Appointment with F.E.A.R. (Paperback)
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50 Facts You Need to Know – USA
50 Facts You Need to Know – USA (Paperback)
A Tour Through the Real America
Stephen Fender
The Land of the Free is the country everyone loves to attack. But how much do you really know about the USA? “Hot Rods, Handguns and Huckleberry Finn” is a popular exploration of the real America. This is a country with 50 capital cities, few of which anyone can name; a nation with 65 million gun-owners and 35,000 gun deaths each year; a place where there’s one car for every adult, and where twice as many people claim to go to church as actually do. Burning the American flag, so the Supreme Court has ruled, is now a legitimate expression of free speech. One city in Kentucky elected a black Labrador as its mayor. The US produces a quarter of all CO2 emissions, and has a population rising twice as fast as the EU. German might have been the national language, and folk music tops the charts. Republican states especially are generous givers to charity, and they have a world-beating welfare state – the military. Vibrant, proud and yet critical, this is a hugely enjoyable tour of the world’s most powerful but least understood nation.
‘His thoughtful tour is a rich catalogue of what makes up the ‘world’s most powerful but least understood nation.’’
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50 Facts That Should Change the World
50 Facts That Should Change the World (Paperback)
Jessica Williams
This is an updated and revised edition of Jessica Williams’ hugely praised international bestseller. Originally published in May 2004, it has sold in excess of 60,000 copies. This edition is updated throughout and includes a number of brand-new facts. In it, Jessica discusses how the world has changed since 2004, how readers have reacted to the book – and her experiences discussing the book on a prime-time Japanese TV show.
‘”50 Facts that Should Change the World” is the shocking, incredible, to-the-point research handbook for the No Logo generation’ Guardian
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Torres
Torres (Paperback)
An Intimate Portrait of the Kid Who Became King
Luca Caioli
When Fernando Torres arrived at Chelsea FC for an incredible $80m, he set a new transfer record and became a vital element in the team’s strike force. Renowned sports journalist Luca Caioli has interviewed pivotal figures in Torres’s life, including the man himself, unveiling his meteoric rise from Madrid’s humble streets to the top of the world’s richest soccer league.
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The Ryder Cup
The Ryder Cup (Paperback)
A History
Peter Pugh Henry Lord
For those old enough to remember, the Ryder Cups before the 1980s were often dispiriting affairs, especially if you were British. The Americans were simply too good and the British won only very occasionally. At the end of the 1970s, the great American golfer, Jack Nicklaus, suggested that the British invite golfers from Europe to join their team. Seve Ballesteros from Spain and Bernhard Langer from Germany were just coming to the peak of their careers and it was an inspired suggestion that fortunately the British accepted. The contest became more even and the Europeans began to win as often as the Americans. Indeed, since 1981 Europe has won ten of the sixteen contests. There have been many close and exciting contests with huge dramas developing on the last day. Standing out are the matches at Brookline in 1999 when the Americans overturned a deficit of 10-6 going into the final day; Celtic Manor in 2010, when the Americans nearly, but not quite, overturned a substantial European lead; and finally at Medinah in 2012 when the Americans were cruising comfortably to victory on Saturday afternoon with a 10-4 lead, only for the Europeans to fight back: first by winning the last two fourballs on the Saturday and then winning 8½ points out of 12 in the singles on Sunday. The Ryder Cup captures all the glory of golf’s greatest match.
Henry Lord is the co-author of the highly acclaimed Creating Classics: The Golf Courses of Harry Colt (Icon, 2008), Masters of Design: Great Courses of Colt, MacKenzie, Alison and Morrison (Icon, 2009), and St Andrews: The Home of Golf (Corinthian, 2010), which includes a foreword from the great Ryder Cup player and captain, Seve Ballesteros.
‘This well-researched book offers a historical but entertaining account of the Cup … shedding a fresh light on the story of the game’s most celebrated event.’
‘An authoritative, up-to-date chronicle’
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Family
Family (Paperback)
Life, Death and Football: A Year on the Frontline with a Proper Club
Michael Calvin
No one likes Millwall. They don’t care. But what does it really take to be a part of this team, or a supporter? A British Sports Books Awards 2011 nominee, Michael Calvin’s Family provides a unique glimpse into the soul of a real football club. Award-winning sports writer Calvin follows Millwall through an emotional promotion season. There for the first day of training, he was on the substitutes’ bench at Wembley, 333 days later. He vividly portrays players and management as family men, close to their roots. In captain Paul Robinson’s words : ‘We’re playing for the people who hate their jobs, who’d love our lives.’ Forget the glitz of the Premier League – this is the beautiful game in all its raucous glory. Intimate and compelling, Calvin’s unforgettable picture of lower-league English football is essential reading for anyone for whom football is far more than just a game.
“There is absolutely no requirement to be a Millwall fan to enjoy ‘Family.’ After all, no one likes them and they don’t care.”
‘ ‘Family’ takes you on a real tour of the beautiful game from behind the scenes of one of football’s most real, honest and passionate clubs … This book restored my faith in a sport that seems to fast be becoming more about entertainment than competition.’
‘The latest and most extraordinary fly-on-the-wall account of a football club from its grassroots up.’
‘{‘Family’] offers a fascinating and entertaining insight into what is described as a ‘proper club’ by the book’s subtitle.’
‘No punches are pulled by either author or club, ensuring a frank and brutally honest – and at times very funny – account of life at the sharp end of football.’
‘‘Family’ is the only book where you can get an accurate description, warts and all, of what goes on in the dressing room and should be read by football fans and players alike.’
‘Calvin … makes fantastic use of his material, turning the season’s ups and downs into a compelling narrative of football.’
‘The measure of Calvin’s achievement is that after reading [‘Family’] any fan would surely want something similar to be written about their club.’
‘Vivid and poignant. It paints portraits of players as people living in the real world, not the 7-Star hotels of Dubai. Men existing in their communities as central figures, not protected in gated communities from the hoodies.’
‘An absolute gem – inspirational.’
‘Brilliantly honest.’
‘As up close and personal as it is possible to be.’
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Fabregas
Fabregas (Paperback)
The Captain
Luca Caioli
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Fighting Fantasy
Fighting Fantasy ()
Steve Jackson Ian Livingstone
A shrinkwrapped pack of ten titles from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s peerless interactive game book series, Fighting Fantasy. The pack includes: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, The Citadel of Chaos, Deathrap Dungeon, Stormslayer, Creature of Havoc, City of Thieves, Bloodbones, Night of the Necromancer, House of Hell, Eye of the Dragon.
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Suarez – 2018 Updated Edition
Suarez – 2018 Updated Edition (Paperback)
The Extraordinary Story Behind Football's Most Explosive Talent
Luca Caioli
Luis Suárez is one of the most brilliant and controversial players in world soccer. Following his high-profile transfer from Liverpool to Barcelona in 2014, he seamlessly fitted into an all-conquering strikeforce already boasting Messi and Neymar. Their first season together saw the trio net an astonishing 122 goals between them and in little over a year Suarez had won five trophies. This near-perfect start to life in Spain continued into 2016 as he let his football do the talking, a marked change following seasons soured by ill-discipline and explosive incidents. This updated biography, featuring exclusive interviews with those who have known and worked with him, offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at the life and career of one of soccer’s most enigmatic stars
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5000-1: The Leicester City Story- Commemorative Edition
5000-1: The Leicester City Story- Commemorative Edition (Hardback)
Rob Tanner
A regal blue-and-gold hardback edition – a keepsake for fans to commemorate Leicester City’s astonishing title-winning season and the year that followed.
On 2 May 2016 England’s football landscape was spectacularly and irreversibly altered as 5000-1 longshots Leicester City were crowned Premier League champions.
Not only did this incredible feat break the long-standing monopoly at the top of the table, it also propelled Leicester into the Champions League for the very first time.
Relive this remarkable season with Rob Tanner, the Leicester Mercury’s chief football writer, from the great escape of 2015 to the curtain-closer at Stamford Bridge – now updated to include City’s summer of celebration and their fairy-tale run in Europe.
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Money
Money (Paperback)
… and how to make it
Peter Pugh
Making enough money to get a start in life is now a real problem for most young people. The cost of houses in the UK has risen so sharply in recent years that it is one of the country’s major problems, and many people are weighed down by debt before they even start. Knowing about money – its history, how it works, how people have made it in the past – can offer some practical and useful inspiration to tackle this challenge. In this entertaining and wide-ranging book, Peter Pugh explores the whole notion of money. There is advice from successful business people such as John Timpson, and also examples of entrepreneurs such as James Dyson and Anita Roddick, and creative artists such as J.K. Rowling, who started with very little but who have built enormously successful businesses.
Peter Pugh is a
businessperson and company historian who has written more than 50 company
histories on businesses from Rolls-Royce to Iceland. He is also the author of Introducing Thatcherism and Introducing Keynes, and lives by the sea
in north Norfolk, and in Cambridge.
