Stars Upstream Life Along an Ozark River

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Worth the Read.......2006-06-08

This is a "classic" text on the Current and Jack's Fork rivers of Missouri. It's a must read for anyone interested in the two beautiful watersheds. The reader will tag along with the author and his wife as they canoe, camp, and explore the riverways. Hall provides his journeys in splendid detail capturing the imagination of those who charish and love nature and the Ozark riverways as much as he did.

STARS UPSTREAM (Life Along an Ozark River)

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STARS UPSTREAM (Life Along an Ozark River)
Leonard Hall
Manufacturer: Univ Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NRCJK4

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Stars Upstream - Life Along An Ozark River
Leonard Hall
Manufacturer: Univ. Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B0000CKBV3

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Stars Upstream : Life Along an Ozark River
Leonard Hall
Manufacturer: Chicago
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O6G89W

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STARS UPSTREAM LIFE ALONG AN OZARK RIVER

Manufacturer: U of Missouri Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HF9W5W

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Stars Upstream, Life Along an Ozark River
Leonard Hall
Manufacturer: Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NV9Y76

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Coaching Youth Softball is written especially for the unprepared parent thrust into the role of coaching his or her 8- to 12-year-old child's softball team. Upbeat and inspirational, it schools new coaches in the fundamentals of controlling, motivating, and encouraging a disparate group of kids in the art and science of softball.

Parents learn the logistics of running a youth team and the specifics of coaching softball. They learn how to match drills to a player's skills and motivation level and gain a wealth of detailed instructions on such specifics as how to run a successful practice and manage during a game.

Takes a drill-based approach to teaching basic skills
Reviews softball fundamentals for inexperienced parents

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Great Book!.......2005-04-22

This book is another great in the series of A Baffled Parent's Guide. These books are thorough and complete - a coach's bible, especially a new coach. The book covers everything from basics of the game to working with the children and dealing with the parents. I highly recommend books from this series.

good book for beginning coaches.......2002-06-23

I have yet to coach a girls' softball team, but I am really interested in doing it. This book has some great advice on how to handle beginner players and their parents. The thing about this book that I found great was that it told you some characteristics to look for when selecting a pitcher, something that I would not have had a clue about doing. Highly recommended.

Excellent for beginner or experienced coach.......2002-05-11

This is an AMAZING book! Even if you have never coached, played, or even heard of softball, it helps you out. It breaks every aspect of the game down and puts it in simple terms so you can explain it to your team. It gives you practice advice and schedules as well as drills you can use for team members to improve, or establish, softball skills. It also gives you advice on how to become the best coach, dealing with gender issues and how to handle difficult parents. This book is a MUST for EVERY coach!

Excellent Coaching Book for New Coaches.......2001-04-28

I am not a parent but nonetheless, this book is excellent! This book gets right down to the heart of coaching. It tells you step by step how to teach someone how to throw, catch, pitch, hit and play every position. It also tells you what type of girl would be good for positions of pitchers and catchers which is important since most girls at this age have no experience in many positions. The drills have diagrams and there is glossary in the back to help with the terminology. There are not that many good softball coaching books (believe me I've looked), so grab this one!

Coaching Youth Soccer: A Baffled Parent's Guide

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coaching soccer-a baffled parents guide
Great Book!
Wonderful! Highly Recommended!
extremely helpful

Coaching Youth Soccer: A Baffled Parent's Guide
Bobby Clark
Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0071346082

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Written by soccer great and championship Stanford coach Bobby Clark, COACHING YOUTH SOCCER: THE BAFFLED PARENT'S GUIDE tells you how, starting at point zero, an uninitiated coach can meld kids into a team and help them enjoy one of the most rewarding experiences of their youth. (In the end, you may be the one who reaps the biggest reward, as you watch kids learn and grow in an experience they'll treasure for a lifetime.)

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Helpful.......2006-11-12

I bought this for my daughter who volunteered to be Soccer Coach for the first time. I say she wanted to do it but perhaps was more stong armed into doing it. She found it helpful.

coaching soccer-a baffled parents guide.......2006-11-03

The book gave very helpful information. I have never coached anything and it gave helpful insight into giving the best experience I can into my son's 4 yr old soccer team.

Great Book!.......2006-08-12

I'm a second year coach with very limited playing experience. I played soccer during elementary school but it was essentially mob ball. This book has helped a great deal. It gives great suggestions for organizing practices and the drills, ahem I mean games, are great. The problem, analysis, solution section is also very helpful.

Wonderful! Highly Recommended!.......2005-11-24

This book helped organize my practices and provided ideas for drills that kept my U8 Boys team interested the entire season. I received numerous compliments from parents that their kids enjoyed the variety of "games" (i.e. drills) we played in practice. My team went 11-2 this past season and all my players chose to return for the spring season over baseball and other sports. I honestly feel this book improved my coaching style and played a large part in the success of our team.

extremely helpful.......2005-09-07

I am coaching my daughter's U-8 AYSO soccer team this season and was in desperate need of an easy overview of rules as well as age and skill appropriate drills for practices. This book was very helpful and I am using it as a resource.

Coaching Youth Football (Baffled Parent's Guides)

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Good beginning tool.
Slow start, but builds speed
Very Helpfull for the Beginner
Mostly Explains Football, Not How To Coach
Best book for Rookie Coaches. Very useful for veterans.

Coaching Youth Football (Baffled Parent's Guides)
Paul Pasqualoni , Jim McLaughlin , and Nomad Communications
Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0071372199

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A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

Features the expertise of one of the nation's top-ranking college football coaches

Author Paul Pasqualoni, head coach at Syracuse University, is renowned for the hands-on style he developed over years of coaching football at all levels. Like all Baffled Parent's Guides, Coaching Youth Football takes an upbeat, inspirational approach to coaching, with an emphasis on creating a positive, supportive environment. Pasqualoni offers the fundamentals of motivating, controlling, and encouraging a disparate group of children of varying skills and dispositions. Readers learn the secrets of coaching football, including how to determine a child's position, how to teach blocking and tackling safely, and how to calm a player'sand parent'sfear of being hurt.

Takes a drills-based approach to teaching basic skills
Q&A sections provide solutions to problems most new coaches face

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Good beginning tool........2006-06-26

Well written. Easy to understand. Good remainder for coaches who forget who they are coaching for and why they are coaching youth football.
Good reading for any coach just starting or who have just a couple of years under their belt

Slow start, but builds speed.......2006-05-09

For a coach, the first 3 chapters were not needed. The rest of the book provided great insight and help with the game.

Very Helpfull for the Beginner.......2005-09-12

This is my first year coaching and I found my knowledge of the game,and conditioning and prep drills lacking. This book may be too simple for those that have played the game a lot and are more than arm-chair quarterbacks.
I found the breakdown of practice sessions helpful because they stressed the different areas of the game but kept the pace moving to help keep the kids from getting bored.
This does not contain a playbook and if you are looking for this you might be disappointed.

Mostly Explains Football, Not How To Coach.......2005-05-30

This is an okay book, but the first half of this already thin ( about 120 pages 10"x7") book is just about something most guys who watch or have played football will already know. How wide is the field? How long is it? What's an even versus an odd defense? And so on.

The second half is very dilute, which is the real meat of coaching football. If you are an absolute novice, then buy this book. If you can get it free somewhere or very inexpensive, then it's worth a quick glance, but it is not a book you go back to over and over after the first reading, in my opinion.

Good luck to you coaches ... and remember the priority:
1. Children Safety
2. Build character
3. Win football games within spirit and letter of rules

Best book for Rookie Coaches. Very useful for veterans........2005-03-26

I've been coaching now for a couple of seasons and ran across this book. I decided to buy it, and a few others to add to my library. I feel like as a coach you can never learn too much, and this one seemed interesting.

I bought 4 books that day, but read this one first. I should have read it last because it made the other 3 look and sound retarded. Worst yet, it made me look stupid for buying them. The information provided in this book was absolutely great and very instructive. It really starts you off from the absolute basics of coaching, which can come across as a little condescending if you know anything about football. But quickly takes off into a world of information, some which you probably already knew but forgot over time.

It literally takes you by the hand and walks you through the process of getting through an entire season, from the first practice, how to handle parents, through team meetings, right into the seasons games. I highly recommend any coach that is working with youth teams (Jr. High and below) to take a look at this gem and get as much as they can from it.

The Baffled Parents' Guide to Coaching Indoor Youth Soccer

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For baffled parents only

The Baffled Parents' Guide to Coaching Indoor Youth Soccer
Ned McIntosh
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback

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Indoor Soccer

ASIN: 0071411437

Book Description

"The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Indoor Youth Soccer should be applauded for its effort to help raise the interest, enjoyment, and quality of one of the fastest-growing sports in the world." --Don Shapero, president, United States Indoor Soccer Association

Three million children and teens play indoor soccer, and The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Indoor Youth Soccer provides parents and coaches much-needed guidance to help their kids navigate this popular sport.

With its own special rules, strategies, and skills, this one-of-a-kind guide offers:

Basic skills for offense and defense
Drills and situational strategies
Photographs and step-by-step diagrams

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For baffled parents only.......2004-11-21

The title says it all, it's a book for baffled parents who know nothing about indoor soccer (or soccer at all) and are wanting a superficial overview of the sport or coaching in general. If you are a coach, a player, or know anything at all about the sport and are looking for drills and tactics to use when coaching or on the field, you need to look elsewhere.

The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Youth Soccer

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The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Youth Soccer
Bobby Clark
Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFSZXA

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The Baffled Parents' Guide to Coaching Indoor Youth Soccer
Jeff Thaler Ned McIntosh
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGD0LQ

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"Will Rose ever be proud to be Rosa?".......2003-10-26

"Rosa's Lie" is one of the more memorable Sweet Valley High books I remember reading as a kid. It's about a new chicana student named Rosa Jameson (though she goes by Rose to "Americanize" herself--and she even goes so far as to make up a fake past). She's excited to be invited to pledge Pi Beta Alpha, a popular SVH sorority; but she's also nervous because she fears her new friends will discriminate against her for being Mexican--and some would if they found out (like Lila Fowler, the pledge chairwoman). To further complicate things, Rose's Mexican grandmother comes to Sweet Valley for a two week visit, and Rose is a wreck trying to make sure her friends don't meet her or else they'll realize she's been lying this entire time.

Overall, this was a good read if you're a SVH fan. Rose learns to feel comfortable in her own skin, so to speak (though the reader can guess as much by the front cover). Along with the sorority storyline, there's a secondary one involving the fraternity Phi Epsilon, with Todd Wilkins and Bruce Patman fighting over who exactly gets to join their elite group. And then there's Jessica Wakefield, who is failing math and having relationship trouble (yet again) with her steady boyfriend, Sam Woodruff, which should continue in the next book: "Kidnapped By the Cult!"

Conveys wrong attitudes..........2000-06-15

Rosa Jiminez, a new arrival to SVH wants to feel a part of the 'crowd' and in doing so, attempts to disguise her Mexican origin by renaming herself as Rose Jameson. In doing so, she is accepted into the 'usual' SV crowd but, is witness to certain prejudiced comments from the group concerning Mexicans. The final straw comes when Rosa holds a party for her friends and all seems well until snobby and pretentious Lila Fowler walks in on Rosa talking to her grandmother in Spanish. Quickly muttering an excuse, Rosa tells Lila that she was talking to the cleaner and Lila makes a snobby and prejudiced comment (when doesn't she)? Will Rosa be able to face up to and be proud of her past? Or will she become a victim of prejudice?