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Vince Lombardi: Demanding Excellence From His Teams. Woody Hayes: Platton or Plato? John Wooden: from Basics to Baskets. James "Doc" Counsilman: From Human Needs to World Records. Brutus Hamilton: Life and Athletics in Perspective. Percy Cerutty: Australia's Eccentric Genius of Running. The Essense of Philosopher Coaching.
How might the world as we know it end? In this illustrated guide, How Stuff Works author Marshall Brain explores myriad doomsday scenarios and the science behind them. What if the unimaginable happens? A nuclear bomb detonates over a major city, for example, or a deadly virus infects millions around the world. There are other disasters we don’t even have to imagine because they’ve already occurred, like violent hurricanes or cataclysmic tsunamis that have caused horrific loss of life and damage. In The Doomsday Book, Marshall Brain explains how everything finally ends—the decimation of nations and cities, of civilization, of humanity, of all life on Earth. Brain takes a deep dive into ...
Discusses how to make a living at being a full-time artist and how to get started selling your art.
Georgie B. Goode has bitten off way more than she can chew. Her father is disappointed in her. Her brother Jerry’s conniving tricks are driving her nuts. And as for that baloney about her being an eighth-generation gypsy and having ‘the sight’—she must be totally crazy, giving in to Great-Grandma Rosa’s entreaties to take a crystal ball on the road with her! (When you have to look up ‘how to read a crystal ball’ on the Internet, that has to say something about your abilities, right?) Traveling in the quirky Gypsy trailer that she loves so much, Georgie quickly finds herself torn between enjoying life with the retro trailer crowd and becoming an unwilling sleuth. That crystal ba...
Acclaimed historian Berman and journalist Berger gather a stellar group of writers and photographers who combine their energies to weave a rich tale of New York Citys struggle, excitement, and wonder.
Peter Dingwall, a once successful playwright, is running a weekend course on the art of writing plays. Five - the minimum number for a course - aspiring playwrights gather with varying degrees of enthusiasm and expectation for his class in this little country town. Clare, a housewife, ambitious for social as much as artistic reason; Brian, the wisecracking dentist; Margaret, whose bout with polio twenty years ago has left her in a wheelchair; David, a secondary school teacher of English and Neil - abrasive, sure of himself and a surprising choreographer! They have all been asked to come prepared with a piece written about their fathers and to read this aloud to the rest of the group. From this exercise, and others over the weekend we learn the legacy each has struggled to live with - a theme which is central to the plot.
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In 1885, Alfred Barnard was charged with the task of visiting and reporting on every active Whisky distillery throughout Scotland, Ireland and England. It took him two exhaustive years. In this book you will see the distilleries through his eyes. His detailed descriptions of every step in the distilling process is work that remains unparalleled to this day. But that's only part of the story. As he and his companions traveled the countryside, he fell in love with Scotland and all its grandeur as well as the lush landscapes of Ireland. As you read through this book - presented as an ebook for the very first time - you'll fall in love, as well. Part technical document and part travelogue, you'r...