Kayaking next to open water swimmers, elite and novice, has given Beth Barnes a chance to blend two lifelong passions into one explosive one. Helping others fulfill a dream and being on the open water is where she feels that she reaches her own full potential. During the 2010-11 Catalina Channel Swim Federation Seasons Beth participated in 20 Catalina Channel swims and various other open water competitions. Now, she shares what she has learned...

The new and fully updated and expanded edition of the bestselling security classic.Written by renowned ex-SAS security expert Andrew Kain, this handbook provides the most reliable, authoritative and respected security information on the market. Don’t leave home without it on your smartphone, laptop or ereader!Andrew Kain served in the SAS for 11 years, leaving in 1990 to set up AKE Group, a world leader in the field of risk mitigation. In this fully updated...

This book offers practical advice to ensure you choose the right yacht for your sailing needs and budget. Potential buyers are guided through every stage of the process, from deciding on hull design and accommodation to deck layout and keel shape. There is information on construction materials and help in deciding what sort of craft would best suit your needs, including clever ways to 'try before you buy'. Expert guidance will help you decide whether to buy a new or used yacht, and both bu...

Sailing Strategy is considered a racing classic. Long out of print, it has champions who have been petitioning hard for its reissue. It is considered the best book ever written on the subject, and presents in detail techniques which are still completely relevant and applicable today. The author provides a very thorough analysis and explanation of how to read the wind and currents in all conditions on a racecourse, and explains how a good knowledge and understanding of their vagari...

Fluoride is more toxic than lead, yet it is routinely added to the drinking water of Ireland and Britain. In Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death?, Barry Groves presents an array of convincing and persuasive arguments that dismantle the commonly held belief that the fluoridation of water is beneficial to our health. The fluoridation of water has been used for the prevention of tooth decay for over fifty years. During this time little research has been done to ascertain whether it works. T...

Become a better yachtsman with the help of Tom Cunliffe and Yachting Monthly. There are plenty of sailing and seamanship skills that don't feature on the syllabus of even the most advanced official sailing course - and a wealth of wisdom can be found in these pages. There's advice on everything from fixing an engine to recovering a casualty from the water - and all of it is delivered with lively prose and hundreds of easy to follow photographs and diagrams. Sailing guru Tom Cunliffe teache...

Do you often dream of becoming a top-secret operative? Do the televisions shows such as The Americans or The Bourne Identity catch your attention? Do you find yourself highly engaged in articles about new and improved spy gadgets? Are you curious about what spy skills it really takes to be undercover and work as an emissary? If that’s the case, you have stumbled across a one-of-a-kind book that discusses the valuable and applicable spy secrets about the mental and physica...

**“Beautiful and important on many levels, Course Correction is about rowing and so much more . . . Ultimately it is about the transforming power of love, and, damnit all, it made me cry.” —Daniel James Brown, author of *The Boys in the BoatWild* meets The Boys in the Boat—a memoir about the quest for Olympic gold and the triumph of love over fearForty years ago, when a young Ginny Gilder stood on the edge of Boston’s Charles River and first saw a...

Advanced Rowing brings together a selection of leading experts in the sport of rowing, including international head coaches from New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and Denmark, who have all coached crews to World and Olympic medals.Distinguished club and university coaches contribute from the United States, Great Britain and Australia. Between them these coaches work with the top national level athletes in their countries and specialise in p...

~ Knowledge and action lead to preparation. ~Congratulations on finding this book. You are one step closer to surviving an Ebola pandemic emergency.Hello, my name is Jake S. Alive. I wrote this book because I lost a distant family member to an infectious disease. She was only 6 years old and had her whole life ahead of her. She didn’t get a chance to grow up, make mistakes, fall in love, or start a family of her own. It was tragic and affected our entire fa...

Job Hazard Analysis: A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond, Second Edition, provides a complete reference for performing JHA and setting up a JHA program. The book identifies the basic job steps and tasks, their associated hazards and risks, and safe operating procedures and hazard controls based on this analysis.Authors James Roughton and Nathan Crutchfield argue that the JHA should be the centerpiece of any risk control and occupational safety and health program. H...

Endocrine disruptors are synthetic chemicals, potentially toxic, with the ability to mimic, block or alter the hormones of our body. The problem of the presence of these compounds is exacerbated in the critical exposure windows that are, 72 days before conception for sperm, intrauterine stage and the first 2 years of the newborn. The estrogenic cocktail effect of these endocrine disruptors increases their toxicity.