A runaway San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, Cool Gray City of Love is a one-of-a-kind book for a one-of-a-kind city. It’s a love song in 49 chapters to an extraordinary place, taking 49 different sites around the city as points of entry and inspiration-from a seedy intersection in the Tenderloin to the soaring sea cliffs at Lands End. Encompassing …
A visual history of rugby’s greatest sporting event, this beautiful photographic book is a fascinating chronological exploration of the matches, teams, heroes, and surrounding stories of the tournament.Each chapter covers a Rugby World Cup, starting with the inaugural competition in 1987–in which New Zealand confirmed their status as the world’s top rugby nation–and continuing through the historical 1995 …
Rugby Revealed is the definitive guide to rugby in terms of the roles and responsibilities of each individual position and how they combine to create a tactically astute rugby team.This engaging guide to rugby union will help coaches and players understand the modern game, giving practical advice to achieve maximum results with optimum technique. With its mix of …
Game, Set and Match: Secret Weapons of the World’s Top Tennis Players
What better way to improve your tennis–and to gain a new appreciation for the sport–than by discovering the secrets of the world’s greatest players and coaches? Read this book to improve your game with inside tips from the tennis elite, including those who have won Grand Slam titles and held the world number one …
Bike Fit: Optimise your bike position for high performance and injury avoidance
This practical guide, written by a leading BIKE FIT expert, takes you step-by-step through the BIKE FIT process – to ensure you maximise your cycling potential. Do you suffer from lower back pain after a long weekend ride? Do your shoes wear out on one side more than the other? Are you experiencing numbness in your hands, or …
A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur’s Guide to Oyster Eating in North America
“A wide-ranging, thorough, breezily written guide to oysters as cuisine” (Boston Globe), A Geography of Oysters is the complete guide to understanding, serving, and savoring one of North America’s most delicious foods―an Amazon Best of the Year 2007 selection.In this passionate, playful, and indispensable guide, oyster aficionado Rowan Jacobsen takes readers on a delectable tour of the …
An illustrated, behind-the-scenes travel journal of Anthony Bourdain’s global adventures.More than just a companion to the hugely popular show, No Reservations is Bourdain’s fully illustrated journal of his far-flung travels. The book traces his trips from New Zealand to New Jersey and everywhere in between, mixing beautiful, never-before-seen photos and mementos with Bourdain’s outrageous commentary on what really …
30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (Writer and the City)
Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney. In the midst of the 2000 Olympic games, Australia native Peter Carey returns to Sydney after a seventeen-year absence. Examining the urban landscape as both a tourist and a prodigal son, Carey structures his account around the four elements– Earth, Air, Fire, and Water– insisting …
This Love Is Not For Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez
More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juárez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border city of Juárez has been …
Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons
The life story of Gary Gygax, godfather of all fantasy adventure games, has been told only in bits and pieces. Michael Witwer has written a dynamic, dramatized biography of Gygax from his childhood in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to his untimely death in 2008. Gygax’s magnum opus, Dungeons & Dragons, would explode in popularity throughout the 1970s and ’80s …