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Mark Will-Weber is the editor of The Quotable Runner, Breakaway’s best-selling title. Former editor of Runner’s World.

“Keep this book close to you at all times. It cant help but improve your spirits and your running.”Runners World

By its very nature, running is extreme and pure, resulting in a great supply of extremely memorable quotes, jokes, barbs, and philosophical gems. The Quotable Runner gathers the best of these into one indispensable volume. Sir Roger Bannister compares running to classical drama. George Patton compares it to war. Bill Clinton finds it keeps him optimistic. And Oprah sums it up beautifully: “Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.”

The Quotable Runner is like no other running book. Runners will read it again and again for inspiration, advice, and humor.

The Quotable Runner: Great Moments of Wisdom, Inspiration, Wrongheadedness, and Humor

The Runner’s Book of Daily Inspiration : A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction

Kevin Nelson is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Angler’s Book of Daily Inspiration and The Golfer’s Book of Daily Inspiration.

Sometimes it is hard to go that extra mile or run for more minutes than the day before. Even the most dedicated runner needs an extra push. The Runner’s Book of Daily Inspiration uses positive thinking, humor, and practical training advice coupled with a daily affirmation or resolution to give runners reinforcement and support on those lazy, rainy, or otherwise uninspired days.

The Runner’s Book of Daily Inspiration : A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction

Bill James made his mark in the 1970s and 1980s with his Baseball Abstracts. He has been tearing down preconceived notions about America’s national pastime ever since. He is currently the Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. James lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife, Susan McCarthy, and three children.

Rob Neyer has written about baseball for ESPN.com since 1996 and appears regularly on ESPNews. He has written four baseball books, including The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers (with Bill James) and Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Lineups. His website, www.robneyer.com, contains additional material related to this and his other books.

Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them — these days it’s the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there’s never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information. That’s what preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer realized over lunch more than a dozen years ago. Since then, they’ve been compiling the centerpiece of this book, the “Pitcher Census,” which lists specific information for nearly two thousand pitchers, ranging throughout the history of professional baseball. The Guide also offers:

A “dictionary” describing virtually every known pitch The origins and development of baseball’s most important pitches Top ten lists: best fastballs, best spitballs, and everything in between Biographies of some of the great pitchers who have been overlooked More knuckleballers and submariners than you ever thought existed An open debate concerning pitcher abuse and durability A formula for predicting the Cy Young Award winner Something fresh and new: Bill James’ “Pitcher Codes”

The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers is about understanding pitchers, and baseball’s action always starts with the pitchers. It’s also about entertaining debates and having a great deal of fun with the history of a game that obsesses so many.

The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers: An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches

The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

A premier baseball analyst and brand name, James (The Bill James Player Ratings Book, The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers) releases a revised edition of his 1985 classic, with expanded player and team histories and reconsidered commentary. Divided into two sections, “The Game” and “The Players,” this comprehensive and opinionated tome describes the evolution of the sport over the decades (uniforms in the 1890s, best minor league teams of the 1930s, the Negro Leagues, etc.) and the characteristics of its players (stats, injuries, habits and proclivities). The thumbnail player sketches in the second section (the 100 greatest players at each position) vary widely in content and tone: the entry on Lefty Gomez includes a page on his public-speaking abilities, while of Kevin Brown, James merely writes, “I don’t root for him, either, but he is a great pitcher.” (James has assigned the rankings according to a statistical rating formula he calls Win Shares, which he explains conceptually and mathematically.) The game section, though, is the standout. It may not contain detailed statistical leaders or standings for each year, or even who won each World Series, but it does offer information on new stadiums, the competitiveness of different leagues and shifts in the way the game was played. At the end of each chapter, a “decade in a box” lists major statistics and Jamesian awards, varying from the quantitative (the team with the best record) and the qualitative (the best switch hitter) to the quirky (the decade’s ugliest player). (Dec.)Forecast: There are enough baseball and Bill James fans to ensure steady sales, and the pub date near enough to the World Series might encourage a few extra readers. A uniquely personal, even iconoclastic guide, this belongs in baseball libraries to counterpoint The Baseball Encyclopedia and Total Baseball.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball’s beloved “Sultan of Stats” is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new millennium.

Like the original, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is really several books in one. The Game provides a century’s worth of American baseball history, told one decade at a time, with energetic facts and figures about How, Where, and by Whom the game was played. In The Players, you’ll find listings of the top 100 players at each position in the major leagues, along with James’s signature stats-based ratings method called “Win Shares,” a way of quantifying individual performance and calculating the offensive and defensive contributions of catchers, pitchers, infielders, and outfielders. And there’s more: the Reference section covers Win Shares for each season and each player, and even offers a Win Share team comparison. A must-have for baseball fans and historians alike, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is as essential, entertaining, and enlightening as the sport itself.

The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

Evey, founding chairman of the famous sports network, recounts his experiences as the cutthroat businessman central to the creation of what would become one of cable TV’s most profitable and watched channels. He begins his memoirthe publication of which coincides with ESPN’s 25th anniversaryby describing his relationship with his reclusive, eccentric, very wealthy boss, George Getty (of Getty Oil), and how that played into the Getty company’s decision to put Evey at the helm of the burgeoning network. The narrative dashes back and forth between Getty’s home in England, the oil firm’s holdings in Mexico and Liberia, and, finally, to ESPN’s broadcast home of Bristol, Conn. Less an analysis of ESPN’s place in programming history than an egotistical blow-by-blow account of big business dealings, Evey’s book barely illuminates the personalities behind the network itself (with a few brief exceptions) or the philosophy behind its success. Rather, it breathlessly extols the virtues of Evey’s globe-trotting, big-checksigning bosses and adds excess drama to the stresses behind corporate mergers and acquisitions negotiated on Hawaii’s beaches. In fact, Evey spends so much time detailing the various backstabbings and tough-guy business decisions he insists were necessary to the station’s success, that when his tale ends with him being brought low by alcoholism and divorce, it doesn’t inspire much empathy.
Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

ESPN has certainly had an odd history. Created out of nothing by the former communications director of the New England Whalers, funded by Getty Oil, overseen by a Getty Oil V.P. (Evey), the network was an idea so out-of-left-field that lots of people figured it wouldn’t work. “Get it straight,” Evey writes, “ESPN had no precedent.” And, for quite a while, it looked as though it might have no real content, apart from peripheral sporting events that most people didn’t watch anyway. Evey recounts the battles to win contracts to televise major events, and he introduces us to the personalities behind ESPN and to the enormous risks–financial and professional–required to launch a new television network. Not just a book about a sports network, it’s also a story about the early days of cable television, when a lot of people still thought the idea of paying for programming was just plain loony. ESPN proved them wrong. David Pitt
Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved

ESPN: Creating an Empire tells the full story of ESPN’s origins, of make-or-break decisions that were made on a seemingly daily basis, and involved a cast of characters including Howard Cosell, Ted Turner, Roone Arledge, Don King, and Peter Ueberroth.

Creating an Empire: ESPN – The No-Holds-Barred Story of Power, Ego, Money, and Vision That Transformed a Culture

ESPN The Company: The Story and Lessons Behind the Most Fanatical Brand in Sports

Thirty years ago, TV sports coverage was produced as a sidebar unworthy of serious news time. Game highlights, such as they were, usually consisted of scores and brief recaps crammed into a few minutes between news and weather on your local television channel. That all changed when Bill Rasmussen, an unemployed sports announcer in 1979, and a group of committed sports junkies in Bristol, Connecticut, decided to lease unwanted satellite time to broadcast some local college sports and minor league hockey games. They called their organization the Entertainment & Sports Programming Network which we know today as ESPN, the most powerful and prominent name in sports media, with twenty-seven satellite dishes feeding more than 97 million subscribers. How did Connecticut become the center of the sports universe?

ESPN The Company tells the fascinating story of how ESPN managed to sustain its growth, innovation, and brand in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving marketplace. Based on over twenty years of consulting inside ESPN, Smith provides the reader with firsthand observations, experiences, and research, which reveals for the first time an inside look and feel for the type of organizational psychology and culture that exists at all levels of ESPN. The authors detail four distinct stages in the company’s development that the company has gone through illuminating how ESPN’s business decisions and accomplishments can be understood in the context of the company’s evolution. We ultimately learn that at the heart of ESPN’s success is one astoundingly simple principle: serve fans.

After each chapter, the authors share the lessons learned at ESPN about launching and growing a wildly successful enterpriseall the while enhancing economic and human value. The lessons are rich and applicable anywhere, and if you’re a fan of business, competition, or sports, you’ll enjoy reading and learning from this book.

A fascinating look at ESPN and its success as a brand

ESPN The Company reveals the inside scoop on the biggest business story in sports, detailing the creative and innovative spirit and practices that drove the programming, products, and services of the most powerful and prominent name in sports media. The authors provide a behind-the-scenes perspective on how ESPN dealt with their many partners and how they handled mistakes and missteps along the way-from the humble beginnings of ESPN as an underrated startup to the pinnacle of their success as a major industry player.

ESPN and other great organizations invest in their people. They train them. They believe that if you spend the time and resources turning talented performers into leaders, you’re going to get better organizational performance and engender higher levels of commitment and sweat. ESPN The Company
Explores the dedication to excellence that makes ESPN the “Worldwide Leader in Sports”
Reveals how the steps ESPN has taken to excel can be applied to whatever type of business you’re in
Shares the lessons learned at ESPN about launching and growing a wildly successful enterprise

Engaging and informative, this entertaining guide reveals how any company can benefit by embracing the best practices of ESPN.

ESPN The Company: The Story and Lessons Behind the Most Fanatical Brand in Sports

A writer and author. Life long involvement in sports as a participant and more than thirty years a volunteer coach. I have trained many new coaches in how to do planning, scheduling and rotation of players during practices and games. Teaching how to coax the best from players.

This book was written expressly for you who are coaching chil-dren in Flag Football. We stress how to teach children to play this game and to have fun doing it. The book covers all facets of the game from the most basic how to pass, receive, run and grab the flags to game strategies and tactics.When coaching children it should be a fun experience for every-one, for you, for the parents, and most important of all, for the chil-dren. As a coach, we cover the teaching attitude and methods. We always keep in mind that these are children, and the game is for the kids and not for the adults. Winning isn’t everything, but learning to play well and wanting to win is.We have taken the children from first grade through the eighth grade and broken them into three categories. In each category we discuss the players needs and abilities, what they are capable of in both the physical and emotion sense, and their limitations. We have also defined the coachs role, the parents role and the players role.

Coaching Kids Flag Football

Youth Football Skills & Drills: A New Coach’s Guide

The ultimate toolkit for youth football coaches

With its great emphasis on position on offense, defense, and special teams, football is the most complicated and challenging youth sport to coach. Youth Football Skills and Drills gives you the hands-on, step-by-step guidance to instruct young players and prepare them for the season. It presents and explains all of the essential techniques to play each position, provides proven drills you can use to teach each of these techniques, and suggests an optimum time-line structure for teaching and practicing each drill.

Unique among youth football coaching guides, this key to coaching success recognizes that most youth-team players play on both sides of the ball, and it recommends special drills that pair up key offensive and defensive positions. It also supplies important advice on organizing your coaching staff depending on the number of coaches you have and their areas of interest and strength.

Important features of this unparalleled resource include:

64 drills covering vital skills needed at every position

23 group drills that constitute a defensive and offensive play book for every game situation

Drills that teach the tackling and catching skills all players need

Match-up drills for key offensive and defensive positions: wide receiver and defensive back; defensive/offensive line; linebacker and running back; and more

Passing- and running-game drills for both offense and defense

Special-teams drills and plays

One of the NFL’s leading coaches helps you improve your players’ techniques and your team’s performance

Building on the phenomenal success of the Baffled Parent’s series, this comprehensive resource helps you expand your teaching skills and improve your players’ performance and enjoyment. It’s equally indispensable for parents thrust into coaching, former players taking on their first coaching assignments, and veteran coaches.

This great guide features:

Tackling and catching drills for the entire team Group and team drills for offensive, defensive, and special team situations A unique system of paired drills and instruction for wide receivers and defensive backs; linemen and tight ends; and running backs and linebackers Photographs and diagrams that simplify the coaching process

Youth Football Skills & Drills: A New Coach’s Guide

“Jacquie Joseph conveys her knowledge of the game with a great, hands-on approach to coaching kids. This book is essential reading for parents and coaches of young players.”–Lacy Lee Baker, Executive Director, National Fastpitch Coaches Association

“Your goal is to provide a fun and rewarding softball experience for your players. This is an opportunity for you to make a difference in their lives.”–Jacquie Joseph

Coach. You thought you were just going to sign up your child for the youth league. Now here you are, a newly appointed coach. You didn’t ask for it, but it happened anyway. Now you need help.

Don’t despair. This complete guidebook will not only get you through it but will help you become the coach you’d like to be–the coach who can give those kids the sports experience they deserve. You’ve already taken a big step: you said “yes” to this important commitment. Congratulations. You’ll have a great time, and Jacquie Joseph is here to help. Survive your first practice and game Win over problem players–and parents Reach all your players Match your drills and strategies to age and ability Make it fun and rewarding Be the coach you never had Generate enthusiasm Improve your players and your team

Praise for other books in the Baffled Parent’s series:

“This book is a great source of information for youth coaches and players.”–John Cerutti, former major league pitcher, Toronto Blue Jays, on Coaching Youth Baseball

“An excellent guide to teaching kids about the game.”–Larry Bird, basketball legend, on Coaching Youth Basketball

“Essential reading.”–Jim Sheldon, Executive Director, National Soccer Association of America, on Coaching Youth Soccer

Jacquie Joseph is head coach of the Michigan State University softball team. She has coached at the national level as an assistant to the gold medal U.S. team in the Pan American Games qualifier in 1997 and as head coach for the West Team in the U.S. National team trials.

Coaching Youth Softball is written especially for the unprepared parent thrust into the role of coaching his or her 8- to 12-year-old child’s softball team. Upbeat and inspirational, it schools new coaches in the fundamentals of controlling, motivating, and encouraging a disparate group of kids in the art and science of softball.

Parents learn the logistics of running a youth team and the specifics of coaching softball. They learn how to match drills to a player’s skills and motivation level and gain a wealth of detailed instructions on such specifics as how to run a successful practice and manage during a game.

Takes a drill-based approach to teaching basic skills Reviews softball fundamentals for inexperienced parents

Coaching Youth Softball: A Baffled Parent’s Guide

Coaching Girls’ Softball: From the How-To’s of the Game to Practical Real-World Advice–Your Definitive Guide to Successfully Coaching Girls

Coach Girls for Success on and off the Field
Coaching girls’ softball can be a wonderful experience. Witness the intensity of a batter connecting with a ball, a runner digging for home, or a fielder making a great catch, and you can’t help but be inspired. The effort, pride, and enjoyment on players’ faces are great rewards for parents and the sign of a good coach?the type of coach you want to be. So how can you get there?
Perfect for coaches of girls up to age 13, Coaching Girls’ Softball includes everything you need to be an outstanding coach and mentor to your team. Whether you are a seasoned coach looking to fine-tune your skills or a rookie looking to take the field running, you’ll discover techniques for success that are tailored specifically to the needs of girls, including:
Drills and strategies for coaches new to the world of coaching softball
Tips on what girls want and need from their softball experience
Practical suggestions on how to motivate in a positive and encouraging way
Advice for helping girls deal with their changing bodies
And much more!
Now you can be a coaching winner and help bring out the best in your players, both on the field and in the game of life.

Coach Girls for Success on and off the Field
Coaching girls’ softball can be a wonderful experience. Witness the intensity of a batter connecting with a ball, a runner digging for home, or a fielder making a great catch, and you can’t help but be inspired. The effort, pride, and enjoyment on players’ faces are great rewards for parents and the sign of a good coachthe type of coach you want to be. So how can you get there?
Perfect for coaches of girls up to age 13, Coaching Girls’ Softball includes everything you need to be an outstanding coach and mentor to your team. Whether you are a seasoned coach looking to fine-tune your skills or a rookie looking to take the field running, you’ll discover techniques for success that are tailored specifically to the needs of girls, including:
Drills and strategies for coaches new to the world of coaching softball
Tips on what girls want and need from their softball experience
Practical suggestions on how to motivate in a positive and encouraging way
Advice for helping girls deal with their changing bodies
And much more!
Now you can be a coaching winner and help bring out the best in your players, both on the field and in the game of life.

Coaching Girls’ Softball: From the How-To’s of the Game to Practical Real-World Advice–Your Definitive Guide to Successfully Coaching Girls

The beauty of the Amazon rain forest is evident by just flipping through Diego Samper’s spectacular photographs of the flora and fauna (including humans) that inhabit this lush, mysterious land. Arhem spent much time with the Makuna people, a peaceful, craft-driven tribe whose male members weave baskets while the women bake; in fact, many of the Makuna rituals are based on the proliferation of the tribe and fertility. At one point the author goes on a peccary hunt with one of the Makuna and comes face-to-face with a wounded animal; he also participates in tribal ceremonies, all of which are portrayed in colorful, fascinating photos. There is even a “Generation X” problem, as the tradition-bound elders bemoan the embrace of modern weaponry by the young, and there is also the problem of interloping white outsiders who are in the Amazon Basin looking for gold. Arhem’s vivid travelogue is a celebration not just of the beauty of the rain forest but also of the proud people who live and work there every day. Joe Collins

Stunning photographs, 95 color, nine b&w, of Amazonian rain forests by Diego Samper give Makuna: Portrait of an Amazonian People more depth than the typical anthropological study. Sociologist Kaj rhem, who has visited the Makuna frequently since 1972, provides a compelling narrative as well, with in-depth accounts of Makuna culture, creation myths, and the inevitable challenges of the encroaching world.Publishers Weekly

Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries.Library Journal

Sampers often spectacular photos of the Makuna and their environment also span nearly two decades of work.Journal of Anthropological Research –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

In stunning, full-color photographs and evocative text, Samper and Arhem celebrate the natural surroundings, domestic life, and vibrant rituals of a rain-forest people whose future is being jeopardized by outsiders’ destruction of their lands.

Stunning photographs, 95 color, nine b&w, of Amazonian rain forests by Diego Samper give Makuna: Portrait of an Amazonian People more depth than the typical anthropological study. Sociologist Kaj rhem, who has visited the Makuna frequently since 1972, provides a compelling narrative as well, with in-depth accounts of Makuna culture, creation myths, and the inevitable challenges of the encroaching world.Publishers Weekly

Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries.Library Journal

Sampers often spectacular photos of the Makuna and their environment also span nearly two decades of work.Journal of Anthropological Research –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Makuna: Portrait of an Amazonian People

Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians

In the early 1960s, the French anthropologist Pierre Clastres spent two years living among the Guayaki people of Paraguay, a tiny community of nomadic hunters whose way of life was quickly disappearing. When Clastres arrived in Paraguay, there were only 100 Guayaki left, and their culture seemed doomed by influenza and encroaching civilization. Clastres’s description of his encounters with these people is respectful, self-aware, and written with great skill. Paul Auster (author of The New York Trilogy and the movie Smoke) translated the book from French to English in the late 1970s, sent it to a publisher, and then lost track of the manuscript for 20 years. Fortunately, one of Auster’s fans stumbled upon the manuscript in a used-book store in 1996 and brought it to the author, making this publication possible.

According to Clastres, the Guayaki were mild-mannered folk who relished the taste of human flesh. There were far more men than women in the community, which seems sort of sinister. Every June, when the air was cold enough to make the bees logy, all the Guayaki groups gathered for a honey festival, which featured tickling games and many sexual adventures. In short, the Guayaki led lives very different from our own. There is something deeply satisfying about learning the details of faraway, drastically foreign lives. Clastres manages to describe these people’s daily lives and traditions without making them seem exotic or sensationalizing their story. Clastres’s quiet, detailed observations honor this vanished culture and should be of interest to anthropologists and layman alike. –Jill Marquis

Pierre Clastres was one of the most respected political anthropologists of our time. Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is an account of his first fieldwork in the early 1960s–an encounter with a small, unique, and now vanished Paraguayan tribe. From “Birth” to “The End,” Clastres follows the Guayakis in their everyday lives, determined to record every detail of their history, ritual, myths, and culture in order to answer the many questions prompted by his personal experiences. Now available for the first time in English in a beautiful translation by the novelist Paul Auster, Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians will alter radically not only the Western academic conventions in which other cultures are thought but also the discipline of political anthropology itself.

Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians

Grand Canyon Association is a non-profit cooperating association that exists to support education, research, and other programs for the benefit of Grand Canyon National Park and its visitors. Since its inception Grand Canyon Association has provided Grand Canyon National Park with over $13 million in aid.

Chris Coder has worked as an archaeologist on the Great Plains and Colorado Plateau since 1980. He spent seven years as a project archaeologist at Grand Canyon National Park and is now archaeologist for the Yavapai-Apache Nation. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Augustana College and his Master of Arts from Northern Arizona University.

This overview of Grand Canyon prehistory is a comprehensive but popular look at the people who have inhabited the Grand Canyon region for the past twelve thousand years. It includes chapters on the architecture, art, and tools of the prehistoric Puebloan people, as well as information about modern-day Native Americans.

An Introduction to Grand Canyon Prehistory (Grand Canyon Association)

An Introduction to Grand Canyon Geology

Proceeds from the sale of this title benefit educational programs at Grand Canyon National Park.

An Introduction to Grand Canyon Geology offers a new approach to the geologic study of the Grand Canyon with an emphasis on basic geologic principles including plate tectonics, structural features and what they tell us, and the role of erosion in creating landscape. Dozens of photographs enhance and elucidate the text. This book is perfect for both the Grand Canyon visitor and the geology enthusiast.

An Introduction to Grand Canyon Geology (Grand Canyon Association)

This travel guide and cookbook charts a fresh path. Elon has little interest in the well–documented, popular sites of Tuscany. Florence and Siena attract her not at all. Out-of-the-way villages nestled in valleys or atop hilly crags summon her, and the unusual culinary specialties of these places really make her prose flow. Elon’s taste buds lead her from one small-town restaurant to another. There she finds traditional dishes, whose recipes she records. Exploded Beans, garlic and herbs flavoring beans whose skins have burst open in the oven, offers an unusual side dish. Farro, an ancient grain undergoing a modern revival, appears in risotti and soups and in combination with other ingredients. Hot-pepper marmalade pairs with local sheep’s-milk cheeses. Rabbit and simple poultry dishes abound. Onions and polenta bake together to form a large tart for a first course. Many dishes will appeal to vegetarians looking for new tastes. Elon’s meticulous documentation of restaurant hours and locations makes this an especially practical guide for anyone driving through Tuscany. Mark Knoblauch
Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Readers of Beth Elon’s new book, A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring & Eating Off The Beaten Track may be tempted to drop everything and book themselves on the next flight to Florence. They needn’t bring much more than this exhaustive guide and a healthy appetite…It’s hard to imagine a more knowledgeable or enthusiastic escort through this land. Town & Country

“Conveniently, we find A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring & Eating Off the Beaten Track by experienced cookbook author Beth Elon, a thirty-year resident of Italy. Herein we find Elon’s take on several dozen restaurants scattered around ten regions of Tuscany, complete with a list of house specialties including the actual recipes. She also points out gourmet shops and farmer’s markets, as well as historic sites, churches, museums, and other points of interest. Serious fans of Italian cooking will find this book thoroughly satisfying. It’s obvious Elon knows her way around the kitchen.” –Foreword Magazine

“One might think that everything that can be written about Tuscany has been written. But here is a gem of a book in the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher that takes readers down Italian back roads and into private kitchens. There are 10 chapters that represent 10 itineraries into 10 different Tuscan regions. Included are more than 100 recipes and contact information and descriptions from private kitchens and restaurants, trattorias, gourmet shops, bakeries, wineries, and olive oil producers. Also included are days and dates when food festivals are held that celebrate chocolate, truffles, chestnuts and mushrooms. Warning: this book may contribute to an expanding waistline.” –Book Passage Bookstore

This travel guide and cookbook charts a fresh path. Elon has little interest in the welldocumented, popular sites of Tuscany. Florence and Siena attract her not at all. Out-of-the-way villages nestled in valleys or atop hilly crags summon her, and the unusual culinary specialties of these places really make her prose flow…Elon’s meticulous documentation of restaurant hours and locations makes this an especially practical guide for anyone driving through Tuscany. Booklist

By stepping away from the traditional tourist destinations, travelers can get in touch with a places authentic flavor…Like a close friend trying to guide you to the best and most interesting places in town, Elon makes sure to point out historical, artistic, cultural, and gastronomical places of interest. Her culinary background leads her to place particular attention on regional and seasonal foods and restaurants and stores usually overlooked by tourists…An ideal companion for any traveler looking to taste his or her way through the back roads of Tuscany; recommended for travel and culinary collections. Library Journal

“A cross between Baedeker and the Silver Spoon, Beth Elon’s Culinary Traveller in Tuscany mixes history, restaurant reviews, and recipes.” Travel + Leisure, T+L’s Essential Summer-Reading List

“Beth Elon not only tastes Tuscany, she savors every flavor, turns down every enticing road, and joyously reveals her long, profound and continuing appreciation of this place of endless pleasures. Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun

“What Beth Elon has given us is not only a detailed and practical cookbook but also a traveler’s guide and a love letter to a place and a way of living. This is great food writing in the spirit of Elizabeth David.” Joan Didion

Each of the ten itineraries in this cookbook/guidebook takes readers through parts of Tuscany that still remain largely undiscovered and into the kitchens of more than fifty superb but little-known restaurants specializing in regional cuisinethose that are for the most part overlooked by tourists and known only to the locals. Each regional section begins with illuminating and absorbing explanations of what makes Tuscan cooking so unique: location, location, location. Youll read about a bean so beloved by a village that its been elevated to cult statusbut unknown a few kilometers down the road; an aboriginal baby lamb that is almost unknown outside of the Zeri valley; the endless array of vegetable tarts found nowhere in Tuscany but Lunigiana and Garfagnana. With this guide in hand, youll not only know where to dine but what to order when you get there.

In addition to 100 recipes, also included are nearby points of interest, descriptions and contact information for restaurants, trattorie, gourmet shops, wineries, olive oil producers, local markets, and regional food festivals, and how to find the monasteries, workshops, and artisans studios that offer local items ranging from herbal beauty products to traditional ceramics and handwoven linens.

Readers of Beth Elon’s new book, A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring & Eating Off The Beaten Track may be tempted to drop everything and book themselves on the next flight to Florence. They needn’t bring much more than this exhaustive guide and a healthy appetite…It’s hard to imagine a more knowledgeable or enthusiastic escort through this land. Town & Country

“Conveniently, we find A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring & Eating Off the Beaten Track by experienced cookbook author Beth Elon, a thirty-year resident of Italy. Herein we find Elon’s take on several dozen restaurants scattered around ten regions of Tuscany, complete with a list of house specialties including the actual recipes. She also points out gourmet shops and farmer’s markets, as well as historic sites, churches, museums, and other points of interest. Serious fans of Italian cooking will find this book thoroughly satisfying. It’s obvious Elon knows her way around the kitchen.” –Foreword Magazine

“One might think that everything that can be written about Tuscany has been written. But here is a gem of a book in the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher that takes readers down Italian back roads and into private kitchens. There are 10 chapters that represent 10 itineraries into 10 different Tuscan regions. Included are more than 100 recipes and contact information and descriptions from private kitchens and restaurants, trattorias, gourmet shops, bakeries, wineries, and olive oil producers. Also included are days and dates when food festivals are held that celebrate chocolate, truffles, chestnuts and mushrooms. Warning: this book may contribute to an expanding waistline.” –Book Passage Bookstore

This travel guide and cookbook charts a fresh path. Elon has little interest in the welldocumented, popular sites of Tuscany. Florence and Siena attract her not at all. Out-of-the-way villages nestled in valleys or atop hilly crags summon her, and the unusual culinary specialties of these places really make her prose flow…Elon’s meticulous documentation of restaurant hours and locations makes this an especially practical guide for anyone driving through Tuscany. Booklist

By stepping away from the traditional tourist destinations, travelers can get in touch with a places authentic flavor…Like a close friend trying to guide you to the best and most interesting places in town, Elon makes sure to point out historical, artistic, cultural, and gastronomical places of interest. Her culinary background leads her to place particular attention on regional and seasonal foods and restaurants and stores usually overlooked by tourists…An ideal companion for any traveler looking to taste his or her way through the back roads of Tuscany; recommended for travel and culinary collections. Library Journal

“A cross between Baedeker and the Silver Spoon, Beth Elon’s Culinary Traveller in Tuscany mixes history, restaurant reviews, and recipes.” Travel + Leisure, T+L’s Essential Summer-Reading List

“Beth Elon not only tastes Tuscany, she savors every flavor, turns down every enticing road, and joyously reveals her long, profound and continuing appreciation of this place of endless pleasures. Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun

“What Beth Elon has given us is not only a detailed and practical cookbook but also a traveler’s guide and a love letter to a place and a way of living. This is great food writing in the spirit of Elizabeth David.” Joan Didion

A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring and Eating Off the Beaten Track

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If you happen to be in driving around south of Siena, and it happens to be lunch time, you might want to head for a trattoria in San Angelo in Colle called Il Pozzo. Taking you to your seat in the small comfortable dining room, your host will recommend the pinci. Pinci? you ask, not knowing what it is exactly. Pinci, explains your host, is a hand made pasta and today it is being served al ragu, with a rich meat sauce. He seats you, hands you a well worn menu, folds his hands over his well endowed midsection and continues When I have a particularly long day my wife will look at me lovingly and ask if I want a little pinci for supper and I always say yes. Judging by the girth of your host, you realize that having a long day may not be such a bad thing in these parts and you put down your menu and tell him to bring on the pinci. You have made a wise choice.

Such is an excursion in Tuscany. You dont push it here, you go with the flow. If someone asks “Pinci?,” you say “Yes please.” This is one of the most magical places on earth, and has been since well before the Romans, so trust that there is a reason that things are the way they are here and go with it. You wont be disappointed and if you are, then you probably have a good story to tell anyway.

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This map of the most famous region in Italy is complete with topographic terrain features and has all of the major A roads and local D roads to enable you to drive from town to town throughout Tuscany. Fully indexed and easy to read with scenic routes, regional / provincial boundaries, distance between points, car ferries, small and large towns, towns of special interest or charm, major urban areas, airfields, railways, bathing beaches, points of interest, state parks, campgrounds, mountain peak elevations, rivers and more.

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Since 2000. Hammond, American Map, Langenscheidt Dictionaries, Insight Travel Guides, Delorme the famous names in the Langenscheidt family. These represent the most authoritative, up-to-date, and extensive travel and reference products available. In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent.

This brand new edition Insight Guide to Vietnam features a wealth of inspiring full-colour photography, including double page spreads of some of the most outstanding views. The top ten sights are identified to show you the very best of this diverse country and to help you plan your trip priorities. An Editor’s choice section highlights the most unique experiences Vietnam has to offer, along with personal recommendations on what to see and do. An in-depth Places section covers the entire country region-by-region, with all the principal sites cross-referenced by number to the accompanying full-colour maps. Additional maps inside the front and back covers enable instant orientation and easy navigation. Colour-coded sections cover history and interesting features on everything from art and culture to the local people. A comprehensive Travel Tips section details transport, accommodation for all budgets, eating out, activities, and an A-Z of other practical information, including useful contact numbers, to ensure your trip goes smoothly. The unique combination of insightful exploration alongside practical advice means that this guide truly is a pleasure to read before, during and after your visit.

Insight Guides Vietnam

To Vietnam With Love. A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur.

Editor Kim Fay first traveled to Southeast Asia in 1991. Since then, she spent four years living in Vietnam and has traveled back frequently, writing about the region. She is the creator and series editor of the To Asia With Love guidebooks, and the author of Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam.

Photographer Julie Fay Ashborn’s travels through Southeast Asia inspired her photography in To Asia With Love, The Little Saigon Cookbook, and Communion: A Culinary Journey through Vietnam.

Born from the Southeast Asian guidebook that The International Herald Tribune’s Thai Day hailed as a guide with depth and color that most of [its] competitors lack, To Vietnam With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur launches the To Asia With Love series. This beautiful, full-color guidebook features a collection of personal essays by savvy expatriates, seasoned travelers, and inspired locals. Each reflection on a favorite dining, shopping, sightseeing, or cultural experience is paired with a practical fact file, so that readers can follow in the writers footsteps. From staying overnight with a local hill tribe and climbing Southeast Asia’s highest mountain, to touring historic French villas and getting involved with local charities, every recommendation captures a distinctive aspect of the country.

To Vietnam With Love. A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur. (To Asia with Love)

Professional wrestler Foley is also the author of the number-one New York Times best-seller Have a Nice Day! (2000). This is his account of the 34 days leading up to his emergence from retirement and debut with a new wrestling organization. Its a chronicle of training, injuries, and rehab. But its also a collection of anecdotes about the wrestling worldincluding a few about controversial impresario Vince McMahonmusings about the use of steroids in the sport, and accounts of charity work in Sierra Leone and Foleys relationship with Paul Wolfie Wolfowitz. Yes, that Paul Wolfowitz. Though the audience for Foleys writing is primarily the huge wrestling fan base, readers who dont care a whit about the spectacle will be entertained by a surprisingly sophisticated man with a variety of opinions about the world around him. The book satisfies on a number of levels (particularly Foleys self-deprecating humor) and will likely draw significant interest. –Wes Lukowsky –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

“Mick Foley is a natural born storyteller whose sense of humor and sensibilities regarding life are a joy to experience. This hilarious, often poignant, vividly written true story is an amazingly honest journey that any fan of pop culture, sports, family values, battling Father Time, helping others, and, obviously, pro wrestling past or present, will love. I read Mick’s latest literary effort twice in three days and am anxious to start the process all over again.” (–Jim “JR” Ross, Hall of Fame wrestling announcer )

“Mick Foley is like the two sides of a coin. Both a hardcore wrestling legend and a smart, caring author-Mick’s intelligence makes him lethal in the ring and his wrestling intensity makes him a deadly writer. Countdown to Lockdown applies a “Mandible Claw” to every page!” (–Dee Snider, Twisted Sister frontman )

“Like a trusted bard of old, Mick Foley is a masterful storyteller whose tales are guaranteed to engage and entertain.” (–Chris Jericho, New York Times bestselling author ) –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

The world famous wrestler and #1 New York Times bestselling author recounts the blood, sweat, and tears behind his knock-down, drag-out TNA debut comeback against archrival Sting.

The fierce, fearless, and sometimes self-destructive man behind the personas of Cactus Jack, Mankind, and Dude Love, Mick Foley remains the undisputed literary king of the ring. In this mesmerizing memoir (hand-written, no ghost writer), Foley chronicles the heart-pounding buildup to his TNA debut, Lockdown, one of the most important matches of his long and storied career. His every limit is tested as he comes out of retirement and overcomes a host of injuries to get back in the ring with one of his most formidable opponents. He also dishes previously untold stories from his remarkable life, including his transition from the WWE to TNA, his stint as a ringside announcer, his tumultuous relationship with Vince McMahon, his thoughts and feelings on the use of steroids in wrestling, the tragic story of Chris Benoit, and his soul-saving charity work in Sierra Leone.

Raw, frenetic, and adrenaline-fuelled, COUNTDOWN TO LOCKDOWN charts Foley’s rebirth and rise to heights that his fans thought he would never see again.

“Mick Foley is a natural born storyteller whose sense of humor and sensibilities regarding life are a joy to experience. This hilarious, often poignant, vividly written true story is an amazingly honest journey that any fan of pop culture, sports, family values, battling Father Time, helping others, and, obviously, pro wrestling past or present, will love. I read Mick’s latest literary effort twice in three days and am anxious to start the process all over again.”

“Mick Foley is like the two sides of a coin. Both a hardcore wrestling legend and a smart, caring author-Mick’s intelligence makes him lethal in the ring and his wrestling intensity makes him a deadly writer. Countdown to Lockdown applies a “Mandible Claw” to every page!”

“Like a trusted bard of old, Mick Foley is a masterful storyteller whose tales are guaranteed to engage and entertain.” –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Countdown to Lockdown: A Hardcore Journal

Undisputed: How to Become the World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps

An entertaining follow-up to their popular book A Lion’s Tale, international wresting superstar Jericho and co-writer Fornatale continue their chronicle of Jericho’s wild ride through the wacky world of professional wrestling. This book picks up where the earlier book endedwith Jericho in 1999 joining Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Enterprise, the most important venue in wrestingand ends with Jericho’s return to the ring in 2007 after a two-year retirement. Jericho hilariously details these key years as WWE’s resident bad guy. His feuds with WWE’s colorful (and colorfully profane) cast, including the likes of X-Pac, Ken Shamrock, Chyna, Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, and Christian, are solidly recounted, although most of this will be old news to hardcore WWE fans. But the most interesting stories involve his battles on- and off-stage with such better-known stars as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Goldbergwhom Jericho once had run over by a limousine during an episode of WWE’s Raw series. It is here that Jericho shines and proves once again that, next to Mick Foley, he is an insightful and funny observer of pro wrestling’s absurd universe. (Feb.)
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The eagerly awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling A Lion’s Tale documents Chris Jericho’s meteoric rise to wrestling glory in the WWE.

A Lion’s Tale gave readers a portrait of Jericho as a young man. Fighting his way through Mexico, rinky-dink leagues and a battery of thieving, sleazy promoters/managers, the book ended with the author’s WWE debut. Never one to leave his fans hanging, as demonstrated by his recent return to wrestling glory, Jericho now tells the story of life in the big leagues. But “making it” in the premier wrestling league in the world comes with its own set of obstacles and hard lessons. Jericho, in his witty, hilarious, and surprisingly endearing manner, lays it all out: the good, the bad, and the spandex.

Undisputed: How to Become the World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps