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Monday, May 24, 2010

Running Injuries: Treatment and Prevention

Running Injuries - Treatment and Prevention" offers easy to access tips on treating and avoiding injuries. It is written in a language that is easy to understand. This book will help runners and walkers understand how injuries occur, how to print them, how to heal them: knee, foot, calf, iliotibial band, plantar fasciia, achilles tendon, neuroma, and much more. There is also a section on coming back from an injury and exercising while injured.

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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Red Sox Fans Are from Mars, Yankees Fans Are from Uranus: Why Red Sox Fans Are Smarter, Funnier, and Better Looking (In Language Even Yankee Fans Can Understand)

Each year, millions of these baseball fans engage in verbal (and sometimes physical) tete-a-tete  with the opposing base, and with only around 200 miles of terra firma dividing the two capitals of the "Empire" and the "Nation," this book provides the only well-constructed tutorial on how both tribes can peaceably coexist. Such a guide promises to save the reader from emotional distress, time-consuming arguments, and, most importantly, cleaning bills. (And if all else fails, the book makes a wonderful projectile.)

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Monday, May 10, 2010

Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero

A portrait of the baseball legend who broke Babe Ruth's single-season home-run record describes his childhood in North Dakota, his glory years with the Yankees and the ways in which he was unfairly targeted by the media and adversarial fans.

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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Martial Arts Made Easy

100 cool moves from a range of martial arts disciplines.
Martial Arts Made Easy allows readers to teach themselves skills from such martial arts as karate, kung fu, judo, tae kwon do and ninjutsu. Each featured move is illustrated with step-by-step line drawings accompanied by expert advice that assures learning is fun and safe.
This easy how-to guidebook covers:
  • Training
  • Warm-up exercises
  • Basic positions
  • Equipment
  • Kicks
  • Rolling
  • Hand techniques
  • Tactics
  • Defensive moves
  • Foot patterns and movements
  • Competitions
  • Belt grading