Conventions Books

Wow, I never read a mob story with romance. The author was right on the ball. He always had me in suspense.
Good luck Mr. Gallicchio

This book takes over where "Commonly Used Conventions" leaves off. It covers negative and other types of conventional doubles, overcalls - including Unusual NT and Michaels, slam bidding - including Blackwood and Gerber (with appendix coverage of Roman Key Card Blackwood) and two-over-one game force. There is an excellent chapter on defensive leads and signals.
For the newer bridge player, I recommend that you get all five of the ACBL Bridge Series books by Audrey Grant. They are used extensively by bridge teachers world-wide.
If you have a reasonable amount of bridge experience with modern (not just Goren) bidding concepts (e.g. "limit bids") and playing and defending techniques, skip the Club Series (recently retitled "Bidding") and go right to this book and "Commonly Used Conventions" as the sources of your next step forward in bidding and playing bridge.

My mom wrote this book. she rocks and she's a wicked good scholar too. this book is a real page turner--i never knew anyone could make literary analysis on midievil texts so engaging. READ THIS BOOK!

Organizing meetings can be a bit of an arduous task when the amount of participants reaches nearly two thousand. "Open Space Technology: A User's Guide" introduces a new concept for businesses to follow known as open space technology, where groups can self-organize in a short amount of time. To implement the technique into one's business, "Open Space Technology" lays out a step by step guide including all the resources one needs to get ideas off the ground. The third edition features a survey of open space technology's current usage around the world and an updated list of resources. A highly recommended book for both personal and community library business collections.

We used this book in our homeschooling class to learn about the Constitution. The book was informative, easy to read and understand, without talking above the head of my 11 year old. The book took us from the beginning of the Constitution to the present age. It explained the how's, why's, and who's of everything involved in the development of our Constitution. The book explained the Bill of Rights and listed the first 10 Amendments and what they mean to us. I think for a brief overview of our Constitution, for grades 4th to 7th, this book is ideal. I think the content is "too much" for ages specified by the publisher (4 to 8).

This is a great little book that recounts the story of how the constitution came about, and how it became the central focus of our 200 year experiment in cooperative living. The "Founders" would be astounded at what their work has wrought, and newspaperman Eric Black has a great, readable, light style, that nevertheless delves deeply into the origins and context of our sacred document. Read it - it's good.

I must have read this book three times. It is as billed: a very good general review of contract law, and a very clear overview of the CISG. As such, it is great for students who have studied contracts but not the CISG.
The book is around 150 pages long. It has a quite helpful CISG index, relating the various CISG provisions to the pages of the book where they are explicated. It also contains the text of the CISG for easy reference.
The author is not an American and his text helps highlight certain differences between American and CISG law, especially in regard to force majeure, and therefore a close reading is most instructive to American lawyers. As these types of hornbooks go, this one is pretty darn good.

Never have I seen such a wonderful collection of so many of Patrick Henry's writings! This should be on the bookshelf of every freedom-loving American!

The book arrived in a timely fashion, well-packed, in excellent shape. Would do business again with this seller.

Amazon has this listing for the rare occasion when an expensive first edition of this work comes available.

If you're simply interested in reading the content of this important speech, you can find an exact facsimile of the original in an inexpensive book you will find on Amazon: Free Lover: Sex, Marriage and Eugenics the Early Speeches of Victoria Woodhull, due for release in mid-December 2005. In that book, you will also get facsimiles of three of her other major speeches on free love, two letters she wrote the New York Times on the topic and the New York Times' report on her Steinway Hall speech.

In Free Lover Victoria Woodhull justified her free love ideas by advancing strange, mystical ideas about sex and childbearing that link it to eugenics. She also advocated radical social change in an effort to make free love seem more practical. Those changes included an end to legal marriage, payments to mothers for childbearing, and the rearing of all children by the State. In a very real sense, Aldous Huxley's classic Brave New World is a criticism of those ideas as they had evolved by 1932.

Woodhull later abandoned her ideas about free love and married a wealthy British banker. But she retained her interest in eugenics, becoming one of its earliest advocates. Over time, her ideas about eugenics became less mystical and more scientific. Her major speeches and pamphlets on eugenics can be found in another inexpensive collection: Lady Eugenist: Feminist Eugenics in the Speeches and Writings of Victoria Woodhull, also available from Amazon.