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Take on the ultimate challenge of conquering the highest point in every county.To help you undertake a challenge like no other, this book provides a fantastic way of keeping a track record of how and when you have reached the highest point in every one of the United Kingdom’s 108 counties. Each county top is listed in order from highest to smallest, providing stats, a short bio, and log to fill in, allowing you to tick off every county top once you have reached each summit.Encompassing England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the hills and mountain tops of the United Kingdom are an assorted bunch.  These geographical, highest points range in both height and uniqueness - from the mighty Ben Nevis at 1,345 m, the highest point in Scotland, to the-low lying Holborn Hill in the metropolitan City of London at 22 m above sea level. Conquering each peak provides an incredible adventure and allows you to explore the diverse and beautiful landscapes of the entire United Kingdom. Get ready to embark on your own adventure and let us be there to help you along the way. Have fun!

Lone Rider is a captivating book written by the talented Elspeth Beard. Published by Octane Press in 2018, this book takes readers on an unforgettable journey. The genre of Lone Rider is a mix of adventure and biography, appealing to a wide range of readers. The narrative is as thrilling as it is inspiring, making it a must-read for anyone seeking a unique literary experience. The author's vivid storytelling and compelling writing style make the book hard to put down. Published by Octane Press, Lone Rider is a testament to the author's extraordinary life and her passion for adventure. This book is a great addition to any bookshelf and a fascinating read in the English language.

If your interest is whet by history, shooting or the large caliber handguns, this is the book for you.In this comprehensive guide, firearms expert John Taffin follows the development of big bores from 1870 to today. His fascinating model to model review includes more than 300 photos and fine details about the pioneering sixguns, as well as the influence those guns have had on each other and the field of competitive shooting.Famous big bore revolvers featured in this book include the .357 Magnum, the .44 Magnum, the .45 Colt, and an armory of other popular large bore handguns. Written in an easy-to-follow format, Big Bore Sixguns lays out a detailed history of Colts, Smith & Wessons, Rugers, and the men who made them.

This vintage book explores the subject of skiing. Skiing is a means of transport, a recreational activity and a competitive winter sport in which the participant uses skis to move on snow. This illustrated volume looks at the history of the sport, as well as equipment, different styles and techniques, and much more; making it perfect for those with an interest in the origins and development of this universally-enjoyed winter sport. Contents include: "The Antiquity and Renaissance of Ski", "Countries in Which Ski-Running is Practised", "Outfit", "The Elements of Ski-Running", "The Snow and its Peculiarities", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

This book is a comprehensive resource for coaching the 4-3-3 formation at all levels. The level of detail and tactical solutions included will help you emulate how top coaches, such as Pep Guardiola, Maurizio Sarri and Jürgen Klopp use the 4-3-3 to great success.This book goes into great detail to show the movement of all players within the 4-3-3 formation in all phases, tactical situations and against different formations. This will enable you to see all the solutions, in order to optimise your team's tactical awareness and performance.Tactical solutions are provided for all game situations, in relation to how to counteract the opponent's positioning, organisation and decision making.This book will teach you to coordinate and solve specific game situations in a flexible way with many different options and tactical solutions. As a coach, you can train these patterns of play repetitively, so that the players' reading of the game becomes automatic and the team is quickly able to recognise and find the best solutions to solve every conceivable tactical situation.This book includes: Goalkeeper's Distribution from Goal Kicks Build Up Play to Counteract Different Types of Pressing Build Up Play Against Different Formations The Creating Phase The Finishing Phase The Defensive Phase How to Organise Training Sessions 25 Practices to Apply Tactical Solutions within the 4-3-3 in All PhasesA well-organised team, in which all players know how to recognise different tactical situations and support each other, is able to enhance the characteristics of the individual and allow them to produce higher quality performances. However, technically skilled players still need to be able to communicate with each other and interact effectively. This shows how important the organisation of the game is.The aim of the book is to highlight the principles that coaches must know and use to organise the modern game system. Learn to create a fluid and flexible environment where players know how to recognise tactical processes and relate to each other within shapes and geometric structures, to solve specific tactical situations within different areas of the pitch.Massimo Lucchesi is a tactical expert with many top selling books, most recently winning the prestigious Italian FA (FIGC) Award for "Best Coaching Book" 2018 ('Liquid Organisation,' 2018 Allenatore.net) and has conducted over 100 football coaching tactics seminars across the world.Massimo never stops learning and has observed the training sessions of some of the best coaches in the world, such as Carlo Ancelotti, Luis Enrique, Antonio Conte, Pep Guardiola, Maurizio Sarri, Diego Simeone + many more.

Starting weightlifting is easier than you might think. This book will teach you everything you need to know to get started, learn the lifts and follow a beginners programme. Mobility testing and improvement Step by step guides to learn the snatch, clean and jerk Assistance exercises - squats, presses, pulls, deadlifts and more How to train as a weightlifter Nutrition How to find the right coach (and what to do if you can't) Beginners training programmesThe book contains 260 pages of quality content, including over 160 illustrations.

Game Plans for Success is a journey into the minds of ten top current and former NFL head coaches. These ten great coaches reveal their management philosophies and strategies, showing how what happens on the sidelines and in the locker room parallels what goes on in offices and boardrooms. Their finely tuned business skills and management techniques are transferable to every industry and profession - powerful tools that can be put to immediate use by anyone, sports fan or not. Game Plans for Success includes the insights of NFL head coaches Tom Coughlin, Mike Ditka, Joe Gibbs, Bud Grant, Dennis Green, Chuck Noll, George Seifert, Marty Schottenheimer, Norv Turner, and Bill Walsh. Among them, the group has eighteen Super Bowl appearances and thirteen Super Bowl victories. Four of the featured coaches - Ditka, Grant, Noll, and Walsh - are enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

What top speed is possible at each spot?The handbook with more than 130 photographs and 26 sketches of each section of the track; and a max speed during good weather conditions with Bridgestone BT 56/57 tires on a Yamaha FZR 1000. Track time 8.06 minutes.

Miguel de Lancastre e Tavora was a master rider, trainer, and instructor. His genuine love and care for the well-being of horses comes through on every page. His Kind, calm, and methodical approach is laid out in a progressive sequence that adheres strictly to the principles of the FEI.Christopher Hector speaks of his lessons with Miguel Tavora (quoted from his introduction):"This is a work book, a blueprint for the serious rider. After the training sessions I had with Miguel-when I was back home riding, I suddenly had a whole new vocabulary of school movements, of techniques to apply. "Just as every training session with Miguel developed gently, logically, each step, each exercise building on the last, so too this work. I know of no other book in the English language that provides such sophisticated and detailed prescriptions for horse and rider as they move to the ultimate goal: collection, and horse and rider as one. "So much of the 'dressage' we see in the competition ring is distressing to watch. Riders leaning back, rudely, crudely pushing their horses into hard and unyielding hands. Is it any wonder that their horses go hollow, shorten behind, and wave their front legs in an extravagant manner that fools only the ignorant? Sadly, this group includes a number of five-star international judges. "What I find so puzzling is that this style of training not only produces such a sorry result, but it is so taxing on both horse and rider. The rider must ride the whole time in a state of tension, to balance the tension he has provoked in the horse. It is oh-so-different when I watch Miguel work with one of his talented pupils. Here the rider is relaxed and soft and the horse willingly gives his back. As the exercises progress, the horse and rider move into a balance that is as beautiful as it is functional. "Do yourself and your horse a favour. Study this book. Use it as your day-to-day guide. I promise it will reward you and your horse many times over."

Dan Abrahams is the world-renowned sport psychologist who has helped to transform player development and the coaching of soccer. His Soccer Tough titles have become international bestsellers and have been translated into numerous languages. Now, for the first time, Soccer Tough and Soccer Tough II are available in one cost-effective, high-value volume.In Soccer Tough: Simple Football Psychology Techniques to Improve Your Game, journey with Dan to demystify the mental side of the game in order to maximise performances. It is full of practical techniques that will enable soccer players of all abilities to actively develop focus, energy, and confidence. Soccer Tough will help banish the fear, mistakes, and mental limits that hold players back.- Train your soccer brain and performance mindset to play more consistently and deliver under pressure- Use the power of Body Language to play with energy and intensity- Create dynamic mental Scripts that pinpoint focus and give your game mental structure- Utilise commanding Self-Talk to develop certainty and performance confidence- Boost your self-belief through Visualisation and ImageryIn Soccer Tough II: Advanced Psychology Techniques for Footballers, Dan introduces players to more cutting-edge tools and techniques to help them develop the game of their dreams. Through four sections - Practice, Prepare, Perform, and Progress - Dan shows players how to train better, prepare more thoroughly, perform with greater consistency, and progress faster.- Develop a no limit Attitude towards your potential- Create a world-class Improvement Programme for your soccer- Ramp up your training outlook using cutting-edge motivational theories- Prepare to play with energy and confidence- Use your 'controllers' to manage your focus, your intensity, and your emotions on the pitch- Learn to play under pressure like the best footballers in the world do

Capture the Camino in this unique journal!A fun and funky journal designed to capture your own unique journey along the Camino de Santiago through Spain as well as other popular Camino journeys.After having my own life-changing experience traveling and traversing the Camino, I created this journal. It's the journal I wish I had had during my own travels, and one I know you will enjoy using during your own Camino experiences and inner journeys to Self.Includes journaling for 36 fun-filled travel days with pages dedicated to My Camino, My Purpose, My Thoughts, and Mindfulness Minute. Also included are inspirational quotes, writing prompts, and a daily structure for anyone who suffers from blank page phobia.Walk on!

There are numerous karate self-defense books on the market but there are few if any which focus on the use of multiple strikes and combinations of block and strike at the same time techniques. This book explores the many karate techniques that are in several kata but are seldom practiced in the dojo. In fact, in all my years of practicing karate I have never seen any instructor include these multiple strike techniques except within a kata.

Development Hell: The NXT Story, penned by former Power Slam scribe and WhatCulture.com's own Michael Sidgwick, chronicles the history of WWE's NXT brand. NXT has drew universal critical acclaim for its fan service fusion of old-school booking philosophies and progressive body of in-ring work - but the road to critical acclaim was arduous. When WWE destroyed its territorial and mainstream competition, the monolith had also annihilated the talent pool. Replenishing it was an unenviable task made all the more difficult by a blasé and counterproductive attitude and a curiously myopic direction. All of which is documented in a book covering the inauspicious beginnings of the dusty Stamford Farm warehouse and the murmurings of Memphis Power Pro, the halcyon days of Ohio Valley Wrestling, the infamous disaster of Deep South Wrestling and the literal lunacy that was Florida Championship Wrestling. The roots of the triumph that was NXT were toxic...

In early 2015, I had the opportunity to bring my approach to the Cranbrook-Kingswood Boy's Varsity Hockey Team. They were talented but struggling and did not play like a cohesive unit. We ignited and harvested their competitive spirit, while at the same time, built a trust bank to deepen their commitment and connection to one another. They became unstoppable because they felt unstoppable. This story, chock full of leadership lessons, serves as a model for leading, accelerating, and fully harnessing the talent on a team. What does a former NFL player say about this book? ""History is littered with gifted individuals and teams that failed to reach their full potential. You must invest in a player's strengths and the strengths of the collective to build a championship team. This book will teach you to discover the untapped talent on your team, and harness it to reach your Destination Unstoppable"" - Ryan Diem, Super Bowl XLI Champion, Indianapolis Colts '01-'11

This vintage book contains Henryk Sienkiewicz's 1912 novel, "In Desert And Wilderness". Sienkiewicz's compelling young adult novel tells the tale of two friends who are taken by rebels during the Mahdist war in Sudan. "In Desert And Wilderness" was used as the basis for two films, one in 1917 and one in 2001. This book is recommended for fans of inspirational historical literature, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection. Henryk Sienkiewicz is a Polish author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.

In the middle of the main square of Chamonix stands the memorial erected to the Geneva naturalist Horace-Benedict de Saussure and to his guide. Although de Saussure was not actually the first person to reach the top of Mont Blanc, he and Balmat together gave the initial impetus to mountaineering and awoke a new passion in mankind.The Swiss have made a substantial contribution to the conquest of the Alps. In addition to those of de Saussure, many other valuable explorations have been undertaken.During the classic period of alpine mountaineering, the XIXth century, one peak after another in the cantons of Valais and Berne was scaled with the help of Swiss mountain guides who, again and again, earned hearty praise from the explorers by whom they had been engaged.

Sean McIndoe of Down Goes Brown, one of hockey''s favourite and funniest writers, takes aim at the game''s most memorable moments--especially if they''re memorable for the wrong reasons--in this warts-and-all history of the NHL.The NHL is, indisputably, weird. One moment, you''re in awe of the speed, skill and intensity that define the sport, shaking your head as a player makes an impossible play, or shatters a longstanding record, or sobs into his first Stanley Cup. The next, everyone''s wearing earmuffs, Mr. Rogers has shown up, and guys in yellow raincoats are officiating playoff games while everyone tries to figure out where the league president went. That''s just life in the NHL, a league that often can''t seem to get out of its own way. No matter how long you''ve been a hockey fan, you know that sinking feeling that maybe, just maybe, some of the people in charge here don''t actually know what they''re doing. And at some point, you''ve probably wondered: Has it always been this way?    The short answer is yes. As for the longer answer, well, that''s this book.    In this fun, irreverent and fact-filled history, Sean McIndoe relates the flip side to the National Hockey League''s storied past. His obsessively detailed memory combines with his keen sense for the absurdities that make you shake your head at the league and yet fanatically love the game, allowing you to laugh even when your team is the butt of the joke (and as a life-long Leafs fan, McIndoe takes the brunt of some of his own best zingers). The "Down Goes Brown" History of the NHL is the weird and wonderful league''s story told as only Sean McIndoe can.

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