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Gathering tips from outdoor experts is just as important as packing the right gear and bringing a map. In Everyday Wisdom, Karen Berger offers amateurs and experienced backpackers alike practical problem-solving advice that can lead to more enjoyable adventures in the backcountry–from preventing blisters to finding and patching an air-mattress hole to treating a case of poison ivy. Berger is also a strong proponent of trail improvisation, and shares ideas for improvising with items you might have packed or items found in the natural world: for example, a “cheese cloth can be used as a prefilter, bandage, mosquito netting, or coffee filter” and vegetation along the trail, such as “wild onions, dandelion leaves, Indian yamparoot and other wild edibles can liven up a one-pot meal.” In other words, Everyday Wisdom is filled with the sort of information that every outdoors enthusiast can use. –Jenny Burritt

Well organized and entertaining, these two additions to the field of camping literature provide a great deal of information to outdoor adventurers, though some overlap does exist. Berger, a contributing editor to Backpacker magazine, gives practical advice to help hikers survive and enjoy their outdoor experiences, addressing pretrip planning, food, cooking, weather, health, first aid, and water. Her love of camping and the wilderness is obvious throughout, making for a fun as well as vastly informative book. Howe, a field editor for Backpacker magazine, contributes the first chapter (about hiking) to Making Camp. Alan Kesselheim, a contributing editor for Canoe & Kayak magazine, writes the second chapter, dealing with the particulars of travel by canoe, kayak, and raft, and subsequent chapters are also written by experts. The final chapter addresses the highly adventurous sport of winter camping. Part of a series on backcountry skills, these two works are comprehensive and easy to use. For public libraries.?Melinda Stivers Leach, Precision Editorial Svcs., Wondervu, Col.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Here are expert tips and tricks for hikers and backpackers covering everything from packing and planning to field repairs and emergency improvisations.

Gathering tips from outdoor experts is just as important as packing the right gear and bringing a map. In Everyday Wisdom, Karen Berger offers amateurs and experienced backpackers alike practical problem-solving advice that can lead to more enjoyable adventures in the backcountry–from preventing blisters to finding and patching an air-mattress hole to treating a case of poison ivy. Berger is also a strong proponent of trail improvisation, and shares ideas for improvising with items you might have packed or items found in the natural world: for example, a “cheese cloth can be used as a prefilter, bandage, mosquito netting, or coffee filter” and vegetation along the trail, such as “wild onions, dandelion leaves, Indian yamparoot and other wild edibles can liven up a one-pot meal.” In other words, Everyday Wisdom is filled with the sort of information that every outdoors enthusiast can use. –Jenny Burritt

Everyday Wisdom: 1,001 Expert Tips for Hikers (Backpacker Magazine)

The Backpacker’s Field Manual, Revised and Updated: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Backcountry Skills

RICK CURTIS is the director of the Outdoor Action Program at Princeton University, one of the largest and most successful college outdoor programs in the country. He lectures regularly on topics ranging from outdoor leadership to risk management. Rick has been backpacking around the world for more than twenty-five years.

When it was first published in 1998, The Backpacker’s Field Manual set the standard for comprehensive backpacking books. Now exhaustively updated to offer a more complete view of backpacking today, it covers the latest developments in gearsuch as Global Positioning Systems and ultralight hiking equipmentfirst aid, and Leave No Trace comping, and includes a chapter devoted to outdoor leadership resources and basics. Beginners and experienced hikers alike will find this book indispensable for trip planning strategies and also as a quick reference on the trail for:

BACKCOUNTRY SKILLShow to forecast the weather, identify trees, bear-proof your campsite, wrap an injured ankle, and more–illustrated with more than 100 line drawings.

TRICKS OF THE TRAILtime-tested practical lessons learned along the way

GOING ULTRALIGHTdownsizing suggestions for those who want to lighten up

Every traveler knows that space in a backpack is limited, so on your next trip, carry the only guide you’ll ever needthis oneand take to the great outdoors with confidence.

The Backpacker’s Field Manual, Revised and Updated: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Backcountry Skills

Culture Smart! has come to the rescue of hapless travellers, Sunday Times Travel – …the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries, Global Travel – …full of fascinating, as well as common sense, tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas, Observer – …as useful as they are entertaining, Easy Jet Magazine – …offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world, New York Times.

GINA TEAGUE is a trainer and writer on cross-cultural management, international relocation, and global career development. A native of the United Kingdom, she has lived and worked in France, Spain, Brazil, the U.S.A., and Australia. During her sixteen years in America she developed a successful intercultural consultancy serving the corporate, academic, and non-profit sectors. She also gained an M.A. in Organizational Psychology and an EdM in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University, and produced two native New Yorker children. Gina has written extensively on expatriate adjustment and career management issues for industry journals and Web sites. A cofounder of Isis Group International, an intercultural training company, she has recently relocated to Sydney, Australia.

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.

Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include

* customs, values, and traditions
* historical, religious, and political background
* life at home
* leisure, social, and cultural life
* eating and drinking
* do’s, don’ts, and taboos
* business practices
* communication, spoken and unspoken

“Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers.” Sunday Times Travel

“… the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries.” Global Travel

“…full of fascinating-as well as common-sense-tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas.” Observer

“…as useful as they are entertaining.” Easyjet Magazine

“…offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world.” New York Times

Culture Smart! has come to the rescue of hapless travellers, Sunday Times Travel – …the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries, Global Travel – …full of fascinating, as well as common sense, tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas, Observer – …as useful as they are entertaining, Easy Jet Magazine – …offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world, New York Times.

USA – Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs & etiquette

CultureShock! USA: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

Newly updated and redesigned in 2005! –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

CultureShock! USA: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Cultureshock USA: A Survival Guide to Customs & Etiquette)

Trail running combines all the health and fitness benefits of walking and road running with the outdoor adventure of suchsports as hiking and mountain bikingnot to mention the spiritual renewal from a day spent communing with nature. No wonder it has become one of the worlds most popular fitness activities. The Ultimate Guide to Trail Running provides all the essential information needed, including finding trails and getting started; managing ascents and descents with ease; maneuvering off-road obstacles; strength, stretching, and cross-training exercises; selecting proper shoes, clothing, and accessories; safety on the trail; and racing and other trail events.

Adam W. Chase, an accomplished ultrarunner, snowshoe racer, and adventure athlete, is president of the All American Trail Running Association.

Nancy Hobbs has been running trails and directing running events since the mid-1980s, and her articles and photographs have been published in such magazines as Trail Runner and Runners World. She is the founder and executive director of the All American Trail Running Association.

Guide to running’s fastest growing endurance and adventure sport. Everything You Need to Know About Equipment * Finding Trails * Nutrition * Hill Strategy * Racing * Avoiding Injury * Training * Weather * Safety
The Ultimate Guide to Trail Running, 2nd: Everything You Need to Know About Equipment * Finding Trails * Nutrition * Hill Strategy * Racing * Avoiding Injury * Training * Weather * Safety

Running Through the Wall: Personal Encounters with the Ultramarathon

A compelling read even for those who have no intention of trying to run 31 miles or more at once. — Mark Taylor, Outdoors Editor, The Roanoke Times

Running to the limits of human -endurance.

For those who are not content to run merely 26.2 miles, there is ultramarathoning. Some of the biggest ultras are 50 or 100 miles long, races in which people run all day, through the night and on into the next day. What makes them tick? What thoughts go through their minds at mile 93? How is the pain different from that of a marathon? How can you train for such a colossal undertaking? All these questions are answered in 35 interviews with ultramarathoners. Ultramarathoning is the logical next step for those who burn with a desire to achieve and explore their limits. Every kind of ultra runner is included here, and this book will be an indispensable volume for anyone dreaming of running long.

Running Through the Wall: Personal Encounters with the Ultramarathon

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you’ll find three-dimensional drawings, floor plans, and detailed neighborhood maps, as well as timelines, charts, and even popular bus routes. Broken into several sections–”Introducing Great Britain,” “Region by Region” (including London and environs, Scotland, and Wales), “Traveler’s Needs,” and “Survival Guide”–the guide paints a complete picture of the country. Readers will especially appreciate the hundreds of color photos of everything from London’s double-decker buses to the ancient formations at Stonehenge. You’ll also find street-by-street illustrated city walks (Covent Garden, Westminster), as well as scenic hikes in the Scottish highlands and the Lake District, with plenty of listings for inns and fish-and-chip taverns along the way. –Jill Fergus –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

…You feel, looking at them, as if you could close the book and step into the street. — Contra Costa Times

…considered to be the world’s best travel resource to over 30 destinations around the world, make it easier to plan a splendid vacation. — North American Press Syndication

Both novice and experienced travelers will be captivated. — US News & World Report

Each book is a visual as well as informational feast about a particular place. — The New York Times

Each book is a visual as well as informational feast about a particular place. –The New York Times — The New York Times

Encyclopedic in scope, it’s meant to be used before, during, and after your stay. — Travel & Leisure

The Best Guidebooks Ever — SKY MAGAZINE

The best travel guides ever. — Sky Magazine

The most graphically exciting and visually pleasing series on the market. — Chicago Tribune

Want to know where to get a great espresso on your way to the Uffizi? Or how much to tip a hotel maid in New York City? Try these travel guides, each an intricate trove of 3-D aerial views, landmark floor plans, color photos and essential eating, shopping and entertainment info. With titles covering Paris, Prague, and London, these pocket-sized guides are like a Michelangelo fresco: deliriously rich in detail. –People Magazine

DK Eyewitness Travel’s full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are the only guides that work equally well for inspiration, as a planning tool, a practical resource while traveling, and a keepsake following any trip.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you’ll find three-dimensional drawings, floor plans, and detailed neighborhood maps, as well as timelines, charts, and even popular bus routes. Broken into several sections–”Introducing Great Britain,” “Region by Region” , “Traveler’s Needs,” and “Survival Guide”–the guide paints a complete picture of the country. Readers will especially appreciate the hundreds of color photos of everything from London’s double-decker buses to the ancient formations at Stonehenge. You’ll also find street-by-street illustrated city walks , as well as scenic hikes in the Scottish highlands and the Lake District, with plenty of listings for inns and fish-and-chip taverns along the way. –Jill Fergus –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain

Scotland

Thank goodness for Top 10 guides. Mail on Sunday –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

DK Eyewitness Travel’s full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are the only guides that work equally well for inspiration, as a planning tool, a practical resource while traveling, and a keepsake following any trip.

Each guide is packed with the up-to-date, reliable destination information every traveler needs, including extensive hotel and restaurant listings, themed itineraries, lush photography, and numerous maps.

Scotland (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Kathy and Craig are dedicated to each other, and to hiking, in that order. Their second date was a 32-km (20-mile) dayhike in Arizona. Since then they haven t stopped for long.

They’ve trekked through much of the world s vertical topography, including the Himalayas, Patagonian Andes, Pyrenees, French Alps, Scottish Highlands, Dolomites, Sierra Nevada, North Cascades, Colorado Rockies, New Zealand, Spain’s Costa Blanca Mountains, and canyons of the American Southwest. In 1989, they moved from the U.S. to Canada, so they could live near the Canadian Rockies the range that inspired Don’t Waste Your Time in the Canadian Rockies The Opinionated Hiking Guide. It was the first of their refreshingly unconventional guidebooks.

While living in Vancouver, British Columbia, they explored the Coast Mountains and the North Cascades, then wrote hiking guidebooks on each of those ranges. Later, while living in a cabin on fiord-like Kootenay Lake (between B.C.’s Purcell and Selkirk mountains), they researched and wrote a hiking guidebook on that area.

Kathy and Craig have since returned to the Canadian Rockies and now live in Canmore, Alberta, 15 minutes’ drive from Banff town. Their desire to hike, however, keeps them travelling constantly. For example, they migrate each spring and fall to the high-desert canyon country of southern Utah. Their guidebook on that sensual, other-worldly landscape is especially stimulating.

Kathy and Craig agree: no matter how arduous the trail, or how severe the conditions, hiking is the easiest of the many tasks necessary to create a guidebook. What they find most challenging is having to sit. They spend twice as much time at their computers writing, organizing, editing, checking facts, rewriting, re-organizing, re-editing, re-checking facts as they do on the trail.

The result is worth it. Kathy and Craig’s colourful writing, opinionated commentary, and enthusiasm for the joys of hiking make their guidebooks uniquely helpful and compelling.

Go to their website at hikingcamping. Click on Authors to see a TV interview with them, and also to listen to Craig s speech, Why the World Needs More Hikers.

Click on Images to view slideshows of many of the world’s most exciting hiking destinations. Follow the nomads, Kathy and Craig, by clicking on Blog.

The Canadian Rockies are extroverts who bare their full, rock-hard musculature for all to see. Other ranges, blunt and cloaked in forest, are shy compared to this brazen northern breed.

In musical terms, these mountains are avant-garde. They ve abandoned standard chord progressions and scales in favor of improvisation. The resulting shapes are fantastic. Jazz set in stone, lofted into the sky.

Within the Canadian Rockies is a town world-famous among hikers: Banff. And if that s your destination, Done in a Day Banff: The Ten Premier Hikes is the one book you must have in your pack.

Done in a Day Banff describes where to invest your limited hiking time to enjoy the greatest scenic reward. Choose an easy, vigorous, or challenging hike. Start your adventure within a short drive of town. Witness the wonder of Banff National Park and be back for a great meal, hot shower, and soft bed.

90 photos. Trail maps for each trip. Full color throughout.

Done in a Day Banff: The 10 Premier Hikes

50 Walks and Hikes in Banff National Park

For the past 35 years, Brian Patton has interpreted the natural and human history of the Canadian Rockies in books, on film and through presentations. His other books include the Canadian Rockies Trail Guide, Parkways of the Canadian Rockies, Tales from the Canadian Rockies, Mountain Chronicles: Jon Whyte and Bear Tales from the Canadian Rockies. He continues to work on a variety projects from his home in Invermere, British Columbia. Following the publication of the Canadian Rockies Trail Guide, Bart Robinson authored several books on the Canadian Rockies: Banff Springs: The Story of a Hotel, Columbia Icefield: A Solitude of Ice and Great Days in the Rockies: The Photographs of Byron Harmon. Subsequently, he has enjoyed a long career as a journalist, editor, and conservationist. He currently lives in Canmore, Alberta.

Brian Patton and Bart Robinson, authors of the best-selling Canadian Rockies Trail Guide, detail their favourite easy walks, short hikes, and day trips in one of the world s most spectacular national parks. Each trail is described in detail and accompanied by easy-to-understand symbols, a walking map, and colour photography. Other features include; detailed descriptions of 50 walks and hikes, plus dozens of side trips; trails classified by colour-coded regions; more than 100 stunning color photographs; 50 topographical maps; sources for information, maps, backcountry lodging, and transportation.

50 Walks and Hikes in Banff National Park

Gambling on college hoops is a waste of money.

Investing in college basketball can be much more profitable than investing in stocks, bonds, real estate, and other more conventional assets and doing so can be a lot more fun.

There are a set of tools and techniques for identifying good basketball investments that can be mastered by anyone with an interest in basketball, basic mathematical skills, and a computer with a spreadsheet program and Internet access.

Wagering on college basketball must be viewed like other investments — applying sound financial and economic principles. For that reason, it is important to adopt a financial perspective to think of wagers as “investments,” sports books as “exchanges,” winnings as “returns on investments,” and the vigorish as “commissions.”

College basketball provides an investing opportunity for the individual investor. While certainly there are professionals in sports wagering, most wagering is done by individuals. To win big it is only necessary to be more insightful than most other individual investors, not to beat the professionals.

In contrast, in the stock and bond markets, most of the trades are made or influenced by thousands of professionals. These traders are supported by hundreds of sophisticated researchers who have more information about companies than individual investors can ever have.

Today, there are enormous amounts of information available for Division I college basketball teams and the games they play. An individual investor can have access to virtually all of the information that is available to the most sophisticated professionals and more information than is used by competing individual investors. By applying proven analytical techniques largely simple math individual investors can gain a substantial advantage.

This is the most comprehensive book on college basketball wagering. It addresses how the market and the many sports books work, the different types of wagering opportunities available, how to select a conference to specialize in, the process of identifying advantageous investment opportunities and making investments, the key factors in assessing teams and the match-up in a specific game, money management, and the needed information and technology infrastructure.

Investing in College Basketball shows precisely how all of the tools and techniques are successfully applied. It includes all of the working papers for team assessments and each investment for the teams in the Atlantic 10 Conference for the 2003-2004 season. The results for the season were a 71% win rate and a return on an original bankroll exceeding 300%.

Mr. Seidel has specialized in investing in mens college basketball for more than a decade. He has developed the tools and techniques described in Investing in College Basketball based on actual experience and many of the fundamental financial and economic principles that apply to other types of investments. Mr. Seidel has built and run management and information technology consulting businesses. Most recently he ran a $350M consulting business that addressed several industries including banking and financial services. He received degrees in economics and finance from the University of Chicago.

Investing in College Basketball provides a comprehensive set of tools and techniques for successfully wagering on college basketball. It shows how the returns – winnings — from investing in college basketball can be far greater than investing in stocks and bonds. These returns can be achieved by anyone with an interest in basketball, basic mathematical skills, and a computer with spreadsheet programs and Internet access. The power of the methodology is demonstrated by actual investing results for the 2003-2004 season of the Atlantic 10 Conference. The book includes an analysis of investment outcomes for the A-10 Conference, the working papers for assessing each team, and the analysis of each game for which an investment was made. There are extensive examples of how theory is applied in analyzing actual games and showing how good analysis consistently pays off.

Investing in College Basketball

Weighing the Odds in Sports Betting

King Yao: I have analyzed and bet on sports for a long time, but it was after finishing writing Weighing the Odds in Hold em Poker that I turned my main focus on sports betting. There are many different ways to approach sports betting, and the more I delved into it, the more interesting and challenging I found it. You can approach it from a handicapper’s point of view and try to make a better line than the line makers and the market. Or you can approach it from a relative-value player’s point of view and make distributional, correlated and derivative bets. Or you can approach it from the point of view of a scalper or middler. There are numerous ways to attack the sports betting market and find positive Expected Value.

I did enjoy the process of writing Weighing the Odds in Hold em Poker and decided to write about some of the things I learned about sports betting. In February, 2006, I submitted my first article to the Two Plus Two Internet Magazine. I enjoyed writing the article as it forced me to focus on a specific topic and explore it in-depth and from different angles. After a few months of writing articles, I started writing this book.

Sports betting can be attacked intelligently. Smart sports bettors do not gamble the same way as tourists play roulette or retirees play the slot machines. Instead, smart sports bettors are making bets that they have thought through carefully with supporting logic and/or research. The purpose of this book is to give you tools to succeed at sports betting, to show you how to evaluate, compare and view sports betting from an analytical perspective, not from a gambling perspective.

This book by King Yao, author of the widely-acclaimed Weighing the Odds in Hold ‘em Poker, should be used as a guideline to sports betting rather than a blueprint. The sports betting market changes and adapts quickly. The underlying principles shown in this book should help you adapt and continue to make good bets even when the market changes.

This book is for you if you want to think analytically about sports betting. It is for you if you do not want to be spoon-fed supposed winners, but want to get some ideas to improve your game. You battle bookmakers and line makers constantly; betting sports is a game of maneuvers and adjustments. You can use as many weapons as possible in this continuous fight. This book should help in that regard.

Weighing the Odds in Sports Betting

High-school sportslike sports at every levelare seldom just about competition. Politics, money, ambition, and race are often as important as speed and strength. Jennings, a Sports Illustrated veteran, shadowed the football program at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 2007 season. It wasnt just any season; it was the fiftieth anniversary of the 1957 integration of the school. He traces the tumultuous racial machinations of the Little Rock school district through the years, noting the white migration to the suburbs and the rise of private schools, which serve as a haven for those who wish to avoid the mostly black public-school system. In this often-difficult environment, head coach Bernie Cox built a football powerhouse around discipline, accountability, citizenship, and tradition. But the anniversary year of 2007 would not be an easy one. The kids, seemingly divorced from the winning tradition, never bonded as teammates or, perhaps, were just not as talented as their predecessors. Jennings takes readers on a thoughtful, sometimes disheartening tour of urban high-school athletics, a tour that provides no answers but raises all the right questions. –Wes Lukowsky –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Jennings writes . . . with authority and power. New York Times Book Review
A rich portrait of a complicated place and its people. Arkansas TimesCarry the Rock transcends the season-on-the-brink genre. The Wall Street Journal A great sports book Arkansas LeaderA native son juxtaposes passion for football and the tumultuous history of race relations in Little Rock. The result is a must-read page-turner.Minnijean Brown Trickey, Little Rock Nine memberBecause history has decreed a special role for Little Rock Central High, its Tigers have become more than your typical football team. Like the community and the school, they, too, are caught up in forcesracial, social, demographic, economicthat are larger than themselves. This book is an absorbing, touching chronicle of Coach Bernie Coxs struggling 2007 Tiger team. David Margolick, author of Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock A sweeping yet nuanced portrait of race in America a picture of how far we have come since the Little Rock Nine made their historic stand and of how far we still have to go. Jonathan Mahler, author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning

In 1957, nine African American teenagers faced angry mobs and the resistance of a segregationist governor to claim their right to educational equality. The bravery of the Little Rock Nine, as they became known, captured the countrys imagination and made history but created deep scars in the community.

Jennings writes . . . with authority and power. New York Times Book Review
A rich portrait of a complicated place and its people. Arkansas TimesCarry the Rock transcends the season-on-the-brink genre. The Wall Street Journal A great sports book Arkansas LeaderA native son juxtaposes passion for football and the tumultuous history of race relations in Little Rock. The result is a must-read page-turner.Minnijean Brown Trickey, Little Rock Nine memberBecause history has decreed a special role for Little Rock Central High, its Tigers have become more than your typical football team. Like the community and the school, they, too, are caught up in forcesracial, social, demographic, economicthat are larger than themselves. This book is an absorbing, touching chronicle of Coach Bernie Coxs struggling 2007 Tiger team. David Margolick, author of Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock A sweeping yet nuanced portrait of race in America a picture of how far we have come since the Little Rock Nine made their historic stand and of how far we still have to go. Jonathan Mahler, author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning

Carry the Rock: Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America

When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of people left homeless, and laying the plans for rebuilding. But as John M. Barry expertly details in Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, some calamities transform much more than the landscape.

While tracing the history of the nation’s most destructive natural disaster, Barry explains how ineptitude and greed helped cause the flood, and how the policies created to deal with the disaster changed the culture of the Mississippi Delta. Existing racial rifts expanded, helping to launch Herbert Hoover into the White House and shifting the political alliances of many blacks in the process. An absorbing account of a little-known, yet monumental event in American history, Rising Tide reveals how human behavior proved more destructive than the swollen river itself. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known — the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America

Kim Fenske hikes extensively in the wilderness areas of Colorado. He was wilderness ranger, wildland firefighter, and forest protection officer with the Forest Service in the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area. He has served on the board of directors of Friends of the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area. His experience also includes working on the legislative Environmental Resources Committee and Department of Justice Public Intervenor’s Office on legal matters concerning environmental planning and protection. In addition, he has taught many topics in environmental science and policy.

Fenske is the author several hiking books filled with hundreds of photographs of Colorado wildlife, wildflowers, and scenery. His books are enjoyed by thousands of outdoor enthusiasts. His current electronic book titles are published on Amazon for Kindle, (amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks/b/ref=sv_kinc_1?ie=UTF8&node=1286228011), as well as Barnes and Noble for Nook, (barnesandnoble/ebooks/index.asp). Search for these titles, “Greatest Hikes in Central Colorado,” “Holy Cross Wilderness Area,” and “Eagles Nest Wilderness Area.”

Greatest Hikes in Central Colorado is a full-color hiking and wildflower guide with 30 outstanding trails, 30 topographic maps and elevation profiles, and 100 wildflower photographs.

Greatest Hikes in Central Colorado: Summit and Eagle Counties

100 Classic Hikes Colorado

SCOTT WARREN has lived in the Southwest for more than 35 years. He has written about and photographed the outdoors for Audubon, Outside, Sierra, Travel & Leisure, Time, Smithsonian, and various National Geographic publications.

The most popular guidebook to Colorado is now the most up-to-date guidebook to the state. Updated to current conditions, this spectacular third edition features 10 new hikes, including Bear Peak, Lake Isabelle, Mount Falcon, Devil’s Head, Red Rock Canyon, North Cheyenne Caon, French Pass, Tater Heap Loop, Mosca Pass, and No Name Lake. Beautiful color photographs accompany this collection of the absolute best hikes Colorado has to offer. With this guide’s bounty of useful new informational features, hikers will be well equipped to choose a trip that suits their needs.

* Best reviewed hiking guidebook to Colorado * Includes 10 new hikes * Updated trail guide and contact information * Now includes topographic maps, elevation profiles, and a trails-at-a-glance chart

100 Classic Hikes Colorado

Exercise Physiologist Tom Holland holds a Master’s Degree in Exercise Science and has been certified by such organizations as the American College of Sports Medicine and the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He is a sub-3 hour marathoner and Boston Marathon qualifier and has coached hundreds of people to run marathons from absolute beginners to elite athletes. Tom’s athletic resume includes the 36-mile "Run to the Sun" ultramarathon from sea level to the 10,000 foot summit of Haleakala on Maui, the JFK 50-miler and 19 Ironman triathlons with races in Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, Germany and South Korea. He is a member of PowerBar’s Team Elite and stars in several exercise videos including Supreme 90 Day and the best selling "Abs Diet" workout. He is the author of the Beat the Gym, The Marathon Method and12-Week Triathlete and has written for numerous magazines including Running Times and Inside Triathlon. He has appeared as a fitness expert on Good Morning America and CNN Headline News and is a frequent contributor to the fitness magazines SELF, Women’s Health, Fitness and Men’s Health. Tom lives in Connecticut.

Get Ready to Run!

A complete guide to training for a half or full marathon in sixteen weeks, this book follows the format of Tom’s previous book The 12-Week Triathlete with simply the best advice on how to run your fastest race while staying injury-free. Whether you are a first-time marathoner, trying to set a new "PR" or looking to qualify for Boston, this book is for you.

"TRAIN LESS AND RUN YOUR BEST"

Some worry that running a marathon will involve hours upon hours of training each week. Others fear that they will become injured. Some veteran marathoners have followed other training plans and experienced both, but Tom’s approach is much different. His philosophy of "train less, run your best" will amaze you whether you are running your first marathon or fiftieth. Exercise physiologist and sports performance coach Tom Holland — an elite endurance athlete himself and sub-3 hour marathoner who has run in more than fifty marathons, three ultramarathons, and a dozen Ironman triathlons around the world will teach you how to properly gear up and train in the sixteen weeks prior to your half or full marathon. So when that starting gun sounds, you’ll be equipped with invaluable tips and techniques that will put you in position to run the best race of your life.

The Marathon Method provides you with everything you need to know including:

Easy-to-understand advice on nutrition, hydration, and gear Customized training plans for beginner, intermediate, and advanced runners Advice on the mental side of running and how to make your mind go that extra mile Strategies to avoid hitting the infamous ‘wall’ Tips on pacing, injury prevention, strength training, flexibility, and much more!

The Marathon Method: The 16-Week Training Program that Prepares You to Finish a Full or Half Marathon in Your Best Time

The Non-Runner’s Marathon Trainer

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Athlete. Runner. Marathoner. Are these words you wouldn’t exactly use to describe yourself? Do you consider yourself too old or too out of shape to run a marathon? But somewhere deep inside have you always admired the people who could reach down and come up with the mental and physical strength to complete such a daunting and rewarding accomplishment? It doesn’t have to be somebody else crossing the finish line. You can be a marathoner. The Non-Runner’s Marathon Trainer is based on the highly successful marathon class offered by the University of Northern Iowa, which was featured in a Runner’s World article titled “Marathoning 101.” The class has been offered five times over 10 years, and all but one student finished the marathon. That is approximately 200 students — all first time marathoners and many with absolutely no running background. This book follows the same 16-week, four-day-a-week workout plan. What makes the success rate of this program so much higher than any other? The special emphasis on the psychological aspects of endurance activities. You don’t have to love to run — you don’t even have to like it — but you have to realize that you are capable of more than you have ever thought possible. One participant in the program explained it like this: “I’m doing this for me — not for others or the time clock. I just feel better when I run, plus it helps me to cope with things in general. The skills we’ve learned in this class don’t apply just to marathoning — they apply to life! Just like you never know what the next step in a marathon will bring, so too, you never know what will happen next in life. But if you don’t keep going, you’re never going to find out. By staying relaxed, centered, and positive you handle just about anything that comes your way.” This is marathon running for real people, people with jobs and families and obligations outside of running. The Non-Runner’s Marathon Trainer has proven successful for men and women of all ages. Now let it work for you.

The Non-Runner’s Marathon Trainer

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd has been writing about country houses and their owners since the 1960s. He was the instigator and editor of an acclaimed four volume Guide to Country Houses, and wrote a weekly Heritage column for over twenty years, first for The Field and then for the Weekend section of The Daily Telegraph. He served on the research committee of the Historic Houses Association and edited its survey, The Disintegration of a Heritage. His many other books on heritage subjects include The Country Life Book of Royal Palaces, Castles, Residences and Homes; The Field Book of Country Houses and Their Owners: Family Seats of the British Isles; Heritage of Royal Britain; Royal Palaces of Europe; Blenheim Revisited; Great Houses of England & Wales; Great Houses of Scotland and Great Houses of Ireland.

Christopher Simon Sykes specializes in the photography of architecture and interiors, and is the author of numerous books including The Visitors’ Book; Country House Camera; Black Sheep; Private Palaces; The Perfect House; English Country; Scottish Country; Ancient English Houses; Living with Art and Living with Books. His photographs appear regularly in many periodicals, including The World of Interiors, House & Garden, Town & Country, Vogue, Vanity Fair and The Sunday Telegraph Magazine. In 1998 he presented his own television series, Upper Crust, and he is currently writing a biography of his family’s house Sledmere in Yorkshire, England.
–This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Great Houses of Scotland presents 26 historic castles and manors in the land of ancient legend that inspired Sir Walter Scott and Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Over 300 rich color photographs take the reader beyond the velvet ropes and through the grand public drawing rooms, private bedrooms, and back stairways of Scotland’s famous houses.

From formal, gilded halls to rustic trophy rooms, the range of interior styles reflects the personality of Scotland’s foremost families. Charming anecdotes and candid character sketches of the famed individuals who built these houses make this a fascinating social history as well as an architectural tour.

The selection of houses reflects the development of architectural style in Scotland, from old tower houses such as Cawdor and Traquair to the spectacular baroque of Drumlanrig and the pioneering Classicism of Kinross by Sir William Bruce. The masterful architecture of William Adam is highlighted here, including his work on Arniston, the House of Dun, and the palatial Duff House. Besides such beloved favorites as Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford, Blair, Hopetoun, and Mellerstain, the book is full of remarkable surprises, including the High Victorian Gothic extravaganza of the newly restored Mount Stuart, and the Edwardian opulence of Ardkinglas. The Scottish ability to combine intimacy and grandeur has never been more glorious than in the silver staircase, marble dairy, and teak stable of Manderston; Dunrobin Castle perches on cliff’s edge as if in a fairy tale– the inimitable character of each historic house shines in this beautiful book.

With encouraging plans for restoration and revitalization by the present owners– the National Galleries of Scotland’s initiative to restore Duff House as a satellite gallery, plans for an opera school at Yester, the rejuvenation of a brewery at Traquair– this is a timely chronicle of the living history of these great houses.

Great Houses of Scotland

Scottish Country

The first book on Scotland to capture not only the beauty of its spectacular landscape and architecture but also to tell about the history, traditions, and culture from the perspective of a witty, knowledgeable insider. Through lush gardens, sweeping landscapes, and 15 of Scotland’s less well known houses, Scottish Country reveals an identifiably Scottish style. Illustrations.

The first book on Scotland to capture not only the beauty of its spectacular landscape and architecture but also to tell about the history, traditions, and culture from the perspective of a witty, knowledgeable insider. Through lush gardens, sweeping landscapes, and 15 of Scotland’s less well known houses, Scottish Country reveals an identifiably Scottish style. Illustrations.

Scottish Country