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The author of Out of Thin Air, winner of the Margaret Mead Award 2022, journeys through different cultures to find out the meaning of endurance.

A revised and updated third edition of the popular The Complete Guide to Personal Training with up-to-date content and new exercises.

Eat. Sleep. Pickleball. Repeat. If pickleball is life (and it is), then Dinking All Day is a fun-filled toast to it. Serving a perfect blend of humor, inspiration, and refreshment, this irresistible ode to the game lets you live, breathe, and drink your favorite pastime. Inside you'll find helpful tips and trivia, hilarious quips and pickler profiles, and, of course, delicious courtside cocktail and mocktail recipes. - Relive the five phases of pickleball passion, from Sideline Skeptic to Drop-Shot Warrior.- Discover pickleball history, pro tips, celebrity players, and jokes only a pickler could love.>Celebrate your victories, laugh off your defeats, and revel in the joy of pickleball with Dinking All Day!

"Renee Miller and Tim Beissinger, also known as @thruhikers, share their experiences exploring the outdoors--hiking, backpacking, canoeing, and camping--with millions of people. They break down every aspect of their adventures--trail routes, gear, recipes, and more--and share stories from their time out on the trail. Their first book is packed with advice, techniques, gear recommendations, and troubleshooting tips for beginner and experienced outdoorsy people alike. They take you through the entire experience: before the trail, on the trail, and after the trail. Plus, they include over 20 plant-based dehydrated recipes, like curry rice and cold-soaked shepherd's pie, to bring on your adventures"--

"Tender Digitality" describes an aesthetically oriented concept that sets a binary system in motion and portrays humans as Human Digitalus. In doing so, it responds to the need to experience sensuality, perception, intuition, and well-being in digital environments, making this experience tangible and developing a language for it."Tender Digitality" operates in the space between analog and digital, social and technical phenomena, weaving them into ever-changing, never fixed patterns. In this way, it shapes, reflects, and fosters a community where individuals and artificial intelligences, avatars, and cyborgs navigate digitally, intuitively, and sensitively, contributing to a gentle co-creation.The focus is on initial categorization and conceptual clarification, socio-cultural aspects such as grief, loss, and distance in the digital world, design-oriented and artistic methods for applying "Tender Digitality," and the interaction between humans, machines, and human-machine hybrids.With this publication, perspectives and discussions are intended to be illuminated and debated in various forms such as essays, poetry, images, and graphics.

In A Full Net, Daignault tells the story of how she came to be an enthusiastic and gifted angler, sharing triumphs (such as 150-lb halibut she caught while serving on a Coast Guard cutter in Alaska) and disappointments (we're looking at you, triggerfish). She shares her knowledge and experience with both the reader and the many people in her book, who range from professional guides to newbies. Through it all shines clearly her love for the waters of the world and respect and admiration for the creatures who call them home.

Professor MarcO's Top 20 Tips on Golf is a compact and comprehensive guide for golfers of all levels seeking to elevate their game!This unique golf book utilizes Artificial Intelligence to compile the top 20 golf tips across 20 key areas of golfing, covering everything from driving to chipping, bunker shots, and mental game. Whether you're just beginning your golf journey or you're a seasoned golfer looking to refine your skills, this book is your tee-off to improvement.Each section offers actionable tips that are easy to grasp and quick to implement. Discover how to improve your golf swing mechanics, navigate uphill and downhill lies, establish a reliable pre-shot routine, and much more. You'll also gain insight into golf equipment, physical training, and effective use of golf training aids.At a convenient 4"x6", this pocket-sized golf guidebook fits perfectly in your golf bag, and will be an invaluable resource you can refer back to, round after round, to guide you on your golfing journey.

In the edited collection Athletics in the Nordic Countries, scholars from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden explore historical developments and current phenomena in the sport of athletics (track and field). The chapters provide insight into sport officials, events, and athletes from the Nordic countries that have shaped the international athletics scene. The authors identify the leading role of sport leaders from Scandinavia in the foundation years and highlight how athletics' events held in the region were milestones in the transformation of the sport. Athletics' international governing body World Athletics was founded in Sweden in 1912 as the International Amateur Athletic Federation. Seventy years later, Finland hosted the first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983. In between those turning points, Nordic officials and athletes promoted significant changes in athletics, and their innovative approaches continue to shape the development of the sport until today

Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling takes aim at the obsession that swept the post-war nation: bowling! More than just a sport or a hobby, bowling became the ultimate modern lifestyle for Americans savoring the boom years that followed World War II. Bowling alleys were modern palaces; companies constantly aimed to outdo each other, whether competing for the most spectacular architecture, the most luxurious lanes, the snazziest bowling balls, or the most exciting refreshments they could offer. Bowlarama brings back--in living color--all the excitement in its lavishly illustrated pages, packed with vintage photographs, exciting ephemera, and detailed hand-drawn architectural renderings that capture all the optimism, enthusiasm, and joie de vivre of the era.

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext - ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Susan White ist unglücklich in ihrem Leben als Friseurin und Ehefrau eines Mannes, der endlich Vater werden möchte. Und so tritt die junge Frau die Flucht nach vorne an, belegt Kurse an der Open University und nennt sich fortan Rita. Das neue Umfeld ist aufregend fremd, deckt aber auch schnell ihre Wissenslücken auf. Wird sie dort zu sich selbst finden können? Willy Russells Educating Rita ist ein faszinierendes Theaterstück über den unbändigen Willen, Grenzen zu überwinden. Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2-C1 (GER) Sprachen: Englisch, Deutsch

A Village and its Double offers a look at Dominique Perrault's experience as designer of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village. Part lecture book, part urban planning manual, the book explores the transformation of a neighborhood into an integral part of Greater Paris, offering a profound reflection on contemporary urban design. This book is perfectly anchored in French and international current affairs. The book explores the vision of renowned French architect Dominique Perrault, who designed an Olympic and Paralympic village at the crossroads of concerns such as legacy, site reversibility and the relationship with the existing territory. He discusses the history of Olympic villages in recent decades, explains the choice of the Paris site, its past, the process of Paris' bid for the 2024 Games, Dominique Perrault's guiding concept for the design of the village, and the project's 12 ambitions. It is a window through which Greater Paris takes shape... Richly illustrated with photographs, graphics and plans, this book is aimed at designers and the general public alike. Its publication, a few months before the start of the Games, amplifies its impact by exploiting current events.

"Handcrafted for caregivers that want to spark a love of nature, 50 Hikes with Kids Mid-Atlantic States highlights the most kid-friendly hikes in Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, DC. These hikes are perfect for little legs-they are all under five miles and have an elevation gain of 900 feet of less. Every entry includes the essential details: easy-to-read, trustworthy directions; a detailed map kids can navigate on their own; hike length and elevation gain; bathroom access; and where to grab a bite to eat nearby. Full-color photographs highlight the fun things to see along the trail"--

"CeCâe Telfer is a warrior. The first openly transgender woman to win an NCAA championship, she has contended with transphobia on and off the track since childhood. Now, she stands at the crossroads of a national and international conversation about equity in sports, forced to advocate for her personhood and rights at every turn. After spending years training for the 2024 Olympics, Telfer has been sidelined and silenced more times than she can count. But she's never been good at taking no for an answer. MAKE IT COUNT is Telfer's raw and inspiring story. From coming of age in Jamaica, where she grew up hearing a constant barrage of slurs, to beginning her new life in Toronto and then New Hampshire, where she realized what running could offer her, to living in the backseat of her car while searching for a coach, to Mexico, where she trained for the US Trials, this book follows the arc of Telfer's Olympic dream. But it's also the story of resilience and athleticism, of a runner who found a clarity in her sport that otherwise eluded her--a sense of being simply alive on this earth, a human moving through space. Finally, herself." --

"Stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the earliest ballparks to the present, stadiums have also functioned as public squares. Politicians have used them to cultivate loyalty to the status quo, while activists and athletes have used them for anti-fascist rallies, Black Power demonstrations, feminist protests, and much more. In this book, historian Frank Guridy recounts the contested history of play, protest, and politics in American stadiums. From the beginning, stadiums were political, as elites turned games into celebrations of war, banned women from the press box, and enforced racial segregation. By the 1920s, they also became important sites of protest as activists increasingly occupied the stadium floor to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, fascism, and more. Following the rise of the corporatized stadium in the 1990s, this complex history was largely forgotten. But today's athlete-activists, like Colin Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe, belong to a powerful tradition in which the stadium is as much an arena of protest as a palace of pleasure. Moving between the field, the press box, and the locker room, this book recovers the hidden history of the stadium and its important role in the struggle for justice in America"--

“Will have river veterans nodding in agreement and surprise. I loved the journey." — Doug Stanton, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Horse Soldiers“An important contribution to the literature of exploration. This book had my pulse racing."— Peter Heller, author of The Dog Stars and The RiverA dramatic narrative tour of 10 of the world’s most incredible whitewater adventures—spanning 5 continents and 40 years—guided by a legendary whitewater trailblazerThis fascinating history of daring whitewater explorers stands alongside classic works on mountaineering, outdoor survival, and extreme sportsPerfect for fans of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Candice Millard’s River of the GodsIn 10 thrilling real-life adventure stories, pioneering whitewater explorer Wick Walker examines what lured a generation of incredibly daring pioneers into some of Earth’s most wondrous yet forbidding river canyons:below Victoria Falls on the Zambezi, the Great Bend of the Tsangpo in Tibet, Tiger Leaping Gorge on the Yangtze, the flanks of Mount Everest, and more Loaded with great moments and personal stories, Walker details what these adventurers found there, and within themselves. The extraordinary characters, driven by different motives and visions, but united by their compulsion to seek the unknown and the pulse of free-flowing water, are as remarkable as the daunting geography and conditions they confront.Whitewater sport today stands side-by-side with mountaineering in participation and public attention, yet it has lagged in generating its own literature. Torrents As Yet Unknown helps fill that gap for readers interested in human drama played out against great natural challenges.Mountaineering history is deep and its literature rich, but whitewater adventurers approach and experience the same forbidding terrain from a different vantage, between the steep walls of their canyons and atop powerful torrents of cascading water.

"Strategic Engagement of Force" offers a guide to martial arts, focusing on force, engagement, and strategy to enhance combat skills.

This classic work on retrievers and retrieving is a must-read for any hunting enthusiast. Packed with practical advice and helpful tips, it covers everything from training and breeding to hunting techniques and equipment selection. The book is written in a clear and engaging style, making it accessible to both novice and experienced hunters.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Si tu vida se viene abajo, ¿te hundirás o saldrás a flote?Jono Dunnett tocó fondo y decidió lanzarse a navegar por aguas tormentosas para perseguir su sueño de dar la vuelta a Gran Bretaña haciendo windsurf. Según su propia estimación era una ambición insensata, y pronto se convirtió en una emocionante aventura.Este impactante relato describe los altibajos que sufrió al arriesgarlo todo y las consecuencias de hacerlo.Con una prosa bellamente detallada y perspicaz, este clásico de la navegación es una inspiración para despertar al aventurero que llevamos dentro.-----------La versión original de este libro (en inglés) fue ** finalista en el Amazon Storyteller award **.

Der Band versammelt zentrale Arbeiten von Susanne Günthner, die in ihrer thematischen Vielfalt stets Sprache in ihrem Sitz im Leben, der Interaktion und in ihrer Fülle an sozialen und kulturellen Funktionen betrachten. Die vorliegenden Beiträge spiegeln dabei die Bandbreite ihrer langjährigen Forschung wider, die von der Analyse grammatischer Strukturen interaktionaler Sprache - wie z.B. Projektorkonstruktionen oder Diskursmarker - über die Beschäftigung mit sprachlichen Mustern in kommunikativen Praktiken und Gattungen bis hin zu anthropologisch-linguistischen Perspektiven u.a. auf doing gender , auf die kommunikative Konstruktion von Kultur oder auf Aspekte medizinischer Kommunikation reicht.

Der Band nimmt literarische Konfigurationen in den Blick, die zwischen anthropologischer Perspektive, religiöser Funktion und ästhetischer Erfahrung stehen. Die 19 internationalen und interdisziplinären Beiträge erschließen das Neben- und Ineinander von Kulten und Künsten in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, indem sie Fragerichtungen der (Kultur- und Sozial-)Anthropologie, der Religionssoziologie und der Poetologie überblenden. An vier "Schnittpunkten" eröffnen sie neue Lektüren vormoderner Literatur: "Religiöse Praxis zwischen sozialer Form und ästhetischer Gestaltung", "Poetologische Reflexion und rhetorische Figur - Narrative Konstruktionen von Augenscheinlichkeit, Wahrheit und Wahrscheinlichkeit in Text und Bild", "Intertextuelle und intermediale Transformationen - Diskurse, Figuren, Strukturen und Logiken" sowie "Individuum und Körper, Herrschaft und Gemeinschaft - Anthropologische Perspektiven". Der Schwerpunkt der Studien liegt in der germanistischen Mediävistik. Die Beiträge gehen dabei immer wieder über das spezifisch fachwissenschaftliche Interesse hinaus: so im interdisziplinären Anschluss an andere Philologien, die Geschichtswissenschaft und die Kunstgeschichte, im Aufgreifen europäischer Perspektiven und im Ausblick auf eine Geschichte der Rezeption. Im Fokus stehen dabei sowohl volkssprachliche als auch lateinische Werke.

Inspiring and heartwarming, this tale shines a spotlight on the transformative power of teamwork, the fleeting nature of time, and the indelible moments that shape our lives. In a small Iowa town, the Hoover High School girls' basketball team is embarking on a journey of a lifetime-one that could define their legacy.With a state championship on their minds, the team's dream is halted by devastating circumstances that threaten to tear them apart. But beneath the weight of heartbreak, they find the resilience to confront the challenges before them.Led by Bentley, the gritty point guard with a fire in her eyes; Zo, the hyper-athletic scoring guard with a flair for the dramatic; and Sasha, the towering center with a heart of gold, the team pushes forward with unwavering determination.As the season unfolds, these teenage girls discover that the true power of the game lies not only in winning, but in the bonds formed on and off the court. United by their shared passion, and an unwavering spirit, they learn that second chances are earned, time is fleeting, and the journey is just as important as the destination.From the adrenaline-pumping intensity of the final shot to the notable moments of camaraderie in the locker room, Below the Rim is a tale that captures the essence of team sports-and life itself.

"Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But she leads a forbidden secret life. Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine."--

"Decide who you will live for. Who will you fight for? And who will you die for? Anna is nothing more than a simple maid and she has a very clear rule: she must not go near the fire. Bastien Doyle is the young aristocrat who almost died in a fire and whose face was forever marked. Lya Altair is a noble--a dreamy girl who all she does is wait for her prince charming. The lives of Anna, Bastien and Lya are united by a fragile bond that is about to be severed. It will no longer matter who they were, but who they are and who they will become. In Valerya's kingdom there are no princes or a happily ever after. Here, a single wrong step can end your life forever. In Valerya, the blood of the gods runs through the veins of its people"--