Sports & Games

My Decade as a Red is a visual celebration of Rio Ferdinand's phenomenal career in football. The book features more than 300 photographs and exclusive, interactive elements with contributions by other major international footballers.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who first identified CTE in professional football players, a discovery that challenges the existence of America's favorite sport and puts Omalu in the crosshairs of football's most powerful corporation: the ...

From the late 1960s, Northern Ireland has been mired in violence. Yet it has had seen more than its fair share of sporting heroes - from footballer George Best, through snooker champion Alex Higgins, to boxer Barry McGuigan. But sport - like everything else in Northern Ireland - could quickly turn nasty when politics were involved.

Body shapes: men provides guidance to getting the best from your body shape: identifying body type and shape, setting realistic goals and developing a suitable fitness programme.

Finding Seams On Apples is a compilation of wit, intelligence and fervour of an online cricket community, and one of the largest cricket forums, cricketweb.net.

Shows how our belief in the value of sport is misplaced. Tracing the history of organised game-playing, this book argues that sport is a last refuge for sexism, racism, homophobia and animal cruelty. It cites neglected research in psychology, showing how playing sport tends to impinge negatively on your morals.

Offers advice on freshwater fishing, describing the gear needed for a trip, angling and hooking techniques, how to determine the best locations and times of activity, what to do with a fish that is kept, types of fishing, and different species.

Gangsters have been around boxing for ever, but 1950s New York was special. Most of the decade's major fights took place in the city, at boxing's spiritual home, Madison Square Garden. This book tells the story of those times and that place.

The bicycle has played a unique part in human civilisation. This work chronicles this cultural and social history of the bicycle. It also looks to the future, raising pertinent questions about what governments and cyclists could be doing to further enhance cycle awareness and cycle safety.

A history of Bristol speedway 1928-1949

Throughout the history of football there have been those players who have inspired supporters and teammates alike. This title profiles the game's notorious hard men, including anecdotes and a selection of illustrations.

Sir Learie Constantine was an extraordinary figure by any yardstick. One of the greatest and most popular of all West Indian cricketers, he left the game to become, among other things, a barrister, cabinet minister, diplomat, broadcaster, author and journalist.

A history of Durham County Cricket Club

Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation

Sports, and in particular the Olympic Games, are enjoying a rapid increase in interest among social scientists worldwide, who see them as important "public events." This volume offers the first analysis of the Winter Olympic Games, primarily based on the Lillehammer Games of 1994.

The unauthorised biography of Britain's best footballer

Including anecdotes from Bob Wilson's own football and television careers, this work features one of sport's most enduring icons guiding us through the meanings, heritage and evolution of great sporting terms we use.

Bored of aerobics? More people than ever are turning their backs on indoor exercise and discovering the immense physical and mental benefits of the great outdoors. Wild gym workouts can be adrenaline-boosting or serenely calming. This guide covers activities that range from beach running and buggy workouts to recumbent cycling and rock climbing.