This brilliant fantasy features each card in the deck telling its own fascinating story.

This revised, fully updated second edition covers the analysis, design, and construction of reinforced concrete structures from a real-world perspective. It examines different reinforced concrete elements such as slabs, beams, columns, foundations, basement and retaining walls and pre-stressed concrete incorporating the most up-to-date edition of the American Concrete Institute Code (ACI 318-14) requirements for the design of concrete structures. It includes a chapter on metric system in r...

Contains 10 illustrations.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a timeless literary masterpiece that takes readers on a compelling journey through the complexities of Victorian society and the human condition. This novel is a rich tapestry of characters, emotions, and social commentary.At its heart, the story follows the life of Pip, an orphaned boy with humble beginnings, who encounters a mysterious benefactor that propels him into the world of London's high so...

“He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”Imagine getting the chance to have everything you’ve ever wanted. For young Pip, an orphan working at a forge, that chance comes in the form of a mysterious fortune that allows him to rise through the ranks of society and become a gentleman. Along the way he loses his sense of self, casting aside the people who care about him because of their lower-clas...

It is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s.From the outset, the reader is "treated" by the terrifying encounter between Pip, the protagonist, and the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is a graphic book, full of extreme imagery, poverty, prison ships, "the hulks," barriers and chains, and fights to the death. It therefore combines intrigue and unexpected twists of autobiographical detail in different tones. Regardless of its narrative techni...

One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman.From the young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham’s mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, Great Expectations is ...

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to playing bridge, with information on common mistakes and how to avoid them, simple instructions for improved play, and a wealth of useful little hints and tips. This book is designed for the ordinary club member with a fair amount of playing under their belt and a knowledge of the more popular systems of play, and it would prove invaluable to those fitting this description who want to improve their game. The chapters of this book include: 'The ...

The Hog, insufferable and all but insuperable, brings off one coup after another and seldom fails to triumph over his hated rival, Papa the Greek. Neither is a match for the Rabbit, for though R.R. rarely knows what he is doing or why, he is always saved from himself by a guardian angel.

Renowned classics and hidden gems alike congregate in this exceptional manual of card playing.Written by longtime tutor and enthusiast of cards, Bernard Trevelyan, this book impeccably details dozens of classic card games. Well-known and world famous examples such as Whist and Cribbage receive detailed guidance and strategic discussion, while several hidden gems no longer commonly played likewise feature. Variations and clever interpretations also feature, encourag...

A fascinating work containing detailed playing instructions and explanations of 34 vintage card games dating from Victorian times and before. A treasure trove of card games many of which have been long forgotten. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of card games.

Terhune penned many books about the dogs he kept and trained on the Sunnybank estate throughout the 1920s and 30s. Wolf, is Terhune's classic story of the funny-looking purebred collie who was somewhat an outsider with a matching personality. Wolf the dog himself became famous posthumously when his heroic death was recorded in nearly every paper in America. This early work by Albert Payson Terhune was originally published in 1925, we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory bi...