Handbooks & Manuals

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Newly revised and expanded, this best-seller safely guides beginning runners from shoe selection to their first 10K.

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More than 20 million North Americans run recreationally — an astonishing figure that shows just how popular running is as a method of improving fitness. Into this growing market comes a revised Beginning Runner's Handbook. Whereas …

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A guide to the most beautiful short and easy hikes around Vancouver.

This perennially popular guide includes sixty-eight hikes — nineteen of which are new to this edition — many located within an hour of Vancouver. Featuring full trail descriptions, easy-to-follow maps, and helpful indexes indicating duration and difficulty, as well as informat …

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Sea kayaking has come a long way since this informative manual was published more than twenty years ago. From an offbeat pastime enjoyed by an adventurous few, the sport has become an industry into intself. Veteran passler John Dowd's readable, well-illustrated guide still stands as the ""bible"" for both new and experienced kayakers. It provides …

This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories – “It’s going to be a lot of work,” Jack Hodgins warns. Nor will it tell you how to market your stories. But it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and show you how some of the best writers in English have solved them.

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Here in one convenient book by a noted Sherlockian scholar is everything needed for the study and enjoyment of the Holmes canon: information on the stories and their publishing history an assessment of a century of illustrators a biography of Arthur Conan Doyle and a bibliography of his other writings commentary on the films and plays about Sherloc …