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The Noble Art of Heavyweight Boxing is a knockout trip through the
history of this popular sport, from the last thrilling bareknuckle
contest in 1889 between champion John L. Sullivan and challenger
Jake Kilrain, right through to modern times, covering key fights
and boxing greats such as Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano,
Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Lennox Lewis, and many, many more.
Illustrated with contemporary photographs and packed with
fascinating true details about the personalities and bouts, this
book will be a winner with every sports fan and boxing enthusiast.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, David Campese thrilled spectators both in Australia and overseas with his footloose, crazy-brave style of free running. This book tells the story of his rise from humble beginnings to the very top of a global sport.
As a rugby player, David Campese seemed to operate on cross-grained pure instinct, one that left many a defender clutching at him in vain, stranded in the slipstream of his audacity. Hailed as the 'Bradman of rugby' by former Wallaby coach Alan Jones, and the 'Pele' of rugby by others, Campese was a match-winner. The refrain 'I saw Campese play' now speaks to much more than wistful reminiscences about a player widely regarded as the most entertaining ever to play the game of Rugby Union. It has come to represent a state of chronic disbelief that the Wallaby ascendancy of Campese's era has been seemingly squandered.
Campese occupies a unique intersection in rugby's history: one of its last amateurs, and one of its first professionals. He had shown, too, that coming from outside the traditional bastions of rugby - the private schools and universities - was no barrier to reaching the top. Indeed, he challenged that establishment and unsettled it, warning in the early 1990s that the code risked 'dying' if more was not done to expand its appeal.
David Campese revolutionised how the game was played and appreciated. His genius, most visibly manifest in his outrageous goosestep, captured the national and sporting imagination. The rigid, robotic rugby of today appears incapable of accommodating a player of his dash and daring.
Arsenal 101 is an entertaining compendium of Arsenal's fascinating
history, facts, games, stories, personalities, legends and
footballing adventures. Rab MacWilliam has revisited the club's
history from its early years as Woolwich Arsenal at the end of the
nineteenth century to its status as one of the leading European
teams of the present day. Rab has distilled Arsenal's history into
101 facts, moments and stories, examining many of the key
characters, matches, controversies, innovations, and dazzling
instances of brilliance that have illuminated the proud history of
this great, if occasionally erratic, club. Funny, irreverent,
fascinating and insightful, Arsenal 101 is the ideal handbook for
Gunners fans of all ages.
Education, the production of knowledge, identity formation, and
ideological hegemony are inextricably linked in early modern and
modern Korea. This study examines the production and consumption of
knowledge by a multitude of actors and across languages, texts, and
disciplines to analyze the formulation, contestation, and
negotiation of knowledge. The production and dissemination of
knowledge become sites for contestation and struggle-sometimes
overlapping, at other times competing-resulting in a shift from a
focus on state power and its control over knowledge and discourse
to an analysis of local processes of knowledge production and the
roles local actors play in them. Contributors are Daniel Pieper, W.
Scott Wells, Yong-Jin Hahn, Furukawa Noriko, Lim Sang Seok, Kokubu
Mari, Mark Caprio, Deborah Solomon, and Yoonmi Lee.
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