"The Bridge Technique Series is designed to take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Each book of the series focuses on a different topic, and wherever possible the tactics and strategy are considered from the point of view of both declarer and defenders. During the play of the hand, declarer and defenders both have opportunities to use the cards they play to conceal their exact holdings from the opposition. It is possible to disrupt defenders' signaling, to mislead the opponents about strength or weakness in a suit, and even to persuade the defense to give you information."--Back cover
Each book is a collection of bridge problems which provide a fun way to practice and develop your skill in an important cardplay technique at bridge. These books are designed to add an extra dimension to the detailed instruction contained in Bridge Technique series (Bird & Smith), which won the American Bridge Teachers? Association Book of the Year award in 2002.
Each book in this series is a collection of bridge problems which provide a fun way to practice and develop your skill in an important cardplay technique at bridge. These books are designed to add an extra dimension to the detailed instruction contained in the Bridge Technique series (Bird & Smith), which won the American Bridge Teachers' Association Book of the Year award in 2002.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2019, held in Madrid, Spain, in November 2019.The 69 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The theme of the 2018 conference is: Friendly Robotics.The papers focus on the following topics: perceptions and expectations of social robots; cognition and social values for social robots; verbal interaction with social robots; social cues and design of social robots; emotional and expressive interaction with social robots; collaborative SR and SR at the workplace; game approaches and applications to HRI; applications in health domain; robots at home and at public spaces; robots in education; technical innovations in social robotics; and privacy and safety of the social robots.
This book constitutes selected papers presented at the First International Workshop on Deceptive AI, DeceptECAI 2020, held in conjunction with the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2020, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in August 2020, and Second International Workshop on Deceptive AI, DeceptAI 2021, held in conjunction with the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021, in Montreal, Canada, in August 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic both conferences were held in a virtual mode. The 12 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 16 submissions. They present recent developments in the growing area of research in the interface between deception and AI.
Rollover Revelation Revisited A flashy opening effect in which the three mates of a chosen card are produced in an unexpected manner. My Signature Effect Two signed transparent playing cards magically transpose with one another... and so do the signatures. Across The Void An impromptu and visually stunning version of the classic Cards Across plot. Four For One And One For All Four Jacks undoubtedly placed reversed into four different parts of the deck instantly change places with a signed selection held by the performer. The Kure False Cut A flourishy, deceptive in-the-hands full deck false cut. The Kure Pop-Out Move A finger-flicking production of a selected card that not only looks impossible but is oh so fun to perform. Stale Moldy Bread The Visitor plot revisited... using odd-backed cards. Take Two A simple yet effective double two card transposition that will leave your audience gasping. Let's Twist Again Twisting the Aces... with a twist. Triple Coincidence Three odd-backed predictions shuffled into a deck prove to be the three cards freely selected by three audience members. No forces! No duplicates! Simply ingenious! "Scott Kahn is a wonderfully inventive creator who is worth keeping your eyes on. It will be well worth the wait to see what other gems Scott has in store for us. Me? I can hardly wait. I have no reservations at all about the quality of Scott's work. Nice job!" --Shane Causer, Visions, The Online Journal of the Art of Magic "I loved Rollover Revelation. Thumb's way up from me!" --Doug Conn, USA "Your method of writing is excellent. I don't think I will ever go as far as writing my own material down for the public because there are guys like you that do it so much better." --Gerhard Erasmus, Taiwan "I enjoyed reading this book... Kahn's approach to magic is similar to that of his medical career - prescribing solutions that breathe new life into classic card magic... Great visual effects... Well structured... This is a fine debut effort and I look forward to what Kahn has in store for us next." --John Guastaferro, Genii, The Conjurors' Magazine "Well done! I like your ideas." --Richard James, Connoisseur Conjuring "Scott's Rollover Revelation is quick, direct and very much unexpected!" --Joshua Jay, USA "Very commercial! You can tell Scott puts thought into his card magic." --Marshall Petersen, H&R Magic Books "Nice job. Excellent handling. I'm definitely going to publish Rollover Revelation in my MAGIC Magazine column. Keep up the good work." --Jon Racherbaumer, USA
Praise for Left for Dead, first novel in the Trish LaClede series "Prepare to follow Trish LaClede through a thousand twists and turns as she battles to save her late husband's business and unravel the mysteries surrounding his death." -Larry Russell, The Wynnewood Gazette "Shipley's contemporary novel is told in a rich and descriptive voice with much wonderful dialogue. .you'll love this thriller." -Russ Long, The Oklahoman Discovery of shocking evidence of her late husband early life sends Trish LaClede to Oklahoma seeking more information. Documentation from records and old newspapers arouses suspicion of foul play and fraud that deprived Howard's ancestors of oil-rich land. An elderly woman gives Trish pictures of Howard's mother and her sister with a baby that might be Howard's sister. But Trish suspects that the woman was involved in the land fraud. Can she trust her to tell the truth? Why did Howard's mother keep him in the dark about his relatives in the area? As a stranger in unknown territory Trish doesn't know whom to trust. Can she believe anything anyone tells her? Do the ones who seem most friendly have ulterior motives? Did her research rekindle long-smoldering hatred that results in murder? Web Site: www.voncilleshipley.com
