Until It Hurts: America's Obsession With Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids

Near the end of a long season, fourteen-year-old baseball pitcher Ben Hyman approached his father with disappointing, if not surprising, news: his pitching shoulder was tired. With each throw to home plate, he felt a twinge in his still maturing arm. Any doctor would have advised the young boy to take off the rest of the season. Author Mark Hyman sent his son out to pitch the next game. After all, it was play-off time. Stories like these are not uncommon. Over the last seventy-five years, adults have staged a hostile takeover of kids’ sports. In 2003 alone, more than 3.5 million children under age fifteen required medical treatment for sports injuries, nearly half of which were the result of simple overuse. The quest to turn children into tomorrow’s superstar athletes has often led adults to push them beyond physical and emotional limits. In Until It Hurts, journalist, coach, and sports dad Mark Hyman explores how youth sports reached this problematic state.

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Roller Coasters: United States and Canada

The third edition of this guide to roller coasters has been updated with new photographs, statistics and descriptions as well as an essay on the future of roller coaster technology and design. Throgmorton is an independent author and roller coaster enthusiast, and he divides this volume for general readers into separate sections for the history of these amusement park rides and a full survey of more than 600 coasters across North America. Appendices include biographies of famous designers, a chronology of wooden roller coasters still in operation and a section containing coaster trivia.

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Knack Car Camping for Everyone

No more rummaging through a chaotically packed car and then frantically setting up camp in the dark—not with Knack Car Camping for Everyone, which distills the authors’ years of experience into an idea-packed, picture-driven guide. The first such reference created for visual learners, it gives you the tools you need to make car camping the pleasure it is meant to be. From choosing a sleeping bag and setting up a tent to overcoming challenges like weather, insects, and safety concerns, the answers are all here in this definitive one-volume camping idea book.
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