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Take Your Tricks:
Over 550 Declarer Play Tips You Can Take to the Bank |
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Acclaimed bridge
expert Eddie Kantar offers valuable warm-up tips along with card combinations
and safety plays. This book focuses on the "play of the hand".
Its non-controversial tips were written for almost any player beneath
"expert" who genuinely desires to improve his or her game. MORE
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Undefeated, Untied,
and Uninvited: A Documentary of the 1951 University of San Francisco
Dons Football Team |
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In 1951 the University
of San Francisco football team (the Dons) went undefeated and untied.
Yet, despite being among the best college football teams of all time,
the squad was not invited to play in a post season bowl game because two
of its players were African-American. The team was offered the chance
to compete without the players, but they unanimously refused on principle.
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Journey of the Olympic
Flame |
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Sixty years ago the Olympic flame was ignited for the first time in
the sacred grove of Olympia and carried to the opening of the 1936 Olympic
Games in Berlin. The significance of the Olympic flame has continued
to grow ever since as it travels around the world, visiting different
cultures and countries bringing with it the hope for peace and the aim
for international understanding.
The Journey of the Olympic Flame celebrates the history and legacy of
this time-honored Olympic tradition.
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How to Get Kids to
Eat Great and Love It |
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Who worries about
heart attack risks in a four-year old, adult-onset type diabetes in a
twelve-year old, or cancer risks from the food we eat? Well, perhaps we
should be concerned. According to Dr. Christine Wood the risk of developing
cancer, diabetes, and heart disease can be significantly reduced through
proper nutrition beginning in childhood.
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A Treasury of Bridge
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This book is not
meant for beginners, nor is it aimed as experts -- it is directed at players
somewhere between these extemes who would like to improve their game substantially.
Author, Eddie kantar, is a two-time World Champion and has won eleven
National Championships in Bridge. MORE
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Conversations Beyond
The Light |
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Today, using high-tech
equipment, the dead are transmitting information to scientists via television
screens, computers and telephones. This book provides the first hard physical
evidence of life after death. MORE
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Awaken the Olympian
Within: Stories From America's Greatest Olympic Motivators |
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A collection of
twenty-seven inspirational essays written by many of Americas most successful
motivational speakers. The authors share more than 30 Olympic gold and
57 medals verall. As a group they are the most articulate spokespeople
in the Olympic movement, addressing professional crowds across the country,
year in and year out, in some cases are the gold medals they earn today.
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Casting the Net Over Global Learning
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Casting the Net Over Global Learning presents an overview of what is
happening now in education and corporate training to provide a basis
for executives, trainers, investors, and administrators and learners
to make intelligent choices for the future. This analyzes trends in
K-12, higher, adult higher, and corporate education in the context of
new literacies, the emerging learning psychologies, the Internet, and
workforce training and education. It amplifies and explains key trends
central to comprehensive global development of new dimensions in workforce
training, corporate education, and e-learning. MORE
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Tarasov: The Father
of Russian Hockey |
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Anatoly Tarasov,
a publication of USA Hockey, Inc. Tarasov has left us a unique perspective
on the history and development of hockey in his homeland. In this, his
last book before his death in 1995, he provides a fascinating and informal
assessment of the Russian and Canadian styles of hockey through the eyes
of a world-famous coach. MORE > |
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Olympic Glory Denied:
And a Final Opportunity for Glory Restored |
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Zarnowski presents
biographical profiles of 11 athletes, all of whom, for reasons beyond
their control, never reached the Olympic starting line. These decathletes
were favored to win at the time but now are largely forgotten. MORE
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