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Author : Mike Atherton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0857572288
Author : Mike Atherton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780857203502
In this fascinating book, Mike Atherton selects the best pieces he has written over the last decade. Renowned as a shrewd and resolute captain of England, Atherton moved effortlessly into the commentary box and Fleet Street, proving himself every bit as capable with the pen as with the bat. It has been a dramatic period, seeing the rise of Twenty20 cricket and the IPL, as well as the revival of England's prospects, breaking a long era of Australian dominance in the Ashes. There has also been controversy, too, with terrorist attacks, Zimbabwe and allegations of Pakistani spot-fixing all distracting fans from the essence of the game. Through it all, Atherton comments with the true insight of one who has been there, the humane understanding of someone who has genuine empathy for the issues involved and, above all, his opinions are based on a deep love for the game and sport in general. His writing has become essential reading for all sports fans. This book shows exactly why that is the case.
Author : Mike Atherton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cricket
ISBN : OCLC:1244788936
Author : Catriona Crombie
Publisher : Crombie Jardine Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781291951318
A compilation of cricket commentators' gaffes and good-natured banter amongst players. Quotes to keep cricket lovers amused include nonsensical remarks, unintentional puns, stating the bleeding obvious, sledging, and gentle musings.
Author : Michael Beloff QC
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509961405
Michael Beloff QC is one of the outstanding lawyers of his generation. In this insightful and intimate book, he brings the reader on a journey through a career of highlights. These include his election as head of the Bar Associations (administrative law and sports law) and his presidency of Trinity College, Oxford. His judicial roles included appointments at the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey. He arbitrated at five summer Olympics and chaired the ethics and disciplinary bodes in two major international sports, cricket and athletics. Such a stellar career can't help but result in a fascinating memoir.
Author : Russell Holden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317293071
This book investigates the declining status of cricket within contemporary British society after the high-water mark of England’s Ashes victory in 2005. It considers the deep roots of the game within British national life as well as its ever-changing nature, and reflects upon the current significance and relevance of a sport that many still perceive as deeply traditional and conservative in outlook. Adopting a socio-political approach, the book offers new perspectives on both the contemporary realities of modern cricket and the social, cultural and political condition of modern Britain. Rather than focusing on personality and the detail of match history, the book looks at how the sport has coped with wider societal changes, such as those in Afro-Caribbean and South Asian communities, and how this has demanded adaptation by cricket’s governing authorities. The book also considers the international context in which the game continues to develop and how the initiative with new formats such as Twenty20 has been lost to other cricketing nations, and it offers insight into the continued expansion and recent professionalization of the women’s game, hinting at ways in which cricket as a whole could recapture the public’s imagination. Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain is an invaluable resource for those studying the sociology of sport, sport history, cultural studies, the politics of sport, cultural identity, sport management and sport development. It is also a fascinating read for anybody with an interest in cricket or in the value of sport in an era of rapid socio-economic, political and cultural change.
Author : Jon Hotten
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781473522398
Cricket is a strange game. It is a team sport that is almost entirely dependent on individual performance. Its combination of time, opportunity and the constant threat of disaster can drive its participants to despair. To survive a single delivery propelled at almost 100 miles an hour takes the body and brain to the edges of their capabilities, yet its abiding image is of the gentle village green, and the glorious absurdities of the amateur game. In The Meaning of Cricket, Jon Hotten attempts to understand this fascinating, frustrating and complex sport. Blending legendary players, from Vivian Richards to Mark Ramprakash, Kevin Pietersen to Ricky Ponting, with his own cricketing story, he explores the funny, moving and melancholic impact the game can have on an individual life.
Author : Jim O'Brien,Russell Holden,Xavier Ginesta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000196337
Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity. This book explores the complex interrelationships between nations, regions and states in the landscape of contemporary international sport, with a particular focus on identity. Exploring important themes such as the geopolitics of sports events, contested identities, and ownership of sport and its impact on sporting cultures, the book presents contemporary and historical cases from around the world, including football in a divided Ireland; sport and the anti-Apartheid movement; Chinese sporting nationalism and soft power; and the role of sport media in the shaping of Catalan identity. This is an important resource for students and researchers working in Sports Studies, Sports Journalism, Sports Management Studies, Sports Marketing, Football Studies, Sport and Identity Studies, Sociology of Sport Studies, and Cultural Studies.
Author : John Bartlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106014428129
Author : Francis William Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Carthage (Extinct city)
ISBN : UCAL:B3576193
Author : Francis William Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Corporal punishment
ISBN : IOWA:31858021874064
Author : Francis William Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015039310753
Author : Francis William Newman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375047665
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author : Bob Spencer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781477234679
The world is a mad place and the various vicissitudes of life appear to make it more so. The inherent mutability in nature can swing from the serendipitous to surreal malignity within a matter of moments. In this day and age, events can be ephemeral or appear so prolonged we are left, agonisingly, to wonder if they will ever terminate at all. To be lost in such a bewildering universe, when it feels impossible to gather oneself, to take stock of the changeability or to bear the interminable, we feel impotent, overwhelmed and wrongfully abused. Sanity and Solitude is one man's ramble through these frightful absurdities and contradictions that appear to confront us at every turn. To understand insanity one has to travel oneself to the very fringes of insanity itself for better or for worse. "We are the clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!--yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost forever". (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Author : Tara Martin López
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781386019
A reassessment of the myth of the British ‘Winter of Discontent’, 1978–79, from the perspective of those involved, in particular, grassroots activists and the growing number of female activists.