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A Chess Course - From Beginner to Winner by Michael De La De Maza; Byron Jacobs; Matthew Sadler
Category: Gifts
Three brilliant books from Everyman Chess in One volume and an essential guide to to the new chess player.Starting Out in Chess by Byron JacobsRapid Chess Improvement by Michael de la MazaTips for Young Players by Matthew SadlerStarting Out in Chess: International Master Byron Jacobs provides a thorough ...Show more
Andes by Michael Jacobs
Category: Travel
Stretching for over 5,500 miles, and containing the highest active volcanoes in the world, the largest salt flat, the highest lake, and peaks rivalled in size only by the Himalayas, the Andes impress by statistics alone. But beyond the range's sheer immensity, is its concentration of radically contrasti ...Show more
Andes by Michael Jacobs
Category: Travel
Stretching for over 5,500 miles, and containing the highest active volcanoes in the world, the largest salt flat, the highest lake, and peaks rivalled in size only by the Himalayas, the Andes impress by statistics alone. But beyond the range's sheer immensity, is its concentration of radically contrasti ...Show more
Andes by Michael Jacobs
Category: Travel Literature
Stretching for over 5,500 miles, and containing the highest active volcanoes in the world, the largest salt flat, the highest lake, and peaks rivalled in size only by the Himalayas, the Andes impress by statistics alone. But beyond the range's sheer immensity, is its concentration of radically contrasti ...Show more
Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting by Michael Jacobs
Category: Art and Design
Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations from each individual character in the pictur ...Show more
Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting by Michael Jacobs
Category: Art and Design
Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations from each individual character in the pictur ...Show more
Flying, Fighting and Reflection by Peter Jacobs; Michael Graydon (Foreword by)
Category: Military
This is the thrilling account of the last remaining Battle of Britain ace fighter pilot, Tom "Ginger" Neil. Neil was one of an elite band, nicknamed "The Few" by Winston Churchill, he flew Hurricanes during 141 combat missions in that battle and went on to command the first Spitfire XII squadron during ...Show more
Ghost Train Through the Andes by Michael Jacobs
Category: Travel Literature
It was not until long after his grandmother, Sophie, had died, that Michael Jacobs was eventually permitted to read the lengthy and passionate letters that his grandfather Bethel had written her from nine thousand miles away. In these letters, Jacobs discovered a remarkable story of hardship, deprivatio ...Show more
Psychodynamic Counselling in Action by Michael Jacobs
Category: Self-Help | Series: Sage Counselling in Action
The Factory of Light by Michael Jacobs
Category: Art Books
Searching for a house to rent in 1999, Michael Jacobs was offered one in the Andalucian olive-growing community of Frailes. This was a place where the modern world enjoyed a strange co-existence with a virgin Andalucia ruled by a dynasty of saintly healers. It was not long before he decided to take up m ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence by Michael Jacobs
Category: Travel | Series: The Most Beautiful...
Provence is a land apart, a territory of outstanding beauty and distinction that has fascinated outsiders since earliest times. This title features photographs and accounts of the most beautiful villages of Provence such as Vaucluse and the Bouches-du-Rhone and more.
The Robber of Memories: A River Journey Through Colombia by Michael Jacobs
Category: Travel Literature
Running through the heart of Colombia is a river emblematic of the fascination and tragedy of South America, the Magdalena. Considered by some the most dangerous place in the world, travellers along the river - for centuries the only route into the vast South American interior - were at the mercy of tro ...Show more