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The Silva Method Think and Grow Fit    by Jose Silva
Price: $9.99 USD. 91800 words. Published by Ed Bernd Jr. on November 28, 2009. .

Jose Silva's guide to Mental Training for Fitness and Sports. Research has demonstrated conclusively that when you practice mentally - at the correct level of mind - you will gain almost as much benefit as when you practice physically. When you combine physical and mental practice, your results are far greater. Now the world's Number One mind training program, the Silva Method, will show you how.
The World Cup Baby    by Euan McCabe
Price: $12.99 USD. 121000 words. Published by Dr David Reiter on April 3, 2010. .

Euan McCabe is a football World Cup compulsive. Once a typical rugby-loving New Zealand schoolboy, he was mesmerised by his first sighting of Buenos Aires’ Monumental Stadium in 1978 and has since become besotted with the global phenomenon that is the FIFA World Cup ™. This book traces his growing infatuation with an event that he chooses to celebrate for its flaws as well as its strengths.
How to Motivate Your Clients to Change: Psychological Principles of Motivation    by Lyn Kelley
Price: $19.00 USD. 25300 words. Published on May 18, 2010. .

For therapists, coaches, teachers, trainers, and healthcare providers – anyone who wants to assist people in moving toward their goals and success. Lyn Kelley, Ph.D, is a Certified Professional Coach with 20+ yrs experience who walks you through the stages of change so you can help people succeed. She takes you through the step-by-step process of motivation, change, and overcoming obstacles.
Gymbag Wisdom - Achieving Your Potential    by Gary Simmons
Price: $9.99 USD. 7730 words. Published on January 12, 2011. .

Gymbag Wisdom is the book coaches, parents, and athletes have been waiting for. Finally, a self-empowerment book developed and written specifically for student athletes. For 25 years Gary Simmons has been motivating and arming student athletes with the mental tools needed to succeed. Dick Vitale, renowned basketball analyst, writes that Gary's motivational concepts for student athletes are superb.
Like Riding a Bike: On Learning as an Adult    by Alison Wellner
Price: $2.99 USD. 4820 words. Published on March 18, 2011. .

Not everyone learns how to ride a bike as a child—although it can sure feel that way to an adult who doesn't know how! This short booklet shares the hilarious story of how one 34 year-old woman learned—at last!—to ride. It also provides the best resources for adults who want to say "it's like riding a bike" and really mean it.
Positive Thinking Clinic For Pool And Billiards    by J. G. Bouchard
Price: $4.99 USD. 4420 words. Published on March 31, 2011. .

Your struggles are over. Welcome to my clinic. This Positive Thinking Clinic is a vital must-read for anyone looking to maximize their success at the pool table. Also applicable to many other mentally intense sports and activities, this clinic is designed to help amateur players build the strong foundation of mental discipline they need in order to create long-term success in pool and billiards.
Mythos Doping    by Matthias Heitmann
Price: $3.99 USD. 9940 words. Published by Parodos Verlag  on April 11, 2011. .

»Doping« ist ein Mythos, insofern der Begriff überhaupt nocht nicht klar definiert ist. Matthias Heitmann setzt in der zwischen Heuchelei und Hysterie, Legalität und Legitimität, sportlichem Fairnessgedanken und institutioneller Willkür festgefahrenen Doping-Diskussion neue, unerwartete Impulse.
God Carries a One Iron: A Christian Approach to Golf    by Jim Southard
Price: $3.99 USD. 59020 words. Published on August 22, 2011. .

"God Carries a One Iron" is a challenge to the believing golfer to love the game as someone who loves the Lord more. What do Christians do with our games? Where does God go when you lace up your golf shoes and walk to the first tee? What does golf teach us about God and ourselves? How does the Bible guide the time, money and energy we devote to golf? This is theology, but not like you expect it.
Thoughts of the Day - The Book    by Tim Kremer
Price: $9.95 USD. 14010 words. Published on August 27, 2011. .

The real shift in improving athletic performance, or for that matter any aspect of our lives, comes as we journey into the inner stillness of the unknown. We go beyond the conditioned limitations of a fragile, reactive egoic mind; beyond the stubbornness and fear of what we think we already know. At the point where the unknown becomes our friend, a transformation begins to occur...
Thoughts of the Day - Book 2    by Tim Kremer
Price: $9.95 USD. 13380 words. Published on August 27, 2011. .

One of the most basic principles in our lives that becomes important to understand is that we cannot have anything until we first imagine it in the mind. This is as true with a golf shot as it is with anything else.It is ultimately how we internally activate an experience through thought and imagination that either brings it closer to us or pushes it further away...