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Discover the best sports books at our online bookstore, featuring top sports titles, compelling sports autobiographies, and engaging basketball books. Explore must-read and best-selling sports romance books and more, perfect for fans of every athletic pursuit.
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Hakka Kung Fu: Martial arts and culture of the Hakka peopleHakka Kuen is a generic term for all the martial arts developed by the Chinese Hakka community, mainly in southern China.This book is intended as a general presentation of the Hakka culture and their martial arts. It is the synthesis of our travels, trainings...
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A People's History of TennisPristine lawns, tennis whites, strawberries and cream, tennis is synonymous with the upper echelons of society, but scratch beneath the surface and you'll quickly discover a different history, one of untold struggles on and off the courts. From the birth of modern tennis in...
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Archery: The #1 Beginner's Guide For Everything An Archer Needs To Know About Recurve And Compound BowsHow To Hit A Bull s Eye In A Day With The Royal Discipline Of Archery"An archer cannot hit the bullseye if he doesn't know where the target is."Did you ever wish you could shoot arrows like Robin Hood, Hawkeye or Katniss Everdeen?Whenever you...
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Splits: Stretching: Flexibility - Martial Arts, Ballet, Dance & Gymnastics Secrets To Do Splits - Without Leg Stretching MachiFinally, discover how to do the splits painlessly and without spending any money on expensive coaches, leg stretching machines or even on stretching cables In this guide, you will learn simple routine exercises you can practice daily to stretch your muscle fibers to perform...
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The Tent Mouse and The RV MouseA modern twist on Aesop's fable, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. While Thomas Tent-Mouse loves to camp in his tent where he feels connected to nature, his cousin Harvey RV-Mouse loves to camp in his RV where he feels safe. Adventure awaits...
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Shining Hope Visits Niagara FallsAs a first-time international traveler, Gracie is worried about being so far from her home and family. But she is determined to conquer her fears. After experiencing all the wonder and adventures that Niagara Falls has to offer, Gracie soon realizes that home is...
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Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern FootballFew cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this cheap and simple sport emerged as a major legacy of Britain's formal and informal empires and spread quickly across Europe, South America, and...
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Being a Saint: The pain, passion and pleasure of being a Southampton FC fanBeing a football fan involves so much passion, pleasure and it must be said - pain. This book is a selection of one Southampton FC fan's highlights over more than 50 years. It's as much about what it's like to be a proud and...
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Drones: The Ultimate GuideFrom selecting, to flying and maintaining your first drone: This book will show you everything you need to know to get started with your first drone You will learn: The drone-anatomy How to choose the right drone How to fly your drone (including some...
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GymnasticsWritten for elementary-aged sports fans, this book explains the history and rules of gymnastics featured at the Olympics, including artistic, rhythmic, and trampoline. Includes a table of contents, Q&A feature, glossary, books and websites, and index.Author: M. K. OsbornePublisher: Amicus High InterestPublished: 01/01/2020Pages: 32Binding...
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The Man Who Made Babe Ruth: Brother Matthias of St. Mary's SchoolAt six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutilier (1872-1944) was hard to miss. Yet the many books written about Babe Ruth relegate the soft-spoken teacher and coach to the shadows. Ruth credited Boutilier--known as Brother Matthias in the Congregation of St. Francis Xavier--with making him...
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The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: A Bone-Shaking Tour Through Cycling's Flemish HeartlandsA journey through the wild madness of bicycle racing in Flanders.LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'A joy.' - Ned Boulting Every nation shapes sport to test the character traits it most admires. In The Beast, the Emperor and the...
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Go for the Gold! Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word GameThe Summer Olympics are coming, and this year Mad Libs is taking home the COLOR medal Test your skills in the Olympic games with these 21 hilarious fill-in-the-blank stories From PIZZA-vaulting to the 100 meter ANKLE-stroke, this Mad Libs has every sporting event fully...
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Intuitive Archery - The art of not standing in your own wayIntuitive archery depends extremely on the art to not stand in your own way. It is not the one and only technique to hit a target, nor is it the perfect arrow or bow. It s more the archers ability to keep repeating his...
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Peng!: Action Sports AdventuresPENG is... the sound a rubber ball makes when it is kicked PENG is... a brand new kind of Sports Adventure comic PENG is... a GAME CHANGER Welcome to the All-World School of Sportsmanship, where kids from all over train to become the best...
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Rolling Thunder: The Golden Age of Roller Derby & the Rise and Fall of the L.A. T-BirdsScott Stephens received his first set of roller skates at age six in 1966 - and soon he was staging Roller Derby games in his backyard. Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, it was impossible not to have heard about...
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A Paddler's Guide to Algonquin ParkNew in this edition: Ten new routes, 64 added pages, updated text -- an essential purchase of a revised classic. Review of previous edition: The book is much more than a trip guide. Callan weaves in anecdotes from his own trips, so there's all...
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Fame: LeBron JamesIs LeBron James the greatest basketball player of all time? The Akron, Ohio native grew up in an impoverished home. His mother, sensing LeBron would thrive in a stable family environment, allowed him to live with a local youth basketball coach when he was...
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Sea, Ice and Rock: Sailing and Climbing Above the Arctic CircleWhen leading mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington was researching Quest for Adventure, his study of post-war adventure, he contacted Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world, for an interview. This simple request turned into an exchange of skills,...
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I'm Champion, Call Me Bob: My StoryIn his own words Bob talks of his early life, his path to becoming a professional jump jockey and how it felt being at the top of his game only to have it come crashing down with a life-threatening diagnosis. The depths of despair...
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