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The five-time world-champion water-skier offers instruction, advice about equipment, and tips on competition for the more than 16 million waterskiing enthusiasts nationwide. Duvall explains the basic skills and introduces techniques of trick skiing and jumping as well as advice on building a slalom course and boat driving. 170 photographs; 27 line drawings.

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Helping you prepare your trip, this guide aims to provides everything, including: park locations; help to access campsites, facilities, and costs; special walks and features; aboriginal sites, sacred sites, heritage information and bush tucker; contact addresses and phone numbers; and more than 120 park and state maps.

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If you are ready to get serious about SCUBA diving as a career choice, this book will be a fast-pass through some of the mental, motivational and administrative obstacles that many of us have had to overcome when becoming a diving professional.

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The wilderness expert and outdoor tracker describes sixteen of his adventures in the wilderness--from the race against time to find a lost diabetic child to the search for a tiger loose in the New Jersey woods.

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Women have made significant strides in the US sports world over the past 30 years, one of which has been moving into the ranks of coaching on both the collegiate and professional levels. This work lists 42 women coaches in the sports world, many of whom had to overcome major obstacles to succeed.

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"The definitive insider story of the cheating scandal that rocked Major League Baseball in 2019, bringing down high-profile coaches and players, and exposing a long-rumored "sign-stealing" dark side of baseball"--

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Love him or loathe him, Chris Eubank is one of lifes more eccentric personalities who has transcended the world of boxing and established himself as a media celebrity and role model to millions of fans the world over. His story is both gripping and extraordinary.

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For a period of time in the 1970s, the Los Angeles Dodgers versus the Cincinnati Reds was one of the best rivalries in Major League Baseball. This book takes a fresh look at these two powerhouses and the players that made them so pivotal, including Johnny Bench, Steve Garvey, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Don Sutton, and Ron Cey.

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Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.

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Rigorously researched and vividly written, marked by an unerring instinct for storytelling and scoop, these pieces are unified by the author's ambivalent love affair with unruly landscapes and his relentless search for truth.

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Budo, or martial ways practiced primarily for spiritual development, were developed from combat systems in response to social, political, historical, and philosophical influences that occurred during the Edo Period (1615-1868). This book covers the history and evolution of these arts, including kendo, judo, kempo, kyudo, iaido, and jujutsu.

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This is the first book to look at the closer position from the perspective of 80 accomplished major league players.

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Clough's War is the story of his epic ascent and decline at Derby County, a club he took in a few short years from nowhere to the top English football and teetering on greatness in Europe, before the whole dream came tumbling down in the national spotlight with his acrimonious resignation in 1973.

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Traces the evolution of college athletes into university employees and describes how the NCAA fashioned an amateur myth to obscure this employer-employee relationship.

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But boxing is not the only combat sport, and mixed martial arts, in all their ferocious beauty, represent the fastest growing sports genre in the world.

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Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racis...