Tag: Opening

February 2, 2024

How to Play Good Opening Moves (Chess)

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Free Download How to Play Good Opening Moves (Chess) By Edmar Mednis
2002 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 067914109X | PDF | 8 MB
How to Play Good Opening Moves features the principles of starting strong and executing quality chess moves.Chapters include:*What is the opening?*Quality of White Opening Moves*Quality of Black Opening Moves*Evaluation of Moves: The Practical Approach*Sicilian Defense: Basic Principles*Sicilian Defense: Advanced Play*Queen’s Gambit Declined: Basic Principles*Queen’s Gambit Declined: Advanced Play*Bad Moves: How Not to Play Them*Castling: Early or Late?*Pawn Play: Center, Formations, Weaknesses

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January 25, 2024

After Lockdown, Opening Up Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19

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Free Download Darren Ellis, "After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19 "
English | ISBN: 3030802779 | 2021 | 321 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This edited volume examines the psychosocial transformations experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, and envisions those that might lead to a more equitable society as we ‘open up’. The book integrates psychoanalysis, sociology, cultural studies, and psychology to address three main areas: personal experiences of the lockdown, new formations of power and desire that the lockdown has shaped, and global concerns related to the pandemic. Within those three areas, the chapters discuss key themes that include the uses of space during lockdown; experiences of death, loss, and domestic violence; race and the pandemic; technology, media, and viral media; chronic illness; handwashing and COVID-19; and conspiracy theories.

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January 3, 2024

The Other Great Game The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKWJ6RMN | 2023 | 20 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 587 MB
Author: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Narrator: Kathleen Li
In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, pitted the tsar’s empire against Britain in Central Asia. The other, saw Russia, China, and Japan vying for domination of the Korean Peninsula. In this eye-opening account, Sheila Miyoshi Jager argues that the contest over Korea, driven both by Korean domestic disputes and by great-power rivalry, set the course for the future of East Asia and the larger global order. When Russia’s eastward expansion brought it to the Korean border, an impoverished but strategically located nation was wrested from centuries of isolation.

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January 1, 2024

Putin’s War and the Re-Opening of History

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Free Download Putin’s War and the Re-Opening of History by Jean-François Caron
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 108 Pages | ISBN : 9819981662 | 2 MB
This book explores the emerging politics of Eurasia from the vantage point of Kazakhstan. Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 has led to the end of the post-Cold War paradigm of liberal convergence and has triggered a geopolitical shift that will lead to the establishment of a renewed bipolar world order. However, if Russia is responsible for that shift, it will most likely not be the power that will be the leading force of the anti-Western bloc. The leading force of this emerging bloc will rather be China to which Russia is inevitably destined to be relegated as a junior partner in Beijing’s geopolitical orbit. This book, analyzing the geopolitics of a changing region, will interest scholars of international relations, Eurasia, and the economics of energy.

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