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Ultralight Survival Kit Book

Justin Lichter · FalconGuides
Pages: 106
Format: Paperback

The first book of backpacking tips that is itself ultralight! It focuses on all of the skills and techniques that hikers and backpackers would want at their fingertips while in the outdoors.
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Track & Field Coaching Essentials

USA Track & Field · Human Kinetics
Format: Print book

About the Author USA Track & Field (USATF) is the national governing body for track and field, long-distance running, and racewalking in the United States. Based in Indianapolis, USATF encompasses the world's oldest organized sports, the most-watched events...
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Rozelle: A Biography

Jerry Izenberg · University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover

Rozelle chronicles the life and times of the architect of the modern National Football League, Pete Rozelle, who transformed football into arguably the most successful sports league in the world. While he was never considered a serious candidate for the job of NFL commissioner early on, the position...
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Building Wood Fires: Techniques and Skills for Stoking the Flames Both Indoors and Out

Annette McGivney · Countryman Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Learn everything there is to know about building a wood fire.Fire has brought humans together for millennia. The cozy warmth of the hearth and the adventure of the campfire draw the same attention today as they did 100 years ago.Part how-to, part history of fire, Building Wood Fires is an essential...
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Idiot's Guides: Golf

Brian Crowell · Alpha
Format: Paperback

Golf is one of the most popular hobby sports among men and women of all ages, but if you've never picked up a club before, it's hard to know where to begin. Geared for the absolute beginner, Idiot's Guides: Golf teaches all of the basics in a series of "lessons" using...
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Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice

Belden C. Lane · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the worlds great spiritual writings, Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual treks through the Ozarks and across the American Southwest. For companions, he has only such teachers as Rumi, John of the Cross, Hildegard of Bingen,...
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My Life in Fishing: Favorite Long Stories Told Short

Stu Apte · Stonefly Press
Format: Print book

Stu Apte is one of the most recognized and storied figures in saltwater fishing - in all of fishing - and a larger-than-life legend in the sport. He has held, or still holds, over six dozen IGFA world records for various species, gear, line, and tippet. In My Life in Fishing, as only the most...
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Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play

Robert Alan Brookey · Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover

In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of the same fan experience. Editors Robert Alan Brookey and Thomas P. Oates trace this development...
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Running with Mindfulness: Dynamic Running Therapy

William Pullen · Plume
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Movement is Medicine Run for Your Life offers a radical new approach to mindfulness - a method that originates in the body itself. Using a combination of meditation and exercise, Dynamic Running Therapy (DRT) has proven to be an extremely effective way to process myriad mental health...
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Who Invented the Bicycle Kick?: Soccer's Greatest Legends and Lore

Paul Simpson · William Morrow Paperbacks

Published in time for the 2014 World Cup, the ultimate collection of soccer’s greatest lore and legends, illustrated with 100 black-and-white photos, by two of the world’s most knowledgeable soccer journalists.Who Invented the Bicycle Kick? is a rollicking ride through soccer...
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Is There Life After Football?: Surviving the NFL

Richard S. Jones · NYU Press
Format: Hardcover

In January 2014, President Barack Obama made headlines when he confided to New Yorker reporter Davis Remnick that, if he had a son, he would discourage him from playing in the NFL. "I would not let my son play pro football," he told the writer. Obama's words came on the heels...
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Complete Conditioning for Volleyball

Steve Oldenburg · Human Kinetics; 1 edition
Format: Book

From more powerful attacks to higher block points at the net, you will reach new levels of performance on the court with Complete Conditioning for Volleyball. In this one-of-a-kind video-enhanced resource, University of Illinois volleyball and strength and conditioning coach Steve Oldenburg...
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Archery Fundamentals-2nd Edition

Teresa Johnson · Human Kinetics; 2 edition
Format: Book

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The Bicycling Big Book of Cycling for Beginners: Everything a new cyclist needs to know to gear up and start riding

Tori Bortman · Rodale Books
Format: Paperback

Bicycling is undergoing a renaissance in this country as millions of people are taking to the streets in this nostalgic, beloved pastime. From purchasing one's first bike to learning all its different components, Bicycling Big Book of Cycling for Beginners is the go-to guide for any beginning...
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The Mannings: The Fall and Rise of a Football Family

Lars Anderson · Ballantine
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author Lars Anderson comes the first full biography of the top family in American sports. Two generations of Mannings have produced three star quarterbacks: Archie, the folk hero at Ole Miss and a star with the Saints; Peyton, considered one of the best of all time;...
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