Mud Guts

Author : Mark Hatmaker
Publisher : Tracks Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1935937561
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mud, Guts & Glory written by Mark Hatmaker and published by Tracks Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obstacle racing is a grueling physical challenge based on elements found in some of the world’s elite special forces training, where competitors test their mettle against obstacles, terrain, and conditioning similar to military boot camps, and this book provides an in-depth look at the training, gear, preparation, tactics, and logistics for making it through. After a brief overview of obstacle racing’s roots and development, the guide provides detailed information on the conditioning techniques required to prepare participants for the unusual demands of these courses. The tactics section teaches specific techniques for climbing mud-covered ropes, fording swamps, mounting walls, executing an effective belly-crawl, and numerous other tips for the wild chaos that might ensue. A section on logistics gives insider tips concerning gear, lodging, building a team, and the ever-present problem of cleaning up. Whether racing for fun or in it to win it, Mud, Guts & Glory is the one-stop guide for enduring the race from start to finish.

Author : Phillip W. Hadlington
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868403991
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Termites and Other Common Timber Pests written by Phillip W. Hadlington and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is scientifically based and the result of years of research and fieldwork, this book is a clear and concise guide for all who need to understand how to protect buildings from termite attack: pest controllers, landscapers, horticulturalists, builders and architects. In addition, every householder will find it an invaluable source of information which could easily save them thousands of dollars.

Author : Bill Mauldin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mud & Guts written by Bill Mauldin and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a political cartoonist, provides an informal study in text and cartoons of the Revolutionary troops, with particular emphasis on the life of the common foot soldier.

Author : Bill Mauldin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mud & Guts written by Bill Mauldin and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Watson Watson
Publisher : BalboaPress
ISBN 13 : 1452556296
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bolters and Coolers written by Watson Watson and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bolters and Coolers, Noel Watson tells true, rough-and-ready stories about the art of street fighting. At seventeen, he trained with Zen Do Kai martial arts and learned if you wanted to survive on the street, you needed to know more than how to fight. He was one of only two white belts to receive a black gi, a highly privileged bushido cross, and the nickname Crazy Horse by Soke Bob Jones. He travels across the Nullarbor Plain with best mate, Rod Stroud, to build a security business while bouncing in some of the roughest pubs and clubs in Perth, Western Australia. His recollections of violent club brawls and street fights motivate him to seek an easier way to make a living. Catch a rare glimpse to life on the road with Australia's rock legend and front man for Cold Chisel, Jimmy Barnes when he takes Crazy Noel on the road as his personal security and karate instructor. Noel becomes a self-taught cook and opens a Hawaiian cafe in Byron Bay. His kitchen becomes his dojo as he seeks inner peace and turns his back on violence and the hardcore lifestyle of his past.

Author : Bill Mauldin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484316408
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mud and Guts written by Bill Mauldin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mud and Guts: A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution The average American in those days was about what he is today: a small property owner who admired independence and occasion ally was even known to practice it. Then, as today, he resented being governed and taxed by a bunch of remote and powerful bureaucrats. He grumbled a lot over little tyrannies such as stamp acts and tea taxes - but a revolution? The very word causes a shud der to run up the bourgeois spine, and if there ever were, and are, two bourgeois societies, they're England and America. Most people would rather be moderately comfortable and safe than stand up and fight for an illusive term like independence. It has been said that if there had been a back door in the Alamo there would be no Texas. Likewise, if the royal administrators who ran the colonies had had an ounce of sense and perception, our hard-nosed radicals, such as Tom Paine, would never have pre vailed and there would have been no revolution, or rebellion, or whatever it was. The British were really nuts to have let all this happen. But that's the way things go when bureaucrats feel safe. They become blind and arrogant. Those were confusing times, however. It's easy today to say. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Bill Mauldin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788132674
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mud & Guts written by Bill Mauldin and published by . This book was released on 1978-07 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous author and cartoonist Bill Mauldin's candid and humorous look at the American soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Filled with frank text and amusing cartoons, Mauldin pokes fun at the founders of our country and shows the life of the common soldier. Chapters covered include: citizens and soldiers, rabble with rifles, mud and guts, biting the bullet, the inner revolutionary, and had George asked me. Illustrations by the author.

Author : Jennifer Ackerman
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 059329890X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What an Owl Knows written by Jennifer Ackerman and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 Named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls—the most elusive of birds—and why they exert such a hold on human imagination With their forward gaze and quiet flight, owls are often a symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and foresight. But what does an owl really know? And what do we really know about owls? Some two hundred sixty species of owls exist today, and they reside on every continent except Antarctica, but they are far more difficult to find and study than other birds because they are cryptic, camouflaged, and mostly active at night. Though human fascination with owls goes back centuries, scientists have only recently begun to understand the complex nature of these extraordinary birds. In What an Owl Knows, Jennifer Ackerman joins scientists in the field and explores how researchers are using modern technology and tools to learn how owls communicate, hunt, court, mate, raise their young, and move about from season to season. Ackerman brings this research alive with her own personal field observations; the result is an awe-inspiring exploration of owls across the globe and through human history, and a spellbinding account of the world’s most enigmatic group of birds.

Author : Robert Firth
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456608401
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beat the Drum Slowly written by Robert Firth and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEAT THE DRUM SLOWLY is the story of war, parenthetically and unfortunately, it is also unavoidably, the story of man's history. From our earliest days, conflict has been the single most common characteristic of humanity. Man has fought man and men have fought men on every continent, every ocean and every island from the moment one set eyes on the other. Be this xenophobia or be this a form of insanity is difficult to tell. In any case, the difference is lost amid the bombastic sounds of war. The weapons themselves are of little consequence, be they bare hands, clubs, knives, swords, spears, arrows, muskets, machine guns or atomic bombs. The end remains the same- lives are lost....like a sputtering candle, guttering in the wind, with darkness having the final word. We can easily enough research each of the thousands of battles between one group on this sad earth and another. Countries have fought countries and people, people, since before we began keeping count. We don't need this book, or any like it, to recount the history of these terrible conflicts. Beat The Drum Slowly instead delves into the underlying nature and motivations driving human-kind toward war and murder. We look beneath the facile explanations and histories offered by conquerors. (the losers seldom get a say) and attempt to peal away the layers of rationalization, lies and hypocrisy. The question is- what is it in humanity compelling us to engage in wholesale murder of our fellow man? Of course, it does superficially seem to be a "blood sport" engaged in mostly by men. Perhaps the culprit is testosterone? Women don't seem to be driven to dress up in silly uniforms, parade around to martial music and then run out screaming for blood... do they? From what we have observed, this seems a valid point. Those women who do go in for this kind of thing often have as much hair on their chins as the men they emulate... Of course, unless every country in the world placed women into every possible governmental position giving the female of the species complete and total power over everything, we will never know. Such is about as unlikely to happen as a vegan 'snarfing' up a bloody steak, the world will have to wait until some time in the future to see how that would work out. In the real world, men are stronger than women and men are highly competitive and combative. Men fight for power and never willingly give it up. Seeing things in this light, it is completely understandable as to why the world is governed by men. Men fight for survival, dominance, money, religion, race, patriotism, real estate and revenge. This book examines each of these motivating factors with the purpose being to explain to ourselves and our readers exactly what in holy hell is wrong with us. If the best way we have devised over thousands of years to settle differences is warfare then it does seem that mankind is doomed. Sooner or later, one side or another will design and field the ultimate weapon and, with our historical inability to foresee the future consequences of our actions, it is entirely likely that we will have finally managed to destroy all human life. Probably, the animals and other creatures of the earth will be rejoice over this. Is it at all possible that we can learn to settle our differences using our intellect and common sense or are we a doomed species? This is the question we examine and try to answer in this book. Regardless of the means one uses to bring death, war is by man's hand, whether driven by, religion, murder, etc. To study the countless wars throughout history trying to ascertain a cumulative total of deaths caused by war would take days, weeks or even months. Outside of war, murder and other direct causes of death, we are our own worst enemy. With the ability to annihilate the earth with "the press of a button," man's potential to end the lives o

Author : Nick Cain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118380126
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rugby Union Basics In A Day For Dummies written by Nick Cain and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you get a big kick out of rugby but still feel you could sharpen up your knowledge of the game, Rugby Rules in a Day For Dummies is for you. Inside you'll find easy-to-understand advice on the basic rules of the game, pitch positions, and tactics. In less than a day, readers will find all they need to know to get understand the sport of rugby: Features an in-depth look at Laws that form the beautiful game Covers all the reader will need to know about talking tactics Is perfect for anyone looking at swatting up on rugby