Swimming for Total Fitness
Swimming is one of the best, most enjoyable, and most effective forms of exercise available, and this is the classic guide for beginners and expert swimmers alike, completely revised and updated for the '90s. No-Impact Aerobic and Strength ... [... more]
Random House |
I HEAR the Violets callin'.......
Soothings from the Wild, swimming about in oils, and perhaps the Violet blossoms will help the ringing in my ear. Fortunately I don't always NOTICE the ringing in my ear, but of course now that I'm WRITING about it, it's absolutely SHRIEKING. The ... [... more]
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The Acorn People
Even though he knows the camp is for disabled children, Ron Jones anticipates sunny days of hiking, swimming, and boating as a counselor at Camp Wiggin. But he arrives and realizes how severely disabled the children are, it seems too much to ... [... more]
Random House |
Marion Dane Bauer
Marion Dane Bauer has written numerous award-winning books, among them On My Honor, a Newbery Honor Book. Joel dares his best friend, Tony, to a swimming race in a dangerous river. Both boys jump in, but when Joel reaches the sandbar, he finds ... [... more]
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Jami Attenberg
But we don't give up. We keep trying. We're either too stupid to learn from our... "We are all walking around this city with our hearts sadly swimming in our chests, like dying fish on the surface of a still pond. It's enough to make you give up ... [... more]
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Elisabeth Hyde
Two weeks before Christmas, Diana Duprey, an outspoken abortion doctor, is found dead in her swimming pool. A national figure, Diana inspired passion and ignited tempers, but never more so than the day of her death. Her husband Frank, a longtime ... [... more]
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Swimming to Antarctica
Lynne Cox was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Los Alamitos, California, where she still lives. Her articles have appeard in The New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times Magazine, among other publications. Grayson is Lynne Cox's first ... [... more]
Random House |
Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way for Any ...
 Untrustworthy, sometimes even erroneous: I was a mediocre swimmer last year. I have now significantly improved my technique but NOT thanks to this book. I read advices from Internet forums dedicated to swimming. And also read serious books including & [... more]
CDN$40.00
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Swimming Drills for Every Stroke
Too Basic for the Common Coach: Though fundamentally strong, this book is extremely simplistic. Anyone who considers themselves a somewhat experienced coach should bypass this title and begin looking elsewhere for a decent drill guide/idea book. Old [... more]
CDN$25.95
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The Complete Book of Swimming
The complete book of the excitement of swimming: This book is great for getting started. If your first thought is,"do I really wanna go all the way up to the pool, get in my swimming trunks and jump into the cold wet?", just open this book and [... more]
CDN$28.95
Amazon CA |
Fitness Swimming
An OUTSTANDING book for any swimmer: This book has been extrodinarily helpful to me. I am a former beach lifeguard and thought that my freestyle was pretty good until I read the author's extremely clear, detailed descriptions of how it feels to swim [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Coaching Swimming Successfully-2nd Edition
One of the greatest books on Swimming around: I picked up this book in desperation. I had tried many books on swim coaching and many were out of date, simplistic, and outright useless. In Coach Hannula's book, I found a work that was worthy of it's title. [... more]
CDN$21.95
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