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Professor Dr. Berndt Barth, born in 1941, has taught training methodology at the university level for many years and is the author of numerous articles and books about fencing. He is the secretary general of the Deutscher Fechter-Bund (German Fencing Federation) and has chaired that association’s Committee on Education and Training Methodology since 1990. Katrin Barth, born in 1966, has been a teacher of elementary education for ten years. She has personally completed the basic education, as well as the fundamental- and advanced training in fencing.

This work, with its child appropriate uncomplicated text and motivating illustrations, was written for a child’s hand. By inviting the child to complete individual tasks, to solve puzzles, to answer questions and to complete drawings, the book achieves the feel of a workbook. The little cartoon character “Foily” accompanies the reader throughout the book, as he offers tips and invites the child to practice independently. The contents correspond to the most basic level of fencing training. It is intended as a teaching tool for fencing instructors and trainers, to help promote understanding of the sport of fencing with the fencing students, and to improve independence in training. For the parents of fencing children it is an important motivational companion to fencing instruction.

Learning Fencing

The Art and Science of Fencing

Nick Evangelista has taught fencing for more than 30 years. He is also the author of The Art and Science of Fencing.

Often thought of as an activity just for actors or an elite few, fencing is actually an ideal sport for people of all ages. Fencing develops dexterity, endurance, flexibility, grace, and overall fitness, while also allowing participants the opportunity to hone the mind’s problem-solving abilities. It is easily learned and practiced by both young and old, men and women, boys and girls. It has even been molded to fit the needs of the blind and individuals using wheelchairs. This is truly a sport for everyone. The Art and Science of Fencing covers everything from the history of the sport to the specifics of fencing technique, including the psychology of fencing, types of fencing weapons, biographies of great fencers, and information on selecting a fencing school and getting started in the sport. This book is a necessity for everyone who’s ever seen an Errol Flynn movie and thought “Hey, that could be me!”

The Art and Science of Fencing

Lacing across the cold fjords and salmon streams of southeastern Alaska, the Tongass is America’s largest national forest, larger than the state of West Virginia. It is also little known beyond the immediate region, and its obscurity has been of much use to the timber companies that, operating with the federal government’s permission, have for years been clearing huge sections of the old-growth rainforest–and, it seems, for trivial ends. “Think of the stately Sitka spruce and you think of Chopin and sounding boards in the world’s finest pianos,” writes coeditor Don Snow, “but in the same thought you must also make room for the cellophane that wraps packages of cigarettes. Think of the soft-needled western hemlock and the strength it offers to hold a house together, but at the same time, consider rayon.” It is possible, Snow and his fellow contributors maintain, to work this vast forest without wide-scale destruction, to log it in sustainable ways; so the native people of the Tongass have been doing for generations. But it is necessary, they add, to think of the Tongass and other old-growth forests for what they have to offer the future, as vast libraries of biological information, instead of a resource for short-term profits. This book takes readers deep inside the forest, giving an account of its natural wealth. It also guides them through the thickets of law and economics surrounding the public-lands forestry industry. Activists will find it of much value for its clear explication of the ongoing debate surrounding how the Tongass is to be used. –Gregory McNamee

Home to immemorial beauty, ancient and valuable timber and longstanding environmental disputes, the southeast Alaskan forest region called the Tongass has attracted Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian tribes, lumber companies, eco-tourists and environmental activists. These 13 essays pay homage to its beauty and assess its controversies. In “Heart of the Forest,” Juneau-based biogeographer Richard Carstensen coaxes clear accounts of the area’s soil and flora from his journey through it. Ecologist Paul Alaback places the Tongass in the context of other rain forests, and describes how it rebounds after winds and fires, in “The Tongass Rain ForestAAn Elusive Sense of Place and Time.” Former fisherman Brad Matsen offers a fish’s-eye view in “Salmon in the Trees.” Lawyer David Avraham Voluck, in “First Peoples of the Tongass,” explains Native peoples’ “subsistence way of life,” which is inadequately protected, he argues, by federal legislation that governs the region. In “Glacier Bay History,” Tlingit storyteller Amy MarvinAone of two Native contributors, whose work is printed as verseAtells “how things happened to us/ at Glacier Bay.” Daniel Henry presents the uncomfortable populace of Haines, Alaska, as the town’s economy shifts from a past of logging to a hopeful future of tourism in “Allowable Cut.” And PI/mystery writer John Straley (The Angels Will Not Care) explains with drama and sympathy, in “Love, Crime, and Joyriding on a Dead End Road,” who commits crimes in southeast Alaska and why. Servid and Snow (editor of the magazine Northern Lights) have assembled a worthwhile book. Never dryly technical, rarely shrill, these original pieces often go no deeper than good daily newspaper journalism, but most will reward nonspecialists interested in Alaska’s forests, foresters, fish, First Peoples and the eco-economic issues that affect them all. (Aug.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

In the southeast corner of America’s most rugged state lies the last contiguous expanse of temperate rain forest on the planet, much of it within the Tongass National Forest. With Glacier Bay at its northern end, the Tongass lies on a maze of islands and along a coastal strip protected by a range of mountains. The Tongass lives up to its state’s reputation for wildness, natural beauty, and battles over how the land has been and will be used. In The Book of the Tongass, 13 Alaskans describe the region’s spectacular forest and wildlife, its economic opportunities, and in two pieces by Tlingit storytellers, its oral history.

Lacing across the cold fjords and salmon streams of southeastern Alaska, the Tongass is America’s largest national forest, larger than the state of West Virginia. It is also little known beyond the immediate region, and its obscurity has been of much use to the timber companies that, operating with the federal government’s permission, have for years been clearing huge sections of the old-growth rainforest–and, it seems, for trivial ends. “Think of the stately Sitka spruce and you think of Chopin and sounding boards in the world’s finest pianos,” writes coeditor Don Snow, “but in the same thought you must also make room for the cellophane that wraps packages of cigarettes. Think of the soft-needled western hemlock and the strength it offers to hold a house together, but at the same time, consider rayon.” It is possible, Snow and his fellow contributors maintain, to work this vast forest without wide-scale destruction, to log it in sustainable ways; so the native people of the Tongass have been doing for generations. But it is necessary, they add, to think of the Tongass and other old-growth forests for what they have to offer the future, as vast libraries of biological information, instead of a resource for short-term profits. This book takes readers deep inside the forest, giving an account of its natural wealth. It also guides them through the thickets of law and economics surrounding the public-lands forestry industry. Activists will find it of much value for its clear explication of the ongoing debate surrounding how the Tongass is to be used. –Gregory McNamee

The Book of the Tongass (The World As Home)

Tongass, Second Edition: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest

The largest temperate rainforest on the planet and home to grizzly bears, deer, moose, salmon, eagles, and myriad Native American tribes, the Tongass once covered southeast Alaska like a vibrant green carpet. That carpet has seen better days. In the 1950s, with sweetheart deals that provided seemingly limitless volumes of timber at well below market cost, the U.S. government enticed two pulp companies to set up shop there. The federal legislation opened up the country’s largest national forest to massive industrial clear-cutting; it also set the stage for a bare-knuckles environmental battle that would reach its apex near the end of the century and become a template for future skirmishes.

A former environmental journalist for the Portland Oregonian, Durbin tells the story of the Tongass with a crime reporter’s eye for deadly facts–which will fascinate anyone with an interest in the subject, particularly Alaskans and environmentalists. She details the collusion between the two pulp mills to keep prices down and small loggers squeezed; the illegal pollutant dumping; the union-busting; the U.S. Forest Service’s bureaucratic myopia; the thousands of miles of logging roads punched through formerly pristine watersheds; and the destruction of once-prolific salmon streams and big-game habitat in a region renowned for its hunting and fishing. Durbin is at her best, though, unraveling the complex political processes behind the timber wars, both at the national level and the local, as well as exposing the backroom dealmaking that goes on between elected officials, corporate leaders, and activists. Perhaps most compelling is the subplot of coalition-building among fledgling enviro groups that spans decades, especially the progress of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC), founded in Juneau in the late ’60s. Beginning as a tiny assortment of part-time, longhaired activists with nary a cent, SEACC eventually sends its own lobbyists to Washington. By the late 1980s, due largely to SEACC’s tireless work, a New York Times editorial is calling the federally subsidized logging on the Tongass “so wrongheaded it’s likely to provoke profanity from any fair-minded person,” and Sports Illustrated is covering the story with an article entitled “Forest Service Follies.” Through all this the author’s sympathies are clear: significant portions of the Tongass, once a magnificent, sprawling ancient forest of spruce and hemlock, have been largely reduced to newspaper pulp–and, incredibly, at a loss to U.S. taxpayers. –Langdon Cook –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The fate of the Tongass National Forest is one of today’s most closely watched environmental issues. Praised by Publishers Weekly as a “blow-by-blow account of a messy controversy and an impressive example of thorough journalism,” Kathie Durbin’s acclaimed volume is now available in an expanded edition that updates the story of this remote, wild, beautiful land.

After World War II, the U.S. government lured two pulp companies to Southeast Alaska by promising them low-cost timber from the Tongass National Forest, the planet’s largest coastal temperate rain forest. The mills brought jobs and growth to a sparsely settled region. They also wreaked ecological havoc and created a timber industry that broke labor unions, drove competitors out of business, and controlled politicians and the U.S. Forest Service. It took a national campaign, led by grassroots environmentalists, to bring sanity and sustainability to management of the Tongass.

In her insightful account of Alaska’s era of pulp, Durbin draws on the voices of the people most affected: independent loggers who fought back when the pulp companies conspired to drive them out of business; courageous biologists who warned that logging was destroying critical fish and wildlife habitat; Tlingit Indians who saw their traditional hunting grounds vanish; young activists and lawyers who found their lives transformed by the battle for the Alaska rain forest.

In this new edition, Durbin updates the story of the Tongass with a new chapter describing political and economic developments since 1999. Among the changes: a dramatic growth in cruise ship tourism, a new governor’s plan for a system of roads and bridges to link remote Southeast Alaska communities, and a renewed push by the Forest Service under a timber-friendly administration in Washington, D.C., to open vast roadless areas to logging. Yet the fight for the Alaska rain forest is becoming a broader movement as appreciation for the true value of the region’s wilderness grows.

Tongass, Second Edition: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest

***** A Reader From Palo Alto, CA, March 23, 1999 ***** Great description of day hikes in the Sedona Area. This is a wonderful book describing many day hikes in the Sedona AZ area. A number of people in the area said this was the best book for hiking. We really enjoyed the hiking and this book helped us find the best places to go (and what to expect when we got there.) –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Richard and Sherry Mangum live in Flagstaff, Arizona, but consider Sedona their second home. They have published eight books about northern Arizona and are considered to be the area’s premier guides. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The best Sedona hiking guide! The 130 hikes in this edition have been totally revamped to include GPS coordinates. Each hike now features a color photograph and color map. First released in 1992, the authors have worked constantly to keep this guide updated and current through this latest edition. The very use-friendly format features each hike shown on facing pages with complete directions to the trailhead, description of the hike, photograph and map. Also included is an elevation change graph, season-to-hike chart, difficulty/mileage graph and how-crowded icon

Sedona Hikes, 130 Day Hikes & 5 Vortex Sites around Sedona, Arizona, Revised 9th Edition

Sedona’s Top 10 Hikes

Dennis Andres is a writer, speaker and adventure guide living in Sedona, Arizona. His love and extensive knowledge of Sedona has earned him the title Mr. Sedona with both locals and clients alike. His passion for sharing what he knows has inspired the writing of his Mr. Sedona Series books on Sedona, which have become the best selling titles on Sedona. He has been interviewed by many sources of media both local and national and featured in Arizona Highways Magazine. Media sources such as the BBC and National Geographic have referred their audiences to Mr. Sedona s company: Sedona Private Guides, which specializes in custom tours off the beaten path to little known secret places. He has hiked more than 5,000 miles and counting in Red Rock Country. He has interviewed nearly that many travelers about their preferences in order to offer fulfilling guided adventures in the American Southwest, Nepal, Hawaii, Tibet, Italy and Peru. His career as an outdoor guide leading clients to some of the world s most spectacular places gives him the perfect perspective on what a visitor to Sedona will want to know. He is also the author of the best selling; What Is A Vortex? and the best guidebook on Sedona; Sedona: The Essential Guidebook

Sedona’s Top 10 Hikes; is an award winning hike book and is unlike any other in our marketplace. It appeals to anyone interested in hiking in Sedona. Author and adventure guide, Dennis Andres has outdone himself with the format of this book. This 112 page book packs a wealth of information in this easy to use guide. It distinguishes its hikes as easy, moderate and strenuous and has something for every level of fitness. It combines in depth information about the landscape and trails, easy to understand maps, directional guidance, and spectacular full color photography that lets you know what types of vistas await you along the trails and make this Sedona’s most intense, beautiful and descriptive hike book. From drive times to geological tips, and from photographic points to GPS data, this beautiful book is full of details to make the most of your outing. Hikes are rated from easiest to most strenuous, and include round-trip mileage and times, vortex notes and ideas for where to go after the hike and much more!!

Sedona’s Top 10 Hikes

In an age of mass-produced and disposable objects, traditional crafts are becoming extinct, and appreciation for craftsmanship has become a hobby for the wealthy dilettante. But here and there, a few stalwart individuals carry on the old traditions. Henri Vaillancourt of Greenville, New Hampshire is in large part responsible for the continuing survival of the birch bark canoe. McPhee tells the story not only of Vaillancourt and his work, but of the canoe’s role in American history. Many McPhee fans consider this lovely and lucid book one of his finest works. –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

“A lively chronicle, rich in character study and observations.”–The Wall Street Journal

In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose The Maine Woods recounts similar journeys in similar vessel. As McPhee describes the expedition he made with Vaillancourt, he also traces the evolution of the bark canoe, from its beginnings through the development of the huge canoes used by the fur traders of the Canadian North Woods, where the bark canoe played the key role in opening up the wilderness. He discusses as well the differing types of bark canoes, whose construction varied from tribe to tribe, according to custom and available materials. In a style as pure and as effortless as the waters of Maine and the glide of a canoe, John McPhee has written one of his most fascinating books, one in which his talents as a journalist are on brilliant display.

In an age of mass-produced and disposable objects, traditional crafts are becoming extinct, and appreciation for craftsmanship has become a hobby for the wealthy dilettante. But here and there, a few stalwart individuals carry on the old traditions. Henri Vaillancourt of Greenville, New Hampshire is in large part responsible for the continuing survival of the birch bark canoe. McPhee tells the story not only of Vaillancourt and his work, but of the canoe’s role in American history. Many McPhee fans consider this lovely and lucid book one of his finest works. –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The Survival of the Bark Canoe

Silk Parachute

This is not a new McPhee reader, though surely a third such volume is merited, but rather a collection of the best of his funny and affecting personal essays, works that offer glimpses of McPhee as a willful, curious boy; a nervous rookie New Yorker staff writer; and a bemused and proud father and grandfather. The stellar title essay is a glorious curveball homage to his mother. McPhee also writes of canoeing and lacrosse. Does eating eccentric food count as an athletic endeavor? It does when McPhee lives off the land with Euell Gibbons. And certainly fact-checking as practiced at the New Yorker (the home for earlier versions of these delectable pieces), and described in Checkpoints, qualifies as the literary equivalent of an Olympic sport. Season on the Chalk is a quintessential McPhee essayhe is a game-changing master of the formin which the roll and pitch of his sentences embody the topography of Europes strange and fabled chalk country. Whatever his subject, McPhees virtuoso and deeply engaging essays convey the profound pleasure of attending to the world. –Donna Seaman

A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEES PROSE PIECESIN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES

The brief, brilliant essay Silk Parachute, which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhees most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here highly varied in length and themeMcPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his reportorial travels, a U.S. Open golf championship, and a season in Europe on the chalk from the downs and sea cliffs of England to the Maas valley in the Netherlands and the champagne country of northern France. Some of the pieces are wholly personal. In luminous recollections of his early years, for example, he goes on outings with his mother, deliberately overturns canoes in a learning process at a summer camp, and germinates a future book while riding on a jump seat to away games as a basketball player. But each pieceon whatever themecontains somewhere a personal aspect in which McPhee suggests why he was attracted to write about the subject, and each opens like a silk parachute, lofted skyward and suddenly blossoming with color and form.
Silk Parachute

To examine the interconnected evolution of basketball and the hoops-crazy state of Indiana, Wertheim (Venus Envy) returns to Bloomington, Ind., to follow a basketball season at his high school alma mater. Interspersed among the chapters about the team are stories about Indiana’s connection to basketball and the state of the game on the NBA and college levels. Dealing with subjects like the demise of former Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight and NBA basketball’s low “watchability” factor, Wertheim’s assessments shine with top-notch writing and, thanks to the author’s Sports Illustrated background, are augmented by quotes from power players like Larry Bird. Wertheim excels at finding a connection between the bigger basketball world and the Bloomington team, and his examination of the globalization of basketball through the eyes of one family that moved to Bloomington to escape civil war in Sudan and went on to send their five children to college on basketball scholarships deftly shows the bittersweet nature of the American dream. Similarly, Wertheim’s decision to confront these issues by observing two Indiana towns–one white, one black–results in original dialogue on the much-discussed theme of the racial politics of American sport. These forays into thought-provoking cultural topics add weight to a fun and fast-paced examination of an enduring game. B&w photos.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

*Starred Review* Wertheim, a Sports Illustrated writer, graduated from basketball-crazy Bloomington North High School in south-central Indiana in 1989. When he was in school, his classmates played typical Indiana ball, founded on crisp cuts, screens, and accurate midrange shooting, all performed at ground level. The new Bloomington Cougars, now a state powerhouse under coach Tom McKinney, play a hip-hop, high-flying style more akin to the NBA than to the classic Indiana style on view in the movie Hoosiers. Wertheim uses the changes at his old high school as a base to understand the changes in basketball throughout the country. He explores the history of the Indiana Pacers NBA team, now operated by Larry Bird, who, as a Boston Celtic, embodied the fundamental soundness that purists now claim is missing from the game. He also goes to Indiana University, where he explores that program’s tumultuous–but generally very successful–history under controversial coach Bob Knight and his successor, Mike Davis. But Wertheim always comes back to Bloomington North, where McKinney maintains the fine line between demanding sound fundamentals while accommodating his players’ desire for a more personally expressive style. And the book touches on more than just hoops. The lives of today’s high-schoolers are both different from and similar to previous generations, but rather than just noting the disparities, Wertheim ponders their implications. A wonderfully written peek into the modern game and the people who coach it and play it. Wes Lukowsky
Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Through the lens of Indiana basketball–once known as the cradle of Larry Bird and Gene Hackman’s Hoosiers, now as the land of Ron Artest and a flashy, urban game–the story of how basketball became the hip-hop sport, and why that’s not a bad thing, by the award-winning Sports Illustrated writer and Indiana native.

Transition Game: How Hoosiers Went Hip-Hoop

Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played

Amazon Exclusive: Blake Bailey Reviews Strokes of Genius

Blake Bailey is the author of Cheever: A Life, which the New York Times called “a definitive, Dickensian rendering of a complete and complicated life, addictively readable and long overdue.” His last book, A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of Strokes of Genius:

If, like me, you regard Roger Federer as one of the three or four most glorious athletes in human history, and an awfully nice guy to boot, then the years 2004 to 2007 were golden years for you. This was the “Federer era” in tennis, when he won 11 of 16 Grand Slam tournaments and amassed an astonishing match record of 315-24. Nor was there much of the nasty tension entailed by hard-fought five-set matches; as a fan of Federer, one had only to sit back and sigh at the artistry–the elegant angles, the impossible retrievals, the bazooka forehands–while Federer rose to the occasion (good-naturedly) again and again, usually in straight sets.

This belle poque might have continued, if not for the rise of the musclebound Spaniard, Rafael Nadal, indisputably the greatest clay-court player of all time. For a while it seemed, at worst, that neither Federer nor anyone else would win the French Open as long as Nadal was healthy; but then Nadal began to dominate on faster surfaces, too. Transcending himself in the fifth set, Federer managed to defeat Nadal in the 2007 Wimbledon final (perhaps the third or fourth greatest match ever played) and thus equal Borg’s Open-era record of five straight Wimbledon titles. Borg himself, however, predicted that Nadal would not only win the next Wimbledon, but goad the demoralized Federer out of tennis entirely–reminiscent, that is, of McEnroe’s effect on Borg, who retired at age 26 after losing his edge in the rivalry.

As L. Jon Wertheim points out in Strokes of Genius–his riveting analysis of the 2008 Federer-Nadal Wimbledon final, and an instant classic of tennis literature–the “clashing styles” of the two greats have made theirs the gold standard of sports rivalries: “Feline light versus bovine heavy. Middle European restraint and quiet meticulousness versus Iberian bravado and passion. Dignified power versus an unapologetic, whoomphing brutality. Zeus versus Hercules.” A senior writer for Sports Illustrated, Wertheim describes the match itself with expertise and lan (“an oil painting of a forehand volley”), while widening and tightening his lens to examine almost every aspect of the modern game: the curious obsolescence of the serve-and-volley approach; the evolution of the racket (natural gut versus polyester, etc.); the vagaries of various players, most notably Nadal and Federer. (Fun fact: Nadal–whose “awkward” left-hand game has given Federer such fits–is actually right-handed.)

These digressions, so nicely deployed, helped distract this reader from a very unhappy ending: 6-4, 6-4, 6-7, 6-7, 9-7, which one fan aptly likened to “watching an angel fall.” This much we know (and never mind the woe that, Federer-wise, would follow), but did you know that in England, at 9:20 P.M., there was a 1400-megawatt power surge when millions rose as one from their couches to switch the lights on, released at last from the intolerable tension of the greatest match in history? For that detail, and many like it, you need Wertheim’s engrossing book.

–This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

On July 6, 2008, two compelling athletes met on Wimbledons Centre Court in the mens final and served up a seminal event in tennis. Roger Federer was on track to take his rightful place as the most dominant player in the history of the game. The Wimbledon champ for five years running, Federer needed only to sustain his trajectory. But in the fading daylight it was his rival, the swashbuckling Spaniard Rafael Nadal, who met the moment. Their captivating match was, according to the author, essentially a four-hour forty-eight-minute infomercial for everything that is right about tennisa festival of skill, accuracy, grace, strength, speed, endurance, determination, and sportsmanship. It was also the encapsulation of a fascinating and textured rivalry, hard fought and of historic proportions.
Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played

“Coming to France? Forget the rest, read the best. This book will save you from being the butt of the Frenchman”s humour.”
-French News

“A Francophile”s humorous guide to the French language. A kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves meets A Year in the Merde.”
-Bookseller

When Charles Timoney and his French wife were both made redundant in the same week they decided to try living in France for a year or so. It proved much harder than expected. Charles’ O level in French was little help when everyone around him consistently used a wide variety of impenetrable slang and persisted in the annoying habit of talking about things he had never heard of. But they stayed. Two decades and two thoroughly French children later, he decided to write the guide to French that would have saved him from so many blunders and misunderstandings along the way. This is it. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From getting the best value from the boulangerie to ordering a steak without getting sneered at, an A-to-Z guide to fitting in en Franais

Englishman Charles Timoney was thrown into French life headfirst twenty-five years ago when he and his wife moved to her native France. He had studied French in school, but his memory of vocabulary lists and conjugation drills proved no match for day-to-day living. As he blundered his way toward fluency, he kept a list of words and phrases that wonderfully (sometimes wickedly) epitomized aspects of the French culture-and were used only by native speakers.

Pardon My French tackles the delightful absurdities of French life and language and steers readers past the potential embarrassments of speaking French in France. It is a book no student, traveler, or language maven should be without.

“Coming to France? Forget the rest, read the best. This book will save you from being the butt of the Frenchman”s humour.”
-French News

“A Francophile”s humorous guide to the French language. A kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves meets A Year in the Merde.”
-Bookseller

Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul

Correct Your French Blunders: How to Avoid 99% of the Common Mistakes Made by Learners of French

Speak and write French as if it were your native tongue!

Tired of making the same old mistakes of switching your genders, confusing your tenses, and mixing up your idioms? Break the bad habits that leave everybody you talk to scratching their head. Correct Your French Blunders warns you of hundreds of typical errors learners make and explains the reasons behind the mistakes, so you can correct yourself in the future.

Improve your French skills with this fun and comprehensive guide and avoid all the common pitfalls, such as:

Mispronunciation and misspelling Applying English grammar patterns to French Putting verbs in the wrong tense Using incorrect prepositions in expressions Forgetting agreements in gender and number Hanging out with faux amis (false cognates)

Correct Your French Blunders offers exercises covering all parts of grammar and wraps it all up with review passages to check that you are blunder-free. Soon, biting your nails will be your only bad habit!

Speak and write French as if it were your native tongue!

Tired of making the same old mistakes of switching your genders, confusing your tenses, and mixing up your idioms? Break the bad habits that leave everybody you talk to scratching their head. Correct Your French Blunders warns you of hundreds of typical errors learners make and explains the reasons behind the mistakes, so you can correct yourself in the future.

Improve your French skills with this fun and comprehensive guide and avoid all the common pitfalls, such as:

Mispronunciation and misspelling Applying English grammar patterns to French Putting verbs in the wrong tense Using incorrect prepositions in expressions Forgetting agreements in gender and number Hanging out with faux amis

Correct Your French Blunders: How to Avoid 99% of the Common Mistakes Made by Learners of French

Cynthia Marie Bower has been a teacher of English as a Second Language at two local private schools in Guanajuato, GTO. She has a degree from the University of Kansas in Secondary Education. She has been a permanent resident with her husband, Douglas Bower, in central Mexico since August 2003. Her first professional writing credit will appear in the AAA Go Magazine in November 2005.

Doug Bower is a freelance writer, Syndicated Columnist, and book author. His most recent writing credits include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Houston Chronicle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Transitions Abroad. He is a columnist with California Chronicle and more than 21 additional online magazines. He lives with his wife in Guanajuato, Mexico. His newest book, Mexican Living: Blogging it from a Third World Country is out with LuLu Press.

Expatriates Doug and Cindi Bower have successfully expatriated to Mexico, learning through trial and error how to do it from the conception of the initial idea to driving up to their new home in another country. Now the potential expatriate can benefit from their more than three years of pre-expat research to their more than two years of actually living in Mexico. They explain: How to begin the process of deciding whether Mexico is for you. How to evaluate locations and costs for expatriation. How to avoid being stereotyped as an Ugly American. How to find and set up your new home. Ways to cure culture shock before arriving in Mexico. How to master Spanish before moving. How safe Mexico really is. The benefits of cheap living, travel, and medical care. The modern technology available in Mexico. and much more! The Plain Truth about Living in Mexico answers the potential expatriate’s questions by leading them through the process from the beginning to the end. In this comprehensive guide, you will learn not only how-to expatriate but will learn what to expect, in daily life, before coming to Mexico.

The Plain Truth About Living in Mexico: The Expatriate’s Guide to Moving, Retiring, or Just Hanging Out

Live Better South of the Border, 4th Ed.: A Practical Guide for Living and Working

By his own admission, “Mexico” Mike Nelson has known Mexico from the perspective of one counting his pennies, as well as of one who can afford the finer things in life. His dedication and insider’s knowledge have been recognized by news media such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Helps readers explore the pros and cons of living and working in Mexico.
Live Better South of the Border, 4th Ed.: A Practical Guide for Living and Working (Live Better South of the Border in Mexico)

This book represents the best of the Holmes archive, brimming with brilliant color photographs not published in decades. A rare window on the world of 100 years ago, Burton Holmes Travelogues will transport you to a time that has all but evaporated, and inspire you to strike out on a journey of your own.

In the 1960s, Genoa Caldwell was the New York-based photo researcher for the London Sunday Times, as well as photo editor for both Black Star and Magnum. While operating her own photo agency in Los Angeles in the 1970s, Caldwell was introduced to the work of Burton Holmes and became private archivist for the extensive and unique photographic collection. Caldwell has maintained the collection for over 30 years and has lectured and published on the life and work of Burton Holmes.

Wanderlust: Burton Holmes, the father of the Travelogue All the delights of travel for those who stay at home. In a time before air travel or radio, on the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, Burton Holmes (1870-1958) set upon a lifelong journey to bring the world home. From the grand boulevards of Paris to China’s Great Wall, from the first modern Olympics in Athens to the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Holmes delighted in finding ?the beautiful way around the world? and made a career of sharing his stories, photographs, and films with audiences across America. As a young man, Holmes was mentored by John L. Stoddard, a pioneer of the U.S. travel lecture circuit, who passed on his well-established mantle when he retired. Holmes roamed the globe throughout the summer and traversed the United States all winter, transforming the staid lecture tradition into an entertaining show. He coined the term ?Travelogue? in 1904 to advertise his unique performance and thrilled audiences with two-hour sets of stories timed to projections of hand-painted glass-lantern slides and some of the first “moving pictures.” Paris, Peking, Dehli, Dubrovnick, Moscow, Manila, Jakarta, Jerusalem: Burton Holmes was there. He visited every continent and nearly every country on the planet, shooting over 30,000 photographs and nearly 500,000 feet of film. This book represents the best of the Holmes archive, brimming with brilliant color photographs not published in decades. A rare window on the world of 100 years ago, Burton Holmes Travelogues will transport you to a time that has all but evaporated, and inspire you to strike out on a journey of your own. The author: In the 1960s, Genoa Caldwell wasthe New York-based photo researcher for the London Sunday Times, as well as photo editor for both Black Star and Magnum. While operating her own photo agency in Los Angeles in the 1970s, Caldwell was introduced to the work of Burton Holmes and became private archivist for the extensive and unique photographic collection. Caldwell has maintained the collection for over 30 years and has lectured and published on the life and work of Burton Holmes.

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20th Century Travel: 100 Years Of Globe-Trotting Ads

“The world is a book; those who do not travel read only a page.” – St. Augustine”

The metabolism of travel changed more in the last century than in the previous half-millennium, a stunning transformation triggered by American wanderlust. In less than 100 years, the U.S. mass-produced the automobile, invented airplanes, freeways, motels, even sent men to the Moon. Travel grew ever faster and easier. Above all, it was democratized enabling millions to explore distant lands, or see their own more fully.

At the start of the 20th century, only people with extensive disposable income and time to spare could enjoy leisure travel. By the centurys end, journeys took hours, not days, and mass travel especially brief air flights became the new normal. Along the way, ocean liners broke speed records, aerodynamic trains roared down the tracks, stylish boat-plane clippers evolved into jumbo jets. Whether aboard high-speed locomotives or ships, jets or Greyhound buses or when setting their own schedule on the open road Americans demanded ever greater mobility and wider choice of destinations, thereby setting a new standard for travelers around the world.

A lush visual history of this national wanderlust, this volume features 400-plus print advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection, which illustrate the evolution of leisure travel from domestic to global, exclusive to popular, exotic to standardized and its crucial role in American culture.

With an introduction, decade-by-decade analysis, and an illustrated timeline, this book highlights the cultural and technological developments that transformed travel from a cushioned journey of the elite into a convenient leisure pastime for the general public. 20th Century Travel takes us on a grand tour of travels golden age.

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Wes Burgess, M.D., Ph.D. is a lifetime snorkeler and the author of books, book chapters, columns, and articles about animal and human behavior, behavioral biology, ecology, fish behavior and development, medicine and psychology in publications like Scientific American, Oceanus, Ecology, and Animal Behavior. He holds doctorate degrees in Zoology and Medicine and he has taught at Stanford University, UCLA, University of California at Davis, and other major institutions. Wes has been interviewed frequently on National Public Radio, appeared on television and in films, and taught at Stanford University, UCLA, and other major universities. Wes biography can be found in every library in Marquis Press Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in the West, Who’s Who in America, and Whos Who in the Biobehavioral Sciences. He has given lectures, workshops, and symposia around the world. Wes has won awards for his writing, including the Purdue University Literary Award and the Mead Johnson Award for Excellence in Writing. Reviewers repeatedly comment on his ability to make complex topics easy to understand and entertaining to read. Wes lives within walking distance of the ocean with his wife and two dogs. When he is not writing or snorkeling, you can find him flying two-line stunt kites on the beach.

If you’re a beginning snorkeler, The Ultimate Snorkeling Book will allay your fears, insure that you are safe, explain how to keep up with your partner and contribute helpful suggestions of your own during the trip. You’ll learn special snorkel swimming techniques that will have you swimming with the grace of the fishes. If you’re already an expert, you’ll learn practical new tips and techniques that you will use as soon as you push off into the water. The Ultimate Snorkeling Book explains how each piece of snorkeling gear works and what to buy at every price range. You’ll learn how to maintain snorkeling equipment for best performance and how to modify your old or inexpensive mask, fins and snorkel so they will perform like professional gear. The Ultimate Snorkeling Book focuses on your safety. It explains how to protect yourself from sudden storms, lightening, invisible currents, equipment failure, burning sun, cold water, leaky masks, tiny jellyfish, and big scary fish. You’ll learn how to anticipate children’s special needs and keep your family safe in the water The Ultimate Snorkeling Book is like a personal mentorship with an experienced snorkeler and zoologist who respects the wondrous life that inhabits our aquatic world. You’ll identify reef creatures, know why they look and behave as they do, and understand the fragile shoreline ecosystem and how to protect it. The Ultimate Snorkeling Book helps you plan your trip, get to your destination with everything you need, and know exactly what to do when you step into the water. It contains pre-trip checklists of clothing, equipment, first aid supplies, and other essentials. The Ultimate Snorkeling Book insures that your snorkel trip will be a success, no matter what happens. Whether you travel to resorts in the Bahamas, reef-side bungalows in Fiji, or just take a day trip to the nearest inland lake, you can have a great time snorkeling. Let’s start right now!

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The Simple Guide to Snorkeling Fun

An excellent book on how to use, select and enjoy snorkeling equipment and tips for more fun when snorkeling. — Dive Training Magazine 2002

A solid introduction to snorkeling fun. Mask, fins, and snorkel are the three most basic items of diving equipment that can be used whether you choose to remain on the surface to make your underwater discoveries, or whether you plan to plunge into the depths. You can use the same gear no matter where your diving adventures take you. Using snorkeling gear, you can swim with the dolphins, explore sunken ships, or capture your own lobsters for dinner.

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ISAO INOKUMA is a professor of physical education at Tokai University, standing trustee of International Budo University, an international refree, and a member of the supporting committee of the All-Japan Judo Federation. He twice won the All-Japan Judo Championship and was the gold medal winner in the heavyweight division of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He also won the open category in the Fourth World Judo Championships.

NOBUYUKI SATO is a professor of physical education at Tokai University. Winner of the All-Japan Judo Championship in 1974 and the light-heavyweight titles of the Fifth and Eighth World Judo Championships, he is a member of the supporting committee of the All-Japan Judo Federation.

This book is the joint effort of two of Japan’s foremost judo instructors. Isao Inokuma and Nobuyuki Sato have also been world-class judo champions, and their advice and enthusiasm have helped train countless other judo practitioners. Among their students is the sensational Yasuhiro Yamashita, who captured the All-Japan Judo Championship nine times in a row from 1977 to 1985. Now, with Best Judo, their winning methods can be yours.

Best Judo can be used by beginners and veterans alike. It starts with the basic judo postures and salutations and shows you how to move on the mat, how to control your opponent, and how to be thrown safely. It then demonstrates the essential judo techniques: throwing, grappling, locking, choking, escaping, and sequence combinations.

Over 1,200 photos and easy-to-follow action sequences-many of them demonstrated by Yamashita present each movement clearly. Brief explanations emphasize important areas for study, caution, and concentration. There is also a section on training, full of ideas for building and vitalizing your body.

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The Canon of Judo: Classic Teachings on Principles and Techniques

“The Canon of Judo provides a unique insight into judo’s spirit and techniques and, with very few exceptions, the content remains as relevant today and when it was originally written, half a century ago.” -Journal of Asian Martial Arts

The Long-lost “bible of judo” is back in print after almost 30 years.

Judo’s origins date back to ancient times, and through the course of its long history it has evolved into one of Japan’s most renowned heritages, assimilating many aspects of Japanese culture. In recent years, Judo has acquired heightened popularity, both in Japan and around the world, as a martial art and a path to spiritual enlightenment.

Kyuzo Mifune began Judo as a junior middle-school student, and in 1945 was awarded the rank of 10th dan. known as the “God of Judo,” he was so famous that, in referring to him, the words “10th dan” alone sufficed. Legend has it that in his sixty years of practice he never lost a match and was never thrown.

This book is the completely revised edition of Canon of Judo, originally published in 1960. It is said the book played a big role in founding the International Judo Federation, and in helping Judo to become an Olympic sport in 1964.

Shortly before his death Mifune revised his work, and this new edition includes these revisions, as well as a completely new translation of the original. It also contains a completely new layout.

With around 1,000 photos of the author and his students, and detailed, thorough explanations of the techniques, The Canon of Judo is the only book of its kind to provide such a comprehensive guide to the various techniques and the spirit of Judo. It will be an indispensable resource for all Judo practitioners.

The Canon of Judo: Classic Teachings on Principles and Techniques