The best chess training closely resembles the activity you're training for. This book provides you with an essential component - decision-making in the crucial positions of a real game of chess, played by club players rather than grandmasters. You have to answer the same questions that you face when you stare at the chess board and have to find a move. Amateur games can be very instructive. Studying the games of top players will undoubtedly help you to improve. However, it is often more enlightening to make decisions or see mistakes at a lower level, as they are easier for most of us to relate to. Thomas Willemze has carefully selected thirty games that illustrate an important theme, for example: •Dealing with irreversible moves •Rerouting your rooks •Aligning your bishop and pawns •Converting a long-term advantage •Taming the London Willemze is a master at choosing just the right positions to help you improve your chess knowledge and understanding. Amateur games can be very instructive. Studying the games of top players will undoubtedly help you to improve. However, it is often more enlightening to make decisions or see mistakes at a lower level, as they are easier for most of us to relate to. Thomas Willemze has carefully selected thirty games that illustrate an important theme, such as the centre, king safety or a space advantage. Willemze is a master at choosing just the right positions to help you improve your chess knowledge and understanding.

A joyful adventure combining the discovery of the sea, and oneaEUR(tm)s self is found between the pages of this book. It all starts one day as we find our friend sitting by the wateraEUR(tm)s edge. He sees the reflection of a tree and the sun in the water. The reflection makes it look as if the tree and the sun are under the sea. aEURoeHow can this be? The sun and tree can not be under the sea,aEUR he asks himself.Then our friend ponders, What would I be if I lived Under the Sea? This is a hard question for our friend, so he starts his quest of wonder as he asks his classmates and teacher what they would be if they lived under the sea.His question is answered, as if by magic, when the people answering are transformed into different sea life. This is a colorful sea tale of both words and imagination that are meant to ignite the readers imagination and spark conversation with family, classroom, and between friends who wonder what it would be like if they lived under the sea.Professor J. Arthur even included a way that you can write to him and use your words, and/or pictures of what you would be if you lived under the sea? to let him know.A portion of the proceeds from the sale of all of Joe ArthuraEUR(tm)s writing go to: Associations of Zoos and Aquariums, Covenant House, Native American Right Funds, The NAACP, The USS Constitution Museum, and the World Wildlife Fund.* Teachers and Parents *This book was written as a springboard for a aEUR~Know/Want to know/LearnedaEUR(tm) (KWL) exercise. In this exercise, when the reader imagines what they would be if they lived under the sea and tells the class what they know. Other studentsaEUR(tm) curiosityaEUR(tm)s will develop as they ask questions about their classmates imagined sea creature. Then all may engage in a discussion about what they learned. This is a fun bonding experience that will also help to build positive interpersonal relationships and school skills. Professor ArthuraEUR(tm)s book is a wonderful way to ignite the imagination of our young people and inspire their involvement in this living environment that we all share. Once the studentaEUR(tm)s imagination is lit, that fire cannot be put out. Another great tool to teach students about the seas is a visit to their local aquarium. It was Albert Einstein who said, aEURoeImagination is more important than knowledge.aEURMay you grow strong, stay healthy, and be the miracle - please. Click here to access the author's personal website: www.TheHappyOctopus.org

Since the publication of the first Would You Rather...' title in 1997, Justin Heimberg and David Gomberg have gone forth to spawn a franchise that shows no signs of slowing down or growing old. In this hilariously hefty addition to the series, the authors have created more than 1,500 all-new, never-before-published questions that will have regular readers and newcomers alike laughing out loud as they ponder the often outrageous, sometimes sinful, usually unusual, and unfailingly uproarious questions posed.

Sequel to Djinn 2: Where There’s Smoke Dale Edinger is still cleaning up the hoard he inherited from his Aunt Matilda, and having an interesting time of it. He's also learning to handle his own magic from his mentor, a dragon called Summer. And he's falling in love with the djinn Riadh. Riadh is the big worry for Dale. He's already turned down one offer to purchase the djinn made by an ethically challenged, ego-driven black magician named Archimedes. Whoever owns Riadh's box, owns Riadh. Dale doesn't want to own Riadh, but destroying the box would destroy Riadh, too, so he isn't quite sure how to fix the problem. When Riadh's box disappears, Dale knows who has it ... and Riadh. It isn't difficult for Dale to track Archimedes to his lair. But can Dale save Riadh without destroying him?

Janices memoir leads her readers on a sometimes sad, often jubilant jaunt through her young years in a long-gone rural Iowa. Poverty, the death of her young father, and stints in an orphanage, a foster home and a convent all propel her to an adulthood where she finds peace -- with herself and with God. Janices stories -- of smoking nuns, illicit fudge, wash day, sibling rivalry, learning to drive, secret viewing of White Christmas, working at Rays Drive Inn, and searching for diamonds in the privy -- engage the adventuresome and the quirky sides of all of us. And they reveal why her mother so often declared her father would be turning over in his grave if he knew what they were doing! Readers will find hope, faith and trust in a Power greater than we are as they travel this journey with her.

What would YOU say to a dinosaur, who's never been to town before . . . "Would you like a banana?" Stegosaurus has come to Dino Town to visit his Granny! But from the moment he steps off the train, nothing goes quite to plan. What would you say to a dinosaur who's never been to town before? Can you help him find his way? Or will Stegosaurus wind up covered in pants, socks and cake in a bit of a muddle . . . With hilariously nonsensical questions and answers, unpredictable dino drama and plenty to spot on every page, this picture book is huge fun to read aloud and is sure to become a repeat-read family favourite. Written by bestselling, award-winning author auo Adam & Charlotte Guillain, with vibrant comic-style illustrations by Gareth Conway, illustrator of Greg the Sausage Roll.

If you are an executive who has worked long hours, risen to every challenge, and built a strong reputation for yourself, then why haven't you reached the highest levels of leadership? Here's a reality check: Your business achievements and functional skills alone aren't enough to help you get where you want to go. What's likely missing is a skill that the world's best corporate leaders have developed—mastery of the people side of the equation. You must become a leader that others want to work for. How do you do that? Let go of being an expert. Become a leader of experts. If anyone knows what prevents leaders from reaching their full potential, it's author Brenda Bence, who has years of experience coaching senior executives at the top levels of major corporations worldwide. In Would YOU Want to Work for YOU?, she reveals the 15 most damaging people-leadership behaviors that she regularly sees in the workplace and provides you with dozens of tips, tools, and techniques that you can apply immediately to correct them. Packed with real-life case studies from around the globe, this book will help you: * Discover where the world's best business leaders focus their energy * Get crystal clear about the experience of working with and for you as a leader * Uncover the #1 reason for unwanted employee turnover and what to do about it * Motivate even your most challenging and underperforming team members * Create a winning Executive Leadership Brand—The Trademarked YOU * Inspire others to excellence, and fast-track your own career in the process "Brenda Bence reveals how you can affect the way your people perceive, think, and feel about you so that you can become the boss you really want to be. Read this book—it's about YOU." -- Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and TrustWorks!

""If Your Baby Could Talk" should be mandatory reading. It is a prescription for accountability and success--a unique checklist for all ages and stages of parenthood." David Patillo, Christian singer, songwriter, and musician. (Practical Life)

The craziest year of my life, has been 2016. You can read a million books or try a million different programs. It is up to "YOU" in the end. Most of these so called "Professional" have never lived as a dope head, so what gives them the right to tell people how to get off drugs. Thay don't understand how people really feel, they just read a book and think they understand this life. News Flash, It's "Bull Shit." We will find our way back on the Road, if we really want to. It might be our kids that help us find or way back or just the ones we love. In the end we all want the same thing, to just be "Happy." There's always side effects labling everything from Pills, to Cigarettes or even texting to much, but what's really going on are the "Side Effects of Life". We all get stress out from the work we do, the school classes we take, kids we raise, and just for having to be responsible 24/7.

A combination of book 1 with new poems.A stunning and soul searching book of poetry in the form of parables. You will find answers to what and who YOU are. You will find an awareness that you are loved. Many characters inhabit this book. Some loving some cruel. The word images will make you laugh or cry or ponder your destiny. Symbolism in words about greed,envy,lust passion and pain envelope you.The poems lead you on a spiritual journey from the beginnings of awareness to fulfillment in God Almighty and Jesus Christ This book is not slushy or sentimental.But powerfull and modern. Biblical yet very human. Wonderful for christian or non. Someone of any faith or none. Easy language but with powerfull concepts.Superb for helping in counselling and healing emotions.Superb for self awareness and self development. NOT AN ORDINARY BOOK.Study guide incorporated also original illustrations. ENJOYCONTACT author susanhillx@blueyonder.co.uk for special prices