Sports & Recreation

Association football, aka 'soccer', is the world's most popular sport. As is known, its rules were drawn up in England between the 1840s and 1860s, largely at the behest of ex public school and university players. Rugby, another version of football honed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649220158Author Ernest ShackletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Sastrugi Press LLCPublisher Sastrugi Press LLCWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm)...

This is the authorised biography of one of the best-liked bad boys in British motorsport. John Chatham, driver, racer, repairer, rebuilder, tuner, trader and lover of Austin-Healeys, was, according to Geoffrey Healey, "uncontrollable" in his youth, and...

Willie Miller is an Aberdeen legend. In a glittering career he won every domestic honour, played in two World Cup Finals for Scotland and led Aberdeen to victory in the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup. He played with and against some of the greatest...

A resource book covering the finest walks, treks and climbs in the High Pyrenees for 400km between France and Spain, from the Cirque de Lescun, on the edge of the Basque country in the west, to the Carlit massif and the Cerdagne to the east of Andorra...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909914339Author Hugh TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher Bradwell Books

When Frankie Dettori stormed to victory on Golden Horn in the 2015 Derby, the effervescent Italian jockey was writing yet another extraordinary chapter in a remarkable sporting story. This tribute to hugely popular sportsman draws on the unique resources...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995748545Author Ted LiddlePage Count 2Imprint Northern HeritagePublisher Northern Heritage ServicesWeight(grams) 6gDimensions(mm) 777mm * 700mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843360803Author David RobsonFormat PaperbackImprint Air Pilot Publisher LtdPublisher Air Pilot Publisher Ltd

I Always Wanted To Be Somebody is the intimate and candid story of a girl who grew up in the asphalt environs of Harlem, skipping school, drinking hard liquor, stealing and fist-fighting, but went on to break the color barrier in tennis and achieving the...

'Bill Edgar is simply the best. His quizzes draw upon one of the greatest minds in football. This is a book nobody with a love of the game can afford to miss'MATTHEW SYED'It must be good if it's Bill's book!!'JAMIE CARRAGHER'The stuff he comes up with is...

No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss. Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are 28 of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary...

Becher's Brook at Aintree, the legendary Kop at Anfield, the 18th tee at Hoylake - just three hallowed Liverpool landmarks on the map of international sport. But sporting heritage on Merseyside permeates the entire region and its unique cultural legacy. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616899950Author Easkey BrittonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Princeton Architectural PressPublisher Princeton Architectural PressWeight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911467113Author T P LeggettFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Trevor Leggett Adhyatma Yoga TrustPublisher Trevor Leggett Adhyatma Yoga...

A practical, illustrated, and scientifically grounded guide to improving your running technique and preventing injury, written by a kinesiologist In North America alone, thirty-seven million people run regularly, and most suffer at least one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591932673Author Becky RasmussenFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Advance Publishing In.,USPublisher Advance Publishing In.,USWeight(grams) 70g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845240820Author Paul WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch Cyf

Triathletes spend a lot of time and money making sure they have the right gear, optimizing their training plans, and selecting their races. And part of that preparation for big race days is taking care of diet to be sure the body is properly fed to...

Debates in Art and Design Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with contemporary issues and developments in learning and teaching. This fully updated second edition introduces key issues, concepts and tensions in order to help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648253570Author Chris MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Develop a PlayerPublisher Develop a PlayerWeight(grams) 159g

Although dramatic head kicks and garrote-tight submissions may get most of the airplay in highlight reels, the stats show that punching combinations and knockouts reap more MMA victories than any other fighting technique. This boxing primer not only...

Tracy Reifkind has a message for exercise - phobes and fitness trendsetters alike: The kettlebell swing is the ultimate equalizer! Men and women, athletes and couch potatoes, the physically fit and the overweight - anyone can pick up a kettlebell, and in...

As seen on TikTok, from Samantha Towle, the New York Times bestselling author of Ruin, comes a the next dramatically powerful and passionate novel in the Gods series.Readers are raving about Rush!'Epic. Loved every word, and Sam Towle proves yet again a...

Hannah Dines and Jess Leyden are two perfectly normal, brilliant women. One, a world record-holding athlete and a Paralympian on the trike. The other, a multiple age-group world champion and one of the most promising rowers Great Britain has to offer. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995795228Author Marc De BremaekerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fons Sapientiae PublishingPublisher Fons Sapientiae PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906720783Author Paul LightfootFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Alison HodgePublisher Alison HodgeDimensions(mm) 150mm * 153mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476785790Author Charlie EngleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Sports/Recreation) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781642340563Author John OreoviczFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Octane...

The brutal 2010 murders of promising footballer Eddie Moussa and his brother were a harbinger of the gang violence now laying siege to Sweden. Written by crime reporter Ann Tornkvist, Follow Fucking Orders captures the freefall of a quaint town, known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770410282Author Chris KanyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 662g

On a sunny afternoon in May 1868, nineteen-year-old Gilbert Grace stood in a Wiltshire field, wondering why he was playing cricket against the Great Western Railway Club. A batting genius, 'W. G.' should have been starring at Lord's in the grand opening...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598395Author John LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 3mm

"Who's Who in British Climbing" contains nearly 700 mini biographies of climbers - the romantics, eccentrics and buffoons that have made British Climbing what it is: dissolute and hungover most of the time, with the odd unexpected burst of brilliance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781893765351Author Llyr JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Via Media Publishing CompanyPublisher Via Media Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

They are the chosen few who have drunk from the chalice of immortality. They are the men and women who have been part of the 100 GREAT GAA TEAMS.For GAA fans, our great teams bring colour and richness to our lives. When our team is on a winning streak it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593830444Author LeBron JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062517180Author Kurt WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910723777Author Dr. Paula SellsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 1306gDimensions(mm) 276mm...