Sports & Recreation - General

A little-known protein building block, L-carnitine, is an important ingredient in overall good health. It helps burn carbohydrates and fat, helps control the level of brain transmitters, and helps stave off the destruction caused by free radicals. This supernutrient can play an important role...

Lower-risk treatment for obesity, PMS, others.Author: Richard A. PasswaterISBN-10: 0879839392ISBN-13: 9780879839390Publisher: McGraw-Hill EducationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1998Pages: 56Format: SpiralWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 8.24h x 4.10w x 0.15d

How a "friendly" microorganism pays its way in your body.Author: Frank MurrayISBN-10: 0879838078ISBN-13: 9780879838072Publisher: McGraw-Hill EducationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1999Pages: 48Format: SpiralWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.39h x 5.43w x 0.17d

Treating "hyper" children without drugs.Author: HoffmanISBN-10: 0879837799ISBN-13: 9780879837792Publisher: McGraw-HillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1999Pages: 48Format: SpiralWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.10d

A more accurate marker for heart disease.Author: ChallemISBN-10: 0879837225ISBN-13: 9780879837228Publisher: McGraw-HillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1999Pages: 48Format: SpiralWeight: 0.12lbsSize: 8.52h x 5.42w x 0.15d

Cheerleading has become a staple in American culture. The cheerleader straddles two contradictory symbolic poles. This individual is an instantly recognized figure representing youthful attractiveness, leadership, and popularity. Yet, for many, the cheerleader is seen as epitomizing mindless enthusiasm, shallow boosterism, and objectified sexuality....

Play is one of the most powerful cultural forces in contemporary Japan and in other late modern societies. In this notable contribution to our understanding of play, Michal Daliot-Bul explores the intricate and dynamic transformations of culture and play (asobi) in Japan. Along the...

This volume takes a new approach to the study of late eighteenth-century British actresses by examining the significance of leading actresses' autobiographical memoirs, portraits, and theatrical roles together as significant strategies for shaping their careers. In an era when acting was considered a suspicious...

Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic. Child's Play...

"Neither the highly commercialized nature of professional sports today nor the more casual attitude prevailing in amateur activities captures the essence of Indian sport," writes Joseph B. Oxendine. Through sport, Indians sought blessings from a higher spirit. Sport that evolved from religious rites retained...

The Business of Sports, Second Edition is a comprehensive collection of readings that focus on the multibillion-dollar sports industry and the dilemmas faced by today's sports business leaders. It covers professional, Olympic, and collegiate sports, and highlights the major issues that impact each of...

Mastering the Job Search Process in Recreation and Leisure Services, Second Edition, is a practical guide full of tools and advice for recreation and leisure service professionals. This book simplifies the process of securing a job in recreation and leisure service by explaining every...

Sports Ethics for Sports Management Professionals provides students with the necessary tools to make ethical decisions in the sports management field. It presents several ethical models that the sports management professional can use as a platform to make ethical decisions. Directed at future sports...

Fourteen-year-old Kaylee O'Shay is chosen to dance in the team competition at the Midwest Championships of Irish Dance known as the Oireachtas. When she gets her first real job at a horse farm at almost the same time, she can hardly believe her luck....

"Winning Ingredients for Kit Cars" will help you build a winning Soap Box Derby car from your All-American Soap Box Derby kit. Every aspect of building is covered including part inspection, construction techniques and tuning of your racecar. The chapters in "Winning Ingredients for...

This book profiles histories of stadiums and arenas in America and Canada. How they came about and how they became known. Great performances, upsets, anecdotes, pageantry and traditions, all factors that glorifies these venues. Pageantry - Chief Osceloa intimidates Florida State Seminoles foes with...

If you are looking to learn about the exciting sport of paintball from the basics to starting your own team, check out Paintball 101...the first step... the introductory course.Author: Larry SekelyISBN-10: 141207133XISBN-13: 9781412071338Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2005Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

This is an all-inclusive package, not just a book it is the "Paintball Bootcamp" Kit. Included with the book is software available (Look inside the book to see) and a hand picked collection of complementary e-books to improve your game. This system is for...

Zen and the Art of Golf is a sports humor book regarding a round of golf played the Zen way. To play great Zen golf, you need to have good balance, great determination and sublime faith in your own ability. Of course you should...

A book of pictures taken from Kilimanjaro. This is an accompanying book to the Calender of the same name.Author: Samuel BlanksonISBN-10: 141162016XISBN-13: 9781411620162Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/2004Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.17d

This treatise on the mechanics, effects, and classification of special exercises describes the Swedish system of educational gymnastics. The author argues that Swedish gymnastics must be the basis of all rational gymnastics since it is the only system whose details have been elucidated by...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Dame Juliana BernersISBN-10: 1409778274ISBN-13: 9781409778271Publisher:...

Written for beginners, O'Reilly's 'Canasta - How to Play and Win' covers the card game's origins, laws and rules and the book features practical pointers and suggestions. 'Canasta', the rummy-style card game, originated in South America and became popular in the 1940s. Its popularity...

Reprint of a fascinating old book that everyone who is interested in sports and athletics must read. Everything one should know about how one can gain unusually great strength, about the famous strongmen of the past and their training methods... By one of the...

New 2008 Released Book Dares Look At Golf From A Different Viewpoint. With a glut of books available on Golf, how refreshing to see a book that is completely different. Author Stephen Outram, who has been playing the game since he was ten, explores...

As this book is written for boys of all ages, it has been divided under two general heads, The Tomahawk Camps and The Axe Camps, that is, camps which may be built with no tool but a hatchet, and camps that will need the...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: George Bird GrinnellISBN-10: 1406710709ISBN-13: 9781406710700Publisher:...

PHILOSOPHY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS "David Davies's Philosophy of the Performing Arts is long-awaited. Not since Paul Thom's For an Audience has a book in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition focused so clearly, exclusively, informatively, and fairly on all the performing arts. I will use...

This book describes in simple terms the Bareknuckle techniques of the old boxers in a practical way. with this book you can upgrade your training to include fighting technique from a bygone era that are highly effective in unarmed encounters anywhere in the world.Author:...

3rd Edition: If you are a fan of CrossFit you are going to love the WOD Handbook. All The Girls, Benchmark, Hero & Open WOD's are included and beautifully illustrated. It's the most comprehensive WOD guide in the world.Author: Peter KeebleISBN-10: 1389492338ISBN-13: 9781389492334Publisher: BlurbLanguage:...

In modern times, many people have lost the connection to their food. Eat Wild Game is the ultimate cookbook for those who wish to reconnect with their food in a delicious way. It was written with the hunter and home cook in mind. With...

A comprehensive guide to climbing in the Powell River area. Includes 6 cragging areas, 3 big wall areas, a bouldering guide and 4 popular mountain routes in the Eldred Valley, 200 pages of route information for over 380 routes with topos and colour photos.Author:...

School volleyball season has ended. The world of club volleyball begins. To the newbie it can be overwhelming to understand how club volleyball works and how to get the best for the athlete. A bare bones informative book to help get footing in the...

Luke Easter was the eleventh ballplayer to break Major League Baseball's long-observed color barrier. Over his career, thousands watched in amazement as the towering yet mysterious Easter hit the longest, and most, home runs many of them had ever seen. The largely-forgotten Easter reached...

Many useful tables and glossary of marine navigation are in volume II Due to critical feedback from academia, the 2017 edition reconstitutes several deleted or abridged chapters removed from the previous two editions. The additional text warranted the return of a two-volume format with...

This non-fiction book was first written in 1940, but could not be published in wartime conditions because paper was scarce, and minds were not on leisure pursuits. It was revised in the early 1950s. The author's love of the sport of fishing and of...

Goju-Ryu Toudi Jutsu Nyumon is an introduction to Goju-Ryu Karate, one of the major styles of Karate in the world. It focuses on the Seiko Higa-Kanki Izumikawa lineage of Goju-Ryu. Many important topics are covered including: history of the art, biographies of key individuals,...

This collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men. The character of Lupin might have been based by Leblanc on French anarchist Marius Jacob, whose trial made headlines in March 1905; it is also...

The complete edition of Hokama Tetsuhiro's encyclopaedic tomes on the Okinawan Goju-ryu style, all in one single volume. Learn basic and advanced Kata, fighting applications and much more from a world renowned Karate MasterAuthor: Tetsuhiro HokamaISBN-10: 1387148702ISBN-13: 9781387148707Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2018Pages: 578Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.83lbsSize:...

Presented here is the seventh of eight volumes dedicated to the Way of the Raven Knife Combatives System. This book will take the reader through the blade work methodologies of Master instructor Fernan Vargas, focusing unarmed defense against the blade. In this book the...

Presented here is the second of eight volumes dedicated to the Way of the Raven Knife Combatives System. This book will take the reader through the blade work methodologies of Master instructor Fernan Vargas, focusing on intermediate skills. In this book the reader will...

This book is not a course in the Martial Arts but a primer on a realistic approach to self ptotection in the modern world. Learn about the predator mind set, how to improve your odds and the "lucky 7" skill set.Author: Fernan VargasISBN-10: 1387031333ISBN-13:...

A comprehensive look at the skills of the ninja beyond the physical including: Kuji-In (mystic knowledge), Kuji-Kiri (the 9 cuts of power), Meditation, Training perceptions, Ki-Ai, Kyusho (Vital Points), Invisibility, Survival Tactics, and much more.Author: Kevin Vandeyck Ph. D.ISBN-10: 1387004042ISBN-13: 9781387004041Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/30/2017Pages:...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

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...

A Korean Fighting Art is a book showing the Korean fighting techniques widely practiced by the Korean karate art of Kang Yu Do. This book has over 700 images showing fighting techniques from kumite, self defense, blocks, kicks, joint locks, throws, pressure points, and...

Collecting the Top 100 Series, Issue #2. A collector's guide to collecting the Top 100 Toronto Maple Leafs of all time. Whether you collect autographs, jerseys, collectibles, photos, hockey cards, or publications, this book looks at some of the best memorabilia the hobby has...

Mark Bowen, a lifelong hunter and shooter, has finally compiled the data on the effectiveness of shotgun shells and put the selection of the best load for each use into an easily understandable and entertaining format. His engineering training has enabled him to take...

For most of my life I was the least athletic person in the world. I was terrified of group sports. I was absolutely uncomfortable with my physical being. At times I felt completely uneasy in my own skin. So many things made me anxious....

A collection of articles on the martial arts written by the late Guru Eddie Ivester.Author: Eddie Ivester, Fernan VargasISBN-10: 1365913384ISBN-13: 9781365913389Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2017Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d