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The Crazy Golf Pro - My Journey with Bipolar Disorder (Hardcover): Don Walin The Crazy Golf Pro - My Journey with Bipolar Disorder (Hardcover)
Don Walin
R812 Discovery Miles 8 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Name'5 DODDIE - The Autobiography (Paperback): Doddie Weir My Name'5 DODDIE - The Autobiography (Paperback)
Doddie Weir 1
R318 R278 Discovery Miles 2 780 Save R40 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'You will laugh, and you will cry.' The extraordinary, life-affirming autobiography of rugby legend DODDIE WEIR. There has never been anyone quite like Doddie Weir. A giant of the game and a rugby icon, his unique story is charged with a passion for living life to the full. In a rugby career which had huge highs and shocking lows, Doddie faced some of the game's greatest players, from Jonny Wilkinson to Jonah Lomu, Brian O'Driscoll to Scott Quinnell and Martin Johnson to Joost van der Westhuizen, and set stadiums alight when 'on the charge like a mad giraffe'. Now, at the age of 48, Doddie faces an entirely different adversary: Motor Neurone Disease. But Doddie Weir has never been one to shy away from a challenge, on or off the pitch, and he has faced up to MND with undaunted positivity, using his boundless energy to raise funds for MND research and support.

Queen Of the Cinder Track - The Life and Times of Rosa Margueretta Grosse (Hardcover): Ron Hotchkiss Queen Of the Cinder Track - The Life and Times of Rosa Margueretta Grosse (Hardcover)
Ron Hotchkiss
R862 R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Save R106 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Appalachian Grouse Dog - A Boomer's Memoir (Hardcover): Dennis Labare, Bill Horn, Helen Stacy Labare Appalachian Grouse Dog - A Boomer's Memoir (Hardcover)
Dennis Labare, Bill Horn, Helen Stacy Labare
R840 R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rooted to Rise - The Redwood Legacies of Life-Anchoring People (Hardcover): Sherri Coale Rooted to Rise - The Redwood Legacies of Life-Anchoring People (Hardcover)
Sherri Coale
R620 R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Man in the Gap - The Life, Leadership, and Legacy of Doug Bennett (Hardcover): Brette Simmons Man in the Gap - The Life, Leadership, and Legacy of Doug Bennett (Hardcover)
Brette Simmons
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships: Volume II (1938-1947) (Hardcover): Sergey Voronkov Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships: Volume II (1938-1947) (Hardcover)
Sergey Voronkov
R1,486 Discovery Miles 14 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blowin' Smoke II (Hardcover): Steve Carmichael Blowin' Smoke II (Hardcover)
Steve Carmichael
R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Against the Wind - Hope Sees The Invisible (Hardcover): Tony F Powell Against the Wind - Hope Sees The Invisible (Hardcover)
Tony F Powell
R805 Discovery Miles 8 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From World War II to the Run of the Year (Hardcover): Deborah Dilks From World War II to the Run of the Year (Hardcover)
Deborah Dilks
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Basketball Country - A Road Trip Story (Hardcover): Matthew DuQuette Basketball Country - A Road Trip Story (Hardcover)
Matthew DuQuette
R780 R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Breaking Free - My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder (Paperback): Herschel Walker Breaking Free - My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder (Paperback)
Herschel Walker; Foreword by Jerry Mungadze
R456 R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The NFL legend and Heisman Trophy winner shares the inspiring story of his life and diagnosis with dissociative identity disorder.

Herschel Walker is widely regarded as one of football's greatest running backs. He led the University of Georgia to victory in the Sugar Bowl on the way to an NCAA Championship and he capped a sensational college career by earning the 1982 Heisman Trophy. Herschel spent twelve years in the NFL, where he rushed for more than eight thousand yards and scored sixty-one rushing touchdowns.

But despite the acclaim he won as a football legend, track star, Olympic competitor, and later a successful businessman, Herschel realized that his life, at times, was simply out of control. He often felt angry, self-destructive, and unable to connect meaningfully with friends and family. Drawing on his deep faith, Herschel turned to professionals for help and was ultimately diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

While some might have taken this diagnosis as a setback, Herschel approached his mental health with the same indomitable spirit he brought to the playing field. It also gave him, for the first time, insight into his life's unexplained passages, stretches of time that seemed forever lost. Herschel came to understand that during those times, his "alters," or alternate personalities, were in control.

Born into a poor, but loving family in the South, Herschel was an overweight child with a stutter who suffered terrible bullying at school. He now understands that he created "alters" who could withstand abuse. But beyond simply enduring, other "alters" came forward to help Herschel overcome numerous obstacles and, by the time he graduated high school, become an athlete recognized on a national level.

In "Breaking Free, " Herschel tells his story -- from the joys and hardships of childhood to his explosive impact on college football to his remarkable professional career. And he gives voice and hope to those suffering from DID. Herschel shows how this disorder played an integral role in his accomplishments and how he has learned to live with it today. His compelling account testifies to the strength of the human spirit and its ability to overcome any challenge.

Gimp -  The Story Behind The Star Of "Murderball" (Paperback): Mark Zupan, Tim Swanson Gimp - The Story Behind The Star Of "Murderball" (Paperback)
Mark Zupan, Tim Swanson
R449 R421 Discovery Miles 4 210 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

College soccer star Mark Zupan had been out drinking one night and had passed out in the back of his best friend's pickup truck when his friend got in the driver's seat, decided to take the truck for a spin, and accidentally crashed it. Thrown into a canal and stuck in frigid water for fourteen hours, Mark was finally rescued and learned soon after that he'd broken his neck. He'd most likely be a quadriplegic and spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, doctors told him. At first Mark's only goal was to walk again. When that proved impossible, he fell into the depths of anger and despair, retreating from the world and the people closest to him. But love, friendship, and a new sport, quad rugby (a.k.a. murderball), helped Mark create a new existence that's truly exceptional. Gimp, the no-holds-barred memoir of a Paralympic athlete and the star of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Murderball, is an inspiring, defiant, and revealing celebration of spirit and will that confounds readers' prejudices by offering proof that a guy in a chair can still do amazing things: have sex with his girlfriend, party with his friends . . . even crowd-surf at Pearl Jam shows.

Thirty Years in a White Haze - Dan Egan's Story of Worldwide Adventure ?and the Evolution of Extreme Skiing (Hardcover):... Thirty Years in a White Haze - Dan Egan's Story of Worldwide Adventure 
and the Evolution of Extreme Skiing (Hardcover)
Dan Egan, Eric Wilbur; Illustrated by Kimberley Kay
R1,081 Discovery Miles 10 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Stronger Than a Speeding Bullet (Hardcover): Gabriel Tuggle Stronger Than a Speeding Bullet (Hardcover)
Gabriel Tuggle
R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Yoga Manifesto - How Yoga Helped Me and Why it Needs to Save Itself (Paperback): Nadia Gilani The Yoga Manifesto - How Yoga Helped Me and Why it Needs to Save Itself (Paperback)
Nadia Gilani
R385 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

How did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the privileged? Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga as a participant and teacher for over twenty-five years. Yoga has saved her life and seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a discipline, and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its radical potential. However, over her years in the wellness industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga's rising popularity, but also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour, working class people, or many other groups who originally pioneered its creation. Combining her own memories of how the practice has helped her with an account of its history and transformation in the modern west, Nadia creates a love letter to yoga and a passionate critique of the billion-dollar industry whose cost and inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping. By turns poignant, funny, and shocking, The Yoga Manifesto excavates where the industry has gone wrong, and what can be done to save the practice from its own success.

Shamrock - The World's Most Dangerous Man (Hardcover): Jonathan Snowden Shamrock - The World's Most Dangerous Man (Hardcover)
Jonathan Snowden; Contributions by James Frazier
R1,172 Discovery Miles 11 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Clemente (Paperback): David Maraniss Clemente (Paperback)
David Maraniss
R553 R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Save R35 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On New Year's Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food and medical supplies to Nicaragua after a devastating earthquake. David Maraniss now brings the great baseball player brilliantly back to life in "Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, " a book destined to become a modern classic. Much like his acclaimed biography of Vince Lombardi, "When Pride Still Mattered, " Maraniss uses his narrative sweep and meticulous detail to capture the myth and a real man.

Anyone who saw Clemente, as he played with a beautiful fury, will never forget him. He was a work of art in a game too often defined by statistics. During his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, he won four batting titles and led his team to championships in 1960 and 1971, getting a hit in all fourteen World Series games in which he played. His career ended with three-thousand hits, the magical three-thousandth coming in his final at-bat, and he and the immortal Lou Gehrig are the only players to have the five-year waiting period waived so they could be enshrined in the Hall of Fame immediately after their deaths.

There is delightful baseball here, including thrilling accounts of the two World Series victories of Clemente's underdog Pittsburgh Pirates, but this is far more than just another baseball book. Roberto Clemente was that rare athlete who rose above sports to become a symbol of larger themes. Born near the canebrakes of rural Carolina, Puerto Rico, on August 18, 1934, at a time when there were no blacks or Puerto Ricans playing organized ball in the United States, Clemente went on to become the greatest Latino player in the major leagues. He was, in a sense, the Jackie Robinson of the Spanish-speaking world, a ballplayer of determination, grace, and dignity who paved the way and set the highest standard for waves of Latino players who followed in later generations and who now dominate the game.

The Clemente that Maraniss evokes was an idiosyncratic character who, unlike so many modern athletes, insisted that his responsibilities extended beyond the playing field. In his final years, his motto was that if you have a chance to help others and fail to do so, you are wasting your time on this earth. Here, in the final chapters, after capturing Clemente's life and times, Maraniss retraces his final days, from the earthquake to the accident, using newly uncovered documents to reveal the corruption and negligence that led the unwitting hero on a mission of mercy toward his untimely death as an uninspected, overloaded plane plunged into the sea.

Sanders In The Moment (Hardcover): Bahne Bahnson Sanders In The Moment (Hardcover)
Bahne Bahnson; Edited by Josephine Funk
R701 Discovery Miles 7 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Against All Odds - The Donnie Hixon Story (Hardcover): Stanley J Byrdy Against All Odds - The Donnie Hixon Story (Hardcover)
Stanley J Byrdy; As told by Donald G Hixon
R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dixieland Delight - A Football Season on the Road in the Southeastern Conference (Paperback): Clay Travis Dixieland Delight - A Football Season on the Road in the Southeastern Conference (Paperback)
Clay Travis
R460 R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There is no college ball more passionate and competitive than football in the Southeastern Conference, where seven of the twelve schools boast stadiums bigger than any in the NFL and 6.5 million fans hit the road every year to hoot and holler their teams to victory.

In September 2006, popular sports columnist and lifelong University of Tennessee fan Clay Travis set out on his "Dixieland Delight Tour." Without a single map, hotel reservation, or game ticket, he began an 8,000-mile journey through the beating heart of the Southland. As Travis toured the SEC, he immersed himself in the bizarre game-day rituals of the common fan, brazenly dancing with the chancellor's wife at a Vanderbilt frat party, hanging with University of Florida demigod quarterback Tim Tebow, and abandoning himself totally to the ribald intensity and religious fervor of SEC football. "Dixieland Delight" is Travis's hilarious, loving, irreverent, and endlessly entertaining chronicle of a season of ironic excess in a world that goes a little crazy on football Saturdays.

French Roll - Misadventures in Love, Life, and Roller Skating Across the French Riviera (Hardcover): J Michael Jarvis French Roll - Misadventures in Love, Life, and Roller Skating Across the French Riviera (Hardcover)
J Michael Jarvis
R710 R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Save R67 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I Had a Hammer - The Hank Aaron Story (Paperback): Hank Aaron I Had a Hammer - The Hank Aaron Story (Paperback)
Hank Aaron
R512 R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Henry Aaron left his mark on the world by breaking Babe Ruth's record for home runs. But the world has also left its mark on him.

"Hammering Hank" Aaron's story is one that tells us much about baseball, naturally, but also about our times. His unique, poignant life has made him a symbol for much of the social history of twentieth-century America.

Raised during the Depression in the Deep South enclave of Mobile, Alabama, Aaron broke into professional baseball as a cross-handed slugger and shortstop for the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League. A year later, he and a few others had the unforgettable mission of integrating the South Atlantic League. A year after that, he was a timid rookie leftfielder for the Milwaukee Braves, for whom he became a World Series hero in 1957 as well as the Most Valuable Player of the National League.

Aaron found himself back in the South when the Braves moved to Atlanta in 1965. Nine years later, in the heat of hatred and controversy, he hit his 715th home run to break Ruth's and baseball's most cherished record--a feat that was recently voted the greatest moment in baseball history. That year, Aaron received over 900,000 pieces of mail, many of them vicious and racially charged.

In a career that may be the most consistent baseball has ever seen. Aaron also set all-time records for total bases and RBIs. He ended his playing days by spending two nostalgic seasons back in Milwaukee with the Brewers, then embarked on a new career as an executive with the Atlanta Braves. He was for a long time the highest-ranking black in baseball. In this position, Aaron has become an unofficial spokesman in racial matters pertaining to thenational pastime.

Because of the depth and pertinence of Aaron's dramatic experiences, "I Had A Hammer" is more than a baseball autobiography. Henry Aaron's candor and insights have produced a revealing book about his extraordinary life and time.

All My Octobers - My Memories of Twelve World Series When the Yankees Ruled Baseball (Paperback): Mickey Mantle All My Octobers - My Memories of Twelve World Series When the Yankees Ruled Baseball (Paperback)
Mickey Mantle
R372 R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Save R24 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

To everyone who truly loves the game, Mickey Mantle epitomizes the golden age of baseball, when the mighty New York Yankees indisputably ruled, appearing in an unprecedented twelve World Series in fourteen years! In this intimate memoir, Mantle recounts the joys and trials of his rise from rural Oklahoma youngster to the pinnacle of baseball greatness.

In "All My Octobers," the one and only Mick relives every one of his World Series appearances -- from the 1951 battle when he played alongside an aging Joe DiMaggio to his three-home-run performance in the 1964 showdown. In addition to the on-field heroics, Mantle talks candidly about the injuries, the alcohol, the parties and celebrations, and the terrible toll they can take on a young athlete's life. But most of all, it is a remembrance of October greatness, of postseason pyrotechnics . . . and a loving appreciation of a team of titans that achieved something marvelous and unequaled to this day.

Petr Izmailov: From Chess Champion of Russia to Enemy of the People (Hardcover): Nikolai Izmailov Petr Izmailov: From Chess Champion of Russia to Enemy of the People (Hardcover)
Nikolai Izmailov
R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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