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  Samurai Zen

  Scott Shaw

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  An illustrated guide to uniting physical control with mental calm, by an experienced martial artist and practicing Buddhist. 
   
  The medieval Samurai of Japan have long been depicted as the consummate warriors of Asia. While the physical training the Samurai underwent was intense and exacting, much of their skill was based on their mental refinement as well as their physical prowess.  
   
  At the forefront of integrating spiritual understanding into the martial arts, Scott Shaw, the author of Zen O’Clock draws upon his years of study of Buddhist culture to show you how to acquire higher awareness through the art of Zen and Iaido, or the meditative art of the sword. He begins by teaching you how to control and refine your physical senses, while quieting your mind and your emotions as well as your reactions to other people’s energies. Next, with clear instruction and photographs, he guides you through both standing and seated forms of Iaido. He also includes powerful breathing exercises for centering yourself and directing energy.  
   
  Includes illustrations 
   
  Praise for Scott Shaw’s The Warrior is Silent 
   
  “An easy-to-read introduction to recognizing and developing the spiritual depth of the martial arts.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Body of Water - A Sage a Seeker...

  Chris Dombrowski

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  Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passions—poetry and fly-fishing; two children, one of them in utero; and an income hovering perilously close to zero. Enter, at this particularly challenging moment, a miraculous email: can’t go, it’s all paid for, just book a flight to Miami. 
   
   
   
  Thus began a journey that would lead to the Bahamas and to David Pinder, a legendary bonefishing guide. Bonefish are prized for their elusiveness and their tenacity. And no one was better at hunting them than Pinder, a Bahamian whose accuracy and patience were virtuosic. He knows what the fish think, said one fisherman, before they think it. 
   
   
   
  By the time Dombrowski meets Pinder, however, he has been abandoned by the industry he helped build. With cataracts from a lifetime of staring at the water and a tiny severance package after forty years of service, he watches as the world of his beloved bonefish is degraded by tourists he himself did so much to attract. But as Pinder’s stories unfold, Dombrowski discovers a profound integrity and wisdom in the guide’s life.

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  Breaking Back - How I Lost...

  Andrew Friedman, James Blake

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  “Blake serves up the rare sports memoir that actually has a heart. He cries, he mourns, he grows, he triumphs—and we cheer him on the entire way.” —People 
   
  James Blake’s life was getting better every day. A rising tennis star and People magazine’s Sexiest Male Athlete of 2002, he was leading a charmed life and loving every minute of it. But all that ended in May 2004, when Blake fractured his neck in an on-court freak accident. As he recovered, his father—who had been the inspiration for his tennis career—lost his battle with stomach cancer. Shortly after his father’s death, Blake was dealt a third blow when he contracted zoster, a rare virus that paralyzed half of his face and threatened to end his already jeopardized career. 
   
  In Breaking Back, Blake provides a remarkable account of how he came back from this terrible heartbreak and self-doubt to become one of the top tennis players in the world. A story of strength, passion, courage, and the unbreakable bonds between a father and son, Breaking Back is a celebration of one extraordinary athlete’s indomitable spirit and his inspiring ability to find hope in the bleakest of times. 
   
  “Breaking Back is about more than tennis and race. That’s because Blake, like [Arthur] Ashe, is smarter and deeper than most athletes, and also because in 2004 Blake lived his own year of magical thinking.” —The New York Times Book Review 
   
  “[An] admirably unusual sports memoir.” —The Washington Post 
   
  “The grace and dignity that James has shown during some very difficult times has been a source of great inspiration.” —Andre Agassi

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  Official US Army Survival Guide...

  US Army, Rick Carlile

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  Over 15 hours of life-saving survival information: the most extensive and comprehensive survival audiobook available anywhere.Created and trusted by US military forces, expertly adapted for the audiobook format.Essential preparedness for any survival situation. Listen and learn survival skills while you work, rest, or travel, and store it on your personal device so you'll have it when you need it.The indispensable field manual for preppers, hunters, campers, outdoorspeople, hikers and more. 
  PREFACE 
  As a soldier, you can be sent to any area of the world. It may be in a temperate, tropical, arctic, or subarctic region. You expect to have all your personal equipment and your unit members with you wherever you go. However, there is no guarantee it will be so. You could find yourself alone in a remote area—possibly enemy territory—with little or no personal gear. This manual provides information and describes basic techniques that will enable you to survive and return alive should you find yourself in such a situation.  
  If you are a trainer, use this information as a base on which to build survival training. You know the areas to which your unit is likely to deploy, the means by which it will travel, and the territory through which it will travel. Read what this manual says about survival in those particular areas and find out all you can about those areas. Read other books on survival. Develop a survival-training program that will enable your unit members to meet any survival situation they may face. It can make the difference between life and death. 
  CONTENTS 
  Chapter 1. Introduction. 
  Chapter 2. Psychology of Survival. 
  Chapter 3. Survival Planning and Survival Kits. 
  Chapter 4. Basic Survival Medicine. 
  Chapter 5. Shelters. 
  Chapter 6. Water Procurement. 
  Chapter 7. Firecraft. 
  Chapter 8. Food Procurement. 
  Chapter 9. Survival Use of Plants. 
  Chapter 10. Poisonous Plants. 
  Chapter 11. Dangerous Animals. 
  Chapter 12. Field-Expedient Weapons, Tools, and Equipment. 
  Chapter 13. Desert Survival. 
  Chapter 14. Tropical Survival. 
  Chapter 15. Cold Weather Survival. 
  Chapter 16. Sea Survival. 
  Chapter 17. Expedient Water Crossings. 
  Chapter 18. Field-Expedient Direction Finding. 
  Chapter 19. Signaling Techniques. 
  Chapter 20. Survival Movement in Hostile Areas. 
  Chapter 21. Camouflage. 
  Chapter 22. Contact with People. 
  Chapter 23. Survival in Man-Made Hazards. 
  Appendix A. Survival Kits. 
  Appendix B. Edible and Medicinal Plants. 
  Appendix C. Poisonous Plants. 
  Appendix D. Dangerous Insects and Arachnids. 
  Appendix E. Venomous Snakes and Lizards. 
  Appendix F. Dangerous Fish and Mollusks. 
  Appendix G. Ropes and Knots. 
  Appendix H. Clouds: Foretellers of Weather. 
  Appendix I. Evasion Plan of Action Format. 
  Glossary. 
  Provided for information purposes only. Any action you take is at your own risk. 
  &l

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  Stand Up Paddleboarding: A...

  Simon Bassett

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  Stand Up Paddleboarding is the fastest growing watersport worldwide. The comparatively low cost, the convenience of inflatable boards and the fact that you can just get on and go all add up to its appeal. But, as with everything, a little bit of knowledge and technique makes the experience so much more enjoyable! That is where this book – the first UK how-to book on paddleboarding – comes in. It provides a perfect introduction to the sport: how to paddleboard, what kit to use and where to go. The book guides you through launching, the correct stance, paddling in a straight line, the different types of turns and landing. It shows you how to choose your board and paddle, inflate and deflate an inflatable board, and talks about where to ride as well as weather, safety, maintenance and repair of your equipment. It covers the main types of paddleboarding: touring, racing, surfing and yoga / fitness. All aspects are heavily illustrated with colour photographs making it easy to understand and clear to follow.

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  The Greatest Baseball Stories...

  Jeff Silverman

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  At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a seventeen-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Her name was Jackie Mitchell—"organized baseball's first girl pitcher." On September 9, 1965, Sandy Koufax made baseball history by pitching his fourth perfect game. In July 1970, a stripper rushed onto the field at Riverfront Stadium to kiss Johnny Bench, temporarily disrupting a game attended by President Nixon and his family. These are just some of the great, quirky, and comic moments in the annals of baseball recorded in The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told. Here also are profiles of such legendary figures as Joe DiMaggio, Pete Rose, and Yogi Berra, essays that explore the complexities and pleasures of the game, even an excerpt from the movie Bull Durham. This is the perfect book for anyone who has ever played so much as a game of catch.

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