Bøker av David Bird

A comprehensive guide to defensive signalling in bridge.

Intended for intermediate bridge players, the books in this series take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique. Focusing on safety plays, this text is short and full of practical examples, and features end-of-chapter quizzes to reinforce the concepts.

Intended for intermediate bridge players, the books in this series take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique. Focusing on entry management, this text is short and full of practical examples, and features end-of-chapter quizzes to reinforce the concepts.

Intended for intermediate bridge players, the books in this series take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique. Focusing on deceptive card play, this text is short and full of practical examples, and features end-of-chapter quizzes to reinforce the concepts.

Intended for intermediate bridge players, the books in this series take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique. Focusing on eliminations and throw-ins, this text is short and full of practical examples, and features end-of-chapter quizzes to reinforce the concepts.

Intended for intermediate bridge players, the books in this series take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique. Focusing on planning the play in notrump, this text is short and full of practical examples, and features end-of-chapter quizzes to reinforce the concepts.

Intended for intermediate bridge players, the books in this series take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique. Focusing on planning in suit contracts, this text is short and full of practical examples, and features end-of-chapter quizzes to reinforce the concepts.

Intended for intermediate bridge players, the books in this series take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique. Focusing on tricks with trumps, this text is short and full of practical examples, and features end-of-chapter quizzes to reinforce the concepts.

Tensions in the Church between New Rite and Old Rite, new church and old church, demand a fresh and healing insight. Dom David is convinced of the rightness of the liturgical reforms of Vatican II while still valuing the tried and true insights of the past. He calls for a constructive reassessment of Sacrosanctum Concilium inspired by a truly catholic understanding of the Faith - both Eastern and Western (including a selective Anglican input) - and underlines the complementarity of Eastern and Western Eucharistic theologies. Whatever way the Eucharist is celebrated, the emphasis should be on our outward communal participation precisely because it is the expression of our sharing together as one body in the death and resurrection of Christ in the presence of the Father. The great error which so many made in the wake of Vatican II was to confuse the fruit of good liturgy with the way it is performed, but Dom David points out the liturgical paradox: that if we make human warmth and understanding our goal in the way we celebrate the liturgy, we will lose the reverence and awe which properly lead us to that warmth and understanding. The liturgical texts have properly stressed the relationship between people and God: in practice, however, the emphasis has too often been on the horizontal relationship between priest and people. The complementarity of individual and communal devotion also appears both in the exercise of lectio divina and in devotion to the Blessed Sacrament.This book, Dom David's third, is the fruit of fifty years' monastic life in Europe and Latin America . . . He shares his experiences with his readers, distilled, as it were, through the eyes and heart of a monk, a scholar and a contemplative, for Fr David is truly a man of God. Dom Paul Stonham, Abbot of Belmont.

Thirteenth collection of David Bird's tales of the bridge-crazy monks of St Titus that have appeared for more than 35 years in magazines around the world.

Winner of the 2016 International Bridge Press Association Book of the Year Award, this twelfth collection of David Bird's tales of the bridge-crazy monks of St Titus have appeared for more than 35 years in magazines around the world.

A complete guide to a particularly competitive form of contract bridge - duplicate pairs - which demands a much more risky attitude to the game.

An intermediate-level discussion of declarer play in the game of bridge.

The 11th title in the celebrated series of humorous revelations about the bridge-playing monks of St Titus.

The army of enthusiastic followers of the bridge-playing monks of St Titus, and their sometimes less than admirable Abbot, will have a field-day with this brilliant collection of stories.

Learn and laugh with the Rabbi and his friends.

Intended for intermediate bridge players, the books in this series take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique. Focusing on squeezes, this text is short and full of practical examples, and features end-of-chapter quizzes to reinforce the concepts.

Learn and laugh with the Rabbi and his friends.

The fourth volume in the celebrated series of stories featuring the bridge-playing monks of St Titus. Vastly entertaining and brilliantly instructive.

All those wanting to improve their game will revel in this successor to TEN WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR BRIDGE - everything you need to know to improve your game

'A delightful bridge book which is as amusing and droll as it is instructive' ENGLISH BRIDGE

Get to grips with bridge basics with this fun and insightful introduction to this popular leisure pastime.

David Bird's hilarious accounts of the bridge-playing monks of St Titus are famous throughout the bridge world. These stories are - heavenly - funny - and also instructive.

The fifth title in the series recognised internationally as the world's funniest bridge stories.

The first title in this hilarious world-famous series

Reese and Bird's Monastery titles are regarded as the leading humorous bridge books. UNHOLY TRICKS is one of the funniest.

Ten important topics in bidding and play are analysed in this incisive guide for improving players. The topics range from bidding the opponents' suit to support doubles, splinter bids and fit jumps.