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Cross-country skiing : building skills for fun and fitness
Published 2005.
Table of Contents:
“…Cross-country skiing-Fun, fitness, and adventure: Flogged: Gregg Rinkus -- Track skiing-Skiing for fun and fitness -- Backcountry skiing-Skiing for fun and adventure: Serendipity: Don Portman -- Skiing for fun -- Learning to ski: Truth about technique -- Finding a good coach -- Taking a lesson -- Basic ski skills: Getting started -- Moving forward -- Poling -- Putting it all together -- Climbing hills -- Going downhill -- Equipment: Categories of ski equipment -- Skis: Short story on no-wax skis: Mitch Mode -- Bindings -- Boots -- Poles -- Accessories and clothing: Packs -- Ski and boot bags -- Pulks -- Racks and car-top carriers -- Clothing -- Skiing with kids: Equipment and clothing -- How kids learn -- Start at home -- Learning area -- Teaching basic skills -- Organized ski programs -- Games -- Waxing for grip and glide: Why Wax? …”
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Secret ingredients : : the New Yorker book of food and drink
Published c2007.
Table of Contents:
“…Pritchett -- The sorrows of gin / John Cheever -- The jaguar sun / Italo Calvino -- There should be a name for it / Matthew Klam -- Sputnik / Don DeLillo -- Enough / Alice McDermott -- The butcher's wife / Louise Erdrich -- Bark / Julian Barnes…”
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Germania : in wayward pursuit of the Germans and their history
Published 2010.
Table of Contents:
“…'Bound with chains of flowers' -- A note on Germany and German -- Chapter One -- From the land of gloomy forests -- Roman Germans -- An alligator far from home -- I'll have some green sauce with that -- The medieval car park -- Chapter Two -- Ancient palaces -- Charles the Great -- Pious, Bald or Fat -- A very small town -- Spreading the Word -- In search of a bit of sunshine -- Thrust to the east -- Chapter Three -- Walled towns -- Other superiority complexes -- A brief note on political structures -- German tribes -- Famine and plague -- Where a million diamonds shine -- Chapter Four -- The tideless sea -- The curse of Burgundy -- Happy families -- Rampant folk costume -- Imperial circles -- Habsburgs -- Chapter Five -- Spires, turrets and towers -- A birthplace and a death-house -- The devil's bagpipes -- The ruler of the world -- The New Jerusalem -- An unhappy wine merchant -- Chapter Six -- The Golden City of the Faithful -- The land where lemon blossom grows -- Black armour -- The King of Sweden's horse -- A surprise visit from an asteroid -- Chapter Seven -- Hourglasses and bird-eating spiders -- 'Music to Escort the Dead from this Life' -- In the time of powdered wigs -- Damascened yataghans -- 'Burn the Palatinate!' …”
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