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Alex Belth is the author of Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories and Stepping Up, a critically acclaimed biography of Curt Flood, and a regular contributor to SportsIllustrated.com. After eight years spent working in the film industry for such notable filmmakers as Ken Burns, Woody Allen, and the Coen Brothers, Beth in 2002 founded BronxBanterBlog.com (now part of SNY TVs blog network), which has become one of the most popular New York Yankees sites on the Internet. A lifelong Yankees fan, he lives with his wife in the Bronx, New York.

America foremost sportswriters and other personalities offer their favorite memories of Yankee Stadium, the worlds most famous ballpark.

In Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories, editor Alex Belth of BronxBanterBlog.com collects personal essays by some of the most well-known and respected voices in sportswriting and entertainment today. In these revealing, sometimes hilarious, oft-touching essays, the contributors recount their favorite moments inside the most famed of all American stadiums. The book also includes a special chapter on the new Yankee Stadium.

Contributors include: Bob Costas (NBC, HBO) Richard Ben Cramer Pete Hamill Tony Kornheiser (ESPN) Tom Boswell (Washington Post) Dave Kindred (Washington Post) Leigh Montville (Sports Illustrated) William Nack (Sports Illustrated) Joe Posnanski (Sports Illustrated) Jane Leavy Pat Jordan Maury Allen (New York Post) Bob Klapisch (Bergen Record) Tyler Kepner (New York Times) Allen Barra (Wall Street Journal) Marty Appel Jeff Pearlman Alan Schwarz (New York Times) Charles Pierce (Boston Globe) Steve Rushin (Sports Illustrated) Nathan Ward Mike Vaccaro (New York Post) Rob Neyer (ESPN.com) Ken Rosenthal (ESPN) Scott Raab (Esquire) Luis Guzman

Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories: Unforgettable Tales from the House That Ruth Built

The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter

Every spring, Little Leaguers across the country mimic his stance and squabble over the right to wear his number, 2, the next number to be retired by the worlds most famous ball team. Derek Jeter is their hero. He walks in the footsteps of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle, and someday his shadow will loom just as large. Yet he has never been the best player in baseball. In fact, he hasnt always been the best player on his team. But his intangible grace and Jordanesque ability to play big in the biggest of postseason moments make him the face of the modern Yankee dynasty, and of Americas game.

In The Captain, best-selling author Ian OConnor draws on extensive reporting and unique
access to Jeter that has spanned some fifteen years to reveal how a biracial kid from Michigan became New Yorks most beloved sports figure and the enduring symbol of the steroid-free athlete. OConnor takes us behind the scenes of a legendary baseball life and career, from Jeters early struggles in the minor leagues, when homesickness and errors in the field threatened a stillborn career, to his heady days as a Yankee superstar and prince of the city who squired some of the worlds most beautiful women, to his tense battles with former best friend A-Rod. We also witness Jeter struggling to come to terms with his declining skills and the declining favor of the only organization he ever wanted to play for, leading to a contentious contract negotiation with the Yankees that left people wondering if Jeter might end his career in a uniform without pinstripes.

Derek Jeters march toward the Hall of Fame has been dignified and certain, but behind that leadership and heros grace there are hidden struggles and complexities that have never been explored, until now. As Jeter closes in on 3,000 hits, a number no Yankee has ever touched, The Captain offers an incisive, exhilarating, and revealing new look at one of the games greatest players in the gloaming of his career.

Photos of Derek Jeter from The Captain
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Derek Jeter and teammates wave their caps to the crowd after Jeter delivered his postgame speech on Yankee Stadiums final night.
The captain salutes the fans after breaking Lou Gehrigs franchise record for hits.

The shortstops signature play the jump throw from the hole from start to finish.

Photos courtesy John Angelillo/UPI Amazon Exclusive: A Q&A with Author Ian O’Connor

Q: Why did you feel compelled to write a biography of Derek Jeter?

A: As I say in the introduction to The Captain, the answer is found in my sons closet, a mini-warehouse of youth baseball jerseys graced by the frayed number 2. With Derek Jeter nearing the end of his iconic career, not to mention a milestone (3,000 hits) no New York Yankee has reached, I thought it was the right time to do a head-to-toe examination of Jeters mass appeal. He is the DiMaggio of his time, a beloved but distant figure. My goal was to humanize Jeter. I wanted to paint a public portrait of a private man while celebrating his dignified approach and explaining why his number 2 is number 1 in the closets of kids everywhere.

Q:How did you gather all the material in The Captain?

A: Ive covered Jeters entire career as a newspaper and Internet columnist in the New York market, so I had a strong base of firsthand observations and knowledge and one-on-one and group interviews with Jeter to work with. I also conducted more than 200 interviews exclusively for this book, including conversations with Jeter and past and present teammates, coaches, friends, opponents, teachers, scouts, executives, admirers, and detractors. (I define his detractors as admirers willing to discuss the shortstops human flaws.)

Q: What is your favorite anecdote in the book from Jeters early years as a Yankee?

A: One of my favorites involves the period before Derek was drafted. As a child he started telling his parents and others he would someday play shortstop for the New York Yankees, and as a teenager he predicted to some that he would marry Mariah Carey (well, he almost went 2 for 2). But the surreal twists and turns of the draft of 92, when Jeter dropped into the Yankees lap as the sixth overall pick, lends credence to the notion he was meant to be a Yank. Houston rejected the advice of its lead Jeter scout, a former Hall of Fame pitcher for Detroit named Hal Newhouser, who resigned because the Astros didnt pick Derek at number 1 (they took college star Phil Nevin instead). Cincinnati scouting director Julian Mock rejected the advice of his own people and decided in the middle of a draft-day jog to select a college outfielder from central Florida (Chad Mottola) instead of the high school shortstop from Kalamazoo (Jeter) at number 5. To this day, Derek swears he was so convinced he was going in the top five of the draft, he didnt even know that his dream team, the Yankees, were picking sixth. He knows now… I also enjoyed discovering how Cal Ripken Jr.s decision to shake a young boys hand in 1993 ultimately put twelve-year-old Jeffrey Maier in the Yankee Stadium stands in 1996, when Maier deflected Derek Jeters home-run ball into American League Championship Series lore and helped end Baltimores season and Ripkens indelible reign at short.

Q: Jeter is often portrayed as the perfect athlete. Is he perfect?

A: Jeter is about as close to perfect as a superstar athlete can get, but no, he is not an infallible player or person. As a product of parents who raised him on the strict terms of behavioral contracts he was compelled to sign, Jeter never put himself or his team in an embarrassing position. But hes been overly sensitive to criticism, hes terrible at forgiving and forgetting those he believes have slighted him, and at times he could have been a better captain to Alex Rodriguez, who craved Jeters approval in his early seasons as a Yankee. Jeter didnt give it.

Every spring, Little Leaguers across the country mimic his stance and squabble over the right to wear his number, 2, the next number to be retired by the worlds most famous ball team. Derek Jeter is their hero. He walks in the footsteps of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle, and someday his shadow will loom just as large. Yet he has never been the best player in baseball. In fact, he hasnt always been the best player on his team. But his intangible grace and Jordanesque ability to play big in the biggest of postseason moments make him the face of the modern Yankee dynasty, and of Americas game.

In The Captain, best-selling author Ian OConnor draws on extensive reporting and unique access to Jeter that has spanned some fifteen years to reveal how a biracial kid from Michigan became New Yorks most beloved sports figure and the enduring symbol of the steroid-free athlete. OConnor takes us behind the scenes of a legendary baseball life and career, from Jeters early struggles in the minor leagues, when homesickness and errors in the field threatened a stillborn career, to his heady days as a Yankee superstar and prince of the city who squired some of the worlds most beautiful women, to his tense battles with former best friend A-Rod. We also witness Jeter struggling to come to terms with his declining skills and the declining favor of the only organization he ever wanted to play for, leading to a contentious contract negotiation with the Yankees that left people wondering if Jeter might end his career in a uniform without pinstripes.

Derek Jeters march toward the Hall of Fame has been dignified and certain, but behind that leadership and heros grace there are hidden struggles and complexities that have never been explored, until now. As Jeter closes in on 3,000 hits, a number no Yankee has ever touched, The Captain offers an incisive, exhilarating, and revealing new look at one of the games greatest players in the gloaming of his career.

The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter

[ROADFOOD] is a bible for motorists seeking mouth-watering barbecue or homemade pie. –USA Today

JANE and MICHAEL STERN are the authors of more than forty books, including Square Meals, Chili Nation, and six previous editions of Roadfood. They write the Roadfood column in Gourmet, the winner of three James Beard Awards for Best Magazine Series, and are regulars on public radios The Splendid Table. They host the interactive Web site, Roadfood.com, which Yahoo declared site of the year, and frequently contribute book reviews to the New York Times. They live in Connecticut

For road warriors and armchair epicures alike, the seventh edition of Roadfood is the key to finding some of the tastiest treasures in the United States. The indispensable companion for savvy travelers nationwide, Roadfood is now bigger and better than ever. Totally revised and updated, the seventh edition covers over 700 of the countrys best local eateries, including more than 200 brand new listings along with up-to-date descriptions of old favorites.

An extended tour of the most affordable, most enjoyable dining options along Americas highways and back roads, Roadfood offers enticing, satisfying meal-time alternatives for chain restaurantweary travelers. The Sterns provide vivid descriptions and clear regional maps that direct people to the best lobster shacks on the East Coast; the ultimate barbecue joints in the South; the most sizzling steakhouses in the Midwest; and dozens of top-notch diners, hotdog stands, ice cream parlors, and other terrific spots to stop for a bite countrywide.

[ROADFOOD] is a bible for motorists seeking mouth-watering barbecue or homemade pie. –USA Today

Roadfood: The Coast-to-Coast Guide to 800 of the Best Barbecue Joints, Lobster Shacks, Ice Cream Parlors, Highway Diners, and Much, Much More

Southern Living Off the Eaten Path: Favorite Southern Dives and 150 Recipes that Made Them Famous

Morgan Murphy is the former travel and food editor for Southern Living magazine. He has also written for Forbes, Vanity Fair, and Harper’s Bazaar. Morgan’s diverse background includes an M.B.A. from the University of Oxford and a love of vintage American cars. This passion led to his lauch of the world’s first online social network for classic car enthusiasts, Motorpool.com. He lives in Mountain Brook, Alabama.

Take a tasty tour along the highways and unique back roads of the South with author Morgan Murphy as he uncovers the best eateries and unique recipes this region has to offer. Part cookbook, part delicious journey through the South, Southern Living Off the Eaten Path is a discovery guide for people who love Southern food.

Readers will accompany former Southern Living travel and food editor Morgan Murphy as he winds his way through the South to discover the restaurants and watering holes that showcase the true flavor of the region. Full-color photography takes readers inside these community landmarks. Prized recipes are pried out of secretive restaurant cooks and vetted in the Southern Living Test Kitchens so they can be replicated at home when readers can’t hit the road for their roadfood fix.

Helpful tips accompany each recipe and explain how to up the flavor ante of classics like mac-n-cheese or country-style coleslaw the way the best diners do. Recollections and reflections from owners, patrons, and employees of these “off the eaten path” spots round out this book of travelers’ tales and delicious food finds. Southern Living Off the Eaten Path features:

75 “dives” in 18 Southern States: from Texas to Florida to Maryland, and all points in between A feature on each restaurant, including two recipes, location information, fun facts, and a “Don’t-Miss” tip about their signature dish Rubbernecker Wonders: reviews of kitschy roadside attractions worthy of gawking, such as Solomon’s Castle in Ona, FL, and South of the Border on I-95 in Dillon, SC, where Dixie meets…Old Mexico Food Finds: blurbs about food purveyors along the route , local products produced in the area , and more

Southern Living Off the Eaten Path: Favorite Southern Dives and 150 Recipes that Made Them Famous

Take a trip to last century’s Alaska through Muir’s clean, easy-going, enthusiastic prose. He wrote the way he took pictures, with insight, attention, care and genuine feeling. It’s a lovely look into a beautiful land and its inhabitants the way it used to be, told in a flowing narrative that is far less rushed than contemporary travel tales. –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Probably no other man in this country has his enthusiasm for mountains and glaciers . . . united with so rare a literary gift.John Burroughs –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this continental laboratory of landscapes. The greatest of the tide-water glaciers appropriately commemorates his name. Upon this book of Alaska travels, all but finished before his unforeseen departure, John Muir expended the last months of his life. The events recorded in this volume end in the middle of the trip of 1890. Muir’s notes on the remainder of the journey have not been found, and it is idle to speculate how he would have concluded the volume if he had lived to complete it. But no one will read the fascinating description of the Northern Lights without feeling a poetical appropriateness in the fact that his last work ends with a portrayal of the auroras–one of those phenomena which elsewhere he described as “the most glorious of all the terrestrial manifestations of God.

Take a trip to last century’s Alaska through Muir’s clean, easy-going, enthusiastic prose. He wrote the way he took pictures, with insight, attention, care and genuine feeling. It’s a lovely look into a beautiful land and its inhabitants the way it used to be, told in a flowing narrative that is far less rushed than contemporary travel tales. –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Travels in Alaska

Coming into the Country

Residents of the Lower 48 sometimes imagine Alaska as a snow-covered land of igloos, oil pipelines, and polar bears. But Alaska is far more complex geographically, culturally, ecologically, and politically than most Americans know, and few writers are as capable of capturing this complexity as John McPhee. In Coming into the Country, McPhee describes his travels through much of the state with bush pilots, prospectors, and settlers, as well as politicians and businesspeople who have their eyes set on a very different future for the state.

Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush.

Readers of McPhees earlier books will not be unprepared for his surprising shifts of scene and ordering of events, brilliantly combined into an organic whole. In the course of this volume we are made acquainted with the lore and techniques of placer mining, the habits and legends of the barren-ground grizzly, the outlook of a young Athapaskan chief, and tales of the fortitude of settlersordinary people compelled by extraordinary dreams. Coming into the Country unites a vast region of America with one of Americas notable literary craftsmen, singularly qualified to do justice to the scale and grandeur of the design.

Coming into the Country

Robert C. Duncan has cruised throughout the New England and Maritime Canadian coasts with his father, Roger F. Duncan, coauthor of the fifth through eleventh editions of the Guide.

Robert’s son, Roger S. Duncan, coauthored those sections of the Guide that cover Cape Cod and the islands northeast to the Canadian border.

Paul W. Fenn, president of Jeanneau America, Inc., a subsidiary of the French boatbuilder, makes his home in Annapolis, Maryland. He grew up cruising the water from Noank to Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and eastward.

W. Wallace Fenn, longtime coauthor of the Guide, has visited in his small sloop almost every harbor from Rye, New York, eastward to Narragansett Bay.

Here, entirely updated, is the latest edition of the most complete, authoritative cruising guide to the northeastern coast.

The bible for Eastern sailors and powerboaters for more than half a century has been thoroughly overhauled and expertly refitted. For the preparation of the twelfth edition, the authors visited nearly all the harbors, talked with harbormasters and marina owners, and reevaluated earlier judgments. The Guide tells you how to dodge bad currents and edge around shoal water, and where to anchor and find essential services, including pump-out stations, fuel docks, and a hot shower. It notes channels and harbors that have been dredged or shoaled up; recently replaced buoys; and changes in marinas, boatyards, and other facilities. This guide is far more than a traditional cruising guide, providing valuable information on weather, tides, coastal geography and geology, fog, marine birds, animals, sea conditions, and even places of historical interest ashore. The authorswho know these great cruising grounds as old friendsrelate the histories of the towns, ports, vessels, lighthouses, and even rocks you’ll encounter. Black-and-white photographs and maps throughout

The Cruising Guide to the New England Coast: Including the Hudson River, Long Island Sound, and the Coast of New Brunswick, Twelfth Edition

A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast

James L. Bildner is a sailor, helicopter pilot, explorer, and summer resident of North Haven, Maine. Together with his wife, Nancy, Jim has sailed the coast of Maine for more than a quarter century, most recently aboard Windward, a Hinckley 52-foot sloop.

WHEN YOU NAVIGATE THE COAST OF MAINE, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast takes the guesswork out of navigating Maines intricate, reef-strewn waters, ensuring that your next voyage through this coastal paradise will be picture-perfect.

Inside you will find more than 180 full-color aerial photographs that provide “by-the-picture navigational guidance for Maines treasured harbors, difficult passages, and hidden approaches. Author James Bildner has added chart segments and recommended course lines to these low-altitude photos, giving you a unique, at-a-glance guide to sailing around Maine. Its like cruising with a masthead lookout to point the way.

Text descriptions of area with piloting instructions

Labeled approach lines

Low-angled photos with key navigation aides labeled

Chart segments from high resolution NOAA charts

A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast

Biofeedback (BFB) in practical sport and exercise is under used and misunderstood, despite recent remarkable technical advances. It is a vital method of training athletes which increases individual awareness and control over the body and reduces habitual physiological tensions.

Written by leading international experts, this ground-breaking book brings together, for the first time, current research and applications and shows how different BFB approaches can be used in various sports. Unique features of this book include:How to transfer BFB training from the lab to the field

BFB intervention for the daily training process

BFB training geared to a specific sport

How to measure athletic self-regulation

An appendix detailing the latest BFB devicesBrain and Body in Sport and Exercise: Biofeedback Applications in Performance Enhancement is an essential resource, not only for the specialist in sport psychology, but also for practitioners such as athletes, coaches and physical education teachers and students interested in the area of sport psychophysiology and biofeedback.

“This text is long overdue and combines knowledge gained through psychophysiological research and applied to the implementation of biofeedback techniques with athletes. In my view there is no comparable publication to date. It should be useful as a resource for students and practitioners alike.” Dr Jan Graydon, Head of Sports Studies, University College Chichester, UK

With the remarkable technical advances of recent years, the use of highly technical means of sport psychology has gained momentum. Biofeedback (BFB) typifies one of the most important perspective methods of training athletes for better self-control and relaxation.

This book aims to show how BFB techniques can be used with these new devices to provide optimum performance.

? Shows how well-known theory can be used with new, cheap and effective gadgets
? Emphasis of practical applications
? Edited by renowned, international experts

Brain and Body in Sport and Exercise: Biofeedback Applications in Performance Enhancement

Assessment in Sport Psychology

Robert Nideffer is the founder and CEO of Enhanced Performance Systems, a company that develops and provides performance enhancement products and services to elite level performers and organizations around the world. He has been the sport psychologist for several Olympic teams and has been recognized by his peers as a world leader in the field of sport psychology. He is currently an adjunct professor at San Diego State University. Dr. Nideffer is the author of 15 books and over 100 articles related to assessment and performance enhancement.

Marc Sagal is Chief Operating Officer of Enhanced Performance Systems (EPS). He has consulted with Olympic and professional athletes from around the world and has conducted psychological assessment and training for fortune 500 companies. Marc has developed a new model of the structural features of competitive sport based upon his research and work with high-level performers. He has authored publications relating to both theoretical and practical issues in performance psychology and has presented research data and professional papers at prestigious international congresses. Marc holds a United States Soccer Federation “A” level-coaching license and has played professional soccer in the United States, Belgium, and Sweden. He has represented the United States in several International competitions.

Will the athlete you’re working with put it all together when everything is on the line? What can you do to make sure an athlete performs best when it really counts? Are certain conditions more likely to lead to success for her? Will he be able and willing to make the changes required to be more successful? In today’s highly competitive environment the answers to these questions often spell the difference between success and failure not only for individuals but also for entire teams and organisations. At the upper levels of performance in situations where competing individuals and teams have all the technical skill and tactical knowledge required to be successful psychological factors become the most important determinants of outcome. The ability to control emotions, to communicate effectively and to perform under pressure is what separates winners from losers. Sport psychologists are beginning to uncover the links between thought processes and physiology; as a result today’s testing tools have much greater utility and relevance than ever before. Today more than ever before sport psychology professionals must have the skills necessary to bridge the worlds of science and application.

Assessment in Sport Psychology

The handy pocket-size guide is packed with useful information, tips and recommendations, accompanied by color photographs, charts and maps for the first-time traveller who wants to experience the major highlights that Costa del Sol has to offer. This travel book surpasses other guides in that it incorporates essential information in an easy-to-carry and easy-to-read format that is attractive and useful at the same time. It provides a visitor with an invaluable introduction to Costa del Sol by concisely highlighting the regions must see areas in a practical and user-friendly format, thus encouraging the tourist to make the most of his/her available time. All the essential information you need to get around an unfamiliar region is compacted into useful and practical At-a-Glance sections at the end of each chapter. The fold-out map of Costa del Sol is ideal for tourists and visitors. In addition to the main map of Costa del Sol, which highlights scenic routes, it features 6 detailed area maps and 9 town plans.

–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Sue Bryant has travelled extensively in the Mediterranean and Middle East and contributes to the Daily Telegraph, Business Traveller and many other newspapers and magazines. Based in London, she is the author of several other travel guides.

The handy pocket-size guide is packed with useful information, tips and recommendations, accompanied by color photographs, charts and maps for the first-time traveler who wants to experience the major highlights that Costa del Sol has to offer. This travel book surpasses other guides in that it incorporates essential information in an easy-to-carry and easy-to-read format that is attractive and useful at the same time. It provides a visitor with an invaluable introduction to Costa del Sol by concisely highlighting the regions must see areas in a practical and user-friendly format, thus encouraging the tourist to make the most of his/her available time. All the essential information you need to get around an unfamiliar region is compacted into useful and practical At-a-Glance sections at the end of each chapter. The fold-out map of Costa del Sol is ideal for tourists and visitors. In addition to the main map of Costa del Sol, which highlights scenic routes, it features 6 detailed area maps and 9 town plans.

Costa Del Sol Travel Pack (Globetrotter Travel Packs)

Frommer’s Seville, Granada and the Best of Andalusia

Immerse yourself in the all-night flamenco and vibrant street scenes at the Feria de Seville. See chapter 3.

Detailed maps throughout

Exact prices, directions, opening hours,and other practical information

Candid reviews of hotels and restaurants,plus sights, shopping, and nightlife

Itineraries, walking tours, and trip-planning ideas

Insider tips from local expert authors

Frommer’s Seville, Granada & Andalusia gives you a complete overview and insider knowledge on where and what to visit in this culturally rich destination.

Packed with detailed and opinionated reviews, this guide gives you the lowdown on what’s worth your time and what’s not, providing extensive listings for accommodation, attractions and restaurants whatever your budget. The southern Spanish regions and their highlights are broken down by thoughtful chapter sections with itineraries and accompanying maps to help you to plan your way while you stay, according to your time frame.

Find fantastic restaurants serving Andalusian, Spanish, Mediterranean and even Moorish cuisine; discover adventures outside Seville and Granada; explore the cultural and historic highlights; take time out to enjoy the best beaches along the Costa de la Luz or a round of golf in the Costa Del Sol.

Importantly, this guide provides the latest trip-planning advice, money-saving tips and directory of useful contacts to ensure you make the most of your stay in Southern Spain.

Take a look inside.

About Complete Guides:

The Frommer’s Complete guides give travellers the comprehensive overview of destinations, detailing the vast variety of choices and need-to-know local information in cities and countries, without glossing over any of the details. Entire regions, neighbourhoods and more are broken down by thoughtful itineraries to give detailed guides to each, with full accompanying reviews and prices listed throughout. These guides are packed full of up-to-date advice and tips on what’s new in the location and how to plan your trip according in every aspect of your time there; vocabulary lists also exist where you might need a few key phrases and menu terms.

Complete guides give you the respective A to Z, helping you to find the places to stay, eat, shop and explore that are best suited for you wherever you are or are planning to go.

Frommer’s Seville, Granada and the Best of Andalusia (Frommer’s Complete Guides)

“Paul Chiasson’s The Island of Seven Cities is riveting, beautifully written, powerful and compelling.”–Gavin Menzies, author of 1421: The Year China Discovered America“A fascinating piece of historical detective work…”–Library Journal, STARRED Review“A groundbreaking new book…This is exemplary historical reporting that is compelling, powerful and stimulating.”–The Tuscon Citizen“Amodel for others to follow.”–Betty Meggers

PAUL CHIASSON, a Yale-educated architect witha specialtyin the history and theory of religious architechture has taught at Yale, the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and the University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto.

In 2003,Paul Chiasson climbed a mountain he never explored on the island wherehe grew up. Cape Breton, one of the oldest points of explorationin the Americas, islittered with remnants of old settlements.The roadhe found that day was unique.Consistently wide and formerlybordered with stone walls, the road had been a major undertaking. For the next two years, he surveyed the history of Europeans in North America, and came to a stunning conclusion: The ruins he came upon did not belong to the Portuguese, French, or English andpre-dated John Cabot’s “discovery” of the island in 1497. With aerial and site photographs, maps,drawings and his expertisein the history of architecture, Chiassonpieces together clues to one of the world’s great mysteries.The Island of Seven Cities reveals the existence of a large Chinese colony that thrived on Canadian shores well before the European Age of Discovery andunveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese were in the New World before Columbus.

“Paul Chiasson’s The Island of Seven Cities is riveting, beautifully written, powerful and compelling.”–Gavin Menzies, author of 1421: The Year China Discovered America”A fascinating piece of historical detective work…”–Library Journal, STARRED Review”A groundbreaking new book…This is exemplary historical reporting that is compelling, powerful and stimulating.”–The Tuscon Citizen”Amodel for others to follow.”–Betty Meggers

The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America

When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433

Levathes, a former staff writer for National Geographic , here tells the story of seven epic voyages made by unique junk armadas during the reign of the Chinese emperor Zhu Di. These “treasure ships” under the command of the eunuch admiral Zheng He traded in porcelain, silk, lacquerware and fine-art objects; they sailed from Korea and Japan throughout the Malay archipelago and India to East Africa, and possibly as far away as Australia. Levathes argues that China could have employed its navy–with some 3000 vessels, the largest in history until the present century–to establish a great colonial empire 100 years before the age of European exploration and expansion; instead, the Chinese abruptly dismantled their navy. Levathes describes the political showdown that led to this perverse turn of events, revolving around a clash between the powerful eunuch class and Confucian scholar-officials. Her scholarly study includes a section on the construction of the seagoing junks (the largest had nine masts, was 400 feet long and would have dwarfed Columbus’s ships) and provides a look into court life in the Ming dynasty, particularly the relationship between the emperor, his eunuch and his concubines. Illustrated.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire’s finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the edge of the world’s “four corners.” It was a time of exploration and conquest, but it ended in a retrenchment so complete that less than a century later, it was a crime to go to sea in a multimasted ship. In When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes takes a fascinating and unprecedented look at this dynamic period in China’s enigmatic history, focusing on China’s rise as a naval power that literally could have ruled the world and at its precipitious plunge into isolation when a new emperor ascended the Dragon Throne.
During the brief period from 1405 to 1433, seven epic expeditions brought China’s “treasure ships” across the China Seas and the Indian Ocean, from Taiwan to the spice islands of Indonesia and the Malabar coast of India, on to the rich ports of the Persian Gulf and down the African coast, China’s “El Dorado,” and perhaps even to Australia, three hundred years before Captain Cook was credited with its discovery. With over 300 ships–some measuring as much as 400 feet long and 160 feet wide, with upwards of nine masts and twelve sails, and combined crews sometimes numbering over 28,000 men–the emperor Zhu Di’s fantastic fleet was a virtual floating city, a naval expression of his Forbidden City in Beijing. The largest wooden boats ever built, these extraordinary ships were the most technically superior vessels in the world with innovations such as balanced rudders and bulwarked compartments that predated European ships by centuries. For thirty years foreign goods, medicines, geographic knowledge, and cultural insights flowed into China at an extraordinary rate, and China extended its sphere of political power and influence throughout the Indian Ocean. Half the world was in China’s grasp, and the rest could easily have been, had the emperor so wished. But instead, China turned inward, as suceeding emperors forbade overseas travel and stopped all building and repair of oceangoing junks. Disobedient merchants and seamen were killed, and within a hundred years the greatest navy the world had ever known willed itself into extinction. The period of China’s greatest outward expansion was followed by the period of its greatest isolation.
Drawing on eye-witness accounts, official Ming histories, and African, Arab, and Indian sources, many translated for the first time, Levathes brings readers inside China’s most illustrious scientific and technological era. She sheds new light on the historical and cultural context in which this great civilization thrived, as well as the perception of other cultures toward this little understood empire at the time. Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, When China Ruled the Seas is the fullest picture yet of the early Ming Dynasty–the last flowering of Chinese culture before the Manchu invasions.

When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433

Hiking Arizona features 120 outdoor adventures on the states finest trailsfrom short nature walks to backcountry treks. Hike the Boucher-Hermit trail through the Grand Canyon, follow the Y Bar Basin-Barnhardt Canyon Loop around Mazatzal Peak, or marvel at the unique rock formations as you climb the Chiricahua Mountains. Local hiker Bruce Grubbs provides all the information you need to get the most out of hiking the Grand Canyon State and enjoying its remarkable vegetation, fascinating animal life, rich history, and breathtaking views.

For more than twenty-five years, FalconGuides have set the standard for

outdoor guidebooks. Written by top experts, each guide invites you to experience the adventure and beauty of the outdoors.

Look inside to find:

Hikes suited to every ability

Accurate directions to the trailhead and detailed trail descriptions

GPS-compatible trail maps

Mile-by-mile directionalcues

Difficulty ratings, averagehiking times, and best hiking seasons

Bruce Grubbs is an avid camper, backpacker, hiker, mountain biker, and cross-country skier who has been exploring the American desert for over thirty years. A professional outdoor writer and photographer, he has written nine previous FalconGuides. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

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Hiking Arizona, 3rd: A Guide to Arizona’s Greatest Hiking Adventures (State Hiking Guides Series)

100 Classic Hikes in Arizona

Whether you want to scramble up the parched red rock of Boynton Canyon, soak your weary feet at the base of Havasu Falls, or cross Hidden Valley’s desert sands dotted with Saguaro cactus, Arizona has a hike to suit your inclination and ability. Classic Hikes offers 100 choice trails for day hikers and backpackers alike to explore five regions of Arizona, including the Colorado plateau, central highlands, central deserts, southeastern basin and range, and western deserts. The guide features awe-inspiring color photos by the author, along with maps and at-a-glance information that details mileage, hiking time, elevation, seasonal considerations, and contact information. Each trail description contains directions to the trailhead, possible hazards, trail gradation, major junctions, and notable vegetation.

Longing for solitude far from frequently used trails? Warren examines little-known routes where “stone spires, totems, and hoodoos” will surround you, but also covers trails where rafters and “4WD vehicles packed with tourists” become part of the landscape. He also touches on the region’s rich history, noting facts about the people who once lived there and the ruins they left behind. In other words, Classic Hikes offers something for everyone ready to explore Arizona’s storied past and diverse wilderness. –Jenny Burritt –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The best reviewed full-color guide to Arizona hikes has now been updated and expanded with the most spectacular canyon, desert, and “sky island” trips in this dramatic state.

100 hikes, 10 new to this edition, with color photos and maps.

Now includes detailed topographic maps, elevation trail profiles, and a trails-at-a-glance chart indicating distance, level of difficulty, and seasonal considerations.

Includes a mix of trails from easy day trips, to never-dull loop hikes, to more remote long-distance treks. No hiking guide captures the beautifully complex and varied landscape of Arizona like Scott Warren’s. Thoroughly updated and expanded with useful topographic maps and elevation trail profiles, this third edition of 100 Classic Hikes in Arizona offers a wide range of the state’s most scenic hiking trails. You can stand in a mile deep canyon one day, hike through a saguaro cactus forest the next, and stand on a nearly 10,000 foot “sky island” in the Chiricahua Mountains yet another day. You can hike Lenox Crater, an actual volcano with a nearby lava flow, or lose yourself on Dutchman’s Trail, a solitary long distance trek in the fabled Superstition Mountains.

This classic guide gives you the best trails for both day hikes and overnight backpacking trips in the state.

100 Classic Hikes in Arizona

“Columbia Journals allows us to evaluate David Thompson more fully as an actor in the history of the west, and to understand more critically the assessment and misinterpretations made by a number of earlier researchers.” Richard Ruggles, Queen’s University, Ontario –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Columbia Journals allows us to evaluate David Thompson more fully as an actor in the history of the west, and to understand more critically the assessment and misinterpretations made by a number of earlier researchers. – Richard Ruggles, emeritus professor, Queen’s University –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

With the publication of David Thompson’s “Columbia Journals”, Barbara Belyea gives wider recognition to the fur trader, primary explorer, and cartographer who lived from 1770 to 1857. His “Columbia Journals” not only documents the North West Company’s efforts to find good trade routes across the Canadian Rocky Mountains but reveals Thompson’s personal interest in mapping the Pacific watershed north of California. His accounts give a detailed picture of the fur business during its greatest expansion and remind us of the extent to which the territory he explored has been transformed by settlement, roads, and hydroelectric dams. Thompson’s journals trace the fur trade’s westernmost expansion while his hand-drawn maps preserve a contemporary image of the country he explored. Belyea suggests that most previous historical research, based on Thompson’s “Narrative”, has overlooked this contemporary, professional record of the explorer’s activities. Her analysis of generic differences between the memoir and the journal proposes a reassessment of the way sources have been used in histories of the fur trade. The extensive notes which accompany the “Columbia Journals” provide a documentary context for Thompson’s own account. Details of Thompson’s manuscript maps are included, together with the work of other cartographers of the period.

“Columbia Journals allows us to evaluate David Thompson more fully as an actor in the history of the west, and to understand more critically the assessment and misinterpretations made by a number of earlier researchers.” Richard Ruggles, Queen’s University, Ontario –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Columbia Journals

Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West

Now and again a book comes along that simply transcends geographical limits. Epic Wanderer is such a book. . . . Epic Wanderer, like the man himself, covers a lot of ground and does so very well. If you”d like to purchase just one biography on David Thompson, make it this one.American Surveyor (American Surveyor )

Jenish presents a lively version of the explorer”s adventures, detailing the hardships of life on the trail, Thompson”s interactions with aboriginal peoples, and the vast country he traversed.Oregon Historical Quarterly (Arn Keeling Oregon Historical Quarterly )

“Well illustrated and served well by a thorough bibliography, this imaginative reconstruction will whet readers” appetites to seek out the copious literature on Thompson, the ”epic wanderer.””Choice (Choice )

“David Thompson was an important, if little known, explorer of the Canadian West. . . . Jenish tells this remarkable man”s story from the journal Thompson kept throughout his life and the narrative he wrote in his old age. . . . We view the daunting hardships facing a fur trader working far beyond white settlement.”Journal of the West (Donna Roper Journal of the West )

Epic Wanderer, the first full-length biography of mapmaker David Thompson , is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the broad canvas of dramatic rivalries between the United States and British North America, between the Hudsons Bay Company and its Montreal-based rival, the North West Company, and among the various First Nations thrown into disarray by the advent of guns, horses, and alcohol.

Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West

“Coaching Youth Hockey is an essential addition to every grassroots coach’s library. It is an excellent book that assists the volunteer coach in preparing for the season.”

Mark Tabrum Director of Coaching Education program USA Hockey

The American Sport Education Program (ASEP) is the most widely used and respected sport education program in the United States. More than 30 states now require ASEP courses for their high school coaches, and more than 200 universities use ASEP courses and resources. Over one million peoplecoaches, parents, and directors alikehave used ASEP products since the program began in 1981. The ASEP headquarters is located in Champaign, Illinios.

This new edition of Coaching Youth Hockey is part of the improved generation of the American Sport Education Program’s (ASEP) Coaching Youth Sports series. This widely respected and highly popular series is the best collection of youth sport-specific guides, which are grounded in positive coaching principles.

ASEP, the nation’s number one coaching education program, developed Coaching Youth Hockey to provide coaches with both an explanation of their role and concrete instructions on how to fulfill that role. You will find chapters on communicating with your athletes and their parents, teaching and developing hockey skills, planning and conducting practices, and coaching during games.

This second edition includes a special chapter on the games approach to coaching hockey, which makes practice more fun for the kids and teaching more effective for you, the coach.

Coaching Youth Hockey – 2nd Edition (Coaching Youth Sports)

The Hockey Drill Book

“The Hockey Drill Book “demonstrates Dave Chambers’ intimate knowledge of the game. He has the ability to simplify every skill set. This collection of drills is an absolute must for individual player and team development.”"
Ken Hitchcock
Head Coach of Columbus Blue Jackets
“The Hockey Drill Book “demonstrates why Dave Chambers is known as the ‘professor of coaching.’ Chambers uses his practical experience in coaching combined with his strong teaching background to guide coaches and players through the technical and tactical skills of hockey.”"
Johnny R. Misley
Executive Vice President
Hockey Canada
“”The Hockey Drill Book “is absolutely outstanding. In the past, it was an exhausting process using multiple Web sites, numerous books and manuals, and Hockey Canada to find drills related to our coaching plans. Now we have one true source that will service all of our needs from a drill perspective.”
David Claggett
Simons Valley Giants Hockey Club

With 446 drills covering every facet of the sport, The Hockey Drill Book is the most comprehensive resource for today’s players and coaches.

Former National Hockey League and World Championship gold-medal coach Dave Chambers has spent thousands of hours in the world’s top rinks. In The Hockey Drill Book he provides you with the same drills used by North America’s and Europe’s elite.

Along with detailed diagrams, illustrations, and coaching tips, the 446 drills cover each position, offensive and defensive systems, pregame warm-ups, on-ice conditioning, and game-specific situations, including power plays, penalty killing, and face-offs.

Whether your goal is to improve your game or lead your team to glory, rely on The Hockey Drill Bookit is the only drill book you’ll ever need.

The Hockey Drill Book (The Drill Book Series)