Every day, thousands of golfers purchase equipment that simply will not work for them, leading to poor performance and higher scores. This book was written to help consumers better understand how clubs work and how to select appropriate equipment for any skill level. This is the plain truth about clubs--not marketing hype.

12 Myths That Could Wreck Your Golf Game

Sports & Outdoors

Wishon, Tom

Grundner, Tom

Golf

Sports Media Group

The Search for the Perfect Golf Club

The average golfer knows little more about golf clubs than what he or she reads in advertising or sees in Golf Channel infomercials. This lack of knowledge leads, in turn, to a kind of equipment-induced frustration, called the "grass ceiling," which is one of the leading factors in nearly three million people leaving the game each year.
 This is the first book that explains to the layman how and why golf clubs work the way they do. It lets you in on the secrets that will allow you to spend your money more wisely and play the game to the best of your ability.
 It is also a book that challenges the industry to rethink what it's doing to the golfer and the game in the name of "modern marketing." It calls for a new "golfer-centric" approach to the sport that will insure the health of the game through the 21st Century and beyond. This is the one book EVERY golfer needs to read!!
 "A few years ago, Tom Wishon, with his experience as a designer, helped me understand more about a particular aspect of golf-club performance. With this book, Tom will help you understand the entire field, make good buying decisions, and get the most from your game."
 --Arnold Palmer, Golf Hall of Fame Member
 "In the course of my career I don't know how many pro-am rounds I have played. In all those rounds, rarely have I seen amateurs with clubs that genuinely fit their game. For me, Tom Wishon stripped away the mystery of club fitting, which I believe helped me to become a Top 20 player on the PGA Tour. I am convinced this book will allow average golfers to get on the right track with their equipment as well. It is a 'must read' whether you are a scratch player or a beginner."
 --Scott Verplank, PGA Touring Pro
 "Tom Wishon's knowledge of golf equipment isn't theoretical. It's practical. He understands not just the theory of why and how golf equipment works, but how all golfers can make technology work for them. Even more important, he makes that knowledge easily understood whether you're a mechanical engineer or a CPA trying to break 90."
 --Mike Stachura, Equipment Editor, Golf Digest
 Anyone interested in golf equipment needs to encounter Tom Wishon--whether in person or in print. His passion for sharing his knowledge of the equipment we play with borders on the maniacal, yet he always provides clearly mapped out answers to the most complex equipment questions. Tom has always been an indispensable source and I've picked his brain for years. What's left of it is in inside these pages.
 --Mike Johnson, Equipment Editor, Golf World
 I have written about golf equipment and golf technology for a very long time. I can assure you that nobody in the game today knows more about golf clubs than Tom Wishon. Furthermore, he has a passion for golf that is really fun to behold. If the great mystery is understanding how clubs function in the hands of real golfers, Wishon gets my vote as the Sherlock Holmes of golf.
 --James Achenbach, Equipment Editor &amp; Senior Editor, Golfweek

Wishon, Tom W.

Book Four of the Sir Sidney Smith Series. Nelson has defeated the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile, and Bonaparte is trapped in Egypt. Unfortunately, Bonaparte doesn't see it that way, and that fact brings into conflict three of the most significant figures of the day. Napoleon's army might not be able to go anywhere by sea, but they can still march. He leads them from Egypt through Syria toward Constantinople. From there he can go west and enter Europe through the backdoor, or go east, and conquer India. Either way, it would be a disaster for Britain. The only thing standing in his way is a small coastal city called Acre. Sir Sidney Smith is given command of every British warship in the eastern Mediterranean-all of two third-rate ships of the line. He moves his minuscule forces to Acre to head off Bonaparte. What he finds is a nearly indefensible city, ruled by a bloodthirsty tyrant named Jezzar Pasha. With those two ships and a half-crazy ruler, he must defeat Napoleon on land-something that no European general has ever done. After the Battle of the Nile, Nelson retires to Naples where he finds rest, adulation, and Emma Hamilton, the woman who would become his lover. However, French forces have captured the city causing the King and Queen of Naples to flee to Sicily. When the French are finally driven out, Nelson must secure the peace; but he does so by canceling a surrender agreement, tricking the Jacobin supporters into coming out of hiding, and then standing by while they are slaughtered. Acre sets a dizzying pace, sweeping the reader from Smith, to Napoleon, to Nelson-over and over-until you are almost intoxicated. It is perhaps the best book ever done about this little known, but extremely important, chapter in world history.

Acre (Sir Sidney Smith Series, Book 4)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Fireship Press

The Midshipman Prince (Sir Sidney Smith)

The Midshipman Prince (Sir Sidney Smith Series)

Fireship Pr

HMS Diamond

The Ramage Companion Finally!! The Book that RAMAGE Fans Have Long Awaited! Between 1965 and 1989 the British author, Dudley Pope, wrote the 18-volume "Ramage" series of nautical fiction novels. With its publication Mr. Pope joined C.S. Forester, and Patrick O'Brian as one of the giants of the nautical fiction genre. While companion books have been written for the Forester and O'Brian series, no one has yet written a ... Full description

The Ramage Companion

History

Europe

It’s 1798 and Sir Sidney Smith is languishing in “The Temple,” France’s maximum security prison. For the past two years he had been running the Agence de Paris―Britain’s primary spy ring in France―from his cell. But the authorities are starting to close in. It’s time for Sir Sidney to leave; but, to do so, he must stage one of the most spectacular prison breaks in history.
 Arriving back in England, Sir Sidney is welcomed as a national hero; but he is far from comfortable in that role. It is with relief, therefore, that he receives a set of orders sending him to Portsmouth for further duty. What he didn’t know was that his new duty would involve working with an itinerant musician, by the name of William Parish―who happens to be a genius at breaking codes.
 Napoleon is massing ships, troops, and supplies at Toulon and a number of other ports. He is clearly planning an invasion; but an invasion of who, where and when, no one knows. The key is a captured message that Parish and Smith must break, but it’s encoded in a way that has never been seen before.
 From a dreary prison in Paris, to the opulent palaces of Constantinople, to the horror of the Battle of the Nile―The Temple will take you on a wild ride through 18th Century history..

The Temple

There's bad news... And there's good news... The bad news is that our nation is in serious trouble when it comes to providing health care to our seniors. * Over 77 million people from the post-war baby boom are headed into their retirement years. Along with that, comes declining health and often multiple chronic illnesses. * There are not nearly enough geriatric and primary care specialists to deal with this population. Making matters worse-it's too late to train more. * This population not only threatens to overwhelm our health care facilities, the current methods of treating people with multiple chronic conditions is heartlessly inefficient, and the cost is astronomical. The good news is that maybe there's a way out of this impending disaster. If we can't create enough properly trained specialists to meet the need, maybe we can magnify the impact of the ones we have. * Maybe we can devise a new model for treating people with multiple chronic conditions. * Maybe we can create a new breed of specially trained, lower cost, medical professionals to magnify the physician's impact. * Maybe we can find a way to increase the quality of care these seniors receive and, at the same time, reduce costs to the health care system. It not only can be done-it has been done. It's called Guided Care; and it might literally transform the way health care is delivered to our senior citizens. This isn't your standard "patient education" book. It's a story of discovery-and a story of hope.

Transformation: A Family's Guide to Chronic Care, Guided Care, and Hope

Medical Books

Medicine

Cortero Publishing

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