Sports & Recreation

Thirteen full moons, thirteen special nights on Scotland's highest mountains, the Munros, in the course of one exceptional year of full moons. Add a soundtrack for each walk and a surprising range of celebratory drinks and you have a fitting finale to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244052898Author Kevin WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 254g

This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry...

The Science of Stretching is a research-based book that brings together the scientific principles of many different modalities of stretching and its application to the general and sporting populations. The book reviews static stretching, dynamic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956990778Author Marc De BremaekerFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Fons Sapientiae PublishingPublisher Fons Sapientiae PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780770437565Author Mark Fainaru-WadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Three Rivers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306874413Author Shane RyanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 155mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995777804Author Peter CarbinFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint National Trust - Solihull CentrePublisher National Trust - Solihull Centre

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143454335Author Suresh RainaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 166gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

This is the first full biography of Sydney Wooderson, Britain's most popular sportsman during the 1930s and 1940s. A more unlikely sports hero is hard to imagine - he was small, shy and ran in thick glasses and baggy shorts. The public loved seeing him...

The King of Dens Park is the authorised life story of Alan Gilzean, the legendary, world-class Dundee, Spurs and Scotland footballer. Exclusive insights provided by his family, closest friends and colleagues add to the author's own experience to reveal...

Step-by-step instructions and over 300 photographs allow the trainee to follow and learn the techniques with ease. The ideal weapon for self-defense is a stick. To find a comprehensive system of techniques using the stick, we must turn to the East, for...

Stanley Park Story: Life, Love and the Merseyside Derby charts the recent history of the longest continuous running derby game in English football. Liverpool and Everton have now contested the fixture every season since 1962. Using a mixture of fact,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913167035Author Steve BroadbentFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Oxford Alpine ClubPublisher Oxford Alpine Club

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663742Author Wayne SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd

Starting in the Gobi desert in winter, adventurer Rob Lilwall sets out on an extraordinary six-month journey, walking almost 5000 kilometres across China. Along the way he and his cameraman Leon brave the toxic insides of China's longest road tunnel,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909245600Author Simon HughesFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint De Coubertin BooksPublisher De Coubertin Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612549477Author Tim O'ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Brown Books Publishing GroupPublisher Brown Books Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

In recent years recovery has become a sports and fitness buzzword. Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks and shakes to compression sleeves, foam rollers, electrical muscle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642341218Author Preston LernerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Octane PressPublisher Octane Press

'I absolutely loved it - what a wise, brilliant book - so well observed on families and love and the secrets we keep.' RACHAEL LUCAS, author of The State of Grace***** 'I wish I could buy a ticket and visit Polperran . . . A wonderfully sweet and...

An Introduction to Sports Coaching provides students with an accessible and engaging guide to the scientific, social scientific, medical and pedagogical theory that underlies the practice of quality sports coaching. Now in a fully updated and revised...

A dozen Wolverhampton Wanderers legends come together to tell the stories behind their favourite ever games for the club - enabling Wolves fans of all ages to relive these magic moments through the eyes and emotions of the men who were there, playing...

What is the purpose of sport, and how are ethical conceptions of sport shaped by the answers to this question? In Sport and Moral Conflict, William Morgan investigates, examining sport as a moral crucible that puts athletes in competitive, emotionally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524760755Author Deena KastorFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911496Author Peter J. SeddonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

'There is me trailing home 131st and, for all I know, I might be a top 50 rider if we all started on a level playing field . . . Bollocks to you all. You are a bunch of cheating bastards. At least I can look myself in the mirror.'Bradley Wiggins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999833001Author Bill BodriFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Top Shape Publishing LLCPublisher Top Shape Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 127g

Everyone's image of the ideal cricket ground will be a village field, fringed by trees, the outfield dappled with clovers and buttercups, swallows flitting above... And what of all the other wildlife associated with this most natural of sports? At the...

Get the New Edition of New York's Best-Selling Bird Guide Learn to identify birds in New York, and make bird-watching even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous field guide, bird identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look...

A book of ideas collected by the coaches at Plas y Brenin. Over 300 top tips to help canoe and kayak coaches fill their own 'coach's toolbox'.Book InformationISBN 9780953195664Author Plas y Brenin (Wales) National Mountain CentreFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780912974Author David SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

This is the only guide that covers all the climbs on the Isle of Portland and at Lulworth Cove. Whether it's a sport climb, a trad route, a deep water solo, or a boulder problem, you'll find it here. The bulk of the guide covers sport climbing, and...

If you are new to walking in the Yorkshire Dales, you're in for a treat, as we trace our way up the Three Peaks. First though, we'll do them one at a time, giving a chance to savour the experience, as well as getting to know the area. Paul Shorrock is...

Exiting the corner the car dances on the edge of adhesion as it brushes up against the dirt on the edge of the kerb. You are hard on the throttle and accelerating up the straight, there is no way you could have made that corner any faster - or is there?...

Blackpool FC Miscellany collects together all the vital information you never knew you needed to know about the Seasiders. In these pages you will find irresistible anecdotes and the most mindblowing stats and facts. Heard the one about the goalie who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995795266Author Marc De BremaekerFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Fons Sapientiae PublishingPublisher Fons Sapientiae PublishingWeight(grams)...

In En Cyclo Pedia Johan Tell - award-winning Swedish writer and cycling obsessive - uncovers the very soul of cycling, exploring and explaining the many and varied stories that form the basis of cycling culture. Beautifully illustrated, with hundreds of...

Revised and updated for 2020! The New England Patriots' feat of six Super Bowls in 17 years represents the gold standard of dominance every sports franchise strives for. With Bill Belichick and Tom Brady at the helm, the Patriots' unlikely victory back...

The Kackar Mountains are part of the Pontic Alps, a glaciated, granite mountain range which hugs the south coast of the Black Sea, extending from the Caucasus towards Istanbul. The mountain range is lushly wooded on the north, with pines succeeded at...