John Jacobs is one of golf's all-time great teachers, a true legend of the game who has passed on his words of wisdom to thousands of amateurs as well as to some of the world's greatest players over the last 50 years. Now, for the first time ever, the pick of his collective wisdom has been brought together in one seminal volume.When the likes of Butch Harmon and David Leadbetter heap praise on your methods and credit you with having helped shape the way they learnt their craft and ...

The Paleolithic diet, also known as the caveman diet, is a nutritional plan based on wild plant and animal based food sources. The dietary regiment mimics that of pre-agriculture hunter-gatherers. All humans consumed this diet in the Paleolithic era that began 2.5 million years ago and continued until 10,000 years ago when the development of agriculture introduced grain-based diets. The premise of Paleolithic eating is that humans are genetically adapted to the diet which every person cons...

What does it mean to be a man in America today? At a time when cultural voices are conflicted about the role of men, Masculinity in America returns to the timeless virtues that have guided generations: duty, honor, responsibility, faith, family, courage, and service.From the grit of the frontier and the resolve of the Revolution to the quiet strength of fathers, workers, and community leaders, John Jacobs takes readers on a sweeping narrative through America's past and pre...

In the book Little Bobby OMalley, the reader learnedof how Bobby saved the life of a young Seminole Indianboy named Tenatke-Yaha (Thunder Wolf ), and how thatboy, whom Bobby would later call Thunder, became hisbest friend.Bobby saved Thunder from a panther, so the people of hisvillage gave Bobby the name of Hakla-Kowechobe, whichmeans (The Boy Who) Talks to the Panther.A year after meeting Bobby, Thunders tribe deci...

This book reflects some of the fondmemories the author had of the area as itwas in 1949, and describes some of therapid changes that took place thereafter.The undeveloped area that extended fromhis house to the beach reminded himof the jungle in a Tarzan movie he oncesaw, and his imagination carried him onmany journeys of adventure through thosejungles, where he was master of his ownhappiness for that brief time in his l...

This book reflects some of the fond memories the author had of the area as was in 1949, and describes some of the rapid changes that took place thereafter. The undeveloped area that extended from his house to the beach reminded him of the jungle in a Tarzan movie he once saw, and his imagination carried him on many journeys of adventure through those jungles, where he was master of his own happiness for that brief time in his life.

Human life is a combination of positive and negative experiences. Although there is an infinite number of positive experiences in life, people are prone to take in negative ones in their daily lives. When people become depressed, there is a swing in their brain states and the patterns that direct attention, thinking, and behavior in specific ways, mainly with regard to losses and threats. Memories of earlier losses and threats are activated. Attention and focusing on positive events become...

In the contested and unexplored territories at the edge of the Empire, a boat is making its laborious way up stream. Riding along the banks are the mercenaries hired to protect it - from raiders, bandits and, most of all, the stretchers, elf-like natives who kill any intruders into their territory. The mercenaries know this is dangerous, deadly work. But it is what they do.In the boat the drunk governor of the territories and his sons and daughters make merry. They believe that the...

The land is contaminated, electronics are defunct, the ravenous undead remain, and life has fallen into a nasty and brutish state of nature. Welcome to Bridge City, in what was once Arkansas: part medieval fortress, part Western outpost, and the precarious last stand for civilization. A ten-year-old prodigy when the world ended, Gus is now a battle-hardened young man. He designed Bridge City to protect the living few from the shamblers eternally at the gates. Now he's being groomed by his ...

A World Fantasy Award Nominee!The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition.Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul.A brilliant ...

A troubled sailor. A hundred-year-old sailboat. An ancient curse. Welcome to award-winning author John Hornor Jacobs’ nautical nightmare.It begins and ends as always, with the sea.Sam Vines is struggling. Her boat is up on the hard and she doesn’t have enough money to get her back in the water. Turns out the snorkelers and the scubadivers are looking for the ultra-luxury boating experience, not the single-handed, rarely sober, snarky stylings of sa...

"It's time to declare John Hornor Jacobs as a major author: every sentence he writes feels drawn from a pit of ?re and hammered into a sword." --Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling co-author ofA terrifying collection of horror and crime noir from the author of Southern Gods and A Lush and Seething Hell.Featuring ten tales, two never before in print, Murder Ballads and Other Horrific Tales is an exciting glimpse into the dark territories of the human heart.These...