Discover Everything You Need to Start Mountain Biking! Are you interested in mountain biking but don’t know where to start? This book takes away all the guesswork! With*‘A Complete Introduction to Mountain Biking’* you will learn everything from choosing your first bike to basic repairs to the best techniques for ef...

Bill Russell epitomizes innovation, teamwork, and leadership. Now the winner of 11 championships as a player and coach of the Boston Celtics and five-time NBA Most Valuable Player reveals the 11 essential steps to attaining success in your professional and personal life. In this invaluable book, Bill Russell shares ...

"A teacher is never a giver of truthーhe is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst."ーBruce Lee Within the pages of Striking Thoughts, you will find the secrets of Bruce Lee's incredible successー as an actor, martial artist, and inspiration to th...

The Players: the best poker professionals in the world The Challenger: a wealthy banker from Dallas The Game: the richest poker stakes of all time... In 2001, a rich stranger from Texas descended upon the high-stakes poker room in the opulent Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. A self-made billionaire by the name of Andy ...

Self Defense: Why even bother covers exactly what the title entails. It's everything you need to know about how you should train to protect yourself. Where you go to get the training and why should you even bother. Instead of pulling out a bunch of stats and data DJ gives information based on his own real life exper...

1980年代中英談判啟動後，香港的政制發展ーー包括行政長官和立法會議員的產生辦法ーー作為一種特殊憲制安排，持續引發香港社會深入討論，香港的立法機關ーー包括回歸前的立法局和回歸後的立法會ーー也對該問題進行了持續辯論。本套書蒐集了大量香港立法機關會議過程正式記錄，系統提供了相關的辯論資料，方便讀者瞭解香港社會各界對該問題的...

You've seen athletes do it in all sports: *Members of the Olympic bobsled team just before their run, eyes closed, their bodies swaying back and forth as they visualize the run. *Professional basketball players mimicking the free throw, picturing it mentally, before actually taking the ball and shooting it. *The pro...

CLICK HERE to download the first 50 pages from Climbing the Seven Summits * First and only guidebook to climbing all Seven Summits * Full color with 125 photographs and 24 maps including a map for each summit route * Essential information on primary climbing routes and travel logistics for mountaineers, with histori...

For the first time in English, Stephen Earle tells the epic story of Nakamura Tempu, one of Japan’s most inspirational twentieth-century thinkers and teachers, whose mind-body approach to personal transformation influenced hundreds of thousands, including prominent leaders in government, industry, and the arts. Earl...

The martial arts are shrouded in the mystique of Asian lore and nuances. Information is well-known by experienced practitioners, but is often kept as an “open secret” among themselves. Aikido is a self-defense martial art (budo) methodology established in Japan by Morihei Usehiba (O’Sensei; 1883-1969), who blended h...

Modern combat is chaotic, intense, and shockingly destructive. A soldier will experience confusing and often terrifying sights, sounds, smells, and dangersーand he must learn to survive and win despite them. This field manual, containing the essential combat skills the U.S. Army teaches its soldiers, is the Army’s m...

Sport and film have historically been key components of national cultures and societies. This is the first collection dedicated to examining the intersection of these popular cultural forces within specific national contexts. Covering films of all types, from Hollywood blockbusters to regional documentaries and news...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketballーits eye-opening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its transformative influence on the worldーas told through an unprecedented series of candid conversations with the game’s ultimate icons...

Synopsis This book is about the information that is needed to catch fish but more importantly it is about adopting the right mind set to help us be more successful fly fishers. There are many factors to be considered when trying to catch trout on a fly, weather, state of the water, what the trout are feeding on – th...

This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football in Africa, drawing on the expertise of notable scholars from across the world. Africa’s Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football, where interest has focused on international migration. In exploring ...

Music is an accumulation of mediators: instruments, languages, sheets, performers, scenes, media and so on. There is no musical objectin itself ; music must always be made again. In this innovative book, Hennion turns the elusiveness of music into a resource for a pragmatic analysis: by which collective process do w...