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League football's greatest-ever father-son combination played for the Carlton Football Club. This book talks about the story of Son Stephen, with all its highs and lows.

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Sisterhood in Sports reveals what drives the female athlete: communication, camaraderie, competition, collaboration, and community. Steidinger illustrates through real stories that the relationships they create, even among rivals, helps to keep them driven, engaged, and connected to their game and their lives beyond the sport.

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Subtitle on cover: A Hall of Fame hitter & a Hall of Fame pitcher talk about how the game is played.

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Presents a detailed study of the urban phenomenon of skateboarding. This book looks at skateboarding history from the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s, through the purpose-built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street-skating of the contemporary times, and shows how skateboarders experience and understand the city through their sport.

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Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - estimated at 40 million worldwide and creating a subculture of clothes, boards, music, slang and moves. This book demonstrates that street-style skateboarding offers a critique of architecture, the city and capitalism.

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From skateboarding's distant origins in the 1940s to the heyday of the Z-Boys to Tony Hawk's lifelong and lucrative career as a professional skateboarding icon, this book showcases what skateboarding was in the past and what it's now evolved into.

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Sharing the complete story of his life, the author includes his struggles with his insecurities and mental health, his relationships with the Waugh brothers, Tubby Taylor, Gillie, Boony, the selectors, red Ferraris, his childhood sweetheart, and the ACB.

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This work features all the latest developments in the world of cycling. It gives advice on: choosing a bike; understanding the new technology and whether you need to invest in it; and the latest in shifting mechanisms, pedal and frame designs, suspension systems and tyres.

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Thinking about tramping the Milford Track or taking an indulgent stroll through the French countryside Let an experienced long distance traveller share the pleasures of exploring the world at a walking pace without having to give up a good night's sleep or a glass of wine at the end of the day.

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Covers all aspects of cycling, including the proper sitting position on the bicycle, fitness training, racing tips, and visualization for better cycling.

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This book provides a comprehensive look at the snowboarding phenomenon, including its history; techniques and equipment; biographies of the sport's pioneers, athletes, and heroes; key sites and events; and future directions.

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A beginner's guide to understanding and playing the game of golf, including its equipment, rules, etiquette, and shot making techniques. A final section offers alternative methods and fixes to the common problems that plague even experienced amateurs.

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Social Psychology in Sport and Exercise applies theory to real-life sport and exercise contexts. Examining key research from social psychology, this unique book helps you to understand the behaviour of athletes and exercisers. With a wealth of examples and case studies, the authors show you how to devise practical solutions to real problems.

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For Father's Day and the baseball season: This Gilded Age adventure of a great showman, an extraordinary voyage, and 19th century baseball could well be titled "Around the World in Eighty Games"

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In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, revolutionised by a racy new format, Twenty20, and a glamorous new competition, the Indian Premier League. Gideon Haigh has followed cricket's biggest story since Kerry Packer.

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This stimulating anthology provides a scholarly perspective on the history of sport. Race relations and racism in sport, the interaction of sports and politics, sexism and the role of women in sports, and the role that the profit motive plays in sports are among the topics covered.

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Looks at the role of sport as practiced in several important civilisations in the ancient world. This book explores how athletics had an importance that extended beyond physical prowess to include military associations, religious ritual, status, and politics. It also compares the significance of famous sporting figures in the ancient societies.

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For ease of comparison, each chapter adheres to a common format, beginning with an historical overview of the development of sport in that country that focuses on indigenous traditional sports, the development of modern sports, and the place of contemporary sports.

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Sport Philosophy Now examines the current sports philosophy available and updates it in the "post-Lance Armstrong" age. While many sports philosophers have turned a blind eye to the reality of sport by focusing on ideologically-driven abstract ideals, this book offers an engag...

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They will also learn about many games otherwise lost to history, and find instructions on how to adapt them for modern play.

As one of four books in the series Sports and Games Through History, it is divided into seven regions of the world including: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, The Middle East, North America, and Oceania.