Sports & Games

This collection of puzzles will test and build your capacity to see and make patterns, improve the speed and accuracy of your perception and hone your ability to make mental connections.

Just for fun you can use Challenge Your Intelligence to test yourself and discover what your strengths are. Maybe you like playing with numbers more than words, or can visualize shapes better than you can spell. Taking the tests will help you discover what type of thinker you are, and encourage you to ...

A year-by-year history of baseball.

Crosswords are enduringly popular with all age groups, from the very young to the very old - in a recent independent survey, solving crosswords came second only to gardening as the UK's most popular leisure pursuit. This book will feature a range of crossword puzzles from the straightforward to anagram, ...

You're never too young to enjoy the Olympic and Paralympic sports! Children are invited to join Wenlock and Mandeville as they run, jump, and dive into London 2012. With the help of their friends Grandpa, Grandma, Lily, and Jack, the lovable mascots show young readers how the simple movements they can ...

Join the world's greatest fictional detective and use your own powers of deduction to solve these ingenious enigmas.

Bigger and better than ever before, the Champions League is now firmly established in the sporting calendar as Europe's premier club competition. From Manchester to Milan, from Barcelona to Bordeaux, from Porto to Prague, you'll be blitzed by the scintillating skills and scorching shots of the world's ...

Aimed at parents, coaches, and junior players, Soccer Skills: Way to Play is a step-by-step guide to the techniques the professionals use to enhance their skills. Written by an experienced soccer author and illustrated throughout with specially commissioned diagrams and action photographs, this book ...

This highly collectible, interactive book lets you, the fan, experience the thrill of the game's heritage through replicas of rare hockey memorabilia.

Describes the story of how sport became so full of money. This book also tells the tales of some of the greatest sportsmen of all time, revealing the Pele pact, Boris Becker's unfortunate contribution to the demise of Puma, and just how Adidas helped Mohammed Ali win his biggest fight.

Yes, we gave Germany, France, Argentina, Brazil, and all the rest, football, and this is the first book to explore how

The aim of The Book of the Horse is to open up the wonderful world of horses to this new generation of horse riders and owners. It explains the basics of learning to ride, helps the novice to choose the right clothing, details the joys (and warns against the pitfalls) of owning one's own horse and enumerates ...

The first book to reveal the stories of all the champions throughout the history of cycling's most important race

This book consists of 200 difficult puzzles of a variety of different types focussing on geometric shapes and mathematics.

As you get older, it becomes more and more vital to keep your brain regularly exercised. Science has recently confirmed that brainpower works in much the same way as muscle power - if you work it, it gets stronger, and if you ignore it, it gets weaker. This book presents the puzzles that keep the mind ...

Features a step-by-step walkthrough of the game, The Conduit. This work helps you find in-depth area maps showing you the locations of key items and a complete breakdown of available items and weapons, including both human and alien weaponry.