Sports & Recreation

Dace The Prince of the Stream is only the second book ever dedicated to this charismatic and widespread coarse fish. (The 'How to Catch them' book on dace was published well over 50 years ago.) This new book, generously illustrated in full colour, covers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979982255Author Adam J. PollackFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Win by Ko PublicationsPublisher Win by Ko PublicationsWeight(grams) 698g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595819Author Brian TuohyFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 374g

Is Shang-Chi Marvel's ultimate fighter?Discover the fighting styles, training techniques, and secret disciplines of Marvel Comics' mighty martial artists and hand-to-hand combatants. From disciples of Eastern combat tactics and mixed martial arts, to...

The Book of Football Obituaries celebrates the lives of a cavalcade of remarkable characters, men who have loomed large in the collective consciousness of countless football fans, week by week, season by season. Collected together in this life-affirming...

This modern classic of small boat literature details the history of the Nordic Folkboat--a class that enjoys remarkable popularity in some of the world's most beautiful and challenging sailing waters. A clinker design that sails equally fast and well...

How much do you really know about the club you love? You can find out by exploring the 1,000 questions set out in 100 categories that make up this Arsenal quiz book. It's not often that books on football make reference to Ascot races, Fidel Castro, Texas...

A collection of magazine stories that Ruark wrote in the 1950s and 1960s, but were never published in book form.Book InformationISBN 9781571570222Author Robert RuarkFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Safari Press,U.S.Publisher Safari Press,U.S...

'A modern classic . . . Absolutely riveting and frequently moving' - The Telegraph 'Among the best books ever written on Irish sport' - Sunday Tribune 'Brilliant . . . Stand Up and Fight is the definitive account. It captures the essence of what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983634614Author June WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Enterprises UnlimitedPublisher Enterprises UnlimitedWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)...

'If we were guaranteed success in everything we tried then life would be pretty boring.'Mainstream news reports about climbing are dominated by action from the world's highest mountains, more often than not focusing on tragedy and controversy. Far...

From a five-year-old girl racing 60mph micro-midgets in South Africa, to a Formula One driver in the British Championship during her first full year of racing in the UK, and on to becoming the first and only woman ever to win a Formula One race, Desire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908748133Author Des MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Kittiwake PressPublisher Kittiwake Press

Rangers 101 distils the history of the most successful football club in the world, Glasgow Rangers F.C. From their founding in 1872 and their first (drawn) League Championship, all the way through to the present day, Rangers' history is brought to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910551820Author Clive BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher Bradwell Books

Venison is experiencing an unprecedented growth in popularity as a delicious, healthy, and increasingly available dish.Here are more than fifty recipes from the senior chef/lecturer in Culinary Arts at Westminster Kingsway College, England. In this...

Learn to harness your spiritual and mental energy to acquire the tools for survival and success in martial arts.In Mind Power: Secret Strategies for the Martial Arts, Kazumi Tabata, Grandmaster in the Shotokan and Shorinji styles of Karate, offers his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062097637Author Jeff PearlmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297735Author Simon KuperFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583942451Author Shujin WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 202gDimensions(mm)...

Adapted Physical Education National Standards, Third Edition, thoroughly covers the latest Adapted Physical Education National Standards (APENS), offering current knowledge and best practices for teaching adapted physical education. This new edition...

Twickenham Stadium is the home of Rugby Union and the England national rugby team. It is the largest stadium in the world to be devoted purely to this sport, the second largest stadium in the UK, and the third largest in Europe. In this official...

Compiled by a team of Cruising Association regional editors and Imray, the Cruising Almanac is an annual publication first published over 100 years ago and long regarded as the perfect on board companion for cruising yachts. Each year, a well-known...

Eddie Olczyk had built a life and career most people could only dream of. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, he fell in love with the game of hockey during an era when most kids preferred balls to pucks. Against all odds, he played on the 1984 U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992742867Author Mark YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Educate & Learn PublishingPublisher Educate & Learn Publishing

This book brings together many new and exciting international approaches to sport heritage. It provides a thought-provoking sport heritage case study that would be of interest to students and researchers in history, geography, anthropology, marketing,...

The Exercising Female: Science and Its Application is the first book to provide students, researchers, and professionals with an evidence-based reference on the exceptional scientific issues associated with female participation in sport and exercise...

Live pain free and maximize your training potential! The Modern Art and Science of Mobility is a striking visual guide to releasing muscle tension and activating muscles for functional motion. It goes beyond traditional training methods that focus on...

To its legions of followers, bodyboarding is quite simply the most intense watersport on the planet. Wherever you find waves that are too heavy for even the most gung-ho surfers, there you'll find the boogers, screaming into dredging pits and scoring...

From his days as a cadet on the aging training ship Worcester, Captain Philip Rentell's forty-year career has spanned the world's oceans and a huge variety of seagoing experience. He served as a junior officer on numerous freighters and liners, as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850589914Author Peter NaldrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sigma PressPublisher Sigma PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641526821Author Paul MagnantiFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 127mm...

Ingemar Johansson's right hand--dubbed "The Hammer of Thor"--was the most fearsome in boxing, and Johansson's three fights with Floyd Patterson rank among the sport's classic rivalries. Yet most fans know little about the Swedish playboy who won the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800992764Author Y LolfaFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 12mm

The magnetic variation curves have been updated with 2020 data. Under new royalty terms, the DGA (Danish Geodata Agency) have made it unviable to reproduce their copyrighted data. All DGA data has been removed from this chart. There has been general...

Packed full of essential tools and tips, this second edition is your quick-start guide to undertaking research within real world of sport. Using clear, accessible language, Smith maps an easy-to-follow journey through the research process, drawing upon...

March 2016: boxer Chris Eubank Jr stops his opponent Nick Blackwell in round ten of a British title fight. Blackwell, having collapsed in the ring, then dies momentarily in the back of an ambulance, before being brought back to life. He remains in a coma...

Fosse v Luffs is a story filled with drama, excitement, controversy - and violence - about a footballing rivalry as intense as any in modern English football. The Fosse (forerunner of Leicester City) were the dominant club in the town of Leicester, and...

When Jet McDonald cycled four thousand miles to India and back, he didn't want to write a straightforward account. He wanted to go on an imaginative journey. The age of the travelogue is over: today we need to travel inwardly to see the world with fresh...

Racing in Doncaster contains a fascinating selection of photographs, charting the ups and downs of this historic course. Famous races, horses, jockeys and trainers can all be found here, along with much detail about the St Leger, Doncaster's most...