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Modern Hand To Hand Combat
By Hakim Isler. 2010
Today's ground soldier can carry up to 60 pounds of equipment. The trade off for this protection is a lack…
of mobility. In a close proximity situation, the modern combat soldier is at a decided disadvantage compared to his more nimble opponent. In Modern Hand to Hand Combat, Isler, a veteran soldier who served in Iraq, has blended the ancient techniques of the samuraiwarriors carrying 60 pounds of armorwith the battlefield combat needs of today's modern soldier. Step-by-step instructions are provided, illustrating how to effectively deal with life and death situations through movements and principles that have held true since the time of the samurai. With almost three hundred illustrations and downloadable material, the guidelines and instructions in this book can greatly enhance the fighters' ability to survive in combat.La pesca de la trucha
By Enrico Silva. 2016
* La pesca de la trucha no es una simple diversión para quien la practica, sino una auténtica pasión: disfrutar…
de la luz al amanecer que revela magníficos paisajes, vivir aunque sea por unas horas en estrecho contacto con la naturaleza y sobre todo desafiar a ese pez tan tenaz... son algunos de los aspectos que la convierten en una actividad única, una excelente terapia contra el estrés de la vida cotidiana. * Con esta práctica guía conocerá los trucos y las diversas técnicas de pesca con los que obtener resultados sorprendentes y grandes satisfacciones personales: pesca al tacto, con cebos artificiales, con mosca, spinning..., cebos y sedales según la técnica adoptada, las mejores técnicas de pesca según las estaciones y el lugar... Enrico Silva, periodista y fotógrafo, ha ganado numerosos títulos de pesca de la trucha, entre ellos el campeonato italiano en 1972. Colabora con algunas revistas italianas de pesca y es asesor de empresas fabricantes de material del sector. En Editorial De Vecchi ha publicado Cebos y carnadas para la pesca en agua dulce y El calendario del pescador.Pray
By Nick Hornby. 2012
Nick Hornby, author of the bestselling soccer classic Fever Pitch, offers an insightful account of an extraordinary sports season. Concentrating…
on a number of significant games in British soccer during the 2011-2012 season, Hornby chronicles the emotional, political, and societal highlights and woes that played out on the field. There were alleged racist clashes, revealing the deep cultural fissures still present in British life. There was a fairy-tale return for the legendary Thierry Henry, and the terrifying collapse of Bolton's Fabrice Muamba, clinically dead for seventy-eight minutes after a heart attack. Throughout, Hornby delves into the impact of the economy on the beloved sport of Britain. As sheikhs and oligarchs buy and sell teams and players at astronomical financial levels, other teams are left behind to struggle with diminished talent. And as income inequality hits all-time highs worldwide, so it does in British soccer. It was a season of tumultuous incident and enormous entertainment, a season more glorious than most. By the end, in May 2012, fans of most clubs had been enthralled, appalled, depressed, elated, shocked, and enraged. Along the way, soccer had somehow managed to encompass politics, high finance, the law, and matters of life and death. Read all about it, and relive it, here.Zen Kobudo
By Mark Bishop. 1996
Kobudo, the famous armed Okinawan fighting art that utilizes common farming implements in combat, and Te, the ancient Okinawan art…
of armed and unarmed combat, are two of the world's most widely practiced yet least-understood martial arts. This book studies the individual Kobudo and Te systems as they are practiced in Okinawa today and discusses their various histories and the lives of the masters who have most influenced them. Spiritualism in the Okinawan arts is also covered in detail, as the author masterfully describes the mix of Zen and native beliefs that are vital to these arts, yet a component that has been all but ignored by previous researchers. In addition, this is the first work to discuss anthropological theories on Okinawa and the development of fighting arts there from the Stone Age. This complete and wide-ranging study of Okinawan weaponry, history, and training is the ultimate guide to these important fighting arts.Cebos y carnadas para la pesca en agua dulce
By Enrico Silva. 2016
* El buen pescador sabe que, para obtener una buena presa, necesita un buen material, pero no basta sólo con…
eso: la elección de los cebos y las carnadas es determinante en esta tarea. * ¿Deben encarnarse cebos animales o vegetales en los anzuelos? ¿El momento del día ha de determinar la elección del engodo? * Con esta obra, todos los pescadores --principiantes o veteranos-- tendrán en las manos una guía completa de las técnicas de cebado: cómo escoger, conservar o encontrar las carnadas, función y composición de los engodos, cebos, qué sedal utilizar en función del tipo de pesca (al coup, a pulso, a la inglesa, con cebo vivo, con peces muertos...) * En los ríos de llanura o junto a los lagos, en las aguas claras de los arroyos o en los torrentes al pie de las montañas, la pesca es un arte del que deben aprenderse todos los detalles para poder apreciar todas sus facetas y percibir ese sentimiento único de unión con la fauna y la naturaleza.Unconscious Scoring
By Dave Stockton. 2012
“The Pro Tours’s hottest coach” (Golf Digest) scores the perfect follow-up to his bestselling golf guide, Unconscious Putting. Dave…
Stockton is hotter than ever. The 2011 U. S. Open winner, Rory McIlroy, studied with the renowned instructor and two-time former PGA champion, and credits Stockton’s teachings as the reason behind his own putting success. In Unconscious Putting, Stockton introduced amateur players to the techniques, strategies, and mental processes he uses to help tour players find so much success on the green. Now, Unconscious Scoring completes Stockton’s short-game education by teaching readers how to make the most of shots around the green—the best place to achieve lower scores. Simplicity is the key to Stockton’s remarkable instruction success, and he breaks down the short game into two components—low shots and high shots—explaining both the technique and the context of how and when the shots should be used. Besides McIlroy, Stockton has worked with champions such as Phil Mickelson, Yani Tseng (the number-one ranked woman in the world), and Annika Sorenstam. In Unconscious Scoring, Stockton illustrates his principles with examples from his week-to-week sessions with these and many more of the game’s top players. Including black-and-white and color photos and instructional video tags, Unconscious Scoring reveals the simple processes and transformative insights that every player—whatever his or her handicap—yearns to master. .Samurai Wisdom
By Thomas Cleary. 2009
One of the best known translators of the wisdom of Asia, Thomas Cleary now adds a new book to his…
samurai canon with Samurai Wisdom, new translations of five classic works on bushido. His previous works, Code of the Samurai and Soul of the Samurai, focused on the practical aspects and the more spiritual, Zen side of the samurai, respectively. Samurai Wisdom, authored by the scholar Yamaga Soko or his disciples, provides the core ideals and lessons that taught the samurai how to lead a proper life under the martial philosophy of bushido.Yamaga's writings inspired the transformation of the samurai from a feudal warrior class to a group with great intellectual, political and ethical leadership and influence. The classic works translated in Samurai Wisdom, despite being over 400 years old, are as timeless and applicable today as Sun Tzu's famous work, The Art of War.The Voyage of the Golden Rule: An Experiment with Truth
By Albert Bigelow. 2018
In late March of 1958 four men set sail in a thirty-foot ketch the Golden Rule for the…
nuclear-bomb-testing area in the Marshall Islands Their sailing was a non-violent protest to the continuation of such tests tests which could threaten present and future generations with the deadly effects of fallout Albert Bigelow master and captain of the Golden Rule has written a full and articulate account of this project the reasons behind the sailing his own difficult personal decision the two voyages from San Pedro California and the government s opposition that resulted in the imprisonment of captain and crew in Hawaii He also gives a record of the navigational details of the voyage including their difficulties in a storm the Coast Guard described as one of the worst in twenty years The reader is given a clear understanding of the theory of non-violence and the author describes some of the other efforts made by the Committee for Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons and by the crew who later sailed another vessel the Phoenix right into the testing area First published in 1959 THE VOYAGE OF THE GOLDEN RULE is an honest and inspiring record of a remarkable voyage and the men who made it It is an important account of a noble action one which focused the attention of the world and its governments on a problem that must be solved immediately if mankind is to survive Above all it is a calm and eloquent plea for peace on earth by a man who felt that it was time to do something about peace not just talk about peaceThe War by the Shore: The Incomparable Drama of the 1991 Ryder Cup
By Curt Sampson. 2012
The true story of the dramatic 1991 Ryder Cup at Kiawah Island, which changed the competition in golf forever. The…
1991 Ryder Cup began in 1985. Up to then, the biennial match between all-star teams of golf professionals from America and Europe was more ceremonial exhibition than real competition, with the Americans consistently beating the Europeans. That all changed in 1985, when the Europeans wrested it away at the Belfry in Sutton Coldfield, England. The Europeans would go on to win again in 1987, and in 1989 the competition ended in a draw. By the time the 1991 Ryder Cup arrived, the American team had vengeance on their minds. The 1991 Ryder Cup also occurred between the United States’s victories in both the Persian Gulf War and the Cold War that year, and the sense of patriotism that came along with the end of those conflicts permeated the national psyche. The competition was broadcast to over 200 million people in twenty-three countries across the globe. Fans forgot golf ’s gentlemanly code of conduct, and loud boos, jeers, and cheers of “USA!” could be heard from the gallery. The Ryder Cup began to resemble the Super Bowl, and it quickly became evident that this match was about more than just golf. In The War by the Shore, veteran golf writer and bestselling author Curt Sampson chronicles this pivotal competition. He interviewed dozens of key players from both Team USA and Team Europe, and provides historical context to explain why the tension was ratcheted so high at this particular Ryder Cup. Well-researched, engrossing, and deeply entertaining, The War by the Shore is the story of when golf lost its manners (and, to some extent, its mind). .An American Caddie in St. Andrews
By Oliver Horovitz. 2013
A hilarious and poignant memoir of a Harvard student who comes of age as a caddie on St. Andrews’s fabled…
Old Course. In the middle of Oliver Horovitz’s high school graduation ceremony, his cell phone rang: It was Harvard. He’d been accepted, but he couldn’t start for another year. A caddie since he was twelve and a golfer sporting a 1. 8 handicap, Ollie decides to spend his gap year in St. Andrews, Scotland—a town with the U. K. ’s highest number of pubs per capita, and home to the Old Course, golf ’s most famous eighteen holes—where he enrolls in the St. Andrews Links Trust caddie trainee program. Initially, the notoriously brusque veteran caddies treat Ollie like a bug. But after a year of waking up at 4:30 A. M. every morning and looping two rounds a day, Ollie earns their grudging respect— only to have to pack up and leave for Harvard. There, Ollie’s new classmates are the sons of Albania’s UN ambassador, the owner of Heineken, and the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Surrounded by sixth generation legacies, he feels like a fish out of water all over again and can’t wait to get back to St. Andrews. Even after graduation, when his college friends rush to Wall Street, Horovitz continues to return each summer to caddie on the Old Course. A hilarious, irresistible, behind-the-scenes peek at the world’s most celebrated golf course—and its equally famous caddie shack—An American Caddie in St. Andrews is certain to not only entertain golfers and fans of St. Andrews but also anyone who dares to remember stumbling into adulthood and finding one’s place in the world. .Paper Tiger
By Tom Coyne. 2006
The riotously funny story of one weekend golfer who lived the dream-devoting a full year to nothing but the quixotic…
quest to qualify at the PGA Q-School A lifelong golfer and former caddy, Tom Coyne could drive the ball 300 yards but always struggled against stiff competition; he had often wondered whether the pros won because they were more innately talented or just because they were more obsessed. On the cusp of turning thirty, overweight, and saddled with a 14 handicap, Coyne embarked on a yearlong quest to do everything he could to lift his game-and find out if he could make it through the PGA Tour Qualifying School. Paper Tiger takes you on a rollicking ride into the beer-gutted underbelly of semipro golf, into a world of crash diets, punishing workout regimens, high-flying sports shrinks, cutting-edge club technology, and obscure tournaments. With his girlfriend as caddy, Coyne traverses from Miami to Chicago to Toronto to see how he stacks up against the competition. Ultimately he takes his game to a new level-or at least a new continent-on the links of Australian Q-School, where amidst forty-mile-an-hour winds he must choose between the love of a fickle game and the love of the long-suffering woman who has stood by him throughout all the shanks, hooks, yips, and chili dips. Brimming with humor and insight about the world's most beautiful and maddening game, Paper Tiger will delight golfers and the sane people who love them.A Sociology of the World Rally Championship
By Hans Erik Naess. 2014
Drawing upon interviews with key people in the World Rally Championship as well as trans-local ethnographic research, this book explores…
questions of commerciality and sporting identity, tackling the sport's controversial handling of the shift into 'the commercial age'. It is essential reading on combining sporting heritage and commercial progress.The Numbers Games
By Chris Anderson, David Sally. 0013
Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understanding#151;and winning#151;the most popular sport on the planet Innovation is coming to…
soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbers#151;a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favor of how things actually are. In The Numbers Game, Chris Anderson, a former professional goalkeeper turned soccer statistics guru, teams up with behavioral analyst David Sally to uncover the numbers that really matter when it comes to predicting a winner. Investigating basic but profound questions#151;How valuable are corners? Which goal matters most? Is possession really nine-tenths of the law? How should a player’s value be judged?#151;they deliver an incisive, revolutionary new way of watching and understanding soccer.The Art of Lawn Tennis
By William T. Tilden.
Top Shot
By A E Networks, Colby Donaldson. 2012
Behind the scenes and behind the trigger on the History Channel's hit TV show.On Top Shot, some of the most…
skilled shooters in the world are gathered together to test their mettle in competition for $100,000. From former military snipers and ex-law enforcement officers to quick-draw artists, modern-day cowboys, and self-taught shooters, they are the best of the best with guns. In this fascinating book, readers will learn what makes Top Shot one of the most popular reality shows on television. * The weapons the contestants depend on to win * Facts and anecdotes about the colorful contestants throughout the years * The history of sharpshooting, and what it takes to be a master gunfighter* Behind-the-scenes stories about how Top Shot is created.Hand-Eye Coordination (Junior Martial Arts #9)
By Kim Etingoff. 2014
Martial arts students don't just learn how to fight. They also learn lots of other important things they use every…
day--like hand-eye coordination, for example. We use hand-eye coordination for everything from writing to playing sports to using a computer. Practicing martial arts can improve your hand-eye coordination, so you'll do better in and out of school. Discover how martial arts can improve your hand-eye coordination!Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?: Speaking My Mind On Race, Celebrity, Sports And American Life
By Charles Barkley, Michael Wilbon. 2005
In this controversial national bestseller, Charles Barkley takes on themajor issue of our time in a series of charged, in-your-face…
conversations with some of America's most prominent figures-featuring new commentary about New Orleans and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.The Squared Circle
By David Shoemaker. 2013
Grantland and Deadspin correspondent presents a breakthrough examination of the professional wrestling, its history, its fans, and its wider cultural…
impact that does for the sport what Chuck Klosterman did for heavy metal. The Squared Circle grows out of David Shoemaker’s writing for Deadspin, where he started the column Dead Wrestler of the Week” (which boasts over 1 million page views) -- a feature on the many wrestling superstars who died too young because of the abuse they subject their bodies to -- and his writing for Grantland, where he covers the pro wrestling world, and its place in the pop culture mainstream. Shoemaker’s sportswriting has since struck a nerve with generations of wrestling fans wholike himgrew up worshipping a sport often derided as fake” in the wider culture. To them, these professional wrestling superstars are not just heroes but an emotional outlet and the lens through which they learned to see the world. Starting in the early 1900s and exploring the path of pro wrestling in America through the present day, The Squared Circle is the first book to acknowledge both the sport’s broader significance and wrestling fans’ keen intellect and sense of irony. Divided into eras, each section offers a snapshot of the wrestling world, profiles some of the period’s preeminent wrestlers, and the sport’s influence on our broader culture. Through the brawling, bombast, and bloodletting, Shoemaker argues that pro wrestling can teach us about the nature of performance, audience, and, yes, art. Full of unknown history, humor, and self-deprecating reminiscencebut also offering a compelling look at the sport’s rightful place in pop cultureThe Squared Circle is the book that legions of wrestling fans have been waiting for. In it, Shoemaker teaches us to look past the spandex and body slams to see an art form that can explain the world. .Inside the Helmet
By Michael Strahan, Jay Glazer. 2007
Following a magical season that ended in Super Bowl glory, one of the NFL's biggest stars delivers a no-holds-barred, hardhitting…
hitting account of life in the league. Michael Strahan is one of the NFL's most talented players, and he is also one of the game's most vocal personalities. In Inside the Helmet, Strahan exposes all of the pressure, pain, and glory of life in the NFL, venturing into territory no previous football author has had the nerve to tread. Bringing the reader right into the middle of the action, Strahan recounts exhilarating victories and reveals the hair-raising details of the ruthless grit required for every win. He gives an honest account of the brutality on the field and the myriad injuries from which he continues to suffer. He describes the relationships among teammates (including an account of his well publicized feuding with Tiki Barber), the practical jokes players use to preserve their sanity and the violent blow-ups that occur when the pressure gets too intense, and the challenges of taking orders from head coach Tom Coughlin and his squadron of assistant coaches. Strahan also writes about dealing with the relentless media coverage, rabid and demanding fans, and the struggle to live up to a multimillion-dollar salary. Finally, in two new chapters for the paperback edition, Strahan writes about the ups and downs of a truly sensational 2007 season that saw the Giants overcome the odds to win the Super Bowl. For the millions of rabid NFL fans, Inside the Helmet is an all-access pass into the huddle, the locker room, and the minds of the warriors on the field.Fantasy Life
By Matthew Berry. 2013
Now a New York Times bestseller! Fantasy football, fantasy baseball, fantasy basketball, even fantasy sumo wrestling: the world of fantasy…
sports is huge, and still growing. Today, more than 35 million people in the United States and Canada spend hours upon hours each week on their fantasy sports teams. And as the Senior Fantasy Sports Analyst for ESPN, Matthew Berry is on the front lines of what has grown from a niche subculture into a national pastime. In Fantasy Life, Berry celebrates every aspect of the fantasy sports world. Brilliant trash talk. Unbelievable trophies. Insane draft day locations. Shake-your-head-in-disbelief punishments. Ingenious attempts at cheating. And surprisingly uplifting stories that remind us why we play these games in the first place. Written with the same award-winning style that has made Berry one of the most popular columnists on ESPN. com, Fantasy Life is a book for both hard-core fantasy players and people who have never played before. Between tales of love and hate, birth and death, tattoos and furry animal costumes, the White House Situation Room and a 126-pound golden pelican, Matthew chronicles his journey from a fourteen-year-old fantasy player to the face of fantasy sports for the largest sports media company in the world. Fantasy will save your life. Fantasy will set you free. And fantasy life is most definitely better than real life. You’ll see.