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  • My Marathon

    Reflections on a Gold Medal Life

    by Frank Shorter, John Brant ...
    My Marathon: Reflections on a Gold Medal Life is a revealing memoir by Frank Shorter, the father of American distance running. After winning the 1969 NCAA title in the 10,000 meters during his senior year at Yale, Shorter went on to win a staggering 24 national titles on track, road, and cross-country courses, but it was in the marathon that Shorter achieved his greatest fame and recognition.At ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • 14 Minutes

    A Running Legend's Life and Death and Life

    by Alberto Salazar, John Brant ...
    In 2007, after collapsing on a practice field at the Nike campus, champion marathoner Alberto Salazar's heart stopped beating for 14 minutes. Over the crucial moments that followed, rescuers administered CPR to feed oxygen to his brain and EMTs shocked his heart eight times with defibrillator paddles. He was clinically dead. But miraculously, Salazar was back at the Nike campus coaching his ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

    Improving the Design of Existing Code

    by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts ...
    Series series Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series
    As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienced developers, resulting in applications that are inefficient and hard to maintain and extend. Increasingly, software system ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Duel in the Sun

    Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon

    by John Brant ...
    The 1982 Boston Marathon was great theater: Two American runners, Alberto Salazar, a celebrated champion, and Dick Beardsley, a gutsy underdog, going at each other for just under 2 hours and 9 minutes. Neither man broke. The race merely came to a thrilling, shattering end, exacting such an enormous toll that neither man ever ran as well again. Beardsley, the most innocent of men, descended into ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • The Boy Who Runs

    The Odyssey of Julius Achon

    by John Brant ...
    In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children’s charity.“Julius can’t remember who first saw the men. He heard no warning sounds—no dog barking or twig snapping. Until ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Boy Who Runs

    The Odyssey of Julius Achon

    by John Brant ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children’s charity.“Julius can’t remember who first saw the men. He heard no warning sounds—no dog barking or twig snapping. Until ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • A Life Without Limits

    A World Champion's Journey

    by Chrissie Wellington ...
    In 2007, Chrissie Wellington shocked the triathlon world by winning the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. As a newcomer to the sport and a complete unknown to the press, Chrissie's win shook up the sport. A LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS is the story of her rise to the top, a journey that has taken her around the world, from a childhood in England, to the mountains of Nepal, to the oceans of New Zealand ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Feet in the Clouds

    A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession

    by Richard Askwith ...
    Nearly 10 years after its first publication, Aurum are re-issuing this classic running book which has defined a genre. It includes an introduction from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane and an epilogue from Richard Askwith.The concept of fell-running is simple: it’s a sport that involves running over mountains – sometimes one, sometimes many. It’s also immensely demanding. While running uphill ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Running on Empty

    An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America

    by Marshall Ulrich ...
    117 marathons, 52 days, 32 pairs of shoes, 57 years old: A fascinating glimpse inside the mind of an ultramarathon runner and the inspirational saga of his phenomenal journey running across America.The ultimate endurance athlete, Marshall Ulrich has run more than 100 foot races averaging over 100 miles each, completed 12 expedition-length adventure races, and ascended the Seven Summits - including ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

    by Martin Fowler ...
    Series series Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)
    The practice of enterprise application development has benefited from the emergence of many new enabling technologies. Multi-tiered object-oriented platforms, such as Java and .NET, have become commonplace. These new tools and technologies are capable of building powerful applications, but they are not easily implemented. Common failures in enterprise applications often occur because their ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#

    by Micah Martin, Robert C. Martin ...
    With the award-winning book Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices, Robert C. Martin helped bring Agile principles to tens of thousands of Java and C++ programmers. Now .NET programmers have a definitive guide to agile methods with this completely updated volume from Robert C. Martin and Micah Martin, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#.This book presents a ... Read more

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  • Working Effectively with Legacy Code

    by Michael Feathers ...
    Series series Robert C. Martin Series
    Get more out of your legacy systems: more performance, functionality, reliability, and manageabilityIs your code easy to change? Can you get nearly instantaneous feedback when you do change it? Do you understand it? If the answer to any of these questions is no, you have legacy code, and it is draining time and money away from your development efforts.In this book, Michael Feathers offers start-to ... Read more

    $55.79 USD