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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation
Strengthen students' understanding of key AQA A-level topics for
Paper 2 and develop the vital skills required to attain the best
results possible in the exams, with this expert-written Student
Workbook. Written by experienced examiners Ross Howitt and Mike
Murray, this write-in Student Workbook: - Actively develops
knowledge and the ability to recall information with consolidation
questions and short topic summaries - Reinforces understanding and
boosts confidence with exam-style practice questions and clear
spotlight of the Assessment Objectives - Encourages independent
learning as students can use the Workbook at home or in class,
throughout the course or for last-minute revision, with answers to
tasks and activities supplied online
The Cycling Bible by renowned cycling author and journalist Chris
Sidwells is a comprehensive guide to help you get the most out of
cycling, whether you go road cycling, gravel riding, mountain
biking or enjoy any other kind of two-wheeled fun. Based on the
author's extensive experience and research, this book collates the
knowledge you will need to specifically train for the technical,
physical and mental aspects of cycling training. It includes riding
positions, strength and conditioning, endurance training, the
psychological side of training, tailoring nutrition to your goals
and bringing it all together to create your own training plan. It
also deals with choosing the right bike for you, making essential
safety checks and carrying out maintenance. Extensively illustrated
and packed full of action photos, The Cycling Bible will help and
motivate you to improve and develop as a cyclist and find even more
joy in this fantastic sport.
The go-to Pyrenees travel guide travel guide for discovering the
best walks and car tours. Strap on your boots and discover Pyrenees
on foot with the Sunflower Pyrenees travel guide. And on the days
when your feet may have had enough, enjoy some spectacular scenery
on one of our legendary car tours. The Sunflower Pyrenees guide is
indispensable for hiking in Pyrenees or seeing Pyrenees by car. You
don't have to be an expert to enjoy trekking in the Pyrenees with
this guide book. None of the hikes requires special skills (under
summer conditions) and, if you are not very fit, simply turn back
when you feel like it or choose one of our specific short walk
suggestions with most of the itineraries. The authors, who have
lived in the Pyrenees for 30 years, believe that 'experienced and
fit walkers will find much to enjoy, for we have included some of
the wildest scenery in the Pyrenees, walked pilgrim routes and
World War 2 escape routes, climbed to summits, enjoyed the habitat
of marmots, vultures and lizards (the Pyrenean chamois), and not
neglected the great and the famous. Whatever your age or ability
we've got some glorious walks and car tours to ensure you have a
memorable holiday in Pyrenees. Inside the Sunflower Pyrenees guide
book you'll find: 65 long and short walks for all ages and
abilities - each walk is graded so you can easily match your
ability to the level of walk; Topographical walking maps - give you
a clear sense of the surrounding terrain; Free downloadable gps
tracks - for the techies; Satnav guidance to walk starts for
motorists ; 12 car tours and fold-out touring map - for easy
reference on your tour ; Strolls to idyllic picnic spots - enjoy
our recommendations for where to picnic along the way; Timetables
for public transport - ideal if you want to link two walks or avoid
hiring a car on your holiday; Online update service for the latest
information; Whether you tour the Pyrenees by car or explore on
foot, we look forward to showing you around.
Alex Dowsett’s pulsating autobiography lifts the lid on a decade
of life in the world’s greatest pelotons and tells how he
succeeded despite being the world’s only top sportsperson with
haemophilia A. For over a decade Alex Dowsett had been one of
Britain’s best cyclists. He has ridden Grand Tours and Classics
for elite teams including Sky and Movistar and broke the iconic
World Hour Record – the ultimate time trial challenge. With
humour, insight and brutal honesty, Alex tells of the challenges he
has faced in his struggle to reach the top and his years as a
pro-cyclist. Alex has achieved all this despite being the only top
sportsperson in the world with haemophilia A. He describes how the
condition – in which falls can be fatal – blighted his young
sporting life, and his determination to succeed in cycling.
Amazingly, he went on to excel in a sport in which cuts, grazes and
bruises are a given. Every professional cyclist requires courage,
but Alex takes fearlessness to another level. With an allstar
cycling cast, including Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, Lance
Armstrong and Mark Cavendish, this pulsating book lifts the lid on
life in the peloton at the world’s top level. Open and frank in
his views, Alex recalls his highs – including his coming of age
time trial victory, a famous Giro d’Italia stage victory riding
solo for 18 kilometres and famously breaking the World Hour record
in 2015 – as well as his frustrations at the injustices he faced
in the sport. Alex announced his forthcoming retirement at the end
of the 2022 season and this memoir perfectly chronicles a career in
which he was driven equally by love and rage. His compelling
personal story combines with his take on being part of the golden
age of British cycling and his sometimes outspoken views to produce
an inspirational story of sporting endeavour.
Guidebook to cycle touring in Wales. Catering to just about any
itinerary, it describes a 657 mile circuit of Wales - perfect for a
two-week adventure - plus 6 cross routes, which range from 45 to 73
miles and can be completed as day/weekend rides, or used to create
shorter versions of the main circuit. This guide includes all the
information needed to plan and execute a successful tour. In
addition to clear route description, 1:200K mapping and gradient
profiles, there is advice on selecting a schedule, planning your
trip, preparing your bike and organising logistics, such as
accommodation, getting to and from the start, and ways to carry (or
not carry) your kit. Also includes a handy cycle shop listing, a
Welsh glossary and checklist of things to take. Showcasing mile
after mile of stunning coastal scenery, quaint seaside towns,
rolling marcher country, as well as an impressive collection of
castles, industrial archaeology, churches, chapels and prehistoric
sites, Wales is a veritable delight for the cycling enthusiast.
Discover verdant green valleys, skirt wild mountains, soak up
Pembrokeshire's salty sea air and boast of your pedal up the
highest road in Wales.
Video swing analysis revolutionized the way golf is taught, but
players have had to rely on teaching professionals to analyze their
swing videos -- until now. "The Picture-Perfect Golf Swing" is the
first-ever complete guide to using a digital video camera to
develop the perfect golf swing, on your own.
One of "Golf Magazine"'s Top 100 Teachers, Michael Breed has long
used video analysis to correct the swings of his students. At the
core of Breed's teaching approach is the idea that seeing is
believing: when you actually see the flaws of your swing, you can
truly understand what you are doing wrong, and you can fix the
problem more quickly and effectively. By using this book, golfers
won't have to rely on professionals to tell them what they're doing
wrong -- they can see it for themselves. "The Picture-Perfect Golf
Swing" offers practical guidance for analyzing, assessing, and
correcting your mistakes just like a professional -- but without
paying a professional rate.
Whether as a complement to swing analysis software or on its own,
"The Picture-Perfect Golf Swing" is a must-have tool for everyone
using digital video to master their swing. Fully illustrated with
photographs showing fundamentally sound swing mechanics, the book
also includes instructions on setting up a camera, choosing the
best accessories for filming, selecting the correct shutter speed,
using a remote control, and much, much more.
The remarkable story of three Yorkshire cricketers from the Golden
Age - George Hirst, Wilfred Rhodes and Schofield Haigh - who
transformed their county's fortunes, inspired a generation of
cricketers and left a unique legacy on the game. Between them,
Hirst, Rhodes and Haigh scored over 77,000 runs and took almost
9000 wickets in a combined 2500 appearances, helping Yorkshire to
seven County Championship triumphs. The records they set will never
be beaten, yet the three men - known throughout England as The
Triumvirate - were born in two small villages just outside
Huddersfield, in Last of the Summer Wine country. Hirst pioneered
and perfected the art of swing and seam bowling, Rhodes took more
first-class wickets than anyone else in history, while the genial
Haigh's achievements as a bowler at Yorkshire have been surpassed
only by his two close friends; their influence would extend far
beyond England, as they all went to India to coach, laying the
foundations of cricket in the subcontinent. Pearson, whose
biography of Learie Constantine, Connie, won the MCC Book of the
Year Award, brings the characters and the age vividly to life,
showing how these cricketing stars came to symbolise the essence of
Yorkshire. This was a time when the gritty northern professionals
from the White Rose county took on some of the most glittering
amateurs of the age, including W.G.Grace, C.B.Fry, Prince Ranji and
Gilbert Jessop, and when writers such as Neville Cardus and
J.M.Kilburn were on hand to bring their achievements to a wider
audience. The First of the Summer Wine is a celebration of a
vanished age, but also reveals how the efforts of Hirst, Rhodes and
Haigh helped create the modern era, too.
How much do you really know about the club you love? You can find
out by exploring the 1,000 questions set out in 100 categories that
make up this Everton quiz book. It s not often that books on
football make reference to Bob Dylan, the London Underground, Pink
Floyd, The Godfather, the Beatles, Shakespeare, Rising Damp and The
Who, but this one does! Call Yourself a Toffees Fan? is a quirky,
challenging affair for real Everton fans who can test themselves or
take on each other, with the emphasis on enjoyment and discovery.
Try these for size: in the 1966 FA Cup Final between Everton and
Sheffield Wednesday, which surname appeared on both sides? What was
unique about the 1962/63 season at Goodison Park? Who is the only
Everton manager to score the winning goal in a European Cup Final?
You will struggle to find anything as comprehensive as this
eclectic collection. It s a must for Everton fans of all ages and
you might not see anything quite like it again.
Winning takes many forms. For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a great
sports book about leadership, judgement and decision-making -
rooted in the theory that helped Ed Smith lead England cricket to
sustained success. And to help us all win more. 'An absolutely
fascinating book' THE GAME, The Times football pod How do you spot
the opportunities that others miss? How do you turn a team's
performance around? How do you make good decisions amid a tidal
wave of information? And how can you improve? As chief selector for
the England cricket team, Ed Smith pioneered new methods for
building successful teams and watched his decisions tested in real
time on the pitch. During his three-year tenure, England averaged 7
wins in every 10 completed matches, better than they have performed
before or since. Making Decisions reveals Smith's unique approach
to finding success in a fast-changing and increasingly data-reliant
world. The best decisions, Smith argues, rely on a combination of
differing kinds of intelligence: from algorithms to intuition. This
is a truth that the most successful people know: data cannot
account for everything, it must be harnessed with human insight.
Whatever the power of data, humans aren't finished yet. Sharing for
the first time the tools he introduced as England selector, Smith's
book captures the immediacy of life at the sharp end, while also
exploring frameworks from the top levels of sports, business and
the arts. Decision-making is revealed as a creative enterprise, not
a reductive system. Making Decisions offers an invaluable guide for
those who want a better framework for developing, explaining and
implementing new ideas.
The ideal gift for football fans to read between matches during the
2022 Qatar World Cup Pairing epic sports photography with articles
from The Times and The Sunday Times archive, this volume brings
together 100 of the most iconic moments from World Cup history.
With striking, full-colour photography, rarely seen archival images
and sensational reporting on the action, The Times World Cup
Moments tells the unofficial story of the world's largest single
sporting event as it unfolded on - and off - the pitch. Featuring
the greatest goals, most historic line-ups, heroic players and
unforgettable controversies, these split-second moments have
changed the course of World Cup history and generated a global
sensation along the way. The perfect Christmas gift for any
football fan, some of the best moments from this book include: *
The first World Cup, Uruguay 1930 * North Korea's fairy tale,
England 1966 * David Beckham's perfect free-kick, France 1998 *
Brazil's golden line-up, Mexico 1970 * The infamous Hand of God,
Mexico 1986 * Roger Milla's celebration, Italy 1990 * Zinedine
Zidane's chipped Panenka penalty, Germany 2006 * Germany's
humiliation of the hosts, Brazil 2014 * Cristiano Ronaldo's
spectacular hat-trick, South Korea 2018
With dramatic mountain ridges towering over the moorland of its
northern half, and a lusher, softer landscape in the south, Arran
is often dubbed as Scotland in Miniature. The fact is that this is
an island with a huge amount to offer packed into small space. The
great granite ridges may be lower in stature than those in the
Highlands, but they are the equal of any mountains in Scotland for
sheer grandeur. The coastline has some superb scenery and a
wondeful outlook, whether towards Ayrshire or to Kintyre. And the
island itself is packed with history and human interest, from the
ancient standing stones on Machrie Moor to the modern-day Buddhist
retreat on Holy Island.
Cyrille Regis' story is a compelling one on so many levels. The
story of his migration from the French Caribbean to a racially
divided West London in the 1960s, his development as a
semi-professional footballer and his subsequent move to a
top-flight Football League club, followed by national recognition
and glory, while still facing racial hatred is a tale in itself.
The book begins at Buckingham Palace in 2008, when Cyrille Regis
received his MBE, recognition for his services to football and the
community. This fascinating autobiography describes the battles
Cyrille faced as a child and teenager before he turned professional
and achieved great things as a footballer. As well as detailing the
glorious moments in his career, it studies the impact that he and
his black teammates had on the sociological outlook of football
fans. The book concludes with a review of Cyrille Regis' life after
he retired as a footballer and his work in the community.
The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball
legend Lou Gehrig.
Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend--the Iron Horse, the stoic New
York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man
whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that
now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes
clear, Gehrig's life was more complicated--and, perhaps, even more
heroic--than anyone really knew.
Drawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of
previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, "Luckiest Man"
gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American
hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up in New York
City, his unlikely friendship with Babe Ruth (a friendship that
allegedly ended over rumors that Ruth had had an affair with
Gehrig's wife), and his stellar career with the Yankees, where his
consecutive-games streak stood for more than half a century. What
was not previously known, however, is that symptoms of Gehrig's
affliction began appearing in 1938, earlier than is commonly
acknowledged. Later, aware that he was dying, Gehrig exhibited a
perseverance that was truly inspiring; he lived the last two years
of his short life with the same grace and dignity with which he
gave his now-famous "luckiest man" speech.
Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Jonathan Eig's
"Luckiest Man" shows us one of the greatest baseball players of all
time as we've never seen him before.
Four years after the crowning glory of 1966 and a decade after the
abolition of the maximum wage, a brash new era dawned in English
football. As the 1970s took hold, a new generation of
larger-than-life footballers and managers came to dominate the
sport, appearing on television sets in vivid technicolour for the
first time. Set against a backdrop of three-day weeks, strikes,
political unrest, freezing winters and glam rock, Get It On tells
the intriguing inside story of how commercialism, innovation,
racism and hooliganism rocked the national game in the 1970s.
Charting the emergence of Brian Clough, Bob Paisley and Kevin
Keegan, and the fall of George Best, Alf Ramsey and Don Revie, this
fascinating footballing fiesta traces the highs and lows of an
evolutionary and revolutionary era for the beautiful game. 'You
always know you're going to get a fascinating read from Spurling.
But this is his most vivid book yet - sheer joy! For us old
geezers, it's like being miraculously transported back to the
1970s. And, for younger readers, I can promise you quite an
education.' - Patrick Barclay
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