Sports & Recreation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449910030Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903659649Author Austin RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint London League Publications LtdPublisher London League Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

Chen style Taijiquan is the oldest of the five main Taijiquan styles. In this book, Master Jan Silberstorff, a leading Chen practitioner, shares his expertise and insights.He explains the background to Taijiquan, and its key principles, and gives the...

Born in Bolton tells the history of the 38 first-class cricketers, including 12 Test Players, to have been born in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton. The first was Walter Hardcastle, born in Great Bolton in 1843, while the most recent are Matt Parkinson...

Phil Gribbon's decades of mountain exploration include over 100 first ascents in the Arctic. Filled with humour, honesty and captivating descriptions of his journeys, this book is the amazing untold story of one of the world's greatest mountaineers. Wild...

Today's game of football is more physically demanding than ever. Every play is full speed, sideline to sideline, goal line to goal line, for four punishing quarters. To withstand the rigors of the game, today's players must be better conditioned than...

Practical Sports Coaching is a thorough and engaging guide for all sports coaching students and practitioners. Drawing on real-life case studies and examples, the book is designed to develop practical coaching skills and provides readers with the methods...

Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn to it have truly known the sport and most have never been in the ring. Moving beyond the typical sentimentality,...

It is a book of three parts: comment; record; and delightful minutiae, which always brings the most cheer. - Mike Atherton, The Times The publication of Wisden is cricket's equivalent of the state opening of Parliament. It's another great edition. -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823312Author Bill VigarsFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

The hard-hitting, personal stories shared by some of boxing's biggest names are presented in a series of short, sharp features in Tales from the Top Table. Seventeen world champions are among the main attractions. Delve deep into the psyche of the famous...

This is a brand new edition of one of the first guidebooks to this classic walk. "The Dales Way" is one of Britain's favourite long-distance walks, running from Ilkley in Wharfedale, through the Yorkshire Dales National Park to a delightful conclusion on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907521495Author Ken CrocketFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Scottish Mountaineering TrustPublisher Scottish Mountaineering Trust

This guidebook provides clear, easy to follow route directions for the 60 and a half mile-long Richmond Way, passing through a unique area of Northern England. This is a linear walk starting from the main gate of Lancaster Castle and ending below the...

The area described in this book can be regarded as the heartland of the Scottish mountains, bounded by Rannoch Moor, the Great Glen and the Pass of Drumochter. In the south-west corner of this area Ben Cruachan rises between Loch Etive and Loch Awe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965045032Author Keith CodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Code BreakPublisher Code BreakWeight(grams) 570g

This book offers a new history of drug use in sport. It argues that the idea of taking drugs to enhance performance has not always been the crisis or 'evil' we now think it is. Instead, the late nineteenth century was a time of some experimentation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375421839Author Kevin BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 799gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 161mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398431263Author John SheldonFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440235122Author Peter LesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gun Digest (Imprint of KP Books)Publisher F&W Publications Inc

"A really useful textbook to help undergraduate students construct arguments in their writing, and raise their writing abilities to a higher level. The book also provides useful examples that relates to sports students." - Hassan Khalil, Hertfordshire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415980Author Keith Elliot GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Three Sheets in the Wind brings together a glorious collection of Thelwell's sailing cartoons. Arriving on a summer weekend at any stretch of water without one's own craft behind the car or swaying proudly at its moorings is like attending a dance...

The image of the pirate never fails to capture the imagination. The cut-throat sea robbers of history who plundered richly laden merchant ships are legendary. The likes of Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and Henry Morgan are romanticised and celebrated in...

The historic county of Glamorgan has a proud and successful boxing heritage, as can be seen by the 50-plus boxers featured in this, the sixth volume of Gareth Jones' renowned Boxers of Wales series. Having already profiled the boxers of Cardiff, Merthyr...

Helping coaches and players streamline their learning systems, improve their performance, and further their understanding and enjoyment of the game, this book provides an entertaining and enlightening look at the physics behind how to use a racquet to...

The chain of islands from the Virgins to the southern Lesser Antilles is one of the most desirable tropical cruising grounds as well as the most accessible for North American and European sailors. The Caribbean Sea is usually benign, but the conditions...

Scottish Rugby 101 is a compendium of fascinating facts, quotes, stats, stories, personalities and trivia - a perfect stocking-filler for all fans of Scottish rugby. From the very first Test match in 1871 all the way through to the present day,...

This is the life story of Ernie Hunt, footballer for Swindown Town, told through his own recollections and through tributes from those who knew him best.Book InformationISBN 9780752432717Author Chris WestcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The...

Muck, Sweat & Gears is a compendium of fascinating facts, quotes, stats, stories, personalities, advice and trivia - fully revised to include cycling's dramatic increase in popularity since the first volume was published. This revised and updated edition...

Beautiful and powerful, Strong Like Her presents the awe-inspiring account of women's athleticism throughout history.Journalist Haley Shapley takes us through the delightful untold history of female strength to understand how we can better encourage-and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905769216Author Hugh MacdonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd

Feeling Leeds gazes into the curious world of the dislocated supporter, the football fan not born and bred in the shadow of their club's ground. Raiford Guins is one such fan. His book recounts the highs and lows of supporting a team from afar - from...

This book explains, in text and drawings, how to craft fishing lures that are more effective than those you buy. Lurecraft shows you how to design lures for your hometown waters, so they're better suited to local conditions and catch more fish. Here...

From tasting his own blood while running hard as a Notre Dame miler to producing the top US marathon legends in the epicentre of the running boom of the 1970s and into the 80s, Bill Squires not only survived being born with a misdiagnosed and potentially...

Since the publication of the widely hailed first edition in 1983, THE ANNAPOLIS BOOK OF SEAMANSHIP has set the standard by which other books on sailing are measured. It is a comprehansive guide to all aspects of seamanship from the the simplest ABC's to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328507853Author Charles PierceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994863300Author Mike ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Kettle River CanoesPublisher Kettle River CanoesWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 280mm...

In "Hike and Bike Bowland" Jon Sparks will show you around. On his well chosen 24 walks, 7 road bike and 4 mountain bike rides he will take you to places high and low, by river, through woods and onto the tops. In these fine landscapes you can lean back...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568589213Author Gemma ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm...