Sport: general

The home run is indeed baseball's ultimate weapon.

The book focuses on, identifies, and analyzes various divisions and conferences of four professional sports leagues and their teams' historical regular season and postseason performances, and also provides a recent financial profile of them while being competitive, profitable or unprofitable, and well-known enterprises.

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

Modern sport originated in Europe.

This book focuses on the analysis of coercive measures that sports organisations are permitted to use as part of their internal sports investigation proceedings to investigate sports rule violations.

In 2008, as few in the world are unaware, China was host to the world via the Beijing Olympics.

Maine is certainly an exciting place, with a plethora of outdoor activities to pursue.

What makes a sport enterprise successful?

"e;The best book ever written about the Big Red Machine .

With more losses and last-place finishes than any other club in Major League Baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies have earned a reputation as one of the most unsuccessful teams ever to take the field.

'The good news for those who loved THE ACCIDENTAL FOOTBALLER: this new book is even better.

For two days in late September 1988, Canadas Ben Johnson was the most celebrated athlete on the planet.

This book is a practical resource designed for clinicians, researchers, and advanced students who wish to learn about single-case research designs.

From the popular television Oregon travel series Grants Getaways comes the third book in Grant McOmies well-loved guidebooks.

This book explores how medical device integration (MDI) supports quality patient care and better clinical outcomes by reducing clinical documentation transcription errors, improving data accuracy and density within clinical records and ensuring the complete capture of medical device information on patients.

THE INCREDIBLE FIRST 12 YEARS OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE AS TOLD BY THE LEGENDS WHO WERE THERE'I met Jack Nicholson and when a Hollywood superstar asks about Manchester United, you realise how big the Premier League is around the world'David BeckhamBased on the acclaimed BBC Series, with a foreword by Alan ShearerThe Premier League is the most watched sports league in the world, broadcast into 188 countries and watched by 3.

Filled with insightful analysis and compelling arguments, this book considers the influence of sports on popular culture and spotlights the fascinating ways in which sports culture and American culture intersect.

Reg Harris, whose statue overlooks the Manchester Velodrome, is the legend who all track cyclists want to emulate.

This guide provides everything you need to know to discover the South's best-kept secrets of winter recreation: snow-covered mountains, remote yet accessible trails, high-quality downhill and cross-country skiing, sparkling resorts and peaceful cabins, and of course, southern hospitality.

Advanced Research Methods for Applied Psychology provides a comprehensive discussion of 21 key topics for the completion of an applied psychology (or similar) research thesis/project.

L’histoire politique de la RDC est jalonnée d’antagonismes ethniques récurrents entre les différents groupes de la population congolaise.

This resource supports Middle School Physical Education teachers in promoting healthy activity levels among their students, both in and outside the PE facilities.

Erstmals wurde eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Studie im Bezug auf österreichische Sportjournalisten durchgeführt.

Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell were must-see TV long before that phrase became ubiquitous.

Gambling disorder is a behavioural addiction that represents the clinical extreme of a spectrum of gambling-related harm.

The work of dope testers is constantly being obstructed by the development of ever harder-to-trace new forms of banned substances.

This vintage book contains a short and concise guide to fox hunting, with tips on kennel management, attire, etiquette, equipment, and more.

Today basketball is played above the rim by athletes of all backgrounds and colors.

Defining 'politics' as contests over ideas, values and visions about what a physically active society could be, this book uses critical analysis to challenge accepted truths about physical activity and therefore opens up a pathway to more effective, and more socially just, physical activity policy.

From the best-selling author ofSpartan Up!

Blue Monday: one of the most unforgettable days in Canadian baseball history.

Using a pedagogical concept similar to game-based approaches such as Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) and Game Sense, this book explores the teaching and learning of modified games in physical education and sports.

Sport is often at the centre of battles for rights to inclusion linked to class, race and gender, and this book explores struggles centred on disability in different cultural settings in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

All over the world, soccer is known as "e;the Beautiful Game"e; and is the most popular sport.

Part history, part memoir, part statistical analysis, this book tells the remarkable and largely forgotten story of how the baseball hotbed of Canada's northeastern Maritime provinces evolved into "e;NCAA North"e; during the 1940s and 1950s.

Remaking the Male Body looks at interwar physical culture as a set of popular practices and as a field of ideas.

This antiquarian book contains a detailed guide to building and using radio control systems for model ships, boats, and aircraft.

A century before Lance Armstrong captured headlines around the world by winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France, another American dominated the world of competitive cycling.

Part Samurai history, part martial arts guide, this is THE book for anyone interested in Japan's fabled Samurai culture.

How can the skills of the sport psychologist be put to best use within a football club?

Shifting European identities, cultural loyalties and divisions are often expressed more directly through attitudes to 'the people's game' game than in any other arena.

The study of decision-making in foodservice is still a relatively new area of scholarly interest.

Blood, guts, and glory-veteran players reveal the NFL you never see on TVBehind every glittering NFL game on television is a world of happy pain for a hundred men.

The state of Israel is a home for a widely diverse population from many different ethnic, religious, cultural and social backgrounds; a new society with ancient roots, which is still coalescing and developing today.

Robin Oakley brings alive the colourful world of those who ride and train jumping horses.

Based on the well-known, long-running You Are the Ref football feature, illustrated by legendary artist Paul Trevillion and written by former international referee Keith Hackett, this guide is aimed at established, trainee, and newly qualified football referees.