Bridge in the Menagerie

Author: Victor Mollo
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781897106952
Category : Contract bridge
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
Victor Mollo's Bridge in the Menagerie is on any list of the all-time top ten books on the game. The stories it contains, originally published in the 1960s in Bridge Magazine and The Bridge World, found a worldwide audience in book form. Everyone can relate to the characters (the Hideous Hog, the Rueful Rabbit, Oscar the Owl, and the rest), the bridge hands are brilliant, and the stories themselves hilarious.

Winning Bridge in the Menagerie

Author: Victor Mollo
Publisher: Batsford Books
ISBN: 1849942102
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
This classic card-play book by Victor Mollo is given a new dimension by the use of the Menagerie characters. Sophia the Siren has become the bridge tutor to some rich and ambitious ladies. To give them the best education money can buy she enlists the help of the Griffins. Who better to teach them safety plays than Karapet, the unluckiest man since Job? And who could show them how to win the post mortem better than Molly the Mule? From the Hideous Hog, they learn how sheer genius can triumph over adversity, and from the Rueful Rabbit, how sheer luck can triumph over genius.

Victor Mollo's Bridge Club

Author: Victor Mollo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143914608X
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Renowned bridge expert Victor Mollo has another card up his sleeve! Advance technique and simple bridge psychology, closely linked, are the salient features of the many brilliant plays described in Victor Mollo's Bridge Club.

Bridge in the Menagerie

Author: Victor Mollo
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571114399
Category : Contract bridge
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description

The Principle of Restricted Talent

Author: Danny Kleinman
Publisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9781894154925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
An anthology of humorous stories featuring Chthonic, the bridge-playing robot. The stories draw unmercifully funny portraits of human bridge players, as Chthonic's bridge brilliance and abrasive and ill-concealed contempt for his human creators leave them all in his wake. A particular target is the pompous Director of the Cybernetics Research Institute, whose opinion of his own bridge expertise differs greatly from that of his protigi. Some of these stories have appeared in The Bridge World magazine, where the characters are established as firm reader favorites. Danny Kleinman of Los Angeles is a prolific bridge writer, theorist, professional player, and teacher, who is a regular contributor to several bridge magazines. He is a Contributing Editor of The Bridge World, and is one of the moderators of 'The Master Solvers' Club' in that magazine. He also writes about backgammon, another game which he plays at an expert level. Nick Straguzzi of Mullica Hill, NJ, is a software analyst specializing in artificial intelligence and knowledge management. Nick has researched ways in which computer game theory could be applied to bridge, but concluded that it would be far easier to write about a perfect bridge-playing computer than to actually build one.

Why You Lose at Bridge

Author: S. J. Simon
Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies
ISBN: 9780939460755
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Reprint of the classic. Win more consistently with the skill you already possess by following this simple advice. A wealth of common sense, philosophy, and how to attain the best result possible.

The Last Giant of Beringia

Author: Daniel T. O'Neill
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN: 9780813341972
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
Chronicles the work of geologist Dave Hopkins, whose research solved the mystery of the existence of Beringia, the Bering Land Bridge.

Right Through the Pack

Author: Robert Darvas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Contract bridge
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description

Bridge to the Wild

Author: Caitlin O'Connell
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544829352
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
Hear crisp sounds of the hornbill in the cool air. Listen to the morning symphony that greets you as you enter the front gate. Then, step onto a leafy path that leads to a secret world of animals, each of whom you won’t want to forget, here at Zoo Atlanta. Over five days we meet a menagerie of magnificent animals—pandas, elephants, gorillas, meerkats, flamingos and more—alongside the longtime animal lover, scientist, and researcher Caitlin O’Connell. With inside access to the guidance and knowledge of their beloved zoo caretakers and with stunning photographs, we are able to see the day-to-day marvels—and sometimes misfortunes—behind the animals’ enclosures that often go unseen by the everyday zoo visitor. In this example of narrative nonfiction at its best, O’Connell has created a bridge to wild, a rare chance to look beyond the zoo and to inspire guests to see for themselves just how special the animals we share our world with are.

Jamrach's Menagerie

Author: Carol Birch
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857860410
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
Jaffy Brown is running along a street in London’s East End when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach – explorer, entrepreneur and collector of the world’s strangest creatures – the two strike up a friendship. Before he knows it, Jaffy finds himself on board a ship bound for the Dutch East Indies, on an unusual commission for Mr Jamrach. His journey – if he survives it – will push faith, love and friendship to their utmost limits.