Authors:Adam Cort, Richard Stearns, Adam Cort, Richard Stearn
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Keywords: racing, sailboat, started, getting
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-05-24
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0071424008
ISBN-13: 9780071424004

A complete course in the fundamentals, Getting Started in Sailboat Racing dispels the sport’s elite aura and makes racing accessible to any sailor who wants to give it a try. This illustrated manual takes readers around the buoys, explaining the rules and tactics that govern starts, finishes, mark roundings, and boat-to-boat struggles for speed and advantage.

Authors:Julio Cortazar, Alfred MacAdam, Julio Cortárzar,
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: exam, final
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 2000-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0811214176
ISBN-13: 9780811214179

Long undiscovered, Final Exam, Julio Cortzar’s first novel (published 1986 in Spanish) is a major work by this important Argentinian author, now available in English translation for the first time. In its characters, themes, and preoccupations it prefigures Cortzar’s later fictions, including Blow-Up and his masterpiece Hopscotch. Written in 1950 (just before the fall of Pern’s government), Final Exam is Cortzar’s allegorical, bitter, and melancholy farewell to an Argentina from which he was about to be permanently self-exiled. (Cortzar moved to Paris the following year

Author: Sean Cort
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: perspective, power
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2009-02-18
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1607913208
ISBN-13: 9781607913207

"Here’s a common sense book that actually helps you think your way through your circumstances to get the results you need while providing a whole new outlook on your life with accountability." Author, Talk Show Host, Jeff Gardere, PhD America’s Psychologist As seen on CNN, NBC and FOX "Sean Cort is a communicator with the unique gift of seeing the world not as it is, but as it can be. The Power of Perspective will illustrate how your perspective shapes your destiny." Dick Tibbits D.Min. author of "Forgive to Live" "Are you ready to show your children how a certain

Author: Sean Cort
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: perspective, power
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2009-02-18
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 1607913216
ISBN-13: 9781607913214

"Here’s a common sense book that actually helps you think your way through your circumstances to get the results you need while providing a whole new outlook on your life with accountability." Author, Talk Show Host, Jeff Gardere, PhD America’s Psychologist As seen on CNN, NBC and FOX "Sean Cort is a communicator with the unique gift of seeing the world not as it is, but as it can be. The Power of Perspective will illustrate how your perspective shapes your destiny." Dick Tibbits D.Min. author of "Forgive to Live" "Are you ready to show your children how a certain

Author: John Cort
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: socialist, catholic, making, conversions, dreadful
Number of Pages: 355
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 082322256X
ISBN-13: 9780823222568

For more than 50 years, John Cort has been at the center of most of the social movements of our time. Writer, reporter, teacher, activist, Cort has spent his life fighting good fights, whether on a Boston newspaper, with the Peace Corps in the Philippines, as a labor leader, or in dozens of campaigns for justice, peace and human rights. Here is John Cort’s story--the measure of an exemplary life and a vivid, personal chronicle of American radicalism across virtually every major struggle. At its heart, this is also the story of what it means to take seriously the distinctively radical Cat

Author: Adam Cort
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Keywords: sailing, mastery, keys, blue, book
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-05-07
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0071547991
ISBN-13: 9780071547994

Transform basic sailing skills into true mastery No other sport is as complex or as gear- and technique-intensive as sailing. The details and nuances are vast, but beneath the surface are 27 elements, or core areas of knowledge. By understanding these principles you can attain true mastery: tie any knot, shape any sail, take the helm of any boat, no matter how large or unfamiliar.

Author: John E. Cort
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: ideology, india, values, religious, world, jains
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-03-22
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0195132343
ISBN-13: 9780195132342

This book presents a detailed fieldwork-based study of the ancient Indian religion of Jainism. Drawing on field research in northern Gujarat and on the study of both ancient Sanskrit and Prakrit and modern vernacular Jain religious literature, John Cort provides a rounded portrait of the religion as it is practiced today.Cort begins by looking at the institutional structures that make up Jain society and by examining the major facets of Jain practice. Separate chapters present descriptions of temple worship and the connected Jain understandings of divinity, interactions between laity and monks