Absolute Tennis is thorough and comprehensive guide to improving your tennis. In this insightful and visually engaging book, Marty Smith, an NCAA Division I Southern Conference Champion and long-time Director of Tennis at the New York Athletic Club, shares his extensive knowledge of tennis technique, strategy, psychology and fitness in easy to understand language. His meticulous explanations of the strokes, coupled with narrated individual and sequenced photos of the world's best ...

The amazing and blessed life of popular ESPN reporter and correspondent for College GameDay, Marty Smith, whose mission in this thoughtful and funny memoir is to return fans to the true soul of sports in this country.You know Marty right? The guy during College GameDay hanging off the back of a pickup truck while zooming around the Clemson athletic facilities. The guy who visits Nick Saban's lake house and somehow gets Coach to jump in the lake. T...

From ESPN’s correspondent Marty Smith— a book of key leadership principles learned from championship coaches he’s interviewed over the past two decades.Sideline CEO delves into the unique psychology and daily preparation and gameplan execution of some of America’s most respected leaders—the coaches who have led hugely successful programs to win it all.In talking to these sideline CEOs, Marty develops a set of leadership pillars that include:

From ESPN’s correspondent Marty Smith— a book of key leadership principles learned from championship coaches he’s interviewed over the past two decades.Sideline CEO delves into the unique psychology and daily preparation and gameplan execution of some of America’s most respected leaders—the coaches who have led hugely successful programs to win it all.In talking to these sideline CEOs, Marty develops a set of leadership pillars that include:

A Southern college town and its thriving live-music scene, where songs are neither "sacred" nor "profane" so long as they're good. A lost tape of a beloved local band's legendary performance. A record label, poised to break big, which certain people want to be involved in - by any means necessary. Two visitors - Chuck McDonough and Penny Froward - whose own music has been muted by regrets over long-ago bad decisions. A mysterious will by an unknown hand; and murder.

The amazing and blessed life of popular ESPN reporter and correspondent for College GameDay, Marty Smith, whose mission in this thoughtful and funny memoir is to return fans to the true soul of sports in this country.You know Marty right? The guy during College GameDay hanging off the back of a pickup truck while zooming around the Clemson athletic facilities. The guy who visits Nick Saban's lake house and somehow gets Coach to jump in the lake. T...

Rick Kingsley's an everyday guy. True, his dad Linwood Kingsley Sr. is a rising Tea Partier in the North Carolina Senate. His mom's a passionate queer activist lawyer whose wife quit the Navy over "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." His stepmom Eunice is a small-town Southern belle Fundamentalist, who hires black maids and Christian psychics. Teen half-brother Lin Junior is a dudebro / frat boy jerk-in-training. Younger half-brother Aidan's a train buff; emotional, sensitive and a bully magnet. But R...

In using this resourceful guide, therapists can develop a comprehensive understanding of how trauma impacts their young clients' brains and sensory systems. Filled with therapeutic strategies and activities tailored to specific regions of the brain, professionals will be able to optimise brain rehabilitation and improve sensory processing abilities.The book includes a wide range of low-cost, budgeted activities that can be applied in a variety of settings, including juvenile justic...

Surveys over the last twenty years have seen an ever-growing number of Americans disclaim religious affiliations and instead check the "none" box. In the first sociological exploration of organized secularism in America, Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith show how one segment of these "nones" have created a new, cohesive atheist identity through activism and the creation of communities. According to Cimino and Smith, the new upsurge of atheists is a reaction to the revival of religious f...

¡Eres una chispa brillante... y puedes iluminar el mundo entero! Este libro es una colección de afirmaciones suaves y alegres, diseñadas para ayudar a los más pequeños a sentirse valientes, amables y llenos de alegría. Con palabras sencillas e ilustraciones mágicas, cada página invita a los niños a explorar grandes emociones y a celebrar su chispa única. Creado para leer juntos o a solas, estas afirmaciones inspirarán sonrisas, risitas y abrazos cálidos - una y otra vez. Brilla con fuerza....

This book brings together the essential evidence and policy opportunities regarding the global importance of soil carbon for sustaining Earth's life support system for humanity. Covering the science and policy background for this important natural resource, it describes land management options that improve soil carbon status and therefore increase the benefits that humans derive from the environment. Written by renowned global experts, it is the principal output from a SCOPE rapid assessme...

L'any del mico és el 2016 de Patti Smith, llegenda viva del rock. Un recorregut físic i oníric a través dels llocs i dels records durant un any sencer -enriquit amb un "epíleg de l'epíleg" escrit durant el confinament."Un cop vaig tenir set anys, aviat en tindré setanta", cantusseja Patti Smith mentre puja les escales de casa. L'any del mico comença amb la pèrdua d'un gran amic. ¿Què fas quan la gent que estimes deserta de la realitat? En el cas de Patti Smith, ll...