Author: Spiro N. Pollalis
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: bridge, seville, making, calatrava
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2002-09-09
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0262661349
ISBN-13: 9780262661348
Author in the News: On July 31, 2003, the architect Santiago Calatrava was chosen to design a new PATH railway terminal on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. Calatrava is internationally noted for his accomplishments in transportation architecture; The New York Times’s Herbert Muschamp writes that he has "taken this genre of design to the level of genius." Calatrava’s reputation is largely the result of several distinctive bridge projects, all of which exhibit both his singular design style and his engineering acumen. The Alamillo Bridge in Seville, Spain, is one
Author: Audrey Grant
Publisher: Baron Barclay Bridge
Keywords: bridge, series, official, introduction, basics
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2005-06-25
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0939460904
ISBN-13: 9780939460908
Starts at the beginning, introducing the mechanics of the games. It covers bidding, play and defense.
Author: Hugh Kelsey
Publisher: Cassell
Keywords: bridge, series, master, killing, defence
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0304357774
ISBN-13: 9780304357772
Killing Defence at Bridge is one of the all-time classics of the game. When it was first published, it revolutionized defense play; today, it continues to be as incisive and relevant as ever.
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: bridge, brooklyn, building, story, epic
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0743217373
ISBN-13: 9780743217378
First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. Winning acclaim for its comprehensive look at the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, this book helped cement David McCullough’s reputation as America’s preeminent social historian. Now, The Great Bridge is reissued as a Simon & Schuster Classic Edition with a new introduction by the author. This monumental book brings back for American readers the heroic vision of the America we once had. It is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nation&#
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: bridge, brooklyn, building, story, epic
Number of Pages: 562
Published: 1983-01-12
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 067145711X
ISBN-13: 9780671457112
This monumental book is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nation’s history, during the Age of Optimism -- a period when Americans were convinced in their hearts that all things were possible. In the years around 1870, when the project was first undertaken, the concept of building an unprecedented bridge to span the East River between the great cities of Manhattan and Brooklyn required a vision and determination comparable to that which went into the building of the great cathedrals. Throughout the fourteen years of its construction, the odds against the successf
Author: Andrew Ward
Publisher: Robson Books
Keywords: bridge, tales, history, true, extraordinary, strangest, hands
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2003-01
List price: $14.50
ISBN-10: 186105565X
ISBN-13: 9781861055651
This collection of oddities shows how Contract Bridge has played its part in embezzlement, murder, suicide, kidnapping, imprisonment and battle. The stories feature similar hands to those of bridge - the complete misfit, the two-way slam and men against women - while others, like ’Thirteen Spades’ and ’The Raspberry Jam Conundrum’, are closer to fantasy. Adaptations of the game, such as Nullo Bridge and Egdirb, are also included. Every hand in this book is a winner. Unless, of course, you were the player who was dealt thirteen hearts but bid diamonds by mistake.
Authors:Barbara Seagram, Marc Smith,
Publisher: Master Point Press
Keywords: bridge, point, press, master, bidding, ways, compete
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2000-10
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1894154223
ISBN-13: 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.
