Bridge isnt difficult once youve jumped the first hurdle, but that hurdle can seem imposing to anyone who hasnt a clue about card games. And the jargon can seem pretty bewildering too. This book strips away the mystery and presents the basics in a wonderfully clear and concise way. It explains everything that is needed before you can play or even read intelligently about the game. In much less time than readers think possible, they will learn to play Bridge, the best of card games.

The American Indian author of Black Eagle Child paints "a portrait of a writer struggling both to preserve his people's heritage and to turn it into art" ( The New York Times Book Review ).Ray A. Young Bear's work has been called "magnificent" by the New York Times and "a national treasure" by the Bloomsbury Review. Dazzlingly original, but with deep roots in his traditional Mesquakie culture, Y...

The American Book Award–winning collection from "The best poet in Indian Country" (Sherman Alexie, New York Times–bestselling author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven).Hailed by the Bloomsbury Review as "the nation's foremost contemporary Native American poet" and by Sherman Alexie as "the best poet in Indian Country," Ray Young Bear draws on ancient Meskwaki tradition and modern popular culture to create poems that provok...

Nobody likes bad news.The old adage about killing the messenger because you don't like the message is as true today as it ever was.And so, to begin a book by stating on the cover that you must prepare for an inevitable economic disaster seems both sensationalistic and irrational. Yet, in the 35+ years that Dr. Ray Young has been researching this matter, he has become more and more convinced that absolutely nothing can prevent what is about to happen to America, the Church, ...

Mixing prose and poetry, ancient traditions and modern sensibilities, this brilliant, profane, and poignant coming-of-age story is a masterpiece of Native American literatureAt a Thanksgiving party held in a Bureau of Indian Affairs gymnasium, the elders of the Meskwaki Settlement in central Iowa sip coffee while the teenagers plot their escape. Edgar Bearchild and Ted Facepaint, too broke to join their friends for a night of drinking in a nearby farm town, decide ...

This anthology documents a decade of some of the UK's most exciting queer performance, through a combination of retrospective scripts, development material and visual documentation.Queer performance is expected to live a brief, bright life without leaving any textual record. Indeed, it rarely begins with a complete script at all, being often developed instead by performance practices designed to fill noisy bars, clinking cabaret venues and fringe theatres, typicall...

Learn the key standards—iBeacon, Eddystone, Bluetooth 4.0, and AltBeacon—and how they work with other proximity technologies. Then build your understanding of the proximity framework and how to identify and deploy the best solutions for your own business, institutional, or consulting needs.Proximity technology—in particular, Bluetooth beacons—is a major source of business opportunity, and this book provides everything you need to know to architect a solution to capitalize on that o...

From “one of science fiction’s grand masters” (Library Journal), a reissue of Ray Bradbury’s The Toynbee Convector: a collection of twenty-two stories, including the continuing saga of H.G. Wells’s time traveler and his Toynbee Convector, a ghost on the Orient Express, and a bored man who creates his own genuine Egyptian mummy.The world’s only time traveler finally reveals his secret. An old man’s memory of World War I conjures ghostly parachutist...

We have lost one of the giants of the twentieth century physics when Yoichiro Nambu passed away in July, 2015, at the age of 94.Today's Standard Model, though still incomplete in many respects, is the culmination of the most successful theory of the Universe to date, and it is built upon foundations provided by discoveries made by Nambu in the 1960s: the mechanism of spontaneously broken symmetry in Nature (with G Jona-Lasinio) and the hidden new SU(3) symmetry of quarks and gluons (with M...

Journey beyond the stars with Timeless Classic Science Fiction Short Stories, a powerful audiobook collection featuring some of the greatest minds in speculative fiction: Ray Bradbury, Frank Herbert, John W. Campbell Jr., Robert Sheckley, Murray Leinster, and E. E. Smith.This expertly curated anthology brings together visionary tales of space exploration, alien encounters, advanced technology, and humanity’s place in an ever-expanding universe. From Bradbury’s poetic reflections on...

Explore distant futures, strange worlds, and visionary ideas in Vintage Science Fiction Stories Vol. 7, a classic collection featuring unforgettable works by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Stanley G. Weinbaum. Perfect for fans of vintage sci-fi, retro space fiction, and timeless speculative storytelling.