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Secrets of Giron Arnis Escrima

Antonio Somera

Secrets of Giron Arnis Escrima

Learn about the history, culture and techniques of filipino escrima with this informative martial arts guide. The history of the Philippines and her martial arts is a history of resistance and revolt. Born into this fertile time and place, Grandmaster Leo M. Giron became a child of revolution. He grew up in a time when martial arts training was a necessity, not a luxury. His system was taught to him by five renowned masters; his experience honed in the jungle warfare of World War II. The...

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Antonio Somera

The Born to Run

Ryan Reed

The Born to Run

In chronicling his travels to many of America’s dog tracks, Greyhound owner and adoption advocate Ryan H. Reed shatters misconceptions about the controversial sport of Greyhound racing. Reed uncovers a world of magnificent canine athletes and their devoted owners and trainers. With amazing color photographs of the dogs in action, Born to Run gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the daily activities of breeding kennels, racetracks, and adoption centers, detailing the lives of...

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Ryan Reed

Advanced Western Riding

Kara L Stewart

Advanced Western Riding

Newly updated and extended, Advanced Western Riding joins the experience and enthusiasm of equestrienne Kara L. Stewart with the wisdom of Horse Illustrated to bring this definitive guide to advanced western riders. The book goes beyond the fundamentals to teach readers how to refine their riding skills–from the right mental attitude to the proper seat and hands to advanced schooling techniques and competitions. Complete with step-by-step instructions, countless tips, full-color photos, and an...

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Kara L Stewart

Walking on La Gomera and El Hierro

Paddy Dillon

Walking on La Gomera and El Hierro

Walking guide to the islands of La Gomera and El Hierro. The 45 waymarked routes in this guidebook include easy strolls and hands-on scrambles, day walks and long-distance routes including the GR132 and parts of the GR131, which runs the whole length of the Canary Islands. Walks are spread in the guide roughly clockwise and where walks are located beside each other, links between them are often possible, giving you the opportunity to make your own alterations. The routes are described over...

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Paddy Dillon

One Game at a Time

Matt Hern

One Game at a Time

• Matt Hern tackles the issues of sports from a much needed left perspective. Sports are the most significant uniting force in our culture, yet the Left has thus far shied away from engaging in this vital platform.• This book tackles the fundamental aspects that draws us to sports. Specifically the most authentic experiences we gain as athletes and fans. • High art and sports are not dissimilar, and Matt Hern shows us how the only differences fall along class and...

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Matt Hern

Power Games

Jules Boykoff

Power Games

The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.

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Jules Boykoff

The Gun Digest Book of Combat Handg...

Massad Ayoob

The Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery

This book can save your life! The best defense for any scenario is to be prepared. The Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery prepares you for potential life-threatening situations with practical instruction and expert guidance. Author Massad Ayoob teaches you the skills to keep you and your family safe in any violent encounter, including: Selecting the right pistol, ammunition and holster How to use and accessorize your handgun Close-quarter battle techniques used by law enforcement and...

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Massad Ayoob

No Money, No Beer, No Pennants

Scott H. Longert

No Money, No Beer, No Pennants

The Cleveland Indians of 1928 were a far cry from the championship team of 1920. They had begun the decade as the best team in all of baseball, but over the following eight years, their owner died, the great Tris Speaker retired in the face of a looming scandal, and the franchise was in terrible shape. Seeing opportunity in the upheaval, Cleveland real estate mogul Alva Bradley purchased the ball club in 1927, infused it with cash, and filled its roster with star players such as Bob Feller, Earl...

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Scott H. Longert

Beep

David Wanczyk

Beep

In Beep, David Wanczyk illuminates the sport of blind baseball to show us a remarkable version of America’s pastime. With balls tricked out to squeal three times per second, and with bases that buzz, this game of baseball for the blind is both innovative and intense. And when the best beep baseball team in America, the Austin Blackhawks, takes on its international rival, Taiwan Homerun, no one’s thinking about disability. What we find are athletes playing their hearts out for a championship. ...

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David Wanczyk

The Real Madrid Way

Steven G. Mandis

The Real Madrid Way

The untold story of Real Madrid: one of the most incredible turnarounds in sports and business history.Real Madrid is the most successful sports team on the planet. The soccer club has more trophies than any other sports team, including 11 UEFA Champions League trophies. However, the story behind the triumph goes beyond the players and coaches. Generally unnoticed, a management team consisting mostly of outsiders took the team from near bankruptcy to the most valuable sports organization in the...

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Steven G. Mandis

Spieltage - Die andere Geschichte d...

Ronald Reng

Spieltage - Die andere Geschichte der Bundesliga (gekürzt)

Ein Hörbuch wie ein unwiderstehliches Dribbling: Als Spieler, Trainer, Sportdirektor und Talentejäger ist Heinz Höher einer der ganz wenigen, die in 50 Jahren Bundesliga immer dabei waren. Mit ihm brechen wir 1963 in eine Liga auf, in der die Zigarren der Präsidenten zur Halbzeit in der Kabine qualmten. Er hat Ronald Reng von der Schönheit und den Gaunereien des Fußballs erzählt, vom Leben der Spielerfrauen, von Vereinsfürsten und Trainerlegenden. Und auch davon, wie aus der biederen Liga das...

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Ronald Reng

What's the Count?

Tom Dodd

What's the Count?

'What's the Count?' provides mental plans for pitchers and hitters to help them succeed in the game of fast pitch softball. It teaches players how to think the game and sway the odds of success to their favor. If you play baseball the plans and principles presented in 'What's the Count?' will help you succeed also, because the mental plans for the pitcher and hitter are the same in both sports. This book guides players towards...

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Tom Dodd

Duke - Carolina

Art PhD Chansky

Duke - Carolina

Famed sportswriter and Tobacco Road basketball historian Art Chansky is releasing a digital version of his award-winning book, Blue Blood, for the Apple iPad, iPhone and iTouch. Blue Blood details one of sport's greatest rivalries, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and details the emergence, growth and fierce competition that has existed between these two schools, which are located only eight miles apart on Tobacco Road. Blue Blood...

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Art PhD Chansky

They Also Serve...

Ralph Ph.D. Wright

They Also Serve...

Global Religion brings humor smack back into the center of sport. The sport 'pie,' that goes back way beyond Homer, has many ingredients. Fun, recreation, competition, exercise, teamwork, entertainment — all play various roles in various games. Recently work, money and politics have taken some sports by storm. In They Also Serve…Tennis — A Global Religion, the 'good laugh and quiet smile' of Wild…takes a step further. By...

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Ralph Ph.D. Wright

A School Horse Legacy, Volume 1: .....

Anne Wade-Hornsby

A School Horse Legacy, Volume 1: ...As Tails Go By

This is volume one of a series, a collection of the first 17 stories of school horses and the pivotal lessons they taught to Anne Wade-Hornsby as she developed her riding school and became a noted trainer in Riverside, California, from 1971 until the present. It includes an introduction, a personalized glossary, an 18th chapter that extends the activities of the riding school, and finally, emails and reminiscences by former students who rode these particular school horses.

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Anne Wade-Hornsby

Nehalem (Place People Live)

Hap Tivey

Nehalem (Place People Live)

Nehalem explores the impact of illegal international fishing on a community where the ocean provides practical and spiritual meaning for local lives and relationships. Surfers and fishermen from a small Oregon harbor town respond to the threat of salmon extinction, when miles of deadly drift nets begin harvesting their coastal waters. This exciting drama unfolds at a time when national media had not yet reported the devastating effects of factory ships slaughtering the...

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Hap Tivey

Inside the Beijing Olympics

Jeff PhD Ruffolo

Inside the Beijing Olympics

As the only American in the senior management team of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, Jeff Ruffolo takes you behind the scenes and into a world no one has ever before witnessed. This remarkable, first-person account of the Beijing Summer Olympic Games is a riveting narrative taking you inside the greatest Olympics ever! This true story recounts the author's effort to perfect the broadcasting of NCAA Volleyball on the fledgling Internet and commercial radio...

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Jeff PhD Ruffolo

Practical Guide to the Use of the S...

Erik Lawrence

Practical Guide to the Use of the SEMI-AUTO PPS-43C Pistol/SBR

The most current, up to date, full color manual anywhere on the PPS-43 Pistol/Short Barreled Rifle (SBR). Authored by Erik Lawrence, former Special Forces Instructor and owner of one of the most realistic and experienced training companies in the US. 39pages of great to know information with procedures that have been vetted over time. 40+ color pictures to better explain the listed procedures. Developed for weapons...

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Erik Lawrence

Practical Guide to the Operational...

Erik Lawrence

Practical Guide to the Operational Use of the MP5 Submachine Gun

The most current, up to date, full color manual anywhere on the MP5 Submachinegun. Authored by Erik Lawrence, former Special Forces Instructor and owner of one of the most realistic and experienced training companies in the US. 48 pages of great to know information with procedures that have been vetted over time. 60+ color pictures to better explain the listed procedures. Developed for weapons familiarization classes and...

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Erik Lawrence

Practical Guide to the Operational...

Erik Lawrence

Practical Guide to the Operational Use of the Glock

The most current, up to date, full color manual anywhere on the Glock pistol. Authored by Erik Lawrence, former Special Forces Instructor and owner of one of the most realistic and experienced training companies in the US. 88 pages of great to know information with procedures that have been vetted over time. 110+ color pictures to better explain the listed procedures. Developed for weapons familiarization classes and...

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Erik Lawrence

Here We Go Gathering Cups In May

Nicky Allt

Here We Go Gathering Cups In May

Seven European Cup finals. Seven fans. Seven amazing adventures following the team they love. This book celebrates the achievements of Liverpool FC in Europe, and in particular a love affair with Old Big Ears – the European Cup. It's an ongoing affair that began with the legendary and, in those days, unprecedented exodus of 30,000 Liverpool fans to Rome in 1977, has taken in the glories of Paris and Istanbul, endured the horror of Brussels, and still burns as brightly today with Athens...

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Nicky Allt

Ad In Ad Out: Collected Tennis Arti...

Michael Mewshaw

Ad In Ad Out: Collected Tennis Articles of Michael Mewshaw 1982-2015

For the past thirty-five years Michael Mewshaw has covered pro tennis with a novelist’s sense of style, a travel writer’s feeling for place and an investigative reporter’s commitment to unearthing the truth. Like Short Circuit, his description of life on the men’s tour  the New York Times hailed it as one of the best books ever written about tennis, and the most timely”  and Ladies of the Court, his account of the...

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Michael Mewshaw

Early One Sunday Morning I Decided...

Luke Alfred

Early One Sunday Morning I Decided to Step out and Find South Africa

South Africa's many paths, tracks and roads are long and winding. They twist from the familiar to the uncharted. And so do their stories. Luke Alfred spent more than a year travelling South Africa's highways and byways on foot, exploring the contested history of the country's cities and countryside. From Johannesburg to rural Eastern Cape, down the literal and figurative road to Freedom Park, Alfred stumbled on fascinating places and characters. Written with deep insight,...

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Luke Alfred

Making Waves

Chris Epting

Making Waves

In her extraordinary swimming career, Shirley Babashoff set thirty-nine national records and eleven world records. Prior to the 1990s, she was the most successful U.S. female Olympian and, in her prime, was widely considered to be the greatest female swimmer in the world.Heading into the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Babashoff was pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated and followed closely by the media. Hopes were high that she would become the female Mark Spitz.”All...

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Chris Epting

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