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ISBN: 9780670077779
Title: Ashes to Ashes: Ten Tests in England & Australia 2013-14
Author: HAIGH GIDEON


Format: Trade paperback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9781471131738
Title: Ashes to Ashes: the Story of the Back-to-back Series of 2013-14
Author: HAIGH GIDEON

For the first time since the mid-1970s, England and Australia faced each other home and away in back-to-back series in the summer and winter of 2013. Watching on as events unfolded was award-winning cricket writer Gideon Haigh. With great insight and skill, he reveals the key moments of both series, analysing the personalities of the players and how they coped with the most pressurised and high-profile cricketing contest of them all.

Format: Hardback
Price: $56.00

ISBN: 9781471128851
Title: Ashes, Clashes & Bushy Tashes
Author: PORTNOI GERSHON


Format: Paperback
Price: $21.00

ISBN: 9781845136130
Title: Ashes: England's Recording-breaking Victory
Author: HAIGH GIDEON


Format: Hardback
Price: $38.00

ISBN: 9781577316695
Title: Ashtanga Yoga: Mythology, Anatomy & Practice: the Intermediate Series
Author: MAEHLE GREGOR



Format: Paperback
Price: $57.00

ISBN: 9781577316060
Title: Ashtanga Yoga: Practice & Philosophy
Author: MAEHLE GREGOR



Format: Paperback
Price: $54.00

ISBN: 9781891252082
Title: Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual
Author: SWENSON DAVID

Whether new to Ashtanga or an experienced student or teacher, readers will find this book to be invaluable. It contains over 650 photos and multiple variations for every asana in the primary and intermediate series plus three short forms. Its spiral binding assures easy use while practicing and the hard cover increases durability.

Format: Hardback
Price: $55.00

ISBN: 9781906756420
Title: Ashtanga Yoga: the Yoga Tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois: the Primary Series Practice Manual
Author: RAISANEN PETRI

New in paperback, Petri Raisanen, one of the world s most popular yoga teachers offers the complete guide to the yoga poses (asana), breathing techniques and philosophy of Ashtanga yoga. The most physical and dynamic form of yoga, Ashtanga combines an impressive sequence of yoga poses with special breathing techniques to heat the body internally and allow safe stretching of the muscles. Ashtanga s enthusiasts point to the powerful impact of the practice on their overall health and well-being: regular practice tones and strengthens the muscles, cleanses the body of toxins, calms the mind and increases concentration. Each of the yoga poses in the Primary Series is presented both separately and as part of complete practice. The reader will gain a deep knowledge of the multidimensional philosophy of Ashtanga yoga and how it relates to everyday life. This is a clearly and simply written guide, packed full of knowledge and insight, that will delight beginners, advanced students and yoga teachers alike."

Format: Paperback
Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9780091957629
Title: At Speed: My Life in the Fast Lane
Author: CAVENDISH MARK

The most anticipated sports autobiography of the year from Britain's most exciting athlete. Mark Cavendish is quite simply the most exciting thing in world cycling. With his self-belief and smouldering competitive fire, Cav has turned the animalistic hunger to win into an art form. Cycling bible L''Equipe has responded to his staggering success by naming him the best sprinter in the history of Tour de France. In "Boy Racer," published by Ebury in 2009, Cav told of his early years, culminating in his first experiences of the Tour. Since then his career has advanced at a lightning pace. He has clocked up another three record-breaking years in the Tour, becoming the first Brit to win a jersey in 25 years and the first ever to win green; sailing to final-stage victory on the Champs-Elysees for an unheard of four consecutive years. He won green in Spain's Vuelta in 2010 and spent the 2012 season in the World Champion's rainbow jersey; making him the first British cyclist in 50 years since Tom Simpson to win the World Championship road race. As well as being one of Britain's most successful sportsmen he's also the most popular, winning half the votes to become the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year in 2011. But no one has ever claimed that being one of cycling's elite is easy. In 2012 Cav joined Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome at Team Sky. Still relentlessly ambitious, he had to learn his role within this hugely talented team, even at the expense of his own individual interests. And despite Team Sky's success at the 2012 Tour, Cav had to contain his disappointment when events conspired against them in the Olympic Road race a month later. "Cav" tells his very personal story of the journey to the top, and gets to the heart of the pain and the passion, and the guts and the glory of professional cycling.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9780241973264
Title: At the Edge: Riding for My Life
Author: MACASKILL DANNY

Danny MacAskill lives on the edge. The cyclist is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia and Imaginate: nerve-jangling blurs of stunts and speed over towering buildings and mountain peaks. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills and millions of online hits. It hasn't been an easy ride. Fear, stress and the 'what if?' factor circle every trailblazing trick, which require imagination, daredevil techniques and movie-making smarts. He has spent his life pushing the extremes; somehow, he's still around to tell the tale. In this unflinching memoir of mayhem, Danny shares his anarchic childhood on the Isle of Skye and early days as a street trials rider, takes us behind the scenes of his training and videos, and reveals what it takes to go the next level--both mentally and physically. Join Danny for a nerve-shredding ride. Just be sure to bring a crash helmet.

Format: Paperback
Price: $28.00

ISBN: 9781618930057
Title: At the Fights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing
Author: SCHATZ HOWARD & ORNSTEIN BEVERLY

It's no wonder that photographer Howard Schatz, trained as an ophthalmologist, has an unwavering eye for the human form. Well known for his series of improvisional portraits of actors for "Vanity Fair," the acclaimed photographer now takes on the ultimate theatre of sport and physique in "At the Fights." Over the last six years Schatz has entrenched himself in the world of boxing, photographing and interviewing the game's biggest stars and newest players as well as managers, trainers, promoters, club fighters and many others. In 256 oversized pages, Schatz's remarkably powerful images are paired with insightful commentary to provide a truly unique look into the sport. As promoter Lou DiBella tells Schatz, "Boxing is a sport in its purest, most basic form. No sport is more theatrical, dramatic or real." "At the Fights" beautifully captures all of those aspects in a striking, deluxe package that includes introductory comments by HBO commentator Jim Lampley. Howard Schatz's award-winning photography has been featured in "Sports Illustrated," "ESPN Magazine," "The Ring" magazine, "The New York Times Magazine" and "Vanity Fair." He is a well-known and regular ringside presence. "At the Fights" will be his 19th book.

Format: Hardback
Price: $140.00

ISBN: 9781471156496
Title: Athletic Brain
Author: KATWALA AMIT

Sport changes your brain. The minds of elite athletes can pull off feats of anticipation and co-ordination that amateurs would find impossible. The athletic brain has been trained through hours and hours of practice - years of sweat and toil. But what if there were a shortcut to training your brain?

Cognitive training tools offer the tantalising possibility of breaking the '10,000-hour rule'. Top-level athletes and teams are increasingly tapping into new knowledge of the brain to develop tools and techniques that can offer a shortcut to sporting success, or push the boundaries of performance beyond its current limits. Increasingly, these tools are becoming available to the ordinary amateur, revolutionising the ways in which anyone can improve their skills.

Based on interviews with top athletes and the scientists working at the cutting edge of our knowledge, Amit Katwala provides a fascinating insight into the possibilities that are becoming open to us all. He takes us to see how Borussia Dortmund's 'Footbonaut' and touchscreen-based games in the NFL have been achieving excellent results. As with bestsellers such as The Chimp Paradoxand Bounce, by the end of this book, readers will look at sporting performance in a new light, and be able to apply these insights to their own lives.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $38.00

ISBN: 9781743517710
Title: Aussie Grit
Author: WEBBER MARK

In the exhilarating, high-stakes world of Formula One, only the fastest make it to the top. And no one knows this better than Australian Formula One legend Mark Webber. His career in F1 stretched for an incredible eleven years, seeing him garner thirteen poll positions, earn forty-two podiums and win nine races including the crown jewel of F1, the Monacco Grand prix, twice. But there's more than F1 to the story of the boy from Queanbeyan. In this candid book, Webber divulges the personal struggles that formed his Aussie grit character and reveals for the first time what really went down at Red Bull and the truth behind his rivalry with teammate Sebastian Vettel. From his near career-ending injury in 2008, his breakthrough 'not bad for a number two driver' win in 2009 to the 'Multi 21' controversy of 2011 and his new beginning with Porsche and the challenge of Le Mans 2014, Mark Webber pulls no punches in this captivating, personal story

Format: Hardback
Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9781743549971
Title: Aussie Grit
Author: WEBBER MARK

In the high-stakes world of Formula 1, only the fastest make it to the top. Few know this better than Australian motor-racing legend Mark Webber. His career in F1 stretched an incredible 12 years, saw him earn 42 podium finishes and triumph in nine races, including twice winning the crown jewel of F1, the Monaco Grand Prix. But the road to the summit of F1 racing is long and full of deadly twists and strange turns. In his long-awaited autobiography, Webber tells the incredible true story of the small town pizza delivery boy who climbed the apex of the world's most dangerous sports. With startling candour, Webber takes us on a thrill ride through the highs and lows of his amazing career, detailing the personal struggles that drove him, revealing the truth at last behind his rivalry with Red Bull Racing teammate Sebastian Vettel, and allowing us access-all-areas into a very private life played out on the public stage. Filled with anecdotes about the great drivers, epic races and big characters of Formula 1, Aussie Grit is a fascinating account of a life in the cockpit of an F1 rocket and the inspiring, no-punches-pulled story of a great Australian.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9781740669375
Title: Australia: Story of a Cricket Country
Author: RYAN CHRISTIAN


Format: Hardback
Price: $100.00

ISBN: 9781408840474
Title: Authors Xi a Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon
Author: AUTHORS CRICKET CLUB STAFF (CONTRIBUTION BY)

Cricket has perhaps held more writers in its thrall than any other sport: many excellent books have been written about it, and many great authors have played it. The Authors Cricket Club used to play regularly against teams made up of Publishers and Actors. They last played in 1912, and include among their alumni such greats as PG Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle and JM Barrie. A hundred years on from their last match, a team of modern-day authors has been assembled to continue this fine literary and sporting tradition in a nationwide tour in search of the perfect day's cricket. The Authors XI is the story of their season.Over the course of a summer they played over a dozen matches, each one capturing an aspect of cricket, in some of England's most spectacular and historic grounds and against a range of opponents. Each player contributes a chapter, using a match report as a starting point for an essay on cricket and its appeal, both historically and today.From Matthew Parker on cricket and empire, and Kamila Shamsie on the women's game, to Tom Holland on cricket and ageing, and Thomas Penn on cricket and history, this is an engaging look at cricket's enduring appeal. Further chapters from other team members examine issues such as class, empire, and sport and the stage.

Format: Paperback
Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9781408840450
Title: Authors Xi: a Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon
Author: AUTHORS CRICKET CLUB STAFF

Cricket has perhaps held more writers in its thrall than any other sport: many excellent books have been written about it, and many great authors have played it. The Authors Cricket Club used to play regularly against teams made up of Publishers and Actors. They last played in 1912, and include among their alumni such greats as PG Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle and JM Barrie. A hundred years on from their last match, a team of modern-day authors has been assembled to continue this fine literary and sporting tradition in a nationwide tour in search of the perfect day's cricket. The Authors XI is the story of their season.Over the course of a summer they played over a dozen matches, each one carefully chosen for capturing an aspect of cricket, in some of England's most spectacular and historic grounds and against a wide range of opponents. Each player contributes a chapter about one of their fixtures, using a match report as a starting point for an essay on cricket and its appeal, both historically and today.From Matthew Parker on cricket and empire, and Kamila Shamsie on the women's game, to Tom Holland on cricket and ageing, and Thomas Penn on cricket and history, this is an engaging look at cricket's enduring appeal. Further chapters from other team members examine issues such as class, empire, and sport and the stage.

Format: Hardback
Price: $53.00

ISBN: 9781426213694
Title: Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh & the Epic Age of Flight
Author: GROOM WINSTON

Written by gifted storyteller Winston Groom, 'The Aviators' tells the saga of three extraordinary aviators - Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle - and how they redefine heroism through their genius, daring, and uncommon courage. This is the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of World War I through the heroism of World War II and beyond.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9780062503220
Title: Awareness Through Movement: Easy-to-do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, & Personal Awareness
Author: FELDENKRAIS MOSHE

Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness through the Feldenkrais method as explained in Awareness Through Movement. Here is a way for people of every age to integrate physical and mental development into a new, invigorating wholeness. Feldenkrais provides a modern-day, practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. His down-to-earth method carefully avoids any mystical component and never obliges any pupil to master abstruse theories. Exercises for posture, eyes, imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body habits and focus new dimensions of awareness, self-image, and human potential.

Format: Paperback
Price: $33.00

ISBN: 9781606522547
Title: Back Bible
Author: READERS DIGEST

Looking for a concrete program to relieve back pain and keep it away? This book has the one-stop answers for people suffering from either acute or chronic pain, with each chapter addressing a different area of the back, including the neck, the shoulders, the upper back and lower back. The possible cause of the pain is discussed and there is information on exercise, rest and alternative therapies, and on what the doctor may suggest. While drug treatments and surgery are covered, the emphasis is on healing back pain naturally, using methods such as reflexology, meditation and yoga.


Format: Hardback
Price: $50.00

ISBN: 9780312384890
Title: Backcast Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, & a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska
Author: URENECK LOU


While father and son fishing trips can be the stuff of American legend, they can also turn out to be the stuff of anger, love and self-discovery. In his memoir of a fishing trip through the Alaskan wilderness, Lou Ureneck brings to life the struggle to reclaim the trust of his teenage son, Adam, following his divorce. Along the way, nature transforms from friend into foe, and their struggles are played out against the poignant emotional battle raging between the two as they descendthe river headed toward confrontation. On their journey, the two encounter nature's dangers - bears, violent river currents and ruthless, punishing weather - as well as the hurts that exist between them, the reasons for divorce, the absence of a father and the withheld love of a son. Dipping his hand into the river of his own life, Ureneck recounts his own fatherless childhood, the influence of his mother's boyfriend who helped him learn to fish, and the realization that he himself had done the one thing he always promised himself he would not do: He ended his marriage in divorce. Part adventure story, part reconciliation with life's unexpected turns, and part commentary on the healing power of nature, Backcastexplores the world of a man confronted by the hard choices divorce can bring to create a moving meditation on fatherhood.

Format: Paperback
Price: $29.00

ISBN: 9780751565669
Title: Ballerina Body
Author: COPELAND MISTY

The celebrated ballerina and role model, Misty Copeland, shares the secrets of how to reshape your body and achieve a lean, strong physique and glowing health.
Misty Copeland believes -There has been a shift in recent years in which women no longer desire the bare bones of a runway model. Standards have changed: what women do want is a long, toned, powerful body with excellent posture.- In other words, the body of a ballerina. In her first health and fitness book, Misty will show women how to find the motivation to get healthier and stronger, and how to reshape their bodies to be lean and flexible, with step-by-step advice, meal plans, workout routines, and words of inspiration. Celebrating the importance of healthy fats and a fitness regimen based on ballet exercises, Misty shares her own time-tested exercises and an eating plan focusing on healthy fats, both of which keep her in top shape. Tips for motivation and words of encouragement as well as tips on how to keep going even when you may want to give up. An inspiring section on the importance of finding mentors, and eventually being one, plus excerpts from Misty's personal journal, round out this important book on grace and strength.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9781472151414
Title: Barbarian Days: a Surfing Life
Author: FINNEGAN WILLIAM

Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of a surfboard. "Sports Illustrated"
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"Barbarian Days" is William Finnegan s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life.
Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. "Barbarian Days" takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves.
Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan s travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity.
"Barbarian Days "is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art.
Praise for "Barbarian Days"
Without a doubt, the finest surf book I ve ever read . . . But on a more fundamental level, "Barbarian Days" offers a clear-eyed vision of American boyhood. Like Jon Krakauer s "Into the Wild," it is a sympathetic examination of what happens when literary ideas of freedom and purity take hold of a young mind and fling his body out into the far reaches of the world. " The New York Times Magazine"
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Incandescent . . . I d sooner press this book upon on a nonsurfer, in part because nothing I ve read so accurately describes the feeling of being stoked or the despair of being held under. . . . But] it s also about a writer s life and, even more generally, a quester s life, more carefully observed and precisely rendered than any I ve read in a long time. " Los Angeles Times""

Format: Paperback
Price: $28.00

ISBN: 9780752440071
Title: Barrie Meyer Getting It Right
Author: MEYER BARRIE

Barrie Meyer has had a lifetime in professional sport, as a cricketer with Gloucestershire, a footballer with Bristol Rovers and Bristol City (amongst others), and 25 years as a first class and Test match umpire. In this autobiography, Barrie reflects on his extraordinary career.

Format: Paperback
Price: $39.00

ISBN: 9781419726477
Title: Basketball (& Other Things)
Author: SERRANO SHEA

Michael Jordan is the acknowledged greatest basketball player of all-time, but what season was Michael Jordan the best version of Michael Jordan? Who's in The Disrespectful Dunk Hall of Fame? What's allowed and absolutely not allowed in a game of pickup basketball? Basketball (and Other Things) presents listeners with a set of pivotal and ridiculous questions from basketball history, providing arguments and answers, explained with the wit and wisdom that is unique to Shea Serrano. Serrano breaks down debates that NBA fans didn't even know they needed, from the authoritative (Which NBA championship was the most important to the league?) to the fantastical (If you could assign different values to different shots throughout basketball history, what would they be and why?). Featuring a foreword by Reggie Miller, this book is a must-have for anyone who has ever stayed up late into the night debating basketball's greatest moments, what-ifs, stories, and legends, or for those who are discovering the mythology of basketball for the first time.

Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9780857041692
Title: Bats Pads & Gladiators a Miscellany of Gloucestershire Cricket
Author: WOOD CHARLES

Drawn from interviews and conversations with a wide range of former players, officials, broadcast commentators and fans, this book celebrates the illustrious history of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.

Format: Hardback
Price: $39.00

ISBN: 9781599218571
Title: Be Iron Fit Time-efficient Training Secrets for Ultimate Fitness
Author: FINK DON

Most how-to books are too technical or too shallow. Don Fink manages to pen a unique combination of information, anecdotes, and readability. Scott Tinley, two-time Ironman World Champion Don s book certainly made me think. A truly complete book for all abilities in the sport of triathlon that leaves no subject untouched. Spencer Smith, three-time Triathlon World Champion Ever dream of being an elite endurance athlete and competing in races like Hawaii s Ironman? Pro athletes are not the only people who can attain such superior accomplishments. Every season tens of thousands of amateur triathletes compete head-to-head, pushing their physical and mental strength to the limits. The Ironman competition is a true test: a 2.4-mile open-water swim followed by a 112-mile bike leg and a 26.2-mile marathon run. In Be Iron Fit, sought-after multisport coach Don Fink draws on his time-efficient training methods to provide a practical program in a step-by-step, enjoyable way so even everyday athletes can attain ultimate conditioning."

Format: Paperback
Price: $37.00

ISBN: 9781472945044
Title: Beast, the Emperor & the Milkman: A Bone-Shaking Tour Through Cycling's Heartlands
Author: PEARSON HARRY


Cycling is wildly popular all over Belgium, but in the northern, Dutch-speaking half of the country it is part of the psyche. Tiny Flanders boasts a population of just 6 million, yet this small corner of northwest Europe has produced eight winners of the Tour de France, five times as many professional riders as Italy or Spain.

Blending reportage, interviews, observation, biography, and history, and written with affectionate humor by a committed Belgophile, The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman tells the story of Flanders' neurotic love affair with bike racing, from tough early heroes such as Jules Vanhevel--wounded by mortar fire in World War I and leading the world championship road race until he collided with a cow--to latter-day ironmen such as Tom Boonen, three-times winner of the Tour of Flanders and owner of a pet donkey named Kamiel.

Format: Hardback
Price: $49.00

ISBN: 9781905798124
Title: Beating the Odds: the Hidden Mathematics of Sport
Author: HAIGH JOHN & ROB EASTAWAY

Why might it help a penalty kicker to look at a clock before he kicks the ball? Does winning the coin toss actually matter? And why should some people consider playing darts blindfolded? "Beating the Odds" takes a novel and intriguing look at sports by exploring the mathematics behind the action. Discover, for instance, the surprising links between boxing and figure skating and between football and cricket, the unusual location of England's earliest soccer game, the 26.5-degree "trick" snooker shot, the pros and cons of being a consistent golfer, and the formula for winning a game of tennis. Whatever your sporting interests or ability, you will find plenty to absorb you in this insightful and fun bookand maybe you ll improve your own chances of success "

Price: $20.00

ISBN: 9781760291983
Title: Beautiful Game
Author: NICHOLAS MARK


Format: Hardback
Price: $50.00