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Publisher : Master Point Press
ISBN 13 : 155494015X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Bridge, Zia and Me written by and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zia Mahmood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963471529
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (715 download)
Download or read book Bridge My Way written by Zia Mahmood and published by . This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have never been in love, don't read this book! If you have never thought of yourself as a little bit crazy, don't read this book! But if you believe in fairy tales and fantasy, romance and obsession, read on -- this book is for you. Zia says, "This book is for all those people who ever started doing something and became so involved that they lost all track of time, because the 'thing' that I started doing was playing bridge and the time that flew so painlessly by was my life.". Bridge My Way is the irresistible story of the world's most flamboyant bridge player -- Zia -- how he rose in a few short years from an unknown rubber bridge player to the world's most charismatic bridge star.
Author : Zia Mahmood
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849942072
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Bridge for Beginners written by Zia Mahmood and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridge ia an easy game to learn but it takes a lifetime to master. This monumental work is designed to take the student to a level at which he or she can play in a bridge club or tournament with confidence. This book was originally published as three volumes on Bidding, Declarer Play and Defence. It combines the talents of top Canadian bridge teacher Audrey Grant, regarded as the leading tutor in North America, and the charismatic and world-renowned bridge player Zia Mahmud, voted bridge personality of the decade by both International Popular Bridge Monthly and Bridge Today. Zia presented the BBc television series Play Bridge with Zia and his lively and lucid style is ideal to popularise the game for a wide audience.
Author : Zia Uddin Ahmed
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491791926
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book A Bridge with Three Spans written by Zia Uddin Ahmed and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bridge with Three Spans: An Indian Muslim Boy Lives through Major Events of the Twentieth Century tells the threefold story of a boy who grew up in Bihar, India, attended college and worked as a civil servant in Pakistan, and then traveled abroad through his years working for the International Center of Public Enterprises and the United Nations. Chronicling his early life in rural and small town India, Ahmed then recalls his life as a college student and civil servant in Pakistan. It was a time of intensifying communal conflicts set within the backdrop of major historical events, which created a profound concern in Ahmed for the fate of millions of poor and helpless people of the subcontinent. The stunning contrast of geography and cultural heritage between the countries where Ahmed served evoked a deep love of the natural world and profound curiosity about ancient history. Through it all, Ahmed remained dedicated to excellence in education and intellectual development. This memoir recounts the fascinating stories of a man who has crossed the borders of countries from India to America and encountered amazing events and intriguing people along the way.
Author : Frank Waters
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804041245
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Woman at Otowi Crossing written by Frank Waters and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby Indian pueblo and also a friend of the first atomic scientists. The secret evolution of atomic research is a counterpoint to her psychic development. In keeping with its tradition of allowing the best of its list to thrive, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press is particularly proud to reissue The Woman at Otowi Crossing by best-selling author Frank Waters. This new edition features an introduction by Professor Thomas J. Lyon and a foreword by the author’s widow, Barbara Waters. The story is quintessential Waters: a parable for the potentially destructive materialism of the mid-twentieth century. The antidote is Helen Chalmer’s ability to understand a deeper truth of her being; beyond the Western notion of selfhood, beyond the sense of a personality distinct from the rest, she experiences a new and wider awareness. The basis for an opera of the same name, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the powerful story of the crossing of cultures and lives: a fable for our times.
Author : Helen Zia
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374527365
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Asian American Dreams written by Helen Zia and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... about the transformation of Asian Americans ... into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society."--Jacket.
Author : Burt Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966116700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (167 download)
Download or read book How the Experts Win at Bridge written by Burt Hall and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are three unique things about this book: (1) It is the first book in about 40 years to deal with the entire game of bridge, (2) It represents the best thinking of modern day experts and (3) It is expecially well organized and easy to read. The book received the 1997 Book of the Year award and continues to be a bestseller at national tournaments
Author : Helen Zia
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345522338
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Last Boat Out of Shanghai written by Helen Zia and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. “A true page-turner . . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history is something that happens to real people.”—New York Times bestselling author Lisa See NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY Shanghai has historically been China’s jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao’s proletarian revolution emerged victorious from the long civil war. Terrified of the horrors the Communists would wreak upon their lives, citizens of Shanghai who could afford to fled in every direction. Seventy years later, members of the last generation to fully recall this massive exodus have revealed their stories to Chinese American journalist Helen Zia, who interviewed hundreds of exiles about their journey through one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. From these moving accounts, Zia weaves together the stories of four young Shanghai residents who wrestled with the decision to abandon everything for an uncertain life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States. Benny, who as a teenager became the unwilling heir to his father’s dark wartime legacy, must decide either to escape to Hong Kong or navigate the intricacies of a newly Communist China. The resolute Annuo, forced to flee her home with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation from the U.S. in order to continue his studies while his family struggles at home. And Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America. The lives of these men and women are marvelously portrayed, revealing the dignity and triumph of personal survival. Herself the daughter of immigrants from China, Zia is uniquely equipped to explain how crises like the Shanghai transition affect children and their families, students and their futures, and, ultimately, the way we see ourselves and those around us. Last Boat Out of Shanghai brings a poignant personal angle to the experiences of refugees then and, by extension, today. “Zia’s portraits are compassionate and heartbreaking, and they are, ultimately, the universal story of many families who leave their homeland as refugees and find less-than-welcoming circumstances on the other side.”—Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club
Author : TaraShea Nesbit
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408845989
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Wives of Los Alamos written by TaraShea Nesbit and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London and Chicago – and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with a P.O. Box for an address, in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for the benefit of 'the project' that didn't exist as far as the greater world was concerned. They were constrained by the words they couldn't say out loud, the letters they couldn't send home, the freedom they didn't have. Though they were strangers, they joined together – babies were born, friendships were forged, children grew up. But then 'the project' was unleashed and even bigger challenges faced the women of Los Alamos, as they struggled with the burden of their contribution towards the creation of the most destructive force in mankind's history – the atomic bomb. Contentious, gripping and intimate, The Wives of Los Alamos is a personal tale of one of the most momentous events in our history.
Author : Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504011813
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Zia Summer written by Rudolfo Anaya and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chicano PI hunts his cousin’s killer in “a compelling thriller [with] a deep-seated respect for the traditions of a people and a culture” (Booklist). The great-grandson of a legendary lawman and gunfighter, thirty-year-old Sonny Baca hopes he possesses even a tenth of El Bisabuelo’s courage. But instead of cleaning up New Mexico by hunting down dangerous desperadoes, the struggling PI looks for missing persons and deadbeat husbands. The game changes when his cousin Gloria—the first woman Sonny ever loved—is brutally slain. Her corpse is found drained of blood. A zia sun sign, the symbol on the New Mexican flag, is carved on her stomach. Gloria’s husband, Frank Dominic, a politician making a run for mayor of Albuquerque, has a powerful motive for murder. But Gloria wasn’t the first victim. A year earlier, another woman was slain in the exact same way. Is a serial killer on the loose? Or is this the handiwork of some satanic cult? Feeling his cousin’s spirit crying out for justice, Sonny and his girlfriend begin a search that takes them across New Mexico’s polluted South Valley to an environmental compound in the mountains. As Sonny moves closer to the truth, he uncovers a chilling connection between his past and a very real and present evil . . .
Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780613956147
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Zia written by Scott O'Dell and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Author : Sabine Auken
Publisher : Master Point Press
ISBN 13 : 9781897106068
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)
Download or read book I Love This Game written by Sabine Auken and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the November 2001 Venice Cup final, Germany trailed France by 47 IMPs starting the last set. In this book, world champion Sabine Auken tells the thrilling inside story of their comeback world title win, every bid and every card. She also uses each of the sixteen deals from that final session as a starting point for discussion, and distills from each of them general principles and advice that will help anyone looking to improve their own game. Among the topics covered here are the rationale for her own system agreements (the pros and cons of mini-notrump openings, multi-purpose two-bids, the merits of forcing club systems, etc.) and carding methods, as well as team chemistry, table presence and even dressing for success!
Author : Zia Mahmood
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
ISBN 13 : 9780002184694
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Defence written by Zia Mahmood and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1994 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the most complex and challenging aspect of bridge - the defence contract.
Author : Zia Haider Rahman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374710082
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book In the Light of What We Know written by Zia Haider Rahman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London townhouse. In the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack, the banker recognizes a long-lost friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling power. In the Light of What We Know takes us on a journey of exhilarating scope--from Kabul to London, New York, Islamabad, Oxford, and Princeton--and explores the great questions of love, belonging, science, and war. It is an age-old story: the friendship of two men and the betrayal of one by the other. The visitor, a man desperate to climb clear of his wrong beginnings, seeks atonement; and the narrator sets out to tell his friend's story but finds himself at the limits of what he can know about the world--and, ultimately, himself. Set against the breaking of nations and beneath the clouds of economic crisis, this surprisingly tender novel chronicles the lives of people carrying unshakable legacies of class and culture as they struggle to tame their futures. In an extraordinary feat of imagination, Zia Haider Rahman has telescoped the great upheavals of our young century into a novel of rare intimacy and power.
Author : Andrew Robson
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780007234028
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Bridge written by Andrew Robson and published by Collins. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thinking about learning bridge but don't know the basics? Want to be able to play a social game? Collings need to know? Bridge starts from scratch to teach you how to play and enjoy the ever popular game of bridge."--Back cover.
Author : Alex Leibel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615346830
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (468 download)
Download or read book In Those Days written by Alex Leibel and published by . This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Géza Ottlik
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780304368075
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Adventures in Card Play written by Géza Ottlik and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the great bridge classics. When it was originally published it was given an instant tumultuous reception throughout the world. Geza Ottlik had a remarkable talent for discovering and analysing strange and fascinating aspects of card play in bridge. This brilliant book is the result of his collaboration with Hugh Kelsey whose skill at high-level analysis of bridge problems was equalled only by his ability as a writer able to express complex ideas in simple prose. ADVENTURES IN CARD PLAY is regarded universally as one of the all-time great classics of bridge.
