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  • The Yellow Rose

    A Novel of the Texas Revolution

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    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Value of Sport

    Insights

    Series series Sport Business Insights
    This concise and thought-provoking book examines the myths and realities surrounding the value of sport. It asks a fundamental question: what is it about sport that leads to grand claims about its supposed capacity to do so many good things for society?Examining the evidence from sport around the world, at all levels, the book challenges the commonly held, uncritical assumptions about the value of ... Leer más

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  • Australia's Game

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    Shortlisted for the Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH) Biennial Book PrizeUnlike every other sport that has captured the nation’s interest, Australian football is not a copy, a clone, or a hand-me-down of European culture. Rather, it is a game with special qualities, which arose from a distinctive series of events in the fledgling colony of Victoria, grew rapidly, and is now the most ... Leer más

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  • Banneker

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    de Bob Stewart ...
    What if you were a renowned astronomer, mathematician, engineer, musician, and surveyor with an extraordinary memory? What if you were admired by Benjamin Franklin, needed by President Washington, and resented by Thomas Jefferson? Now, what if you were a free black? How would you navigate through the narrow straights of Colonial America?After the war of Independence, the South is threatening ... Leer más

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  • Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances

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  • Sport Funding and Finance

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    de Bob Stewart ...
    Series series Sport Management Series
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  • Rethinking Drug Use in Sport

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    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Drug free sport is an unattainable aspiration. In this critical, paradigm-shifting reappraisal of contemporary drug policy in sport, Bob Stewart and Aaron Smith argue that drug use in sport is an inexorable consequence of the nature, structure and culture of sport itself. By de-mythologising and de-moralising the assumptions that prop up current drug management controls, and re-emphasising the ... Leer más

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  • Revenge Redeemed: A True Story of God's Grace

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    From sharecropper's son in Depression-era South Carolina to hearing coordinator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bowman shares his inspiring life story. Born in Summerton, S.C., in 1931, young Bertie was raised by his stepmother and strict father to do his share of the farm work, in the spirit of molding a man's character by "hard work, determination, and keeping your word," as taught ... Leer más

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    Same Country, The

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    THE SAME COUNTRYA NovelFrom the bestselling author of Tales from the Tail and The Fearless Fifteen comes an unforgettable story of love, friendship and the loss of innocence in the First World War.August 1914.Lieutenant Rupert Drummond rides out with the Blackmore Vale Hunt across the rolling hills and vales of Dorset, believing that the England he loves will still be waiting when he returns ... Leer más

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    Lions and Foxes

    The Commanders Who Shaped the Second World War

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    Lions and Foxes: The Commanders Who Shaped the Second World War By Quentin Drummond AndersonHistory is told in sweeping movements of armies and nations — but wars are shaped by people. Lions and Foxes goes behind the battle maps to explore the minds that decided the twentieth century's defining conflict.From the deserts of North Africa to the jungles of Burma, from the Kremlin's shadow to the war ... Leer más

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