Basic Accounting Simplified is for beginning or struggling accounting students and bookkeepers. When the basics are understood, the more advanced aspects of accounting are easier to understand. By simplifying complex concepts, Basic Accounting Simplified helps students of accounting to think through, understand, and master the more difficult issues that will be taught as their accounting education progresses. Basic Accounting Simplified also provides a practical approach to solving problems. Straightforward instructions will guide the student through this process and will engage the student every step of the way. The objective of this book is to impart an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals of accounting to the beginning or struggling accounting student. It presents an easy-to-grasp technique that can be mastered in a short time. Basic Accounting Simplified is the safety net every accounting student should have in order to be successful in this field. Revised & corrected July 2023.

Basic Accounting Simplified is for beginning or struggling accounting students and bookkeepers. When the basics are understood, the more advanced aspects of accounting are easier to understand. By simplifying complex concepts, Basic Accounting Simplified helps students of accounting to think through, understand, and master the more difficult issues that will be taught as their accounting education progresses. Basic Accounting Simplified also provides a practical approach to solving problems. Straightforward instructions will guide the student through this process and will engage the student every step of the way. The objective of this book is to impart an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals of accounting to the beginning or struggling accounting student. It presents an easy-to-grasp technique that can be mastered in a short time. Basic Accounting Simplified is the safety net every accounting student should have in order to be successful in this field.

57+ Bridge Conventions Made Easy clearly and concisely describes and explains conventions for all bridge players to maximize their bidding, enabling both partners to have an exact understanding of each other's bids. With over 200 charts and tables, and many examples, novice and intermediate bridge players can easily learn how to communicate the most popular bridge conventions. Advanced players are also able to learn new and unfamiliar conventions. This book is easy to read as it has no extraneous details. It is written clearly and concisely so that each member of the partnership will have an exact understanding of their partner's bid. This book is loaded with information about how to use - and avoid abusing - a long list of conventions. 57+ Bridge Conventions Made Easy can be used by steady partners and by casual partners. The book is arranged alphabetically and indexed so that a convention can be easily found. Awarded the 2016 eLit Gold Award for Best How-To Book and the Bronze Award for Education/Academic/Teaching. The Revised 2nd Edition was edited by Brent Manley. Format: four-color, 8.5 x 11 (216 mm x 280 mm), 172 pages. Conventions include:

#1 Balancing

#2 Bergen Responses

#3 Blackwood

#4 Brozel

#5 Cappelletti

#6 Checkback Stayman

#7 Cuebids

#8 DOPI, ROPI, DEPO & REPO

#9 DONT

#10 Drury

#11 Flannery

#12 Forcing

#13 Fourth-Suit Forcing

#14 Gambling 3NT

#15 Gerber (4 Clubs)

#16 Grand Slam Force

#17 Inverted Minor Raises

#18 Jacoby Transfers

#19 Jacoby 4-Suit Transfers

#20 Jacoby 2NT

#21 Jordan 2NT

#22 Journalist Leads

#23 Landy

#24 Lavinthal Discards

#25 Law of Total Tricks

#26 Lebensohl 2NT Over Opponent's Weak Two-Bid

#27 Losing Trick Count

#28 Maximal Double

#29 Michaels Cue Bid

#30 Mini Roman

#31 Minor-Suit Stayman

#32 Namyats

#33 Negative Double

#34 New-Minor Forcing

#35 Odd-Even Discards

#36 Ogust

#37 Overcalls

#38 Preemptive Bids

#39 Puppet Stayman

#40 Responsive Double

#41 Rules in Bridge

#42 Rusinow Leads

#43 Smolen Transfer

#44 Splinter Bid

#45 Stayman

#46 Step Responses to a Strong Two Club Opening

#47 Strong 1 Club (Precision)

#48 Support Doubles

#49 Takeout Double

#50 Texas Transfers

#51 Strong 2 Clubs

#52 Two Over One Game Force

#53 Upside-Down Count and Attitude

#54 Unusual 2NT

#55 Weak Jump Shift

#56 Weak 1NT

#57 Weak Two-Bids

#58 Western Cue Bid

Memories of the Catskills: The Making of a Hotel, by Alvin L. Lesser, with a foreword by John Conway, Sullivan County Historian, takes the reader back to a time and place that was like no other. Families wishing to get out of the stifling heat of a New York City summer and other nearby crowded areas, found the perfect escape in the Catskills. By sharing an insider's view of one person's life in this magical arena, Lesser lets readers experience the fun and the work that went into creating a place that people came back to year after year. Memories of the Catskills is a candid and charming memoir about the rise and fall of the Borscht Belt. Lesser Lodge, a small hotel where the author spent the better part of his childhood, lies at the center of the heartfelt tale. Famous stars of yesteryear came to entertain in the Borscht Belt at Lesser Lodge. The Lodge survived the depression era and then flourished during the years of economic recovery and growth. Not just the story of the Lesser family, but the warmth of people who made others welcome by providing a respite which made them all family-- entertainers and guests alike.

QUICK REFERENCE TO BRIDGE CONVENTIONS is designed to enable bridge players, already somewhat familiar with a convention, to:

1. Get a quick review of the convention.

2. Learn the meaning of bids when opponents or a partner use an unfamiliar or forgotten convention.

3. Become aware of conventions that contain more than one part, such as Brozel, Cappeletti, DONT, etc.

Reading Quick Reference to Bridge Conventions is an ideal way for bridge players to review over 65 of the the most popular bridge conventions and rules. This book is loaded with information about how to use-and avoid abusing--a long list of conventions. It is easy to read as it has no extraneous details. It is written clearly and concisely so that each member of the partnership will have an understanding of their partner's bid. Even if you don't plan to use all of these bidding aids, familiarity with them will help you when you encounter opponents who are using them. Study carefully. Be prepared.

The conventions included are the most popular versions. The intent is for partnerships that use this book to be on the same page, to know exactly what each bid made by a partner or an opponent means. Quick Reference to Bridge Conventions can be used by steady partners or by casual partners. The book is arranged alphabetically and indexed so that a convention can be found easily.

Written by Alvin Lesser, an award winning author of several books on bridge, accounting, and the Catskill Mountains. Edited by Brent Manley, former editor of The Bridge Bulletin, a publication of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). 80 pages with over 70 color charts and illustrations.

QUICK REFERENCE TO BRIDGE CONVENTIONS is designed to enable bridge players, already somewhat familiar with a convention, to:

1. Get a quick review of the convention.

2. Learn the meaning of bids when opponents or a partner use an unfamiliar or forgotten convention.

3. Become aware of conventions that contain more than one part, such as Brozel, Cappeletti, DONT, etc.

Reading Quick Reference to Bridge Conventions is an ideal way for bridge players to review over 65 of the the most popular bridge conventions and rules. This book is loaded with information about how to use-and avoid abusing--a long list of conventions. It is easy to read as it has no extraneous details. It is written clearly and concisely so that each member of the partnership will have an understanding of their partner's bid. Even if you don't plan to use all of these bidding aids, familiarity with them will help you when you encounter opponents who are using them. Study carefully. Be prepared.

The conventions included are the most popular versions. The intent is for partnerships that use this book to be on the same page, to know exactly what each bid made by a partner or an opponent means. Quick Reference to Bridge Conventions can be used by steady partners or by casual partners. The book is arranged alphabetically and indexed so that a convention can be found easily.

Written by Alvin Lesser, an award winning author of several books on bridge, accounting, and the Catskill Mountains. Edited by Brent Manley, former editor of The Bridge Bulletin, a publication of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). 80 pages with over 70 color charts and illustrations.

57+ Bridge Conventions Made Easy clearly and concisely describes and explains conventions for all bridge players to maximize their bidding, enabling both partners to have an exact understanding of each other's bids. With over 200 charts and tables, and many examples, novice and intermediate bridge players can easily learn how to communicate the most popular bridge conventions. Advanced players are also able to learn new and unfamiliar conventions. This book is easy to read as it has no extraneous details. It is written clearly and concisely so that each member of the partnership will have an exact understanding of their partner's bid. This book is loaded with information about how to use - and avoid abusing - a long list of conventions. 57+ Bridge Conventions Made Easy can be used by steady partners and by casual partners. The book is arranged alphabetically and indexed so that a convention can be easily found. Awarded the 2016 eLit Gold Award for Best How-To Book and the Bronze Award for Education/Academic/Teaching. The Revised 2nd Edition was edited by Brent Manley. Format: four-color, 8.5 x 11 (216 mm x 280 mm), 172 pages. Conventions include:

#1 Balancing

#2 Bergen Responses

#3 Blackwood

#4 Brozel

#5 Cappelletti

#6 Checkback Stayman

#7 Cuebids

#8 DOPI, ROPI, DEPO & REPO

#9 DONT

#10 Drury

#11 Flannery

#12 Forcing

#13 Fourth-Suit Forcing

#14 Gambling 3NT

#15 Gerber (4 Clubs)

#16 Grand Slam Force

#17 Inverted Minor Raises

#18 Jacoby Transfers

#19 Jacoby 4-Suit Transfers

#20 Jacoby 2NT

#21 Jordan 2NT

#22 Journalist Leads

#23 Landy

#24 Lavinthal Discards

#25 Law of Total Tricks

#26 Lebensohl 2NT Over Opponent's Weak Two-Bid

#27 Losing Trick Count

#28 Maximal Double

#29 Michaels Cue Bid

#30 Mini Roman

#31 Minor-Suit Stayman

#32 Namyats

#33 Negative Double

#34 New-Minor Forcing

#35 Odd-Even Discards

#36 Ogust

#37 Overcalls

#38 Preemptive Bids

#39 Puppet Stayman

#40 Responsive Double

#41 Rules in Bridge

#42 Rusinow Leads

#43 Smolen Transfer

#44 Splinter Bid

#45 Stayman

#46 Step Responses to a Strong Two Club Opening

#47 Strong 1 Club (Precision)

#48 Support Doubles

#49 Takeout Double

#50 Texas Transfers

#51 Strong 2 Clubs

#52 Two Over One Game Force

#53 Upside-Down Count and Attitude

#54 Unusual 2NT

#55 Weak Jump Shift

#56 Weak 1NT

#57 Weak Two-Bids

#58 Western Cue Bid

Memories of the Catskills: The Making of a Hotel, by Alvin L. Lesser, with a foreword by John Conway, Sullivan County Historian, takes the reader back to a time and place that was like no other. Families wishing to get out of the stifling heat of a New York City summer and other nearby crowded areas, found the perfect escape in the Catskills. By sharing an insider's view of one person's life in this magical arena, Lesser lets readers experience the fun and the work that went into creating a place that people came back to year after year. Memories of the Catskills is a candid and charming memoir about the rise and fall of the Borscht Belt. Lesser Lodge, a small hotel where the author spent the better part of his childhood, lies at the center of the heartfelt tale. Famous stars of yesteryear came to entertain in the Borscht Belt at Lesser Lodge. The Lodge survived the depression era and then flourished during the years of economic recovery and growth. Not just the story of the Lesser family, but the warmth of people who made others welcome by providing a respite which made them all family-- entertainers and guests alike.