Most Popular Books by David Burn

David Burn is the author of Around the World in 80 Hands (1999), Ad Brains: Honest Conversations with Advertising's Icons, Rebels, and Rulers (2021), Plays, and Other Fugitive Pieces, in Verse and Prose, Colonial Legislation on the Subject of Education, The Wei of Good Bridge (2003).

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Around the World in 80 Hands

release date: Jan 01, 1999
Around the World in 80 Hands
Taking you from world championship tournaments to big-money rubber-bridge games, this book puts you at the table as thousands of dollars (or a world title) change hands on the turn of a card. In the smoke-filled clubs of London and New York, characters such as Harry the Horse, Moonbeam, Godzilla, and Hannibal the Cannibal play for high stakes. World championships hang in the balance in Chile, Italy, and Bali. In the jet-set resorts of Europe, the top pros play invitational money tournaments with millionaire sponsors. Share the favorite bridge memories of one of the world''s best, as Zia Mahmood takes you Around the World in 80 Hands.

Ad Brains: Honest Conversations with Advertising's Icons, Rebels, and Rulers

release date: Nov 03, 2021
Ad Brains: Honest Conversations with Advertising's Icons, Rebels, and Rulers
In this collection of interviews with advertising professionals, the reader travels inside the minds of some of today''s top performers in the field. From the hallways of Madison Avenue to the freelancer''s home office, these 18 interviews conducted over the span of 11 years, entertain as they inform.

Plays, and Other Fugitive Pieces, in Verse and Prose

Colonial Legislation on the Subject of Education

The Wei of Good Bridge

release date: Jan 01, 2003
The Wei of Good Bridge
Laugh all the way to a winning hand with this hilarious book of bridge problems in which five easily recognizable fictional characters play a round of bridge. Readers are asked to tackle the problems and then check their analysis against those of the authors. A highly entertaining bridge quiz book for good club players.

Vindication of Van Diemen's Land; in a cursory glance at their colonists as they are, not as they have been represented to be. [A criticism of views expressed by Archbishop Whately.]

Sydney Delivered, Or, The Princely Buccaneer

An Instant Guide to Horses

release date: Jan 01, 2000
An Instant Guide to Horses
Compact, handy, accessible guide that assumes no previous knowledge of the subject, and provides a simple system of color-coded bands and symbols to the various sections of the book. Detailed, full-color illustrations throughout, and a concise but informative text make learning about the different breeds of horses much more fun and useful.

An Instant Guide to Cats

release date: Jan 01, 2000
An Instant Guide to Cats
Compact, handy, accessible guide that assumes no previous knowledge of the subject, and provides a simple system of color-coded bands and symbols to the various sections of the book. Detailed, full-color illustrations throughout, and a concise but informative text make learning about the different breeds of cats much more fun and useful.

An Excursion to Port Arthur in 1842

Narrative of the Overland Journey of Sir John and Lady Franklin and Party from Hobart Town to Macquarie Harbour, 1842

Mosso: Example Auctions and Quizzes

release date: Apr 09, 2019
Mosso: Example Auctions and Quizzes
THREE BIDDING SYSTEMS COMBINED INTO ONE For the last three years, Richard Granville and David Burn have been developing MOSSO, a new bidding system derived from Two-over-One, Fantunes and Polish Club. MOSSO brings together the best features of its parent systems, while providing an effective interface between them. The system has been the subject of enthusiastic discussion on the popular website bridgewinners.com. The first volume, The MOSSO Bidding System, describes the full system in detail. This second volume contains example auctions and quizzes.

Horses & Ponies

release date: Jan 01, 2008
Horses & Ponies
This title is part of a great new series of compact and attractive identification guides designed to help you distinguish between varieties of natural phenomena. It contains over 100 breeds of horse are featured with bitesize information including information on origin, physical characteristics and use. Divided into small and big ponies, and small, medium and big horses, the clear, easy-to-follow design, precise colour illustrations and additional colour photography will quickly help you spot your Welsh Cob from your Fell or your Shire from your Clydesdale.

Sydney Delivered, Or, the Princely Buccaneer: Or, the Princely Buccaneer

release date: Mar 10, 2019
Sydney Delivered, Or, the Princely Buccaneer: Or, the Princely Buccaneer
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The MOSSO Bidding System

release date: Apr 01, 2019
The MOSSO Bidding System
For the last three years, the authors have been developing MOSSO, a new bidding system derived from 2/1, Fantunes and Polish Club. MOSSO brings together the best features of its parent systems, while providing an effective interface between them. The system has been the subject of enthusiastic discussion on the popular website bridgewinners.com. The first volume of this two-book series describes the full system in detail.

The Bushrangers

The Bushrangers
The bushrangers was played in Edinburgh in 1829, and was the first Australian play to be staged. It is based on the exploits of Matthew Brady._

The Petition of Mr. David Burn Minister of the Gospel at Fetteresso

Plays, and fugitive pieces, in verse

Hildegard of Bingen in The Low Countries

release date: Jan 01, 2018

The Chivalry of the Mercantile Marine Illustrated by Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of Captain John Lennon

Australia, Parts 1-3, New South Wales. Original manuscript, 1844-5

Australia, Parts 1-3, New South Wales. Original manuscript, 1844-5
P.99f; Meeting with Aborigines of the Macleay district; p.100f; Description of a corroboree; p.101f; Anecdotes; p.102-105; Description of a Kibbarah (initiation ceremony) near Port Macquarie.

Narrative of the Overland Journey of Sir John and Lady Franklin and Party from Hobart Town to Maquarie Harbour

How to Survive Your First Bridge Tournament

release date: Feb 01, 1994

The IPBM Book of the 1989 World Junior Team Championships

release date: Jan 01, 1989
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