Hounded by the law, haunted by his memories, one man tries to flee from the one thing he can never escape. Himself.J.D. Hooper is on the run. He killed a man in Kentucky and made bitter enemies in Tennessee. Leaving behind a marked trail of evil deeds and havoc as an enforcer for powerful men, he seeks refuge in the American Southwest in 1908. There he encounters Pancho Villa and the Mexican bandit takes a liking to the brash American. But J.D. can' t escape his past, or his future,...

In the spring of 1906 in Kentucky, Wes Wilson stands in his freshly plowed field gazing at furrows that will soon be filled with young dark-leaf tobacco plants. This crop is his life's blood, the product that allows him to feed and clothe his family. Wes is determined that nothing-not the powerful monopoly trying to drive prices down, or the growers' association demanding that farmers hold back their crops-will stand in his way. But the secrets and lies which plague the community smother W...

Veteran chess teachers and authors, Wilson and Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to children, present 202 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun. Large diagrams and clearly explained solutions will thrill kids as they work their way through the concepts while they have fun with chess. This book is perfect for kids! The authors should know - they have used these puzzles in their lessons for years.

Both a fascinating challenge and a great training tool, these tricky tactical problems are not only fun to solve, but great for advanced beginners, intermediate, and expert players to use as tools to improve their game.  Tactics are presented in order of difficulty, so that players can advance from simple to complex positions.  Examples from actual games illustrate a wide range of tactics from the classics right up to the current games.  You'll learn to use pins, single and double forks, doub...

Veteran chess teachers and authors, Wilson and Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to beginners and children, present 200 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun. Large diagrams and clearly explained solutions will thrill players as they work their way through the concepts while they have fun with chess. This book is perfect for beginners and kids! The authors should know ' they have used these puzzles in their lessons for years.

A carefully selected entertaining and instructive collection of tactical chess puzzles. The authors-both veteran professional chess instructors-have collected or created 303 typical game situations. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority. Divided into three chapters, each filled with 9.991 large, clear diagrams, the entire gamut of necessary tactical knowledge is challenged, tested, and with the result that the reader becomes a stronger ...

In The Codex of Remembering — Part I, the journey turns inward, descending into the chambers of the ancient self. Here, memory is not a function of the mind but a frequency of the soul—an encrypted archive waiting to be reawakened. Dr. Bruce Wilson guides the reader into the deep substratum where identity, lineage, and destiny converge in luminous pattern and mathematical grace.This volume unveils the first half of the Codex: the forgotten laws of consciousness, the architecture of ...

At a time in history when global challenges are becoming more intractable and threatening, it makes sense to draw on the specialist expertise of our universities. Much of government interest in doing so has typically focused on the major research institutions with their records of new discovery and invention. However, there is extensive evidence that the greatest opportunities are at regional level. Despite globalisation, regions are becoming more and more important as sites of identity an...

Your domain is rich and interconnected, and your API should be too. Upgrade your web API to GraphQL, leveraging its flexible queries to empower your users, and its declarative structure to simplify your code. Absinthe is the GraphQL toolkit for Elixir, a functional programming language designed to enable massive concurrency atop robust application architectures. Written by the creators of Absinthe, this book will help you take full advantage of these two groundbreaking technologies. Build ...

Deliver the Coup de Grâce! With this instructive manual, players can learn to concentrate on one-, two- and three-move checkmates, focusing on their opponents� last moves and keeping alert to new possibilities, rather than getting blinded by previous calculations. Written by two experienced chess teachers, this volumes first 100 exercises concern checkmates in one move, while the remaining exercises represent game-like positions for checkmates in two and three moves. All are designed to ...

If you are a teacher or school leader looking for a one-stop professional development resource focused on teaching practice, Power Up Your Pedagogy: The Illustrated Handbook of Teaching is the perfect book for you.Covering a broad range of themes, from professional learning and coaching to cognitive science and educational research, this book is comprehensive in its scope....

**The New York Times bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose continues his heartwarming series that perfectly captures the unconditional loving relationships between people and their loyal best friends in stories no dog lover can resist.Basis for the Major Motion Picture starring Josh Gad and Dennis Quaid!**This program includes an afterword read by W. Bruce Cameron.Audiences are invited along on A Dog's Journey, the next ch...