Best Squash

Maria Toorpakai hails from Pakistan's violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where the idea of women playing sports is considered haram-un-Islamic -forbidden-and girls rarely leave their homes. A DIFFERENT KIND OF DAUGHTER tell of Maria's harrowing journey to play the sport she knew was her destiny, first living as a boy and roaming the violent back alleys of the frontier city of Peshawar, rising to become the number one female squash player in Pakistan. “Toorpakai’s story… is mesmerizing, rendered with emotional and lyrical intensity… and as much about the mysteries of individual human lives as a larger political justice.” — Maclean’s “Toorpakai’s appreciation of and respect for her father fill the memoir with enough love to balance the story’s most alarming horrors. As a child growing up in a highly conservative tribal area of Pakistan where girls' involvement in sport was forbidden by the local Islamic culture, Toorpakai trained and competed as a boy in Peshawar. Toorpakai is the sister of Ayesha Gulalai, who is a Member of the National Assembly representing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on a reserved seat for women.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"To see this defiant warrior find her ground and believe and trust herself, her God and her parents is the definition of love. Her egotism didn't even stop me from loving this book."
"They put their lives and the lives of their children in the crosshairs of death by allowing their children the freedom to find their way."
"Ladies, that is your Father's Day gift to me.""
"It would be interesting to find out why her mother was allowed to teach and set up schools given the strictures placed on women."
"It is a story that needs telling."
"Maria's parents are super beings, her sister Ayesha has accomplished much and it is so good to know that Maria is now living in freedom."
"Seeing the world through Maria's life I have learned so much about a culture and region that I knew so little."
"Heart wrenching true story of a girl growing up under Taliban controlled territory, but whose parents revered freedom of expression more than the Taliban's oppressive interpretation of the Islamic religion."

Whether you already play squash or are just starting out, Squash: Steps to Success will teach you the skills and strategies you need in order to play and win. ""Craig BrandExecutive Director US Squash Racquets Association ""Phil Yarrow's Squash: Steps to Success is the quintessential resource for the beginner squash player. "Phil Yarrow's Squash: Steps to Success is the quintessential resource for the beginner squash player.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I really enjoyed the detailed drill diagrams and frame by frame pictures of the shots. The chapter on movement is especially helpful since it shows the difference between the traditional and more modern dynamic movement."
"A minor thing to note was that most of the illustrations use left-handed players to show the techniques."
"This is just an amazing book."
"Gift for husband."
"Great book to learn the correct technique of squash."
"Most drill require partners to practice."
"The book is well written."
"It is a complete training guide for any squash player and is very useful to serve as a reminder to prevent bad habits in squash."

3 Complete Air Fryer Cookbook: 250 Simple and Delicious Air Fryer Recipes for Oil-Free Everyday Meals
250 Recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner Most delicious dessert recipes Preparation & cooking time Complete list of ingredients for each recipe Only simple and tasty recipes which can be applied to any experience level in cooking.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Air fryer is an amazing kitchen appliance, this cookbook will show you the best and healthy ingredients used in tasty fried meals."
"Not very well written."
"I’m new in air fryer cooking and this guide is great to start healthy cooking."
"I have a huge collection of such cookbooks and this one is good addition!"
"Many interesting air fryer recipes contain in this wonderful cookbook!"
"Rather good book for a newbie like me."
"You will learning not just cooking delicious recipes but contains effective tips how to lose weight with carbs and fats."
"Perfect book for everyone who try to operate an air fryer."
Best Tennis

Agassi writes candidly about his early success and his uncomfortable relationship with fame, his marriage to Brooke Shields, his growing interest in philanthropy, and—described in haunting, point-by-point detail—the highs and lows of his celebrated career. In 1992, when he burst onto the world sports stage by winning the Grand Slam at Wimbledon, he looked like a deer in headlights. Agassi has hated tennis from early childhood, finding it extremely lonely out on the court. Mike Agassi, a former Golden Gloves fighter who never made it professionally, decided that his son would become a champion tennis player. In militaristic fashion, Mike pushed seven-year-old Andre to practice relentlessly until the young boy was exhausted and in pain. He also arranged for Andre, age 13, to attend a tennis camp where he was expected to pull weeds and clean toilets. Only when Andre met tennis star Steffi Graf (whom he eventually married) did things begin to change. Readers will definitely cheer when Andre finally makes peace with the game he once hated and learns to enjoy it. An unvarnished, at times inspiring story [told] in an arresting, muscular style. Open describes Agassi’s personal odyssey with brio and unvarnished candor. Countless athletes start charitable foundations, but frequently the organizations are just tax shelters or PR stunts. Open is a superb memoir, but it hardly closes the books on an extraordinary life.”— The Wall Street Journal. Bracingly devoid of triumphalist homily, Agassi’s is one of the most passionately anti-sports books ever written by a superstar athlete.”— The New York Times “Not your typical jock-autobio fare. This literate and absorbing book is, as the title baldly states, Agassi’s confessional, a wrenching chronicle of his lifelong search for identity and serenity, on and off the court.”— Los Angeles Times.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I have been a tennis fan for over 17 years, born and raised in Forest Hills New York which used to be the seat of the U.S. Open championships."
"I have gained tremendous respect for Andre Agassi as person after reading this book."
"It shows how people (his father, Bolletari,etc) took advantage of him but it also shows how people (like his trainer, Gil, and his coach at the time, Brad Gilbert) really helped him."
"I don't want to give the book away, but give it a read if you are a tennis fan or Andre fan."
"The tennis court can be a lonely place and the book shows a look inside to what it takes to compete at this level. After reading this it make me appreciate the new breed of tennis players such as Nadal and Federer and the skill and stamina that they bring to the game."
"What an excellent way to start the book "The End"."
"We all are faced with similar challenges in our lives and aspire to be successful, and when we succumb to the challenges or fall short of our expectations of success we lose all hope."
Best Racquetball

Take your game to the next level with Championship Racquetball —the most comprehensive guide for mastering the skills, tactics, and strategies of today’s game. Renowned coach and hall of famer Fran Davis teams up with racquetball legend and top-ranked player Jason Mannino to share their expertise and secrets on every aspect of the sport—from mastering the skills to recognizing weaknesses and establishing the strategies that will dominate your opponent during match play. In Championship Racquetball , she and Jason Mannino share their winning approach to benefit all players." “Championship Racquetball is every racquetball player’s dream. Davis is a staff writer for Racquetball Magazine and serves as a commentator for IRT Network (www.IRTNetwork.com). 1 player in the world during 3 different seasons and ended 2003 as the International Racquetball Tour (IRT) Player of the Year. Mannino served on the International Racquetball Board for over 5 years and was instrumental in developing the governance for the International Racquetball Tour.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"If you start to notice a pattern in missed shots (skipping short of the wall, fault serves, self-practice becoming less effective, getting trapped, etc) this book has the features for diagnosing your “Problem” and it’s “Corrective Action”. The first or second chapter of the book illustrated the bad habit I’d developed and sent me back to ‘relearn’ and commit to re-establish the muscle memory of the trigger finger, handshake grip."
"One can read this text and see its application in every serve by Paola Longoria! One may benefit from that focus or not as one sees fit, but it certainly does NOT detract from an excellent text on how to proceed to better levels of quality in execution of basic racquetball play."
"For instance, in the section on forehand, it says for the intermediate level that the "Hips are slightly rotated, pointing to the right front corner, to add power to your stroke." For the advanced stance, it gets more confusing and says that the "Hips are completely rotated, 6 inches to 1 foot (15 to 30 cm) beyond the right corner to obtain maximum power--you coil then uncoil." The book's tips are probably great as a refresher, but they don't really succeed in conveying the concepts to those that have not taken their courses / lessons."
"For example, when describing the intermediate forehand shot technique they write, "Weight shifts slightly back, approximately 10 percent, as you step forward so you can drive off the back foot as you pivot, but it ends up approximately 60/40 toward the front." They also describe common errors, the correction, and the reason behind the correction."
"A thorough analysis of ways you can improve your game, for beginners or advanced players."
Best Table Tennis

Two-time Olympian and sports writer and broadcaster Matthew Syed draws on the latest in neuroscience and psychology to uncover the secrets of our top athletes and introduces us to an extraordinary cast of characters, including the East German athlete who became a man, and her husband – and the three Hungarian sisters who are all chess grandmasters. He admits his argument owes a debt to Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers , but he aims to move one step beyond it, drawing on cognitive neuroscience research to explain how the body and mind are transformed by specialized practice. He takes on the myth of the child prodigy, emphasizing that Mozart, the Williams sisters, Tiger Woods, and Susan Polgar, the first female grandmaster, all had live-in coaches in the form of supportive parents who put them through a ton of early practice. In this insightful and entertaining book, Matthew Syed takes us a step deeper into the world of sports, showing us how much we can learn about our own behavior.” (Dan Ariely, New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational). “A cutting edge dissection—and ultimate destruction—of the myth of innate talent in the pursuit of excellence.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I've been very interested in reading one of the books which are based, at least to a degree, on the work of Anders Ericsson and purposeful practise being more important than talent you are born with. Each book seems to take a somewhat different view of the importance of various aspects that have been shown to lead to superior performance -- purposeful practice and opportunity (such as having a good coach available) being the primary aspects."
"While one should acknowledge the existence of those rare individuals will seemingly superhuman aptitudes, according to the author, most "experts" in whatever field reach the pinnacle through a combination of factors--factors within the reach of mere mortals!"
"I read it twice already."
"This book goes into great detail about how a work ethic, allows ANYONE the opportunity to succeed by dispelling so many myths on why players, musicians, athletes, people in all sorts of industry become successful. Just loved his analysis referring to countless studies and real life examples of Earl and Tiger Woods, Mozart and his father, David Beckham and his work ethic."
"One of the best books i've read in a long time."
"Insightful and a great read."
"Great read , good insights."
"In the end, the basic tenants of focused practice, supporting family members, access to great coaching, internal desire to succeed, willingness to commit to excellence...etc."