Everyman's Genius


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Mikhail Tal


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Each chapter discusses an aspect of Tal's combinational play, provides examples, and then gives the reader an opportunity to attempt to solve puzzles drawn from Tal's games. Tips and solutions are provided.







Every Man for Himself and God Against All


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Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing raids, Herzog’s mother took him and his older brother to a remote, rustic part of Bavaria where he would spend much of his childhood hungry, without running water, in deep poverty. It was there, as the new postwar order was emerging, that one of the most visionary filmmakers of the next seven decades was formed. Until age 11, Herzog did not even know of the existence of cinema. His interest in films began at age 15, but since no one was willing to finance them, he worked the night shift as a welder in a steel factory. He started to travel on foot. He made his first phone call at age 17, and his first film in 1961 at age 19. The wildly productive working life that followed—spanning the seven continents and encompassing both documentary and fiction—was an adventure as grand and otherworldly as any depicted in his many classic films. Every Man for Himself and God Against All is at once a personal record of one of the great and self-invented lives of our time, and a singular literary masterpiece that will enthrall fans old and new alike. In a hypnotic swirl of memory, Herzog untangles and relives his most important experiences and inspirations, telling his story for the first and only time.




Every Man His Own Doctor


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Every Man His Own Poet


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"Grandfather's garden is popping with peas. It's buzzing with blossoms and bumbly bees. It's bursting with berries and beans and potatoes and tall, twining vines of too many tomatoes. Eric Ode's rollicking, rhyming garden story combined with Kent Culotta's exuberant illustrations will have readers, tapping their toes (and digging their dirt, and sowing their seeds) as they count the too-many tomatoes overgrowing the garden, the building, the block ... and more!"--Amazon.com




The Call of the World; or, Every Man's Supreme Opportunity


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"The four questions which the author has most frequently heard in discussing world problems with men are the following: "What progress is the missionary enterprise making? How much remains to be done? What is America's share of world responsibility? How can men relate themselves in a practical way to the spread of Christianity throughout the world?" It is to give a brief answer to these four fundamental questions that "The Call of the World" has been written for use in Missionary Discussion Groups, Men's Bible Classes, Brotherhoods, Missionary Committees, and groups of Sunday School Officers and Teachers. It is also confidently expected that many men who cannot meet to discuss these problems in any of the groups mentioned will read and study the book in private. In preparing the manuscript the author has had in mind a large number of men who are now or should become public advocates of missions. The book presents information which they may use in addresses.







The Arts


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Every Man His Own Poet; Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book


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"Every Man His Own Poet; Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book" by W. H. Mallock is a book of poetry that has the garden and cooking as its topic. "Grandfather's garden is popping with peas. It's buzzing with blossoms and bumbly bees." The poem is whimsical and easy to follow even if you've never read poetry before. First written in the 1800s, the book also serves as a nice peak at what life was like in the 19th century.