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iUniverse Whitetail Hunting Memories
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Rowman & Littlefield Baseballs Ultimate Power
Book Synopsis The tape-measure home run is the greatest single act of power in the game of baseball, and the tales of these homers are the most cherished legacies players and fans hand down through the generations. Each long-distance shot has become fable; they are baseball''s versions of the feats of Paul Bunyon, Hercules, and Samson. No one but Bill Jenkinson could separate myth from fact and actually study, rank, and describe in riveting detail baseball''s strongest long-ball hitters. Fully illustrated with player photos and aerial ballpark photos showing the landing spots of each stadium''s longest home runs, Baseball''s Ultimate Power is the definitive book on the tape-measure home run and its practitioners. Jenkinson travels through the decades to give us the distances, descriptions, and comparisons of the forty longest hitters in major league history, the ten longest-hitting active players, the five mightiest from the nineteenth century, and the five best t
£999.99
Lexington Books International Sporting Events and Human Rights
Book SynopsisQuestions have recently been raised about the political consequences a state experiences when hosting an international sporting event. As the Olympics and FIFA World Cup have visited Brazil and Russia, and the latter is slated to visit Qatar, issues regarding human rights, poverty, and human trafficking have seemingly appeared as frequently in media coverage as the results of competition. This text begins to build an understanding of just how a state's human rights are influenced by both the want and actual experience of hosting. It finds that hosts behave differently when the eyes of the world are on them and that these events do produce positive effects on a state's level of respect for human rights. Yet, it also identifies those areas in which hosts, organizations like the IOC and FIFA, and the international sports regime can help to strengthen and expand human rightsTrade Review“Bowersox provides a clear and thorough analysis of how sporting events are not only important to international politics, but may actually alter the way countries interact – both for good or ill. This impressive and balanced examination explores the ways in which hosting and participating in sporting events can have real practical implications for human and international security. The reader is left hoping that as the world confronts the challenges of xenophobia and nationalism, international sport may provide one path by which these division may be mended.” -- J. Patrick Rhamey Jr., Virginia Military InstituteSport and politics has a dynamic and complex relationship, which is especially true of the Olympic Games and the World Cup. However, the impact of international sporting mega-events is not well studied. Zachary Bowersox details the evolution of these events in international politics, from serving as propaganda stages for despots to platforms of political expression for oppressed populations. Bowersox also addresses the effects of these events for sex trafficking, women’s rights, and labor standards. This book contributes specifically to the field of human rights, but it will also stimulate further research for students of sport and politics broadly. -- Marc S. Polizzi, Murray State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Sport in Society Chapter 2: Sport and the International System Chapter 3: International Organization and Sport Chapter 4: Human Rights and International Sporting Events Chapter 5: Expressive Rights and International Sporting Events Chapter 6: International Sporting Events and Human Trafficking Chapter 7: Women’s Rights and International Sporting Events Chapter 8: ISOs and Human Rights
£85.50
Rowman & Littlefield The 100 Greatest American Athletes
Book SynopsisFrom Babe Ruth to Michael Phelps, Billie Jean King to Tony Hawk, American athletes have been a source of pride and accomplishment throughout the nation’s history. While there have been plenty of athlete biographies, sports profiles, and behind-the scenes looks at various professional sports, no book has attempted to rank the greatest American athletes of all time. Until now. In The 100 Greatest American Athletes, Martin Gitlin ranks the best of the best using a point system to assess each individual’s achievements, versatility, and athleticism, as well as the physical requirements of the sport or sports in which they participated. The final tally of these points provides the ranking for each athlete in the book, which is sure to spark lively conversation. Some of the most iconic names in sports history can be found here, including Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Larry Byrd, LeBron James, Mickey Mantle, Joe Montana, Jesse Owens, Mark Spitz, Tiger Woods, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias. It can be difficult to compare bobsledders to boxers, figure-skaters to football players, shot-putters to skiers. This book, however, attempts to do just that in an accurate, fair manner that honors those who made valuable contributions to American sports and culture. Sports fans will undoubtedly enjoy debating the ranking of these remarkable individuals, making The 100 Greatest American Athletes a must read.Trade ReviewHaving known Martin Gitlin for many years, provocative is not a word I would use to describe him. But provocative is the best word to describe his latest work. What a great read. -- Tony Grossi, NFL and Cleveland Browns analyst for ESPN Cleveland and 850 WKNR radio, voting member of the Pro Football Hall of FameTable of ContentsIntroduction 1: Jim Thorpe: The Sports Conqueror 2: Michael Jordan: His Airness 3: Bob Mathias: The Manchild 4: Jim Brown: The Indestructible 5: Michael Phelps: The Baltimore Bullet 6: Deion Sanders: Prime Time 7: LeBron James: The Chosen One 8: Jackie Joyner-Kersee: Magnificent Heptathlete 9: Rafer Johnson: Renaissance Man 10: Muhammad Ali: The Louisville Lip 11: Willie Mays: The Say Hey Kid 12: Babe Ruth: The Sultan of Swat 13: Ashton Eaton: Wheels 14: Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Master of All 15: Wilt Chamberlain: Wilt the Stilt 16: Jackie Robinson: The Barrier Breaker 17: Rickey Henderson: The Man of Steal 18: Bo Jackson: The Freakish Talent 19: Jesse Owens: To Hell with Hitler 20: Henry Aaron: Hammerin’ Hank 21: Tom Brady: Tom Terrific 22: Lawrence Taylor: L.T. 23: Carl Lewis: King Carl 24: Reggie White: The Minister of Defense 25: Bruce Jenner: Bruiser 26: Ray Robinson: Sugar 27: Don Hutson: The Alabama Antelope 28: Bob Hayes: Bullet Bob 29: Bill Russell: Mr. 11 Rings 30: Deacon Jones: The Secretary of Defense 31: Sandy Koufax: The Left Arm of God 32: Mickey Mantle: The Mick 33: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The Big ‘A’ 34: Lou Gehrig: The Iron Horse 35: Emlen Tunnell: Offense on Defense 36: Jerry West: Zeke from Cabin Creek 37: Anthony Munoz: The Great Protector 38: Oscar Charleston: The Black Ty Cobb 39: Earvin Johnson: Magic 40: Joe Louis: The Brown Bomber 41: Kobe Bryant: The Black Mamba 42: Serena Williams: Momma Smash 43: Honus Wagner: The Flying Dutchman 44: Julius Erving: Dr. J 45: Gale Sayers: The Kansas Comet 46: Mary Wambach: Abby 47: Jerry Rice: Flash 80 48: Pete Sampras: Pistol Pete 49: Eric Heiden: The Record Breaker 50: Shaun White: The Flying Tomato 51: Simone Biles: Simoney 52: Stan Musial: Stan the Man 53: Willie Pep: Will ‘o the Wisp 54: Walter Payton: Sweetness 55: Althea Gibson: The Tenacious One 56: Henry Armstrong: Homicide Hank 57: Joe Montana: Joe Cool 58: Mike Tyson: The Baddest Man on the Planet 59: Dick Butkus: The Maestro of Mayhem 60: Tracy Caulkins: The Medley Sensation 61: Michael Johnson: The Duck 62: Bob Beamon: Leap of a Lifetime 63: Oscar Robertson: The Big O 64: Mike Schmidt: Iron Mike 65: Larry Bird: The Hick from French Lick 66: Lindsey Vonn: Kildon 67: Karl Malone: The Mailman 68: Mike Trout: The Millville Meteor 69: Cheryl Miller: Big Sister 70: Mark Spitz: Mark the Shark 71: Tony Hawk: The Bird Man 72: Joe DiMaggio: The Yankee Clipper 73: Peggy Fleming: The Steel-Nerved Skater from San Jose 74: Walter Johnson: The Big Train 75: Barry Sanders: The Little Fella 76: Ty Cobb: The Georgia Peach 77: Bonnie Blair: The Blue 78: Secretariat: Big Red 79: Rocky Marciano: The Brockton Blockbuster 80: Red Grange: The Galloping Ghost 81: Chris Chelios: The Godfather of USA Hockey 82: Chris Evert: The Ice Maiden 83: Al Oerter: He-Man Heave Man 84: Mary T. Meagher: Madame Butterfly 85: Lisa Leslie: Smooth 86: O.J. Simpson: The Juice 87: Billie Jean King: The Male Chauvinist Pig Tamer 88: Wilma Rudolph: The Tornado 89: Kelly Slater: King Kelly 90: Johnny Unitas: The Golden Arm 91: Ted Williams: The Splendid Splinter 92: Greg Louganis: Dynamite Diver 93: Josh Gibson: The Legend 94: Edwin Moses: The Bionic Man 95: Jack Nicklaus: The Golden Bear 96: Rogers Hornsby: The Rajah 97: Florence Griffith Joyner: FloJo 98: Gabby Douglas: The Flying Squirrel 99: Lynette Woodard: The Globetrotter 100: Eldrick Woods: Tiger Index About the Author
£33.25
Little, Brown & Company Never Settle: Sports, Family, and the American
Book SynopsisYou know Marty right? The guy during College GameDay hanging off the back of a pickup truck while zooming around the Clemson athletic facilities. The guy who visits Nick Saban's lake house and somehow gets Coach to jump in the lake. The guy who sits down with Dale Jr. at Daytona to talk through tears about his miraculous return to racing. The guy who interviews Tiger Woods, Tim Tebow, Peyton Manning and Jimmie Johnson -- the guy who gets paid to live the fantasy of every sports fan in America.Never Settle is the funny but oh, it's true story of how Marty got here, and a revealing look at his journey. Never Settle includes all the best stories and behind-the-scenes moments from Marty's wild life, covering topics including: college football, racing, fathers and sons, how sports can bring us together, and how it all goes back to growing up on a farm and playing high school ball in Pearisburg, Virginia.
£11.89
Little, Brown & Company The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard
Book SynopsisIn January 2012, creative writing professor and novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture, an exploration of how Nike's corporate strategy successfully gutted the once-mighty independent skate shoe market. Beachy has since established himself as skate culture's freshest, most illuminating, at times most controversial voice, writing candidly about the increasingly popular and fast-changing pastime he first picked up as a young boy and has continued to practice well into adulthood.What is skateboarding? What does it mean to continue skateboarding after the age of forty, four decades after the kickflip was invented? How does one live authentically as an adult while staying true to a passion cemented in childhood? How does skateboarding shape one's understanding of contemporary American life? Of growing old and getting married?Contemplating these questions and more, Beachy offers a deep exploration of a pastime-often overlooked, regularly maligned-whose seeming simplicity conceals universal truths. THE MOST FUN THING is both a rich account of a hobby and a collection of the lessons skateboarding has taught Beachy-and what it continues to teach him as he struggles to find space for it as an adult, a professor, and a husband.
£19.80
Lioncrest Publishing Better Great Than Never: Believing It's Possible
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£11.99
Authorhouse It's Basketball Time
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£17.95
Seal Press Women Who Win: Female Athletes on Being the Best
Book SynopsisWhether it's surfer Jamilah Star riding an unprecedented fifty-foot wave, Olympic marathoner Deena Kastor winning the bronze in 2004, or top-ranked climber Lynn Hill facing down a tough climb at Joshua Tree, one thing is certain: these women have game.What's more, these amazing athletes capture our imagination. How do they do it? What motivates them to win and to become the best in their sport?In Women Who Win, adventure writer Lisa Taggart takes us behind the scenes, deep into the training regimens and the ultimate victories, to see what makes these women , and some of their fellow female athletes , tick. Whether their sport is soccer, cycling, mountain biking, or volleyball, these athletes will inspire you to pursue your dreams, whether it's running a marathon or catching your first wave.
£15.29
Octane Press Class of 99
£25.59
Howexpert First Aid 101: How To Do First Aid Step By Step
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£28.49
Howexpert How To Coach Olympic Weightlifting: 7 Steps to
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£999.99
Howexpert How To Play Field Hockey: Your Step By Step Guide
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£999.99
iUniverse Papwa: in the Grip of a Champion
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£14.20
Authorhouse UK Hibernian's Cup Record: Scottish Cup, League Cup
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£20.85
ECW Press,Canada BIGGER BETTER BADDER WRESTLEMANIA III and the
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£18.69
JMD Media The Legends of Bradford City
Book SynopsisOne hundred of Bradforda s most worthy players, from those with the most appearances to those who were simply a hit with the fans, are profiled in this collection. Do you agree with the choice?
£14.99
SilverWood Books Ltd An Ordinary Spectator Returns: Watching Sport
Book Synopsis'An Ordinary Spectator Returns: Watching Sport Again' presents a collection of John Rigg's wide-ranging sports writing over the last six years. The book captures the thrill of watching some of the elite participants of the modern era - Kevin De Bruyne, Alastair Cook, Sonny Bill Williams et al. But it's not all about the star performers. By describing sporting events within their specific communities - baseball in Toronto, shinty in the Scottish Highlands, amateur rugby league in Leeds - the author illustrates sport's inherent capacity to act as a barometer of the society around it. 'An Ordinary Spectator Returns: Watching Sport Again' also includes reflective pieces on sports history as well as significant current sport-related issues. This rich combination of contemporary detail and nostalgic digression - the follow-up to 'An Ordinary Spectator: 50 Years of Watching Sport' (2012) and 'Still An Ordinary Spectator: Five More Years of Watching Sport' (2017) - will be of interest to all those who enjoy watching live sport.
£22.80
Olympia Publishers 50 Years Not Out
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Pitch Publishing Ltd Diplomats in Tracksuits
Book SynopsisFascinating and engaging study of the relationship between sport and politics during the Cold War.By the author of the widely acclaimed Synthetic Medals: East German Athletes' Journey to Hell.Diplomats in Tracksuits uncovers the intriguing stories behind athletes who unwittingly became diplomats, bridging divides between superpowers through the universal language of sport. A must-read for sports and history enthusiasts, this engrossing book: Explores how iconic Cold War sports events, like Nixon's ping-pong diplomacy and the Miracle on Ice', helped ease global tensions and foster dialogue Reveals the crucial role of events such as the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and how leaders like Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev navigated these international stages Examines how victories and defeats in events such as the 1972 Summit Series in hockey helped to humanise adversaries and foster mutual respect Uncovers how human rights were often at the forefront of sports events, such as the famous Black Power salute' protest at the 1968 Olympics Shows how, at the 1960 Olympics, US sprinter David Sime was recruited by the CIA in an attempt to persuade a Soviet long jumper to defect Looks at how the boycotts of the 1980 Moscow Olympics and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics increased Cold War tensions Drawing on meticulous research, Diplomats in Tracksuits shows that sports during the Cold War era were not merely games but battlegrounds for promoting political ideologies and asserting the supremacy of the two superpowers the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies.
£15.29
Atlantic Books Roar: A Celebration of Great Sporting Women
Book SynopsisFrom the tennis court to the boxing ring, the athletics track to the football pitch, the visibility of women in sport has been gathering pace. Women's competitions are increasingly popular. In Roar Sam takes a deep dive into the experiences of some of sport's most high-profile female athletes - some have overcome heartbreaking adversity to reach the top of their game; others have succeeded in the face of prejudice. Like Sam, all have been propelled by sheer grit and determination to succeed. Many now campaign for women's equality and acceptance in sport, knowing the confidence it can bring young girls and the message that they can achieve anything. Featuring a series of candid interviews from some of sport's most successful women, Sam lifts the lid on what it takes to reach those heights: from coping with puberty to foregoing teenage fun to pursue a dream; from the punishing physical training schedule to the mental power needed to win or bounce back from defeat; and coping with the pressure of the media spotlight. And, what it feels like in that magical moment when you step up to the podium knowing every sacrifice has been worth it.Roar is a celebration of the bold and fearless - the women empowering future generations to follow in their footsteps - but it is also an inspiring look at how sport can change lives and challenge society.Table of Contentsi: Foreword: Gabby Logan MBE ii: Introduction: Sam Quek MBE 1: Making History - Paula Radcliffe MBE 2: Into the Unknown - Amy Williams MBE 3: Unlocking Potential - Dame Katherine Grainger 4: Never Give Up - Dame Sarah Storey 5: Strength and Power - Fatima Whitbread MBE 6: In the Moment - Sky Brown 7: Breaking Down Barriers - Shaunagh Brown 8: For the Love of Sport - Sheila Parker MBE 9: Trust and Responsibility - Kate Richardson-Walsh OBE 10: Digging Deep - Rebecca Adlington OBE 11: Conquering Expectations - Christine Ohuruogu MBE 12: Building a Legacy - Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE iii: Afterword: Sam Quek MBE iv: Acknowledgements
£20.00
Jan Roscoe Publications Ltd A2 Revise PE for AQA Teacher Resource CDROM
Book SynopsisA teacher support resource CD-ROM that covers the 2009 AQA A2 Unit 3 PHED.
£52.19
Sequoia Books Myths of Sport Performance
Book SynopsisLearn the truth about a particular sport performance myth, based on the most credible evidence available.
£19.99
Springer Nature B.V. Womens Football in Latin America
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£37.99
Books on Demand Leicht - und Zimmer-Bumerangs: Bauen, werfen,
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£15.10
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Lactate, carbohydrate and fat utilisation during
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£53.62
Books on Demand Schwertkampf: Ein Handbuch nicht nur für
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£28.02
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Sport Retirement: The Experiences of Elite Female
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£46.52
Scholars' Press Anthropometric and Somatotype Characteristics
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£37.29
Harper Parks Publishing Sports For Children: 21 Sports That Can Be Your
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£13.99
Alpha Edition The Golf Courses of the British Isles
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£17.41
Springer Verlag, Singapore Translational Informatics: Sports and Exercise Medicine
Book SynopsisThe book provides readers the informatics and data-driven models for the discovery of personalized excise prescriptions applied to different cases. Overdiagnosis or over-treatment often happened since the complex interaction among the lifestyle, genetic, and environmental factors. Sports and exercise are reported efficient to prevent or reduce the risk of diseases, but the interactions between sports/exercise and disease are personalized and complex. Translational informatics is a powerful paradigm and it promotes the transfer of big data, knowledge and models to the precision application of sports to prevent diseases. Sports and exercise may have different effects on diverse diseases including cancers, neurodegenerative disease, and cardiovascular diseases, etc. This book covers many modern informatics models such as ontologies, knowledge graphs, blockchain, participatory medicine, semantic artificial intelligence, big data modeling, and so on. It also describes the challenges for the sports and exercise medical data sharing and standardization, the privacy protection of data as well as the integration of data from genomic level to physiological phenotype level. This book will be helpful to the readers who are interesting in sports and exercise medicine, healthcare, big data modeling, artificial intelligence in medicine and healthcare. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs for Exercise Medicine.- Chapter 2. Participatory exercise medicine and personalized healthcare.- Chapter 3. Integration of genetic and phenotyping data for sports medicine.- Chapter 4. Microbiota, sports and exercise medicine.- Chapter 5. Human immune system and exercise medicine: current process and future directions.- Chapter 6. Circadian Rhythm and Personalized Exercise.- Chapter 7. Data-driven Exercise Medicine for Cardiovascular Disease.- Chapter 8. Physical Activities and Prevention of Neurodegenerative Diseases.- Chapter 9. Exercise guidelines for cancer patients.- Chapter 10. Diabetes as a metabolic disease and translational exercise medicine informatics.
£999.99
Vajra Publications Inc. Pvt. Ltd. Guilt and Glory
Book SynopsisThe old asymmetric colonial relation between sahibs and coolies has largely evened out. Sherpas organize their own expeditions and record races. But still we, the wealthy foreigners, can pay a high price to put both Sherpas and us into mortal danger. What are we fighting for? Or fleeing from?
£36.09
Independently Published Krav Maga Técnicas Avançadas: A Defesa Pessoal
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£17.92
Independently Published The Origin and Popularity of Pickleball: A
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£7.74
MQ - University of Nebraska Press Breaking and Riding With Military Commentaries
Book SynopsisExplains theories and methods, starting with the basics of breaking - lunging, work in hand, and first mounting - and progressing to advanced work, including canter pirouette, tempi changes, piaffe, and passage. This title explains in detail the ways in which the author believed Baucher was mistaken in some of his methods.
£13.49
Triumph Books The Year's Best Sports Writing 2023
Book SynopsisA must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalism Renowned media reporter Richard Deitsch has curated an essential anthology showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports. Selected from a wide range of newspapers, magazines, and digital publications during the previous year, these stories capture enduring moments while celebrating the craft of writing at its most sublime.This extraordinary collection reveals the fascinating stories behind the sports we love, the competitors who push their boundaries, and the cultures they are ultimately embedded in.
£16.16
Xlibris Us Chalk Talk: An Analysis of the Philosophies of
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£15.16
Edition Patrick Frey Darius Koehli: Why Omaha?
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£37.80
University of Illinois Press Coming On Strong
Book SynopsisAcclaimed since its original publication, Coming on Strong has become a much-cited touchstone in scholarship on women and sports. In this new edition, Susan K. Cahn updates her detailed history of women''s sport and the struggles over gender, sexuality, race, class, and policy that have often defined it. A new chapter explores the impact of Title IX and how the opportunities and interest in sports it helped create reshaped women''s lives even as the legislation itself came under sustained attack.Trade Review"Coming on Strong has long been the go-to book for the history of women in sport. Now it moves boldly into the twenty-first century. Assessing the enormous changes that have reshaped the sports landscape since the 1970s, it reminds us that the playing field is still far from level and challenges us to make the ongoing quest for gender equity in sport part of the larger struggle for social change." --Susan Ware, author of Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports
£17.99
University of Nebraska Press The City Game
Book SynopsisPete Axthelm follows the 196970 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. Throughout, he writes clearly, intelligently, and passionately about the game, bringing alive the players' efforts, accomplishments, and failures.Trade Review"The master prose stylist portrays parallel basketball worlds in New York City: Madison Square Garden, where the Knicks won the 1969-1970 championship, and the playgrounds of Harlem, where stars such as Earl (the Goat) Manigault burned brightly but too briefly."—Sports Illustrated"The best description of basketball played in New York City streets during the sixties and seventies."—Bill Bradley, The New Yorker"Superb . . . [Axthelm] combines Knick history, player backgrounds, seasonal anecdotes and court triumphs with another phenomenon—city basketball in the crowded ghettoes of the nation. The areas he focuses on primarily are the asphalt playgrounds of Harlem and Bedford Stuyvesant. There basketball has its special code of behavior, its pecking order and its own culture heroes. . . . A few city playground aces have made it to college . . . , and a few have found an escape route to the Harlem Globetrotters or the Eastern League. But many others have become strung out on poverty or drugs or have been imprisoned. . . . The book offers absorbing insights into the most unique and gripping of all city sports."—Rex Lardner, New York Times
£16.14
Jones & Bartlett Publishers Sports Leadership in the 21st Century
£80.62
WW Norton & Co Game of Edges
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£14.24
Texas A&M University Press Fifth Ward to Fourth Quarter: Football's Impact
Book SynopsisBrings readers on the long journey from Houston's Fifth Ward to the packed stadiums of the NFL, continuing with his decades-long fight for the compensation due an athlete who sustained injuries on the job. Here, Delvin Williams recounts the circumstances that motivated him to meet challenges at every level and exceeding his own expectations.
£31.46
University of Arkansas Press The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology,
Book SynopsisThe Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthmian Games for Poseidon, and the Neman Games, sacred to Zeus. For over nine hundred years, the Greeks celebrated these athletic and religious festivals, a rare point of cultural unity amid the fierce regional independence of the numerous Greek city-states and kingdoms.The Crown Games of Ancient Greece examines these festivals in the context of the ancient Greek world, a vast and sprawling cultural region that stretched from modern Spain to the Black Sea and North Africa. Illuminating the unique history and features of the celebrations, David Lunt delves into the development of the contest sites as sanctuaries and the Panhellenic competitions that gave them their distinctive character. While literary sources have long been the mainstay for understanding the evolution of the Crown Games and ancient Greek athletics, archaeological excavations have significantly augmented contemporary understandings of the events. Drawing on this research, Lunt brings deeper context to these gatherings, which were not only athletics competitions but also occasions for musical contests, dramatic performances, religious ceremonies, and diplomatic summits—as well as raucous partying. Taken as a circuit, the Crown Games offer a more nuanced view of ancient Greek culture than do the well-known Olympian Games on their own. With this comprehensive examination of the Crown Games, Lunt provides a new perspective on how the ancient Greeks competed and collaborated both as individuals and as city-states.
£44.25
VeloPress Your First Triathlon
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£17.09
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Slam Dunk Vol. 22
Book SynopsisThe best-selling series from Eisner-nominated Takehiko Inoue, one of Japan’s greatest manga creators.Winning isn''t everything in the game of basketball, but who wants to come in second? It takes dedication and discipline to be the best, and the Shohoku High hoops team wants to be just that. They have one last year to make their captain''s dream of reaching the finals come true—will they do it?For the Shohoku High players, the past echoes in the present as Rukawa learns something about Coach Anzai that leaves him determined to be the best high school player in Japan. With ten days remaining until the start of the national tournament, Coach Anzai sends the Shohoku High team to Shizuoka for a week of practice with another local team. But Sakuragi stays behind for a special practice session that will push him to the limit and improve his individual skills for the crucial games ahead.
£999.99
Penguin Random House Group The Muscle Ladder
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£999.99
