A comprehensive handbook for athletes interested in pursuing the growing and popular sport of triathlon. Experts in all three disciplines, plus specialist triathletes, will guide you through all aspects of improving your technique in all sports and at the all important transitions, as well as fine-tuning your race tactics. A sports psychologist will help get your mind right for the huge challenge ahead, while a physical trainer and sports nutritionist set out plans for improving your overa...

"12-week guide: Swimming" offers an achievable step-by-step guide to help get an unfit person to a definable goal - a 400 metre swim in 12 weeks. The book outlines how to get started, what's needed and how to make that first step. Then using the week-by-week guide the reader works towards the target goal in very gradual steps with a weekly programme plus basic tips on nutrition, motivation, stretching and so on. The emphasis is on a very gradual approach towards achieving the goal so that ...

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author's "hilarious . . . idiosyncratic . . . delightful" and definitive companion to a global phenomenon ( Publishers Weekly).Douglas Adams's "six-part trilogy," The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy grew from a blip of a notion into an ever-expanding multimedia universe that amassed an unprecedented cult of followers and became an international sensation. As a young journalist, Neil Gaiman was given comp...

The Detective Stories Library is a rich and engaging collection of classic mysteries by some of the greatest writers of the genre. This illustrated volume brings together brilliant tales of crime, deduction, and suspense, featuring works by masters of the Golden Age of detective fiction such as Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Ngaio Marsh, John Rhode, and Christianna Brand. Among the highlights are intriguing stories such as The House of the Poplars, Grand Guignol, Boots, The Yellow S...

Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection!This box set includes:HOW TO CHEAT THE MARRIAGE MART (Regency)Society’s Most Scandalous • by Millie AdamsRakish George Claremont, Marquess of Curran, plans to destroy England’s workhouses with the help of a well-laid marriage proposal. Could pr...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 9Relive the wonder and excitement of classic science fiction with 50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories Vol. 9. Across 27+ hours of audio, you’ll hear timeless stories from the genre’s golden era — the 1890s through the 1960s.These visionary writers imagined tomorrow’s world, and their influence still echoes today — including… H. P. Lovecraft, Jack London, Damon Knight, Nelson S. Bond, Mary Shelley, C. S. Lewis, Ray Bradbury, E.E. "Doc" Sm...

Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney, Frank X Walker, Sheryl St. Germain,...

Vintage Sci-Fi 20 - 21 Science Fiction Classics from H. P. Lovecraft, C. S. Lewis, Ray Bradbury, Nelson S. Bond, EE Doc Smith and moreThe Stranger by Gordon R. DicksonCon-Fen by James R. AdamsInfiltration by Algis BudrysLancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate by Nelson S. BondThe Shunned House by H. P. LovecraftThe Invisible Girl by Mary ShelleyThe Artificial Man by Clare Winger HarrisThe Shoddy Lands by C. S. Lewis

Dans cette masse de sculptures qui ornent nos cathédrales et qu’a inspirées la théologie du moyen âge, se rencontre fréquemment un groupe digne d’arrêter l’attention, car il est l’expression d’une doctrine vénérable par son antiquité, touchant l’origine du monde.Le Tout-Puissant est représenté sous une forme humaine, façonnant le soleil, la lune et les étoiles, et les suspendant à la voûte solide du firmament, laquelle supporte le ciel « au dessus » et recouvre la terre « au dessou...

1950s Science Fiction 11 - 27 Science Fiction Short Stories From the 1950sEight Million Dollars From Mars! by Winston MarksLake of Fire by Frank Belknap LongForever by Robert SheckleyMan-Hunting Robot by James RosenquestReturn of a Legend by Raymond Z. GallunExile of the Eons by Arthur C. ClarkeA World To Die For by Sam CarsonTry and Change the Past by Fritz LeiberThe Stranger by Gordon R. Dickson...

Named one of Rough Trade’s Best Books of 2013According to Gandhi, the Four Stages of Protest are as follows: First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win!In Fight the Power!, comics authors Sean Michael Wilson and Benjamin Dickson team up with illustrators Hunt Emerson, John Spelling, and Adam Pasion to show how this process has been played out again and again throughout history--and has slowly but surely led to ...

This, the fifth and final volume in the Trinity Tales series, completes a cycle that began with tales from the 1960s. It invites readers to step into the world of Trinity College as it was in the first decade of this century through the reflections of students who attended the university during those years.Within its pages lie the stories of twenty-eight graduates from a mix of diverse backgrounds whose experiences may dispel the myths of what it means to be a 'Trinity student'. Th...