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Author | : Ed Smith |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2008-03-06 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0141923563 |
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There is a huge category of sports fan: people who love a bloody good argument. Sport makes them think, engage and argue. Given that people already take sport so very seriously, and at such an intense level of enquiry, then Ed Smith concludes we should draw out some of sport's intellectual lessons and practical uses What Sport Teaches Us About Life gives us a rare glimpse into the world of sport as seen from an extraordinarily keen, and closely-involved observer. In one chapter Smith extols the virtues of amateurism in today's professional world; in another he explains why there'll never be another sportsman as dominant as Don Bradman. He unearths the hidden dimensions of England's 2005 Ashes win, examines the impact of the free market on cricket and football, argues that cheating is not always as clear cut as it might seem.
Author | : Ed Smith |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1408830604 |
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For aspiring cricketer Ed Smith, luck was for other people. Ed believed that the successful cricketer made his own luck by an application of will power, elimination of error, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. But when a freak accident at the crease at Lords prematurely ended Ed Smith's international cricketing career, it changed everything - and prompted him to look anew at his own life through the prism of luck.Tracing the history of the concepts of luck and fortune, destiny and fate, from the ancient Greeks to the present day - in religion, in banking, in politics - Ed Smith argues that the question of luck versus skill is as pertinent today as it ever has been. He challenges us to think again about privilege and opportunity, to re-examine the question of innate ability and of gifts and talents accidentally conferred at birth. Weaving in his personal stories - notably the chance meeting of a beautiful stranger who would become his wife on a train he seemed fated to miss - he puts to us the idea that in life, luck cannot be underestimated: without any means of explaining our differing lots in life, the world without luck is one in which you deserve every ill that befalls you, where envy dominates and averageness is the stifling ideal. Embracing luck leads us to a fresh reappraisal of the nature of success, opportunity and fairness.
Author | : Jonathan Fader |
Publisher | : Da Capo Lifelong Books |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2016-05-03 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 0738218952 |
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Why the key to success is enjoying what you do, with essential sports psychology techniques and their use in everyday life.
Author | : S. Wagg |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2011-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230320813 |
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The conventional history of sport, as conveyed by television and the sports press, has thrown up a great many apparent turning points, but knowledge of these apparently defining moments is often slight. This book offers readable, in-depth studies of a series of these watersheds in sport history and of the circumstances in which they came about.
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Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Total Pages | : 1024 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Country life |
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Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Sports |
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Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Country life |
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Total Pages | : 1462 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : English literature |
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.