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How does Serena Williams deliver such crushing serves? How does Michael Jordan slam dunk? How can Dale Earnhardt Jr. survive hairpin turns at 200 miles an hour?

The Ultimate Sports Handbook unveils how today’s biggest sports stars play to win-complete with hands-on advice and training tips from celebrated athletes like Tiger Woods, Andy Roddick, Charles Barkley, Jerry Rice, Joe Frazier, and countless others. You’ll discover how to:

• Sack the Quarterback
• Throw a Knuckleball
• Ski Jump
• Pole Vault
• Throw a Left Hook
• Hole Out from the Sand
• Do a Motocross Backflip
• and much, much more

Complete with step-by-step instructions and practical illustrations, The Ultimate Sports Handbook offers the play-by-play on how to perform 35 wildly impressive athletic feats-from pro games and Olympic events to the latest in extreme sports. It’s the one guide that answers every sports fan’s first question: “Hey, how do they do that?”

RICHARD O’BRIEN is a senior editor at Sports Illustrated.

Are your family and job interfering with your golf game? Do you need more time to perfect your stance, swing, aim, and putt? Undercover Golf shows how to practice essential golf skills while appearing to perform genuinely useful household or work-related tasks.

You’ll learn how to read the green-while vacuuming a carpet. You’ll practice adjusting your grip pressure-while shoveling snow. You’ll even learn how to assess your body and ball lines-while washing your hands!

Each of these essential skills is presented with detailed instructions and helpful illustrations. With Undercover Golf, shopping for groceries and walking the dog will no longer interfere with your golf game-in fact, they’ll help you perfect it!

JOE BORGENICHT has coauthored The Action Hero’s Handbook, The Action Heroine’s Handbook, and The Baby Owner’s Manual. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

R. D. ROBINSON has worked in the golf industry for more than forty years. He is a Class A member of the PGA and a sought-after instructor, both in the United States and abroad. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

In Wine Secrets, forty of the world’s top wine experts share the tricks, techniques, and wisdom they’ve learned through decades of experience. Celebrity chef Jacques Pépin shares the best uses for leftover wine in the kitchen. Sommelier Oliver Boru proves that you sometimes can judge a wine by its label. Restaurateur Piero Selvaggio tells diners the best way to send back an unacceptable bottle. Plus tips on tasting, drinking, ordering, storing, and more.

Each technique is described in the expert’s own words, along with a short profile and commentary from author/sommelier Marnie Old. With advice ranging from the basics (does anything pair well with broccoli?) to the extreme (yes, you can freeze open bottles of wine!), Wine Secrets will appeal to beginners as well as established oenophiles.

MARNIE OLD is one of the country’s top sommeliers and wine authors, and a breath of fresh air in the stuffy wine world.  She teaches for New York’s Astor Center and hosts the webisode series Uncorked at Philly.com.  Marnie has designed many of Philadelphia’s finest wine and cocktail programs, such as those at Parc and Continental Midtown.  Her first book, He Said Beer, She Said Wine, is an entertaining debate on food pairing with co-author Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery.  Formerly the director of wine studies for Manhattan’s renowned French Culinary Institute, Marnie also served as the founding education chair for the American Sommelier Association. For more info, visit www.marnieold.com

The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: Great Outdoors — Bears. Avalanches. Grill fires. The great outdoors is packed with perils, so be prepared from the moment you lace up your boots. With detailed instructions on how to get out of every kind of trouble in the wild, this new, dynamic almanac format in the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series provides maximum protection-and gives you something scary to read around the campfire. Profiles of worst-case locations and intrepid explorers, charts and graphs of perilous situations, offbeat lists and facts-here is all the information you need in the wilderness to feel safe and terrified at the same time.
David Borgenicht is the author of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival series. He lives life on the edge in the wilds of Philadelphia.

The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: Politics — Leave it to the experts of the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series to ferret out the most scandalous, dangerous, incompetent, and downright awful people to ever seek power. The most lavish palaces, the bloodiest coups, the stupidest declarations. . . . Plus all the lists, charts, maps, and profiles that have made the Worst-Case Scenario Almanacs such a success. Which country had more governments in the past 175 years-Italy or Bolivia? What ever happened to all those people who ran for vice president of the United States of America-and lost? Illustrated, step-by-step scenarios describe how to respond when confronted with misfortune or challenge, including how to give a concession speech, kiss a drooling baby, escape a sex scandal, and evade the truth.
David Borgenicht, co-author of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series, lives in Philadelphia and has so far stayed out of the political arena.

Turk Regan works as a writer and communication consultant for political campaigns, small companies, and nonprofit groups. He has authored a number of books, and his work has been featured in Newsweek, the New York Times, Washington Post, and on NPR

Get over it! What to do if you’re left at the altar; tell-tale signs your relationship is over; treating red, puffy eyes; and how to make your bed feel less empty.
David Borgenicht is the creator and co-author of all the books in the Worst-Case Scenario series. He lives in Philadelphia.