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	Planning in Defense
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Safety Plays
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge technique series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Complete Book of Opening Leads
	Easley Blackwood
	One of the classic books on defense: complete coverage of how to decide which suit and which card to lead at trick one. A special section discusses new innovations in leads, compares them with traditional methods, and explains the rationale behind principles like leading your fourth-highest card from a long suit.
	$17.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Demon Defense and Demon Doubling
	Augie Boehm
	Watch over the shoulder as the Professor's timid student Sally Fourth learns to become an agressive defender who can't be pushed around by her opponents. In the same conversational style as Augie's monthly columns in the Bridge Bulletin.
	$13.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Leading Questions in Bridge
	Sally Brock
	An opening-leads book with a twist. It has a chapter for each of the common nuggets of opening-lead advice: fourth from your longest and strongest against notrump, singleton against a trump contract, and so on - and then examines each of these in detail, showing several examples where the "nursery rhyme" is right and where it is wrong, explaining how to tell the difference.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Introduction to Bridge: Defense
	Audrey Grant
	a.k.a. "the Heart Series." Introduction to planning the defense: selecting an opening lead, Second Hand Low and Third Hand High, and more. Commonly used as a textbook in beginning bridge classes. Teachers, inquire about bulk discounts.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Card by Card: Adventures at the Bridge Table
	Roy Hughes
	Watch over Canadian expert Roy Hughes's shoulder as he explains his thought processes on some tricky hands, and you too can learn to think like an expert!
	$18.95		By special order only

	Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense
	Eddie Kantar
	Continues on from where Eddie Kantar Teaches Modern Bridge Defense leaves off. Approachable and entertaining explanation of the fine points of the game. (Do you know what the difference is between playing K-then-Q and K-then-J, when you are leading from KQJxx?)
	$23.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Eddie Kantar Teaches Modern Bridge Defense
	Eddie Kantar
	An updated and reorganized rewrite of Kantar's classic 1974 "Bible of defense." Perhaps the most readable and enjoyable intermediate defense book on the market today!
	$23.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Improve Your Opening Leads
	Ron Klinger
	[needed]
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Complete Book of Opening Leads
	Mike Lawrence
	A somewhat different approach to opening leads: broken down by type of auction. He explains what sort of lead works best according to what sort of hand the opponents are likely to have - even describes a few situations where he'll choose what suit to lead without regard to what's in his own hand! All the familiar rules about which card to lead from a suit are covered too, of course.
	$19.95		By special order only

	Bridge Probability and Information
	Robert MacKinnon
	Learn the math behind the simple rules like "eight ever, nine never" and "finesse into the preemptor." The Principle of Vacant Spaces, the Principle of Restricted Choice, and much more. Great emphasis placed on how to think about the hand as a whole, rather than merely looking at suits in isolation to find the best chance.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Easy Guide to Defensive Signals
	Julian Pottage
	How to choose which spot card to play, and how to tell what your partner's signals mean, broken down situation by situation: signals on partner's lead, signals on opponent's lead, discards, and so on. Many suit layouts and example hands; quiz and summary at the end of each chapter. New. Slightly shopworn cover. Retail price $16.95.
	$12.50		Available now and ready to ship

	Matchpoint Defense
	Jim Priebe
	[needed]
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Thinking on Defense: the Art of Visualization in Bridge
	Jim Priebe
	[needed]
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	How to Defend a Bridge Hand
	Bill Root
	[needed]
	$17.00		Available now and ready to ship

	How Good is your Bridge?
	Danny Roth
	An outstanding collection of declarer play and defense problems. The book is divided into four equal quarters: instructional declarer practice hands, a declarer play quiz, instructional defense practice hands, and a defense quiz. Excellent material for both matchpoint and IMP/rubber bridge players: he takes time to discuss when a safety play is available and whether or not it should be taken.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	25 Ways to Be a Better Defender
	Barbara Seagram and David Bird
	The last book in the 25 Steps series. Tips on leads, signals, planning the defense, and more.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	It's Your Lead
	Brian Senior
	[needed]
	$8.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Defense at Trick One
	David Weiss
	A challenging book, covering estimating declarer's likely winners and losers, interpreting partner's lead, and choosing the goal for the defence. Also, a rare source of information about "parity leads" vs. suit contracts. These go a step further than third-and-fifth leads, highest card you can afford from an even number and lowest from an odd number. More distributional information, though sometimes less high-card information, than standard leads.
	$16.00		Available now and ready to ship

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