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Great Soccer Drills : The Baffled Parent's Guide
Thomas Fleck, Ronald W. Quinn
International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2002
A "Must Have" Book for Rec League Coaches
If you are a parent who has been drafted into coaching your child's rec league soccer team, this book is a lifesaver. I have been a rec league coach and assistant coach on and off for 7 years, and have been an assistant coach in travel/select leagues. Prior to ...
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Great Big Book of Children's Games
Derba Wise
McGraw-Hill, 2003
From the Board Games Editor at BellaOnline.com
The Great Big Book of Children's Games is full of fun games of all sorts: Ball Games, Water Games, Chase Games, Card Games, and so on. Many of the games are well-known childhood classics, but many of them are either foreign or totally new.
The book offers lots of ...
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Great Basketball Drills: A Baffled Parent's Guide
Jim Garland
International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2001
An Extremely Valuable Basketball Coaching Book!
Basketball books I have read by the dozen. None like this one though. Jim Garland's approach to teaching the game is totally unique. How many times have you seen kids at basketball practices standing in lines waiting for their turn? How many times have you seen teams ...
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Everything Kids? Baseball Book: The all-time greats, legendary teams, today's superstars?and tips on playing ...
Greg Jacobs
Adams Media, 2008
Do you: Know who holds the record for the most career stolen bases? Want to learn how to hit a homerun like Big Papi? Wonder how Babe Ruth earned his nickname "the Bambino"? The Everything Kids' Baseball Book, 5th Edition answers these questions and more! Completely revised and updated, it covers all the bases of the game you love, ...
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Lost Balls: Great Holes, Tough Shots, and Bad Lies
Charles Lindsay
Bulfinch, 2005
The best coffee table book in the house
This book's photographs are absolutely brilliant! I first saw the book walking through a store and picked it up only to open up to a page where a golf ball was stuck in a pile of poo. I was flipping pages before you knew it and every shot had me smiling, laughing, ...
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The Essential Wilderness Navigator: How to Find Your Way in the Great Outdoors, Second Edition
David Seidman, Paul Cleveland
International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2000
Essential to using a compass
I have been using a compass for many years but I always thought there was much more than I knew. I went to using GPS for all my navigation a few years ago. I purchased 3 books on compass usage a couple years ago after my wife and I broke my GPS during a snowstorm in ...
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The Great Book Of Mind Teasers & Mind Puzzlers
George J. Summers
Sterling, 1986
Absolutely Excellent!
This is an excellent book for anyone who wishes to develop his or her deductive reasoning and problem solving skills.It does not only provide you with solutions, but shows you step by step how to get there.Up until quite recently I thought that the ability to reason ...
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The Golfer's Mind: Play to Play Great
Dr. Bob Rotella
Free Press, 2004
A great Mental aide
Since Golf is, in my opinion, a "mental" game, this book really helped me over the hurdles of negative thoughts. Took Dr. Rotella's "therapy" with me on the course......Truly, helped to improve my game I highly recommend it.
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Phil Gordon's Little Green Book: Lessons and Teachings in No Limit Texas Hold'em
Phil Gordon
Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2005
Helped Me Win
I picked this book up after looking at a bunch of the other ones out there. I've played for many years, but never really analyzed the game in detail. It seems to give good solid advice in short sections without all the fluff. The day I picked it up I read the first 4 ...
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Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight
Chris Onstad
Dark Horse Comics, 2008
"I ain't Frederick H. Coca-Cola but I do know something about building a brand"
I have been a fan of Achewood for many years and when the author announced that Dark Horse was publishing a hardcover edition of his greatest and most epic storyline, I preordered it immediately. Upon reading it, I find myself both completely satisfied and pleasantly ...
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Phil Gordon's Little Blue Book: More Lessons and Hand Analysis in No Limit Texas Hold'em
Phil Gordon
Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2006
Gordon and Harrington far above the rest...
Phil Gordon's three book set rivals Harringtons' as the best poker books on the market. This one in particular goes through several hands and strategies as well as warnings on getting trapped or lazy whilst playing.
The Black and Green books are also great, in fact ...
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Seeing Red
Graham Poll
HarperCollins UK, 2008
A Premier League and international referee with 26 years of combined experience, Graham Poll handled some of the toughest games in soccer history?in total more than 1,500 matches?before his retirement in 2007. In this brilliant, no-holds-barred autobiography, Poll reveals what really goes on between the players in the tunnel before a match and in ...
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Where Golf is Great: The Finest Courses of Scotland and Ireland
James Finegan
Artisan, 2006
Great Pictures
Mr. Finegan has produced another in his very successful series of books about the pleasures offered by the golf courses in Great Britain and Ireland. The text is of the same high quality as the photographs by Messrs. Lambrecht and Thompson. The result is an elegant ...
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The Great Book of Washington DC Sports Lists (Great Book of Sports Lists)
Len Shapiro, Andy Pollin
Running Press, 2008
Sports talk in America has evolved from small-time barroom banter into a major media smorgasbord that runs 24/7 on TV and radio. With hundreds of billions of dollars generated annually by pro and college teams in major markets nationwide, sports fans across the country are more dedicated than ever to their teams. And when it comes to sports ...
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The SAS Self-Defense Handbook: A Complete Guide to Unarmed Combat Techniques
John "Lofty" Wiseman
The Lyons Press, 2000
Excellent Primer For Civilian Combatants
I purchased this title for a civilian friend of mine who was interested in the unarmed combat techniques I was taught while serving with this Regiment in Rhodesia during the 1970's. While I agree with another reviewer that remarked that the laws in The United States ...
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