I was able to play at a reasonable level as soon as I learned the moves of Makrook Thai. So I was contacted by the author David B. Pritchard who asked me to write a chapter for this book about Makrook Thai.

With more than 400 illustrations, and detailed maps, this immense and deeply researched account of the history of chess covers not only the modern international game, derived from Persian and Arab roots, but a broad spectrum of variants ...

Este libro reune por primera vez todos los escritos dispersos sobre Velázquez publicados por Enriqueta Harris en inglés y en español desde 1950: artículos en revistas especializadas, ensayos para catálogos de exposiciones sobre el ...

In this lavishly illustrated book, the first major survey of tapestry production of this period, contributors analyze some of these & beautiful tapestries, examine the stylistic and technical development of tapestry production in the Low ...

Was Bobby Fischer the Greatest Player Ever? The question often asked is: Was Bobby Fischer the Greatest Player Ever?

The book ends with the greatest mystery of the pyramid about the unknown tomb of the King and a dream to see the tomb at an unexpected place. In this book Egyptian Archeology and Mathematics meet.

For those with strong analytic skills, this book unleashes the usefulness of powerful predictive and prescriptive analytics in predicting and preventing modern crime in financial markets.

The three sections of the book present the methods, techniques, and approaches for recognizing, analyzing, and ultimately detecting and preventing financial frauds, especially complex and sophisticated crimes that characterize modern ...

This text, based on the author's teaching at École Polytechnique, introduces the reader to the world of mathematical modelling and numerical simulation.

This book presents, in a unified manner, a variety of topics in Continuum and Fracture Mechanics: energy methods, conservation laws, mathematical methods to solve two-dimensional and three-dimensional crack problems.