The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

By the author of the bestselling Moneyball: in football as in life the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.

The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name his father his birthday or any of the things a child might learn in school such as say how to read or write. Nor has he ever touched a football.

What changes? He takes up football and school after a rich Evangelical Republican family plucks him from the mean streets. Their love is the first great force that alters the world's perception of the boy whom they adopt. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist turns out to be the priceless combination of size speed and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side.[]

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Into the Silence: The Great War Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

On June 6 1924 two men set out from a camp perched at 23000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory thirty-seven was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned.
 
In this magisterial work of history and adventure based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British Canadian and European archives and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers’ epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries Davis recounts the heroic efforts of George Mallory and his fellow climbers to conquer the mountain in the face of treacherous terrain and furious weather. Into the Silence sets their remarkable achievements in sweeping historical context: Davis shows how the exploration originated in nineteenth-century imperial ambitions and he takes us far beyond the Himalayas to the trenches of World War I where Mallory and his generation found themselves and their world utterly shattered.  In the wake of the war that destroyed all notions of honor and decency the Everest expeditions led by these scions of Britain’s elite emerged as a symbol of national redemption and hope.
 
Beautifully written and rich with detail Into the Silence is a classic account of exploration and endurance and a timeless portrait of an extraordinary generation of adventurers soldiers and mountaineers the likes of which we will never see again.[]

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South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-17

An illustrated account of Shackleton's last expedition to the Antarctic.[]

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The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.

What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents teachers coaches businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.

Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism.

Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports art music math or just about anything.

• Deep Practice--Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice.

• Ignition--We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development.

• Master Coaching--What are the secrets of the world’s most effective teachers trainers and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these “talent whisperers” to fuel passion inspire deep practice and bring out the best in their students.

These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness from Michelangelo’s to Michael Jordan’s. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary it grows and like anything that grows it can be cultivated and nourished.

Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness this book will not only change the way you think about talent but equip you to reach your own highest potential.[]

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