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The 2006 World Cup final between Italy and France was a down-and-dirty game, marred by French superstar Zidane's head-butting of Italian defender Materazzi. But viewers were also exposed to the poetry, force, and excellence of the Italian game; as...
Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer
This is a guide to saltwater paddling tours in the northern and central 10,000 islands as well as a handful of freshwater tours in the Big Cypress Swamp. Trips emanate out of multiple put-in and take-outs, including Rookery Bay Estuarine Reserve (...
Cape Cod is a paddler's paradise with numerous bays, ponds, harbors, marshes, and tidal creeks to explore. This essential book includes detailed maps and trip descriptions, route distances, parking regulations, and best times to go. Author David W...
Adventure Kayaking: Trips in Cape Cod : Includes Cape Cod National Seashore
For long isolated, Romania's Carpathian mountains offer some of the finest walking in Europe. There are well waymarked paths, adequate maps and a good network of mountain huts. More than just beautiful landscapes, Europe's wildest mountains offer ...
Everybody has the dream: Build a boat in the backyard and sail off to join the happy campers off Pogo Pogo, right? But how? Assuming you aren't independently wealthy, if you want a boat that's really you, you gotta build it yourself. Backyard boat...
For more than 30 years, Lee Ziegler has been one of the foremost advocates of gaited horses in North America and Europe. Through her writing and in her clinics, she has introduced countless riders to the pleasures of riding a horse that is calm, o...
Easy-Gaited Horses: Gentle, humane methods for training and riding gaited pleasure horses
The 1984 NBA draft is most remembered as the one where Michael Jordan slipped to third behind number-one pick Hakeem Olajuwon. and the immortal Sam Bowie. You could understand the Houston Rockets choosing Olajuwon, but how on earth could the Portl...
Authoritative information presented by a certified USAF Survival School Instructor. Organized and indexed for easy reference Living, not just surviving, by choice in the wild can be a rewarding experience. This easy-to-use guide looks beyond the f...
The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Volleyball is the most comprehensive and up-to-date volleyball-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibi...
Contemporary sport bikes accelerate faster, brake harder, and cut through corners deeper than ever before. These technologically advanced motorcycles are exhilarating to ride, but to really get the most out of a motorcycle's performance capabiliti...