Part 1: Overthrow of a Colossus: London 2000, Part 2: Photo Finish in Brissago: 2004, Part 3: Big Brother in Chess City: Elista 2006 An extraordinary account of the main battles in the life of Vladimir Kramnik, a World Champion and a Samurai, in Bareevs words. From London to Elista gives a fascinating look behind the scenes of top-level chess. It provides superb analysis of all the games by Bareev, but it does much more. In Socrates-style dialogues, Bareev and co-author Ilya Levitov reveal everything about the preparation, the progress and the aftermath, about the secret strategy and the brutal stress of the three battles. This rich book is indispensable for anyone who wants to know what makes top grandmasters tick. It is written from the horses mouth, and it is full of honesty, irony, history, wit, anger, wisdom, and even poetry. With many photographs.
In a civilized society, violence is rarely the answer. But when it is, it's the only answer. The sound of breaking glass downstairs in the middle of the night. The words, "Move and you die." The hands on your child, or the knife to your throat.
Team Sohoku races their hearts out in the name of guts and glory in the inspiring original manga series behind the cycling anime smash hit, Yowamushi Pedal!
A landmark biography of the most famous Italian journalist of the twentieth century, an inspiring and often controversial woman who defied the codes of reportage and established the "La Fallaci" style of interview. Oriana Fallaci is
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 256, Publishers: Other Press LLC, Author: Frank Perry, ISBN-13: 9781635420746, Date of issue: 2022
Based on the hit Disney Pixar movie Wall-E. Wall-E is a trash compactor robot -- the last one of his kind -- and every day for hundreds of years he's faithfully cleaned and organized the millions of tons of trash left behind on Earth by humans
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 256, Publishers: Other Press (NY), Author: Marlaine Delargy, ISBN-13: 9781635423006, Date of issue: 2024
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 320, Publishers: Penguin Random House LLC, Author: Curtis Bauer, ISBN-13: 9781635424348, Date of issue: 2025
This is the classic work that tells the true story surrounding the miraculous visions of St. Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes, France in 1858. Werfel, a highly respected anti-Nazi writer from Vienna, became a Jewish refugee who barely escaped death in 1940,
