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  Think The Game - Basketball...

  MD. ASHRAF MOLLA

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  Are you training hard but still not getting the results you deserve on the court? 
  Many basketball players focus only on shooting, dribbling, speed, and athleticism while ignoring the one skill that separates average players from impact players: basketball intelligence. 
  Think The Game is the ultimate guide for athletes who want to play smarter, make faster decisions, earn coaches’ trust, and become more valuable in every game. 
  This book teaches you how to improve your basketball IQ, read defenses in real time, move with purpose, score efficiently, defend intelligently, and develop winning habits that translate to every level of competition. 
  Whether you're a beginner, high school player, varsity athlete, travel team competitor, or serious hooper trying to reach the next level, this book gives you practical strategies you can apply immediately.How smart players think before, during, and after gamesCourt awareness and vision drills to see the floor betterFast decision-making under pressureOffensive scoring habits that create easier pointsDefensive positioning, communication, and rotationsLeadership skills coaches respectConfidence, mental toughness, and bounce-back abilityHow to build your basketball identity and long-term growth planPractice habits that create real results 
  If you want to become the player coaches trust, teammates respect, and opponents struggle against, this book will help you unlock your edge. 
  Inside This Basketball Book, You’ll Learn:Start thinking the game and start winning it.

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  Ultramarathon Man - Confession...

  Dean Karnazes

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  Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner helped introduce the world to ultramarathoning. Now, after three decades of running ultramarathons across the globe, Dean Karnazes is still going strong. This updated and revised edition includes an afterword full of the lessons he’s picked  
  up along the way. He gives personal details on the essential pillars of health—fitness, diet, and sleep.  
   
  What does he eat, what supplements does he take, and what kind of mattress does he sleep on? Aging well takes work, and the man who hasn’t stopped is sharing the tips and learnings that have kept him going, mile after grueling mile. 
   
  Ultramarathon Man is Karnazes’ story: the mind-boggling adventures of his nonstop treks through the shoe-melting inferno of Death Valley, the lung-freezing ferocity of the South Pole, and the awe-inspiring beauty of the towering peaks and craggy canyons of the Sierra Nevada. 
   
  With an insight and candor rarely seen in sports memoirs, he reveals how he navigates the solitary, manic, self-absorbed life of extreme ultrarunning with a full-time job, a wife, and two children, and how running has made him who he is today: a man with an ironclad body, a teenager’s energy, and a  
  champion’s wisdom.

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  The Magical Game - The Spirit...

  Addy Baird

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  This is the story of baseball’s rich magical history and the centuries-old culture of superstition in the sport. It is a love letter to the jinxes, curses, rituals and myths of baseball’s past and present ― and to the innate mysticism of the game.
   
  For more than 150 years, a magical culture has been central to the game of baseball: At the turn of the 20th century, a battle between two lucky mascots defined early World Series matchups. Soon after, two generational curses spawned decades of heartbreaking losses for the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox. Today, players like Bryce Harper perform at-bat rituals, fans refuse to wash the jerseys of their favorite players, and baseball people everywhere refuse to utter the words “no-hitter” before there’s been a hit.
   
  In The Magical Game, journalist and converted baseball fan Addy Baird turns her reporter’s eye to her favorite sport, investigating the roots of these magical practices and telling the story of baseball’s long history of superstition, rituals, curses, jinxes, hoodoos, and hexes. Spanning three centuries of baseball history and three dozen more of magical history, Baird takes readers through fascinating, forgotten tidbits in the sport, untangles the game’s legends, and considers baseball’s uncertain future. In the face of recent MLB rule changes and the rise of advanced statistics, Baird looks at the many decades of concern about baseball’s declining popularity and the evolution of the sport, as well as why and how a culture of magic has remained strong at the core of the game for so many years.
   
  Funny, poetic, and deeply researched, The Magical Game will make readers fall in love with baseball all over again.

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  Driven by Change - How FIA...

  E.J. Agosti

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  Do you ever wonder what role the FIA plays in Formula 1?Perhaps you often hear them getting referenced by teams in interviews or commentators during races.Or maybe you have noticed significant changes in Formula 1 in recent years and you want to know more about who makes those decisions behind the scenes.If so, you don't want to miss Driven By Change, a detailed insight into how FIA changes impact Formula 1 teams, drivers, and race outcomes.This guide examines the various changes implemented by the FIA, diving deep into the technical, sporting, and governance changes that have shaped F1 as we know it today.Not only that, but it also looks into the knock-on effects of those changes, deciphering how they have impacted F1 teams, including their race strategies and resource allocation.Inside Driven By Change, discover●	the most impactful FIA decisions to date.●	the evolution of technical regulations.●	ways driver safety and well-being have been prioritized.●	how F1 has adapted to become more environmentally sustainable.●	the impact rule changes tend to have on teams.Whether you're looking to impress your friends with your knowledge or gain a deeper insight into this incredible sport, this book has you covered.Grab your copy of Driven By Change today!

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  Dick Carter: Yacht Designer - In...

  Dick Carter

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  Not many 'amateur' yacht designers would dare to enter the first boat they had ever designed into the epic offshore Fastnet Race, let alone with the intention of winning it. But that is what Dick Carter did in 1964, beating all 151 other yachts, some sailed by the most notable sailors of the day. He repeated the feat 4 years later with another of his own designs (which also won the Admiral's Cup that year as top boat and top team), but by then he could certainly not be described as an 'amateur' yacht designer. His radical innovations created fast and comfortable boats which were much in demand in this, the golden age of offshore racing. They were commissioned by the top sailors and succeeded in winning the Admiral's Cup, Southern Cross Series, One Ton Cup, Two Ton Cup and many of the biggest races. He even went on to design the massive 128-foot Vendredi Treize for Jean-Yves Terlain to sail single-handed in the 1972 OSTAR (trans-Atlantic) race – the longest boat ever to have been raced single-handed. But after just a decade at the top of his game, he quit the world of sailing and moved on to other challenges. He hadn't been heard of for so long that sailors assumed he was dead. His surprise appearance at the funeral of Ted Hood gave rise to the suggestion that he wrote this book. It is beautifully produced with many fabulous photographs and boat plans and was first published in the US by Seapoint Books and is now published in the UK by Fernhurst Books. While his career as a yacht designer may have been brief, the impact of his innovations has lasted the test of time. Who today would think of an offshore yacht without internal halyards in the mast or that the rudder always had to be fixed to the keel? These concepts, and many more, were first introduced by Dick Carter.

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  Tony Gale: That’s Entertainment...

  Tony Gale

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  In a footballing career spanning 21 years, Tony Gale played over 720 games on almost every league pitch across the four divisions. He is one of only 16 players in the UK to have played over 300 games for two teams and one of a handful to be part of a Premier League winning side. As a pundit he’s commentated on over 3,000 live games for the likes of Sky and Capital Gold, covering virtually every major football competition in his inimitable light hearted manner. 
   
  Gale made his first team debut at Fulham Football Club at the ripe age of 16, before being made captain at 18. Playing alongside a golden era of greats, the anecdotes which Gale recounts while playing alongside George Best, Bobby Moore and Rodney Marsh are a nostalgic masterclass. Moving to West Ham for the next decade, the Pimlico born defender was part of the iconic ‘Boys of 86’ squad, which broke 17 records that year, 16 of which are still unbeaten. 
   
  Exiting at his lowest point from West Ham in 1994, with two weeks to go before the new season, Gale was in effect homeless and jobless in footballing terms. That however all changed when he landed a place at Blackburn Rovers. Sir Kenny Dalglish recalled the decision to include 35-year-old Gale into the squad of 94/95. “His experience was a big help and the positive impact he made in the dressing room was excellent. He made his contribution to us winning the league, same as everybody on that team.” 
   
  Void of any media training, Gale’s move into radio and television commentary in the late 90’s was as natural as kicking a ball. In the words of Chris Kamara, “The one thing that stayed with Galey is that dressing room humour, which you all miss when you stop playing football. The one liners, the windups. Galey brought them from the dressing room and into real life.”

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