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This is a guide for those players who already have a basic understanding of the game. It covers advice on equipment, fitness-training, tactics, safety and rules and gives expert instructions in techniques ranging from the basic drives to the drop shot and the corkscrew service. There is also information on practices for individuals, pairs and larger groups and suggested strategy and psychology for matches. It is aimed at everyone from the recreational player wanting to keep fit in a fun way to the serious enthusiast with his or her eye on the professional circuit. ... Read more

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Part of a series From Seed To Supper for what to grow, how to grow it and what to do with it once it's grown, the subject is Summer squash and squash blossoms. Zucchini is a summer squash. A well placed and tended hill of squash will produce an abundance of fruit and flowers, a bounty that can be eaten raw, fried, boiled, broiled, braised, baked, micro waved, pickled and frozen. Add squash blossoms to the dinner table, they have long been enjoyed in Mexico, Central and South America. Where, when, which and how instructions are supported by more than 85 recipes and procedures in this book. From seed planting to harvest and on to southern fried squash, zucchini cake or stuffed blossoms, this book tells how! ... Read more

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A caterpillar in a cave has all the animals outside terrorized by his echoing voice. ... Read more

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The Greatest Squash Book Yet Written
Hunt developed a training and playing methodology that was good enough to capture 8 British Opens.Here he reveals his secrets.If only I had had such a book earlier and had followed its mandates! ... Read more

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It is impossible to play any sport to one's maximum potential without being fit: what is often overlooked, however, is that different sports demand different kinds of fitness. This new Ward Lock Series dovetails with the present "Play The Game" and "Ahead Of The Game" titles to ensure that the reader follows the right training programme to improve performance. All authors for the series are suited to the task, as professional coaches and fitness experts. Photographs of professionals in action illustrate the importance of physical preparation. The exercises themselves are varied and designed to avoid injury or boredom. ... Read more

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This text is part of a series of instructional sports books written by some of the country's leading sports coaches. This book on squash is aimed at players and coaches at all levels, and demonstrates the best way to develop and build the game. It emphasizes the importance of good technique, practice and training, and includes photographs of some of the world's top players in action. The author has coached many top international players, including Ross Norman and Lucy Soutter. ... Read more

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basic but outdated
Covers most aspects
Outdated techniques (Pictures with wooden raquets, need I say more?) ... Read more

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La Plata County Series beloved characters are involved in a tragic crash while flying over Korea! The end of an era is marked with a fire that brings a catastrophic end to the son of the Mississippi woman.The saga that began in a castle in Ireland where James Butler (alias James Wilkerson) was born ends on Son’s beloved La Plata River. All is not lost; for out of the wreckage comes the return of a Ute Indian, Squash Blossom’s descendent, who hopes to return a piece of the raped land to its native glory. Son brings this group of novels to an end, in spite of overwhelming odds. ... Read more

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I am the author
There are two novels in BOOK 5 of the LaPlata County Series. Each novel is complete in itself, but the novels build on the one before it. BOOK 1 contains COUNTY DUBLIN, the starting of the Wilkerson Dynasty and BLOOD ON THE MOON when William Wilkerson and his Black half brother and their fullblooded beloved Black friend go to Texas after wild horses for theMississippi farmers. They share many adventures among the Indians andMexican. BOOK 2 has AMITE COUNTY, a Civil War story told by an eleven yearold boy. MISSISSIPPI WOMAN tells an exciting story about the Wilkerson'smove to Fort Worth and then the two sons going to LaPlata County Colorado.BOOK 3, INDIANS AND SOLDIERS gives an account of the cavalry moving the Utetribe out of LaPlata County. RANCHERS AND RUSTLERS is about two of thesoldiers who have ranches in LaPlata County. D.H. Wilkerson startshomesteading land the homesteaders abandon. BOOK 4, HOMESTEADERS ANDSHEEPHERDERS, the Wilkerson adventures are told by five-year-old, SonWilkerson. D.H. is the continuation of the growing up of Son Wilkersonandhis exile in Arizona and New Mexico. BOOK 5 has I KNEW A MAN WHO HAD SIXSONS. D.H. goes insane and burns to death while Son Wilkerson is almostkilled in a plane in Korea.Son comes home blind and writes LaPlata CountySeries to find out why the Wilkersons and the other people of LaPlataCounty are so hell bent on going to war. SQUASH BLOSSOM, the final novel inthe series is about a Ute woman and her son who escape the exile in Utahonly to be taken by a cruel Navaho to Shiprock, New Mexico. SquashBlossom's great grandson comes back to LaPlata County and buys a piece ofland. Words can't describe the adventures, the characters, and the fun theauthor had in writing LaPlata County.I started LaPlata County as astory a small boy tells about living on a homestead between Hay Gulch andAlkali in LaPlata County, Colorado during the depression of the '30s. Fromthis original story, Homesteaders and Sheepherders, I went backward to thelittle boy's ancestor coming from Dublin to Virginia in the early 1700's.James Wilkerson died in Norfolk, Virginia but his descendents went toMississippi, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, the Atlantic, Pacific,and to Korea - and to hell and back. My family owned the land in LaPlataCounty, Colorado that is the basis for this story. This is not anautobiography or a true confession, but at the of age of seventy years Istill keep the LaPlata Mountains and the land on Alkali alive in my mindand heart! And I remember helping drive our sheep into the mountains. ... Read more