Nature, recreation and sports

Playing for Paterno: One Coach, Two Eras . . . A Father and Son's Recollections of Playing for JoePa

by Charles Pittman, Tony Pittman & Jae Bryson

Penn State football icon Joe Paterno has presided over five undefeated seasons in his storied career as a head coach. Charlie and Tony Pittman played in three of those seasons. The Pittmans are the only undefeated...

Bear: The Hard Life & Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant

by Paul "Bear" Bryant & John Underwood

A reissue of Paul "Bear" Bryant's autobiography, this edition features a completely new introduction and an accompanying audio CD of Bryant himself, in his own voice, talking about his life and football. It's...

Teeing Off: Players, Techniques, Characters, Experiences, and Reflections from a Lifetime Inside the Game

by Ken Bowden & Jack Nicklaus

Teeing Off gives one of golf's most unique and well-traveled personalities a chance to, well, "tee off" on some of the most unforgettable characters and experiences he's had in a lifetime of playing and covering...

The Movie Before the Movie

by Bill Byrne & Yael Braha

The book features genre-based tutorial sections, with step by step instructions for creating effective horror, comedy, drama, and suspense titling sequences. Tutorials for creating some of the most popular title...

The Illustrated Guide to Viking Martial Arts

by Antony Cummins & Antony Cummings

The Viking shield wall is a famed battle strategy, tens of hundreds of men interlocked, reliant on their neighbours for survival. What are less well known are the actual techniques used in solo hand-to-hand...

The Official Red Book: A Guide Book of United States Coins, Professional Edition

by R.S. Yeoman & Kenneth Bressett

Since 1946 the Guide Book of United States Coins has served collectors as the preeminent annual reference for coin specifications, mintages, values, and photographs. With more than 22 million copies in print,...

Citation: In a Class by Himself

by Phil Georgeff

Based on interviews from those who knew the thoroughbred, including famed jockey Eddie Arcaro, this book is the full story of the greatest sports figure in the history of horseracing, a champion who won or placed...

Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming VII

by A. P. Hollander, D. Strass & J. Troup

Following on from the successful Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming VI proceedings which covered the conference held in Liverpool, this book contains all twelve of the keynote addresses and selected, edited...

Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation: Kicking off a New Era

by Fan Hong & J. A. Mangan

This is the first in-depth global study of women's football across the world. This collection considers women's football, in fifteen countries worldwide, in a global context, and analyzes its progress, challenges...

Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing

by Dr Joyce Kay & Professor Wray Vamplew

The Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing offers an innovative approach to one of Britain's oldest sports. While it considers the traditional themes of gambling and breeding, and contains biographies of human...

Sport, Professionalism and Pain: Ethnographies of Injury and Risk

by David Howe

Are pain and injury managed appropriately in the environment of professional sport?

Is sports medicine a tool to empower or to disempower athletes?

David Howe considers these and other pertinent concerns and...

Ethics in Youth Sport: Policy and Pedagogical Applications

by Stephen Harvey & Richard L. Light

The influence of professional, adult sport on youth sport is now a global concern. Children are involved in high-stakes competitive sport at national and international levels at an increasingly young age. In...

The Complete Guide to Hunter Seat Training, Showing, and Judging: On the Flat and Over Fences

by Anna Jane White-Mullin & Chrystine J. Tauber

Written by an expert clinician and judge, this is the first truly comprehensive manual on training horses and riders for hunter seat competitions. The opening chapters describe the best training methods, from...

Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society: Propaganda, Acculturation, and Transformation in the 1920s and 1930s

by Susan Grant

From its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, education, labour and defence. Physical culture propaganda...

European Civil War Films: Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia

by Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou

This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil...

Getting Started in 3D with 3ds Max: Model, Texture, Rig, Animate, and Render in 3ds Max

by Ted Boardman

Learning a 3D visualization software is a daunting task under any circumstances and while it may be easy to find online tutorials that tell you what to do to perform certain tasks you'll seldom learn "why" you...

Focal Easy Guide to Maya 5: For new users and professionals

by Jason Patnode

* Companion website provides new updates and tutorials for version 6!

If you are an artist who's new to Alias's Maya, or are moving over to use this powerful, oscar-winning animation and effects software from...

Focal Easy Guide to Discreet combustion 3: For new users and professionals

by Gary M Davis

If you are new to Discreet combustion, or moving over to use this powerful animation and effects software from another effects package, then this is the book for you. It gives you all you need to know to get...

Focal Easy Guide to Flash MX 2004: For new users and professionals

by Birgitta Hosea

Confused by ActionScript? Want to get to grips with creating interactive graphics and animation in Flash quickly? Whether you are a new user or a professional illustrator, designer or animator experienced in...

Animation from Pencils to Pixels: Classical Techniques for the Digital Animator

by Tony White

Just add talent!

Award-winning animator Tony White brings you the ultimate book for digital animation. Here you will find the classic knowledge of many legendary techniques revealed, paired with information relevant...