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This reference work aims to provide sports enthusiasts,
journalists, librarians, students and scholars with an authorative
source of information on a comprehensive range of subjects covering
the history and organization of football in Britain. Over 200
entries focus on key organisations or individuals, famous clubs,
major competitions, events, venues and incidents, institutions and
organisations as well as key issues such as gender, racism,
commercialization, professionalism and drugs, alcohol and football.
Additionally entries on football as reflected in drama, film,
literature, paintings and other arts are also included. The aim has
been to provide a reasonably comprehensive overview of British
football, past and present. The Encyclopedia of British Football
has been written by a team of over 50 experts in the field of sport
from administrators and managers through fans, armchair
enthusiasts, journalists and PE teachers to academic researchers
and sports scientists.
Sporting Heroes of the North looks at the remarkable sporting
culture and traditions of the north as well as some of the region's
sporting greats. Ranging from the North East, Tyneside, Merseyside
and Yorkshire to the North West it covers a variety of sports,
including cricket, fell running, boxing, rock climbing, football,
rugby league, motor cycling and athletics. The book celebrates
northern sporting heroes from the past and the present, from Jackie
Milburn, Fred Trueman, Andrew Flintoff, Ellery Hanley, John Conteh
and the fictional Alf Tupper to Dorothy Hyman, Beryl Burton and
Rebecca Adlington. Sporting Heroes avoids simple pen portraits,
instead it shows in all its richness the historic and changing
place of sport and sporting heroes in the culture of the north of
England.
Elise Cummings has waited sixty years for this moment. Ever since
the girl was killed by two fellow students on the steps of the
Raritan Female Institute, Elise has been waiting in her watery
grave for the old school for troubled and wayward girls to be
rebuilt.
Linda Smith is one of the fortunate students selected to attend
the spanking new all-girl prep school on the banks of the Raritan
River in New Jersey. The overweight and no-esteem girl sees it as
an escape from high-school and three years of disinterested male
faces. Linds soon finds, however, that nothing has changed: she is
just as lonely in her new scholastic environment as she used to be.
The girl takes to wandering down to the river's edge at lunchtime.
There, she finds what she is desperately in search of: a new
friend.
Everything Must Gois Steely Dan's follow up to their 2000
multi-Grammy winner Two Against Nature.
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