Sports & Recreation

Despite the growing literature on spirituality and its positive impact on well-being in health psychology, education, occupational psychology and leisure studies, it has been less examined in sport studies. Meaning and Spirituality in Sport and Exercise:...

Hillwalking is a way of life for Robin Howie, whose name is very well-known in Scottish hillwalking circles and whose knowledge of the Scottish high tops is second to none. For over ten years his popular weekly hillwalking column has appeared in The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175177Author Wayne BelonohaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. in Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them. He crosses the Western...

In practice settings, competitions, and games, athletes are often required to perform an arsenal of motor tasks in dynamic and challenged sporting environments, where they have to respond without having enough time to prepare themselves for the act...

Boxing was phenomenally popular in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain. Some of the leading men of the kingdom attended matches and patronized boxers and the most important fights attracted tens of thousands of spectators. Supporters of the sport...

Let Stephen Curry, Charles Barkley, Grant Hill, Reggie Miller, and more, tell you what it was like to take the floor against one of the Greatest of All Time. With a Foreword by Jerry West, and a new tribute from the author about Kobe's tragic death. When...

In 1982, Julie Moss ran the Ironman triathlon for her college senior research project. Her idea was quirky, even crazy; only a handful of hardcore, highly trained enthusiasts competed in the little-known, 140.6-mile combination of swimming, cycling, and...

For most baseball teams, the 2020 season was a strange, short, fanless diversion--but not in Los Angeles. After years of frustrating playoff runs, they finally reclaimed the World Series trophy after more than 30 years, led by their star pitcher, Clayton...

With interest and participation in extreme and adventure sports growing year on year, the time is ripe for a thoughtful and analytical assessment of this phenomenon from a rigorous philosophical perspective. This collection of essays is the first...

We The North. The slogan for the most successful era of Raptors' basketball was elevated to a new level with the stunning off-season acquisition of superstar Kawhi Leonard. Finally breaking through after years of knocking on the door of the Eastern...

Runcorn was a hotbed of rugby in the late Victorian era, the town's club a proud founder member in 1895 of the Northern Union - the breakaway game that became known as Rugby League. Yet that great rugby tradition was ended by the First World War, with...

In this invaluable guide, Gene Kugach describes in detail how to catch every kind of freshwater fish in almost any situation. The hundreds of tips and techniques offered here, applicable to all forms of freshwater fishing will greatly increase your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770413320Author Bertrand HebertFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Pete Axthelm follows the 1969-70 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. Throughout, he writes clearly, intelligently, and passionately about the game,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932391923Author The Editors of Baseball AmericaFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Baseball AmericaPublisher Baseball AmericaWeight(grams)...

Ever watched professional snowboarders and wanted to pull some of the same tricks they make look so simple? If so, Mastering Snowboarding is the resource for you. Olympic gold medalist and X Games champion Hannah Teter teams up with expert snowboard...

New York Times reporter John Branch's riveting, humane pieces about ordinary people doing extraordinary things at the edges of the sporting world have won nearly every major journalism prize. Sidecountry gathers the best of Branch's work for the first...

There is a myth: that travel and exploration are the privileged pastimes of youth. Adventure has an age restriction, and the extraordinary an expiry date. Vicky Jack's inspiring tale of courage, perseverance and strong-headedness reveals the falsity...

On this 2018 edition the chart specification has been improved to show coloured light flashes. Depths have been updated from the latest surveys where available. The inset plan of Broad Haven Bay has been extended east to include Ross Port. There has been...

People have been racing horses for thousands of years, all over the world. Yet horseracing is often presented as an English creation that was exported, unaltered, to the colonies. This Companion investigates the intersection of racing and literature,...

Everything you need to know to buy, sell, and collect shotguns.Gun Trader's Guide is the bestselling collectible firearms reference, having sold over two million copies in thirty-six editions. The guide includes prices for all types of firearms, but what...

A superb collection of stories that captures the very soul of hunting. For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalling the drama and action that go with good days afield ranks among life's most pleasurable activities. Here, then,...

This is the first kungfu book by a Shaolin grandmaster, Sifu Wong Kiew Kit, who has become a legend. It gives a comprehensive introduction to Shaolin Kungfu, including: - The philosophy and history of Shaolin Kungfu. - A basic Shaolin Kungfu set...

Between 1967-69 Henry Blofeld was fortunate to witness cricket on three continents. He followed the great West Indies side captained by Garry Sobers through its home series against England - to the 1968-9 Australian tour, and finally their early summer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501101595Author Dvora MeyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 23mm

Every new print copy of Sport Leadership in the 21st Century includes access to the Navigate Companion Website All organizations look to leaders to influence and motivate employees in working toward organizational goals and future success, and that...

The NFL is the most popular professional sports league in the United States. Its athletes receive multi-million dollar contracts and almost endless media attention. The league's most important game, the Super Bowl, is practically a national holiday...

A history of Bristol Bulldogs speedway.Book InformationISBN 9780752428659Author Robert BamfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583944486Author Robert TangoraFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

The 1988 cult classic behind football's data analytics revolution, now back in print with a new foreword and preface. Data analytics have revolutionized football. With play sheets informed by advanced statistical analysis, today's coaches pass more, kick...

Vive le Tour! is the ultimate guide to the competition's heroes, cheats, controversy, extreme terrain, triumphs and tragedy - on and off the trail. The Tour De France is one of the most revered, thrilling sporting events in the world, not to...

Shortlisted for the North American Society for Sports History 2020 Monograph Prize It's hard to imagine, but as late as the 1950s, athletes could get kicked off a team if they were caught lifting weights. Coaches had long believed that strength training...

Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this cheap and simple sport emerged as a major legacy of Britain's formal and informal empires and spread quickly...

This is an invaluable guide to every aspect of horsemanship, from the diverse and specialist equipment for both horse and rider to learning to ride and competing in riding competitions. The first section of the book is a directory-style approach to the...

Part of the small format Y series (A2 size), this replicates sheet 2400.3 from the 2400 West Country Chart PackAbout the AuthorImray Laurie Norie & Wilson Ltd was formed in 1904 when three private chart publishing firms amalgamated. Each of these London...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905326051Author David NorrieFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Vision Sports Publishing LtdPublisher Vision Sports Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 340g

A guide for those curious about antique rifles, the lost art of muzzle-loading, and the history of the Old West from an expert on black powder hunting.The Black Powder Plainsman provides a wealth of information on muzzle-loading and the history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780233005195Author Iain SpraggFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Andre Deutsch LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904148381Author Nick MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Chiltern SocietyPublisher Chiltern Society