Bridge for Everyone

Author: D. W. Crisfield
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493069586
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Bridge is a famously challenging card game, one that’s next to impossible to learn without a whole host of visual aids. But books on the subject all too often seem to ignore this. Enter Bridge for Everyone, which takes a step-by-step, visual approach to explaining the game clearly to beginners and intermediates. With 400 full-color photos, it begins with the rules and the fundamentals of bidding, play, defense, and scoring. Not only does it give you what it takes to hold your ground no matter what your hand, it then takes the bidding up a notch by introducing more techniques—and strategies for winning.

Knack Chess for Everyone

Author: Al Lawrence
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762762713
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
Chess is a refreshing pastime for most players, and an all-encompassing obsession for a few. And yet much of chess literature—heavy on notation, low on useful illustrations, frustrating for the beginner—is directed at those already in the know. Knack Chess for Everyone provides an alternative: a clear, understandable, and fun entry into chess that doesn’t ignore the complexities and challenges. Photographs of actual game boards, often paired with a diagram, represent the perspective of the player looking at the pieces. The book clearly explains the rules of play and movement of pieces, and then gradually introduces various tactics and strategies.

Wordspinner

Author: Sterling Eisiminger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780822630104
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
A book of language quizzes that ventures into slang, dialect, jargon, graffiti.

The Fun Way to Serious Bridge

Author: Harry Lampert
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439147825
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
The Fun Way To Serious Bridge is for anyone who wants to learn and understand the fundamentals of the mind-stimulating and challenging game of bridge -- and enjoy every minute of it! Harry Lampert combines his skills as a bridge player and teacher with his artistic talents to bring you a totally new FUN way to learn the game. The magic of his superb cartoons and simple, informative language will help you to absorb the principles of serious contract bridge -- and remember them. You'll laugh and learn every step of the way from opening bids to strip and end plays. Whether novice or seasoned social player, this unique book will make good bridge a simple "trick." You'll learn all about: * Opening bids, suit bids, response and no trump bids, and how to force bids * Competition and the reasons and ways behind it * Big hand bidding such as Blackwood Convention, grand slam force and Gerber Convention * Patterns of play including how tricks are won, the finesse, establishing a long suit, when to pull and delay trumps and entries. * Defensive and advanced play -- plus much more!

25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know

Author: Barbara Seagram
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154079
Category : Contract bridge
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Explains twenty-five bidding conventions, including the grand slam force, lead-directing doubles, negative doubles, new minor forcing, responsive doubles, reverse Drury, splinter bids, Stayman, takeout doubles, and weak two-bids.

Weight Training for Women

Author: Leah Garcia
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1599218267
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description

Pleasures of Small Motions

Author: Ph. D. Fancher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493072714
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
A psychotherapist and pool columnist breaks new ground by applying good science to the mental game of billiards and gives invaluable insight on competitive play.

Bridge Across the Land

Author: Yvonne Wang
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466917938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381

Book Description
It is 1241 AD, and the Mongols have just invaded Europe, effecting a giant collision of cultures. Hungarian King Bela has already declared a state of emergency, Mongolian troops have killed nearly three hundred thousand people in Moscow, and now everyone fears the troops are headed for Poland. As King Boleslav and his son, Prince Alexander, anxiously await the Mongols' next move, they have no idea that a team of cavalry scouts has already made the decision to assassinate the Great Khan of Mongolia. Now all the scouts must do is capture the one person who can help them execute their plan. Tianyin has been assigned to find a girl with one blue eye and one brown eye, possessing a dagger carved with the Great Khan's name-and he must do so before the army seizes Krakow. Angela Cherreh, however, has grown up in Poland without any clue that she is the Mongolian princess they are seeking. And now she stands at the stake, preparing to be burned alive because everyone believes she is a witch. In this historical tale, an assassin and a princess discover that sometimes things do not turn out as expected, especially in an uncertain and dangerous world."

A Knack for Knowing Things

Author: Donald Harold Boxmeyer
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514651
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Stories from St. Paul Neighborhoods and Beyond

Black Recreation

Author: Jearold Winston Holland
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780830415762
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
While the black experience in America has been told in many ways, it has seldom, if ever, been substantially addressed from the play, recreation, and leisure perspective. That is the primary intent of Black Recreation: A Historical Perspective. Leisure and recreation activities are an important measure of quality of life--of happiness, wealth, and health. Historical interpretation, accurately presented, can help give individuals a better sense of identity--of who they are and how far they have come. Both minority and majority readers will benefit from broad-based analysis of the recreational activities and effects they had on American culture as a whole.