Sports Books

The largest collection of images by Jigoro Kano. About 200 photos of the founder of Kodokan Judo.

Surfing and Sustainability presents a new way of understanding the impact of surfing on the environment, society and the economy, providing important insights into the field of sustainability and arguing that the activity of surfing offers a unique...

The use of technology within sport is well established, most professional sport teams engage in the use of electronic performance and tracking systems. This book is the first to offer a deep and structured examination of these technologies and how they...

Mixed martial arts (MMA)-unarmed fighting games permitting techniques derived from a variety of martial arts and combat sports- has exploded from the fringes of sport into a worldwide phenomenon, a sport as controversial as it is compelling. This is the...

Within the overlapping fields of the sociology of sport, physical education and health education, the use of critical theories and the critical research paradigm has grown in scope. Yet what social impact has this research had?This book considers the...

This book makes the case that school Health and Physical Education (HPE) can make a unique contribution to young people's physical, emotional and social health outcomes when teachers of HPE engage in pedagogies for social justice that emphasise...

Sports Plays is a volume about sports in the theatre and what it means to stage sports. The chapters in this volume examine sports plays through a range of critical and theoretical approaches that highlight central concerns and questions both for sports...

The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history. Global in scope, it examines the key contemporary issues in sports historiography, sheds light on previously ignored topics, and sets an...

This collection brings together innovative research from socially-oriented applied linguists working in sports. Drawing on contemporary approaches to applied linguistics, this book provides readers with in-depth analyses of examples of...

Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape...

In Win or Else, Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture regularly disregarded official ideological and political imperatives and skirted the boundaries between socialism and capitalism. In the early 1920s, the Soviet press denounced football...

This work sets out to explore the history of competitive rowing on the River Bann in Coleraine, County Londonderry, N.I. from 1841 until 1987. An extensive amount of original material has been collated by Keith Ferguson and Ronnie Gamble. This material...

This is a pictorial scrapbook of memories of speedway between the years 1974 to 1978- a collection of photos taken by journalist and trackside photographer, Keith Lawson. The photos have been scanned from rescued negatives that had long been neglected...

Sir Edwin Hartley Cameron Leather (1919-2005) was born in Canada. He is remembered as having been a self-defence expert, successful author, politician and Governor of Bermuda. Despite his endorsement of violent acts against other human beings, as...

Per aumentare la tua massa e ottenere un fisico più definito e prestante, devi assolutamente imparare e attuare questi tre passaggi: conoscere il tuo fisico, strutturare il tuo allenamento e prepararti psicologicamente.

Memoir of a Hockey Nobody is the unlikely true story of an average Canadian kid who grew up playing street hockey. Although he didn't learn how to skate until his late teens, he took a shot at entering the world of professional ice hockey with, shall...

For six extraordinary years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force, with players such as Paul O'Neill, Derek Jeter, and Mariano Rivera. But for the players and the coaches, baseball Yankees-style was also an...

The story of the changing face of baseball and the inner workings of its finest organization After a hundred "cursed" years, the Boston Red Sox rose gloriously to baseball domination. Under the leadership of manager Terry Francona, an extraordinary team...

The full-throttle autobiography of renowned bad-boy linebacker, Bill "Romo" Romanowski. Bill Romanowski is a caring, articulate, intelligent father of two. But when he walks onto the gridiron he becomes a wild man, the most hated and dirtiest player in...

In this long-awaited autobiography, the legendary Bill Elliott details his childhood in rural North Georgia, building cars from scratch, struggling on the anonymous small-time tracks of the South to his against-the-odds rise to the pinnacle of NASCAR...

From the author of Baseball 100"A fascinating account of a man who outlasted the ignorance of a nation and persevered to become a beloved figure...One of the best baseball books in years, filled with depth style and clarity." --Cleveland Plain DealerAn...

The vivid historical rage and modern day bloodlust of one of the most enduring rivalries in all of American sports--the University of Texas Longhorns versus the Oklahoma Sooners. Runnin' with the Big Dogs is the ultimate story of one of America's...

Being an NFL coach is the ultimate high-pressure job. Every Sunday a coach makes split-second decisions that will not only decide the fate of a game, but also his team's season and, ultimately, his own job.Meet Mike Holmgren, Jon Gruden, John Fox, Andy...

An obsessively personal history of the blood feud between North Carolina's and Duke's basketball teams and what that rivalry says about class and culture in the SouthThe basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina is the fiercest and...

What do Henry Kissinger, Jack Welch, Condoleezza Rice, and Jon Bon Jovi have in common? They have all reached the top of their respective professions, and they all credit sports for teaching them the lessons that were fundamental to their success. In his...

Close your eyes and picture the Heisman Trophy. The form is easyto conjure, a graceful, fluid posethat is football past and football present in one dignified figure ...The story of the Heisman Trophyis an american epic.-- from the PrefaceNo sport in...

<p>Sports are a microcosm of life. They provide goals to be achieved and obstacles to beovercome, they yield their share of joy and pain, and they’re a stage upon which the best andworst of humanity is displayed. They are also a gift of God,...

The Plateau of Doubt details a 725 mile, two-season trek tracing the Hayduke Trail across the Colorado Plateau. Not only does it describe the stunning scenery spanning six national parks, two national forests, three wilderness areas, two national...

This book takes freshwater fishing all the way back to basics. The book was designed to appeal to family members as a text book on the "how to" of freshwater fishing, starting with the basic theory of the life of a fish, the waters in which they live,...

This historic collection explores the origins of mixed martial arts and professional wrestling in the United States and features profiles of more than 30 mat stars of the era, wrestling in art, over 100 antique photos and more.There is perhaps no sport...

"The thing about obituaries is that it's better to publish them after the subject has died..."The 2011/12 English Premier League football season provided one of the most thrilling climaxes to a title race in the history of the game. For Manchester City,...

University graduation, the reality of working life, thwarted love and the terrifying prospect of growing up - the traditional breeding ground for many amazing adventures and ideas. So when, in this atmosphere of anxiety and dread, two strangers, Ian and...

Finally, a complete guide to improving the accuracy of the venerable Lee Enfield rifle, whether 'as issued' or a completely modified target rifle. Applicable to all Enfields of the 20th century, from the No1 and No4, to the jungle carbine and including...

The outbreak of the Second World War came towards the closing stages of the 1939 cricket season. Hitler permitted us almost to complete an exceptionally interesting season, Sir Home Gordon, wrote in the Cricketer magazine, When shall we see the stumps...

Jamaica. An island of rum, reggae and Rasta. Of cricket, sprinting and white sandy beaches. And of guns, gangs and murder.Sick of the hype and tawdriness of modern football in the big European leagues, Hugo Saye spent a full season with the champions of...

Un libro divulgativo che raccoglie molteplici argomenti per amatori, professionisti e agonisti, con testi che spaziano dalle strategie e tecniche di allenamento, alimentazione generale e tecniche nutrizionali, integrazione e supplementazione oltre ad...

When I watch ITU and Ironman triathlons on television and the Internet, I rarely see any black people, and never do I see a black triathlete pro or age group winner. And being a national champion swimmer and generally a competitive athlete, it bothers me...

The saga of New York's push to build two minor-league baseball stadiums, colored by dollars, politics, and dreams.Bush League, Big City tells the interwoven stories of two low-level minor league baseball teams brought to New York City in the late 1990s...

The true warrior-mystic prevails without unsheathing his weapon. He is the master of the bloodless coup. With his mental and physical dexterity, he evades and confuses the enemy into submission. Ashida Kim reveals here the meditation, breathing exercises...

First of an entire series of books and videos dedicated to the detailed instruction of Danzan Ryu Jujitsu is available. See the lists of techniques done in walk through and at full speed in the videos. Have the book handy to make sure you catch every...