Smart Squash


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After more than one hundred years of playing squash with a hard ball, Americans switched, almost overnight, to using a soft ball. In order to aid this transition, Austin M. Francis wrote Smart Squash: How to Win at Soft Ball, a comprehensive guide to winning squash with this new method. For players of all levels, whether switching from hard ball or new to learning the game entirely, Smart Squash: How to Win at Soft Ball is a must-have. Francis draws from experience and advice from over thirty US and international coaches, champions, and professionals, covering all aspects of the game. Readers will learn tactics, strokes, shots, drills, match play, and strategies from this invaluable source of instruction and inspiration. Experienced squash players and novices alike will gain enormous wisdom and expert techniques from this all-encompassing guide to soft-ball squash. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.




Smart squash


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Squash


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The first comprehensive history of squash in the United States, Squash incorporates every aspect of this increasingly popular sport: men's and women's play, juniors and intercollegiates, singles and doubles, hardball and softball, amateurs and professionals. Invented by English schoolboys in the 1850s, squash first came to the United States in 1884 when St. Paul's School in New Hampshire built four open-air courts. The game took hold in Philadelphia, where players founded the U.S. Squash Racquets Association in 1904, and became one of the primary pastimes of the nation's elite. Squash launched a U.S. Open in 1954, but its present boom started in the 1970s when commercial squash clubs took the sport public. In the 1980s a pro tour sprung up to offer tournaments on portable glass courts in dramatic locales such as the Winter Garden at the World Trade Center. James Zug, with access to private archives and interviews with hundreds of players, describes the riveting moments and sweeping historical trends that have shaped the game. He focuses on the biographies of legendary squash personalities: Eleo Sears, the Boston Brahmin who swam in the cold Atlantic before matches; Hashim Khan, the impish founder of the Khan dynasty; Victor Niederhoffer, the son of a Brooklyn cop; and Mark Talbott, a Grateful Dead groupie who traveled the pro circuit sleeping in the back of his pickup. A gripping cultural history, Squash is the book for which all aficionados of this fast-paced, exciting game have been waiting.




Squash Boom Beet


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Rhyming text and 56 pages of beautiful color photography featuring healthy farm foods allow children to get excited about vegetables such as dragon tongue beans and fairytale eggplant to candy cane beets and green tiger zucchini.




Squish Squash Squished


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A pair of kids learn what it is really like to be squished together during one hilarious and eventful car ride! When Max and Molly can't stop complaining about being squished in the back seat of the car, their clever mom knows exactly what to do--offer rides to their animal friends, who are happy to pile in and come along! As the back seat fills up with a wiggly piglet, two flitting ducklings, and three woofing puppies, soon Max and Molly are not only squished--they're SQUISH SQUASH SQUISHED! So when they notice Mom slowing down to wave at Scooter Mooter and his calves, Max and Molly don't say a word--they hush-mush. Thankfully, Mom keeps driving--and after everyone's dropped off and it's time to hustle-bustle home, Max and Molly are happy to stretch out in the back seat of their suddenly gracious-spacious automobile.




Sports Competitions for Adults Over 40


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A healthy lifestyle is a popular way to deal with aging, but the serious fun and games don't have to end once middle age sets in. This guidebook is aimed at men and women over 40 (or 50, or 60, or 70) who seek the challenge of athletic competition. The book focuses on those sports requiring significant physical exertion and includes team sports such as soccer, softball and basketball and individual sports such as skiing, tennis and swimming. Chapters on each sport identify the national sponsoring organization and regional affiliates, describe the types of competition available, and give a breakdown of the competitors by age and gender. A "How to Get Started" section describes basic skills needed for each sport, equipment required to compete, opportunities for coaching, and suggested books and videos for beginners. The book also features a list of the 2007 or 2008 national champions in each sport.




Princeton Alumni Weekly


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60-Day Diet for Senior Women - 1500 Calorie


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Longer-term diets are healthier and more likely to be permanent. This diet has an amazing 60 days of nutritious, delicious, easy-to-prepare meals and the guidance you need to succeed. Imagine more than 350 planned breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks. You'll be surprised not only by what you can eat - but also by how much you can eat. Enjoy pasta, French toast, chicken, seafood, burgers and more. With nutritional know how and good planning, the authors have devised daily menus that leave you satisfied and where you should not be hungry. The 60-Day Diet is another sensible, flexible, easy-to-follow diet from NoPaperPress. And because the 60-Day Diet is not a fad and does not rely on gimmicks it will be as valid 10 years from now as it is today. On the 1500-Calorie edition, most senior women lose 12 to 18 pounds. Smaller women, older women (over 65) and less active women might lose a tad less, and larger women, younger seniors and more active women often lose much more.




30-Day Diet for Senior Men - 1500 Calorie


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The 30-Day Diet for Senior Men has an amazing 30 days of nutritious, delicious, easy-to-prepare meals and the guidance you need to succeed. Imagine more than 175 planned breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks. You'll be surprised not only by what you can eat - but also by how much you can eat. Enjoy pasta, French toast, chicken, seafood, burgers and more. With nutritional know how and good planning, the author has devised daily menus that leave you satisfied and where you should not be hungry. On the 1500-Calorie edition, most senior men lose 14 to 19 pounds. Smaller men, older men (over 65) and less active men might lose somewhat less; whereas larger men, younger seniors and more active men often lose much more. The 30-Day Diet for Senior Men is another sensible, flexible, easy-to-follow diet from NoPaperPress. And because the 30-Day Diet for Senior men is not a fad and does not rely on gimmicks it will be as valid 10 years from now as it is today.




90-Day Perfect Diet - 1200 Calorie


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2nd Edition - updated and easier to use! The 90-Day Perfect Diet features both cooking and no-cooking menus in one easy-to-use eBook. Every day, for 90 days, you decide whether you want to cook or not, and then pick an appropriate 1200 Calorie daily menu. And there's plenty to choose from. All told, there are 100 daily menus - 50 no-cooking daily menus and 50 cooking daily menus. - Breakfasts are either cereal & fruit, or eggs and toast, or French toast, or waffles. - Lunches consist of a sandwich, or soup, or salads, or Hot Pockets wraps, or Subway 6" sandwiches. - Three Snacks every day include fruit, nuts, popcorn, yogurt and ice cream. No-cooking dinners are usually a frozen meal (choose from 150) and a large salad. Of course, the cooking menus come with delicious, easy-to-prepare delicious recipes. You'll be surprised, not only by what you can eat, but also by how much you can eat. Enjoy pasta, pancakes, swordfish, hamburger, and more. On the 90-Day Perfect Diet - 1200 Calorie, most women lose 23 to 33 pounds. Smaller women, older women and less active women might lose a tad less. Larger women, younger women and more active women often lose much more. Most men lose 35 to 45 pounds. Smaller men, older men and less active men might lose a bit less; whereas, larger men, younger men and more active men often lose a great deal more. The 90-Day Perfect Diet is another sensible, healthy, easy-to-follow diet from NoPaperPress. Note: At publication, off-the-shelf foods used in this book were widely available in most supermarkets. But food products come and go. So if there is a frozen entrée or soup selection in this diet that is out of stock, or that's been discontinued, or perhaps you don't like, or that you forgot to pick up while shopping, please substitute another food that has approximately the same caloric value and nutritional content. In addition, frozen entrée and soup ingredients sometimes are changed by the manufacturer without notice and without changing the product's name but the calorie count may have been increased or decreased. So make sure you check the calories noted on the food or soup container, and if the calorie value is different than shown in this book make an allowance for the calorie difference or substitute another frozen entrée or soup. In this regard, many dieters have found the many frozen foods and soups listed in the Appendices at the end of this book to be helpful.