Product Description: Alba loves her life just as it is. She loves living behind the bakery and waking up in a cloud of sugar and cinnamon. She loves drawing comics and watching bad TV with her friends. The only problem is she's overlooked a few teeny details...read more

Product Description: 20 years ago, Mike Lawrence published a series of short pamphlets for intermediate players with advice on various aspects of bidding and cardplay. Long unavailable, this material has now been revised, updated, and republished in three anthology volumes, each comprised of about 10 of the original booklets...read more

Product Description: 20 years ago, bridge writer Mike Lawrence published a series of short pamphlets for intermediate players with advice on various aspects of bidding and card play. Long unavailable, this material has now been revised, updated, and republished in three anthology volumes, each comprising about 10 of the original booklets...read more

Product Description: 20 years ago, bridge writer Mike Lawrence published a series of short pamphlets for intermediate players with advice on various aspects of bidding and card play. Long unavailable, this material has now been revised, updated, and republished in three anthology volumes, each comprising about 10 of the original booklets...read more

Product Description: This is the definitive book on (legally) pulling the wool over your opponents' eyes in bridge using a 'falsecard', played in an attempt to deceive one or more players at the table. There are times when playing such a card is essential if you are to have any chance of an optimum result...read more

Product Description: With step-by-step techniques and projects, the book is aimed at everyone from the novice home decorator to the experienced DIY enthusiast; includes practical instruction on home maintenance and repairs, painting, paperhanging, tiling, laying floor coverings, bedding, soft furnishings, curtains, insulation, storage, and building features and fittings...read more

Product Description: This handbook, aimed at the novice home decorator and experienced enthusiast alike, contains practical advice on insulating and ventilating your home.

Product Description: The right design and style of flooring can dramatically change the appearance of any room. This handy guide offers practical tips for laying floorboards, wood panels, woodstrips, parquet, mosaics, vinyl, lino, cork and carpet, including preparation

Product Description: An instant guide to basic techniques, including preparing surfaces, filling cracks, and the best way to apply paints and varnishes. Features advice about the various types of paint such as matt, eggshell or gloss, as well as binders, diluents and stains; how to use different tools and equipment; and creating a variety of special paint effects...read more

Product Description: This revised and expanded edition examines bridge auctions where the opponents bid something and you have the opportunity to either let them have it or to balance. The cost of not balancing can be huge, but you must weigh the cost of passing against the cost of bidding and getting a bad result...read more

Product Description: This text provides an exploration of the oldest - and most useful - convention in bridge, the takeut double. Originally published in 1994, this book has been revised and updated to take into account modern developments in competitive bidding, one of the most rapidly changing parts of the game, not least in the new and varied uses of doubles...read more

Product Description: Revised, now with the wisdom of a world champion!   Learning to play bridge is much like learning a new language. But its enormous, worldwide popularity is evidence enough that people aren't discouraged by the game's challenging rules and concepts...read more

Product Description: Mike Lawrence shows how Chapman operated in a fast-moving, highly pressurized world of international racing and car making that generated huge rewards and temptations. The crunch came when he became involved with the ill-fated Delorean car company.

The definitive book on auctions that begin in third or fourth seat. Originally published in 1989, this book quickly became recognized as a 'must-read' for any would-be bridge expert, and has never been out of print. Now, more than 20 years later, the author has revised, updated and expanded it to take into account modern ideas in bidding. Anyone who is at all serious about improving their game needs to own a copy of this book. Kit Woolsey's introduction to the original edition: 'A major contribution to bidding theory... easy to understand and fun to read at the same time.' Mike Lawrence (TN) has Hall of Fame credentials both as a player and a writer. An original member of the Dallas Aces, he has won three world titles and eighteen national titles. Several of his books are widely regarded as classics of the game.

This resource is a fact-finder to help bridge players improve their chances of making devastating opening leads.

Product Description: This is a comprehensive illustrated home-reference manual for everyone who wants to manage a comfortable, clean, tidy, safe home with the least expense and effort. Thousands of tips, hints and useful projects show you step-by-step how to plan and maintain your home or apartment; how to prepared for any kind of problem and respond to any kind of emergency; and how to add those perfect finishing touches that make the difference between a functional living space and a true home...read more

Provides a basic grounding in woodworking techniques, using both traditional hand tools and modern power tools. This book enables anyone to take on important maintenance, repair and replacement jobs with confidence. It provides information about safety.

Featuring more two thousand step-by-step photographs, a visual reference encompasses essential do-it-yourself skills and decorating techniques to help readers make the most of their home, featuring more than 250 different projects, nearly one hundred different techniques, and helpful makeover tips that cover everything from painting and tiling to making soft furnishings and laying floor coverings. Original.

Product Description: Provides practical, professional know how to maintain a home along with fabulous inspirational ideas to personalize it.

Product Description: This book is aimed at everyone from the novice home decorator to the experienced DIY enthusiast.

Product Description: Book by Lawrence, Mike