Win at Checkers


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Improve your game with tips from the former Unrestricted World Checker Champion! More than 100 detailed questions and answers discuss basic principles, standard openings and end games, and other maneuvers.




Play Winning Checkers


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Learn the skills and strategies to play the game of checkers like a champion.




How to Play Checkers


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24 Games You Can Play on a Checker Board


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Directions for twenty-four games that can be played on a checkerboard.




For Kids of All Ages


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In For Kids of All Ages,members of the National Society of Film Critics celebrate the wonder of childhood in cinema. In this volume, original essays commissioned especially for this collection stand alongside classic reviews from prominent film critics like Jay Carr and Roger Ebert. Each of the ten sections in this collection takes on a particular aspect of children’s cinema, from animated features to adaptations of beloved novels. The films discussed here range from the early 1890s to the present. The contributors draw on personal connections that make their insights more trenchant and compelling. The essays and reviews in For Kids of All Ages are not just a list of recommendations—though plenty are included—but an illuminating, often personal study of children’s movies, children in movies, and the childish wonder that is the essence of film. Contributors include John Anderson, Sheila Benson, Jay Carr, Justin Chang, Godfrey Cheshire, Morris Dickstein, Roger Ebert, David Fear, Robert Horton, J. R. Jones, Peter Keough, Andy Klein, Nathan Lee, Emanuel Levy, Gerald Peary, Mary Pols, Peter Rainer, Carrie Rickey, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Michael Sragow, David Sterritt, Charles Taylor, Peter Travers, Kenneth Turan, James Verniere, Michael Wilmington, and Stephanie Zacharek.




Games and Fun with Playing Cards


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Here's a collection of 124 games, tricks, puzzles and stunts with cards that will provide hours of entertainment for all ages. 20 varieties of solitaire, old stand-bys — Go Fish, Crazy Eights, Old Maid — and lesser known games — Authors, Frogs in the Pond, Persian Pasha — and much more.




Checkers for the Novice


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Think checkers is a simple game? Are you ready to discover the incredibly deep inner game of checkers?Want to play checkers at a level you've never even dreamed of?Checkers for the Novice is definitive modern guide for the beginning Anglo-American checkers/draughts player who wishes to reach the upper 1% of the playing population and is willing to do the necessary study and training. Starting with notation and basic rules, the book takes the ambitious novice through elementary tactics and strategy, basic endgames, and a solid freestyle opening repertoire. After mastering this book a player will be a fledgling expert and well prepared for advanced study.Author Richard Pask is a grandmaster with a gift for teaching and this book is clear, lucid, and thorough. Prepare to be amazed at what a deep game checkers truly is --- and how well you're going to be playing it.




Working Mother


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The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.




Personal Best


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From the popular NBEW series, a wealth of up-to-date career-advancing advice in a wide variety of subject areas Everywhere, job markets are diversifying and growing, leading to an unprecedented array of career options for today's professional. This is an all-inclusive round-up of career advancement tips and tactics covering 14 topical areas, from self-knowledge, goals, mental toughness, and creativity to planning a job search, preparing resumes, and becoming an entrepreneur. It also includes case studies and guidance from many of the nation's leading business authorities. * Targets both entry level workers as well as experienced professionals * Blends practical career advice with self-help psychology to create a comprehensive career resource National Business Employment Weekly is the nation's leading career resource with a weekly readership of 120,000 plus. The nation's career authority reveals the latest job-search techniques SPECIAL OFFER IN EACH BOOK! A FREE issue of the National Business Employment Weekly, plus a four-week FREE trial offer of the Wall Street Journal! Everywhere, job markets are diversifying and growing, leading to an unprecedented array of career options for today's professional. This is an all-inclusive round-up of career advancement tips and tactics covering 14 topical areas, from self-knowledge, goals, mental toughness, and creativity to planning a job search, preparing resumes, and becoming an entrepreneur. It also includes case studies and guidance from many of the nation's leading business authorities. * Targets both entry level workers as well as experienced professionals * Blends practical career advice with self-help psychology to create a comprehensive career resource THE NATIONAL BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT WEEKLY, from the Wall Street Journal, is the nation's leading career resource with a weekly readership of 120,000 plus.