Knack Coaching Youth Soccer: Step-by-step Instruction on Strategy, Mechanics, Drills, and Winning

Each spring and fall, hundreds of thousands of kids across North America join local recreation department soccer teams—and thousands of unprepared adults are drafted as coaches. Similarly, every summer, camp counselors are expected to play soccer with children from age five to fifteen. Knack Coaching Youth Soccer applies the unique quick-reference, visually organized Knack format to present a season’s worth of plans, exercises, strategies, and tips to help coaches avoid embarrassment, have fun, and leave kids with the happiest experience possible. It addresses the different levels of coaching, both by age and by league. And it expertly covers soccer mechanics, strategy, and coaching philosophy, and provides extensive examples of drills and games for practices. Its 450 full-color photos plus charts and diagrams are complemented by easy-to-follow instructions and plenty of ideas for creating a winning team.

• 450 full-color photos

• Charts and diagrams

• Kindergarten to middle school

• Covers soccer both for boys and for girls

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The Illustrated Bead Bible: Terms, Tips & Techniques

This resource offers a color illustrated encyclopedia of bead types and styles, materials, tools, and bead lore. A section on beading tips and techniques contains information in question and answer format on buying and using materials and tools and dealing with beading problems. A reference section offers tables and charts on bead sizes and shapes, gemstone cuts and treatments, stringing materials, and weights and measures. It also provides drawings of 21 common stitches and weaves and various knotting and finishing techniques. Throughout the book, techniques and materials are illustrated with color photos of work by artists from around the world. The book is for beaders, collectors, and jewelers. Geary is a retired psychologist and active beadwork craftswoman who has written two other books on beading.
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Bead And Wire Jewelry Exposed

Presents a stunning array of more than fifty high-fashion jewelry pieces constructed to reveal such typically hidden components as beading wire, cording, findings, chain, and tubing, with detailed instruction and information on supplies, tools, and techniques.
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The Beader's Color Palette: 20 Creative Projects and 220 Inspired Combinations for Beaded and Gemstone Jewelry

A complete guide to color for jewelry makers features 220 separate palettes inspired by five diverse themes, including diverse world cultures, the natural world, and the four elements, accompanied by more than eight hundred color illustrations featuring sample finished jewelry pieces and step-by-step instructions for twenty creative jewelry and bead projects.
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Knit One, Bead Too: Essential Techniques for Knitting With Beads

Introduces a range of stitching techniques that enable crafters to augment knitting projects with beads, providing step-by-step instructions for five distinct knitting methods that fully incorporate beads into knitted items while providing complementary coverage of such skills as binding off and correcting mistakes.
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Goldmine Record Album Price Guide

"Goldmine Record Album Price Guide" provides detailed information such as artist, record label, label number, formats such as mono, stereo, and promotional, full titles, date of release, value, cross references, and notes about artists, labels, variations and fakes.
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Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up

Presents some five hundred different vacation options for children and their parents, covering such types of destinations as sports shrines, exotic getaways, cultural heritage sites, and historic landmarks.
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Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman

For all his fame as one of Hollywood’s great actors, a world-class humanitarian, and the proprietor of a natural food empire, the late Paul Newman had another intriguing facet that was less known and perhaps closer to his heart than all the rest of his well-chronicled life. He was an avid, successful and well respected car racer and team owner. This book tells that story--from Newman’s racing career, begun in earnest at an age when many race car drivers contemplate retirement; to the partnership he formed in 1983 with Chicago racing entrepreneur and team owner Carl Haas; to the impressive stable of automobiles he owned, from the Porsches and Ferraris to quirkier modified VWs and Volvos.

This is the tale of a life full of passion and skill, of someone who entered the 24 Hours of Daytona at the age of 70 and made his last professional race outing at 82; whose roster of drivers for Newman/Hass reads as a who’s who of open wheel racing; and whose interest in cars extended from the likely suspects to old trucks and new hybrids. And then there’s the charming pal who, when the incorrigible prankster Robert Redford had a miserably wrecked Ferrari dropped at his front door, returned the favor by having the car, crushed into a cube, delivered to Redford’s living room. The anecdotes, the races, the cars--all are here, adding up to what for many would be a full life, but for Paul Newman was simply another side of a man of talent, conviction, and enduring spirit.

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Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town

A first-person history of a wilderness ghost town in Gloucester, Massachusetts, that has inspired artists and writers evaluates the paranormal phenomena that have been attributed to the area as well as the details surrounding the 1984 murder of a schoolteacher.
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American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

A profile of the conservative Supreme Court justice offers insight into his absolute belief system and considerable body of work, evaluating Scalia as an "apex of power" whose opinions may have far-reaching consequences in the social counterrevolution.
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Breaking the Sound Barrier

Presents a collection of the author's commentaries from Democracy now!, the daily grassroots global news hour that broadcasts the program via radio, satellite and cable television, and Internet.

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A Rumpole Christmas

Five holiday tales by the late screenwriter and best-selling author feature the curmudgeon barrister and include "Rumpole and Father Christmas," "Rumpole's Slimmed Down Christmas" and "Rumpole and the Christmas Break."
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The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life

Offers an economist's view of everyday human behavior, and examines surprising situations from everyday life, such as why is movie theater popcorn so expensive, and why do seatbelts cause more accidents.
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Herbal Medicine of the American Southwest: The Definitive Guide

Improved, revised and expanded, Herbal Medicine of the American Southwest details the essentials of more than 200 desert and mountain growing medicinal plants. Along with geographic distribution and botanical description, medicinal use, chemistry, collection, preparation technique, dosage and cautions are specifically discussed for each plant. More than 200 color plates (photographs and illustrations), bibliography, glossary and an index are included. Kane is regarded for his understandable, no-nonsense approach in a field known for the opposite.
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The Internet for Dummies

Don't miss the 12th edition of this bestseller, fully updated and now covering social networking!

Sixteen years since the publication of the first edition, this smash hit book has outsold and outlasted all the competition. See what all the excitement is about with the newest edition, The Internet For Dummies, 12th Edition. You'll not only find a lot of the basics presented in an easy-to-follow and friendly style, you'll also get the latest on social networking, security, and much more-stuff barely on the horizon a couple of years ago that now dominates the online landscape.

• Introduces you to what's online, how to deal with annoyances like spam and spyware, and how to control what your kids see and do online
• Walks you through picking a provider, getting hooked up to the Internet, and sharing a connection in your home or with other devices
• Gives you a guided a tour through popular Web browsers, getting good search results; finding music and video; shopping; banking; and sharing files
• Also covers e-mail, connecting with friends, online chats, and more
• Helps you find the hot social networking sites and see how to handle photo and video sharing

Using the Internet? Get thoroughly up to speed with this popular guide.

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Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

A psychotherapist shows how to identify the fears that are inhibiting one's life, ranging from public speaking and intimacy to aging and rejection, and how to transform frustration and helplessness into power to create success in every aspect of life, in a twentieth anniversary edition of the best-selling guide.
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The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison

“The Big House" is America’s idea of the prison—­a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prison—its politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itself—and its idealization in American popular culture. This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them­: problems of control and discipline, maintenance and reform, power and sexuality. It conveys an awareness of the limits of human and institutional power, and of the symbolic and iconic qualities the “Big House” has attained in America’s understanding of itself.

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Remarkable Creatures

Marked for greatness after being struck by lightning in infancy, Mary Anning discovers a fossilized skeleton near her 19th century home that triggers attacks on her character and upheavals throughout the religious, scientific, and academic communities.
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

Documents the historical first fossil find of twelve-year-old Mary Anning in 1811, offering insight into the pivotal significance of the discipline of paleontology and how it impacted the scientific and religious communities as well as ongoing debates about evolution.
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The Opposite Field

Documents the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's efforts to assume responsibility for his young son's failing baseball program in an immigrant suburb of Los Angeles, an effort that was complicated by challenges in his personal life, his mother's cancer diagnosis, and community dynamics.
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The Team America Loves to Hate: Why Baseball Fans Despise the New York Yankees

This book examines the animosity towards the New York Yankees among fans of Major League Baseball and what that revilement says about the game, its fans, and America itself.
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Why Italians Love to Talk About Food

An award-winning food writer introduces the concept of an Italian "culinary code" through which various regions develop and distinguish unique food traditions, in a narrative tribute that features lavish menus and a glossary of terms.
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