<p>The legendary golf instructional, available again. This is, along with <em>Harvey Penick's Little Red Book</em>, THE book <em>Golf</em> professionals turn to.</p> <p>"Thirty years ago I was recommending Joe Dante's book <em>The Four Magic Moves To Winning Golf</em> as a must read for aspiring PGA professionals. What Dante said in '62 has influenced many of the game's finest teachers. Dante was a visionary."--Gary Wiren, author of <em>New Golf Mind</em></p> <p>When published, <em>The Four Magic Moves To Winning Golf</em> radically changed the way many players thought about the golf swing. Dante's system showed how simple it was to improve one's game, and at the same time gave the golfer one of the most comprehensive analyses of swing mechanics ever published. Now, thirty-three years after its original publication, Main Street is proud to reissue this classic instructional. Dante begins by sweeping out all the misconceptions of the game. "If good golf is to be learned and the poor player is to improve, a purging must take place, painful as it may be." Dante discusses a few basics of grip and stance, and then he gets to the heart of his book, the four magic moves. As he reveals each of the moves, Dante focuses on the physical checkpoints so that any golfer can make sure that his or her swing is on the right track.</p> <p><em>The Four Magic Moves To Winning Golf</em> is straightforward and easy to understand, yet unlike other golf books it is irreverent and audacious in its approach to mastering the game. The publication of this rediscovered classic is sure to establish Joe Dante's reputation as one of golf's greatest teachers.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>Did you know?</p> <p>? Freemasonry's first American lodge included a young Benjamin Franklin among its members.</p> <p>? The Knights Templarbegan as impoverished warrior monks then evolved into bankers.</p> <p>? Groom Lake, Dreamland, Homey Airport, Paradise Ranch, The Farm, Watertown Strip, Red Square, “The Box,” are all names for Area 51.</p> <p>An indispensable guide, <strong>Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies</strong> connects the dots and sets the record straight on a host of greedy gurus and murderous messiahs, crepuscular cabals and suspicious coincidences. Some topics are familiarーthe Kennedy assassinations, the Bilderberg Group, the Illuminati, the People's Temple and Heaven's Gateーand some surprising, like Oulipo, a select group of intellectuals who created wild formulas for creating literary masterpieces, and the Chauffeurs, an eighteenth-century society of French home invaders, who set fire to their victims' feet.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>In today's world, with its relentless emphasis on success and productivity, we have lost the necessary rhythm of life, the balance between work and rest. Constantly striving, we feel exhausted and deprived in the midst of great abundance. We long for time with friends and family, we long for a moment to ourselves.</p> <p>Millennia ago, the tradition of Sabbath created an oasis of sacred time within a life of unceasing labor. Now, in a book that can heal our harried lives, Wayne Muller, author of the spiritual classic <em>How, Then, Shall We Live?</em>, shows us how to create a special time of rest, delight, and renewal--a refuge for our souls.</p> <p>We need not even schedule an entire day each week. Sabbath time can be a Sabbath afternoon, a Sabbath hour, a Sabbath walk. With wonderful stories, poems, and suggestions for practice, Muller teaches us how we can use this time of sacred rest to refresh our bodies and minds, restore our creativity, and regain our birthright of inner happiness.</p> <p><strong>Praise for <em>Sabbath</em></strong></p> <p>“Muller's insights are applicable within a broad spectrum of faiths and will appeal to a wide range of readers.”<strong>ー<em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong></p> <p>“One of the best spiritual books of the year.”<strong>ー<em>Spirituality and Health</em></strong></p> <p>“Wayne Muller's call to remember the Sabbath is not only rich, wise and poetic, it may well be the only salvation for body and soul in a world gone crazy with busyness and stress.”<strong>ーJoan Borysenko, author of<em>Minding the Body, Mending the Mind</em> and <em>A Woman's Book of Life</em></strong></p> <p>“This is a book that may save your life. Sabbath offers a surprising direction for healing to anyone who has ever glimpsed emptiness at the heart of a busy and productive life.”<strong>ーRachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of <em>Kitchen Table Wisdom</em></strong></p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community’s contributions to the English languageーan intersectional, inclusive, playfully illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms and fabulous phrases created by and for queer culture.</strong></p> <p>Do you know where “yaaaas queen!” comes from? Do you know the difference between a bear and a wolf? Do you know what all the letters in LGBTQIA+ stand for?</p> <p><em>The Queens’ English</em> is a comprehensive guide to modern gay slang, queer theory terms, and playful colloquialisms that define and celebrate LGBTQIA+ culture. This modern dictionary provides an in-depth look at queer language, from terms influenced by celebrated lesbian poet Sappho and from New York’s underground queer ball culture in the 1980s to today's celebration of <em>RuPaul’s Drag Race</em>.</p> <p>The glossary of terms is supported by full-color illustrations and photography throughout, as well as real-life usage examples for those who don't quite know how to use “kiki,” “polysexual,” or “transmasculine” in a sentence. A series of educational lessons highlight key people and events that shaped queer language; readers will learn the linguistic importance of pronouns, gender identity, Stonewall, the Harlem Renaissance, and more.</p> <p>For every queen in your lifeーthe men, women, gender non-conforming femmes, butches, daddies, and zaddiesー<em>The Queens’ English</em> is at once an education and a celebration of queer history, identity, and the limitless imagination of the LGBTQIA+ community.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>By a well-known psychic and astrologer, a revealing psychological/astrological exploration of the masks we wear and the many ways our rising signs affect our personalities.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers.</p> <p>What is the difference between “immanent” and “imminent”? What is the singular form of graffiti? What is the difference between “acute” and “chronic”? What is the former name of “Moldova”? What is the difference between a cardinal number and an ordinal number? One of the English language's most skilled writers answers these and many other questions and guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage. Covering spelling, capitalization, plurals, hyphens, abbreviations, and foreign names and phrases, <em>Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors</em> will be an indispensable companion for all who care enough about our language not to maul, misuse, or contort it.</p> <p>This dictionary is an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. As Bill Bryson notes, it will provide you with “the answers to all those points of written usage that you kind of know or ought to know but can’t quite remember.”</p> <p><strong>BONUS MATERIAL:</strong> This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Bill Bryson's <em>One Summer.</em></p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>Since the first pitch was thrown, MLB has tracked the performance of every team and player, documented every hit and measured every home run. And while some plays are part of the everyday game, there are moments in baseball when a player's performance reaches a new level of greatness and new records are made. The <em>Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records</em> catalogs the game's most remarkable achievements, as well as some of the less traditional and quirky stats that all play a part in the game.<br /> MLB's team of in-house writers, researchers and historians have scoured the history of the game and written the most accurate, complete and definitive record of baseball stats and achievements. <em>Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records</em> documents the absolute best of the best and packs each achievement into this lavishly illustrated book where fans will be treated to never-before-seen photographs of their favourite players. Double-page spreads will show Henderson racing to second base to claim the stolen base record, while another full color spread celebrates Bond's crushing hit that set a new threshold for most home-runs.<br /> All the records are here, each with an account of events and spectacular photographs that make this truly the most spectacular baseball book ever published.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>This book uses a linguistically and stylistically grounded analytical approach to written discourse to explain the patterns that appear when evaluating academic essays, and to explore the potential of ‘nativized’ linguistic tendencies as strategies in written communication. As 'linguistic behaviour', these strategies constitute a multinorm, and the author argues that comprehensive awareness of a written norm in a multilingual context is not about language rules for ironing out inequalities, but rather about varieties of linguistic practices that construct alternative strategies and patterns in written discourse. The book combines topics such as study skills, English as a Second Language and English for Academic Purposes, but grounds them within a World Englishes and syntactic paradigm, exploring why students write in a certain way due to their linguistic instincts, as well as helping students to see practical examples of what this means from the immediate perspective of sentence construction. It will be of interest to scholars of Education, Language and Linguistics, Study Skills, EAP and World Englishes, as well as students across disciplines who are encountering the academic essay as a form for the first time.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>The fully updated fourth edition of <em>the</em> go-to guide for crafting winning essays for any type of graduate program or scholarship, including PhD, master’s, MBA, MD, JD, postdocs, DDS, DVM, Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright--you name it.</strong></p> <p>Based on thousands of interviews with successful grad students and graduate admissions officers, <em>Graduate Admissions Essays</em> deconstructs and demystifies the ever-challenging and seemingly more impersonal application process for getting into graduate and scholarship programs. The book presents 50 sample essays in a comprehensive range of subjects, detailed strategies that have proven successful for some of the most notoriously competitive graduate programs in the country, as well as sample letters of recommendation, essays for residencies and fellowships, and postgrad applications.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>Die Debatte ?ber gender-inklusiven Sprachgebrauch wird in der Wissenschaft wie in der Gesellschaft kontrovers gef?hrt. Dabei werden kognitive Aspekte h?ufig vernachl?ssigt; dies gilt in besonderem Ausma? f?r das Spanische, wo die Interpretation ?generischer“ Maskulina und gender-inklusiver Formen der Personenbezeichnung aus psycholinguistischer Perspektive praktisch nicht erforscht ist. Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag, um diese Forschungsl?cke zu schlie?en und die eher theoretisch und z.T. ideologisch gepr?gte Debatte auf eine empirische Basis zu stellen. Mithilfe eines innovativen Versuchsaufbaus, der auch nicht-bin?re Personenbezeichnungsformen ber?cksichtigt, untersucht sie, welche Assoziationen ?generische“ Maskulina sowie alternative, gender-inklusive Formen hervorrufen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass ?generische“ Maskulina oft mit einem male bias interpretiert werden, das in einigen F?llen durch gender-inklusive Formen reduziert oder beseitigt werden kann. Die Ergebnisse geben au?erdem Hinweise auf eine Dynamik, die in der Forschung bislang kaum diskutiert wird: Wom?glich gehen gerade eine zunehmende Thematisierung und Umsetzung gender-inklusiven Sprachgebrauchs damit einher, dass ?generische“ Maskulina immer weniger generisch interpretiert werden, gender-inklusive Personenbezeichnungsformen hingegen immer st?rker.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>Whether you are planning a romantic Italian getaway, packing a knapsack for your junior year abroad, or just want to engage your Italian business associate in everyday conversation, <em>Italian Made Simple</em> is the perfect book for any self-learner. Void of all the non-essentials and refreshingly easy to understand, <em>Italian Made Simple</em> includes:</p> <p>* basics of grammar<br /> * vocabulary building exercises<br /> * pronunciation aids<br /> * common expressions<br /> * word puzzles and language games<br /> * contemporary reading selections<br /> * Italian culture and history<br /> * economic information<br /> * Italian-English and English-Italian dictionaries</p> <p>Complete with drills, exercises, and answer keys for ample practice opportunities, <em>Italian Made Simple</em> will soon have you speaking Italian like a native.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>In the tradition of Anne Lamott’s <em>Bird by Bird</em>, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writing a memoir.</strong></p> <p>Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant turning points in her life, Beth Kephart has been both blessed and bruised by the genre. In <em>Handling the Truth</em>, she thinks out loud about the formーon how it gets made, on what it means to make it, on the searing language of truth, on the thin line between remembering and imagining, and, finally, on the rights of memoirists. Drawing on proven writing lessons and classic examples, on the work of her students and on her own memories of weather, landscape, color, and love, Kephart probes the wrenching and essential questions that lie at the heart of memoir.</p> <p>A beautifully written work in its own right, <em>Handling the Truth</em> is Kephart’s memoir-writing guide for those who read or seek to write the truth.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>Got wit?</strong></p> <p>We’ve all been in that situation where we need to say something clever, but innocuous; smart enough to show some intelligence, without showing off; something funny, but not a joke. What we need in that moment is witーthat sparkling combination of charm, humor, confidence, and most of all, the right words at the right time.</p> <p><strong>Elements of Wit</strong> is an engaging book that brings together the greatest wits of our time, and previous ones from <strong>Oscar Wilde</strong> to <strong>Nora Ephron, Winston Churchill</strong> to <strong>Christopher Hitchens, Mae West</strong> to <strong>Louis CK</strong>, and many in between.</p> <p>With chapters covering the essential ingredients of wit, this primer sheds light on how anyoneーintroverts, extroverts, wallflowers, and bon vivantsーcan find the right zinger, quip, parry, or retort…or at least be a little bit more interesting.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>The Largest Collection of Successful College Application Essays Available in One Volume</strong></p> <p>These are the essays that helped their authors gain admission to Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Wellesley, Pomona, and other outstanding schoolsーfollowed by invaluable comments by experts in admissions, placement, and college counseling at some of the best learning institutions around the country. This helpful guide includes:</p> <p>? 100 complete essays with professional commentary<br /> ? Examples of essays on common topics (family background, athletics, work experience), as well as the more offbeat<br /> ? Essays on the immigrant experience by foreign-born students<br /> ? A section of drawing and cartoon essays<br /> ? Insider advice from a Princeton Dean of Admission<br /> ? And more</p> <p>Compiled by members of <em>The Harvard Independent</em>, the weekly newsmagazine of Harvard University, this revised and updated edition is an invaluable resource for students who want to write the best possible essayーand improve their chances of admission to the best possible school.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。