Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Reference

In a follow-up to the industry-acclaimed Your Short Game Solution (2015), James Sieckmann presents a no-nonsense plan to making more putts. Most putting manuals focus on hard-set mechanics that even the top putters on Tour fail to achieve. According to Sieckmann, you can score even if your mechanics are flawed as long as you master four essential skills: 1) choosing the correct line; 2) starting your ball on that line; 3) matching the line with...

Games and Sporting Events in History offers a broad global perspective on sports and games in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. A diverse set of topics covers education, medicine, therapy, body culture, gender, race, cross cultural flow, and political issues from the late nineteenth century throughout the twentieth century, offering new insights into previously little researched areas of scholarship relating to physical activity and sport. Such works take a new look at old issues with continued relevance to current works. The use of sports as a political tool are prominent in...

This book is the outcome of an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project titled Assessing the Australian Football League's Racial and Religious Vilification Laws to Promote Community Harmony, Multiculturalism and Reconciliation, which investigated the impact of the Australian Football League's anti- vilification policy since its introduction in 1995. With key stakeholders the Australian Football League, the AFL Players' Association and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, (previously the Victorian Multicultural Commission), the book gauges the attitudes and...

This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure, entertainment and cultural pursuits. Sport s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries: Historical Perspectives spans the bowling greens of early modern England to the postmodern exhibition halls of contemporary Las Vegas, and considers examples from Europe, North America and India. Utilizing a range of historical methods and sources, they describe how sport has interacted with a broad range of leisure forms, including tourism, shopping, theatre, circus,...

As a child, growing up Dublin, Jimmy Holmes dreamed of becoming a professional footballer. Spotted in the local youth team by the great Matt Busby and invited to go to Manchester United, he was persuaded, instead, to sign for Coventry City, heralding the start of a glittering career in football. The young Jimmy had it all ahead of him, or so he believed, but just a few years later, a serious injury brought an abrupt end to his dreams.
In this frank autobiography, Jimmy reveals how he endured years of heartache and disappointment following the accident as he struggled to come to terms...

This book is a collection of David Tepera's writings that helped change thousands of lives. You will take your life to a new level through sixty-five inspiring short stories that reference sports and fitness.
We all deal with tragedy and depression throughout our lives. Plus, sometimes you have no control of what life will throw at you, but you have complete control of how you respond.
This book will help bring out the warrior in you to go out in this competitive world and take back life. You are an amazing beautiful person, and you deserve the life you want.
Today your...

This book is a collection of David Tepera's writings that helped change thousands of lives. You will take your life to a new level through sixty-five inspiring short stories that reference sports and fitness.
We all deal with tragedy and depression throughout our lives. Plus, sometimes you have no control of what life will throw at you, but you have complete control of how you respond.
This book will help bring out the warrior in you to go out in this competitive world and take back life. You are an amazing beautiful person, and you deserve the life you want.
Today your...