For Captain Leonardo Fusco the discovery of the sea started at the age of nine. Years later while snorkeling off the coast of Palinuro, he discovered a branch of Corallium Rubrum (red coral) that for centuries has been widely traded and highly valued in the jewelry industry. As a result of this discovery, he started...

How does your opponent put that tricky spin on the ball? Why are some serves easier to return than others? The mysteries behind the winning strokes, equipment, and surfaces of the game of tennis are accessibly explained by Howard Brody through the laws of physics. And he gives practical pointers to ways players can ...

This scarce early work on greyhound racing and breeding was originally published in 1927. It is now very hard to find in its first edition, and consequently increasingly expensive. VINTAGE DOG BOOKS have republished it using the original text and photographs as part of their CLASSIC BREED BOOKS series. The author wa...

Um Livro sobre Pesca Volume 3 - As Técnicas de Pesca. 369 páginas, 310 ilustrações e figuras explicativas. Neste volume fartamente ilustrado você conhece as 73 diferentes técnicas de pesca em rio, mar, lagoa ou represa, desde o pincho com molinete ou carretilha até a pesca com Mosca - Fly. Você saberá como pescar ca...

A 35-year veteran of Notre Dame's athletic department chronicles one of the most exciting seasons in Fighting Irish football history, providing details on the team's rise to a number 1 ranking and offering insights and anecdotes on team stars like Everett Golson and Manti Te'o as well as AP Coach of the Year Brian K...

As an institution that helps bind Canadians to an imagined community, hockey has long been associated with an essential Canadian identity. However, this reductionism ignores the ways Canadians consume hockey differently based on their socio-economic background, gender, ethnicity, and location. Moreover, Canadian cul...

Cycle touring. Adventure. I was born for it. Get on the road with us, and enjoy a 2700 mile bicycle ride from San Francisco to Santa Fe. We will take you with us over snow covered mountain passes, through hot desserts, while you can enjoy the views through the pictures in this book. You can enjoy from your lazy chai...

Journey inside the numbers for an exceptional set of statistical tools and rules that can help explain the winning, or losing, ways of a basketball team. Basketball on Paper doesnÆt diagram plays or explain how players get in shape, but instead demonstrates how to interpret player and team performance. Dean Oliver h...

The next time you play golf leave your woods at home, putt with your 2-iron, and you will be on your way to shooting in the 70s. Sounds radical? Well, you're right on par! Golf enthusiast Michael Laughlin, whose day job is in the film business, reveals his proven, but completely radical strategies that average golfe...

From executive mentoring to life coaching, more and more people are turning to and/or training as coaches. Confident Coaching covers the principles, theories and practices of this crucial skill. It covers the fundamentals for those looking for an introduction to the subject, and also offers practice and extension fo...

Athletic contests help define what we mean in America by "success." By keeping women from "playing with the boys" on the false assumption that they are inherently inferior, society relegates them to second-class citizens. In this forcefully argued book, Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano show in vivid detail how wome...

A manual for building a faster brain and a better you! The Little Book of Talent is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skillsーyour skills, your kids’ skills, your organization’s skillsーin sports, music, art, math, and business. The product of five years of reporting f...

Old School Bodybuilding, is about the great legends that started it all. A comprehensive history from Eugene Sandow to the great Arnold Schwarzenegger and many others. Trace the evolution of bodybuilding as we know it today and learn the history of some of the greatest bodybuilders the world has ever seen. It will t...

The Book of Sports Virtues: High Impact Athletes and Coaches is a masterful collection of stories about the struggles and triumphs of many celebrated athletes. Each chapter is assigned a trait or virtue and uses an athlete's story as a lens through which the reader can gain the insight needed to achieve that trait o...

Firmly situating South African teams, players, and associations in the international framework in which they have to compete, South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid, and Beyond presents an interdisciplinary analysis of how and why South Africa underwent a remarkable transformation from a pariah in wor...

In Day 2 we discuss a complete guide on tennis rules and scoring,