Play like a pro with expert knowledge from a champion of the game

If you don't know the ins and outs of play, bridge can seem like an intimidating game--but it doesn't have to be! Armed with the techniques and strategies in the pages of this book, you'll be bidding and winning hands like a boss! A good book for beginners, it has lots of advanced techniques useful to experienced players, too. This is as  close to an all-in-one bridge book you can get.

 

 

About the Author

H. Anthony Medley holds the rank of Silver life Master, is an American Contract Bridge League Club Director, and has won regional and sectional titles. An attorney, he received his B.S. from UCLA, where he was sports editor of UCLA's Daily Bruin, and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is the author of UCLA Basketball: The Real Story and Sweaty Palms: The Neglected Art of Being Interviewed and The Complete Idiots Guide to Bridge. He was a columnist for the Southern California Bridge News. He is an MPAA-certified film critic and his work has appeared nationally in Good Housekeeping, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. Click the book to order.
 

  

 

Dalai Lama -- Scientist (8/10)

by Tony Medley

93 minutes.

Written and directed Dawn Gifford Engle.

Who is the 14th Dalai Lama? This is a fascinating picture of a man who was chosen to lead Buddhists at the age of 5. What is amazing is the breadth of his knowledge and ability to converse with the smartest people in the world.

This film includes engrossing dialogues he had with leading scientists throughout the world. The subjects include discussions on several genres, listed below, and the film compares Western science in all these things with Buddhist science.

The subjects publicly discussed are:

I Cosmology, quantum physics. They discuss the formation of the universe. Did it start with the Big Bang? What was before the Big Bang? Anything? One theory, and from what I could gather, what Buddhists believe is that there have been innumerable Big Bangs, where universes start with a Big Bang, contract to nothing and start over again. One question posed was, “Is the universe internally entangled?” The answer the quantum physicist gave to that was that “as an experimentalist I would not like to take a position on that,” which was greeted with great laughter.

II Quantum Mechanics & Physics, discussing dispelling intrinsic properties and intrinsic existence with Michael Bitbol, Philosopher of Science, Husseri Archive, CNRS, Paris, France for Quantum Mechanics, and for Physics, Stephen Chu, Nobel Prize winner on the nature of matter.

III Cognitive Science/Psychology, the scientific dialogues. Aaron Beck, father of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

IV Neuroscience Richard Davidson, Neuroscientist and Francisco Varela who made a decision to get a liver transplant and live after a communication from Dalai Lama.

V Molecular Biology and Genetics with Michael Meaney, Neurobiologist and Psychiatrist who discussed how parental care alters the activity of genes in the brain that regulate our response to stress and how the influence of parents persists over the entire lifespan. He commented that “what was so impressive was the overlay between Buddhist philosophy and cognitive behavioral therapy.”

To sum up, the Dalai Lama says, “Buddha himself made clear, all my followers, monks, Scholars, should not accept my teaching out of faith, but rather a thorough investigation and experiment. Through that way, once you’re convinced, then you accept my teaching.”

 

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