Pocket Guide to Acol Bridge

Pocket Guide to Acol Bridge
Author: Mark Horton
Publisher: Master Point Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781897106464

The original Pocket Guide to Bridge has sold more than 30,000 copies since it was published in 2002. Thousands of bridge players have found it an indispensable and handy guide to bidding, something that can be tucked into a handbag or jacket pocket and easily used as a reference at the bridge table during lessons and practice games. This new version of the book uses the same user-friendly approach and features to explain the most important bidding conventions for players who use the ACOL system -which means essentially everyone in the UK and the Commonwealth countries.

Beginning Bridge

Beginning Bridge
Author: Barbara Seagram
Publisher: Master Point Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2008-06
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781897106334

Written for complete beginners, this book is based on material that Barbara Seagram uses in her own classes to introduce hundreds of new players to the game every year. The book will take readers to the point where they can enjoy a social game with friends or begin to explore their local bridge club.

121 Tips for Better Bridge

121 Tips for Better Bridge
Author: Paul Mendelson
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-08-31
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1448116058

This is a book for the three million 'social' bridge players (in the UK alone) who know the rules and can play a reasonable hand, but want to refine their skills and improve their understanding of the game. The 121 bridge tips range from simple to more advanced and all offer solid advice on how best to deal with a variety of situations. Tips are clearly explained and are followed by an example hand and a reader's test. There is no simpler way to improve your bridge.

Acol Bridge Flipper

Acol Bridge Flipper
Author: Ron Klinger
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2004-02-01
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9780304366644

This unique fast fact finder enables players to rapidly check important points in bidding and play. Acol Bridge Flipper is aimed at the vast number of people who already play and who want to improve.

Basic Acol Bridge Flipper

Basic Acol Bridge Flipper
Author: Ron Klinger
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2001-11-01
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9780304362790

This guide contains all the essential information about Acol bidding and play for beginners.

Bridge

Bridge
Author: Barbara Seagram
Publisher: Master Point Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2000
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781894154222

A follow-up book from the author team that produced the award-winning and best-selling 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know. Aimed at the same novice/social player audience as their first book, this new title deals with competitive auctions in which the opponents have opened the bidding. This is the most complex area of bridge bidding, and has never up to now been dealt with comprehensively in a book that is understandable for non-experts.

Patrick Jourdain's Problem Corner

Patrick Jourdain's Problem Corner
Author: Patrick Jourdain
Publisher: Master Point Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2009-06
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781897106471

In 1985, Patrick Jourdain was commissioned by Britain's TV Channel 4 to provide bridge problems as part of its Teletext service. The problems caught the eye of the editor of BRIDGE Magazine, and eventually formed the basis for the popular 'Problem Corner' feature, which began in 1990 and still appears in the magazine every month. It is from these same problems that the contents of this book have been selected. A combination of real-life deals and constructed themes, they will provide a stimulating challenge to any solver. Patrick Jourdain (Wales), who is President of the International Bridge Press Association, is an international player and one of the UK's best-known writers on the game. This is his third book.

The Cloud Collector's Handbook

The Cloud Collector's Handbook
Author: Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2011-04-29
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1452105189

Keep your head in the clouds with this whimsical guide to the wonders of the sky from an award-winning science writer. In The Cloud Collector’s Handbook, cloud expert Gavin Pretor-Pinney catalogs a variety of clouds and gives readers points for spotting them and recording their finds. This fun and fact-filled book features gorgeous full-color photographs that showcase various types of clouds, from fluffy cumulus to the super rare horseshoe vortex to the wispy noctilucent clouds that hang at the fringes of space. Sure to be a hit with both aspiring and seasoned cloud gazers, this clever handbook comes from the bestselling author, BBC presenter, and founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society.