Let's Talk Hockey: 50 Wonderful Debates
ISBN: 9781440127038 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,80 zł |
Urban's Way: Urban Meyer, the Florida Gators, and His Plan to Win
ISBN: 9780312604943 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Members of the 'Gator Nation' are going to burn the midnight oil turning these pages because Buddy Martin will be boldly taking them where no Florida fan has gone before." To write the Urban Meyer story, Buddy Martin enjoyed a vantage point rarely afforded authors in constructing the authorized biography of the University of Florida's high-profile coach. Martin takes the reader where no other journalist has gone before as he reports the most intimate details about one of the nation's top college football programs and... "Members of the 'Gator Nation' are going to burn the midnight oil turning these pages because Buddy Martin will be boldly taking them where no Flor... |
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120,20 zł |
A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
ISBN: 9781595584779 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this long-waited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog Edge of Sports is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests and what amounts to an alternative history of the United States as seen through the games its people played. Through Zirin s eyes, sports are never mere games, but a reflection of and spur toward the political conflicts that shape American society. Half a century before Jackie Robinson was born, the black... In this long-waited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog Edge of Sports is read each week by thousands of people acro... |
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81,39 zł |
Everything I needed to know in life I learned in Football (Soccer): A passage into the beautiful game with Middle Eastern accent!
ISBN: 9781440132575 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No sport has experienced such a tremendous growth in popularity in the U.S. in the past few years as soccer. Soccer is now played everywhere around the globe.
This book has been written to present the experience of a man over the years. The knowledge gained has been and will continue to be tested as new ideas emerge and changes occur. Nader is the maker of his own fortune. Soccer is an intriguing game. There is nothing like an exciting run, a great feint, an accurate pass, a good shot, a brilliant save or a dazzling goal... The goal of this book is to provide you with... No sport has experienced such a tremendous growth in popularity in the U.S. in the past few years as soccer. Soccer is now played everywhere around th...
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59,91 zł |
Gophers Illustrated: The Incredible Complete History of Minnesota Football
ISBN: 9780816667567 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New and Updated Edition. Beginning with their first game in the fall of 1882 against Hamline University, the Minnesota Golden Gophers are one of college football's oldest and most storied programs, winning six national championships and inspiring countless fans across generations of Minnesotans and university students. What Gophers Illustrated makes abundantly clear is just how fascinating this past century of Gophers football has been. Illustrated by a wealth of original detailed sketches, Al Papas Jr. collects both the well-remembered and long-forgotten moments that... New and Updated Edition. Beginning with their first game in the fall of 1882 against Hamline University, the Minnesota Golden Gophers are one... |
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111,43 zł |
The Vikings Reader
ISBN: 9780816653379 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Minnesota Vikings are one of pro football's most successful franchises, with seventeen divisional championships, twenty-five postseason berths, and four Super Bowl appearances to their name. Yet as any Minnesotan can attest to, life as a Vikings fan can be a maddening affair-while the Vikings were the first team to appear in four Super Bowls, they were also the first to lose four Super Bowls. Armand Peterson's The Vikings Reader is the fascinating, yard-by-yard chronicle of fifty years of Vikings football from the perspective of the sportswriters and other commentators who... The Minnesota Vikings are one of pro football's most successful franchises, with seventeen divisional championships, twenty-five postseason berths,... |
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111,43 zł |
The Perfect Season: How Penn State Came to Stop a Hurricane and Win a National Football Championship
ISBN: 9780271032832 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1987 NCAA championship game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the University of Miami Hurricanes is often considered the most memorable championship game in all of college football history. Both teams were undefeated going into the game, but the Hurricanes were heavily favored, as they had demolished each of their opponents during the regular season. On January 2, 1987, Penn State pulled off one of the most surprising upsets in college football by handing the University of Miami team its only loss of the season. In The Perfect Season, with help from the Penn State... The 1987 NCAA championship game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the University of Miami Hurricanes is often considered the most memorable ... |
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138,27 zł |
Heroes and Ballyhoo: How the Golden Age of the 1920s Transformed American Sports
ISBN: 9781597974127 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A handful of star athletes, along with their promoters and journalists, created America's sports entertainment industry during the 1920s, the Golden Age of American sports. The period had an extraordinary impact, profoundly changing individual sports, establishing the secular religion of sports and sports heroes, and helping bond disparate social and regional sectors of the country. It's when sports became a cornerstone of modern American life. Heroes and Ballyhoo profiles the ten most prominent Golden Age heroes and describes their effect on sports and society. Babe Ruth saved...
A handful of star athletes, along with their promoters and journalists, created America's sports entertainment industry during the 1920s, the Golden A...
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150,10 zł |
The Original Buffalo Bills: A History of the All-America Football Conference Team, 1946-1949
ISBN: 9780786446193 / Angielski / Miękka / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Buffalo Bills of the National Football League have a fervent fan base; the city's love affair with their football team dates back more than six decades. The Buffalo Bills were one of the strongest teams in the All-America Football Conference in 1948 and 1949, their final years of play. The team had such an impact on the city and on professional football that current franchise owner Ralph Wilson, when searching for a home for his American Football League team, settled in Buffalo and named the team in honor of the original Bills.
The Buffalo Bills of the National Football League have a fervent fan base; the city's love affair with their football team dates back more than six de...
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186,36 zł |
The Greater New York Sports Chronology
ISBN: 9780231146494 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jeffrey A. Kroessler's comprehensive and entertaining time line stretches from the pastoral entertainments of the Dutch to the corporate captivity of professional sports. He chronicles events ranging from the truly heroic to the heartbreaking, from moments of municipal greatness to inescapable social change. Through it all he plants the world of sport at the very center of New York's story. Fully illustrated, The Greater New York Sports Chronology covers the spectacle of blood sports like bullbaiting to the birth of baseball, the now-forgotten six-day pedestrian contests, and...
Jeffrey A. Kroessler's comprehensive and entertaining time line stretches from the pastoral entertainments of the Dutch to the corporate captivity of ...
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106,68 zł |
The Greater New York Sports Chronology
ISBN: 9780231146487 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jeffrey A. Kroessler's comprehensive and entertaining time line stretches from the pastoral entertainments of the Dutch to the corporate captivity of professional sports. He chronicles events ranging from the truly heroic to the heartbreaking, from moments of municipal greatness to inescapable social change. Through it all he plants the world of sport at the very center of New York's story. Fully illustrated, The Greater New York Sports Chronology covers the spectacle of blood sports like bullbaiting to the birth of baseball, the now-forgotten six-day pedestrian contests, and...
Jeffrey A. Kroessler's comprehensive and entertaining time line stretches from the pastoral entertainments of the Dutch to the corporate captivity of ...
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426,72 zł |
Contemporary Athletics Compendium: Volume 3
ISBN: 9781607415619 / Angielski / Twarda / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is concerned with all levels of athletics - interscholastic, intercollegiate, club, and professional. Articles on all aspects of contemporary athletics are invited. Topics include: event scheduling, stress, sports medicine, graduation rates, academic eligibility, gender issues, and commercialization.
This book is concerned with all levels of athletics - interscholastic, intercollegiate, club, and professional. Articles on all aspects of contemporar...
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719,50 zł |
Thomas Doggett Deceased: A Famous Comedian
ISBN: 9781904799504 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The biography of the comic actor Thomas Doggett and the famous Coat and Badge Race which he founded for watermen on the River Thames. Contents: Part I. The Man By Theodore Andrea Cook Chapter I The Fame of Actors3 Chapter II Bartholomew Fair10 Chapter III Drury Lane21 Chapter IV Pugnacious Thomas31 Chapter V River Traffic and London Theatres36 Chapter VI Off the Stage48 Chapter VII Doggett's Bequest60 Part II. The Race By Guy Nickalls Chapter VIIIThames Watermen71 Chapter IX Some Famous Watermen, 1700-180081 Chapter X History of Doggett's Race86 Chapter XI List of Winners98 Chapter XII Some...
The biography of the comic actor Thomas Doggett and the famous Coat and Badge Race which he founded for watermen on the River Thames. Contents: Part I...
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60,12 zł |
A Game That Forged Rivals: How Competition Between Two New England High Schools Created One of the Greatest Traditions in Football
ISBN: 9781440156489 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,80 zł |
A Game That Forged Rivals: How Competition Between Two New England High Schools Created One of the Greatest Traditions in Football
ISBN: 9781440156465 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,74 zł |
Sport, Nationalism and Orientalism: The Asian Games
ISBN: 9780415568500 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing solely on the Asian Games, this title is an analysis of the Oriental rival to the Olympics in terms of its geopolitical, economic, sociological historical, racial and aesthetic context, looking at its birth, growth and maturation from 1913 up until 2006.
Focusing solely on the Asian Games, this title is an analysis of the Oriental rival to the Olympics in terms of its geopolitical, economic, sociologic...
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273,59 zł |
Still Not Forgiven
ISBN: 9781440157707 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1919 World Series contains some of the most interesting occurances in the history of major league baseball. One team was giving maximum effort to win this world series while members of the other team were making efforts to lose the same contest. The background, motivation and outcomes of these efforts have long been a mystery. While there have been numerous efforts to explain these circumstances, this work is a fresh approach to understanding how the 1919 World Series affected the participants, baseball in it's entirety and the American public as a whole. While some of these circumstances...
The 1919 World Series contains some of the most interesting occurances in the history of major league baseball. One team was giving maximum effort to ...
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72,80 zł |
Trojans 1972: An Immortal Team of Mortal Men
ISBN: 9781441547781 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bill Block's Trojans 1972: An Immortal Team of Mortal Men captures the story of 47- USC football players, beyond their glory days on campus and into their everyday lives as men. The 1972 Trojans are considered one of the greatest teams in the history of college football. They defeated Ohio State 42-17 in the 1973 Rose Bowl to complete an undefeated 12-0 season and were crowned national champions. Each chapter is a mini biography told through the eyes of each player. Each and every player from that '72 team whether as powerful as fullback Sam "Bam" Cunningham, as intellectually gifted as...
Bill Block's Trojans 1972: An Immortal Team of Mortal Men captures the story of 47- USC football players, beyond their glory days on campus and into t...
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122,60 zł |
The Complete Hill Walker - Rock Climber And Cave Explorer
ISBN: 9781444699203 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This classic, historical book is a detailed and comprehensive look at hill-walking in the British Isles. Equally useful for the experianced and the novice, this extensively and beautifully illustrated handbook is a must-have guide for anyone who desires to explore our beautiful island. In this original, unabridged form it contains much information that is useful and practical today. Contents include - The Hill Walker - The Way To The Hill-Tops - Leading Up To A Long Tour - The Best Ridge Walks In The British Isles - Camping Among The Mountains - The Rock Climbers Equipment - Schooling Of The...
This classic, historical book is a detailed and comprehensive look at hill-walking in the British Isles. Equally useful for the experianced and the no...
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72,10 zł |
Wool Carding and Combing With Notes On Sheep Breeding And Wool Growing
ISBN: 9781444647907 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work on Wool carding and combing was originally published in 1912, Extensively illustrated with 100 illustrations it is a comprehensive and informative look at the subject. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This early work on Wool carding and combing was originally published in 1912, Extensively illustrated with 100 illustrations it is a comprehensive and...
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163,49 zł |