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The Definitive Guide to Disc Golf provides readers all the essential information they need to get started playing disc golf. More than just a 'how-to", the book includes information on the history, nature, science, and skills of disc golf. Featuring more than 80 instructional photos, this is a comprehensive book about disc golfuseful for players, from beginners to aspiring professionals.
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In the game of pool, few names hold more weight than Arthur “Babe” Cranfield. Ranked among the best billiard players in world history, Cranfield is unarguably one of the greats of the game. And in this newly revised and updated edition of Basic Pool, you can learn proven tips and tactics to help you improve your game. From basics like choosing a table and selecting a cue to advanced techniques like manipulating the ball using English, draw, and...
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With 400 strategies for engaging in the outdoors, and expert tips and tricks, The Great Outdoors: A Users Guide makes Mother Nature easier to understand than ever before. Brendan Leonard, writer, filmmaker, and outdoor adventurer, shows the reader how rewarding it can be to live life away from the computer and get outside. From mountain climbing, to skiing, sledding, and sailing, Leonard shows that you don't need to be a risk taker to enjoy the outdoors,...
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Begin Identifying and Collecting Seven Edible Mushrooms!
Since 1993, Start Mushrooming has been the trusted guide for beginners. This second edition introduces seven of the most common, edible wild mushrooms in North America. It features more photographs and expert tips from award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela that make mushroom identification even easier. Start Mushrooming includes the information you need to start foraging with confidence.
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"Standard Catalog of Military Firearms, 7th edition," contains more than 2,000 models of military firearms manufactured between 1870 and today. With more than 1,600 photos and expanded descriptions--including coverage of bayonets, magazines, clips and holsters--this book fills a long-standing gap in military weapon price guides. The book also differentiates between values for import-marked and non-import-marked models. Most price guides don't recognize...
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A primary concern of all horse owners and caregivers is that their animals receive the proper feed and in the correct amounts. In seeking information about these matters, it's easy for owners and caregivers to be lured in-and often misled-by advertisements and endorsements for vitamins, alternative medicines, and other supplementary products.
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Generations of firearms enthusiasts have used Gun Digest as the number one source for information on guns old and new for hunting, target shooting, collecting and personal defense. Whatever your interest is in relation to firearms, you'll find it in these pages. Informative and entertaining articles by the top writers in the field cover the latest rifles, handguns, shotguns and related gear. In this edition there are stories on classic Colts, Winchesters,...
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In today's digital age that heavily relies on battery power, technology, and GPS, you'll read about what people did hundreds of years ago and how it could potentially save you today. Learn how to start a fire with ice, pluck a chicken, catch an eel, build an igloo, throw a lasso, and so many more unusual yet potentially life-saving skills. Told with a sense of humor and a lot of interesting insight, this is a fun, self-reliant read filled with information...
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"The Local Boys by Joe and Jack Heffron tells the stories of men who achieved the boyhood dream of playing for the hometown team. From Ethan Allen to Don Zimmer, they're all here, including Charlie "Bushel Basket" Gould, who played on the first team in 1869 to Junior Griffey, soon to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Alongside big-name stars like Dave Parker and Buddy Bell, fans will find those like Eddie Hunter, who played only one inning in 1933,...
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"The noncompetitive self-defense technique known as Krav Maga originally began in the Israeli Defense Force, of which author Boaz Aviram has been a long-standing member. Krav Maga combines fighting techniques from a wide range of martial arts, from boxing to jiujitsu to judo, and teaches its students invaluable lessons in optimizing self-defense, maintaining awareness, and striking most effectively. Boaz Aviram provides sound information on how to...
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A collection of entertainments geared toward boys, containing accounts of famous battles, William Shakespeare quotations, games, and instructions for activities such as building a go-cart, cutting flint heads, making an electromagnet, and folding the "greatest paper airplane in the world."
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Welcome to the most complete resource available for the Ruger 10/22!In this 2nd edition of Customize the Ruger 10/22, expert advice leads you through the process to modify and customize your Ruger 10/22, and includes:Step-by-step installation instructions with more than 300 detailed photosCoverage of models introduced since the previous editionCompletely updated list of suppliers of aftermarket partsPlus, you'll find performance testing of the popular...
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EVERYTHING You Want to Know About EVERY Glock!
Whether you're an experienced Glockophile or shopping for your first Glock pistol, this revised and expanded second edition of Robb Manning's Glock Reference Guide is essential reading. It covers every model and milestone in the development of Gaston Glock's iconic handgun since its introduction in 1983.
Inside you'll find complete coverage and testing information for all Glock models, including Gen5...
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Shooters, gunsmiths and collectors alike will find the revised version of this handy rimfire rifle disassembly guide an essential reference for taking apart and putting back together today's most popular models of rimfire rifles for routine maintenance, cleaning and repair. Step-by-step instructions and clear photographs make it easy to disassemble and reassemble a wide range of modern and vintage rimfires. Author Kevin Muramatsu's decades of gunsmithing...
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Since 1866 Winchester has been the most iconic and recognizable firearms name in American history. Winchester rifles and shotguns have been used and cherished by generations of American hunters, sportsmen, and soldiers.In this all-new, completely updated and expanded third edition of the Standard Catalog of Winchester Firearms, author Joseph M. Cornell gives you everything you need to know about the fascinating world of Winchester firearms, including...
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Celebrates "the first 100 years of the National Football League, interweaving history, personal stories, memories, and observations of some of its greatest players, coaches, and advocates to chronicle football's ... evolution from a fledgling regional fly-by-night operation into a multi-billion global brand and one of America's leading franchises."--Publisher marketing.
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A guide for sports fans on how to watch and appreciate the game of hockey
More and more fans are watching the NHL each week, but many of them don't know exactly what they should be watching. How does an offense create shooting lanes for its best sniper? When a center breaks through and splits between two defensemen, which defender is to blame? Why does a goalie look like a Hall of Famer one week and a candidate for the minor leagues the...
More and more fans are watching the NHL each week, but many of them don't know exactly what they should be watching. How does an offense create shooting lanes for its best sniper? When a center breaks through and splits between two defensemen, which defender is to blame? Why does a goalie look like a Hall of Famer one week and a candidate for the minor leagues the...
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Combining the content of two of Frommer's previous books, Sports Roots and Sports Lingo, this book not only explains how nicknames, namesakes, trophies, competitions, and expressions in the world of sports came to be, but also serves as a useful dictionary of the language of sports-both technical and slang.
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"The birth of the National Football League can be traced to a meeting held in the showroom of a Canton, Ohio, car dealership in September 1920. From these humble beginnings pro football has grown into a global phenomenon. Today, nearly a century later, fans flock to stadiums across the country, and worldwide television viewership numbers in the hundreds of millions. To celebrate the NFL's 100th season, Roger Gordon chronicles the evolution of pro...
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