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Despite its immense wealth, and the high public profile it enjoys, English football is not a land of milk and honey. The national side has won the World Cup only once when England staged the tournament in 1966 and the woeful performances in recent years would suggest...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2009-10-15
ePub
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Hear the story of the rise of one of Irish rugby's great outsiders and, ultimately, his crushing fall.As the longest-serving national coach in Irish rugby history, Eddie O'Sullivan produced a team that rose to third in the world rankings and laid down the standards for...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2009-10-13
ePub
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At last! The award-winning Baker & Kelly bring you the most entertaining, radical and unreliable football book ever published. The Two Dannys argue the toss, spill the beans and chew that fat about everything and anything from the biggest questions down to stuff they...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2009-10-13
ePub
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Wimbledon is a paradox. While outwardly appearing the quintessential English lawn tennis club, as much a part of being British as strawberries and cream or picnics in the park, it is in fact the largest annual outside broadcast operation in the world and a multi-million...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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Football isn't a matter of life and death,' Bill Shankly once famously said, 'it's much more important than that.' In The Heart of the Game, Jimmy Greaves looks back over his long association with the sport to give his take on all things football, and attempts to make...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2009-10-01
ePub
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Kenny Logan’s riveting story is one full of surprises. A Scottish rugby star, with 70 caps for his country, and a club legend at Wasps, winner of three Premiership titles and a glorious Heineken Cup,Kenny could not read or write until he was in his thirties. Born into a...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2009-10-01
ePub
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Stressing moderation and safety, fitness icon Bob Paris shows how anyone can build muscle, increase stamina, and improve fitness without drugs, steroids and dangerous exercise previously associated with weight training.
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-26
ePub
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The Olympic gold medalist offers a poignant, loving account of her life with her long-time partner and beloved husband, Sergei Grinkov, from their first introduction and successive world pairs skating championships, to their storybook romance and marriage, to the fatal...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-26
ePub
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The Bowdens are the First Family of college football. Bobby, the father, built the winningest program of the decade at Florida State. Son Terry took over an Auburn team on probation and led it back into the top tier of the sport. Son Tommy is Auburn's offensive...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-26
ePub
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This is a timely and easily accessible book that addresses a number of issues that are of central concern to the development of tourism studies. It will also be of interest to those in cultural studies, social geography and social anthropology who are concerned with the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-09-26
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Leisure has always been associated with freedom, choice and flexibility. The week-end and vacations were celebrated as 'time off'. In his compelling new book, Chris Rojek turns this shibboleth on its head to demonstrate how leisure has become a form of labour.
Modern...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-09-26
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This installment of the Better by Saturday golf tips series focuses on essential advice to instantly improve your drive and start your game strong.Featuring Tips by Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teachers. Simple to remember lesson that provides an opportunity for "no...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-26
ePub
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We live in a world that all too often operates under the overriding template of self-promotion, embracing a "hooray for me" attitude, and which measures success in increasingly small timeframes dotted with markers of temporal value. Millions of viewers know James Brown...
Editeur :
FaithWords
Parution :
2009-09-24
ePub
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Diehard baseball fans—take the challenge! Turn your baseball cap into a thinking cap, and test your knowledge of the game with over 980 brain-twisting questions about the big hits and amazing feats that occurred over the last 100 years: Who is the only pitcher in...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2009-09-18
ePub
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TESTING TIMES is the 2009 Ashes-winning captain's personal account of a remarkable two-year period in world cricket. When Strauss went out for his second innings in the Napier Test of March 2008, everyone thought -- including the man himself -- he was one false stroke...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2009-09-17
ePub
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Are you a runner, cyclist, swimmer or rower? Do you want to up your game and ensure you're getting the very best from your diet? To help with her own training, Kate Percy - a keen marathon runner and cook - has developed a range of delicious, carbohydrate-rich recipes...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2009-09-15
ePub
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Written by experienced academics used to teaching the subject this book will help students and researchers find their way within the diverse field of sport studies. Clear, well researched entries explain the key concepts in the debates surrounding the social...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-09-14
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A no-holds-barred story of what it takes to reach the top, and stay there, in the world's most dangerous sport - three day eventing.At the age of forty-seven Mary King won a Team Bronze at the Beijing Olympics. In the two 'Cavaliers' - 'Call Again Cavalier' and...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2009-08-27
ePub
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No champion has astonished the world quite like Lance Armstrong. A cancer survivor who went on to win the Tour de France an unprecedented seven times, he is an inspiration to millions. Yet few know the complete story of this brash, smart, and fiercely competitive Texan...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-06-30
ePub
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Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know tells the history of sport. All sport. Ever. From ancient times to the 21st century.In eight themed parts, Tim Harris describes the triumphs and breakthroughs - as well as the cheating and skulduggery - that have created...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-06-30
ePub
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