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Brilliant, honest, combative – Eddie Jones is a gigantic yet enigmatic figure in world rugby and a true legend of the game. In My Life And Rugby he tells his story for the first time, including the full inside story of England’s 2019 World Cup campaign.
Eddie Jones is one of the most experienced and decorated coaches in world rugby. He career has spanned four World Cups; from losing to England in the 100th minute in 2003, working with South Africa when they won in 2007, and causing the greatest upset in 2015 when he masterminded the Japanese defeat of South Africa.
Since taking over as head coach of England in 2015 Eddie Jones has masterminded a complete revival of the national team. He has won the Six Nations Championship back-to-back, including England’s first grand slam in a generation, their first ever whitewash of Australia, as well as taking them on their longest ever winning streak.
In his explosive autobiography Jones shows how his fiercely competitive attitude, his love of coaching and his philosophy of the game were formed while growing up in a tough working-class suburb of Sydney as a small half-Japanese kid, playing schoolboy rugby alongside the legendary Ella brothers.
Learning from the extreme highs and lows of his own playing career – the numerous successes playing for Randwick and New South Wales but also the painful disappointment of never playing for Australia – he shows what it takes to be the best in the world and how everything he has learnt about the game on and off the pitch has gone into plotting England’s route to the top of World Rugby.
My Life And Rugby is the story of one of the most compelling and singular figures in rugby, told with unflinching honesty this is the ultimate rugby book for all fans of the sport.
The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling classic memoir, A
Handful of Summers. Gordon Forbes played for the South African
Davis Cup team in the 50s and early 60s and returned to the circuit
as a writer and observer. In 'Too Soon to Panic' he takes the
readers behind the scenes at the big tournaments - Wimbledon,
Roland Garros and Flushing Meadows; Germany, Spain and Italy - and
introduces them to many of tennis's most extraordinary and dynamic
characters, including Mark McCormack, Rod Laver, Jim Courier and
Andre Agassi. Crammed with riotously funny anecdotes and vivid
evocations of the innocence and camaraderie of the game in Forbes's
day - when tennis as still a gentlemanly, amateur and often rather
ramshackle affair - and insightful observations on today's
glamorous game - where money reigns and sheer strength sometimes
seems to conquer skill - Forbes explores the remarkable changes
that have come over the sport in the last forty years.
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.
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.
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.
A one-time Southampton policeman and BBC literary producer working
with such writers as E.M. Forster, John Betjeman and Dylan Thomas,
who became a close friend, John Arlott has always considered
himself lucky. From his first ten-minute summaries of the 1946
Indian cricket tour until his retirement in 1980 he commentated on
every Test match England ever played. This autobiography looks at
his schooldays, about great cricketers he has known or watched and
about his standing for the Liberals in the 1955 General Election.
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