Hobbies, quizzes and games

Continuing the amusing, interesting, factual, and sometimes ridiculous bits of information in A Treasury of Texas Trivia, this second volume brings you all-new entertaining tidbits-some of them useful historical facts and some just for fun.

Here in a single, compact handbook are all the rules for the myriad forms of pocket billiards.

The book that has intoxicated a generationand has sold over 500,000 copiesis back!

If you're looking for fast-paced excitement, just follow the cheers and jeers of players winning or losing together.

The American Darts Organization Book of Darts has been thoroughly updated and revised for the benefit of the growing ranks of dart players.

Readers will learn secret strategies for maximizing their winning potential; which slot machine strategies are myths and which are facts; and which machines pay back the most money and most frequently.

For Texans and non-Texans alike, Mythic Texas is a fascinating journey into a culture that is like no other in the world.

Ever wonder why and how cats purr?

Here in an entertaining illustrated format are hundreds of little-known facts about the always-fascinating Civil War.

You Watch Too Much TV is a Book of Lists for the television generation, offering fun facts and quizzes on Leave It To Beaver, Everybody Loves Raymond, and just about every show in between.

A psychotherapist and pool columnist breaks new ground by applying good science to the mental game of billiards and gives invaluable insight on competitive play.

Alle freuen sich auf Weihnachten!

The Game is Afoot!

Gemeinsam mit dem Meister der Detektive spannende und knifflige Rätsel lösen.

A Must-Have for Gone With the Wind Fans!

Celebrate the winners of this competition for Weirdest, Wildest, and Most Hilarious Trivia of the Year .

One of Uncle John's all-time bestselling editions, Supremely Satisfying is everything a Bathroom Reader should be: informative, funny, surprising, thought-provoking, weird, and a little bit gross.

Discover strange gadgets you never knew existed in this volume from the nation's top collector of curious and interesting information!

Liberal, conservative, independent, or just plain nuts--no one in the public sector gets a free pass in this funny and informative look at the world of politics.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Beantown.

Hereis the ultimate golf reference book, meant to feed golfers' insatiable hunger for the statistics and trivia of their game.

A fun craft and lore book whose main focus is a step-by-step guide to how to build a fairy house, what tools and materials to use, and many ideas on different details you can add to your fairy house.

Uncle John ropes, wrassles, and rides into the Lone Star State in this updated, king-sized grab-bag of all things Texas.

Alling – Die Gemeinde im Fokus: Ein umfangreiches eBook voller Wissen und EntdeckungenWillkommen in der informativen Welt von Alling!

More than 150 new fun facts to delight, befuddle and amaze, from the bestselling author of Why Do Roller Coasters Make You Puke?

An entertaining, page-turning overview of Italian-American history and cultureFrom ancient Rome to modern America, we Italians have always been the friggin' best in art, science, culture and Madonn' food!

The bestselling author of Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red share more than 150 baffling, bizarre, and enlightening facts in the fun trivia collection.

A fun and fascinating trivia book with a wide range of intriguing questions and entertainingly written answers from a bestselling author.

This collection of trivia for true crime fanatics covers mind-blowing details you never knew about Jeffrey Dahmer, BTK, Aileen Wuornos, and others.

Written by Barry Hymer and Peter Wells, Chess Improvement: It's all in the mindset is an engaging and instructive guide that sets out how the application of growth mindset principles can accelerate chess improvement.

Have you ever wondered who invented the 4-4-2 formation?

Who says that you can't learn from the games of amateurs?

Back to the future!

'I'm bored' must be the most frightening words in a child's vocabulary, and how to keep kids entertained is something that keeps many of us awake at night.

In diesem umfassenden eBook erhalten Sie einen tiefen Einblick in das Leben und Wirken von Boris Pistorius, einem der bekanntesten Politiker der deutschen Sozialdemokratie.

Alexey Bezgodov presents an unusual idea for White against the ever popular Caro-Kann Defence.

Experienced grandmaster Sergey Kasparov presents a surprising way to combat The Sicilian Defence, Black's most popular choice against 1.

What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Anderssons Positional MasterpiecesOne of the most effective ways to improve your chess is to take a world class-player as your example.

Most chess opening books are either too detailed or too shallow.

Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what?

After you have learned the rules of chess and developed some tactical abilities, how do you go from there?

Grandmaster Larry Kaufman presents a very effective way for White to disrupt the plans and demolish the position of players on the black side of the popular Grunfeld Defence.

On March 24, 2005, a small plane with Bobby Fischer on board landed at Reykjavik Airport.

No matter how unconventional, irrational or even crazy an opening is, sooner or later every chess player will have to face it.

The book contains a total of 501 facts which make the reader wonder about our strange but truly fascinating world.

Aron Nimzowitsch (1886 1935) was the most influential chess thinker of the 20th century.

Opening preparation is useful, but understanding the middlegame is much more important.

The Sicilian Defence is Black's most popular reply to 1.

In 1972 Bobby Fischer famously beat Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in Reykjavik to win the world title.

Everything you always wanted to know about world chess champion Bobby Fischer, complete with easily accessible examples of his chess playing style, in one compact and very readable volume.