Garry’s books ON
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“How Life Imitates Chess”
With candor, wisdom, and humor, Kasparov recounts his victories and his blunders, both from his years as a world-class competitor as well as his new… Read More
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Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, Part 1: 1973-1985
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, part 1 is the first book in a major new three-volume series. This series will be unique by the fact… Read More
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Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, Part II: 1985-1993 (Everyman Chess)
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov: Part II is the second volume in a major three-volume series made unique by the fact that it records the… Read More
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Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, Part III: 1993-2005
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov: Part III is the final volume in a major three-volume series made unique by the fact that it records the… Read More
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Checkmate!: My First Chess Book (Everyman Chess)
In Checkmate! readers are invited to learn chess with Garry Kasparov, the World number one and the most famous figure in chess history, as their… Read More
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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1
The battle for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles which have engaged the interest not only of chess enthusiasts but also of… Read More
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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 2
Garry Kasparov, who is universally acclaimed as the greatest chess player ever, subjects the play of his early predecessors to a rigorous analysis. This volume… Read More
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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 3
This magnificent compilation of play from the 1960s through to the 1970s forms the basis of the third part of Garry Kasparov’s long-awaited definitive history… Read More
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Garry Kasparov on Fischer: Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 4
This book brings together the two greatest names in the history of chess. The author, Garry Kasparov, is the world number one, and by common… Read More
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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 5
This book, the fifth in Garry Kasparov’s magnificent history of the World Chess Championship, catalogues the “post-Fischer” period in the 1970s and early 1980s. This… Read More
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Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part One: Revolution in the 70’s
Between 1972 and 1975 alone, progress in the field of opening theory was more significant than in the entire preceding decade! Under the influence of… Read More
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Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part Two: Kasparov vs Karpov 1975-1985 (v. 2)
The history of sport has seen many great gladiatorial clashes: Ali v Frazier in boxing, McEnroe v Borg in tennis, Prost v Senna in motor… Read More
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Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part Three: Kasparov v Karpov 1986-1987
Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov are unquestionably the protagonists who featured in the greatest ever chess rivalry. Between 1984 and 1990 they contested five long… Read More
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Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part 4: Kasparov v Karpov 1988-2009
Between 1984 and 1990 Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested five long matches for the World Championship. This fourth volume of the series ‘Garry Kasparov… Read More
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Deep Thinking
Garry Kasparov’s 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of… Read More
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Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
The ascension of Vladimir Putin–a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB–to the presidency of Russia in 1999 should have been a signal that the country… Read More
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The Man Without a Face
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THE BUTTERFLY DEFECT: How globalization creates systemic risks and what to do about it.
Global hyperconnectivity and increased system integration have led to vast benefits, including worldwide growth in incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also… Read More
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Race Against the Machine”
Why has median income stopped rising in the US? Why is the share of population that is working falling so rapidly? Why are our economy… Read More
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Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned… Read More
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When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010
In an age in which the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, the historian Tony Judt played a rare and valuable… Read More
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name… Read More
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The Red Notice
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous… Read More
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour… Read More
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Lasker’s Manual of Chess
One of the great chess masters shares his secrets in this guide for intermediate and advanced players. Lasker analyzes basic methods of gaining advantages, exchange value… Read More
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Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History’s Greatest Speakers
Author, historian, and world-renowned speaker James C. Humes—who wrote speeches for five American presidents—shows you how great leaders through the ages used simple yet incredibly… Read More
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World Crisis 1911 – 1918
As first lord of the admiralty and minister for war and air, Churchill stood resolute at the center of international affairs. In this classic account,… Read More
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Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides… Read More
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Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953
This legendary tournament features 210 hotly contested games, many of them masterpieces of the first rank. The first authoritative English translation from the Russian, this… Read More
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
“This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues — its narrative power, its… Read More
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