Years of experience as a magician taught Tim David that real magic is all about words, and the way they influence the minds of the audience. What sets a professional magician apart from an amateur are people skills like communication, influence, and engagement—skills that are also effective in the workplace. By applying seven “magic” words in a business setting, David offers tools for effective and persuasive communication.You will learn:The secret word that Harvard psycholo...

Years of experience as a magician taught Tim David that real magic is all about words, and the way they influence the minds of the audience. What sets a professional magician apart from an amateur are people skills like communication, influence, and engagement—skills that are also effective in the workplace. By applying seven “magic” words in a business setting, David offers tools for effective and persuasive communication.You will learn:The secret wo...

Semiconductor heterostructures represent the backbone for an increasing variety of electronic and photonic devices, for applications including information storage, communication and material treatment, to name but a few. Novel structural and material concepts are needed in order to further push the performance limits of present devices and to open up new application areas.This thesis demonstrates how key performance characteristics of three completely different types of semiconducto...

Test your squeeze play! This book is designed to accompany Squeezes Made Simple in the Bridge Technique series. It will give you the opportunity to test your declarer play on hands that involve a specific technique - here, the simple squeeze.The term "simple" squeeze merely means that only one opponent is squeezed on the play. It does not imply that the play will necessarily be easy to perform! While we start out gently, it is only fair to tell you that by the end of this book you will be ...

Test your defensive play! This book is designed to accompany Planning in Defense, Book 11 in the Bridge Technique series.Why should you want to polish your defensive technique? There are two very good reasons. The first is that it is the hardest aspect of the game. Even expert defenders have to work on every deal. The more practice you have, the better you will get. The second reason is that in every bridge session you play, you will be a defender roughly twice as often as you will be decl...

Test your declarer play! This book, which concentrates on endplays and trump coups, is one of several collections of problems designed to accompany the Bridge Technique series.Why should you want to polish your endgame technique? There are two very good reasons. The first is that many of these plays are relatively easy to perform. Often you will not even need to keep track of which cards have been played! The second reason is that the opportunities to use these techniques, or to defend aga...

Test your notrump play! This book is designed to accompany Planning the Play in Notrump, Book 7 in the Bridge Technique series.This is a book of problems that will test your knowledge of the basic principles of playing notrump contracts, and the tactics available for developing extra tricks. The topics covered include hold-up plays, deciding which suit to attack, reading the opening lead, keeping the danger hand off play, combining your chances and exerting pressure on your opponents.The b...

Test your card reading! This book is designed to accompany Reading the Cards, Book 10 in the Bridge Technique series.It sometimes seems that expert players are able to see through the backs of the cards! Their finesses win more often, and they choose unerringly between alternative lines of play. There is a simple reason for this: they are adept at drawing the correct inferences about their opponents' hands, from the auction and the cards their opponents play to each trick. You can learn to...

Test your avoidance play! This book is designed to accompany the Bridge Technique series.The term "avoidance play" may seem intimidating, but in fact it means no more than preventing a particular defender from gaining the lead. You may think there is nothing particularly difficult about this, but of course, everything seems easy once you understand it yourself. There are plenty of players who would fail to make the majority of the contracts featured in this book.The basic principles of avo...

Test your safety play! This book is designed to accompany Safety Plays, Book 3 in the Bridge Technique series.Why should you want to polish your safety play technique? There are two very good reasons. The first is that by applying them at the table, you will make more contracts than you did before. A more important advantage is that you will, perhaps, begin to approach each problem at the table as though it were a problem in a book. More often than you expect, you will reap a big reward fo...

Test your defensive play! This book is designed to accompany Planning in Defense, Book 11 in the Bridge Technique series.Defending a bridge contract is not an easy business. No part of the game requires more attention, hard work, and clear thinking. Is it worth the effort? Certainly, if you like to win as often as possible and want to acquire a reputation as a tough player to face. Remember, if bridge were an easy game to play, it would not have such a huge world-wide following.The basic p...

Test your deceptive play! This book is designed to accompany Deceptive Card Play, Book 5 in the Bridge Technique series.Why should you want to polish your technique in the area of deception? There are two very good reasons: first, give your opponents a chance to wrong and they will often take it! The second reason is that opportunities to use deception, either as declarer or defender, will arise on nearly every deal of every bridge session you play. So the rewards to be gained are consider...