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.

Weight Training for Women

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

Book Description

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."

Knack Magic Tricks

Author: Richard Kaufman
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
ISBN: 9781599217796
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Presents step-by-step instructions on performing tricks, including card tricks, coin tricks, and cup tricks.

The Invisible Bridge

Author: Rick Perlstein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476782423
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 880

Book Description
The best-selling author of Nixonland presents a portrait of the United States during the turbulent political and economic upheavals of the 1970s, covering events ranging from the Arab oil embargo and the era of Patty Hearst to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the rise of Ronald Reagan--Publisher's description.

A Bridge to Simple Squeezes

Author: Julian Laderman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897106266
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 151

Book Description
Most bridge players find squeeze play the hardest technique to learn. It has unavoidable technical aspects that for many make it impenetrable. In this award-winning book, the reader is taken slowly and carefully through the basics, and by the end will be confident that they too can execute simple squeezes at the table. This second edition reflects many enhancements and improvements made to the original version, which was the 2006 American Bridge Teachers Association Book of the Year.

The Rainbow Bridge

Author: Adrian Raeside
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
ISBN: 9781550179422
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
A gently humorous story that is a valuable fable for pet lovers of all ages.

The Ruins of Gorlan

Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Bodley Head Childrens
ISBN: 9780370332147
Category : Children's stories, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 543

Book Description
Full of adventure, storytelling, magic, and deep characterization, this debut fantasy introduces the magic-practicing Rangers, protectors of the kingdom, and Will, a 15-year-old villager who has been chosen as a Ranger's apprentice.

Fall of Giants

Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101543558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1010

Book Description
Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .