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Stolen season: a journey through America and baseball's minor leagues
Par David Lamb. 1991
After covering bloody events in Middle East war zones, a foreign correspondent returns to America determined to take time off.…
Lamb, also hoping to renew his boyhood enthusiasm for baseball, spends a summer observing sights, sounds, players, and fans in ballparks. This account chronicles his journey across the country and into the recesses of his memory. Some strong language. c1991.Slow boat through Pennine waters
Par Frederick Doerflinger. 1971
Slow boat through England
Par Frederick Doerflinger. 1970
Somebody somewhere: breaking free from the world of autism
Par Donna Williams. 1994
Australian Williams continues the story of her battle with what she terms an information-processing problem. After giving up her alternate…
personalities, Williams once more confronts the Big Black Nothingness that they had shielded her from. While trying to remember to breathe and eat, she also has to deal with publishing her first book. Strong language. Sequel to "Nobody nowhere" (DC12339). 1994.SportScience: physical laws and optimum performance
Par Peter J Brancazio. 1984
Skating on skis
Par Dick Mansfield. 1988
Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired: living with invisible chronic illness
Par Paul J Donoghue, Mary E Siegel. 1992
Millions of people suffer from chronic diseases such as multiple sclerosis, migraine headaches and Crohn's disease. This book offers way…
to enhance the quality of life through positive thinking, effective communication and pain management techniques.Short circuit: Inside The World Of Professional Tennis
Par Michael Mewshaw. 1983
Shocking account of six months on the men's professional tennis tour, by a tennis-playing author who deeply cares about sport.…
His outlook quickly changes when he encounters fixed matches, prize splitting, dumped matches, drugs, and conflicts of interest. Strong language. 1983.Seven summits
Par Dick Bass, Frank Wells, Rick Ridgeway. 1986
Serious: The Autobiography
Par James Kaplan, John McEnroe. 2002
This autobiography chronicles the tennis career of John McEnroe. From his first Wimbledon in 1977, when he stunned the tennis…
world by reaching the semi-finals, and shocked it with his on-court behaviour. What followed was a double act of technique and temperament that set the sport alight. The book also covers his life outside tennis from his friendship with Keith Richards and Jack Nicholson, his stormy marriage to Tatum O'Neal, his forays into the worlds of art and rock music, and his arrival as one of the most astute sports commentators around. 2002.Schooner: Bluenose and Bluenose II (A Seal book)
Par Silver Donald Cameron. 1984
Details the history of the schooner Bluenose, the most fabled ship in Canadian history, and its exact replica, Bluenose II,…
which was launched in 1963 and carries on the legend. 1984.Reflexology: a practical approach
Par Vicki Pitman. 1997
This text provides a guide to good, professional practice. Places an emphasis on key points of technical understanding. Regular activities…
enhance the learning process. Features diagrams and illustrations of the highest quality. Offers a balanced approach to the variety of methods and techniques practised. 1997.Récits sportifs: différents visages du dépassement de soi
Par Stéphane Garneau. 2016
Stéphane Garneau a hérité de son père, Richard, la fascination pour le dépassement de soi incarné par des sportifs d'exception.…
D'où leur vient ce désir de gravir de hautes montagnes, de traverser la mer en solitaire ou de courir jusqu'à l'épuisement ? À quel moment l'étincelle s'est-elle transformée en véritable passion ? Quel est le secret de leur détermination et le prix de leur acharnement ? Pour répondre à ces questions, Stéphane Garneau s'est entretenu avec douze athlètes et six observateurs (entraîneurs et commentateurs) afin de cerner avec eux ces instants de grâce où l'être humain se transcende et force notre admiration. Ce sont ces fragments de vie qu'il partage avec nous dans ce livre inspiré et inspirant. 2016.Recalled by life: The Story Of My Recovery From Cancer
Par Tom Monte, Anthony J Sattilaro. 1982
Qui a peur d'Alexander Lowen?: Une Therapeute Raconte
Par Edith Fournier. 1995
Par l'auteure de "La mère d'Édith", un récit relatant la mort de sa mère atteinte de la maladie d'Alzheimer. L'auteure,…
une psychothérapeute, nous livre un récit-témoignage sur la thérapie bioénergétique, une approche corporelle de la psychothérapie. Elle raconte avec honnêteté et simplicité son cheminement personnel et parle de la méthode et du thérapeute Lowen qu'elle a côtoyé pendant trois ans. 1995.Quand les zéros deviennent héros
Par Mireille Messier. 2013
Comment transformer un mot en changeant seulement une lettre à la fois, à l'instar du titre où zéros devient héros.…
Un amusant livre-jeu pour ceux qui aiment jongler avec les lettres. Années 1-3. 2013.Psychedelic revolutionaries: LSD and the birth of hallucinogenic research
Par P. W Barber. 2018
Recounts the history of hallucinogenic-drug research in Saskatchewan, and the pioneering work of Humphry Osmond, Abram Hoffer, and Duncan Blewett.…
They broke new ground in the 1950s and '60s in the use of hallucinogens, like mescaline and LSD, and the development of treatments for alcoholism and schizophrenia--until Timothy Leary hit the scene and undermined everything with his public pronouncements. Delving into the experiments, the researchers, as well as connections to notables like Aldous Huxley, Linus Pauling, and Alcoholics Anonymous Co-Founder Bill W, Barber examines popularly held myths surrounding the drugs, and shows how the Saskatchewan research made extensive contributions to this scientific field and led to radical innovations in mental health, many of which have applications and relevance today. 2018.Psyching in sport: the psychological preparation for serious competition in sport
Par Brent S Rushall. 1979
This manual is one of the first to concentrate on the general psychological principles which apply to all competitive sport…
and lead to competition success. Professor Rushall believes that there is an ideal form of preparation, and sets out to define a procedure which takes into account scientific knowledge recently gained about performance at the highest level of competition. He has personally studied athletes of international standing, and correlates his findings about what affects performance with recent psychological studies of how humans cope with stress such as occurs in competitive sport. 1979.Profit is not the cure: a citizen's guide to saving medicare
Par Maude Barlow. 2002
Activist Maude Barlow traces the history of medicare in Canada, which began in 1966. She compares it with both public…
and private systems in other parts of the world, and describes the proponents of privatization in Canada. Barlow argues against the notion that medicare is a luxury that Canadians can no longer afford. 2002.Power ball: anatomy of a modern baseball game
Par Rob Neyer. 2018
The former ESPN columnist and analytics pioneer dramatically recreates an action-packed 2017 game between the Oakland A's and eventual World…
Series Champion Houston Astros to reveal the myriad ways in which Major League Baseball has changed over the last few decades. 2018.