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Author : Raymond Keene
Publisher : Collier Books
ISBN 13 : 9780020287018
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Duels of the Mind written by Raymond Keene and published by Collier Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts and includes commentary on twelve chess matches involving the best players of all time
Author : Michael Garriga
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571318860
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Book of Duels written by Michael Garriga and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fierce, searing, and darkly comical, Garriga's debut collection of short-short fiction depicts historical and imagined duels, re-envisioning in a flash the competing points of motivation—courage and cowardice, honor and vengeance—that lead individuals to risk it all. In this compact collection, “settling the score” provides a fascinating apparatus for exploring foundational civilizing ideas. Notions of courage, cowardice, and revenge course through Michael Garriga’s flash fiction pieces, each one of which captures a duel’s decisive moment from three distinct perspectives: opposing accounts from the individual duelists, followed by the third account of a witness. In razor-honed language, the voices of the duelists take center stage, training a spotlight on the litany of misguided beliefs and perceptions that lead individuals into such conflicts. From Cain and Abel to Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickenson; from John Henry and the steam drill to an alcoholic fighting the bottle: the cumulative effect of these powerful pieces is a probing and disconcerting look at humankind’s long-held notions of pride, honor, vengeance, and satisfaction. Meticulously crafted by Garriga, and with stunning illustrations by Tynan Kerr, The Book of Duels is a unique and remarkable debut.
Author : Raymond Keene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784871878630
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Duels of the Mind written by Raymond Keene and published by . This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone is fascinated by great games of chess: the spectacular sacrifices, profound strategic plans and brilliant endgame play produced in the heat of combat are powerful expressions of the creativity of the human mind. But which, of all the hundreds of candidates, are the very greatest games ever played? Here, in this book, is Grandmaster Raymond Keene's personal selection: twelve games, played by the giants of chess, each of them representing a peak in chess-playing genius. From the slashing attacks of Paul Morphy to the classical beauty of Jose Capablanca; from the python like constriction of Aron Nimzowitsch to the dynamic aggression of Gary Kasparov: all styles of chess are present, as are the great names of chess, including Steinitz, Lasker, Alekhine, Spassky and Fischer.
Author : Raymond D. Keene
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780713467680
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Duels of the Mind written by Raymond D. Keene and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Leigh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674504380
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (745 download)
Download or read book Touché written by John Leigh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.
Author : Yasser Seirawan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857445879
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Chess Duels written by Yasser Seirawan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He describes and analyses, in depth, his most memorable encounters-both famous victories and painful defeats, against the best chess players of the last 50 years. --
Author : Imma Argiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980979404
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Mind Duels written by Imma Argiro and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cindy Anstey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 125011909X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Duels & Deception written by Cindy Anstey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1800s London, a young heiress and her lawyer are caught up in a kidnapping plot to steal her fortune, but as their investigation delves deeper and their affections for each other grow, Lydia starts to wonder what she truly wants.
Author : Eric Jager
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767914171
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book The Last Duel written by Eric Jager and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • “A taut page-turner with all the hallmarks of a good historical thriller.”—Orlando Sentinel The gripping true story of the duel to end all duels in medieval France as a resolute knight defends his wife’s honor against the man she accuses of a heinous crime In the midst of the devastating Hundred Years’ War between France and England, Jean de Carrouges, a Norman knight fresh from combat in Scotland, returns home to yet another deadly threat. His wife, Marguerite, has accused squire Jacques Le Gris of rape. A deadlocked court decrees a trial by combat between the two men that will also leave Marguerite’s fate in the balance. For if her husband loses the duel, she will be put to death as a false accuser. While enemy troops pillage the land, and rebellion and plague threaten the lives of all, Carrouges and Le Gris meet in full armor on a walled field in Paris. What follows is the final duel ever authorized by the Parlement of Paris, a fierce fight with lance, sword, and dagger before a massive crowd that includes the teenage King Charles VI, during which both combatants are wounded—but only one fatally. Based on extensive research in Normandy and Paris, The Last Duel brings to life a colorful, turbulent age and three unforgettable characters caught in a fatal triangle of crime, scandal, and revenge. The Last Duel is at once a moving human drama, a captivating true crime story, and an engrossing work of historical intrigue with themes that echo powerfully centuries later.
Author : Jack Kenny Williams
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890961933
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Dueling in the Old South written by Jack Kenny Williams and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the social custom of pistol dueling in the antebellum South documents the rules for its conduct, its causes, and its typical participants. Also included is a popular dueling code from the year 1838 by John Lyde Wilson, one-time governer of South Carolina.--From publisher description.
Author : John L. Locke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139498746
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Duels and Duets written by John L. Locke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do men and women talk so differently? And how do these differences interfere with communication between the sexes? In search of an answer to these and other questions, John Locke takes the reader on a fascinating journey, from human evolution through ancient history to the present, revealing why men speak as they do when attempting to impress or seduce women, and why women adopt a very different way of talking when bonding with each other, or discussing rivals. When men talk to men, Locke argues, they frequently engage in a type of 'dueling', locking verbal horns with their rivals in a way that enables them to compete for the things they need, mainly status and sex. By contrast, much of women's talk sounds more like a verbal 'duet', a harmonious way of achieving their goals by sharing intimate thoughts and feelings in private.
Author : Michael Christopher Garriga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571310934
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Book of Duels written by Michael Christopher Garriga and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compact collection, "settling the score" provides a fascinating apparatus for exploring foundational civilizing ideas. Notions of courage, cowardice, and revenge course through Michael Garriga's flash fiction pieces, each one of which captures a duel's decisive moment from three distinct perspectives: opposing accounts from the individual duelists, followed by the third account of a witness. In razor-honed language, the voices of the duelists take center stage, training a spotlight on the litany of misguided beliefs and perceptions that lead individuals into such conflicts.
Author : Lorenzo SABINE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Notes on Duels and Duelling ... Third edition written by Lorenzo SABINE and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sherwood Smith
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152016081
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Crown Duel written by Sherwood Smith and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Don Carlos Seitz
Publisher : Freeport, N. Y., Books for Libraries Press [1966]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Famous American Duels written by Don Carlos Seitz and published by Freeport, N. Y., Books for Libraries Press [1966]. This book was released on 1966 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1929. With some account of the causes that led up to them and the men engaged. Seitz writes that the narratives he has gathered in this volume are filled with thrills and foolishness. In spite of the progress of civilization, the duel survived well up into the latter part of the last century in the United States. Contents: The Duello; The Code; Henry Phillips vs. Benjamin Woodbridge; William Whately vs. John Temple; Philip Hamilton vs. George I. Eacker; Aaron Burr vs. Alexander Hamilton; William H. Crawford vs. General John Clark; Andrew Jackson vs. Charles Dickinson; Andrew Jackson vs. the Two Bentons; Thomas H. Benton vs. Charles Lucas; James Barron vs. Stephen Decatur; Henry Clay vs. John Randolph; William J. Graves vs. Jonathan Cilley; Thomas F. Marshall vs. James Watson Webb; Thomas L. Clingman vs. William L. Yancey; and David S. Terry vs. David C. Broderick. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Author : Heinrich von Kleist
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 161219074X
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Duel written by Heinrich von Kleist and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About This Book "No amount of wisdom could possibly make sense of the mysterious verdict which God intended through this duel." A new translation of a key work by one of European literature’s most important early writers. One of the few novellas written by the master German playwright, The Duel was considered by Thomas Mann and others to be one of the great works of German literature. The story of a virtuous woman slandered by a nobleman, it is a precise study of a subject that fascinated von Kleist: That people are sometimes seemingly punished for their very innocence. This Is An Enhanced eBook This eBook contains Illuminations—additional curated material that expand the world of Kleist’s novella through text and illustrations—at no additional charge. "Illuminations" contains writings by Paul the Deacon - J.G. Millingen - Sir Walter Scott - Johann Ludwig Uhland - Miguel de Cervantes - Andrew Lang - John Carl Blankenagel - Louis and Regis Senac - Alfred Hutton - Fiore de Liberi and a collection of the twelve laws of chivalry. Illustrations include: Gerhard von Kugelgen - Johannes Gehrts - Jörg Breu Jüngere and Pauls Hector Mair - Achilles Emperaire - George Muhlberg and others. Also included is The Duelist’s Supplement – “The Art of Dueling: How To Shoot and Slash Your Way To Satisfaction” which includes an entire facsimile scan of Fior de Liberi's Flower of Battle.
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Author : Lorenzo Sabine
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290296564
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (965 download)
Download or read book Notes on Duels and Duelling [Microform] written by Lorenzo Sabine and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
