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50 Mistakes You Should Know Valuable Lessons for Every Chess Player


Free Download Jesus De La Villa, "50 Mistakes You Should Know: Valuable Lessons for Every Chess Player"
English | ISBN: 908340644X | 2024 | 304 pages | PDF | 17 MB
It is not the quality of your best moves that wins you games; it is the quality of your worst moves. The quickest way to improve your chess skills is to raise the bar.The Spanish grandmaster and coach Jesus de la Villa has proven with his best-seller 100 Endgames You Must Know that he understands exactly what a chess student needs. Building on his experience as a writer and as a coach for juniors, he has carefully selected the 50 Mistakes every player should be aware of – so the mistake can be avoided. De la Villa loves this quote from the American First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt: ‘Learn from the errors of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.’ For over a decade, De la Villa has closely observed the Spanish junior championships, noting the recurring errors that players make. He has taken notes, classified these errors, and created training tasks based on them. From this wealth of chess exercises, he has selected the most impactful and has added recommendations how to correct the error.Your performance will improve dramatically because this book offers you:*50 important chess lessons*detailed and lively explanations*clear summaries and recommendations*dozens of tests.

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What Every Librarian Should Know about Electronic Privacy


Free Download Jeannette Woodward, "What Every Librarian Should Know about Electronic Privacy"
English | 2007 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 1591584892 | PDF | 0,9 mb
Library computer users are often novices and may not be aware that even seemingly innocuous information supplied to Web sites can be mined by government agencies, unscrupulous businesses, and criminals. Even the donated computers that libraries accept and pass on to otherwcan reveal confidential information like social security numbers. The recent discovery that online service providers have been supplying vast quantities of data to government agencies without the public’s knowledge dramatically brought this threat to light. This book will help you, as a librarian, understand the threats and pitfalls of electronic privacy and develop a solid plan to protect the privacy of your patrons.

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What My Bones Know A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma [Audiobook]


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English | February 22, 2022 | ASIN: B0977R5NZ4 | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 2m | 547 MB
Author and Narrator: Stephanie Foo
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life
By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD-a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.

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Understanding Addiction Know Science, No Stigma [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0D5ZNMR9N | 2024 | 2 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 227 MB
Author: Dr. Chuck (Charles) Smith, Dr. Jason Hunt
Narrator: Scott R. Pollak

In Understanding Addiction: Know Science, No Stigma, doctors Chuck Smith and Jason Hunt bring a unique and important perspective to the subject of addiction. Experts in the field, Smith and Hunt have personal, firsthand experience with the humiliation and shame that accompanies substance use disorder. But addiction, as they point out, is a disease, no less so than diabetes or heart disease, and it needs to be treated as such. If you, or a loved one, is struggling with addiction, you’ll find help in Smith and Hunt’s book. When one understands the science behind addiction, one can begin to move forward. Beyond the stigma lies hope.

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The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier


Free Download The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier by Cy Wakeman, Kim McKean, Recorded Books
English | July 09, 2020 | ISBN: B08BZXR2NB | 5 hours and 45 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 315 Mb
The key to understanding how your manager calculates your real value – and how to boost it
More than anything else, you need to understand exactly how your employer evaluates you, and your annual performance review doesn’t tell the whole story. In The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace, Cy Wakeman shows how to calculate how your true value to your organization by understanding your current and future potential against your "emotional expense" – the toll your actions and attitudes take on the people around you. With Cy’s clear, straight-to-the-point advice, you can confront and reduce your emotional costliness, become an invaluable member of your team, and even learn to love your job again.
Reveals a formula for measuring your current performance, future potential, and the biggest detractor, your emotional expense

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Supertrends 50 Things You Need to Know About the Future


Free Download Supertrends: 50 Things You Need to Know About the Future by Lars Tvede, Steve Menasche, Gildan Media
English | February 13, 2020 | ISBN: B083ZLNTVX | 11 hours and 20 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 623 Mb
Supertrends: 50 Things You Need to Know About the Future is about how efficient futurists work and how we can expect the world to evolve in terms of demographics, general economics, technologies, business models, resources, environment, and lifestyles.
This audiobook addresses how to predict the future, what we can expect from it, and how companies and government should adapt to the accelerating change, and will also
Explain the core principles of efficient forecasting

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Know What You’re For A Growth Strategy for Work, an Even Better Strategy for Life [Audiobook]


Free Download Know What You’re For: A Growth Strategy for Work, an Even Better Strategy for Life (Audiobook)
English | October 01, 2019 | ASIN: B07PXKRH3F | M4B@128 kbps | 5h 45m | 325 MB
Author and Narrator: Jeff Henderson
Your organization – business, church, or nonprofit – will experience unprecedented growth when you close the gap between these two game-changing questions: What are we known for? What do we want to be known for?
In Know What You’re For, entrepreneur and thought leader Jeff Henderson makes it clear that if we want to change the world with our products or our mission, then we must shift the focus of our messaging and marketing. Rather than self-promoting, we must transform our organizations to be people-centric. This sounds like a no-brainer, but looking closer, shows just how little this is true and how impactful the change would be if it were. Whether you’re a business leader, a change advocate, or a movement maker, Know What You’re For will help you – and your organization – thrive.

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Getting to Know Death A Meditation [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0D5RHP4TD | 2024 | 3 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 204 MB
Author: Gail Godwin
Narrator: Rosemary Benson

From New York Times-bestselling, three-time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin, a consideration of what makes for a life well lived-for listeners of Oliver Sacks’s Gratitude and Deborah Levy’s Cost of Living. I can’t see a way out of this. Things will not necessarily get better. This is my life, but I may not get to do what I want in it. Ingmar Bergman once said that an artist should always have one work between himself and death. When renowned author Gail Godwin tripped and broke her neck while watering the dogwood tree in her garden at age eighty-five, a lifetime of writing and publishing behind her and a half-finished novel in tow, Bergman’s idea quickly unfurled in front of her, forcing her to confront a creative life interrupted.

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Do I Know You A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination [Audiobook]


Free Download Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKNMC3MG | 2024 | 7 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 418 MB
Author: Sadie Dingfelder
Narrator: Sadie Dingfelder

An award-winning science writer discovers she’s faceblind and investigates the neuroscience of sight, memory, and imagination-while solving some long-running mysteries about her own life. Science writer Sadie Dingfelder has always known that she’s a little quirky. But while she’s made some strange mistakes over the years, it’s not until she accosts a stranger in a grocery store (whom she thinks is her husband) that she realizes something is amiss. With a mixture of curiosity and dread, Dingfelder starts contacting neuroscientists and lands herself in scores of studies.

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