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With 1200 problems in its collection, this book looks like another quantity-over-quality compilation at first. Not so. From the first page on, I was immensely impressed by the author's careful selection and ordering of these puzzles. Not only are they challenging, but they are also all from actual competitive games, most of which occurred in tournaments of the last decade. Basically, the author condensed these tournaments to their most exciting moments and presented these highlights for the readers to enjoy, one after another. As a bonus, the year, the tournament and the players are all listed, so it is quite straightforward to look them up in a database and find out how any game ended up in the particular situation.

I think this book will be enjoyable to anyone between 1200 and 2000. I do not agree with the previous reviewer, however, on the claim that chess and family are mutually exclusive. In fact, I am reading this book so as to delay falling behind my son in chess. Oh, the joy of rearing a child!

If you are rated over 1800 then "Forcing Chess Moves" is a better choice. The first 100 puzzles in The Complete Chess Workout are for players rated 1200-1400, mostly one move deflection tactics, the remaining 1100 puzzles become progressively more difficult. I enjoy reading chess books and would rather lay on my back in bed and read a chess book than start a family and pop out three kids and send them to college and go into debt and pay off a mortgage and a car loan and credit cards and work like a slave or indentured servant in order to fulfill someone else's idea of the American dream, the American dream being to become enslaved to debt and work all your life and die a pauper with no savings. Yes, chess has saved my life!

As the other reviewers have noted this is a huge collection of tactical chess problems designed to help you strengthen your chess muscles. But just like joining a "24 Hour Fitness" center, that's just the BEGINNING! You have to use the book, work the problems, understand the ones you didn't get, go back and try them again, and then when you've done all that: DO IT SOME MORE! Find more tactical situations, analyze your games, your friend's games, get more books, buy a tactics disc and so on. Chess Fitness is just like physical fitness: It's not a mountain to scale and then you're done, it's a "health habit" you build into your life-style. The pay off comes when you play a game of chess you can be proud of. THAT is what all your hard work was aiming at. And this book is the ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER of tactical problem collections.

A skilled and prolific chess writer, Richard Palliser is also an International Master with numerous tournament successes and in 2006 became the Join British Rapidplay Champion. Clearly, he brings his many years of experience and expertise to bear in writing "The Complete Chess Workout", a comprehensive training manual for chess tactics that will prove invaluable for aspiring chess players from the novice to the expert. Special note should be made that all of the featured 1200 chess puzzles designed to built chess playing skills have been checked by computer engines. Thoroughly 'player friendly', "The Complete Chess Workout is nicely organized into eight distinct chapters: Warming Up!; Attack!; Opening Tricks and Traps; Skill in the Endgame; Loose Pieces and Overloading; Fiendish Calculation; Test Yourself; and Solutions. A comprehensive course of chess instruction under one cover, "The Complete Chess Workout" truly lives up to its title and will prove to be a welcome addition to personal, academic, and community library chess instruction reference collections.

Two things make this book a bit unusual among books of this sort. 1) Most of the positions are from very recent tournaments and 2) Most of the players are not household names. Both of these features make it harder for me to just remember the games.
I don't think there's anything more instructive or entertaining in chess than working through books like this one.

We received the book promptly and were very happy with it! It had some really cool projects and lots of additional information, as well as pictures. Very interesting and informative and we couldn't be happier!

Great book with black and white pix for learning to create various Native American (especially plains style) and pioneering crafts from natural materials the old way. Set up in a nice vintage tone and format. Truly a treasure for anyone exploring survival skills, Native heritage or crafting items from nature!!! Highly recommend!

If you want a politically correct and modern Native American craft book, this is not it. Though the copyright is 1973, this book has a 50's feel and sketches. However, it is a wealth of information with crafts ranging from leather & rawhide making to building your own dogsled. With a simple change of materials theses scout projects go from Hollywood to historically correct. I found this book to have the best set of instructions and illustrations for making an Eastern style roach headdress despite the instructions calling for manila fibers (I used turkey beards). I highly recommend this book to the Buckskinner or Native enthusiast.

Livraison dans un excellent délai, moins d'une semaine. La qualité du volume est excellente, presque neuf.

This book was wonderful. It came highly recommended. The prompt service on the purchase of this used book was great.

Has some good drills..I was looking for more advance ideas. Good for middle school or youth leagues

As a quad A varsity player, this book offers a way to step up your game. At the varsity level, players must have solid fundamental skills. At this level, you can't fake it. And at this level, you must be able to perform your skills with confidence. THE CONFIDENT COACH'S GUIDE TO TEACHING BASKETBALL recommends drills to help you perfect the skills you need to play at the top level. Varsity Starting Point Guard

My dad bought this book for the drills. We work on the drills together. He didn't know what drills to do to help me with some of my weaker skills. This book helped.

As the father of a varsity player, I was able to use many of the drills and techniques to help my son improve his game. As Coach Carroll says, "Perfect practice makes perfect."

At the high school level, players need continuous practice--not just when their coach has it. Not only will this book help those who are coaching the game, but it will help improve every basketball player who wants to move his game to the next level.

When our regular youth league basketball coach quit because of illness the coaching job was passed to me. I'm a big basketball player/fan with limited coaching experience, so you can imagine my relief when I discovered Celtics Coach John Carroll's new book. Coach Carroll's book is fun to read and it's illustrated with lots of pictures and straightforward diagrams. We've been practicing with Coach Carroll's easy to practice drills and our team has dramatically improved on the fundamental basics like passing, shooting and rebounding. There are some really great drills that help the kids understand and play superior offense and defense. I like the book because it makes basketball practice fun for the players and easy for me.

I love this book because is has so many ideas from the invitations through decorations, food suggestions, games and more! It is the complete shower guide for the person that loves to do crafts! I love the colors and this makes for an attractive book that you can keep out and about. A wonderful offering for absolutely anyone planning on throwing a shower for someone they love!

Good book- wish I had bought it BEFORE I had gotten my invitations. Not a lot of games, which is what i was really looking for, but a good idea book to get in the initial planning stages.

This book is awesome if you like to do crafts. I love doing crafts but I am not as crafty as other people. When me and the other bridesmaid started to do our invitations we thought we were getting in over our heads but the directions were easy and it turned out to be a great success. I posted the photos of our apron invitations on here for people to view. I highly recommend this book to anyone! It has a lot of different themes and beautiful invitations, decorations and ideas for bridal showers.

This is a great book for how to make invitations to planning games and favors for your wedding shower. I plan to use some of the ideas in here for my bridal shower. There are 10 themes to choose from such as 12 hour shower (ideas for different times of day), Spa Bridal Shower, Tis the Season, Victorian, and Hawaiian theme among others. The author gives you all you need for making invitations, favors, and playing games to go along with the themes in the book. However, I do wish she would have made the invitations into full size patterns (adding that would not have been hard--just extra pages at the back) instead of having to enlarge the patterns. You'll also like the recipes included in the book. Have fun planning your shower around one of these themes!

This is a fabulous book for showers or just themed party planning. It will come in handy in the future. The pictures are great and the ideas are complete, from menu, to décor to favors! A great find for the crafty. I also bought Wedding Showers by Adams & Russo and loved it too.

Word Ladders is a great way for students to review familiar vocabulary in a fun-filled manner. Each puzzle also has one or more challenging vocabulary word(s). My fifth grade students enjoy the ladders.

Word Ladders has helped my students get excited about this component of their language arts studies. They always look forward to tackling each day's ladder. I highly recommend it. I am a special education teacher

I use this in my classroom with 4th grade students. All my students enjoy the challenge of figuring out the words. The students are proud when they solve each ring on the ladder. Works well as a five minute activity in the morning or at the end of the day!

I use these activities in my fourth grade classroom as a way to fill in time. Some of these puzzles are difficult, but my higher achieving students find them adequately challenging. I plan to purchase the other Word Ladder book (1-3) for the other students with the hope that they will be able to move up to these after a while. They are a great vocabulary enricher and students enjoy working them.

Great strategy for teaching vocabulary and word association. My students love it. They say things like, "This is Fun"! I agree.

It was a good book,but I personally think it could've done with the puzzles.Otherwise,this book will keep kids entertained on long car rides or on rainy days.

I have to say digimon rock, because it does teach teamwork, and so does Pokemon(but not as much). I mean, would Tai or any of the others defeat Myotismon or The Dark Lords if they wouldn't of worked together. And that shows kids that if you work together then you can accomplish anything.

OK. You might think we are to old for Digimon (or Pokemon) but actully it helps us learn the value of friendship and teamwork. I would recommend digimon for anyone with friend problems (like Matt and Tai) If you think the same e-mail me at digimonfreak3@hotmail.com

Digi-Know?! digimon rocks who ever thinks digimon is like pokemon is crazy.I'm a girl even I know the difference between pokemon and digimon.The kids in pokemon KNEW what to do.The kids in digimon was force to go to the digiworld.EXCITEMENT is writen all over it.

I THINK THAT LAST GUY HAD A GOOD THOUGHT BECUSE DIGIMON IS A GRAET THING I'M 11 AND I LOVE DIGIMON I'V NEVER MISSED ONE SHOW AND THE BOOK IS GOOD TO AND IT MAKE'S ME HAPPY TO SEE PEOPLE TALK ABOUT DIGIMON AND TO SEE PEOPLE READ DIGIMON IT'S EVEN BETER

Los Angeles Times, July 29, 1990
"DOMINO teaches the chants, clap patterns and jump - rope songs of the Virgin Islands, with a cassette recorded on playgrounds of St. Croix by author Karen S. Ellis; the syncopated rhythms are irresistible, and some of the lyrics quite salty."

The Orff Echo, Fall 1990, page 44
"All material is clearly presented with precise and easy-to-understand directions for the games and dances. To maintain authenticity, the words of the songs are written in a mixture of standard English and Cruzian, the dialect of St. Croix. A glossary is provided to assist with unfamiliar words and phrases. Especially interesting is the author's account of her use of an Orff Schulwerk-based approach to teach language skills to the children in a small island town. The accompanying cassette tape, available separately, includes nearly all of the items in the book, most of it performed by the children themselves. No one should miss the priceless rendition of "Ding Dong."

The Midwest Book Review, May 26, 1990

An oversized paperback with spiral binging and a 35 minute audio cassette introduce both adult and child listeners to traditional children's songs and proverbs from the American Virgin Islands, providing a unique opportunity to absorb the culture and sounds of an area which has received relatively little attention.
An oversized paperback and 35 minute cassette provides a unique opportunity to absorb the culture and sounds of an area which has received relatively little attention. More than just another ethnic song collection, the tape alone holds merit, the paperback/tape package is recommended above each singly: the book is an essential enhancement to the tape, offering a political and cultural review of the Virgin Islands, teaching advice to teachers who may be considering the tape and workbook for classroom use, and illustrated musical instructions and score sheets for the tape's songs. The small black and white photos of the children at play are particularly intriguing."

Come-All-Ye, Vol. II No. 2, Summer 1990 A Review Journal for publications in the fields of Folklore, American Studies, Social History and Popular Culture. "It is a thoroughly delightful compilation, of interest to folklorists, teachers and everybody else can enjoy it."

"An oversized paperback and 35 minute cassette provides a unique opportunity to absorb the culture and sounds of an area which has received relatively little attention. More than just another ethnic song collection, the tape alone holds merit, the paperback/tape package is recommended above each singly: the book is an essential enhancement to the tape, offering a political and cultural review of the Virgin Islands, teaching advice to teachers who may be considering the tape and workbook for classroom use, and illustrated musical instructions and score sheets for the tape's songs. The small black and white photos of the children at play are particularly intriguing."

Jim Cox Midwest Book Review

Dr. John Rickford Ph.D (1997, Feb. 28) Dept of Linguistics, Stanford University

I recieved Domino, and was impressed both by the book and the tape. It was enjoyable for my wife Angela and I--the similarities with so many songs we knew growing up in Guyana were so striking, especially for Angela. (As your photos show, these clap patterns and circle songs are more popular with girls than boys.) For instance, for "Brown Girl in the Ring," we sing, "There's a Colored girl in the ring, etc" and end with "She likes sugar, and I like plum!"

WRT the "Congo Saw" proverb on page 22--I'm pretty sure this is the same as the "Conguseh" we have in Guyana, meaning "gossip," so the proverb really means that gossip is worse, more harmful than working obeah. See the entry for _congosa_ in Allsopp's wonderful, just released _Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage_ (Oxford U Press).

Also, the wording for Mother Goose on page 39 seemed to us perhaps to be "Come look a me ya" ("Come look at me here") but it wasn't so clear. This is a wonderful achievement, Karen, and the kids must have LOVED the attention and interest you showed in them and their songs. I bet they missed you when you left.

In TSR's Dragon Dice collectible dice game, players build "armies" from their dice collections of warriors, magic items, monsters, and weird creatures, then roll dice to play out the battle. Play may include summoning dragons to join the armies, and the variety of dice collections possible with the random dice included here and in "Kicker Packs" adds as much diversity to this fast-paced game as do the rolls of the dice.

Play is set in the world of Esfah, which you battle to control. The basic set includes dwarves or Vagha, whose magic combines the powers of Fire and Earth; goblins or Trogs, whose powers use Death and Earth magic; coral elves or Selumari, who command Air and Water; and lava elves or Morehi, magician of Fire and Death magic. The various Expansion sets and Kicker packs available for Dragon Dice (see below) allow the player to add rules for a broader game and expand his collection with artifacts, magic items, and many other races. Dice included are of many possible kinds. Dragon Dice sets of any kind are each a unique collection of dice from a large group of possible dice, so multiple purchases of any given type of set serve to enlarge and diversify your dice army.

Dragon Dice accessories and kicker packs include Battle Ground, Dice Commander's Manual, Dragon Shield, Kicker Pack 1: Monsters and Amazons, Kicker Pack 2: Firewalkers, Kicker Pack 3: Undead, and Kicker Pack 5: Swamp Stalkers.

Dragon Dice is a good game, but the rules are somewhat complex at first. You position and move your dice, most of which represent creatures. During your turn, you can roll for maneuver, magic, melee, or missile. Magic can be used for various spells, which are specific to each race of creatures. Some of the spells, like ones that remove damage, are difficult to keep track of from turn to turn. The goal, although I prefer blood lust, is to maintain 2 locations. This game comes out as a nice blend of chance and skill and often allows someone who is far behind to win. This game is long-lasting; it can be played over and over again. I recommend this game for people who like fairly complex card games, such as Magic and Pokémon.

This is an incredible game. With addictive gameplay and fantastic creatures, this is a great game to bring to a party. This is the kind of game a group of people could play, not only having fun but also taking advantage of the social aspects made available at Dragon Dice matches. This is definitely a game that improves your social interaction with people as well as expands your imagination.

Well, I have been obsessed with dragons for years, so when I saw this game, it's name caught my eye. I had been looking for a battle game without the "kiddiness" of Pokemon cards or the complexity of Magic or Star Wars. Well, I guess you could say Dragon Dice hit the mark dead on! The perfect balance of strategy and luck make this origional game extremely addictive, and impossible to let go of!!

I loved this game!! It's a pity WOTC (which bought TSR) doesn't produce it anymore (well, more or less). It's as addictive as Magic, the dice are really wonderful and you get the rules, 21 dice, the army banners and a great bag to store your dice for only eight bucks! If you wanna know what the game is about, it's basically RISK with dice. You attack your enemie's terrain dice with your armies. Each army is composed of dice; there are three varieties (common, uncommon and rare, as in Magic), and you have lots of races to choose from. Every time you want to attack your enemy in melee or missile fire or magic, you roll your army (all your dice) and count the faces that came up as ths simbol you need. An excellent game which died of an ingnoble death and I hope amazon can breath some life into it.

i havent read it yet but i have a feeling that this will be an excellent novel

I have almost 80 DL novrls and Ive never heard of thes

I've already read the original chronicles and I noticed some differences, but this book is still great! The illustrations are wonderfully drawn and it really gets the point across. I highly recommend this book to all!

I started reading DL in the mid-90's, but I started by being given one of these as a gift. They're hard to find, but well worth it if you can find them. They're based on the books, but even if you've already read the chronicles trilogy, it's well worth it. Recommend these with the highest regards.

This book is an adeptation of the last half of Dragons of Winter Night. It is a very thick comic book that was written in 1985 after the original chronicles came out. I have only books 1,2,3, and 4 and all of them are pretty acurate in there interpretation of the original.

I played Dragonriders of Pern for the First time at dragoncon 2003. The person teaching how to play the game was Todd McCaffery. The game was fantastic. I had a lot of fun playing. The game requires that the players must to some extent work together to survive. But there is still a element of backstabing and good amount of strategy and resource management. To bad it's out of print. Todd McCaffrey stated that he is going to be talking to Mayfair Games about getting it back in print now that they have a little room legally with product licensing.

Will someone please write a CD-ROM version of this??????????????? It would compliment the series perfectly.

Dragonriders of Pern presents the struggle among the Leaders of the six different Weyrs to be recognized as leader of Pern. Each player vies with the others for the support of the Lord Holders while simultaneously keeping Pern free of Thread. If the northern continent of Pern has been so Threaded that it cannot support life, then all the players lose, along with Pern.

I have the first printing of this game and am looking to buy it again (I've lost some of the pieces since I got it years ago. :) ) You can play alone as Benden Weyr or with other players and split control of the Weyrs (no Southern though.) The object is to save Pern from Thread with the resources you have. You have a certain number of flights of dragons to cover your area, and the amount of coverage makes it easier or harder for Thread to spread. There are picture cards for all the Weyrleaders, Craftsmasters and major Holders, all beautifully done! You can gain allies and bribe others (like nasty old Meron!) to help in your fight. The only problem I have with this game is there are so many little pieces (paper disks with dragons, hold crests, or crafthalls) that it's hard to keep from losing them! If you love Pern, you MUST find a copy of this game!

I have the first printing of this game and am looking to buy it again (I've lost some of the pieces since I got it years ago. :) ) You can play alone as Benden Weyr or with other players and split control of the Weyrs (no Southern though.) The object is to save Pern from Thread with the resources you have. You have a certain number of flights of dragons to cover your area, and the amount of coverage makes it easier or harder for Thread to spread. There are picture cards for all the Weyrleaders, Craftsmasters and major Holders, all beautifully done! You can gain allies and bribe others (like nasty old Meron!) to help in your fight. The only problem I have with this game is there are so many little pieces (paper disks with dragons, hold crests, or crafthalls) that it's hard to keep from losing them! If you love Pern, you MUST find a copy of this game!