Sports & Recreation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478971672Author Brian WindhorstFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

The 'outdoors' is a physical and ideological space in which people engage with their environment, but it is also an important vehicle for learning and for leisure. The Routledge Handbook of Outdoor Studies is the first book to attempt to define and...

Don't Be Left Up a River... Without a Packraft Packrafts are lightweight, inflatable boats that can be carried in a backpack, on a bicycle or in a duffel bag. These compact, tough personal watercrafts are used to float rivers, run rapids, cross lakes,...

WINNER OF THE BEST BRITISH BOOK AND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD AT THE BRITISH BOOK DESIGN AND PRODUCTION AWARDS 2010 Join Clare Balding on some terrific cycle rides around Britain, whether it's a week-long cycling holiday or an afternoon ride with the...

Rocky Graziano, juvenile delinquent, middleweight boxing champion, and comedic actor, was the last great fighter from the golden age of boxing, the era of Joe Louis, Jake LaMotta, and Sugar Ray Robinson. In Rocky Graziano: Fists, Fame, and Fortune,...

Research Methods in Sports Coaching is a key resource for any student, researcher or practitioner wishing to undertake research into sports coaching. It takes the reader through each phase of the research process, from identifying valuable research...

For years strength coaches relied solely on one-repetition maximum percentages to select loads for specific phases of program design. Today, however, more and more coaches have turned to velocity-based training for its pinpoint accuracy in measuring...

Sports development takes place in continually evolving - and expanding - territory. If new policies are to be implemented effectively, it is vital to understand how development policy translates into the real world. Until now no single text has examined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643891514Author Josef BrunnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Doublebit PressPublisher Doublebit PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Derrick Rose achieved an improbable childhood dream: being selected first overall in the NBA draft by his hometown Chicago Bulls. The point guard was a phenom, winning the Rookie of the Year award and electrifying fans around the world. In 2011, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587361166Author Paul KelsoFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Hats Off BooksPublisher Hats Off BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 191mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470371015Author Craig L FarnsworthFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing Company

The facilitation of learning is a central feature of coaches' and coach educators' work. Coaching students and practitioners are, as a result, being expected to give increasing levels of thought towards how they might help to develop the knowledge and...

Journey "inside the numbers" for an exceptional set of statistical tools and rules that can help explain the winning, or losing, ways of a basketball team. Basketball on Paper doesn't diagram plays or explain how players get in shape, but instead...

Through extensive interviews with one player in every key position on and off the pitch - including Manuel Neuer, Vincent Kompany, Xabi Alonso, Chicharito, Christian Pulisic, Roberto Martinez and Michael Zorc - Grant Wahl (Sports Illustrated) breaks down...

'It's difficult to change what's in your blood, in your body, all the history of playing that way, and you change it for what? It's analysis the English people have to do,' says Pep Guardiola, and he's right. Let's do that analysis ... English football...

Finalist - 2006 Book of the Year Award by ForeWord Magazine Taekwondo, literally translated, can be defined as "foot, hand way" or "the way of smashing with hands and feet." Such descriptive nomenclature understandably implies a curriculum rich in...

The Testarossa, one of the most "provocative" Ferraris of all time, caused a sensation from its "preview" at the Paris Lido in 1984. It boasted extreme styling, with a rear track significantly wider than the front and conspicuous air intake strakes on...

Revised and updated through the 2018-2019 season. The Duke Blue Devils have a long and glorious history of success, and that history comes alive within these pages, as detailed by Duke historian James Sumner. The Blue Devils' storied past includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982169978Author Dan ShaughnessyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915401Author Chris SleggFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Every football training session and match should begin with a warm-up in order to improve performance and reduce the risk of injuries. Warm-up in Football provides scientific evidence for the effect of warming up and describes how performance is closely...

"If Alpe d'Huez was a rigorous climb, with its mathematical progression of tight corners and steep inclines, the Izoard is far more awesome, a rocky wilderness at 7,743 feet, which needs only a few bleached skulls at the roadside to complete its sense of...

Fine Margins is the definitive story of how two mainstays of English football took their feuding on to the game's biggest stages. The Manchester City and Liverpool rivalry is synonymous with the Premier League, but its roots go back much further. For...

More than 300 rare full-color and black-and-white behind-the-scenes images from father-and-son photographers who were granted unprecedented access to Formula 1 races, drivers, and cars. Renowned automotive photographer Daniel Reinhard and his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912456253Author Pillar Box Red PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Pillar Box Red Publishing LtdPublisher Pillar Box Red Publishing Ltd

The story behind the hit surfing movie Chasing Mavericks! Surfing legend Frosty Hesson shares the story of his remarkably life and his extraordinary friendship with wunderkind Jay Moriarty.When Richard "Frosty" Hesson was first approached by a young Jay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901764492Author John WeaklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Paul H. Crompton LtdPublisher Paul H. Crompton LtdWeight(grams) 219g

The book extensively covers the use of a knife in self-defense. The technique and tactics described in this book involve using the knife in such a way as to disable the attacker by creating only minor injuries, if possible. The basic concepts can also be...

Just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of The Fight of the Century (Ali-Frazier I), Sparrin' with Smokin' Joe provides a penetrating, at times brutally candid, look at legendary champion Joe Frazier. While the more flamboyant, media-accessible Ali...

The oldest professional sports team in the Bay Area, the San Francisco 49ers have thrilled their loyal fans for seven and a half decades. Founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference, the 49ers joined the NFL when the...

This is the complete story of the Austin Healey 100-6 and 3000's rallying history, told in all its glory by expert motoring historian Graham Robson, as part of the `Rally Giants' series. In nine eventful years - 1957 to 1965 - the six-cylinder-engined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042217Author Stephen BrowningFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

This selection of the very best, and most intriguing, writing on cricket, drawn from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day, adopts a fresh approach. It is arranged around the theme of the many things that must happen simply for a day's play to...

The new NFL Centennial Edition A multi-billion-dollar entertainment empire, the National Football League is a coast-to-coast obsession that borders on religion and dominates our sports-mad culture. But today's NFL also provides a stage for playing out...

Riding a Dressage Test demystifies the requirements for dressage competition at preliminary, novice and elementary levels. The international dressage judge, David Trott, explains in an easy-to-understand way exactly what the judge expects to see in the...

Mikhail Zhilkin, a data scientist who has worked on projects ranging from Candy Crush games to Premier League football players' physical performance, shares his strong views on some of the best and, more importantly, worst practices in data analytics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385675512Author Dave HillFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Doubleday CanadaPublisher Random House Canada

When originally published in 1991 this was the first book to tackle the UK policy process of sport and to provide a political science analysis of some of the key issues facing sports administrators today. The volume identifies the parties involved:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861516442Author Cheeky JurgenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 71mm