Sports & Recreation

Very few athletes are invited to a combine. Whether they are elite high school athletes vying for a college scholarship or standout college players looking to catch the eye of NFL scouts, only the best of the best get the chance to showcase their...

Oscar Robertson is known as one of the best players in NBA history, a triple-double machine who set the stage for the versatility of today's NBA superstars like LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, and Draymond Green. But The Big O's larger legacy may lie in...

Over the course of nearly one hundred years, just a handful of NFL teams have enjoyed success across multiple decades. There's absolutely no doubt which franchise the fans in Wisconsin would put at the top of the list.Most Packers fans are familiar with...

Heaven Is a Playground, now in its fifth edition to include more information on Fly Williams, was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent...

On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. In this most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781893765122Author Michael DeMarcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Via Media Publishing CompanyPublisher Via Media Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

With sequential photos and step-by-step instructions, this guide to a performance cornerstone-the flip trick-benefits skateboarders of all skill levels. Often combined with curb tricks and applied to such obstacles as handrails and ramps, flip tricks are...

This book contains a complete match-by-match statistical record of the Copa Libertadores de America from 2020 through to the Final match of the 2023 competition. This highly prestigious international club competition (organised by the South American...

Amyr Klink, whose sailing exploits have made him a hero in Brazil, tells of his daring singlehanded circumnavigation below the Antarctic Convergence. Surfing the waves in his custom-built 50-foot "aluminum red truck," PARATII, Klink enjoys the quiet...

An all-encompassing, chronological guide to football's World Cup, one of the world's few truly international events, in good time for the June 2014 kick-off in Rio de Janeiro. From its beginnings in 1930 to the modern all-singing, all-dancing self-styled...

This continuation of FalconGuides' progressive climbing series invites single pitch climbers to responsibly venture beyond the chains, into the realm of multi-pitch climbing. The farther from the ground a climb leads, the more technical proficiency and...

From carbon fibre racing bikes to 'sharkskin' swimsuits, the application of cutting-edge design, technology and engineering has proved to be a vital ingredient in enhanced sports performance. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of...

The contributions here cover the major socio-economic, political, cultural and sporting dimensions of the 1998 World Cup. It is set within the sporting context of the history and organization of French football and the French tradition of using major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909245457Author Clyde BestFormat HardbackImprint De Coubertin BooksPublisher De Coubertin Books

This study guide has been produced to modernize, streamline, and simplify the original text whilst continuing to remain USCG compliant as well as now adhering to the new STCW requirements. The long since out-of-print original text, Marine Fire...

A complete match-by-match statistical record of the Intercontinental Cup (played between the winners of the European Cup and Copa Libertadores) which ran from 1960 to 2004, plus the FIFA Club World Cup (played between the champions of the 7 continental...

The Iconic Jersey: Baseball x Fashion explores the design and aesthetics of the iconic baseball jersey both on and off the sandlot. Featuring over 35 historic and contemporary jerseys and baseball-inspired fashion, this ground-breaking volume also...

This book contains a complete match-by-match statistical record of the 2018 FIFA World Cup competition. Comprising complete match statistics for every game in the qualifiers and Final tournament played between the years of 2015 and 2018.Book...

This book is a foundational resource for all coaches and student coaches who are, or who plan to be, working with Masters athletes. This athletic cohort typically includes adults over the age of 35 years who are registered for sport programs/events, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542449Author Mariska Van SprundelFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904148480Author Nick MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Chiltern SocietyPublisher Chiltern Society

Celebrating the 2020 NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers!The Los Angeles Lakers reclaimed the throne in 2020, triumphing over the Miami Heat in an NBA season like no other. Legacy: The Los Angeles Lakers' Unforgettable Run to the 2020 NBA Title takes fans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541702042Author Valerie BabbFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 155mm * 33mm

For more than 400 years, the secret of the golf swing has been one of the most fascinating and frustrating mysteries known to mankind. Despite remarkable advances in golf club technology, golf instruction, and golf course conditioning, the average...

Welsh football legend Trevor Ford was not your typical football player from the forties and fifties. In a era where football club owners held all the cards, and were more than happy with the GBP20-a-week maximum wage given to the game's stars, Ford was a...

Basic Illustrated Alpine Ski Touring has everything one needs to participate in this growing and exciting activity. Written by expert Molly Abolson, this book provides information on gear, skills, and preparation so that beginners and intermediate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937715861Author Peter CossinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint VeloPressPublisher VeloPress

"Ant is borderline obsessed with funerals, likening the events to weddings as gatherings he looks forward to. Yet, when a childhood friend passes, Ant's veneer starts to crumble. Weirdly funny, Whiteout Conditions tracks Ant and his friend Vince as they...

Over thousands of years the horse's teeth have evolved to be hard-wearing and efficient in biting through plant material and grinding food to make it digestible. However, man's domestication of the horse has resulted in numerous potential problems in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493055326Author Martin GitlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Taylor Trade PublishingPublisher Taylor Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

This book provides the first detailed history of one of the most powerful international sport organisations, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since 2019 known as World Athletics. The book critically assesses the internal...

Like most human activities, mountaineering has had an abnormal year, as attested by several of our articles. Constrained by Covid-19 restrictions, climbers have explored locally in summer and winter, and recorded an unprecedented tally of new routes on...

As majestic as they are powerful, and as timeless as they are current, bears continue to captivate. Speaking of Bears is not your average collection of stories. Rather, it is the history, compiled from interviews with more than 100 individuals, of how...

If there is one thing that equestrians have learned to do over time, it is laugh at themselves. The horse world is a crazy, wonderful, ridiculous, awful, beautiful place, and horse people know it. We spend an inordinate amount of money on insanely...

On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan-to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear-completing what was described as "the greatest feat of pure rock climbing in the history of the...

USA Best Book Awards Finalist - USA Book News This book was written to address an important gap that exists in martial arts training. The gap is the space or dirty ground that lives between sport and combat techniques; that is when you need to control a...

In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of $20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for...

The word disaster is much used in the world of soccer - conceding a penalty, a sending off, an untimely defeat. Comparing these with real life disasters puts things into perspective and the results of the games become insignificant. Soccer is not more...

For most of the twentieth century, the "Mr. America" image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world's premier bodybuilding event over the next thirty...

As the commercialization of sport grows, the need for proper regulation increases. In legal terms, sport is part of the entertainment and media industries which are subject to rapid change. This work brings together experts in many fields to analyze...