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32nd America's Cup.

A luscious, large-format look at the event when it was held in Valencia. There are chapters on the trophy, architecture and design, the people involved, technology, the international route to the cup, the emotion of it all and more. We have walked around...

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A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat: And Other Bizarre Ancient Sports Discovered in Asia.

Publisher Description During a seven-year journey around India spent immersing herself in the cricket subculture, author Emma Levine heard about the wonderful game of buzkashi, a kind of anarchic rugby on horseback where teams of men wrestle and race...

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A Guide to the World Anti-Doping Code: A Fight for the Spirit of Sport.

Whether there is in fact more or less doping in sport, (the ready availability of performance-enhancing substances for sale means the temptation to cheat is ever-present) there has definitely been a significant increase in the efforts to detect doping...

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A History of English Country Sports.

Publisher Description This book thoroughly charts the historical development of country sports in England over approximately the last 1,000 years. Several of the English country sports are also relevant to the other countries within the British Isles...

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Anatomy of Cycling.

Contains a wide variety of exercises, all selected to benefit you as a cyclist. Follow the step-by-step instructions and review the anatomical illustrations that accompany each exercise to get a sense of which muscles you are targeting. Terrific for the...

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Escape from Lucania: An Epic Struggle for Survival.

Publisher Description By 1937, Mount Lucania, at 17,150 feet, was the highest unclimbed peak in North America. It was not sheer technical difficulty that made Lucania redoubtable; it was the mountain's inaccessibility, lying in the centre of the...

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Foul Play: What's Wrong with Sport.

Publisher Description Common wisdom decrees that sport has an overwhelmingly positive influence on our civilisation. It is good for your health, builds character, unites nations and generates peace and love and understanding across the globe. Or so we...

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Laptop Dancing and the Nanny Goat Mambo: A Sports Writer's Year.

Publisher Description Introducing the Bill Bryson of sports reporting. This is a wry, hilarious insider's account of the sports journalist's life. Tom Humphries is a passion machine according to his colleagues at the Irish Times. Yes, he may sit in the...

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NASCAR's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Outrageous Drivers, Wild Wrecks and Other Oddities.

Publisher Description Tim Flock once raced with a monkey in his car. When the 1961 Western North Carolina 500 was declared over after only 250 miles because of a deteriorating track surface, 4,000 fans held the drivers hostage. Driver Gober Sosebee was...

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Not a Games Person.

Publisher Description This is the story of a girl who lost a race - who has always lost all races...'You either loved it or hated it, looked forward to it or dreaded it, but we've all been forced to do it. Sometimes a note could get you out of it, but...

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Olympics in Athens 1896: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games.

Publisher Description That opening sentence gives the flavour of a rich and often entertaining work of history that brings together the following intriguing strands: the rise of amateur athletics in Britain, the US, France, Germany and other western...

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Sporting Success in Ancient Greece and Rome.

Publisher Description A companion volume to 'Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Food and Drink in Greek and Roman Times', this book describes another aspect of life in those days. From the earliest times athletes competed in local city events, and successful...

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The Full Burn: On the Set, at the Bar, Behind the Wheel, and Over the Edge with Hollywood Stuntmen.

Publisher Description In The Full Burn, acclaimed journalist Kevin Conley goes inside one of the coolest - and most dangerous - jobs in the world. With bravura storytelling and full access to many of the legends of the field, Conley gives a...

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The Olympic Games: The First Thousand Years.

Explains in absorbing detail the various sporting events and their historical, social and religious context. Today's audiences would be astonished by the brutality exhibited in many of the Olympic events. Boxing and wrestling were particularly ferocious...

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We Could Be Heroes.

A collection of brilliantly funny gonzo despatches from the frontline of sport - alternative sport - nettle-eating, wife-carrying, egg-throwing, Stilton-rolling, stone-skipping, and sauna-sitting. A laugh-a-minute description of two blokes, one van and...

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What Every Man Wants: The Ultimate Trophy Book.

The ultimate guide to the world's most sought after sporting awards. For each trophy it gives you the essential facts, histories, and the memorable moments when our sporting heroes celebrated the possession of their famous cups and prizes. If you've...

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You'll Win Nothing With Kids: Fathers, Sons and Football.

An hilarious chronicle of a father's time as manager of his son's football (soccer) team. On the surface it is about standing on the sidelines of a muddy municipal football pitch but the deeper message is that White found a way of communicating and...

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