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Playing to Trick One

There Are No Mulligans in Bridge

By: James Marsh Sternberg MD

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Playing to Trick One

There Are No Mulligans in Bridge

By: James Marsh Sternberg MD

Bridge is a game of mistakes.The best players make fewer mistakes. It’s not a matter of being brilliant The real expert players never make basic mistakes,they keep the ball in the court, in the fairway. Sure there is an occasional hand where they make a brilliant play but that’s not what distinguishes the true expert from the good player. One often hears an expert say I’ve seen this hand before”. What does he mean? No,he hasn’t seen the hand record;he recognizes the hand type. After all, there are only a finite number of hand types in bridge. For example,second suit hands,cross-ruffs,ruffing in dummy,a simple finesse,an elimination,a dummy reversal and a couple of others. You can’t reinvent bridge every time a hand comes down. If you recognize the type,then you have some idea or plan of how to go about trying to make your contract. But one of the biggest mistakes non-expert players make is playing to trick one, then looking around and deciding what to do next. And in many cases,it’s already too late. The key to the hand was trick one. But sorry,no mulligans in bridge. So this book will present a series of hands,all as quizzes but of course you have a big clue from the title. Nevertheless,I hope you will find the hands and following discussions interesting enough to help you learn to do your thinking before not after you play that first card. Speed kills.

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1665503203

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Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks for Magicians

By: Stewart James

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Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks for Magicians

By: Stewart James

Legendary encyclopedia for magicians contains over 150 tricks: Loop the Loop, Jamison's Severed Rope, The Tarbell Rope Mystery, The Encore Rope Trick, Eddie Clever’s Triple Cut Routine, Bachelor's Needle and many more. Step-by-step instructions and over 500 illustrations show you how to master these dazzling feats.

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Courier Corporation

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0486156559

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9780486156552

The Despricption and Laws of the Game of Boston

By: James V. Ingham

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The Despricption and Laws of the Game of Boston

By: James V. Ingham

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385360862

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Colonial Games, Pastimes and Diversions

(For the Genteel and Commoner)

By: James Farnsworth

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Colonial Games, Pastimes and Diversions

(For the Genteel and Commoner)

By: James Farnsworth

Colonial Games, Pastimes and Diversions provides a unique look at Colonial American life as well as interesting background into some of today's most popular games. Why is the felt on pool tables green? What is the proper etiquette for dueling? How does one play cricket? What do you mean I know how to play Draughts?

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iUniverse

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059529510X

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9780595295104

Mind Magic and Mentalism For Dummies

By: James L. Clark

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Mind Magic and Mentalism For Dummies

By: James L. Clark

Learn how today's most successful masters of mental illusion achieve the amazing effects that have made them famous. Clark describes each trick from three perspectives: how the audience sees it; how it's done; and how to enhance the effect with good old-fashioned showmanship.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119953502

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9781119953500

Contact Juggling

By: James Ernest

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Contact Juggling

By: James Ernest

Contact Juggling is an unusual and beautiful juggling technique. It involves rolling one or more balls on the hands, arms, and body. It combines the visual grace of dance with the technical demands of juggling. It is a joy to watch and a satisfying challenge to perform. This is James Ernest's original instruction book on contact juggling, first released in 1990, and now in its third edition. It contains instructions for all the basic moves, including hand rolls, isolations, multi-ball palm spinning, and more. It also contains updated sections describing a wealth of new and unusual contact juggling tricks. Juggler's World Magazine called Contact Juggling "one of the best-designed juggling instruction books available." The text and illustrations are clear and thorough. Grab your copy today!

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Lulu.com

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1591000270

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9781591000273

The Forex Edge: Uncover the Secret Scams and Tricks to Profit in the World's Largest Financial Market

By: James Dicks

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The Forex Edge: Uncover the Secret Scams and Tricks to Profit in the World's Largest Financial Market

By: James Dicks

Generate greater profits while protecting your investments in the world’s largest market Much has changed since leading forex expert and educator James Dicks introduced retail investors to trading in the foreign exchange currency market. The market’s daily turnover has grown considerably, and more and more traders are achieving financial success by trading currencies—many thanks to Dicks’s advice. Now, in The Forex Edge, he warns you about the less-than-honest practices and elaborate schemes many brokers use to prevent prosperous traders from retaining their wealth. This cautionary book is the result of Dicks’s personal investigation into an assembly of forex brokers after a suspicious reversal of fortune forced him to close his trading account. It shows you how dishonest brokers pass themselves off as legitimate, the types of scams they run, and the ways you can use this information to your advantage. It outlines a straight-through process for taking more control over your trades to minimize your exposure to the risk of deceptive practices. With The Forex Edge at your fingertips, you’ll be armed with: Practical guidance for using popular automated trading systems Effective approaches to back-testing with recommended software platforms Expert tips for spotting false and misleading information in online forums Proven strategies for profiting from options, hedging, swing trading, and trends From how the forex works and how brokers make money to the most common ways traders lose money—this accessible guide gives you everything you need to ensure your trading strategy draws maximum profits from the biggest financial market in the world. It features the same practical formulas and strategies Dicks uses to beat even the trickiest brokers. In today’s forex market, you need more than a good trading strategy to survive. You need The Forex Edge.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071781196

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9780071781190

Chambers's English Dictionary

By: James Donald

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Chambers's English Dictionary

By: James Donald

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382193655

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9783382193652

The Failure

By: James Greer

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The Failure

By: James Greer

Guy Forget is a 20-something drifter with brains, good looks and absolutely no ambition except to get rich without having to work. His best friend, Billy, is a professional dog walker who ties dogs to the rear bumper of his car and drives very slowly. The Failure is a fairly straightforward story, but the manner of its recollection is anything but. It begins at the end and proceeds in similarly non-linear fashion to a conclusion that will surprise everyone.

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Akashic Books

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1933354976

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9781933354972

Active or Passive

A Guide to Being a Better Defender

By: James Marsh Sternberg MD

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Active or Passive

A Guide to Being a Better Defender

By: James Marsh Sternberg MD

Innumerable books have been written on declarer play. Far less attention has been paid by bridge writers to defense, which is the weakest part of most players’ game. This book presents a series of problems in defensive play, the central theme being active versus passive defense. This problem may start with the opening lead, arise at Trick Two, or be a decision later during the play of the hand. Going ‘active’ when one should have remained ‘passive’ and vice versa is probably the most common defensive error players make, allowing contracts to slip thru. Some of the deals shown are more difficult than others, but they all contain a principle that can be applied in similar situations. After working on these problems and answers, the reader will find his defensive skills are enormously improved.

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1665568224

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9781665568227

Topology of Digital Images

Visual Pattern Discovery in Proximity Spaces

By: James F. Peters

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Topology of Digital Images

Visual Pattern Discovery in Proximity Spaces

By: James F. Peters

This book carries forward recent work on visual patterns and structures in digital images and introduces a near set-based a topology of digital images. Visual patterns arise naturally in digital images viewed as sets of non-abstract points endowed with some form of proximity (nearness) relation. Proximity relations make it possible to construct uniform topologies on the sets of points that constitute a digital image. In keeping with an interest in gaining an understanding of digital images themselves as a rich source of patterns, this book introduces the basics of digital images from a computer vision perspective. In parallel with a computer vision perspective on digital images, this book also introduces the basics of proximity spaces. Not only the traditional view of spatial proximity relations but also the more recent descriptive proximity relations are considered. The beauty of the descriptive proximity approach is that it is possible to discover visual set patterns among sets that are non-overlapping and non-adjacent spatially. By combining the spatial proximity and descriptive proximity approaches, the search for salient visual patterns in digital images is enriched, deepened and broadened. A generous provision of Matlab and Mathematica scripts are used in this book to lay bare the fabric and essential features of digital images for those who are interested in finding visual patterns in images. The combination of computer vision techniques and topological methods lead to a deep understanding of images.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642538452

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Foundations of Computer Vision

Computational Geometry, Visual Image Structures and Object Shape Detection

By: James F. Peters

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Foundations of Computer Vision

Computational Geometry, Visual Image Structures and Object Shape Detection

By: James F. Peters

This book introduces the fundamentals of computer vision (CV), with a focus on extracting useful information from digital images and videos. Including a wealth of methods used in detecting and classifying image objects and their shapes, it is the first book to apply a trio of tools (computational geometry, topology and algorithms) in solving CV problems, shape tracking in image object recognition and detecting the repetition of shapes in single images and video frames. Computational geometry provides a visualization of topological structures such as neighborhoods of points embedded in images, while image topology supplies us with structures useful in the analysis and classification of image regions. Algorithms provide a practical, step-by-step means of viewing image structures. The implementations of CV methods in Matlab and Mathematica, classification of chapter problems with the symbols (easily solved) and (challenging) and its extensive glossary of key words, examples and connections with the fabric of CV make the book an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and first year graduate students in Engineering, Computer Science or Applied Mathematics. It offers insights into the design of CV experiments, inclusion of image processing methods in CV projects, as well as the reconstruction and interpretation of recorded natural scenes.

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3319524836

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9783319524832

Trump Promotion

The Uppercut

By: James Marsh Sternberg MD

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Trump Promotion

The Uppercut

By: James Marsh Sternberg MD

How do defender’s win trump tricks? Other than having high honors, natural winners, it’s by getting an early ruff of a short suit. Far more fulfilling and intriguing possibilities arise in poking away at declarer’s trump suit and plucking out an unexpected trick. Trump promotion has been described as the magic of creating trump tricks that didn’t exist at the beginning of the deal. The basis for this is simple. By putting declarer in a position where to win the trick he must ruff high, he promotes one of defender’s cards to a winner. At times this can be surprising and clever. Often when it seems you have no possibility of further defensive tricks, along comes a trump trick seemingly out of thin air. A trump promotion, often referred to as an uppercut, creates a trump trick in a defender’s hand where one doesn’t exist. A couple of actions to note involve giving a ruff/sluff where declarer has no losers to discard. But partner is also void and ruffs high enough to force the next hand, either dummy or declarer, to ruff with a relatively high trump. In this book, Jim takes you thru the various techniques of how defenders achieve trump promotion. There are many example deals followed by quiz deals to help you when you face these problems at the bridge tables.

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1665559519

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9781665559515

The Laws of Euchre

By: James Leeds, H.C. Dwight

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The Laws of Euchre

By: James Leeds, H.C. Dwight

Reproduction of the original: The Laws of Euchre by James Dwight, H.C. Leeds

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3752367652

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Ultimate Small Business Marketing Guide

1500 Great Marketing Tricks That Will Drive Your Business Through the Roof

By: James Stephenson

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Ultimate Small Business Marketing Guide

1500 Great Marketing Tricks That Will Drive Your Business Through the Roof

By: James Stephenson

The second edition of this comprehensive guide introduces new marketing, advertising, sales and public relations techniques to the 1,500 proven ideas from the first edition. It adds dozens of new high-tech strategies required to stay one step ahead in today’s highly competitive global marketplace. Off- and online resources have been updated and new ones—including blogs and new websites—have been added.

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Entrepreneur Press

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1613080433

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9781613080436

Investigator’s Manual

A Field Guidebook

By: James T. Born

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Investigator’s Manual

A Field Guidebook

By: James T. Born

The world of law and investigations are truly a wonderous marriage. The author felt that over fifty years ago, as he walked up the steps of the Los Angeles Police Academy, when he first entered into a career in law enforcement. Jim, as he prefers to be called, enjoyed this new world and endeavored to learn everything he could about it. During his career, Jim attended 88 investigative training programs and completed 38 law enforcement related correspondence courses. In his spare time, he managed to obtain his Associates in Arts Degree in Police Science and his Bachelors of Science Degree in Criminal Justice Administration. Today, he is a District Court Certified Forensic and Fingerprint Expert; and has held a California State Private Investigators License for over 40 years. Jim has taught Crime Scene Technology to law enforcement officers throughout the United States. In his giveback to those who want to enter into the field of law enforcement, or private investigation, he wrote his Manual. Come with him into this new world, and give back to your community through knowledge and practice of what you learn within the covers of this book. Mark 5:09 “Blessed are the peace-makers: for they shall be called the children of God.” KJV

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1546260838

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“Second Hand High, Third Hand Not so High”

No Rules, Just Right

By: James Marsh Sternberg MD,Danny Kleinman

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“Second Hand High, Third Hand Not so High”

No Rules, Just Right

By: James Marsh Sternberg MD,Danny Kleinman

“Second hand low” and “third hand high” are adages we learned in Bridge 101 along with others like “cover an honor with an honor” and “always return your partner’s suit.” These so-called rules will get you by, but they won’t see you very far. Second hand must become familiar with certain basic positions to try to foil declarer’s plans, often by playing second hand high. Likewise, many contracts are decided by the play of third hand at trick one. While your play may at first seem so obvious, a little thought may help you find the right card. Being a slave to either “second hand low” or “third hand high” can only lead you down the road to many disasters. Take time to review what you know from the bidding. Think about the hand type. Does it call for passive or aggressive defense? Hopefully after reading the examples in this book you will become more attuned to the variety of options available. The hands are placed in chapters by themes, but of course there is some overlap. We’re sure you will recognize situations from your own experiences at the table. We’re sure after reading this book you will be more attuned to becoming a thinking bridge player, and less a player just following old nursery rhymes.

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1665519886

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9781665519885

The Faith Trials

Volume 1

By: James Laurence

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The Faith Trials

Volume 1

By: James Laurence

A Slayer's life is simple. Want. Take. Have." Sometimes, it's gotta be a drag to be the Chosen One. Occasionally a girl would rather be at the mall, talking on the phone, or even doing homework than saving the world from unstoppable evil. Fortunately, Buffy Summers has always had a support system of friends and family to help her cope. But what if she hadn't? She might have been just like Faith. Faith, the "shadow-self" Slayer, is strong, sexy, and willful. When she first arrives in Sunnydale, Watcher-less and fancy-free, Buffy has doubts about the tag-team approach to patrol. As time goes on, though, she learns to find the fun in synchronized slayage, and appreciates Faith's zest for life...Until Faith's impulsive attitude toward her calling takes her one step too far, and her inability to cope with consequences eventually pushes her over the edge...

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