Graham Thorpe
ISBN: 9780007205974 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Graham Thorpe's achievements on the cricket field contrasted wildly with his personal problems, where drink and depression combined to send him spiralling off the rails. This is his brutally honest life story, including his dramatic retirement from Test cricket, and updated to include England's 2005 Ashes win, and his new coaching career. Graham Thorpe was one of the best batsmen in world cricket for more than a decade. Yet the national press hounded him as 'English cricket's most disturbed player' for pulling out of a series of tours and turning his back on the game more than... Graham Thorpe's achievements on the cricket field contrasted wildly with his personal problems, where drink and depression combined to send him spi... |
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64,53 zł |
Cricket: A Bridge of Peace
ISBN: 9780195978360 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book is more than a cricketing journal. It is essentially about the impact of this ennobling sport on the minds of people. For the cricket enthusiast, the book provides an insight into the drama, on and off the field, that led to the Pakistan Cricket team's triumph in India and disaster in South Africa. Apart from purely cricketing analyses, the book covers issues such as match fixing allegations, neutral umpiring, captaincy and coaching.
This book is more than a cricketing journal. It is essentially about the impact of this ennobling sport on the minds of people. For the cricket enthus...
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60,24 zł |
Baseball and Cricket: The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72
ISBN: 9780252074455 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) How and why Americans chose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastime
George B. Kirsch takes us back to amateur playing fields around the country to re-create the excitement of the early matches, the players, clubs, and their fans. As a narrative history, "Baseball and Cricket" places the growing popularity of the two sports within the social context of mid-nineteenth-century American cities. The book's comparative analysis follows baseball's transition from a leisure sport to a commercialized, professional enterprise and offers the first complete discussion of the... How and why Americans chose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastime
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114,50 zł |
Cricket Explained
ISBN: 9780312094119 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Cricket Explained offers the sports enthusiast a user-friendly introduction to baseball's British cousin, a game that shares with America's national pastime the common ancestor "rounders." Cricket Explained offers the sports enthusiast a user-friendly introduction to baseball's British cousin, a game that shares with America's nationa... |
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77,45 zł |
The Magic of Indian Cricket: Cricket and Society in India
ISBN: 9780415356916 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the last twenty years, Indian cricket has been transformed. With the arrival of global television networks, mass-media coverage and multinational sponsors, cricket has become big business and India has become the economic driving force in the world game. For the first time a developing country has become a major player in the international sports arena. This fully updated and revised edition of Mihir Bose's classic history is a unique account of the Indian cricket phenomenon. Drawing on a combination of extensive research and personal experience, Bose traces the development of... In the last twenty years, Indian cricket has been transformed. With the arrival of global television networks, mass-media coverage and multinationa... |
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911,22 zł |
The Magic of Indian Cricket: Cricket and Society in India
ISBN: 9780415356923 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the last twenty years, Indian cricket has been transformed. With the arrival of global television networks, mass-media coverage and multinational sponsors, cricket has become big business and India has become the economic driving force in the world game. For the first time a developing country has become a major player in the international sports arena. This fully updated and revised edition of Mihir Bose's classic history is a unique account of the Indian cricket phenomenon. Drawing on a combination of extensive research and personal experience, Bose traces the development of... In the last twenty years, Indian cricket has been transformed. With the arrival of global television networks, mass-media coverage and multinationa... |
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249,88 zł |
Lost Histories of Indian Cricket : Battles Off the Pitch
ISBN: 9780415358859 / Angielski / Twarda / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Lost Histories of Indian Cricket studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years and brings to life the intensity surrounding India's national game.
It may be true that that cricket today arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing country in the world. Yet, when it comes to writing on the history of the game, Indians have been reticent and much of the past has been obscured and lost. Majumdar here recovers this history and restores it to its rightful place in India's rich sporting heritage. Lost Histories of Indian Cricket studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years and brings to life the int...
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702,94 zł |
Lost Histories of Indian Cricket: Battles Off the Pitch
ISBN: 9780415358866 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Lost Histories of Indian Cricket studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years and brings to life the intensity surrounding India's national game.
It may be true that that cricket today arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing country in the world. Yet, when it comes to writing on the history of the game, Indians have been reticent and much of the past has been obscured and lost. Majumdar here recovers this history and restores it to its rightful place in India's rich sporting heritage. Lost Histories of Indian Cricket studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years and brings to lif...
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249,88 zł |
Cricket and National Identity in the Postcolonial Age: Following on
ISBN: 9780415363488 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Bringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries. Exploring the culture, politics, governance and economics of cricket in the twenty-first century, this book dispels the age-old idea of a gentle game played on England's village greens. This is an original political and historical study of the game's development in a range of countries and covers: * cricket in the new Commonwealth: Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the Caribbean and India Bringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the majo... |
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807,08 zł |
Cricket and England : A Cultural and Social History of Cricket in England between the Wars
ISBN: 9780714648613 / Angielski / Twarda / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this book Jack Williams takes a look at cricket as a symbol of England in the 1920s and 1930s. Cricket had a vital role in how the English imagined themselves and their social world. Assumptions attached to the high level of sportsmanship within cricket and the associations of cricket with the Church, respect for tradition, the empire, the public schools and reverence for pastoralism meant that cricket was represented as expressing a distinctively English form of moral worth.
In this book Jack Williams takes a look at cricket as a symbol of England in the 1920s and 1930s. Cricket had a vital role in how the English imagined...
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520,70 zł |
Rain Stops Play : Cricketing Climates
ISBN: 9780714651736 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Cricket has changed from a rural, meadowland pastime into a multinational sport and multi-million pound business, based largely in urban agglomerations. This volume looks at the fundamental geography of cricket, especially in England where the game is played by county sides. Besides looking at socio-economic influences, this work examines the physical geography of cricket, in particular, its interrelationship with the local environment and microclimate, and looks ahead to the likely impact that global warming and altered weather patterns will have on the county game.
Cricket has changed from a rural, meadowland pastime into a multinational sport and multi-million pound business, based largely in urban agglomeration...
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781,04 zł |
The Politics of South African Cricket
ISBN: 9780714653464 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Jon Gemmell analyses the relationship between sport and politics through a historical analysis of South African cricket.
Jon Gemmell analyses the relationship between sport and politics through a historical analysis of South African cricket.
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229,06 zł |
Cricket and the Law: The Man in White Is Always Right
ISBN: 9780714653471 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Cricket, law and the meaning of life ... In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of cricket s defining controversies bodyline, chucking, ball-tampering, sledging, walking and the use of technology, among many others David Fraser explores the ambiguities of law and social order in cricket. Cricket and the Law charts the interrelationship between cricket and legal theory between the law of the game and the law of our lives and demonstrates how cricket s cultural conventions can escape the confines of the game to carry far... Cricket, law and the meaning of life ... In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of cricket s defining con... |
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937,25 zł |
Cricketing Cultures in Conflict: Cricketing World Cup 2003
ISBN: 9780714655086 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The 2003 World Cup was of vital importance to the participating countries. For India, a world cup triumph would make cricket the nation's leading industry; for the host, South Africa, a successful campaign might realize its dream of political unity.
Dealing with themes of racial/political unification, commercialization, the media and globalisation, this book explores the role of cricket and sport in each of the competing nations. Looking at recent developments such as match-fixing, the abolition of the quota system and the performances of the South African national team, the collection... The 2003 World Cup was of vital importance to the participating countries. For India, a world cup triumph would make cricket the nation's leading indu...
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807,08 zł |
Rain Stops Play: Cricketing Climates
ISBN: 9780714681863 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A geographical history of cricket in England and Wales in a global context.
A geographical history of cricket in England and Wales in a global context.
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260,30 zł |
The Politics of South African Cricket
ISBN: 9780714682846 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Politics of South African Cricket analyses the relationship between politics and sport, in particular cricket, in South Africa. South African Cricket embraces an ethos that is symbolic of a wider held belief system and as such has distinctive political connotations in the region.
Sport in South Africa is certainly influenced by forces beyond the playing field, but politics too can be influenced by the social and economic force of sport. Focusing on the sports boycott as a political strategy, Jon Gemmell analyses the relationship between sport and politics through a... The Politics of South African Cricket analyses the relationship between politics and sport, in particular cricket, in South Africa. South Afr...
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104,09 zł |
Cricket and the Law: The Man in White Is Always Right
ISBN: 9780714682853 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This text charts the inter-relationship between cricket and legal theory - between the law of the game and the law of our lives. Fraser draws connections and commonalities between these seemingly disparate, complex sets of conventions.
This text charts the inter-relationship between cricket and legal theory - between the law of the game and the law of our lives. Fraser draws connecti...
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286,34 zł |
The Making of New Zealand Cricket: 1832-1914
ISBN: 9780714684826 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book examines the emergence and growth of cricket in relation to diverse patterns of European settlement in New Zealand - such as the systematic colonization schemes of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the gold discoveries of the 1860s.
This book examines the emergence and growth of cricket in relation to diverse patterns of European settlement in New Zealand - such as the systematic ...
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249,88 zł |
Cricket's Biggest Mystery: The Ashes
ISBN: 9780718825881 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) When Australia defeated England for the first time on English soil in 1882, a mock obituary notice was inserted in the Sporting Times lamenting the 'death' of English cricket and stating that the body was to be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. Later, an urn containing ashes came to be recognised as the cricketing trophy, and now resides permanently at Lord's cricket ground. The mystery is this: where did the Ashes come from, and are they in fact still there' The author examines the official story and other, alternative suggestions, and details the personalities involved in the...
When Australia defeated England for the first time on English soil in 1882, a mock obituary notice was inserted in the Sporting Times lamenting the 'd...
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164,60 zł |
Basil D'oliveira: Cricket and Controversy
ISBN: 9780751534887 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) There have been innumerable biographies of cricketers. Peter Oborne's outstanding biography of Basil D'Oliveira is something else. It brings together sport, politics and race. It is the story of how a black South African defied incredible odds and came to play cricket for England, of how a single man escaped from apartheid and came to fulfil his prodigious sporting potential. It is a story of the conquest of racial prejudice, both in South Africa and in the heart of the English sporting establishment.
The story comes to its climax in the so-called D'Oliveira Affair of 1968, when John... There have been innumerable biographies of cricketers. Peter Oborne's outstanding biography of Basil D'Oliveira is something else. It brings together ...
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61,06 zł |