Tim Baker Knihy

With step-by-step photos and printed in a handy, pocket-sized format, this handbook is the perfect companion to the game of golf. 300 full-color illustrations.

Tim Baker was living the dream: a best-selling and award-winning surf writer with a beautiful family, a lifetime of exotic travel and a home walking distance to quality waves. That all changed on July 7, 2015, when he was diagnosed, out of the blue, with stage 4, metastatic prostate cancer. So began a descent into the debilitating world of aggressive cancer treatments and a fight for a survival as brutal as any big wave hold down. Tim writes candidly and with a raw vulnerability about this perilous journey through chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiation and surgery, and his own determined lifestyle strategies to maintain mind, body and spirit. Happily, surfing provided one of his most powerful forms of therapy, and writing about his experiences has proven deeply cathartic. Patting The Shark documents Tim's efforts to navigate his way through the maze of conventional and supportive therapies - meditation, diet, exercise, emotional support, counselling. Ultimately, it is a desperate plea for a more integrative approach to cancer care, treating the whole person and not just the cancer, allowing cancer patients a sense of empowerment and agency in charting their path through treatment. This is a story about facing your mortality, staring down your fears, and working out what really matters in life, when so many elements of your identity are stripped away.

This comprehensive study explores the life of John Thomond O'Brien, a significant Irish-born figure in modern South America. Born in Baltinglass, County Wicklow, in the late eighteenth century, O'Brien emigrated to Buenos Aires in the 1820s, aiming to benefit from the expanding textile trade between Britain, Ireland, and the River Plate. In 1813, he joined the cavalry to fight against Spanish rule, contributing to the independence of Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay. His battlefield actions and connections with renowned generals Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar earned him recognition in South America and Europe. O'Brien traveled extensively throughout South America, engaging in various ventures. In the 1820s, he promoted Irish emigration to Argentina, launched a notable sailing ship on Lake Titicaca, and supported O'Connell and Catholic Emancipation among Irish expatriates in Buenos Aires. In the 1830s, he explored the Amazon for gold and faced imprisonment under dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas. By the 1840s, he represented the Montevidean government in London and Paris. In his final years, he campaigned for monuments honoring independence leaders across South America. O'Brien's narrative reflects a tumultuous era in both Irish and South American history.

A breakthrough book for leaders who want to maximize performance through empowerment. It offers a new approach and practical strategies to energize employees to exercise their initiative when needed and be accountable for their actions.

No one liked puzzles and brain teasers more than Betty White, America's First Lady of Game Shows, and this book is packed with puzzles devoted to her and her legacy. The Unofficial Betty White Puzzle Book is a puzzle centric celebration of everything about Betty White that helped us smile, laugh, think and maybe even be a little kinder and happier at the end of the day.

Collection of short stories.

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