Sports & Recreation

An illustrated manual taking you step-by-step through all the moves and techniques required to become competent in the grappling arts. more...

Price: $17.99

Make your boat shine again. No improvement to a tired-looking boat will have a more dramatic impact than refinishing, and few tasks are easier. Here is everything you need to achieve a fabulous finish on your fiberglass boat’s bottom, topsides, deck, spars, wood trim, and belowdeck surfaces while saving time, money, and grief. What reviewers have said about Don Casey's boat maintenance books:. “Astonishingly clear text and illustrations. The reader can almost feel the hand-holding this book provides through each step.”-- Dockside. “I own many books filled with advice, but I strongly suspect that this is the one I will consult most.”-- Sailing. “Casey makes tricky points clear in hundreds of illustrations and lively prose.”-- SailNet. “If you have an older sailboat, you need this book.”-- The Ensign more...

Price: $14.95

He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige. Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. more...

Price: $26.00

The central purpose of this book is to examine critically the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the "real world." more...

Price: $49.95

A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD. Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: Aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance. In SPARK, John J. Ratey, M.D., embarks upon a fascinating and entertaining journey through the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's. Filled with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, which has put this school district of 19,000 kids first in the world of science test scores), SPARK is the first book to explore comprehensively the connection between exercise and the brain. It will change forever the way you think about your morning run---or, for that matter, simply the way you think more...

Price: $24.99