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FORGETTING by SHENK, DAVID (Paperback - 2003) ISBN: 9780006532088 Subject: FICTION Publisher: FLAMINGO |
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FORGETTING by SHENK, DAVID (Paperback - 2003) ISBN: 9780385498388 Subject: FICTION Publisher: ANCHOR BOOKS |
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GENIUS IN ALL OF US: NEW INSIGHTS INTO GENETICS, TALENT, AND IQ by SHENK, DAVID (Paperback - 2011) ISBN: 9780307387301 Subject: SOCIETY, POLITICS & PHILOSOPHY Publisher: ANCHOR BOOKS |
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GENIUS IN ALL OF US: WHY EVERYTHING YOU'VE BEEN TOLD ABOUT GENETICS, TALENT AND INTELLIGENCE IS WRONG by SHENK, DAVID (Paperback - 2011) ISBN: 9781848312180 Subject: SCIENCE & NATURE Publisher: ICON BOOKS |
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IMMORTAL GAME: A HISTORY OF CHESS by SHENK, DAVID (Paperback - 2007) ISBN: 9781400034086 Subject: HISTORY (NON-ASIAN) Publisher: ANCHOR BOOKS US Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society, influencing military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and literature and the arts. In his fascinating examination of chess, Shenk unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the aesthetic of modernism in twentieth-century art, to its twenty-first-century importance in the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. |
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IMMORTAL GAME: A HISTORY OF CHESS OR HOW 32 CARVED PIECES ON A BOARD ILLUMINATED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WAR, ART, SCIENCE AND THE HUMAN BRAIN by SHENK, DAVID (Hardcover - 2006) ISBN: 9780385662260 Subject: SPORTS, HOBBIES & GAMES Publisher: BOND STREET BOOKS CANADA Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society, influencing military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and literature and the arts. In his fascinating examination of chess, Shenk unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the aesthetic of modernism in twentieth-century art, to its twenty-first-century importance in the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. |
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IMMORTAL GAME: A HISTORY OF CHESS, OR HOW 32 PIECES ON A BOARD ILLUMINATED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WAR, ART, SCIENCE AND THE HUMAN BRAIN by SHENK, DAVID (Hardcover - 2006) ISBN: 9780385510103 Subject: SPORTS, HOBBIES & GAMES Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society, influencing military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and literature and the arts. In his fascinating examination of chess, Shenk unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the aesthetic of modernism in twentieth-century art, to its twenty-first-century importance in the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. |
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