Author: Victor Mollo Publisher: Master Point Press ISBN: 9781897106952 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 172
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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.
Author: Victor Mollo Publisher: Master Point Press ISBN: 9781771400169 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 236
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The Hideous Hog, Rueful Rabbit, Oscar the Owl and the rest of the familiar denizens of the Menagerie are back in the very last collection of original and previously unpublished Menagerie stories. Victor Mollo's characters are as funny as ever, and the bridge hands, as always, fascinating.
Author: Daniel T. O'Neill Publisher: Westview Press ISBN: 9780813341972 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 254
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Chronicles the work of geologist Dave Hopkins, whose research solved the mystery of the existence of Beringia, the Bering Land Bridge.
Author: Michael Schoenborn Publisher: Master Point Press ISBN: 9781771400121 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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From hart house to the Bermuda Bowl, Most young bridge players spend their formative years experimenting with wild ideas, inventing new conventions and systems, playing in crazy contracts, and discovering the magic of card play. Michael Schoenborn was no exception. This book is an entertaining account of his formative years in the bridge clubs of Toronto, and how he finally fulfilled his dream of playing in the Bermuda Bowl. Along his journey from the university bridge club to the world championships, he meets a cast of characters worthy of Victor Mollo: the Owl, Big Bird, Eric the Half Bee, Colonel Bulldozer, Mrs. Four-Notrump, the Bambino, the Albatross, the Hummingbird, and many more. One thing separates them from Moilo's stories, however: these people were (and are) real, and their hilarious misadventures at the bridge table and away from it were real too. Great characters, great stories, great bridge hands - what more could you want? Book jacket.
Author: Danny Kleinman Publisher: Master Point Press ISBN: 9781894154925 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
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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.
Author: Jody Berland Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262553430 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 325
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The close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today's proliferation of animals in digital networks. From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces are crowded with animal bodies. In Virtual Menageries, Jody Berland examines the role of animals in the spread of global communications. Her richly illustrated study links the contemporary proliferation of animals on social media to the collection of exotic animals in the formative years of transcontinental exploration and expansion. By tracing previously unseen parallels across the history of exotic and digital menageries, Berland shows how and why animals came to bridge peoples, territories, and technologies in the expansion of colonial and capitalist cultures. Berland's genealogy of the virtual menagerie begins in 1414 when a ruler in Bengal sent a Kenyan giraffe to join a Chinese emperor's menagerie. It maps the beaver's role in the colonial conquest of Canada and examines the appearances of animals in early moving pictures. The menagerie is reinvented for the digital age when image and sound designers use parts or images of animals to ensure the affective promise and commercial spread of an emergent digital infrastructure. These animal images are emissaries that enliven and domesticate the ever-expanding field of mediation. Virtual Menageries offers a unique account of animals and animal images as mediators that encourage complicated emotional, economic, and aesthetic investment in changing practices of connection.
Author: S. J. Simon Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies ISBN: 9780939460755 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 0
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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.
Author: Audrey Grant Publisher: ISBN: 9780910791625 Category : Bridge whist Languages : en Pages : 0
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Bridge at a Glance - Expanded Version - now with a glossary and pages dedicated to Duplicate and Chicago scoring. This is a quick reference guide of the material in Audrey Grant's award-winning Bridge Basics series. These summaries work in conjunction with her books which provide the reasoning behind these guidelines. This 37-page booklet fits right inside your convention card holder for easy reference. -- Publisher website.
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