Sports & Recreation - General

This book contains a detailed guide on twenty popular card games for two or more players, including rules, tactics, and hints on play. Written in plain and clear language, this text will be of much interest to the beginner and to keen card game...

A guide full of helpful hints to the outdoorsman wishing to make camp life a little more comfortable and catch food in the wild. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly...

This vintage text offers insights into the practice of the taxidermy of insects and was originally published as part of a series covering a broad range of taxidermy subjects. Written by various experts, each volume features a brief history of the practice and is...

This book contains a complete guide to breeding pigeons for profit, with information on common problems, selection, necessary equipment, ailments and diseases, marketing, and many other related aspects. An accessible and comprehensive guide, "Practical Pigeon Production" will be of utility to anyone occupied in...

This vintage book is a fascinating treatise on ballet. It delves into the colourful history of ballet in ancient societies and explores its development throughout the ages from the dances of the Egyptians to modern opera. "The History Of Dance - Ballet" is highly...

The Orange Bowl Stadium. Put to rest and carted away in 2008. It was an example of a bygone era in sports stadium architecture, when simple design provided a basic function. A place just for football born in the late 1930's. The book is...

The summer of 1938 was a pivotal year for baseball and American history. In that same year, John Jordon "Buck" O'Neil, was a rookie first baseman playing his first season in the Negro American League. Born in Carrabelle, Florida, raised in Sarasota and nicknamed...

This book takes into consideration training the gaited horse for the trail or the rail for a show horse. The book is a detailed look at the gaits of the Tennessee Walking Horse, Missouri Fox Trotter, and the Rocky Mountain Horse. More importantly the...

Perry Duke Maxwell was a man that saw, lived and made history in the first half of the twentieth century. But he is unknown to the average citizen. He grew up and moved to Oklahoma when it became a state and lived through both...

This book will take you through the history of knuckle dusters and also present you with information on how they can be used for self defense.Author: Fernan Vargas, James LoriegaISBN-10: 1387110160ISBN-13: 9781387110162Publisher: Lulu PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2017Pages: 132Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

The Repo Men are characters that come across differently than that of your everyday average person. They drive up on your lawn and beat the door: Bam! Bam! Bam! trying to get a payment, and they might eat your food or fall in love...

An essential introductory textbook that provides a comprehensive and student-friendly overview of the key processes involved in developing and managing a theatre in the 21st century. It covers a complete range of topics fundamental to successful commercial and not-for-profit theatre management, from developing a...

James Dixon pairs up with Justin Henry in compiling the third book of the Titan series: Titan Screwed Titan Screwed provides a look at the WWF from January 1997 through WrestleMania XIV, covering every major element of the WWF's evolution into the Attitude Era....

This is a book for sports enthusiasts worldwide, who also enjoy crosswords. There probably isn't another book like it. All the solutions to these crosswords are excerpts from the writing of athletes and sports writers from all parts of the world - and most...

"The poster made you cool, You didn't make the poster cool." -Charles Barkley, Basketball Hall of Famer From Poster Boys: How the Costacos Brothers Built a Wall Art Empire Rediscover your childhood sense of awe with the Costacos Brothers' official collection of the iconic...

Every sporting moment is a moment of grace. Our God is with us through it all, challenging us to be our best, supporting us through suffering and loss, and calling us to respond to the call of Jesus to live lives of integrity, sacrifice,...

The Teaching of Judo is a guide for instructors, coaches, judoka, and parents. Presented from an educator's perspective, this book contains the knowledge gleaned from forty years of experience in teaching judo, and includes the qualities, structure, and situations to avoid.Author: Mark E. RoosaISBN-10:...

The Ultimate Book of Inspiring Quotes for Young Athletes is a compilation of kid-friendly Quotations to not only inspire athletic achievement, but to highlight the values and habits that build a firm foundation of character, on and off the field. Written by the founders...

In 1968, three businessmen left their jobs at Cedar Point in Sandusky to purchase Geauga Lake Amusement Park. Geauga Lake had been a summertime escape since the 1870s, but by the 1960s it had fallen on hard times. The businessmen's company, Funtime, Inc., transformed...

Race Car Technology - Level Three has the best information for setting up a race car you will find anywhere and better than any other source you will come across. I say that with conviction, and here is why. This course will cut no...

Drawing on real-world experience and presented in an informal and accessible manner, Writing and Publishing Research in Kinesiology, Health, and Sport Science provides upper-level students and early-career academics with an essential resource to aid in disseminating research and publishing their first papers. Logically structured...

210 Formula1 drivers, 650 quotes - The Book every F1 fan must have The large number of drivers in the F1 history is surprising. In total, more than 800 drivers have participated in the F1 race weekends. We all remember the champions, but they...

IPSC The Basics is for anyone interested in dynamic sport shooting. The book conveys in a simple, visual way the basic skills of this fantastic sport. Individual skills are broken down into the basic elements and explained for the shooter easy to understand. The...

Would you be able to disappear completely and not get caught if you were forced to do it? Say you were falsely accused of a significant crime and a conviction was near certain, would you be able to go completely off the grid without...

SMOKE A CIGAR by J. Matthew Wright - REVISED SECOND EDITION - CIGAR TIPS FOR BEGINNERS * * * * *With the exciting renaissance of cigar smoking, every novice cigar smoker needs this game-changing guide. It will bring you quickly up to speed to...

Jessamyn Stanley's first book, Every Body Yoga, with 59,000 copies in print, taught us how to do yoga. Now, in Yoke, she tells us why. Writing about what she calls the yoga of the everyday--which is not just about poses but about applying the...

Constantine-Simms's # Take A Knee: The Political Awakening of Colin Kaepernick latest book is unparalleled, because it allows more than 100 strong and defining academic voices to offer their perspective on Colin Kaepernick's controversial act of kneeling during the USA national anthem in 2016,...

Following a fan's personal encounter of Auburn's rise in college basketball, Watson shares how Auburn basketball went from average to among the best college basketball team under the coaching of Bruce Pearl. With a brief history and a peak into the different eras of...

The Science of the Marathon and the Art of Variable Pace Running encourages you to rediscover running by gradually slowing down, running at your own pace, and learning to accelerate. This book is about Veronique Billat's 30 years of research, life studies, and practical...

Adventure Group Psychotherapy: An Experiential Approach to Treatment explores what is necessary for an experiential therapy group to function effectively, and the practical skills needed to inspire success. The authors describe how to use activities in a manner that produces the greatest opportunity for...

Donald R. Belik and four of his friends took their first fishing trip in August 1967 as a way to celebrate their graduation from high school. The idea was to enjoy one last time together, but their journey to the Bottle Lakes twenty miles...

The traditional Kukri is a bladed weapon that is popularly regarded as the national knife of Nepal. As such, it ranks alongside the Navaja of Spain, and the America Bowie as a blade that was pivotal in the wars-and ultimately, the history-of its nation....

Elementary sports fans will shred key vocabulary in this high-interest leveled reader about skateboarding. With a flip and a trick, skateboarding has gone from empty pool pastime to pro sport. Carefully controlled text on equipment and tricks helps early readers catch big air over...

Malcolm Smith once said, "Without motorcycles, people live very boring lives." Author Keith Geisner lives by these words and invites readers to join him as he uncovers an incredible true story behind one of off-road racing's most grueling competitions - The International Six Days...

Today social media is king, influencing everything from art to reality TV to national news and politics. It's hard to imagine a world without social media. But it wasn't always like this. In this fascinating book, sports social media expert Aaron Eisman chronicles the...

The branch of medicine that focuses on the prevention and treatment of sports related emergencies and injuries is known as sports medicine. It also deals with physical fitness. Various injuries related to ligaments, muscles, tendons and bones are treated in sports medicine. A few...

Now available in a fully revised and updated sixth edition, Sport Management: Principles and Applications tells you everything you need to know about the contemporary sport industry. Covering both the professional and nonprofit sectors, and with more international material than any other introductory sport...

Touchdown! In this book, beginning readers are introduced to the football field, rules of play, and football equipment and gear. High-frequency words and repetitive sentence patterns work together with strong visual references to support the earliest readers and create a fun first nonfiction reading...

Are you a good teammate? Do you try your best? Do you follow rules and play fair? See what it means to play on a team. Practice, play, win, and lose with your teammates. Pairs with the fiction title Reiko's Team. Explore these and...

This book provides readers with concrete, tangible tools for treating athletes with eating disorders by discussing issues that are unique to this population and introducing specific ideas to help facilitate recovery among this population. Dr. Bennett integrates her experiences in sport and mental health...

Football has a long tradition in the United States as an exciting sport and a game kids love to play. It's not hard to set up a game of touch football at the park. Regardless of where you play the game, football is a...

Growing up in the rural South, Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field work and child tending, entertaining her young companions with chants and riddles or joining them for a rousing evening of ring dances and singing plays. These songs and...

Author: Nancy RockeyISBN-10: 081631702XISBN-13: 9780816317028Publisher: Pacific Press Publishing AssociationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1999Pages: 239Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.01h x 6.06w x 0.56d

Carrera Panamericana: the Mexican Road Race. In its day it was the longest, fastest and likely wildest international automobile race ever staged. A World Championship event along with Le Mans, the Mille Miglia, N burgring and the Tourist Trophy, most drivers considered it the...

Make money in thoroughbred racing now. No more putting out money with no return. Marino Specogna outlines the steps to become a consistent winner as an owner, and a handicapper. Learn to never claim a losing horse, and learn how to find that special...

Learn To Win: A Major provides the inside secrets of how major golf championships are won from the perspective of one of the leading sport psychologists in golf today. In the first book of its kind, learn from Dr. Mo how three of his...

This richly illustrated work presents innovative training concepts based on recent scientific research and extensive knowledge of the everyday practice of training. It provides running trainers, physiotherapists and physical exercise teachers with the latest insights into the training of running. The training as presented...

Author: Louis JanusISBN-10: 0071837450ISBN-13: 9780071837453Publisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1999Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

"Some people are so poor all they have is money." -Bob Marley Joshua Clauer is a beloved man. He is fierce in what and who he loves. He is uncompromising in walking the line in today's complex, scrappy world. He has no time for...

An alley-oop is a perfect illustration of making a successful pass in pastoral leadership.Author: Walter F. HarveyISBN-10: 8985518305ISBN-13: 9798985518306Publisher: Walter Harvey MinistriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2022Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d