Sport

This book tells the inspiring story of the 1984 U.S. men's Olympic volleyball team. After many years playing as underdogs, a maverick coach would take over and push the players to their physical and emotional limits. Their journey to the Olympics reveals the value of teamwork, never giving up, and trusting in an innovative style of leadership.

Inventors, explorers, athletes, scientists, and mystics of the kinesthetic realm speak on the subject of sport, the environment, creative pursuits, religion, neuroscience, fear, flow, mortality, and discovery - one who walked on the moon, marginal characters who helped to make mountain biking mainstream, a BASE jumper, a boulderer, Gidget, and those many others who would harness the power of play for oftentimes transformative ends. Who invented the bungee jump? What are the limits of human endurance, of speed up a mountain, or survival at sea? How did it all begin? What motivates those who go in search of the unknown? Where will it end, and what's the point of it anyway? "It's the spirit of innovation and anti-conformity and doing things differently," says Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, a founding member of England's Dangerous Sports Club (an experiment in weird adventures and alternative sporting events). "A manifestation of joy," "a Don Quixote adventure," "the most exhilarating moment that you'll ever feel in your life," and "a great step into the unknown," according to others.

The only complete reference on the dolphin, its life history, behaviour, fishing techniques and rigging. Capt. Jim Sharpe perfected many special trolling, spin casting and fly-fishing techniques for catching dolphin over his 35 years as a charter boat fisherman in the Florida Keys. For ten years, Capt. Sharpe shared his secrets on his television and radio shows, and in major fishing magazines. Now, he tells the whole story in a single volume complete with detailed how-to illustrations and photographs. Dolphin: The Perfect Gamefish offers anglers all of the time-proven techniques Capt. Sharpe uses to catch dolphin aboard his own boat the SEA BOOTS. You'll learn dead-boat and trolling/teasing techniques to bring big dolphin into casting range of fly and spin tackle; how to intercept and cast to tailing dolphin, and how to use a kite, a down-rigger or chum to attract dolphin. Learn how dolphin respond to their environment, and how changing seasons and weather conditions dictate the best fishing techniques to choose.

Transform Your Fitness Journey!Embark on a transformative exercise journey with Daily Exercise Integration. This guide unveils strategies for incorporating dynamic workouts into your daily life, effective recovery methods, and much more.Suitable for novices and seasoned enthusiasts, it delivers practical advice to refine your exercise approach.Optimize your workouts, because targeted exercises make a difference.Get it now.Dynamic Workout Routines for Every LifestylePersonal exercise methods for varying fitness levelsSports injury preventionBuilding exercise habitsHolistic exercise approachesTips for maintaining motivation and consistency...and much more!Nurture your well-being, because this is exercise for enhanced longevity.Get it now.

Managing the Show is a revealing look and behind the scenes details of the responsibilities of Major League Baseball's general managers.Tune in to any MLB broadcast, radio, TV or streaming and you will hear broadcasters and reporters including "The Show," in their reporting.One of the side effects of the "Moneyball" era has been the glamorization (and, at times, charm, and obsession) of baseball's general manager position. Baseball general managers are the ones responsible for managing the show. Let's take a look inside that.We as fans think we know what to do and we think we know what is going through the head of an MLB general manager, but we really don't. We don't until now. Managing the Show - Inside the Daily Responsibilities of Major League Baseball's General Managers, opens up the world of baseball general management and pulls back the curtain of what really happens in baseball and inside the world of a baseball general manager.This book shares information on how baseball's general managers work to further develop their show. Just like armchair quarterbacks in football, we as true baseball fans put ourselves in the shoes of the team's general manager, at least in our own minds or in hot stove league conversations abound. Now it's time to get out of that armchair and see the real story.The book consists of stories and interviews with former and current baseball general managers at the Major League Baseball level.This book is written for the baseball fan.

En Los funerales de la Mama Grande (1962) se reunen siete cuentos y la novela corta que da titulo al volumen, en la que se narran las fastuosas exequias de esa mujer muerta en olor de santidad a los noventa y dos anos de edad, autentica soberana de Macondo.

This is a instruction manual for the WarrRage Kickboxing System. Published in 2016. This has 390 pages and over 1000 pictures. This book goes through many aspects of martial arts: Business building and fund raising, stretching, stances, punches and strikes, kicking combinations, blocks, bridging the gap, exercise routines, how to make your own equipment, weight lifting, the 4 levels of boxing, medicine ball routines, speed drills, heavy bag drills, a self-defense course, rules and regulations for several combat sports, and how to wrap your hands. Whether you are a beginner or advanced student, this would will help improve your fighting capability. Revised March 2024

Plant-based medicines and aromatics are increasingly in demand in the healthcare sector all over the globe, where they are used, not only for the treatment of various diseases, but also for maintaining good human health. Plants as Medicine and Aromatics: Uses of Botanicals reviews modern uses of ancient botanicals as medicine and aromatics, including chapters on both traditional usage to modern drug discovery development, as well as clinical research and development in ancient medicinal herbs.FeaturesAssesses the status of aromatics and medicinal plants as well as their modern uses.Elucidates the uses of plants within traditional culture practices for the prevention and treatment of diseases.Examines contemporary approaches being used to explore medicinal botany.A volume in the Exploring Medicinal Plants series, Plants as Medicine and Aromatics: Uses of Botanicals presents a comprehensive understanding in terms of modern uses of botanicals of medicinal and aromatic plants. It is useful to researchers, teachers, cultivators, students, and for those interested in herbal medicine.

Die Haftungsrisiken von Vorständen, Geschäftsführern und Mitgliedern von Aufsichtsgremien beschäftigen Unternehmen, Unternehmensorgane, ihre Berater und Gerichte in erheblichem Umfang. Dies liegt einerseits an der zunehmenden Regulierungsdichte, der Unternehmen und ihre Organe ausgesetzt sind, andererseits an der oft kritischen Begleitung des Unternehmensgeschehens durch Investoren und die interessierte Öffentlichkeit. Skandale und Unternehmensschieflagen tragen ebenso hierzu bei.Das Buch will in der unübersichtlicher gewordenen Rechtsmaterie Orientierung bieten. Im Einzelnen dargestellt werden die rechtlichen Strukturen, die der Haftung dem Unternehmen gegenüber (Innenhaftung) und der Haftung gegenüber Dritten (Außenhaftung) zugrunde liegen. Ebenso werden die praktisch relevanten Fallkonstellationen beschrieben, in denen sich die Organhaftung häufig realisiert.Besonderes Augenmerk wird darauf gerichtet, wie Haftungsrisiken vermieden oder beschränkt werden können. In diesem Zusammenhang ist der D&O-Versicherung, deren Anwendungsbereich sowie ihrer Mechanik ein breiter Raum gewidmet. Abgerundet wird das Werk durch die Aufnahme relevanter Regelwerke wie des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex oder der GDV-Musterbedingungen für die D&O-Versicherung mit Erläuterungen sowie ein ausführliches Sachverzeichnis.

THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARAN IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR'Important, perfectly timed and hugely necessary.' The Guardian'Magnificent. Some of the details are eye-popping.' Irish Independent'Football needs this book. A monumental piece of investigative journalism.' Irish Times'A must-read on how modern football works.' Ian Wright'Brave, forensic and utterly gripping.' Tom Holland______________________________The definitive account of how capitalism and the world's elite corrupted modern footballAs the 2022 World Cup in Qatar drew to a close, there was a bitter undercurrent to Argentina's triumph. Throughout the tournament, numerous allegations of sportswashing and financial misconduct had been made against the state of Qatar, moving what had previously been a smaller conversation into the worldwide spotlight. The question had been asked, who really owns and runs football? Journeying from Abu Dhabi to Newcastle, and onto London, Paris, Moscow and New York, journalist Miguel Delaney investigates the allegations of sportswashing and misconduct in the beautiful game. The result is a gripping account of how football has been taken over by the world's wealthiest businessmen, state-backed corporations, media tycoons and oil-rich oligarchs. From Neymar's £198 million transfer to Paris Saint-Germain and Abu Dhabi's construction empire in Manchester to failed Financial Fair Play constraints and the dawn of the European Super League, Miguel draws on exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to key stakeholders to produce an all-encompassing exposé of modern footballs highest echelons.Authoritative, riveting and eye-opening, States of Play reveals how football has become a tool for the world's elite.______________________________'The moral compass that the game needs.' Andy Brassell'In this excellent investigation, Delaney reveals the ugly side of the beautiful game.' Oliver Bullough'The most important football book of its generation.' Jack Pitt-Brooke'This book tackles the major issue affecting football today with fearlessness and forensic scrutiny. An important investigation for our times.' Laurie Whitwell'A majestic book. The essential guide to how the people's game has become the plaything of the very rich and powerful.' Jonathan WilsonMiguel Delaney's STATES OF PLAY was ranked in the Irish Times bestsellers list weeks of 11th & 18th November 2024.

In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the Age of Perpetual War to the modern age today. For a thousand years, the Scandinavian countries were kingdoms of repression where monarchs played at the game of being European powers, at the expense of their own populations.The brand we now know as "Scandinavia" is a recent invention. During most of its history, Denmark and Sweden, and to some degree Norway, were bloody enemies. These sentiments of enmity have not been fully settled. Under the surface of collaboration remain undercurrents of hatred, envy, contempt and pity. What does it mean today to be Scandinavian? For the author, whose identity is Scandinavian but his life European, this masterly history is a personal exploration as well as a narrative of compelling scope.