Biography: sport

From the author of Paper Lion Following his turn as a Detroit Lions rookie in Paper Lion, George Plimpton returns to the field of American football and focuses on the careers of his Lions teammates, Alex Mad Duck Karras and John the Bear Gordy.

In Conscientious Thinking, David Bosworth cuts through all the noise of today's political dysfunction and cultural wars to sound the deeper causes of our discontent.

An illuminating profile of the world champion chess player and political activist by the acclaimed author of Searching for Bobby Fischer.

Here is a who's who of business, thirty-one profiles of inventors, financiers, organizers, motivators, and gurus--a vivid, informative look at the history of management as seen through the lives of its most influential figures.

Intellectuals occupy a paradoxical position in contemporary American culture as they struggle both to maintain their critical independence and to connect to the larger society.

'I've already had my nine lives on the bike.

First Words, Last Words charts an intense "e;pamphlet war"e; that took place in sixteenth-century South India.

The Culture Cultis an acerbic critique of that longing widespread in society today to ?

Zahlenmagie: Eine Reise in die mystische Welt der ZahlenBetreten Sie die geheimnisvolle Welt der Zahlenmagie, in der jede Zahl mehr als eine einfache Quantität darstellt – sie ist ein Tor zu verborgenen Wahrheiten und altem Wissen.

CLICK HERE to download the first 50 pages from The Roskelley Collection* Includes 30 color and 45 black-and-white photographs * Part of The Mountaineers Books "e;Legends and Lore"e; series for climbers, armchair mountaineers, and readers of classic adventure literature * Individual titles of this omnibus edition have been translated into five languages worldwide The Roskelley Collection includes legendary climber John Roskelley's three acclaimed books, together for the first time in one volume and all written with opinion, self-reflective humor, and spellbinding adventure.

In the wake of the Tour de Frances fallen heroes, the story of one of historys most legendary cyclists provides a much-needed antidote.

In this unique book, one of football's greatest cult players reflects on the travails of the sport and draws upon his own experience to offer an honest assessment on one of its final remaining taboos: mental health.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAROn 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France.

Letters to Franca offers an extensive selection from the 500 or so extraordinary letters Louis Althusser addressed to Franca Madonia between 1961 and 1972, the most productive period in Althusser's life and the time when his most characteristic works were being elaborated and first received.

This book examines Mary Ward's distinctive insight into late-Victorian and Edwardian society as a famous writer and reformer, who was inspired by the philosopher and British idealist, Thomas Hill Green.

This Palgrave Pivot examines how prominent thinkers throughout history, from ancient Greece to sixteenth-century France, have perceived tyrants and tyranny.

Boxing's greatest trainer reveals all"e;The book is written in a highly conversational tone, and by the end the reader will know precisely what it is like to listen to the Bill Walsh of boxing hold court on the exotic art of the cornerman.

Alasdair MacIntyre''s classic essays on ethics and politics, published together for the first time.

Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public.

Studies the influential tradition of ''theological utilitarianism'' in the eighteenth century through the lens of William Paley''s life and thought.

This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern European perspective using the example of economic history.

Seit Jahrtausenden verehren Menschen Bäume als heilige Wesen, als Brücken zwischen Himmel und Erde und als Träger uralter Weisheiten.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, evangelicals often took their place among prominent practicing scientists, and their perspectives exerted a considerable impact on the development of modern western science.

'For me, he is England's greatest ever player' - Gary Lineker'Sir Bobby was a hero to millions, not just in Manchester or the United Kingdom, but wherever football is played around the world' - Manchester United FCSir Bobby Charlton is widely acknowledged as the greatest player ever to wear an England shirt.

Human beings have always been specialists, but over the past two centuries division of labor has become deeper, ubiquitous, and much more fluid.

This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.

In Radiant Emptiness, Yaroslav Komarovski offers an annotated translation of three seminal works on the nature and relationship of the Yogacara and Madhyamaka schools of Buddhist thought, by Serdok Penchen Shakya Chokden (1428-1507).

A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the "e;anticolonial century.

The acclaimed author of A False Spring profiles athletes famous and obscure in this captivating and incisive anthology Once a young pitching prospect with the Milwaukee Braves, Pat Jordan went on to become one of America’s most revered sports journalists, writing for Sports Illustrated, Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, and a host of other major league publications.

In 1963, 17 charter members were inducted into the newly established Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Vin Baker, an NBA all-star, Olympic gold medalist, and clean-cut preacher’s son, harbored a dark secret: a dependence on drugs and alcohol that began shortly after he turned pro.

As a young reporter, Celia Walden receives an unusual assignment: track down a global superstar and keep him away from all other journalists.

Shows how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, the arts, politics and cosmology.

Alchemists are generally held to be the quirky forefathers of science, blending occultism with metaphysical pursuits.

Bob Hanning ist der starke Mann im deutschen Handball – und einer der wenigen Sportfunktionäre mit Kultstatus.

An innovative account of English constitutional ideas from the mid-fifteenth century through to Charles I.

Die "Tagsatzung der Eidgenossen" bietet die überfällige Untersuchung der wichtigsten Institution der vormodernen Schweiz.

This book offers the first study of the Scottish Enlightenment reception and interpretation of the French Revolution.

There has always been a tendency to view British politics before the 1832 reform act as though the parties in parliament were clumsy, embryo versions of the later Conservatives and Liberals - their every act interpreted as being either as further striving towards modernity or a relapse into more primitive patterns of behaviour.

New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos.

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Life on earth is currently approaching what has been called the sixth mass extinction, also known as the Holocene or anthropocene extinction.

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Reversing the usual order of interpretation, Donald Wilson reinterprets Kant's moral theory through his later practical works offering a new inner freedom account informing obscure aspects of Kant's formal moral philosophy and the practical focus of ideals of proper respect.

The first history of one of the most important intellectual movements of the modern era.

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'Religion as Magical Ideology' examines the relationship between rationality and supernatural beliefs arguing that such beliefs are products of evolution, cognition and culture.