| Description |
1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface and style notes -- 1. Creation -- A remarkable thing -- Family matters -- 2. Hell and heaven -- The happiest days -- Deported -- Away, from school and home -- 3. End of a world -- The home front -- Private's progress -- 4. Service -- Training days -- On the march -- For you, Tommy... -- 5. The most important moment -- Going to Oxford -- Talk to her -- 6. Oxford to London, via Scotland -- To Scotland -- What can Peter do? -- 7. Curiosity pays -- Falling into place -- Instant impact |
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8. Life and chess -- Life support -- Chess men -- 9. Clearing the fog -- Trees and lists -- Threads -- 10. As easy as 2-4-6 -- Second strand -- Dissent -- 11. Hits of the sixties -- Cards on the table -- Making moves -- 12. Moving on -- Team work -- Moves and losses -- 13. Fruits of the field -- Momentum -- On reflection -- Advancing characters -- 14. Working with the problem -- A sense of reality -- Matching ties -- 15. Two minds -- Setting out -- Two processes -- 16. Reading and writing -- Read the obscure -- Thinking and writing -- 17. New problems -- Thinking and reading |
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What is this thing called Thog? -- 18. Turning tides -- The times -- Let down -- Carry on -- 19. The final chapter -- Second time around -- Coming of age -- A Festsprache? -- Blowing in the wind -- A wish -- His last bow -- Afterword -- Appendix 1. Wason's family tree: paternal line -- Appendix 2. Wason's family tree: maternal line -- Appendix 3. Wason's publications: chronological list -- Notes and sources -- Subject Index -- Name Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000287592 |
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1000287599 |
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