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Sports 2012

Dave Zirin. What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in United States

Dave Zirin. What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in United States

In Whats My Name, Fool? sports writer Dave Zirin shows how sports express the worst - and at times the most creative, exciting, and political - features of our society. Zirins sharp and insightful commentary on the personalities, politics, and history of American sports is unlike any sports ...

Mike Sandrolini. All The Good In Sports

Mike Sandrolini. All The Good In Sports

True Stories That Go Beyond the Headlines Stories about athletes and coaches usually focus on their championships or their scandals. All the Good in Sports features 20 contemporary sports personalities who go beyond the headlines to candidly share how their relationship with Christ has helped ...

Sports 2011

Paul Henderson, Jim Prime. How Hockey Explains Canada: The Sport That Defines a Country

Paul Henderson, Jim Prime. How Hockey Explains Canada: The Sport That Defines a Country

What is it about Canada and Canadians that inspires such unbridled passion for this simple game of ice, puck and stick? "How Hockey Explains Canada" attempts to answer those and many other questions by delving into the hearts and minds of players, announcer, writers, coaches, and fans from ...

Good Sports - Infosteps

Good Sports - Infosteps

Levelled non-fiction website. The website covers reading age 7-11. Each of the 80 sections has a supporting book. Each level is linked to both QCA and NLS, and covers a range of subjects from Geography, Science, ICT, Design and Technology, Art and Design, History, Religious Education, English ...

Sports 2010

Barrie Houlihan. Comparative Elite Sport Development

Barrie Houlihan. Comparative Elite Sport Development

Comparative Elite Sport Development

Simon Chadwick. International Cases in the Business of Sport

Simon Chadwick. International Cases in the Business of Sport

International Cases in the Business of Sport

Sports 2009

Li Shujuan. Sports Talk (+ CD-ROM)

Li Shujuan. Sports Talk (+ CD-ROM)

Talk Chinese is the first series on practical and colloquial Chinese. It covers social communications, life, travel, sports, leisure, shopping, emergency, campus, office, IT, etc. It allows you to learn the Chinese language through real life experiences. You'll learn Chinese that is used in ...

Deborah Healey. Sport and the Law

Deborah Healey. Sport and the Law

Explaining Australian law as it applies to sports franchises, clubs, and individual athletes, this guide describes key concepts in simple terms and covers issues such as contracts, negligence, defamation, doping, and the responsibilities of owners and players. This edition adds new material ...

Sports 2008

Glenn Stout, Stephanie Peters. Michael Jordan: Legends in Sports

Glenn Stout, Stephanie Peters. Michael Jordan: Legends in Sports

Michael Jordan electrified the basketball world from the moment he burst onto the scene in the early 1980s. His grace under pressure, his seeming ability to defy gravity, his pure love of the game - all were unparalleled. When he retired, he left a gaping hole that many have tried to fill. ...

Jean-Loup Chappelet. The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System: The Governance of World Sport

Jean-Loup Chappelet. The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System: The Governance of World Sport

When the athletes enter the stadium and the Olympic flame is lit, the whole world watches. Billions will continue to follow the events and to share in the athletes' joys and sorrows for the next sixteen days. Readers of this book, however, will watch forthcoming editions of the Olympic Games ...

Sports 2007

The National Alliance For Youth Sports. Coaching Baseball For Dummies®

The National Alliance For Youth Sports. Coaching Baseball For Dummies®

Coaching Baseball For Dummies®

The National Alliance For Youth Sports. Coaching Basketball For Dummies®

The National Alliance For Youth Sports. Coaching Basketball For Dummies®

Coaching Basketball For Dummies®

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