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• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: U.S. Sailing Association; 7 edition (October 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979467764
• ISBN-13: 978-0979467769
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds

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* Explains all the new changes to the rules that apply at marks and obstructions * Includes the complete text of the 2009-2012 ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing and US SAILING prescriptions * Contains over 100 quotes and references to the US SAILING Appeals and ISAF Cases, making it an indispensable resource for all sailors as well as judges and other racing officials The better you know the rules, the sharper you will be tactically on the race course. Dave Perry clearly and concisely answers all of the most commonly asked questions on the racing rules from a champion racing sailor’s perspective. His comprehensive, easy-to-understand explanations, with extensive references to US SAILING Appeals and ISAF cases, make this book a complete and authoritative resource on the rules for new racers and Olympic sailors alike, as well as judges and other race officials. Brad Dellenbaugh’s abundant diagrams and amusing captions bring Perry’s rules explanations to life.

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EBook Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Crown (June 2, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307463125
• ISBN-13: 978-0307463128
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.3 inches.

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In a spare, brisk prose, Ollestad tells the tragic story of the pivotal event of his life, an airplane crash into the side of a mountain that cost three lives, including his father’s, in 1979. Only 11 years old at the time, he alone survived, using the athletic skills he learned in competitive downhill skiing, amid the twisted wreckage, the bodies and the bone-chilling cold of the blizzard atop the 8,600-foot mountain. Although the narrative core of the memoir remains the horrifying plane crackup into the San Gabriel Mountains, its warm, complex soul is conveyed by the loving relationship between the former FBI agent father and his son, affectionately called the Boy Wonder, during the golden childhood years spent in wild, freewheeling Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s. Ollestad’s unyielding concentration on the themes of courage, love and endurance seep into every character portrait, every scene, making this book an inspiring, fascinating read.

EBook Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Ecco; First Edition, First Printing edition (June 2, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061766720
• ISBN-13: 978-0061766725
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches.

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Made famous by his Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon and the quick Internet proliferation of the video of the event, Pausch decided that maybe he just wasn’t done lecturing. Despite being several months into the last stage of pancreatic cancer, he managed to put together this book. The crux of it is lessons and morals for his young and infant children to learn once he is gone. Despite his sometimes-contradictory life rules, it proves entertaining and at times inspirational. Surprisingly, the audiobook doesn’t include the reading of Pausch’s actual Last Lecture, which he gave on September 18, 2007, a month after being diagnosed. Erik Singer provides an excellent inflective voice that hints at the reveries of past experiences with family and children while wielding hope and regret for family he will leave behind. The first CD is enhanced with photos.

EBook Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Hyperion; 1st edition (April 8, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401323251
• ISBN-13: 978-1401323257
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches.

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• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 492 KB
• Print Length: 304 pages
• Publisher: Knopf (May 5, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0028MBKVG.

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Starred Review. Some failures lead to phenomenal successes, and this American nurse’s unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, the world’s second tallest mountain, is one of them. Dangerously ill when he finished his climb in 1993, Mortenson was sheltered for seven weeks by the small Pakistani village of Korphe; in return, he promised to build the impoverished town’s first school, a project that grew into the Central Asia Institute, which has since constructed more than 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Coauthor Relin recounts Mortenson’s efforts in fascinating detail, presenting compelling portraits of the village elders, con artists, philanthropists, mujahideen, Taliban officials, ambitious school girls and upright Muslims Mortenson met along the way. As the book moves into the post-9/11 world, Mortenson and Relin argue that the United States must fight Islamic extremism in the region through collaborative efforts to alleviate poverty and improve access to education, especially for girls. Captivating and suspenseful, with engrossing accounts of both hostilities and unlikely friendships, this book will win many readers’ hearts.

EBook Details:

• Paperback: 349 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books (January 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0143038257
• ISBN-13: 978-0143038252
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.4 inches.

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