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Tap the full soccer potential of your players as they grow and learn the game. Developing Youth Soccer Players is a clearly written, colorfully illustrated resource filled with useful guidance on age-appropriate coaching.
Author Horst Wein provides tailor-made training and competition programs for the physical and mental maturity levels of players age 7 through 14. These programs center on simplified games and corrective teaching methods based on Wein's internationally acclaimed Soccer Development Model. This model matches players' formative levels with the coaching style and playing challenges to produce both optimal improvement and enjoyment.
Developing Youth Soccer Players will help you be a better teacher and coach. Use it to give your players a great start to a successful soccer career.
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Great book!.......2001-11-07
As a Brit living in the US who had played soccer for many years, I became involved in coaching youth soccer (U10) a couple of years ago. I purchased numerous books for ideas on drills and approaches to teaching soccer. I consider this book to be one of the best! It includes 5 different levels of development models to take kids from 'basic abilities and capacities' through mini-soccer, 7 v 7, 8 v 8 and 11 v 11.
All of the drills are well illustrated and explained. I have personally used most of the drills in the book. The narrative explain the characteristics of children at various stages of development and how best to develop their play from basic concepts to team play. If you are serious about 'teaching soccer' and not just running drills, I recommend this book!
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Developing Game Intelligence in Soccer
ASIN: 0736069488 |
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Ensure that your young footballers reach their potential! Developing Youth Football Players combines proven coaching methods with engaging games that allow young athletes to develop their skills, understand team play and appreciate the sport.
Author Horst Wein provides more than 150 games, corrective exercises, and competitions for players aged 7 to 14. Based on the internationally renowned Football Development Model, training and coaching methods are divided into four levels, resulting in the best age-appropriate coaching resource available. From fundamental skills and goalkeeping to tactics and game intelligence, Developing Youth Football Players covers it all with clear writing and colourful illustrations, making it easy to incorporate each lesson into your programme.
Developing Youth Football Players will help you become a better teacher and coach. Use it to give your players a great start to a successful football career.
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Despite its superficial resemblance to a whodunit, The Church of Dead Girls is not a conventional thriller. Don't expect it to be suspenseful. This is a literary horror tale--slow paced, contemplative, meticulous in its descriptions--about a formerly sleepy small town in which the crucial distinction between public and private life is dissolving as suspicion spreads like a toxin. The reader's guide to this process of corruption is a high school biology teacher--reserved, somewhat snotty, but a thoughtful man, and reliable in spite of his cynicism. He says, "It is dreadful not to be allowed to have secrets. Years ago I happened to uncover a nest of baby moles in the backyard and I watched them writhe miserably in the sunlight. We were like that." Ultimately you realize that the killer's identity, even the deaths of three girls, are small matters compared to the collapse of the town's very soul.
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For decades, the faded, rural upstate New York village has lain dormant-until it is startlingly stirred to life when one by one, three young girls vanish....Nightmares are turned into horrifying reality when their corpses are found, brutally murdered, each missing their left hand....Now, as the search for a madman gets underway, suspicion shrouds the quiet streets of Aurelius when its residents soon realize that a monster lives amongst them....But not even prayers can save their loved ones from the rage of a twisted mind who has only just begun his slaughter....AUTHORBIO: STEPHEN DOBYNS is the author of nineteen novels, nine collections of poetry, and the best-selling "Saratoga" mystery series. Briefly a reporter for The Detroit News, Dobyns has been a professor of English, creative writing, and poetry since 1968 and has taught at Syracuse University, the University of Iowa, and Brandeis University, among others. He lives in Boston with his wife and three children.
Customer Reviews:
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street.......2007-10-02
THE CHURCH OF DEAD GIRLS is an October reading favorite for me, delightfully Halloweenish, about the monsters that lie dormant in humanity always ready to spring out. I must say I enjoyed it this year more than ever before.
I've long compared it to Albert Camus's THE STRANGER (which also uses an Arab/Algerian) and to Rod Serling's THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET. Indeed, this time around, I noted that Dobyns places the climatic event (of the first half of the novel) that takes place on Halloween on Maple Street, perhaps consciously or unconsciouly in tribute to Rod Serling's story.
I'm still intoxicated by my recent reading of THE CHURCH OF DEAD GIRLS. It expresses the condition of humanity, reminding us once again, of how we so often confuse our sense of retribution with our sense of justice.
Only with the wisdom to distinguish between these paths can we hope to find enlightened redemption, giving and receiving mercy and compassion. Yea, there will always be monsters and wars. We can't change the world, but we each have the power to change ourselves. That's redemption enough.
Murder the intelligent way.......2007-06-17
OK, OK, I admit I like to read about murder. It's just so engrossing. Don't tell me you have no morbid fascinations. At least I don't waste my time on Ann Rule or Dan Brown.
At least Stephen Dobyns has a little more talent than your run-of-the-mill pulp mystery author. Hey, my copy of Church of Dead Girls was even a trade paperback.
This book combines my favorite subject with the backdrop of a small, close-knit New England town, making the mystery all the more intense. As we get to know the characters, we want to form theories about whodunnit, but Dobyns is clever enough to make this pretty difficult. He spends a lot of time exploring the impact of the crimes that occur on the psyche of the town, exposing the xenophobia and paranoia of a community shaken by fear and suspicion. Dobyns balances suspense and psychology, and that's what makes his book so much better than the average mystery. Not to say it doesn't have its grotesque and weak moments, but Church of Dead Girls definitely makes an engrossing and thought-provoking read.
Something awful is happening in Aurelius.......2006-02-15
This novel begins with a description of an attic containing the bodies of three girls, two aged thirteen, one aged fourteen. The bodies are seated in straight back chairs, bound loosely by rope. Their mummified corpses have been dressed in velvet, and their frocks contain a variety of symbols, together with fragments of words like "CK" and "NT" and "TCH" and "FIL." Each girl has had her left hand severed at the wrist.
This macabre image sets the tone for The Church of Dead Girls, creating a feeling of foreboding that author Dobyns sustains over the rest of this compelling, well-written novel. On every page, readers are offered clues as to how these girls came to be in the attic, as Dobyns describes the profound effects their disappearances have on the insular upstate New York town of Aurelius.
Essentially, this is a story about outsiders, narrated by an outsider. In this case, the outsider is a high school biology teacher. As an educator, the narrator is a vital part of the town; as a single, older man, he is an oddity, and stands on its periphery. Long on detail, the narration begins a year or so before the main events of the book, carefully describing the town and its inhabitants. By the time Aurelius must face the horror of the kidnapping of a young girl named Sharon Malloy, the reader feels as though he is a part of the town.
Sharon's kidnapping, followed by the disappearances of Meg Shiller and Karla Golondrini, shakes Aurelius to its core. Neighbors are wary of each other, and anyone who is at all "different" is immediately suspect. The tragedy at hand is compounded by the fearful actions of the townspeople, as several innocents are hurt in the mad rush to bring the perpetrator to justice. As the narrator states:
"Something awful happened [in Aurelius] and awful things were needed to stop it. That was the moral voice speaking, the superego. But wasn't there some pleasure now that awful things were permitted? I don't mean normal people would naturally be led to wicked actions but perhaps the wickedness that they observed or imagined was taking place increased their own sense of permission, their sense of license. They could justify their reactions by calling them reactions. They could do something terrible and call it punishment or revenge or retribution, but it was still terrible. Their inner temptations were transformed into overt behavior and they, too, came to share the characteristics of the monster."
The Church of Dead Girls is a literate thriller, combining a growing sense of dread and suspense with first class writing and pacing. Dobyns takes great care to create an aura of mystery, seeding the narrative with plenty of surprises and sudden plot twists, but is more concerned with uncovering the darker side of human nature and small town life. Dobyns strips Aurelius of its pleasant facade, exposing the ugliness beneath. Readers can comfort themselves by saying this couldn't happen in their town, but I wouldn't be so sure--this book is a painful reminder that we all harbor the potential for evil.
I just couldn't get through it.......2006-01-15
I really wanted to like this book because a friend told me about it. However, the more I read, the more boring it seemed to get. And the fact that there were so many characters in the town to keep track of made it all the more complicated when I didn't pick up the book for a few days. The premise of the novel was good, but ultimately, I put it back on the shelf without finishing it. I need a book with more drive to keep the pages turning.
Literature more than a thriller.......2006-01-07
For those who are critical about the story as "non-thriller" like", I would say that this book is not an "airport-bookshop-new-international-bestseller-thriller-book". In this sense, the end is not necessarily (but gladly, I must say) a total surprise. Yet, the story is very compelling and you can't but turn the pages and keep reading to know who is the killer and why he did it. However, in my opinion, the book is much more a piece of literature, that is, it tells a story in order to speak about mankind. The author says the deepest things in the easiest way. One of those few writers who are able to say well what they mean so that he can be understood. The book is simply superb, intelligent and enriching. I don't know why this author is not more known to the general public.
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The Church of Dead Girls
Stephen Dobyns
Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books, 1997
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0670878766 |
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- poor reading of a lousy book
- Too long with little action
- RIVETING AND GRIPPING,,,
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Church Of Dead Girls, The: A Novel
Stephen Dobyns
Manufacturer: Books on Tape, Inc.
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Binding: Audio Cassette
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ASIN: 0736641165 |
Customer Reviews:
poor reading of a lousy book.......2005-02-19
not worthy of a TV movie
I may have enjoyed it more past the dismal reading but I doubt it.
a cliche tale with the stink of the author all over it.
Too long with little action.......2003-11-26
I listened to this book on audio tape and the only good thing about it is the voice of Jonathan Marosz. Overly long and filled with enough description to boggle down even Charles Dickens, the book took until the 5th cassette before anything even remotely interesting happened. This isn't a thriller. It is more a psychological foray into the dealings of a small town where everyone has a secret and everyone falls under suspicion at one time or another. The police seem, and indeed are, powerless. Do yourself a favor and skip this church in favor of a boring sitcom. At least that's over in half an hour.
RIVETING AND GRIPPING,,,.......2003-01-04
This is an exquisitely written book. So beautifully is it written that, at times, its lyricism is almost poetic. The richness of the writing is immediately apparent in the prologue. It is the prologue that draws the reader in, so rich is it in its decriptiveness. It is there that the reader first comes upon "The Church of Dead Girls."
The book itself is not so much about the murder of young girls, as it is about the reactions of the people in the small town in which the murders occur. It is their reactions to the murders that are central to this book and conveyed to the reader through a brilliantly nuanced, first person narrative by the town's high school biology teacher.
The people in the town of Aurelius in upstate New York are like those found in many small towns, insular and inherently suspicious of anything different from that which they are used to. Aurelius is representative of a lot of small towns across America. There is really nothing special about this moribund, complacent little town, until young, teenage girls begin diappearing, one by one.
Through the contrivance of first person narration, the author explores the deepest recesses of human nature, as suspicions and accusations unfold and finger pointing begins. No one in town is exempt from the poison of suspicion. The finger is first pointed to the most likely target, a foreign-born college professor whose ideas run counter to that of mainstream Middle America. He is a newcomer to the town and is as different from the majority of the townspeople as can be. This hapless individual becomes demonized in the frenzy of suspicion, petty hatreds, and fear with draconian results. Unfortunately, he is only the first.
As the townspeople rally to find the killer amongst them, they devolve, letting impulse, suspicion, and fear grow and dictate their actions. It is as if the murders were the catalyst for the rise in vigilantism, the re-opening of old wounds, and the targeting of innocents in the desperate quest to find the killer. One can see the growth of mob mentality evolve on the pages of this book. It is this phenomenon that the author explores through the book's narrative discourse, beautifully, lyrically, powerfully. It is a narrative that will grip the reader from beginning to end.
While the actual ending of the book is somewhat anti-climactic, it should be emphasized that this book was never really about who committed the murders. It is more about the boogeyman of fear that lives deep inside each and everyone of us and about what can happen when that boogeyman is released. It is that, which is truly frightening, as the boogeyman lives in Everyman in Everytown.
Customer Reviews:
RIVETING AND GRIPPING..........2006-12-17
This is an exquisitely written book. So beautifully is it written that, at times, its lyricism is almost poetic. The richness of the writing is immediately apparent in the prologue. It is the prologue that draws the reader in, so rich is it in its decriptiveness. It is there that the reader first comes upon "The Church of Dead Girls."
The book itself is not so much about the murder of young girls, as it is about the reactions of the people in the small town in which the murders occur. It is their reactions to the murders that are central to this book and conveyed to the reader through a brilliantly nuanced, first person narrative by the town's high school biology teacher.
The people in the town of Aurelius in upstate New York are like those found in many small towns, insular and inherently suspicious of anything different from that which they are used to. Aurelius is representative of a lot of small towns across America. There is really nothing special about this moribund, complacent little town, until young, teenage girls begin disappearing, one by one.
Through the contrivance of first person narration, the author explores the deepest recesses of human nature, as suspicions and accusations unfold and fingerpointing begins. No one in town is exempt from the poison of suspicion. The finger is first pointed to the most likely target, a foreign born college professor whose ideas run counter to that of mainstream middle America. He is a newcomer to the town and is as different from the majority of the townspeople as can be. This hapless individual becomes demonized in the frenzy of suspicion, petty hatreds, and fear with draconian results. Unfortunately, he is only the first.
As the townspeople rally to find the killer amongst them, they devolve, letting impulse, suspicion, and fear grow and dictate their actions. It is as if the murders were the catalyst for the rise in vigilantism, the re-opening of old wounds, and the targeting of innocents in the desperate quest to find the killer. One can see the growth of mob mentality evolve on the pages of this book. It is this phenomenon that the author explores through the book's narrative discourse, beautifully, lyrically, powerfully. It is a narrative that will grip the reader from beginning to end.
While the actual ending of the book is somewhat anti-climactic, it should be emphasized that this book was never really about who committed the murders. It is more about the boogeyman of fear that lives deep inside each and everyone of us and about what can happen when that boogeyman is released. It is that, which is truly frightening, as the boogeyman lives in Everyman in Everytown.
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- Historical Fiction
- Hardly a page turner
- Disappointing...
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The Jaguar and the Wolf
Leah R. Cutter
Manufacturer: Roc
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Paper Mage
ASIN: 045146026X |
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When a Viking ship misses North America and drifts ashore in an ancient Mayan city, two cultures collide. The warrior Tyrthbrand and the high priestess Lady Two Bird must form an unlikely alliance to fight for their very lives. And as the clouds of war cover the earth, the Viking and Mayan gods are thrown into an ethereal conflict that could threaten the foundations of both Heavens and the Underworld.
Customer Reviews:
Historical Fiction.......2005-09-06
"Jaguar and the Wolf" follows two people: a young lady from South America and a Viking warrior. These two people (who soon meet) struggle between obeying societies dictates and controling the course of their lives. There are mystic elements, but this book could better be categorized as historical fiction. All of the effort spent on historic accuracy left me borred.
I recommend you try Cutter's other books instead. However, if you enjoy historical fiction, you'll probably adore "The Jaguar and the Wolf".
Hardly a page turner.......2005-08-13
I want to make it perfectly clear. I read Cutter's Paper Mage and loved it. So, eager to see what she could do with two of my favorite groups (wide representation applied) of people (Toltec/Mayan/Aztec civilizations and Scandinavian raider culture) the book was purchased. Jaguar and the Wolf just doesn't seem to go anywhere or to have a clear purpose or reason for being written. There is little character development, growth, plot, etc... Although there are some interesting parts, for the most part it lacks the history and thoughtfulness seen in Paper Mage.
They can't all be good reviews...
Disappointing..........2005-07-13
Usually, I can read any book that I pick up. But, unfortunately, that was not the case with this book.
I tried to give it a chance and read 1/2 the book; but, finally, I decided that it wasn't worth finishing. (So, I just read the ending and tossed it on my 'already been read pile.')
I think there is a reason that the reviews listed in the front pages are directed towards her previous books rather than this one.
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Aunt Louisa's zoological gardens: Comprising the lion, the tiger, the wolf, the polar bear, the orang-outang, the buffalo, the brown bear, the elephant, ... the fox, the jaguar, the otter, the camel
L Valentine
Manufacturer: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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What am I eating? This book answers that question by describing more than 8,000 ingredients found in foods. The dictionary format lets you look up an ingredient alphabetically and learn what it is, how and why it's used, and the benefits and risks. You can decode an ingredient from a food label--haven't you always wondered just what "guar gum" is?--or just skim for interesting facts. For example, the entry on "civet, absolute" explains that this essential oil used as a flavoring is "derived from the unctuous secretions from the receptacles between the anus and genitalia of both the male and female civet cat." Not very appetizing! You'll find this ingredient in raspberry, butter, caramel, grape, and rum flavorings in beverages, desserts, and chewing gum. This book also explains commonly used (but poorly understood) food-label terms like "lite" and "low fat," what counts as a serving for different food groups, and various ways of processing food. There's a helpful chart of food storage guidelines, and resources (including Web sites) for people with food allergies or sensitivities. Ruth Winter, an award-winning science writer, is also the author of A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients and several other books. --Joan Price
Book Description
The essential guide for choosing safe and healthful food
A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives is back, in an up-dated fifth edition. This valuable reference gives you all the facts about the relative safety and side effects of more than 8,000 ingredients that end up indirectly in your food as a result of processing and curing, such as preservatives, food-tainting pesticides, and animal drugs. For example, drugs used to tranquilize pigs have actually been known to sedate diners!
More than 800 entries are new to this edition and cover recently developed food production technologies (genetically engineered vegetables, bovine growth hormone, and other outcomes of the processing of food today), as well as information on the new label regulations and on guidelines for safe food storage.
A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives is a precise tool that will tell you exactly what to leave on supermarket shelves as a reminder to manufacturers that you know what the labels mean and which products are safe to bring home to your family.
Customer Reviews:
helpful.......2006-01-19
I found this book to be very helpful in understanding just what it is listed on my food labels. Just browsing through the book has opened my eyes to ingredients, that after a little more investigation,that I dont want near my family's food.
Excellent resource...........2004-10-16
I use Ruth Winter's books on COSMETIC INGREDIENTS, MEDICINES, and FOOD ADDITIVES as reference books and find them quite helpful and informative. It is absolutely amazing how many ingredients can be listed on the back of a jar of cleansing cream, a tube of hand cream, or a can of soup. Simply identifying the salt and sugar isn't enough. We need to know about food substitutes, as well as other ingredients, many of them added to improve the appearance of the substance for sale, that can harm us and/or interfere with prescription drugs.
Now, you may be concerned about what is in your prescription medication, but if you are like most of us, you probably take over-the-counter drugs without a thought. After all, if they don't have to be licensed and disseminated by a pharmacy, they must be okay. Right? Wrong!! There is something called a synergistic effect. For example, consumers have been warned recently about the interaction between ibuprofen and statin drugs. Unfortunately, by the time the government steps in, many people may have been harmed. It pays to be informed and Winter's books are a good step in that direction.
I am a big fan of herbal remedies, but they need to be subjected to research and review in the same way synthetic drugs are studied. Heck, Parsley, can cause skin irritations.
If you want to acquire a little light on the subject of ingredients, consider buying all Winter's books. She has been published in Family Circle and Reader's Digest magazines as well as Homeopathic and Herbal publications.
Her books are so effective, I wonder how long it will be before the government kills the messenger, not by silencing Winter, but by withholding the identity of the contents of various products and reversing the `truth in labeling' and `organic measures enacted in the past. Of course, they can and do go to the other extreme and ban items that are only harmful if they are misused.
Not so useful.......2004-06-21
This book is aimed at ppl who're on the brink of understanding what toxins and allergic substances are contained within foods. After reading the reviews, I realised that you when you're severely allergic to foodstuffs, then it's not an axe to grind - it's pertinent facts you need.
And sadly, this is what the book lacks. It's more a P.R. book of why the government legally poisons our food with enhancers and food colorings - to make them more appealing...
This book is a good read for beginning information - but if you need real sources of allergies, there is abundant data freely available on the internet.
Don't listen to publicity - listen to allergy sufferers.
thanks for the information about citrus - I'm cutting that one out of my diet now. :os
Good Starting Point.......2003-09-29
As a quick read with a number of interesting facts, this is a good introduction to food additives as well as nutrients. It could be construed as a dictionary but not as a reference. To be a reference, it needs a standardized format to ensure the same kind of information is provided for each item. To be a quick reference, it needs a comprehensive index. As a potential source, it also seems to lack authority when it fails to consistently cite sources and makes statements which appear subjective. I'm still looking for something of the nature of Rodale's Encyclopedia of Herbs.
A good reference book.......2002-11-24
This is a good reference book to have on your shelf. It may not expound for pages and pages on every item, but it certainly gives a reasonably good yet brief definition of each entry. While I was surprised to see certain entries, such as oregano and cinnamon, I was not surprised at all to see such entries as aspartame, azo dyes, and monosodium glutamate.
The companion book "A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients" is a good complement to this book.
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