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The Essential Center Counter: A Practical Guide for Black
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The Essential Center Counter: A Practical Guide for BlackThe Essential Center Counter: A Practical Guide for Black

The Center Counter can be aggressive and dangerous. It immediately challenges White from the get-go (1. e4 d5!) and it is making a comeback! Because of Andrew Martin's 2... Qxd5, the Center Counter also doesn't require a mountain of memorization nor knowledge to learn it and use it. In 10 chapters you are guided through declined and accepted variations. Transpositional variations from non-CC games such as the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit are not just investigated, they are taken apart.
 
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How To Think In Chess
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How To Think In ChessHow To Think In Chess

This is more of a descriptive study and self-knowledge guide, with half of the book consisting of various tests and their solutions. Some of these tests are rather instructive, but IMHO they have little to do with the subject of training your chess thought. Of course, doing the excercises will improve your play. The seller was very prompt, attentive and helpful. I would recommend this business to anyone.
 
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An Introduction to the Mathematics of Money: Saving and Investing (Texts in Applied Mathematics)
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An Introduction to the Mathematics of Money: Saving and Investing (Texts in Applied Mathematics)An Introduction to the Mathematics of Money: Saving and Investing (Texts in Applied Mathematics)

This is an undergraduate textbook on the basic aspects of personal savings and investing with a balanced mix of mathematical rigor and economic intuition. It uses routine financial calculations as the motivation and basis for tools of elementary real analysis rather than taking the latter as given. Proofs using induction, recurrence relations and proofs by contradiction are covered.
 
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The Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
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The Companion to the African American Slave NarrativeThe Companion to the African American Slave Narrative

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition.
 
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The Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel
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The Companion to the Twentieth-Century English NovelThe Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel

The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists.
 
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