Costa Rican Wildlife is a portable reference guide featuring birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects found in this country. This compact guide is folded for easy access and printed on durable laminate paper. This is a great resource for the traveler or the nature enthusiast.
Flowing from its headwaters in Yellowstone National Park to Three Forks, Montana, where it joins the Jefferson and the Gallatin to form the mighty Missouri, the Madison River is one of the most famous, but also one of the most complicated, trout rivers in North America. This river can have different insect hatches every fifty yards, and ranges ......
Climbers come from all over the world to experience the magic and beauty of climbing at southern Nevada's Red Rocks, but often they only have a few days to climb and don't want to invest in a huge guidebook. That's why Todd Swain, author of the bestselling Rock Climbing Red Rocks, has taken the "best of the best" out of that volume and put it ......
Secret Methods Magicians and Others Use to Deceive Their Audience
Magicians use more than just mirrors, string, and sleight of hand to deceive their audience. Those who are masters at this trade have developed an arsenal of techniques to manipulate people. This book looks at what goes on at a magic show, behind-the-scenes, and in the mind of the magician.
Randy White is a "mover" and has no time for people who can't keep up. Join him as he dives in the infamous lake called the Bad Blue Hole on the desolate Cat Island in the Bahamas. Search for the perfect hot pepper in Colombia, and closer to home, go raccoon hunting in Pioneer, Ohio, where the hunted almost always outsmart the hunters. Get in the ......
Slot machines are the heartbeat of a casino. Enter any big house of chance and the first thing you'll hear is the humming, clanging, ringing, jingling of those dispensers of luck known as "one-armed bandits." SLOT MACHINE STRATEGY is a concise and easy-to-understand guide to the exciting, and potentially lucrative world of the casino slot ......
Seventeen Stories Of Survival, Exploration, And Outdoor Craft
Long the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America's frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the western landscape-in art, books, film-is today shared by the figures called "Mountain Men." They were the trappers of the Rocky Mountain fur trade ......
The sport of hunting ducks and geese is alive and quite well in North America, thanks in large part to a resurgence of waterfowl numbers, which, in turn, can be traced to conservation groups such as Ducks Unlimited and Delta Waterfowl, Inc., as well as to sportsmen who impose limits on themselves far stricter than those issued by the law. ......
