequence of pi (for example "I know 1" = 141). The text includes "actors' prompts" and repetition as in plays by Shakespeare.
No publication info, — 104 p. Four hundred combinations with level of difficulty from 1 to 10. There are four sections each containing one hundred combinations. The first section is for "beginners" the second for "advanced" solvers the third for "experts " and the fourth contains a mixed selection.
Aberystwyth : Atebol Cyfyngedig, 2013. — 76 p. Ben Bril (or "Boffin Boy" in the English version) is a 14 year old who is here to rescue the world assisted by the Ninja Sgilti .They are often opposed by the Ninja villain Brochfael. The stories are a combination of Harry Potter and Science fiction. David Orme has authored upwards of 300 similar comics on a wide variety of...
Tal y Bont: Y Lolfa, 2011. — 49 p. The stories of four of the great historical figures of early Celtic and Welsh history. Caractacus and Boadicea resisted the Romans. Magnus Maximus was important in making Wales an independent country with a King who was Roman Emperor. He is also connected with the legend of King Arthur through Artorius the general who helped him overthrow...
New York : Be Irresistible Publishing Company, 2021 — 60 p. — ISBN 1521349045. This is a self-help guide for girls and young women desiring to form permanent attachments to men and also for men wishing to avoid being overwhelmed and swept away by their superior dexterity. James Bauer is a psychologist and relationship Counsellor in the United States which in no sense impairs...
London: Richard Bentley, 1839. — vol. 1 c. 392; vol. 2 c. 326; vol. 3 c. 352 p. Life was becoming more tightly controlled for the London Underworld. Hanging was the punishment for even minor thefts regardless of age. In 1700 legislation made it a capital offence knowingly to handle stolen goods . After 1705 it was no longer possible to be pardoned for a first offence ( for any...
London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1930. — 174 p. Herein are contained specimens of the Bible in 630 languages. What began in 1855 as an unpretentious exercise in typesetting has fascinated its readers with its variety of novel scripts and " barbarous words " . One verse encapsulates the whole character of a language and society as vividly as a postage stamp. The...
London: Swan, Sonnenschein and Company, 1901. — 470 p. In the United Kingdom the Public Schools are private exclusive schools for the rich and well connected. It is with the accession of the House of Hanover (George I) in 1714 that the reign of Public School men in office begins. Since then with only a few exceptions every one of the most prominent Statesmen has been educated...
New York: Horowitz and Harkness, 1943. — 321 p. The idea of the author was for a complete chess library in one volume containing all the best games by all the masters from Ruy Lopez to Keres. A sentence or so before each game introduced the Master and drew attention to the remarkable characteristics present. Subsequently the book was revised and updated for paperback readers by...
London. Scholastic Ltd. 2006. c.112. A goretastic tour of the streets of Dublin, exposing the most scurrilous secrets. History with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Whose head was put in a pot and pickled? Which Irish King led his men to battle... from his bath? With the frightful full-colour map tourists can plot their path to the past , picnic with pirates at St...
London: Scholastic Ltd., 2004. — 193 p. History with the nasty bits left in! The awful truth behind the rebellions, riots and rumpuses that have made England what it is today (whatever that is). From the cruel Celts right up to the terrible 20th century it's a tale that will make you quake. Want to know: which monk tried to pinch the devil's nose with a pair of tongs? why some...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. — 590 p. The years when Bobby Fischer was King. The selection includes his 11 - 0 victory in the 1964 U.S. Championship. The early career of Garry Kasparov is also well represented along with chess stories, U.S.chess news and entertainments.
London: Scholastic Ltd., 2001. — 190 p. History books in the USA are now and then prone to hero worship and eulogy. Here readers may learn which President was so scared of electric switches that he slept with his light on, why cowboys declared war on sheep, how to have a civil war battle and how to survive on the Plains.
Boston: Heath and Company, 1963. — 132 p. — (Problems in European Civilization). The French Wars of Religion were a prolonged period of war and popular unrest between Catholics and Huguenots (Reformed/Calvinist Protestants) in the Kingdom of France between 1562 and 1598. Three million people perished , a number surpassed only by the Thirty Years' War (1618-48 ) in Germany which...
Boston: D.C.Heath, 1966. — 112 p. "There is no scholarly controversy which compares with this one. " (Max Braubach). Was the essentially German Empire a ghastly and inevitable failure which resulted in 600 years of German and Italian diunity? Was it a whimsical attempt to perpetuate a dead Roman Empire to the detriment of German political development? Were the outstanding...
St.Louis: Forum Press, 1978. — 112 p. These excerpts concentrate on four much debated historical questions about Napoleon Bonaparte. Firstly did he consolidate or destroy the French Revolution? Secondly was he an aggressor whose ambition for territory knew no bounds or was he the guardian of the national frontiers of France who was compelled into war by foreign intererence?...
Boston: D.C.Heath and Company, 1963. — 120 p. Excerpts from prominent French and English historians examine both the beneficial and negative aspects of the reign of Louis X1V upon the future development of France. “ Louis XIV did more good for his country than twenty of his predecessors together and what he accomplished fell far short of what he might have done.” Voltaire....
Boston. D.C.Heath and Co. 1966. — 112 p. Although he became one of the most famous figures in English history, Oliver Cromwell began life as an ordinary country gentleman. When the English Civil War broke out in 1642, he was a middle-aged father of five children with no military training. Yet within a decade he “mounted himself into the throne of the three kingdoms [England,...
Paris. Garnier . 1878. c.401 Voltaire’s interest in Peter the Great was first aroused in 1717, when, as a young man of twenty-two, he saw the Russian monarch strolling informally in the streets of Paris. The personality and achievements of the Tsar continued to exert a growing fascination on Voltaire. In 1731, he portrayed Peter as the chief antagonist in his History of Charles...
London. Longman Green and Co. 1892. — 475 p. The anarchy of Stephen`s reign ( 1135 -1154 ) was a particularly turbulent period of English history in which the two claimants for the throne , Stephen and the Empress Maud, struggled through long and chaotic years neither being able to achieve the ascendancy. Every Baron became a despot in his own locality and none more so than...
New York: D.Appleton and Co., 1901. — 1490 p. History often has to consider events which did not occur equally with those which did. When in 1803 Napoleon sold the vast Louisiana territories to the United States he anticipated the creation within a few years of a new maritime power capable of challenging the naval supremacy of England. It was not though until 1880-1920 that the...
London: Thomas Kelly, 1820. — 470 p. The Cato Street Conspiracy was an attempt to murder all the British cabinet ministers and Prime Minister in 1820. The name comes from the meeting place near Edgware Road in London. The plotters were betrayed. 13 were arrested by the Bow Street Runners and one peace officer was killed. The event is described in the most minute detail and...
Belgrade: Sahovskiy Informator, 2012. — 512 c. The book presents eighty-six of the strongest tournaments played during the years 2001 to 2009. To be included in this book, the tournaments had to fulfil the following conditions: They were round-robin tournaments. A normal time-control was used. There was a minimum number of six participants. The tournament was Category 17 (or...
Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera S.A., 1973. — 222 p. 524 positions and the reader has to find the winning continuation. Some of these ideas such as ' clavada asesinada " remain fixed in one`s consciousness forever. ( The Spanish translation of the work first pulished in English by Sterling Publishing. )
New York: F.A. Stokes and Co., 1902. — 557 p. Thanks to the administrative talents of Alexander Hamilton the thirteen rebellious Colonies were enabled to achieve the unity necessary to borrow from Europe and hence consolidate the gains of the Revolution. Gertrude Atherton , who was related to Benjamin Franklin , wrote on a variety of subjects particularly California . She was an...
Belgrade: Centar za unapredivanje Saha, 1977. — 220 p. A collection of 100 games from Chess Informants IV to XXI. Each game was one of the " Ten best games" from the preceding volume. They include a Queen sacrifice against Mikhail Tal.
London: Ernest Benn, 1930. — 83 p. A popular history of Wales written by the creator of Welsh historical writing. A concise narrative from the earliest ages until 1930.
London: G.Bell, 1973. — 203 p. A book describing Tal`s career up to 1960 with fifty annotated games from 1951 to 1960. Peter Clarke (1933-2014). FIDE master Peter Hugh Clarke was born in London, England. Awarded the IMC title in 1976 and the GMC title in 1980, he was British Correspondence Champion in 1977. He also finished 2nd on five occasions in the British Championship. He...
London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. — 233 p. A collection of readings from French history containing for the most part subjects familiar to every French schoolboy. Where possible, contemporary chronicles and mémoires have been used for instance, Froissart for the period of the Hundred Years War; Voltaire and Saint-Simon for Louis XIY ; for Louis XVI and XVII, the mémoire of...
London. Ginn and Co. 1918. c.227 The present reader aims to give in concise form the main events in the history of Spain and Spanish America through passages from the best authorities.
Brussels: Le Moustique, 1955. — 49 p. Le Petit Nicolas began as a picture comic published in the Belgian magazine " Le Moustique " between September 1955 and May 1956 . The 27 stories here are reproduced in the order in which they appeared.
New York: American Chess Bulletin, 1914. — 157 p. One Hundred and Twenty-five of His Best Tournament and Match Games at Chess, Together with the Annotation of the Same; Also an Analysis of the Queen's Side Openings, with Several King's Gambit Novelties. Frank Marshall subsequently compared his chess style to that of Jack Dempsey the boxer. "When their theories went to smash in...
London .1993 Cadogan Books, c237 Starting in 1920, and running through to the early 1990's, when the political break up of the USSR meant the end of the competition, the prestigious Soviet Championships were truly representative events with all the top Soviet players participating. Because of the enormous State support for the game in the old USSR, the Championships were...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939. — 170 p. The Apocrypha have long been almost forgotten by the Christian public, although their claim to a place in the Greek, Latin, and English Bibles can hardly be denied. Our Puritan distaste for their religious backwardness is largely responsible for this neglect. But however unrewarding some parts of them may be, from a Christian...
London: Delphi Books, 2015. — 2399 p. A collection of all the writings of the Bronte sisters (Charlotte , Emily and Anne ) and their father Patrick and brother Branwell plus photos and background information. They are classics of English Literature.
New York: The Modern Chess Library; Black Knight Press, 1936. — 107 p. Edgard Colle (18 May 1897, in Ghent, Belgium – 20 April 1932) was a Belgian chess master. He scored excellent results in major international tournaments, including first at Amsterdam 1926, ahead of Savielly Tartakower and future world champion Max Euwe; first at Meran 1926, in a strong field ahead of Esteban...
Penguin Books, Middlesex; 1957. — 490 p. Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) is an iconic British historian. Dame Wedgwood was the third woman to be appointed member of the Order of Merit on the strength of her works on Oliver Comwell, Cardinal Richelieu and William the Silent, and most of all her immensely popular "The Thirty Years War." The book amply delivers on its introductory...
Welsh Government, 2009. — 9 p. The first of these stories " Branwen " is from the " Mabinogion " and the second " Gwenllian " describes an historical event from the anarchy of the reign of King Stephen ( 1135 - 1159 ) and its aftermath in the reign of Henry the second. Both are in the form of comics.
California. Hypermodern Press, 1994. — 293 p. A collection of one thousand combinations from 1860 until 1994 including those from both famous and little known players.
Mondadori, 2014. — 253 p. «Tutti commettiamo degli errori, ma far scoppiare la Terza guerra mondiale sarebbe stato un errore piuttosto grave. Continuo a sostenere che non è stata tutta colpa mia. Ma andiamo con ordine. Nel corso della mia esistenza sono sfuggito per un pelo alla collera di un trafficante d`armi ad Amburgo, sono stato mitragliato da un MiG durante la guerra...
London: English Universities Press, 1960. — 191 p. When you have worked conscientiously through this book you should be able to speak Welsh, understand Welsh conversation and read an ordinary Welsh book. The book is planned as a text book for the G.C.E. ( General Certificate of Education) examination at Ordinary level and in addition to Grammatical tables contains a selection...
London Jonathan Cape 1938 c.363 Stephen Wilbeck narrates the story of his own carefree, travelling life and his love for Dolores in a novel that is, in Wells's words, 'about happiness and about loneliness of spirit.'
London . Penguin Books . 1963 ( first published 1943 ). c. 153 From the blitz on London Graham Greene gathered up the pieces for what must be his most phantasmagoric study in terror. Arthur Rowe's was a mind hamstrung by guilt -- the guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was standing aside from the war until he happened to guess both the true and the false...
London. Methuen and Company . 1937 . c.39 A voice from beyond space and time becomes manifest in the University of Camford and subjects human life and values to a sympathetic but unsparing scrutiny. In the 1930s the University was in the process of founding new departments and introducing new subjects such as experimental psychology. In the final chapter the butler makes the...
London . Henri Colburn Libraire . 1839 . c.249 The ideas of Napoleon Bonaparte had as their final objective the creation of an Association of European states with common laws , a single currency and the same weights and measures similar to the present day European Union or Common Market.. L`idée napoleonienne n`est point une idée de guerre mais une idée sociale , industrielle ,...