Biography: sport

Sir Curtly Ambrose is one of the most famous cricket players of all time.

Diplomatic Investigations is a classic work in the field of International Relations.

"e;The 2003-04 season was a dream for anyone in the orbit of Saint Joseph's basketball.

In the decades after its publication, Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship served as a touchstone for such major philosophical and literary figures as Schopenhauer, Schleiermacher, and Schlegel, and was widely understood to be one of the greatest novels of the German canon.

This book argues that the insulation of public life from the ethical standpoint puts in jeopardy the legitimacy and survival of our political communities.

Don Cherry straddled the world of music and the world of golf.

In Malicious Deceivers, Ioana B.

This book examines how modern Western history has been shaped by the rise and fall of the great European empires.

WINNER OF THE BOARDMAN TASKER PRIZE 2008Metro magazine recently wrote that Andy Kirkpatrick makes Ray Mears look like Paris Hilton.

This book describes the radical shift in the study of economic science; where arguing with words was replaced by reasoning with mathematical models.

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for BiographyWinner of the 2018 National Book Award for NonfictionA tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro -- the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness.

Serena Williams is the most successful tennis player male or female of the modern, professional era, with more Grand Slams than either Steffi Graf or Roger Federer.

Deutschlands Trainer des Jahres 2024Die überragende Saison 2023/24 hat das Team von Bayer 04 Leverkusen rund um Trainer Xabi Alonso mit der ersten Deutschen Meisterschaft des Klubs und dem DFB-Pokal gekrönt.

A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.

It was 1976 when Leon and Michael Spinks first punched their way into Americas living rooms.

In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

It introduces a religious dimension to the study of ethnic identity and globalization in the provinces of the Roman Empire.

Jack McKeon, who in 2003 became the oldest manager to ever lead a team to the World Series championship, proved that old doesn't mean you're over, and these stories offer a look into his storied career, from baseball's forgotten fields to the World Series.

When a cultural movement that began to take shape in the mid-twentieth century erupted into mainstream American culture in the late 1990s, it brought to the fore the idea that it is as important to improve one's own sense of pleasure as it is to manage depression and anxiety.

Philosophical controversy over non-human animals extends further back than many realize -- before Utilitarianism and Darwinism to the very genesis of philosophy.

This book sheds light on the career of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, and in doing so touches on numerous aspects of nineteenth-century British and European religious history.

On his deathbed, Alex Roy's father dropped tantalizing hints about the notorious Cannonball Run of the 1970s, the utterly illegal high-speed non-stop races from New York to LA.

This book presents three later works by the German social-democratic thinker and politician Eduard Bernstein, translated into English in full for the first time: Social Democracy and International Politics: Social Democracy and the European Question; League of Nations or League of States; and International Law and International Politics: The Nature, Questions, and Future of International Law.

Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "e;magic"e; has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science.

The core of what we refer to as the project of modernity is the idea that human beings have the power to bring the world under their control, and hence it is based on a kinetic utopia : the movement of the world as a whole reflects the implementation of our plans for it.

PHILIP SNOWDEN was a proud Yorkshireman, a founding father of the Labour Party, its first Chancellor of the Exchequer and eventually was seen as a traitor by the movement he did so much to build.

A collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective.

How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did women in their circles challenge those perceptions, if only by revaluing the kinds of intelligence attributed to them?

The old craft of the witches was a close order.

In So What's New about Scholasticism?

So who is Louis van Gaal?

This Element explains love with technologies in ways that go beyond traditional approaches to technologically mediated bodies and emotions.

The new edition of this comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau''s important early political writings in faithful English translations.

Articulates Adam Smith''s model of human sociality, illustrated in experimental economic games that relate easily to business and everyday life.

Winner of the 2008 Premier Book Award for best biographyThe son of Irish immigrants who grew up along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century, Jack Kelly became a three-time gold medal Olympian, a political maverick, and the millionaire father of a princess.

In this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.

In 1964, Augusto Del Noce assembled in a book some of his best works on Marxism, atheism, and the history of modern philosophy.

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - SPORT'A mesmerising, unforgettable journey around world rugby.

An exposition of the development of Nietzsche''s philosophy of history in its historical context and of its relevance to contemporary theories.

This book covers the entire scope of computer programming and Structured Program Design, from problem identification to maintaining existing programs.

Most people believe that science arose as a natural end-product of our innate intelligence and curiosity, as an inevitable stage in human intellectual development.