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  • Historical Dictionary of Football

    by John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Gridiron football or American football or just plain football is the most popular sport in the United States in the 21st century. Although attempts have been made to develop the sport outside North America, it is still predominantly a North American sport with similar games (but significant rules differences) played in the United States and Canada.The Historical Dictionary of Football covers the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Tennis

    by John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    The sport of tennis has been played in one form or another for more than 800 years. It can trace its roots to games played by monks in the 12th century. Through the years the game has evolved from one in which the ball was struck with the hands to the modern game in which rackets are used to propel the ball in excess of 150 miles per hour. From the sport of the elite to the sport played by elite ... Read more

    $100.49 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Boxing

    by John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Boxing is one of the oldest sports in the world, reaching back to the Ancient Greeks, although it has become popular only in the past century or so. But, in some ways, it is a rather complicated sport since – to avoid unnecessary harm – it has been endowed with rules to keep it clean, referees to see the rules are obeyed, and organizations to regulate the sport. Boxing was once largely amateur, ... Read more

    $178.19 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Wrestling

    by John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Wrestling as a legitimate contest is one of the oldest, if not the oldest form of sport. There are cave drawings in France that depict memorable matches, which are over 15,000 years old. Egyptian and Babylonian reliefs depict wrestling bouts where wrestlers are using most of the holds known to the modern-day sport. Wrestling was also a big part of ancient Greek literature and legend and historical ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Basketball

    by John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    In less than 120 years an activity invented by one man to alleviate winter boredom for a college gym class has evolved into a worldwide multi-billion dollar enterprise. It is impossible for Dr. James Naismith, basketball's inventor, to have envisioned the extent to which his simple game would reach. Without major changes to his original 13 rules, basketball is now played in more than 200 countries ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Bowling

    by John Grasso, Eric R. Hartman ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Loggats, kayles, quilles, skittles, half-bowl and ninepins were all early forms of games in which the goal was to knock down small standing objects from a distance by rolling or throwing another object at them. Archaeologists have found items from Egypt around 5200 B.C. that included small stone balls and narrow pins that were possibly used for a game. Additional research has disclosed that ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

    by John Grasso, Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins in 776 B.C., although it is suspected that the Games had been held for several centuries by that ... Read more

    $214.69 USD

  • The End of Dragons

    by Adriana Zadravec, Cameron Cordich, Carly Seemann, E. W. Farnsworth, Inaya Bhimani, Jeffrey Davis, John Dewald, Joshua Grasso, Juliana Nunes, Karin Osterberg, Kelly Bedbrook, Lillie E. Franks, Maxwell Czyzyk, Rebecca Coyte, Robert Kramer, Taylor Rigsby, J. B. Charon ...
    The last battle has been fought, and the victors are leaving the field.What happens to the remaining dragons now?In the End of Dragons, seventeen new voices show our young readers fantastical worlds where dragons and magic were real. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bloody Engagements

    John R. Kelso's Civil War

    by John R. Kelso ...
    The first edited edition of a Union soldier’s remarkable memoir, offering a rare perspective on guerrilla warfare and on the larger meanings of the Civil War While tales of Confederate guerilla-outlaws abound, there are few scholarly accounts of the Union men who battled them. This edition of John R. Kelso’s Civil War memoir presents a firsthand account of an ordinary man’s extraordinary ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • EU Energy Law Volume X: Energy Market Manipulation and Insider Trading Law in Europe – REMIT

    Edited by John Ratliff, Roberto Grasso ...
    Series Book 10 - EU Energy Law series
    This book addresses EU law on market manipulation, insider trading and the obligation to disclose inside information on wholesale electricity and gas markets in Europe, focussing on the EU REMIT Regulation. It provides in depth commentary on the articles of the Regulation and situates it within the wider legal, economic and political context.Key Features:Analyses the political and legislative road ... Read more

    $356.39 USD

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    Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, noted sport psychology consultant Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." These 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes will help you gain the "head edge" over the competition. ... Read more

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  • Assassin (Wings of Fire: Winglets #2)

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    Series Book 2 - Wings of Fire
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