eBooks „sports“
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WILLIAM F. NOLAN
OF TIME AND TEXAS
- Fantasy
- English
- 651 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 3
William Francis Nolan (born March 6, 1928) is an American author, who has written hundreds of stories in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres.
Nolan is perhaps best known for coauthoring the novel Logan's Run, with George Clayton Johnson, but has written literally hundreds of pieces, from poetry to nonfiction, to prose, for many publications, such as Sports Illustrated, Rogue, Playboy, Dark Discoveries, Nameless Digest, and others. He also had a long career in the movie industry, primarily working for Dan Curtis, and co-wrote the screenplay for the 1976 horror film Burnt Offerings which starred Karen Black and Bette Davis.
Nolan has also been a prolific editor of collections (by others), and anthologies, most recently co-editing two anthologies with friend, filmmaker, and writer Jason V Brock: The Bleeding Edge (2009), with stories from fellow writers Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, George Clayton Johnson, John Shirley, Dan O'Bannon, and several others, and The Devil's Coattails (2012), which featured offerings from Ramsey Campbell, S. T. Joshi, Richard Selzer, Earl Hamner, Jr., and more, both from Cycatrix Press. Nolan teamed up with Bluewater Productions for a comic book series, Logan's Run: Last Day, released in 2010. In addition, he developed comics based on one other property of his for Bluewater: Tales from William F. Nolan's Dark Universe (featuring stories adapted by Nolan and Brock and published in 2013). Another comic book mini-series Sam Space (forthcoming) has been scripted and approved. [more]
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Karthik Poovanam
The healing effect of Tui Na
- Self-Help
- English
- 2249 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 160
The body is truly a very complex thing. Not only do we need to battle mental and emotional illnesses, there are also physical anomalies and aching muscles that we need to deal with and no medicine anyone can consume that will make the pain go away.
The Chinese however, have come up with ingenious methods to help relieve the physical ailments of the aching body through their ancient practices that can be seen nowadays in martial arts and has its roots in olden day’s Taoist practices.
This art form exists today as a very special form of alternative medicine/healing.
This art of massage is extremely popular all over the world. Western societies have also embraced this practice with open arms and you will find Chinese massage parlours all over the place – and it is not just China town!
This ready form of physical healing is sought after by many – from the elderly and their aching backs to young athletes and body builders who need their muscles loosen up after a long day of working out at the gym or in competitive sports. It is also inexpensive in many places of the world and definitely in demand whether poor or affluent. Welcome to the art of Tui Na. [more]
Keywords: Tui na, benefits of tui na
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Reggie Ridgway
Half Life
And Other Short Stories
- Short Story
- English
- 32568 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 2479
- 7
Great Stories for Young Adults with plenty of action and heartfelt drama. Half Life is about an extreme sports enthusiast who attempts a wing suit flight at the edge of space. Thrust into a wormhole he finds he has traveled backward in time and must now save the life of the daughter of his professor. Safe Haven is a story about a young homeless unwed mother who is faced with the decision to give her 3 year old son up for adoption and instead finds new friends at a Firehouse Safe Haven drop off. Bounce House and Halloween in the Baker Hotel are stories about survival and young kids thrust into impossible situations they have to use instincts and pure luck to survive the night. The Bee and Nannette Interrupted are stories about young people who find themselves in life altering situations they never saw themselves involved in. These stories will thrill YA readers and keep them turning the pages to see what will happen next. [more]
Keywords: Time Travel, Young Adult, Drama, Fantasy, Young Adult Short Stories, Action, Adoption, Halloween, Magic
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Summary of Fat Talk by Virginia Sole-Smith: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
- Study Aids
- English
- 24076 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 24
DISCLAIMER
This book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book.
Summary of Fat Talk by Virginia Sole-Smith: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
IN THIS SUMMARIZED BOOK, YOU WILL GET:
Chapter astute outline of the main contents.
Fast & simple understanding of the content analysis.
Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original book
Virginia Sole-Smith's book Fat Talk exposes the daily onslaught of fatphobia and body shaming that kids face from school, sports, doctors, diet culture, and parents. It offers strategies for how families can change the conversation around weight, health, and self-worth. It also offers a new approach for thinking about food and bodies, and a way for us to work towards a more weight-inclusive world. [more]
Keywords: fat talk parenting, fat talk virginia sole smith, fat talk virginia sole-smith, virginia sole smith, virginia sole smith book, Virginia Sole-Smith
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Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories, by Various
- Drama
- English
- 72988 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
THE campfire for ages has been the place of council and friendship and story-telling. The mystic glow of the fire quickens the mind, warms the heart, awakens memories of happy, glowing tales that fairly leap to the lips. The Boy Scouts of America has incorporated the "campfire" in its program for council and friendship and story-telling. In one volume, the Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories makes available to scoutmasters and other leaders a goodly number of stories worthy of their attention, and when well told likely to arrest and hold the interest of boys in their early teens, when "stirs the blood--to bubble in the veins."
At this time, when the boy is growing so rapidly in brain and body, he can have no better teacher than some mighty woodsman. Now should be presented to him stirring stories of the adventurous lives of men who live in and love the out-of-doors. Says Professor George Walter Fiske: "Let him emulate savage woodcraft; the woodsman's keen, practiced vision; his steadiness of nerve; his contempt for pain, hardship and the weather; his power of endurance, his observation and heightened senses; his delight in out-of-door sports and joys and unfettered happiness with untroubled sleep under the stars; his calmness, self-control, emotional steadiness; his utter faithfulness in friendships; his honesty, his personal bravery."
The Editor likes to think that quite a few of the stories found in the Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories present companions for the mind of this hardy sort, and hopes, whether boys read or are told these stories, they will prove to be such as exalt and inspire while they thrill and entertain. [more]
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Greg Allen
Border Collies Guide
The Complete Owner’s guide from puppy to old age; Learn how to choose, care, groom, train, exercises, health and tips on
- Pets
- English
- 2286 Words
- Ages 8 and up
- 12
The Border Collie dog breed was developed to gather and control sheep in the hilly border country between Scotland and England. They’re known for their intense stare, or “eye,” with which they control their flock. They’re dogs with unlimited energy, stamina, and working drive, all of which make them a premier herding dog; Border Collies are still used today to herd sheep on farms and ranches around the world.
Even though these are purebred dogs, you may find them in the care of shelters or rescue groups.
The highly trainable and intelligent, Border Collies also excel in various canine sports, including obedience, flyball, agility, tracking, and flying disc competitions. They can make for great family companions, so long as they get a lot — a lot! — of physical and mental exercise. You’ll also have to be comfortable with a dog who can outsmart you from time to time. If you want a loving, brainy dog who will keep you active and on your toes, this may be the breed for you!
In this book, I will be teaching you everything you need to know about the border collie dogs and will be answering all your unanswered questions about this dog breed.
This book contains some of the following;
Introduction to border collies
History of border collies
Facts and characteristics of border collies
What does a border collie resemble?
Border collie temperament
Keeping border collie dogs healthy
Caring for your border collie dogs
Grooming
Nutrition
Exercise
Training your border collie
And lot’s more
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Keywords: border collie toys, border collie toys for dogs, border collie blanket, border collie quilt, border collie training book, border collie 101, border collie book, border collie collar, border collie training, border collie essentials, border collie food, border collie games
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Santiago Novillo-Astrada, Raphael De Oliveira
A Quechua - Simplemente practicar polo!
- Sports & Recreation
- Spanish
- 40098 Words
- Ages 12 and up
- 525
Santiago Novillo-Astrada es un jugador de polo profesional, argentinoy su familia forma parte de las dinastías de polo mundialmentemás antiguas y famosas.
Raphael De Oliveira es brasilero y con solamente 24 años de edades uno de los jugadores profesionales de polo más famosos internacionalmente, quien ya cuenta con su propia academia de polo“A Quechua”.
Dr. Uwe Seebacher, el presidente de la Associaion de los jugadores y instructores del Polo del mundo (PIPA), es jugador de polo y en su función de Gerente General de la empresa mas importante en el deporte de polo “A Quechua Sports Academy “.
El tomo “Simplemente, ¡practicar polo!“ de la colección A Quechuacontiene todos los temas importantes para principiantes,desde el equipamiento correcto hasta el reglamento, una visióngeneral y una descripción de una selección de clubes y escuelasde polo así como un glosario de conceptos seleccionados de polo.
La característica exclusiva de este libro se subraya por el programasistemático, específico de fitness y entrenamiento mental parapolo, desarrollado especialmente para ser publicado en este libro.Este libro es el primer tomo de la colección A Quechua, la mundialmenteúnica colección de este tipo para polo. A Quechuaproviene de la lengua incaica y significa “en el campo de juego”.La colección A Quechua brinda a jugadores de polo de todos losniveles valiosa información en el área de cabalgar, del golpe correcto,del juego elegante pero también como se puede crear y establecerexitosamente un club o una escuela de polo. Más detallessobre la colección, los encontrará al final de este libro.Libros de polo hay muchos – pero solamente hay un original: ¡AQuechua, libros de polo para jugadores, entrenadores, escuelas yclubes de polo!
Simplemente, ¡practicar polo! [more]
Keywords: Polo, Horse Polo, Beach Polo, Polo Basics, Practicar Polo, A Quechua
$9.49
Shane Lifeman,
Beginner's Guide To Dropshipping
How To Make Money Online
- Business & Economics
- English
- 5990 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 110
Welcome to my 3rd ebook on how to make money online
Have you ever seen the people on late-night TV, YouTube and all over the internet? Every one of them is standing in front of a Mansion, a Learjet or in front of a collection of exotic sports cars somewhere in the background. They have a very slick spiel usually bragging about the money they made while they were sleeping.
Chances are they are talking about the business model of Dropshipping.
In my latest ebook, I will be talking about:
What is Dropshipping
How Do You Make Money With Dropshipping
The Good, The Bad and the Down Right Ugly about Dropshipping
Let's Get Started Finding and Researching Your Products
How to Showcase your Products
Marketing Your Products
Additional and HelpfulTraining Suggestions
Dropshipping Niche Ideas & Suggestions
What I Do With Dropshipping
I will show you exactly what I did to generate an income with dropshipping. This includes how I reduce my risks by researching the products as well as various forms of advertising including free advertising techniques. I have also included some great free training resources to help you take your dropshipping business to the next level.
Just like any business resource. Please use the information in this ebook as a form of guide only. Everything I talk about and mention within my e-book is from my own personnel experience and what I have done to build my business
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Keywords: dropshipping, how to start a dropshipping business, best online business, online business
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Tyler Feist
ThunderBird
- Fiction
- English
- 3140 Words
- Ages 14 and up
- 349
It was raining. But it usually rained. At least that’s what I had noticed. When I had first moved here from Texas it was fine, but now it rained every day. I had moved from the top of the world to the bottom, the middle of southern California. My name is Luke Taylor, or at least it was before the games, but where are my manners, you don’t even know what the games are. Every two years an alien species hosts a series of tests, they make the contestants fight physical and mental challenges. Of course for a 16 year old this would seem impossible. Let me take you back to where it all began.
It was night and I sat in his bed. Three years ago that night his dad had passed away from heart failure, on my birthday, I had only been eleven. But here I was sitting in my room on his birthday crying. Early that morning, I had gone into my father’s study and found an old journal that his father had written as a boy. I had read about how my dad had skipped school, how he had been the weird kid at school, because he didn’t care what everyone else thought. I thought about my friend Shawn and how he thought like that. It drove the teacher’s crazy, and most of the popular people, but his real friends thought he was amazing for being that way. Although sometimes it got him in a lot of trouble, like the time he told the principal he looked stupid in a school t-shirt, or the time the science teacher’s jacket caught on fire, he told her she looked hot. That was Shawn. I kept reading about my dad, and how he had once jumped off his house onto a trampoline. It sounded fun until, I found out the trampoline ripped when his dad had landed. That changed my mind very quickly. Then I read about how his dad had accidentally knocked a replica sword of the wall into a fish tank, at his friend’s house. It only impaled two fish. By then I couldn’t take it anymore, if I kept reading he might not be able to stop laughing. I got up and went to his back yard. I hopped the fence; it was only five feet tall, had a solid top, and was made of metal. Behind my house was a canyon; all around the canyon were pieces of a plane that had crashed forty-three years ago, twenty –nine years before I was born. I liked to explore the wreckage. I walked down a hill into the tail of the plane where the luggage usually was. I started looking around; I found a golf club, a brief case filled with socks, a broken rusted phone, and a little item that looked like a sports wrist watch. I pressed a button on it and the watch and it wrapped itself around his wrist. I pulled on it trying to get it off, but it wouldn’t budge. I started pressing buttons trying to get it to let go and I suddenly felt a sharp pain. The second button shot a signal flare up into the sky from the center of the watch, and that’s when everything went dark. When I woke up his head hurt like crazy. The watch was gone but instead I had a ring. It made me look like I was married. I scanned my surroundings, and found that I was strapped to an operation table that was in the middle of what looked like a jail cell. I wondered what had happened. Just then a man walked into the cell, he was tall, maybe 5/4, had white hair, pale white skin, and a long scruffy beard. He walked up to me and started to examine me. [more]
Keywords: Games, Genetics, Fantasy, Fiction
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sumani ibbott
A Rich Girl
A Paid Girl
- Romance
- English
- 1 Words
- Ages 8 and up
- 1224
- 4
“Definitely not your fault,” I shook my head. “When, where, who and why?”
“Tomorrow night at seven at my uncle’s estate. Family reunion. Sexual orientation will be questioned again if I fail to come
“Sorry, I wasn’t thinking.”
“Definitely not your fault,” I shook my head. “When, where, who and why?”
“Tomorrow night at seven at my uncle’s estate. Family reunion. Sexual orientation he asked hopefully, large chocolate brown eyes pleading with me. will be questioned again if I fail to come without a date,” Scott had a pained expression on his face. “I’ll pick you up at your dorm.
I tried not to laugh. I was two years older than Scott who, by the way, was not gay. He was just too shy to actually talk to girls and I was the only exception because he’d seen me as a business deal in the beginning. He was one of the few that actually stuck around to become friends with me.
“Aw, Scottie,” I gushed, ruffling his hair and earning myself a flat look. “You know I’ll do anything for you baby,” I cooed, making him go red. He was so adorable; if he wasn’t too good for me, I’d keep him and screw the money.
“Thanks, Shawna,” he muttered, whirling around and walking away with his hands jammed into his jeans. Like I said: adorable.
But the next moment I sighed, feeling the familiar tears prick my eyes. Sometimes I really hated myself.
I knew exactly how tomorrow would play out: when I got back to my dorm after classes I’d cram in some information into my brain before starting to get ready at five. I’d choose something pretty and flattering, but not too flashy; Scott had a decent family. I’d put on some make-up, pin up my hair, but I’d ditch the heels, I mused. Scott and I were nearly the same height and it would look awkward if I towered over him. In my mind, I picked out the flats that would go with the sheeny purple dress.
Then Scott would arrive at six, probably with an exotic flower he never forgot to bring me. We’d laugh and talk in his car, with Scott getting steadily more nervous the closer we got to his family, despite the fact that we’d both done the process before.
He’d walk me in, be greeted by an overwhelming number of relatives before they’d play Noah’s Ark and each of them greet, squeeze and kiss us two by two. Scott would probably get patted on the head more than once during dinner while his thrice-removed cousins would openly hit on him. Maybe we’d share a laugh over it.
I’d be sweet and charming, the adorable girl that the mothers wanted for a daughter-in-law and that fathers wanted to control their sons. Then, after more promises to visit soon that neither of us meant unless it could be humanly avoided, we’d leave and Scott would pay me.
I sighed again, blinking fast. This was so humiliating, but it paid well. And the benefits were always amazing – dinner or some prestigious event with incessant male attention nearly every evening and at every holiday. I just wished the attention wasn’t fake. That the kisses were real. That the arm around my waist would send thrills down my spine and the secretive smiles we exchanged meant more than I can’t wait till this is over.
Looking around I realized that I was alone in the enormous auditorium. I walked outside past the bulletin boards advertising used textbooks, a good time, job applications, more good times with less than good girls, and of course, there was his name.
I shook my head, not even bothering to come up and read all the comments underneath it. Adam Ferrell’s name was covered in hearts, lipsticked kisses, and I could only imagine the things written underneath it, having read several of these posts before. His name and picture were all over the school.
So delicious.
Sexy!!
Mouth-watering.
I jizzed my pants when I saw his name.
I know, right??
Lookin’ good, babe!
And then there was my personal favourite, Oh my god Adam, PLEASE EAT ME!
It stopped being funny after I tried finding a spot to put up Wildlife Fund posters and got them torn down because it covered his name. Now I had a personal vendetta against the guy. But honest to hell, there was no bare spot in this school that hadn’t been Adamized.
He was treated like a god. And he wasn’t even a celebrity or anything, just really good at sports with a really good body and a really sexy face. The infuriating thing was that he was a jerk, player and a heart-breaker.
I’d had the misfortune to run into him once. Literally. After making a humiliating comment about controlling myself in public around him, he’d shouldered past me and said loudly, “Sorry, babe, but you just don’t do it for me.”
Scowling at the memory and altogether feeling downright awful, I leaned back and karate-kicked the swinging door open.
I hit someone in the face.
“OW! Joseph, Mary, and sweet baby Jesus!” someone said in a muffled voice. They sounded furious. i had squeezed my eyes shut when I’d kicked, and now I kept them that way.
I heard footsteps approach and then a dangerously low voice sounded from right in front of me. “Look at me, dammit!”
I cracked a single eye open and then closed it again. “Oh, dear God.”
“Normally I’d ask what you wanted, but this isn’t normal,” Adam Ferrell bit out. He had a bruise forming underneath his left eye. It made his landscaped sculpted face look even more dangerous and hot, but I wasn’t all that happy to claim responsibility for his face modification.
“Whoops,” I said neutrally, staring at him like an idiot.
“Whoops?” he repeated, livid. “Do you know who I am?”
I levelled my gaze at him, not sorry anymore. “Nope.”
He looked at me in disbelief. “Are you a transfer student?”
Figured he wouldn’t remember. “Yep,” I nodded, playing dumb. “Where is toilet?”
But something was dawning on his expression and he pulled his phone out to check. He looked up and down from my face to his screen several times. His gaze hardened.
“Is this you?” he thrust his screen into my eyes. I found myself looking at the picture Joel had taken a couple hours ago.
“No,” I lied, enjoying his incensed expression. I never knew he had anger management issues, but boy did Adam need to calm down. I guess smashing the door on him hadn’t helped, but that was an honest mistake. Anyone could’ve done it.
Right, I told myself sarcastically. Because people walk around karate-kicking doors open.
“Yes it is you,” he persisted stubbornly.
“Fine,” I shrugged, “Your boyfriend cheated on you. Beat him up, not me.”
Adam closed his eyes for a moment and I heard him counting under his breath. I smirked and he caught it when his eyes flew open.
“Excuse me,” he began again, “But are you Shawna Roberts?” he asked me in an impressive attempt at politeness.
I narrowed my eyes. Oh, hell no. “Depends on what you want from her.”
For the first time that Adam and I had – well, not talked – I saw him smile and I finally understood the reason that so many girls were jumping off bridges for this guy
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