Provides an instructional course for advanced golfers but also for golfers of all handicaps, paying particular attention to swing technique and the short game. The book contains sections on equipment and on the significance of course conditions.

Advanced Systematic Golf (Golf Monthly)

Sports & Outdoors

PALMER, MIKE

Golf

Hamlyn

Systematic Golf

Phecnix Books

Gift Wrapping & Greeting Cards

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Dickinson, Gill

Crafts & Hobbies

Book Sales

As a golfer, you know how easy it is to pick up bad habits. Videos by superstars can help, and so can lessons from local pros, but golf is an individual game. The champs don't copy each other, so why be a clone of any of them? Instead, you could be your own best coach, armed with this unique personalized skill-training book by one of golf's most popular instructors. Palmer offers one of the largest, most complete, most detailed guides to the subject, so you can choose to practice any or all of the hundreds of careful steps shown in over 250 full-color illustrations on 36 different photographic sequences. Take your time and study each one as long as you want. The section on your swing, for example, breaks down this two-second motion into several steps. The same careful approach covers stances, grips, swings, club selection, tee shots, fairways and greens, roughs, uphill and downhill lies, the putting game-within-a-game. Dozens of checklists show what to do about chronically rough parts of your game. You also get into the mental aspects, and learn how to educate your muscle memory to affect swing movements controlled by the subconscious mind. As you see how your game is made up of so many little motions, you'll probably discover a few minor changes that could each save a stroke or two. Finding those little moves is what this book--and your game--are all about.

Systematic Golf: A Complete Golf Instruction Guide

Sterling

Noted professional golf instructor Mike Palmer breaks down golf and its required skills into distinctly ordered sections. Every swing, every movement is carefully presented in small segments, so each part can easily be analyzed and corrected. This systematic approach has proven to be the best method for improving your game and saving strokes. Work on posture, stance, and grip, and then move on to the all-important swing, putting, driving, iron play, and more.

Better Golf the Systematic Way

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Full account of the construction of lighthouses over 300 years on the Eddystone Rocks.

Eddystone: The Finger of Light

Water Sports

Sheridan House

Sir Frank Nelson KCMG became the initial head and architect of Britain's WW2 clandestine organisation called the Special Operations Executive.During a three-year self-funded venture, researcher and author Mike Palmer reveals the life-story of a forgotten wartime hero, Sir Frank Nelson.Born into a world of wealth and privilege, during the reign of Queen Victoria, Francis Nelson excelled at private boarding schools in England and Germany, both in his academic achievements and by gaining a physical prowess. On completing his education, Nelson chose a career in banking and through hard work and dedication he left his London base for adventures in the Far East before settling in Bombay during 1911. It was not long before the young man gained social respect and also admiration for his financial expertise; he also joined the Bombay Light Horse Volunteer Reserve Force when World War One was declared but he was not deployed. After the war, Frank Nelson's efforts focussed on India's economic insitutions, and he began working for the British Government, who controlled the country's budget and administration. He became a Director of The Bank of India, served as the Chairman of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, and as President of the Associated Chamber of Commerce of India and Ceylon; he was also a member of the Legislative Council of Bombay. His influence and noted success offered him a wealth of opportunities and as a partner in the brokerage firm of Symons, Barlow and Company, he sought to capitalise on his position. Frank's achievements in India were quickly acknowledged and in 1924, he returned to England where he received a knighthood, and very soon after became an MP for the Unionist-Conservatives in Stroud, Gloucestershire, remaining in political office until 1931. Afterwards he returned to private business. Between 1939 - 1940, Nelson worked undercover for the Secret Intelligence Service, in Claude Dansey's Z Network, acting as the British Consul in Basle, Switzerland, where he gathered information and created 'safe' routes for people and materials leaving the country. Sir Frank remained in situ until June 20th, 1940, when he arrived back in England where he was immediately tasked to create a single 'subversive' force from the amalgamation of three individual units from the British secret service. The Special Operations Executive would "co-ordinate, inspire, control and assist the nationals of the oppressed countries who must themselves be the direct participants", stated Lord Halifax the Foreign Secretary. Small-scale sabotage, propaganda, and resistance against the Nazis could only be achieved with the help of pro-British supporters and embedded S.O.E. agents who would manage these volunteer groups; The organisation would provide training, arms, supplies, and finance, to the resister groups; it would coordinate missions, and create communication links to Britain.Under extreme difficulties from both within and outside of Whitehall Sir Frank Nelson slowly built around him a functioning administration, and established a viable covert asset in the war effort. His men would embark on subterfuge and guerrilla warfare operations across occupied Europe and beyond. S.O.E. also played an important role in the liberation of Europe, especially during the build up to Operation Overlord in 1944. Nelson himself had left the organisation in 1942 due to poor health but was promoted to Air Commodore, and worked in Washington, before becoming the chief of Air Intelligence for the British Control Commission in Detmold, Germany. In 1945 Sir Frank was again knighted, this time for his S.O.E. work but he felt out of place in a post-war Britain. He had lost his entire fortune, his status had gone, and feeling isolated he descended into drug dependency. During 1950 he attempted suicide but a British nurse half his age saved him; the pair married in 1952 and lived frugally together until his death 1966.

SOE CD1 - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR FRANK NELSON (Author's Uncorrected Proof Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Independently published

Three Dads Walking: 3 Miles of Hope

'We were (and are) three ordinary dads who found ourselves in a desperate place we never expected to be, engulfed by pain and suffering beyond imagining. We were men who chose to build something positive from the shattered pieces of our lives. We wanted to do something and this is what it became ... what we became.' In memory of their young daughters - Sophie, Beth and Emily - who took their own lives, three dads set out on a 300 mile journey across Britain, from the windswept Lakeland fells and Peak District dales to the open plains of the Eastern fens. Putting one foot in front of the other, they captured the hearts of the nation; laughing together, crying together, fighting to be heard. This book, built around personal diary entries, grew from a place of great grief and loss, but is also about the power of speaking out, of friendship and hope (and blisters). The 3 Dads bear a heavy load, but they walk on for us all, finding light in the wild after the darkest times.

Owen, Tim

Airey, Andy

Parenting & Relationships

Robinson

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