A basic introduction to the game of Chinese chess. Starts with the rules and basic principles and continues through to an advanced level, with examples from grandmaster play. Includes sections on the history of Chinese chess and where to find opponents. 192 pages.

The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson had 187 slaves. We know that because he kept meticulous hand-written records, which we still have. On January 14, 1774, after he inherited slaves from first his mother and then his father-in-law, Thomas Jefferson wrote his inventory of 187 slaves. In his last inventory, taken 50 years later in 1824, Thomas Jefferson also had 187 slaves. Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826 at the age of 83.

In October, 1802, while he was president, the story was published in the newspapers that Thomas Jefferson, whose wife had died in 1782 and who had never remarried, was keeping his wife's slave half-sister, Sally Hemings, as a concubine and was producing children from her. Jefferson never denied the story, but he never admitted it either. Sally Hemings was at his bedside when he died.

What do the retired Chairman of the Board of DuPont Chemical Corporation, the first black assemblyman in the history of the State of California, one of the co-founders of the NAACP, the first black tenured faculty member of any college in America, the first black woman ever to graduate from Vassar College, and a judge appointed by President George Bush, all have in common?

They are all direct descendants of the slave children of Thomas Jefferson.

Many people have heard the story that President Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and one of the founding fathers of the United States of America, produced children from his slaves.

Is this story really true, and what happened to the children? Is former Governor Douglas Wilder of Virginia one of those descendants? How about President William Jefferson Clinton? These questions and many others are addressed in The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson

Anyone who regularly reads the financial section of any American newspaper has come across the term "Corporate Raid." This term evokes the vision of a commando operation, with paratroopers jumping in and attacking an unsuspecting target.

It can, in reality, be a bit like that.

This is a "How to do It" book. It is intended to teach something which few people know anything about, which is how to conduct a corporate raid. There are almost no books on the subject, not even in the major law libraries in America. Anyone who has this knowledge finds it too valuable to write about and to reveal it to others.

The book begins with four chapters on the fundamental basics of the stock market and builds up to incredibly complex securities transactions. The author has 18 years experience in the Wall Street Financial District.

Here is a review of the book, "How to Take Over an American Public Company", which was published in the Japan Times in Tokyo Book Review .

Khowar is spoken by approximately 250,000 native speakers in Chitral, which is in the far North West corner of Pakistan. It is also spoken in parts of Gilgit, including Gupis, Ghizar and Yasin. Khowar is classed as an Indo-European language of the Dardic Group. Apart from being an Indo-European language, Khowar is vastly different from any other major language in the area.

Khowar is believed to be an old language. It is believed that the modern day Chitralis are the descendants of some of the earliest Indo-European invaders of the Indian Sub-Continent. Nearly 4,000 years ago, the present day Chitralis took a wrong left turn at Jalalabad, went up the Kunar River and got stuck in the high isolated mountain valley of Chitral.

Khowar has 42 phonemes. Several of these are not found in any other language of the region. The letters /t/, /th/, /d/, /l/, /sh/, /ch/, /chh/, and /j/ all have two different forms, one retroflexed and the other dential-veolar non-retroflexed. Every Chitrali who learned the language on his mother's knee can readily distinguish these forms, whereas others can never learn them, regardless of how long they have lived in Chitral.

Khowar does not have a written form in common use. Several attempts have been made to introduce a Urdu or Roman based writing script into Khowar, but these have never gained widespread acceptance. As a result, the author developed his own Roman based writing system for the purpose of publishing this first ever dictionary of nearly 5,000 Khowar words.

A very obscure Polish mathematician has established, through numerological formulas, the absolute positive proof that the world is going to end in the year 1998.

Read this book to find out about this before it is too late. (Not that it will do you any good.)

More than 200 mathematical formulas with unique solutions. The largest such collection ever published. Can you solve the equation EVIL x SEX = SHELBY ?? There is only one unique solution. Without a computer, it could take you a year to solve it.