Sports and Active outdoor recreation

There's never been a better time to be an Astros fan, and this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every fan should know.

It has been 17 years since John Feinstein's seminal golfing classic A Good Walk Spoiled.

In The Dirty Game, investigative reporter and BBC Panorama presenter Andrew Jennings, who has been heralded around the world for his decade-long pursuit of this story, uncovers the eye-watering level of fraud and criminal activity at the heart of FIFA, which has been described as the biggest sporting scandal of the century.

In these brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general, John Gierach, the acknowledged master of fishing writers demonstrates that fishing, when done right, is as much a philosophical pursuit as a sport.

This comprehensive collection provides an overview of social scientific perspectives on Olympic legacy, using specialist analyses and selected cases to illuminate the recurring anthropological, political, and sociological dimensions of the legacy debate.

Business Issues in the Arts is a text designed to address some of the most prescient business issues that nonprofit arts organizations face today.

Fundamental Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise is an engaging and comprehensive introductory textbook that explains biomechanical concepts from first principles, showing clearly how the science relates to real sport and exercise situations.

Curious about the game of cricket?

Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southeastern New Mexico is renowned for its amazing system of limestone caves.

*; An attainable approach to training for and completing your first marathon*; Important information on training schedules, nutrition, and injury prevention*; Valuable advice on race day strategy, post-marathon recovery, and setting your next goalMore and more people are realizing that running a marathon is not only achievable, but that training to complete the event can actually be an enjoyable and immensely fulfilling experience.

This book offers an accessible overview of the role sport plays in international relations and diplomacy.

Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community?

One of the leading texts in the field, Tourism Management is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of tourism as you study for a degree, diploma or single module in the subject with a global focus.

A guidebook to 46 graded walks exploring the Sicily and the adjoining Aeolian and Egadi Islands.

Unforgettable Walks to Take Before You Die is the fifth title in an exciting series of books that will help you search out essential sights and experiences around the world.

Contents tourism is tourism induced by the contents (narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements) of films, novels, games, manga, anime, television dramas and other forms of popular culture.

This collection brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in modern literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama.

A guidebook to 6 cycle-touring routes along Irelands west coast.

This new textbook, Hospitality Revenue Management: Concepts and Practices, provides a comprehensive, in-depth introduction to the basic concepts and best practices of hospitality revenue management.

The modern game of rugby football has become gladiatorial, whereby muscular athletic players are involved in a form of collision chess with sophisticated defences smothering the offensive skills that were at one time a more dominant feature of the game.

As the field of sport psychology has matured, so a greater appreciation for a diversity of training models, research methodologies, and therapeutic approaches, opposed to the dominant models of objective testing, has developed.

This work is a biography of Carl Hubbell, a baseball legend who was active in the 1930s for the New York Giants and an eight-time All-Star.

 This book addresses the social benefits of physical activity and sport in promoting the social and educational inclusion of refugees living in Europe in line with Sustainable Development Goals 4, 10 and 16.

Written by an accomplished naval architect, this book shows the average boater how to safely weather the fiercest storm.

A touching biography of the beloved Pittsburgh Pirate Willie "e;Pops"e; Stargell, this life story documents the 21-year, Hall of Fame career of one of the most celebrated and revered players in the history of Major League Baseball.

The path to success is never easy.

What is life really like for the elite athlete?

Whether you're planning your first family adventure or you're a seasoned pro, Arizona Family Outdoor Adventure is the definitive guide for families exploring the Grand Canyon State.

Choosing and operating a compass, interpreting maps, navigating in the wild, and handling outdoor emergencies.

'Amazingly detailed and meticulously crafted .

This book gathers papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Movement, Health and Exercise (MoHE 2022) with the conference theme "e;Enhancing Health and Sports Performance by Design"e;.

During field- and court-based sports, players are continually required to perceive their environment within a match and select and perform the most appropriate action to achieve their immediate goal within that match instance.

From the late 1800s through the first half of the 1900s, pulp magazines--costing a dime and filled with both fiction and nonfiction--were a staple of American life.

"e;Fearless: The Complete Personal Safety Guide for Women"e; is an extensive manual that offers a unique balance of practical advice on personal safety and an array of self-defence strategies, with an academic exploration of the psychology of offenders and victims.

Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians goes deep into every Indian cricket tour since 1886taking the reader backstage to when India played its first test in 1932, and bringing the story forward to the more contemporary IPLto provide a complex and nuanced understanding of the evolution and maturity of the game.

First published in 1931.

Philippe Karl, einer der mutigsten Kritiker einer Dressurwelt, für die ein Pferd "Material" ist und deren Ausbildungsmethoden einzig darauf abzielen, ein Pferd möglichst schnell in mit hohen Preisgeldern dotierten Prüfungen an den Start zu bringen, legt mit diesem Buch den Finger in die Wunde.

The eight chapters in this book explore more than 150 years of the development of several modern sports - baseball, basketball, cricket, football, handball, ice hockey and lacrosse - across the two Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe, some analysing a century of events since the mid-nineteenth century and some only a few years in the very present.

Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown.

This book offers historical and contemporary international analysis of fraud and corruption in sport, including a diverse range of cases from the sporting world including football, cricket, horse racing and boxing.

Utilisée par les guerriers et les policiers à l’époque féodale japonaise, le kusari est composée d'une chaîne lestée de poids à chaque extrémité.

A new classic from one of the world's most respected sailing authorsMore than 35 years ago, Hal Roth quit his job as a journalist and went sailing.

Winner of the 2024 Speaker's Book AwardThe true story of the first Black team to win an Ontario Baseball Amateur Association championship.

How did Great Britain conquer the Tour de France?

Detailed descriptions of edible mushrooms; tips on finding, preparing, and using mushrooms; a glossary of botanical terms; color photos.

Finalist for the 2024 Casey Award For twenty Major League seasons, the name Dwight Evans was synonymous with sterling defense and a potent bat.

In this stunning large-format book, British mountaineer Alan Hinkes describes for the first time in one place his experiences of climbing all 14 of the peaks over 8000m: the world's highest mountains, in the Himalaya and Karakoram.

Tourism in Turkey: A Comprehensive Overview and Analysis for Sustainable Alternative Tourism is an informative study that analyzes the Turkish tourism from a variety of different perspectives and sheds light on its vast economic and social impacts.