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"Grandmaster Repertoire" is a new series of high quality chess books based on the main lines, written by strong grandmasters. The aim is to provide the reader with a complete repertoire at a level good enough for elite tournaments, and certainly also for the club championship. "Grandmaster Repertoire" provides a repertoire to last a lifetime. Top GM Boris Avrukh charts a course towards an advantage with 1.d4. Avrukh is used to facing the best players in the world. In this book he presents an improved version of the repertoire that elevated him to the top 50, focusing on main lines with a king side fianchetto. "1.d4 Volume One" covers the openings after 1.d4 d5 2.c4, particularly the Catalan, Queen's Gambit Accepted, Semi-Slav, Slav, and other Queen's Gambit lines.

Everyone knows the pit stops from Formula 1 races: choreographed and rehearsed to perfection - each team member is a cog in an unbelievably complex machine. But let’s put things into perspective: pit stops during races are one thing, but they can’t hold a wrench up to the mega pit stops this show’s got for you – the biggest vehicles on earth: planes, trains and ships. The series shows what happens, when an Airbus A380 gets taken apart and stripped of its colors within a crazy short time frame. Mega Pit Stops documents how stressful the fight against the clock is when a cruise ship descends to the pit stop or one of the fastest trains in the world has to be completely overhauled in just ten days.

A practical and user-friendly application that provides the required tools to manage and organize your own library using your Mac. Delicious Library is a straightforward media cataloging application that enables you to manage and keep track of your physical collection of movies, games, books, CDs, DVDs and more.