The Crokinole Book

The Crokinole Book
Author: Wayne Kelly
Publisher: Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Board games
ISBN: 9780919783836

Crokinole the Illustrated Guide

Crokinole the Illustrated Guide
Author: Michel Cloutier
Publisher: Collectionscanada
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-02-07
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781775003335

Want to be part of the crokinole sensation sweeping the world? Looking for a no-nonsense get-to-the-point guide to the great game of crokinole? Then this hands-on guide with over 200 illustrations was written for you. Learn how to choose the right crokinole board for you and your family by understanding how the board is designed and what accessories you'll actually need. Understand the difference between both traditional and official tournament rules and learn how to keep score. Need to improve your shots? Perfect your technique by following the ten training sessions designed to cover most game scenarios. Want to impress your opponents? Raise your game to the next level by understanding how to apply the two most used angle rules to your shots. Learn to play with a purpose by selecting the best winning strategy for whatever the game throws your way. Discover how crokinole enthusiasts promote the game they love so much by organizing clubs and tournaments such as the National Crokinole Association Tour and the annual World Crokinole Championship. Benefit from the many decades of experience some of the top crokinole influencers and world champions have for you through a series of Q&A interviews.

The Cottage Book

The Cottage Book
Author: Frank B. Edwards
Publisher: Newburgh, Ont. : Hedgehog Productions
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1991
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9781895261035

The beautiful coffee-table book of how-to information about cottage life and maintenance--first published to rave reviews in 1992--returns with a new cover and an illustrated guide to the weather of cottage country by illustrator John Bianchi. Full-color photos.

The Tweedles Go Online

The Tweedles Go Online
Author: Monica Kulling
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554983541

The Tweedles are back and ready to take another exuberant swing at going modern. When their neighbors the Hamms announce that they’ve “gone online” by buying a telephone, Mama excitedly follows suit. But will the lure of the telephone be too much of a distraction for this sweetly old-fashioned family? Fresh from their adventure with their new electric car, Mama decides that the family needs a telephone to keep up with the changing times, and daughter Frances could not be more thrilled. But not all the Tweedles are convinced. Son Francis only has eyes for the family’s car, and Papa worries about the family’s privacy. Once the phone is installed in the family’s home, they can hardly believe the noise it makes! But Frances takes a shine to the telephone immediately, and her enthusiasm for the new device threatens to keep the whole family up at night. Eventually Mama and Francis warm up to the telephone, too, and soon they can’t sit still long enough to play a family game of Crokinole. Will the Tweedles ever be able to go offline again? This clever companion to The Tweedles Go Electric gently pokes fun at our modern addiction to technology, while further endearing readers to the sweetly odd Tweedles family.

Tortured Cardboard

Tortured Cardboard
Author: Philip E. Orbanes
Publisher: Permuted Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2019-07-23
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1682618544

The term “tortured cardboard” sums up what happens to cardboard when making a board game (bound, cut, folded, punched). And, as you’ll learn, great board games often reflect whatever “tortures” culture. Each gained immortality after a chaotic beginning and a chance survival. Why? Because—be it chess, backgammon, Clue®, Monopoly®, Scrabble®, Settlers of Catan®, or one of ten others featured in this book—each is replete with “lessons” applicable to achievement in your life. As the twenty-first century gathers momentum, our love affair with board games continues to strengthen. They involve us, they refine social skills, and they teach great lessons applicable in real life. “Tortuous” is the journey of every great board game, from birth in chaotic times, through survival by mere chance, to raging popularity and eventual immortality. Tortured Cardboard reveals how the great ones came to endure and—all fun aside—how each teaches us something about our own behavior while providing “rules” that can work in your life.

The End of Power

The End of Power
Author: Moises Naim
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0465065686

The provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century -- in government, business, and beyond. br> Power is shifting -- from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose. In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor MoiséNaíilluminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. Drawing on provocative, original research and a lifetime of experience in global affairs, Naíexplains how the end of power is reconfiguring our world. "The End of Power will . . . change the way you look at the world." -- Bill Clinton "Extraordinary." -- George Soros "Compelling and original." -- Arianna Huffington "A fascinating new perspective . . . Naímakes eye-opening connections." -- Francis Fukuyama

Friend of My Youth

Friend of My Youth
Author: Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2012-04-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307814599

A “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”—Chicago Tribune A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband’s past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.