Category: Reference

From Acid Jazz to Peter Sellers, a quick-take who's who of British pop cultureFrom the Swinging 60s and the mods, from the seventies and the punks to Generation E, Britpop and Cool Britain--the past 50 years have seen a steady stream of world-sweeping movements, trends, and styles come out of the British Isles.In this hip, fast-paced look at who's who and what's what of British popular culture, cultist Andrew Calcutt explores more than 200 key people, products, and phenomena in British popular culture. Calcutt deftly deconstructs hundreds of Brit Cult icons--such as Monty Python, J. G. Ballard...
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25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know

By: Barbara Seagram

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Master Point : 1999

Seller ID: 0141523

ISBN-13: 9781894154079

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

It doesn't take long before beginning bridge players want to know more about bidding systems, and especially about conventions. The authors have selected 25 basic conventions and treatments that novice players can easily assimilate into their own methods. They explain clearly and concisely how to use each one, and how it fits into a standard bidding system. Each section ends with a summary chart as well as a self-quiz to ensure that the reader has understood the concepts.
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101 Amazing Card Tricks

By: Bob Longe

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Sterling : 1993

Seller ID: 0071973

ISBN-13: 9780806903422

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

Have nothing but a deck of cards? With this book you'll soon be dealing out playful poker, and four-ace tricks that will make everyone say: How did you do that? If you can shuffle a deck, you can perform jacks be nimble, about face, number nonsense, and dozens more. Clear illustrations demonstrate how to execute each move precisely. A chart gauges the difficulty of each trick.

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The Everything College Major Test Book: 10 Tests To Help You Choose

By: Burton Nadler

Price: $9.98

Publisher: F+W : 2006

Seller ID: 0068794

ISBN-13: 9781593375911

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very good

With nearly 40 percent of incoming college freshmen undecided on a major, and with 75 to 80 percent of all students changing their majors at least once during their college career, students are begging for a straightforward guide to help them make the best choice. With 10 tests designed to pinpoint a student's talents, aptitudes, and affinities, The Everything College Major Test Book is the only book out there that makes choosing a major easy--and fun
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Goren's Bridge Complete

By: Charles H Goren

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Doubleday : 1963

Seller ID: 0017007

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Fundamentals of Contract Bridge

By: Charles H Goren

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Pocket Books : 0000

Seller ID: 0090116

ISBN-13: 9780671552183

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

The Concise Oxford Dictionary Of Literary Terms

By: Chris Baldick

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Oxford : 1990

Seller ID: 0083622

ISBN-13: 9780192828934

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

This dictionary provides succinct and often witty explanations of over one thousand potentially troublesome terms encountered in the study of literature, from absurd to zeugma, from the ancient dithyramb to the contemporary dub poetry, from the popular bodice-ripper to the aristocratic masque. While it is fully up to date with the terminologies of deconstruction and other modern schools of literary theory, it also offers extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history. Literary schools from Alexandrianism to Transcendentalism are included, along with doze...
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