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$20,000 in Tennis Lessons (Hardcover)
GET 20,000 WORTH OF TENNIS LESSONS FOR TWENTY BUCKS Taking a tennis lesson from a former Wimbledon, U.S. Open and French Open player might be worth that much, but now everyone can learn from the world-renowned tennis guru ? Dr. Robert Ford Greene. Dr. Greene, former professional player and top coach, has included all of his tennis tips along with advice from the leading tennis coaches around the world in this new bible of tennis knowledge.Twenty Thousand Dollars in Tennis Lessons: Your Personal Coach, will improve your tennis game.Dr. Robert Ford Greene has taught top ranked professionals, college athletes and amateurs for over fifty-years and now he has put all his knowledge into this one book.Dr. Robert Ford Greene will teach you: ? New Alternative Stroke Techniques ? Better Court Strategy ? New Practice Tips ? Better Mental Preparation Twenty Thousand Dollars in Tennis Lessons: Your Personal Coach is worth 20,000 and more with over 700 full-color photographs illustrating each new tip and skill.This book will be the only place any tennis amateur or professional will need to go to find out more about every aspect of their game and how to improve it. Every aspect of your tennis game will improve with this tennis handbook from one of the top former pros, and the world's foremost tennis coach.This is a must-have for anyone who loves the game of tennis or anyone who wants to learn how to play from one of the most respected tennis coaches in the world without shelling out thousands of dollars.
15-love (Paperback)
Teenage tennis action as only Mighty Marvel can deliver Tennis is Mill Collins' whole life. But as the lowest-ranking student at the Wayde Tennis Academy, she's about to lose her scholarship - and any chance at reaching her dream. Her coach has given up on her, her aunt thinks she doesn't try, and the only one who believes in her is a washed-up drunk. How wrong can things possibly go before Mill catches a break? Collecting 15-LOVE 1-3.
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Cream
Let's be clear from the outset -- 20th Century Masters does not contain all of Cream's essential moments. It's missing such mind-warps as "SWALBR," trippy folk-psychedelia as "Anyone for Tennis," flights of fancy as "Wrapping Paper," crushingly inevitable blues as "I'm So Glad," and the brilliant throwaway "Doing That Scrap Yard Thing," all of which added to Cream's character. Still, if you're just looking for the hits, this has most of them, from "I Feel Free" and "Spoonful" to "Strange Brew," "Sunshine of Your Love," "Crossroads," "White Room," and "Badge." For those who like to skim the surface, sampling what they know, this will certainly satisfy, but if you're curious, you're advised to dig deeper than this. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
40 Love (Hardcover)
A hardcover re-release of the author's first novel, originally titled The Tennis Party, shows what happens when a weekend tennis party becomes a hilarious, wicked study of modern marriage for four very different couples of varying economic, social and interest levels as together they encountered two days of anger, shock, revelations and romance.
40 Love (Unabridged) (Compact Disc)
Everyone wins this game of literary tennis, a comedy of manners about envy in which Wickham skewers the nouveau riche. At their country estate, Patrick Chance and his wife host a weekend tennis party. As four couples gather on the sunny terrace, it seems obvious who among them is succeeding, and who is falling behind. But by the end of the party, nothing will be quite as certain. While the couples8217; children amuse themselves with pony rides and rehearsals for a play, the adults suffer a series of personal revelations and crises. Wickham8217;s nonstop action reveals at every turn that matters may not be as they seem, and in the end one thing is crystal clear: the weekend is about anything but tennis.
A Blade in the Dark (Widescreen)
This horror-thriller from director Lamberto Bava stars Andrea Occhipinti as Bruno, a composer who becomes involved in a frightening series of murders while staying at an isolated villa. The story turns on a scene in the horror film Bruno is scoring: a young child, taunted by cruel bullies, descends into a dark cellar after a bouncing tennis ball. The kids hear a scream and the ball bounces up to them, leaving bloody tracks on the wall. Pretty Sandra, Bruno's director, explains that her inspiration was the childhood of Linda, the villa's previous tenant, but there is something far more sinister going on. Anyone who has seen Psycho probably has a good idea what that "something" is, but the plot is really incidental. Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
A Champion's Mind (Hardcover)
The legendary tennis star offers a firsthand, candid account of his storied athletic career that reveals his rise to success on the court, his most dramatic on-court moments, his famed rivalry with Andre Agassi, the pressures of and lessons learned about success, and his take on such sports luminaries as Jimmy Connors and Roger Federer. 100,000 first printing.
A Champion's Mind (Paperback)
The tennis star offers a candid account of his athletic career that reveals his rise to fame on the court, his most dramatic on-court moments, his famed rivalry with Andre Agassi, and the pressures of and lessons learned about success.
A Game to Love (Hardcover)
A Game to Love is the stunning publishing debut of award-winning sports photographer Mike Powell. Featuring 500 highly evocative images, the book celebrates the passion for tennis that exists around the world. Powell's extraordinary images capture the character and brilliance of the greatest players in the game today and are complemented by the words of many of the game's legendary greats of yesteryear, among them John McEnroe, Billie Jean King, Steffi Graf, Boris Becker, and Rod Laver. From superstar players, veterans, and juniors to the spectating cognoscenti and tennis haute couture; from screaming coaches, businesslike trainers, and long-suffering officials to the players' boxes, real fans, and "fan fashion"; from the intimate details of hands-on racquets and the wiping of brows to the textures of clay, grass, and hard court, A Game to Love is a luscious and original visual tribute to one of today's most-watched and most-loved sports.
A Kick in the Head (Hardcover)
From the simplest couplet to the mind-boggling pantoum, the award-winning team behind A POKE IN THE I shows us the many fascinating ways poetic forms take shape.PleaseOpen this book for somethingExtraordinary.Twenty-nine different poetic forms await youInside these pages. How manyCan you master?From sonnets to double dactyls,Odes to limericks8212;Raschka and Janeczko (and a frisky mule)Make learning the rules of poetrySo much funIn this splendid and playful volume, acclaimed poetry anthologist Paul B. Janeczko and Caldecott Honor illustrator Chris Raschka present lively examples of twenty-nine poetic forms, demonstrating not only the (sometimes bendable) rules of poetry, but also the spirit that brings these forms so wonderfully to life. Featuring formal poems, some familiar and some never before published, from the likes of Eleanor Farjeon (aubade), X. J. Kennedy (elegy), Ogden Nash (couplet), Liz Rosenberg (pantoum), and William Shakespeare, the sonnet king himself, A KICK IN THE HEAD perfectly illustrates Robert Frost's maxim that poetry without rules is like a tennis match without a net.
A Kick in the Head (Reprint) (Paperback)
From the simplest couplet to the mind-boggling pantoum, the award-winning team behind A POKE IN THE I shows us the many fascinating ways poetic forms take shape.In this splendid and playful volume - second of a trilogy - an acclaimed creative team presents examples of twenty-nine poetic forms, demonstrating not only the (sometimes bendable) rules of poetry, but also the spirit that brings these forms to life. Featuring poems from the likes of Eleanor Farjeon (aubade), X. J. Kennedy (elegy), Ogden Nash (couplet), Liz Rosenberg (pantoum), and William Shakespeare, the sonnet king himself, A Kick in the Head perfectly illustrates Robert Frost's maxim that poetry without rules is like a tennis match without a net.
A Month by the Lake (Widescreen)
This romantic comedy is set upon Italy's beautiful Lake Como just before WW II erupted in Europe. British, middle-aged, but still-attractive Miss Bentley has come to the lake to visit the family resort. She has not been there since her father died and since her 14-year relationship with a married man broke up. The place has changed since she was there last and there is only one other Britisher there, the single, handsome Major Winslow, a wealthy industrialist. He and she engage in a few rounds of tennis, and begin a tentative romance that is interrupted when flirtatious American-upstart Miss Beaumont shows up and begins toying catlike, with the affections of the vulnerable major. Meanwhile, Miss Bentley finds herself dallying with a handsome young Italian. Sandra Brennan, Rovi
A Summer Life (Reprint) (Paperback)
Gary Soto writes that when he was five quot;what I knew best was at ground level.quot; In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his reader to a ground-level perspective, resreating in vivid detail the sights, sounds, smells, and textures he knew growing up in his Fresno, California, neighborhood. The quot;thingsquot; of his boyhood tie it all together: his Buddha quot;splotched with gold,quot; the taps of his shoes and the quot;engines of sparks that lived beneath my soles,quot; his worn tennies smelling of quot;summer grass, asphalt, the moist sock breathing the defeat of basesall.quot; The child's world is made up of small things--small, very important things.
A Terrible Splendor (Hardcover)
Marshall Jon Fisher provides a brilliant analysis of a 1937 Davis Cup tennis match between the American Don Budge and the German Gottfried von Cramm, a sports event which had social repercussions that extended far beyond the lines of the court. Budge and von Cramm were the two top-ranked players in the world, but the significance of their match had as much to do with their nationality as their athletic ability. With their nations on opposite sides of an escalating global conflict, Budge played for the honor of the United States, but von Cramm had even more at stake; having refused to join the ****** party, he knew that his status as Germany's best tennis player was likely all that was keeping him out of the prison camps. Furthering the drama was the sideline presence of Bill Tilden, one of America's all-time greatest players--who was now serving as von Cramm's coach. Fisher expertly depicts the stunning action of the five-set match, with insightful sequences depicting the heightening social tensions of the times.
A Terrible Splendor (Paperback)
Marshall Jon Fisher provides a brilliant analysis of a 1937 Davis Cup tennis match between the American Don Budge and the German Gottfried von Cramm, a sports event which had social repercussions that extended far beyond the lines of the court. Budge and von Cramm were the two top-ranked players in the world, but the significance of their match had as much to do with their nationality as their athletic ability. With their nations on opposite sides of an escalating global conflict, Budge played for the honor of the United States, but von Cramm had even more at stake; having refused to join the ****** party, he knew that his status as Germany's best tennis player was likely all that was keeping him out of the prison camps. Furthering the drama was the sideline presence of Bill Tilden, one of America's all-time greatest players--who was now serving as von Cramm's coach. Fisher expertly depicts the stunning action of the five-set match, with insightful sequences depicting the heightening social tensions of the times.
Acupressure Taping (Paperback)
Combines acupressure and massage to treat pain using elastic tape 8226; Shows how the use of an elastic, adhesive tape works with the body8217;s own motions to combine the actions of acupressure and massage 8226; Presents both therapeutic and preventative techniques for acute and chronic pain 8226; Contains step-by-step instructions illustrated in full color detailing how to self-treat pain in all parts of the body Sufferers of chronic pain well know the frustration of treatments involving endless rounds of drugs or expensive physical therapy--that may or may not offer relief. In Acupressure Taping, authors Hecker and Liebchen present a comprehensive guide to a new method of pain treatment--acutaping--which offers a much simpler and more effective alternative. In acutaping, elastic tape is placed over the afflicted area in accordance with related acupuncture points. During the course of normal movement throughout the day, the elastic tape provides a gentle but consistent massage to the inflamed area. Because the skin adheres to the tape, it is shifted against the subtissue during motion, causing lymph tissue to drain and connective tissue to be massaged. The authors show that most bodily dysfunctions can be self-treated through this innovative method. Combining elements of Chinese medicine with osteopathy, acutaping produces a method of treatment for ailments ranging from back pain and tennis elbow to menstrual pain and migraines. Acutaping is an easy and effective treatment--without side effects--that offers welcome relief to sufferers of chronic pain.
Acupressure Techniques (Reissue) (Paperback)
These easily learned and mastered methods are designed for individuals seeking to alleviate their own physical ailments. They center around using deep finger and thumb pressure over acupuncture points to enhance the natural energy flow of the body. Practical and fully illustrated, this book also includes a chapter dealing with various sports injuries, from tennis elbow to pulled hamstrings.New edition of a popular classic.
