Your Pinkie Is More Powerful Than Your Thumb

Author: Mark Di Vincenzo
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062087312
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
Mark Di Vincenzo, the New York Times bestselling author of Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon, brings us another book of fascinating, eminently useful facts certain to make you healthier, wealthier, and wiser. Readers of Schott’s Miscellany and other compendiums of helpful information will delight—and profit—from these little known tidbits about health, money, food, death, bugs, politics, history, geography, and more or less everything under the sun.

Body Parts

Author: Buffy Silverman
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1467700835
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Can you stretch your thumb back to your arm? Is your pinkie straight or slightly bent? What determines the way your joints bend—or don't bend? Read this book to find out!

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316090522
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 546

Book Description
These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner -- David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.

The 100 Best Swimming Drills

Author: Blythe Lucero
Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport
ISBN: 1841267503
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Achieving better swimming is a matter of swimming efficiently. While proper technique is the foundation of good swimming, it is often difficult to isolate a technique problem by simply swimming laps. Stroke flaws can slow a swimmer's progress and can even lead to injury if continued over time. For these reasons, swimming drills have become a fundamental part of training at all levels of the sport. Drill practice is a swimmer's primary tool in developing better stroke technique. Drills allow a swimmer to concentrate on a single aspect of a stroke at one time. By providing specific, repetitive practice, and immediate feedback, drills teach a swimmer to maximize efficiency while minimizing effort. In The 100 Best Swimming Drills, Blythe Lucero has compiled the most effective swimming drills gathered from more than 20 years of working with swimmers. The book is organized into sections covering the four competitive strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. Each drill is explained step by step and accompanied by comprehensive diagrams. Drill feedback charts are included to help swimmers identify problems and make modifications. Underwater and surface photographs give swimmers optimal images to emulate as they practice. The 100 Best Swimming Drills is an excellent resource for swimmers at any level in the quest for better swimming.

More Than a Game

Author: Phil Jackson
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609802624
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
More than a Game covers the years that follow the one featured in the ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance." After leaving the Bulls at the end of the 1997-1998 season—the year featured in the new ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance"—Phil Jackson had one year off and started to write this book—together with his old friend, fellow player and coach, the basketball novelist Charley Rosen. Then Phil took the LA Lakers coaching job, Rosen followed him there, and by the time they finished writing this book it was 2000 and Phil had won yet another NBA championship, the first of five he would win with his new team. In More than a Game, Jackson and Rosen look backward to their origins as players and coaches, forward to the future of the game of basketball, and linger in the moving target of the present—lavishing page after page on the Triangle Offense and all the ways it reveals the essence of the game of basketball they both love so much. This is Jackson in his prime, transitioning from the Bulls to the Lakers, a master of the art of winning, who would go on to claim more NBA championships, eleven, than any other coach in NBA history. As he writes in More than a Game of his newest championship team: "We won because our fundamentals were sound, because Shaq was so dominant and Kobe was so creative, but we also won because we developed a certain confidence in our ability to win."

Respect the Spindle

Author: Abby Franquemont
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1620331969
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
Enjoying a resurgence in popularity thanks to the current trend of DIY crafts, the hand spindle remains one of the most productive, versatile, and convenient tools for creating stunning fiber arts from home, as this beautifully illustrated guide from a veteran spinner and spindle aficionado demonstrates. With step-by-step instructions, this essential manual details the basic steps of spinning and then advances to the more complicated spinning wheel, showing how to use the spindle to make specific types of yarn, explaining traditional spindle spinning techniques, and detailing five simple projects designed to instill confidence in creating a variety of yarns with this simple tool. Combining fascinating historical narratives, traditions, and cultures from around the globe with vivid photography, this all-encompassing tour of the spindle also boasts easy-to-follow, contemporary techniques and styles that affirm the tool's enduring legacy.

Crack Climbing – Mastering the skills & techniques

Author: Pete Whittaker
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN: 1911342770
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
The ability to climb cracks is at the core of a climber's craft. Crack Climbing by Pete Whittaker provides a single point of reference for all crack climbing techniques, regardless of the grade you climb. Pete is widely regarded as one of the best crack climbers in the world, having made dozens of cutting-edge first ascents and hard repeats, including the first ascent of Century Crack (5.14b) in Canyonlands, Utah. In this book, Pete has drawn on years of experience to demonstrate the many different techniques and to give you an understanding of when, why and how to use them. Develop these skills with confidence and your climbing standard will improve. The book is split into easily accessible sections on techniques for different widths of cracks, including finger cracks, hand and fist cracks, offwidth cracks and chimneys. Pete looks at the basics, including the hand jam – the essential technique in any crack climber's repertoire – right through to advanced techniques such as the sidewinder and the trout tickler. Step-by-step practical information and how-tos are supplemented with tips and tricks from Pete alongside illustrations by Alex Poyzer and photographs. Additional chapters cover how to tape up, as well as essential gear and equipment. Pete has also interviewed some of the world's top crack climbers so that you can learn from the best. Gain insights from Lynn Hill, Alex Honnold, Barbara Zangerl, Peter Croft and more. Master the craft and advance your climbing. It's time to jam!

Getting Gorgeous

Author: Clare Maxfield
Publisher: Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd
ISBN: 1921999373
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description

The Highlights Book of How

Author: Highlights
Publisher: Highlights Press
ISBN: 1644728494
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
The Highlights Book of How is the winner of the: 2022 National Parenting Product Award Mom’s Choice Award, Gold National Parenting Center Seal of Approval How was the moon formed? How does hair grow? How exactly does popcorn pop? Hearing a lot of questions like this lately? Highlights has the answers! The Highlights Book of How features some of kids’ most inquisitive science questions about how things work submitted by real readers over the years alongside expert answers so curious kids everywhere can learn exciting new things. Integrating STEM content, experiments and activities, this 352-page how-things-work book offers in-depth explanations based on things kids are curious about. Focusing on numerous branches of science sprinkled throughout exciting chapters like Everyday Technology, Amazing Animals, Wild Weather and many others, kids keep entertained and excited as they flip through the highly visual, full-color pages of this how-to book that will elevate their collection of STEM books. Kids can enjoy hours of hands-on fun as they discover how things are made by creating clouds in jars, building model dinosaurs out of marshmallows, making their own shampoo and more with tons of screen-free activities and crafts. Not only does this new playtime staple treat kids to hours of screen-free fun, but it also promotes a love for STEM learning through information, exercises and activities that don’t feel like homework. By applying methods of critical thinking, engineering and more, kids can thrive as they continue to question the world around them and excitedly seek out answers to those questions. Companion to Highlights’ best-selling Book of Things to Do, this can’t-miss book will have curious kids of all ages eager to explore the world around them.

The Book of Life (Movie Tie-In)

Author: Deborah Harkness
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593511441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577

Book Description
The #1 New York Times-bestselling third installment of the All Souls series, and the basis for the final season of "A Discovery of Witches," coming soon to AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder. In The Book of Life Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present--facing new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches--with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the third volume of the All Souls series, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In palatial homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.