Why not experience a mindbender every day? This book is a great way to enjoy an optical illusion every day or take them in all at once. Every page features an optical illusion from one of the three main types -- literal, physiological and cognitive. Literal optical illusions create images that are unique from the objects that make them. Physiological illusions occur when the eyes and brain are subjected to excessive stimulation by brightness, color, size, position, tilt or movement. Cognitive illusions are the result of unconscious inferences. All trick the mind into perceiving something al... View More...
Legendary encyclopedia for magicians contains over 150 tricks: Loop the Loop, Jamison s Severed Rope, The Tarbell Rope Mystery, The Encore Rope Trick, Eddie Clever s Triple Cut Routine, Bachelor s Needle and many more. Step-by-step instructions and over 500 illustrations show you h" View More...
Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, featuring Gustav Klimt: Poppy Field. This 1000 piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins. With a high horizon, the foreground dominates this oil painting, creating a sense of a vast expanse of poppies. Although this subject was explored by Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Auguste Renoir ... View More...
Officially Licensed Frida Kahlo Corporation Product. Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, featuring Frida Kahlo Pink. One of the most iconic and important artists of the 20th century, Frida Kahlo's bold, carefully crafted visual identity is in many respects an extension of her art, celebrating her Mexican heritage and countercultural ideals while defying traditional notions of female beauty. Striking and bursting with colour, this portrait... View More...
Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with Mabel Royds' Water Lilies. This 1000 piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins. Mabel Allington Royds (1874-1941) was born in Bedford. At age 15 she won a scholarship to London's Royal Academy but opted to study at the Slade. She is famed for her colourful woodcuts of flower... View More...
Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with the charming William Morris Gallery: Golden Lily. This 1000 piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins. William Morris was an outstanding character of many talents, being an architect, writer, social campaigner, artist and, with his Kelmscott Press, an important figure of the... View More...
Joel Benjamin is one of the most prominent faces in the history of US chess. At thirteen years of age he broke Bobby Fischer's record as the youngest ever national master, and this was followed by countless tournament successes. Perhaps most famously, in 1997 he hit the headlines when he became the chess consultant for IBM's Deep Blue computer, which made history by beating World Champion Garry Kasparov in an epic encounter. In American Grandmaster, Benjamin takes the reader on a journey through chess adventures spanning more than thirty years. Tracing through his own career, from being a prod... View More...
A guide to endgame strategy which shows the basic checkmating principles and combinations needed to finish off opponents. Players learn how to translate middlegame advantages into victories, how to use the king as a weapon, clear the way for rook mates and recognize tactical combinations. View More...
A guide to endgame strategy which shows the basic checkmating principles and combinations needed to finish off opponents. Players learn how to translate middlegame advantages into victories, how to use the king as a weapon, clear the way for rook mates and recognize tactical combinations. View More...
The King's Indian and the Gr nfeld are two of Black's most popular answers to 1 d4; unsurprising given that they were long-time favouritesof chess legends Garry Kasparov and, before him, Bobby Fischer. Brimming with complexity and dynamism, these two openings often leave those playing White scratching their heads wondering how to squeeze even the slightest of advantages out of the opening and, just as crucially, how to avoid becoming swamped in a morass of complicated theory. It's time for White to strike back In this book, Timothy Taylor gets to grips with the King's Indian and Gr nfeld, pro... View More...
Take your listening sessions to the next level with the game edition of the essential cocktail guide Booze & Vinyl, pairing groundbreaking albums with mood-setting mixed drinks in an entertaining new way. CARD PAIRING GAME: Includes 100 full-color printed cards to match 50 sets of great music + boozy beverage pairingsRECIPE BOOK: 88-page book provides information on the music and full instruction for 50 amazing cocktailsDISCOVER YOUR OWN PAIRINGS: Book includes space to create your own unique music and drink combinationsENTERTAIN LIKE A PRO: This game works for solo play as well as groups of ... View More...
Two or more pictures that seemingly are identical are presented on the same page, but subtle changes have been made to one of the pictures. It's up to you to find what has been altered.The book is divided into four sections of pictures puzzles, each progressively more difficult.Can't find all the changes? No problem solutions to all the puzzles are provided in the final section of the book.The book is spiral-bound and handy to use.192 pagesThe Brain Games Picture Puzzles series was developed to challenge your powers of observation and stimulate your ability to focus and concentrate. All books ... View More...
Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why? Or forgotten someone's name right after you heard it? Maybe you're just not thinking as clearly as you used to, and you're growing worried. Well, have no fear. This revolutionary program can help you Improve your everyday memory up to 78% Prevention, America's leading healthy lifestyle magazine, teamed up with one of the country's most notable memory experts, Cynthia R. Green, PhD, to create Brainpower Game Plan--the first brain fitness book to translate cutting-edge research into a comprehensive, doable, day-by-day program that promises rea... View More...
Cornbread Red is based on the true life of Billy Joe Burge. Better known as "Cornbread Red," Burge was a colorful big-money pool player and one of the most famous of the great hustlers of his era. This "novelized" biography is action-packed and entertaining. The reader will get inside the unique world of "pool's greatest money player" as he matures into a loud, bold and formidable gambler and travels between the Johnston City Hustler tournaments and the world-famous money room of the 60's and 70's-the Rack. This book has received rave reviews from pool and other publications View More...
Chess adventures For wood-pushing novices or superstar grandmasters, chess can be an obsession. In pursuit of interviews, Sarah Hurst slid down an icy hill in Hastings to catch a Chinese women's world champion, chased Garry Kasparov around London, chatted cheerfully with a manic depressive in Budapest, and roamed the Russian steppe with Kalmyk Buddhists. When a newspaper editor Larisa Yudina was murdered within a mile or two of City Chess, the pet project of millionaire dictator Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Hurst began to expose the darker side of chess politics. She urged professional players to boyc... View More...
Chess adventures For wood-pushing novices or superstar grandmasters, chess can be an obsession. In pursuit of interviews, Sarah Hurst slid down an icy hill in Hastings to catch a Chinese women's world champion, chased Garry Kasparov around London, chatted cheerfully with a manic depressive in Budapest, and roamed the Russian steppe with Kalmyk Buddhists. When a newspaper editor Larisa Yudina was murdered within a mile or two of City Chess, the pet project of millionaire dictator Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Hurst began to expose the darker side of chess politics. She urged professional players to boyc... View More...
Completely intact but with some water damage on outside cover not affecting its legibility at all. Date written on first page, but no other markings View More...
DIY MAGIC offers a series of reality hacks encompassing self-help, philosophy, psychology, and inspiration, that will help artists, writers, and any creative types find new sources of inspiration. This is a book of magic. This is a book of mind hacks. This is a cookbook for creativity. In DIY Magic, Anthony Alvarado provides readers with a collection of techniques for accessing deeper levels of creative thought--for hacking into their subconscious. From Salvador Dali's spoon technique and ornithomancy (divination by crows), to bibliomancy and using (legal) stimulants, the exercises in this... View More...
A collection of gambits that sacrifice an early pawn in return for rapid development and greater control of the centre. The book presents a complete attack repertoire such as the Goring gambit and the Marshall gambit that can be used against the most popular defences such as the Sicilian. View More...
This gambit repertoire shows black how to take charge with aggressive attacking defences against any orthodox first white opening move. Gambits include the Scandinavian gambit against 1.e4 and the Schara gambit against 1.d4. The book shows black how to immediately seize the initiative. View More...