English painter and lithographer J. D. Harding wrote several popular books on art instruction — here is one of his finest. A comprehensive Victorian manual on the philosophy and principles of art, thi
"Portrays nineteenth-century British chess life through biographical studies of ten players who shaped the modern game. From Captain Evans, inventor of the famous gambit, to Isidor Gunsberg, England's
Exploring a bygone aspect of intellectual sport, this book details the history of British and Irish correspondence chess from the first formal match between Edinburgh and London in 1824 well into the
John Ruskin's drawing master and sketching companion, Harding was one of 19th-century England's most respected watercolorists, art critics, and teachers. Through 127 distinct lessons, he trains both t
The author reveals how to win games with Black by proposing the method of calculated aggression, covering such topics as dynamic counterplay, counter-gambits in open games, Black sacrifices in the hal
Updated chess classic shows how to learn from losses by recognizing the warning signals and by analyzing what went wrong in losing games. Revised chapters focus on shift from correspondence chess to p
"In this book the author explains that managers must build human capital and engender employee engagement by managing them almost not at all, by attending instead to the factors and circumstances that
