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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