St. Martin's Press / Nature, recreation and sports

The Fate of Nature

by Charles Wohlforth

“What capacity for good lies in the hidden depths of people?”

Starting with this question, award-winning author Charles Wohlforth sets forth on a wide-ranging exploration of our relationship with the world....

Confessions of a Radical Industrialist

by Ray C. Anderson & Robin White

In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company:  to take nothing from the earth that can’t be replaced by the earth.  Now, in the most inspiring...

Shooter

by Jack Coughlin, Casey Kuhlman & Donald A. Davis

Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps’ top-ranked sniper, the man who personally brings America’s military muscle to the enemy’s front door. In twenty years of active service, he has accumulated one of the...

Krav Maga

by David Kahn

Master the moves of krav maga—the international self-defense and physical fitness sensation

Increasingly popular around the world, krav maga is the renowned hand-to-hand Martial Arts defense fighting designed...

North by Northwestern

by Captain Sig Hansen & Mark Sundeen

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

In the tradition of Sebastian Junger and Linda Greenlaw comes Captain Sig Hansen’s rags-to-riches epic of his immigrant family’s struggle against deadly Alaskan seas, freezing...

Without a Paddle

by Warren Richey

As far as Warren Richey knew, his life was on course. A reporter with a beautiful wife and talented son, Richey couldn’t imagine how it could be any better....Then his marriage falls apart and he can’t imagine...

Fierce Heart

by Stuart Holmes Coleman

Fierce Heart is the biography of a community and a portrait of its people. Although Makaha is a small, isolated town on the Western coast of Oahu, it has produced some of the most intriguing Hawaiians of the...

The Fifty-Year Seduction

by Keith Dunnavant

For more than a half century, television has played a primary role in securing college football's place as one of America's most popular spectator sports. But it has also been the common denominator in the sport's...

Marathon Crasher

by David Davis

Marathon Crasher is David Davis’s stunning account of how Merry Lepper became the first American woman to complete a marathon

At a time when television was pushing male-dominated sports coverage into living...

Last Horizons

by Peter H. Capstick & Peter Hathaway Capstick

Peter Hathaway Capstick first earned a name as an outdoor writer in the pages of such magazines as Guns & Ammo, Petersen's Hunting, The American Hunter, and Outdoor Life. In this, the first of a two-volume collection...

Home Rockanomics

by Heidi Minx

Feel more like a home wrecker than a home designer? Tired of 10,000 shows on HGTV that don’t include decorating with spray paint or cooking for vegans? Only know the names of flowers because your tattoo artist...

Tommy Gun

by Bill Yenne

The Trench Broom. The Annihilator. The Persuader. The Chopper. The Chicago Typewriter. The Tommy Gun.  The Thompson submachine gun has gone by many names, and for nearly a century the gun’s image has been...

Always Compete

by Steve Bisheff

Just when USC football was in the midst of a horrific slump, when skeptics began to say the scholarship limits had conspired to make it impossible to recapture its old glory, Coach Pete Carroll arrived to transform...

The Arena of Masculinity

by Brian Pronger

Sports are perhaps the most visible expression of the ideals of masculinity in our society, and figure as a training ground on which young boys are taught what it means to be a man. Given the involvement of...

The Eight

by Susan Saint Sing

A fascinating look at the 2008 Harvard Varsity Crew Team and the university’s legendary history of accomplished rowers

The Eight is a thrilling, behind-the-scenes look at a group of young men who have given...

Drinking with Miss Dutchie

by Ed Breslin

Drinking with Miss Dutchie is a story about Dutchie, a Black Labrador, and her lasting impact on the life of her owner and narrator, Ed Breslin. In contrast to the typical tale of dog as man's best friend, Breslin's...

Sundown Legends

by Michael Checchio

Standing atop the wall of California, Michael Checchio decided to head out for Saline and Death Valley, the canyonlands of Arizona and Utah and the uplands of New Mexico. He would re-visit old haunts and explore...

The Mom's Guide to Growing Your Family Green

by Terra Wellington

With the multitude of green choices available, how can moms determine what will be best for their families—and the environment? Terra Wellington has the answers.  This user-friendly and invaluable resource...